The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-05-06
sELF.MADE MONARCHS
Emperor of Germany Type OF h"A'''
whose Dynastics Are Young

Emperor of Germany Type OF n"
whose Dynasties Are Young
The dynastic troubles Of the KING
dom Of servia, settled for the IAnle 20
inc by the accession of King FeeeF'
arc merely the continuance OF strus-
gle between swineherds, says Feal
sons Weekly. Both the founoer y,
the present dynasty, Karageorge' anu
of the late dynasty, Milosn oOreno-
witch, before their entry into the realm
of high politics, m1nistered TO Sne
needs of the humble porker, ana tnat
only so recently as the beginning u
the late century.
Somewhat more eminent, but by no
means august, Is the lineage OF Tue
king of Sweden, Oscar II. HIS hne
goes no farther back than 1870 ~
Marshal Bernadotte, one of Napoleon )
henchmen, who was jumped into the
Swedish throne by his master on tne
dethronement of Gustavus ~
The princely throne Of Bulgaria 49,
of course, of intensely modern origin
Only in 1887 did the present prince
Ferdinand Of Coburg, ascend the
throne. on the abdicatiOn of Alexander
Of Hesse-both entire foreigners 10
Bulgaria.
King Leopold Of Belgium is a popu-
lar monarch, but his royal line only
comes down from 1881, when bis IA
Their. prince of SaXe-Coburg, was
nominated king by the neWly-formed
State of Belgium. Newer still is the
origin Of the royal family of Greece,
as only in 1863 did the present dy-
nasty assume power, without having
ever had the remotest political con-
nection with their subjects. The pres
ent King George Of Greece Is the first
king Of his people and is the son Of
the king Of Denmark. In 1868 the
Greeks were without a monarch, and
almost unanimously elected for the
post Prince Alfred of Great Britain,
the last duke of Saxe-Coburg. The
position was not, however, selected for
him by his august parents, and so the
throne passed over to the then Prince
George of Schleswig Holstein.
For an empire that dates back far
before the Christian era, whose civili-
zation is thousands of years older than
our own, the Chinese dynasty are little
more than modern upstairs. For the
Using family, who hold sway at pres
ent, only came into power in 1913, and
were, from the Chinese mandagin point
Of view, vulgar usurpers Of Tartar
origin.
The royal family of Italy must also
be included in list Of newly-made
placeholders. Their tenure of the
crown Of United Italy dates from 1861,
when Victor Emmanuel H., king Of
Sardinia, assumed it. Prior to that
Victor was the king only Of a small
territory, which, in turn, his ancestors
had secured by exchange for Sicily, Of
which he was previously king. Before
that Victor Amadeus was merely duke
of Savoy. The rise of the Savoy fam
lily from obscure dukedom to the
crown Of one of the great powers is
one Of the phenomena Of history, and
appeals greatly to the Imagination.
Much is heard Of the glories of the
Hohenzollern family, Of which William
II. Is the prevailing ornament, but only
in 1901 did the family attain kinsly
rank, having previously held the OBJ
scure position of margraves of Bran
denburgt obtained originally by pur-
chase in the fifteenth century. As ev-
erybody knows, the Hohenzollerns onlv
rose to imperial rank as German en-
pepors after the war with France in
1871. 1t is, Of course, only to the
credit of the Hohenzollerns that thew
have 80 raised themselves In the world
and are, therefore, self-made mon
archs, but 1t is only fair to saw that
the majority Of the obscure princes of
Germany could give them points in the
matter Of lineage.