Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-09-22


extinction the race OF the
great conqueror of Europe, Napoleon l..
1t is the latest, the most widely dis
cussed gamble of a family against
fate, and the rescuer, If there be one,
will be woman.
The chances of a male heir are fair
ly good-simply the chances which Of
fer to average humanity-and it is
therefore likely that the Napoleonic
line will be preserved, for the time
at least.
But the chances that it will go on
for all time are simply nil. notwith-
standing the famous example of the
Guelphs, of England. where descent
from the only and original King David
of the Jews has been claimed by en-
thusastic partisans of the theory OF
the right divine.
Nature, laboring necessarily toward
the attainment OF one common level,
seems TO take delight in frustrating
the cEangeless ambition of her favored
child. Man. among all creatures long
ing for the perpetuation of his direct
breed, seems ever doomed to see 1t
disappear. inglorious and unknown.
among the herd
The Napoleonic line is in no des-
perate strait; yet 1t is apparently
prepared. after only few common
place generations, TO pass away in the
same manner as did dynasties founded
by conquerors as great as the first
Bonaparte. The large majority seemed
to fail sooner or later both morally
and physically, until like a wornout
tree the race was either totally ex-
tinct or persisted only in scions that
were integrally part of another alien
stock.
Royalty, proceeding on the burles-
que basis that the Almighty has ere
ated its bones. muscles, flesh. blood
and brain of peculiar virtue. especial
ly adapted to the bossing of things,
inevitably deduced that unless II
should mate with a similar breed of
boss stock, It would degenerate into
the stock diyinely doomed TO be
bossed
Napoleon's family. when he went
where conquerors go finally. was nu-
merous enough. as families go. to
promise perpetuity. But marriage with
them was limited to other and older
and royal lines, most OF which had an
ak out for Bonaparte whenever he
came around smelling OF orange blos
SONS.
As the French republic braced up
and more and more emphatically
made II apparent that all royalty there
lacks SO much as an Inch of ground
to stand on the opportunities for roya
matches deceased with the Bona
parties. and tho royal seions became
fewer.
Counting Victor Napoleon. there ar,
enumerated now only halfscore re
naming with marriage unpopular OF
the part of the maloa. for dynastic rea
sons sufficiently obvious. Victor. abl,
to ally himself with the daughter OF 4
house still relgnlng. Is the hope of th,
family for an heir who. when VtetoI
shall have died. can continue the claiu
to the ghaatly throne 40 Frandly seized
by Napoleon
This summer witnessed another mar
riage Ia which famous family scent
o. tread the road 90 swift extinction
Prince Antoine Albert HadziWlll o
Poland had his way aud Dorothy Dea
con ID his bride. On both sides OF th,
match there IL insanity. the prince
father aAyug been al ordinary Ia
matte for the past seven years aud hll
brides father dying insane after h'
Killed la duel at Cannes guest q
hla Nife ia Paris,
The most famous af All lines Ia Ills
tory WAS that 81 the Caesars. Wlth th,
heroic nKufe % lullua booming a. ~
nFst conspicuous member