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Show KAISER IS PART FRENCH Gtrman Emperor Has Blood of the Great Admiral de Coligny Col-igny in His Veins Is Also a Descendant of the Famous "William the Silent. could see far beyond the terrible entanglements en-tanglements of his time, and history has pronounced the verdict that, had he been permitted to Impress his policies pol-icies more powerfully on the land of France, it would have been vastly beneficial to his country. Admiral rte Coligny had no better or braver helper In his aims and struggles strug-gles than his daughter LouTse. A beautiful and talented woman, she was as courageous as she was devoted. de-voted. Through all the bitterness and terror of religious feuds she re- j mained unterrified and steadfast. j She married one of her father' fNE of Kaiser Wilhelm's passions in recent ' years has been to visit She ancestral 6eaU that have been accumulated V by his roving and acquisitive ac-quisitive family in the past centuries during dur-ing which the Hohenzollerns Hohen-zollerns have augmented augment-ed their power steadily by war, bar- -ter and marriage, writes Walter L. Malloy in the Chicago News. He has been able to enjoy the desire de-sire to the full extent in the case of practically all the old family castles, for they are Within the empire. j But there is one exception. And it is me of the most important of his ancestral homes, for from it there came some of the best and most his- truest comrades, Charles de Thellgny, who had fought by Gaspard de Colig-ny's Colig-ny's side In almost all his wars. In the night of St. Bartholomew, Aug. 24, 1572, her father and her husband hus-band were both massacred. She herself escaped only as by a miracle and managed to reach Switzerland, Switz-erland, where the Calvinists paid her honor. There, despite the horrors through which she had passed, she remained a powerful and influential j factor in the growth of the new faith. Finally she was permitted to return to Lierville, her husband's estate, and she lived there for some years in peace. But all her efforts to obtain honorable burial for her martyred father were futile. After the mob had dragged his body through the streets the government issued an edict that the dead man was to be hanged in the place of execution. It was 1599 r : r before it was possible to bury the ad- j miral in his home in Chatillon. In 1583 Louise married again. Her second husband was the great William Wil-liam of Orange. Once more she went through years of war and terror for her faith. Bravely she remained by the side of her brave husband. And toric blood that runs in the present t imperial veins. It is the home of the great Colignys, only eighty miles from Paris. There one of the best and most remarkable I again it was her lot to see ner ue-loved ue-loved killed before her eyes, when the infamous Balthazar Gerard assassinated assass-inated him to win the reward offered by the Spaniards. ancestresses of the Hohenzollerns was born. The memory of the Admiral de Col-igny, Col-igny, the great Huguenot, who per--'shed in the bloody vespers, Is kept green in France that his old home, the remnant of the castle, is a prouu histf"e monument of the French people. They do not, however how-ever kwe to admit that it is also an ancestral seat of the German em- William and Louise naa a son, nu-erick nu-erick Henry. His daughter, Louise Henrietta of Orange-Nassau, became the wife of Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg, surnamed the Great Elector. The great elector obtained the I duchy of Prussia from the king of I Poland and finally he annexed Mag-i Mag-i deburg. V""r and a great part of j Pomeranla. ! In 1648 Chatillon was raised to a peror. The French blood in the Hohenzol-lern Hohenzol-lern l'ne is direct. Louise Henrietta of Orange-Nassau, the great-granddaughter of Admiral de Coligny, married mar-ried the great, elector, Frederick William Wil-liam of Brandenburg, who won the sovereignty of the Prussia which then was a duchy. It was this same marriage which made the present Hohenzollerns descendants des-cendants also of the great prince of Orange, William the Silent, who broke the power of Spain in the Netherlands, Louise Henrietta having been the daughter of William the Si- mmm duchy in favor of the nephew of Louise. This nephew bore his brave ancestor s name of Gaspard de Coligny Colig-ny but he had only one son. who died without issue. So, in 1657, the male line of the Colignys perished and ! Chatillon fell to the Montmorencys. The Coligny castle did not belong ! to the family until 1437, when Kath-erine Kath-erine de Saligny brought the castle into the Coligny family as her dowry when she married William II. of Col- " lent and his wife. Louise de Coligny, v - rao was the daughter of the admiral. ad-miral. , The French ancestral home of the kaiser lies in the little town of Chatil-lon-sur-Loing, on the banks of the River Riv-er Loing. It is In the present department depart-ment bf the Loiret, which used to be the great province of Orleans, Intimately Inti-mately connected with the most stirring stir-ring and Impressive periods of French history ChatiUon-sur-Loing is about . forty miles from the city of Orleans It went to sleep long ago and has not the least desire to wake up. To-day there remains only the great tower, of a curious octagonal shape, the remnant of a part of tie m-rounding m-rounding wall, and a beautiful foun- lgny. . The Colignys were native to the east of France, close to the boundaries boundar-ies of Savoy. There were a bunch of the dukes of Burgundy, so the kaiser could no doubt get heralds to find for nim that he is permitted to display the Burgundian eagle in the red field in addition to his other arms. The General Understood. I well remember, writes a corres-i corres-i nondent Gen. Sir William Olpherts rHeH Fire Jack") visiting the hospit-al hospit-al in which I happened to be a pa- tient while In India. Going round tne ward, the general asked each man the rature of his complaint, and, in or-de or-de to cer us up a little he assured each in turn that he would soon recover re-cover as he had suffered from he same malady himself. Coming to he r was retaken aback by the T-Hir. in the 'rats'-you 1 kn"Oh" replied the general, smrtlng -vou'li soon be all right again I tain made hy the Huguenot sculptor Jean Goujon, to show what a migtuy castle protected the Colignys in their CoS intense faith never - fanaticism clearest minds In France i au jects for the aancemrf tte tlon were those of a statesma bave been like that mjsea. -u-Regiment. joy Causes Death. I overcome with joy at his unex- ! schau, Hungary. |