The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-09-09

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great 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 a woman
The chances of a male heir are fair
ly good-simply the chances which Of
fer to average humanity-and 1t -
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-
thusiastic partisans OF the theory OF
the right divine.
Nature, labo4ng necessarily toward
the attainment of n common level,
seems to take delight in frustrating
the changeless 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 a few common
place generations, to pass away in the
same manner as did dynasties founded
by as great as the first
Bonaparte. The large majority seemed
to fall 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 i~ntegrally part of another alien
stock.
Royalty, proceeding on the burles-
que basis that the Almighty has Gre
ated it's bones, muscles, flesh, blood
and brain of peculiar virtue, especial
ly adapted to the bossing of things,
inevitably deduced that, unless 1t
should mate with a similar breed OF
boss stock. it would degenerate into
the stock divinely doomed to be
bossed.
Napoleon's family, when he went
where c%onquerors go finally, was nu'
merous enough, as families 60, to
promise perpetuity. But marriage with
them. vas limited to other and older
and royal lines, most of which lac an
ak out for a Bonaparte whenever he
came around smelling Of orange bios
SONS.
AS the French republic braced up,
and more and more emphat1cally
made it apparent that all royalty there
lacks so much as an inch OF ground
to stand on, the opportunities for royal
matches deceased with the Bona
parties, and the royal scions became
fewer.
Counting Victor Napoleon, there are
enumerated now only a half-score re-
naming, with marriage unpopular on
the part of the males. for dynastic rea-
sons sufficiently obvious. Victor. able
to ally himself with the daughter of q
house still reigning, Is the hope OF the
family for an heir who, when Victor
shall have died, can continue the claim
to the CHASTITY throne so grandly seized
by Napoleon l.
This summer witnessed another mar
rage In which a famous family seems
to tread the road to swift extinction
Prince Antoine Albert Radziwill, OF
Poland, had his way and Dorothy Dea'
con is his bride. On both sides OF the
match there is insanity, the princes
father having been an ordinary lu
matte for the past seven years. and his
brides father dying insane after he
killed in a duel at Cannes a guest Of
his wife In Paris.
The most famous Of all lines in his
tory was that of the Caesars. with the
heroic figure of Julius looming as ttl
tlrst conspicuous member.