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Show BLOOD WILL TELL.' Yes, no doubt, but what tho nature of its communication com-munication will bo is eternally problematical. And for tho best of roasons. Blue blood, irod .blood, good blood, bad blood, are all ono. What wo mean by "blue blood" is moroly the result of a fow years of immodlato environment by conditions favorable to tho Individual. A short time ago the daily papers pa-pers published a photograph of a man named William Wil-liam Gordon, who is authoritatively asserted to be ono of Napoleon's grandsons. This obscure descendant de-scendant of the great Corsican is a laborer in a lumber yard. Seeing him awkwardly engaged In a task for which ho was untrained, and seeing the refined grandson of a ricl) map.to.ke the work out or his hands to perform It with ease and ability, one would bo tempted to'VOmark "Blood -will tell." The idea that there aro streams of superior blood flowing through fahvUies, as some claim "Baok to Edward 1," is tho biggest Joke of the world. In tl this connection a few figures presented in the il work o'f an English scientist will be interesting, ll and it Is safe to say convincing. lie says; IH "I do' not know If it has over occurred to the ijH read to compute tho number of his living unces- ll tors at some definite remote date, at, let us say, Ml the year one of tho Christian era. Every ono has H two parents and four grandparents, most people H have oigh.t great-grandparents (tho exception boing H due to tho marriage of cousins), and if we ignore H the possibility of Intermarriage wo shall go on to H a fresh power of two with every generation, thus: H Number of Number of H generations. ancestors. H 30 15,745,024 H 40 1,956,233,970 H "Estimating four generations to a century and H disregarding intormarrlage 'bf rotations, the an- H cestors living a thousand years ago needed to ac- il count for a living person would be double itho e- ll timatcd present population of the world." H |