The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-09-13
O r ". CH1LD'S RECOL-
LECTYONS.


0oOIHo We OuAtSNn, Ava 0u AuV6E68GluK
chapter Of re~collections contributed TO
Lippincotfs Magazine, thus exhibits
some Of the traits Of one Of the most
democratic Of monarchs, Dom Pedro, Of
Brazil: I may take advantage Of this
second allusion to Longfellow to say q
word or two about q man Of exalted
station and intellect-that modest mon
arch. Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil.
Speaking of Longfellow reminded me
Of the time when Dom Pedro, gazing at
the portrait Of Longfellow which hangs
in my library, exclaimed: sThat is
your great American poet. Ihave trans
lated his works into Portuguese and
made known the beauty Of his verse to
all BRAZIL"
This was in 1876, when during the
Centennial exhibition the Emperor was
my guest, aud I naturally arranged for
him to visit the various places of inter-
est in Philadelphia. At my house I
presented to him the late James l..
Claghorn, President of the Academy Of
Fine Arts, who invited him to visit the
Academy, and on his expressing a desire
to go, inquired what hour would he most
agreeable to His Majesty. &c o'clock" he
said. 1t was q favorite hour with him;
but Mr.. Claghorn, not knowing this,
was aghast. However. promptly at the
appointed time lie had the Directors of
the Academy on hand to greet the En-
peror. who exhibited an unfeigned and
very intelligent interest in the art treas
ures of the building. When introduced
to DIR. Ruschenberger. President of the
Academy of Natural Sciences, he sur
prised the Doctor and those about him
by saying: "Iknow you as an author"
aud he proceeded to name the books
the Doctor had written, some of them
being out Of print.
He accepted an invitation for the next
day to visit the coal regions, and set
again his favorite hour of 6 o'clock as
the time to start. We went in Judge
Packers private cur, and visited various
coal mines and iron-works, the Emper-
or's interest never tagging. He seemed
to understand oil the details of manu-
facture, and paid particular attention to
the Bessemer and Siemens processes of
s~teel-making. A curious incident hap
pened while we were at the Thomas
iron works. Mr.. Thomas (who intro
duced the process of making iron with
anthracite coaD came to me and said
that his granddaughter would like to
be presented to the Emperor, as she had
previously met him in Egypt. So we
turned to His Majesty, and I hardly
named the young lady, when he ex-
claimed: @Oh, 1 met you at the Pyra-
mids, and gave you my photograph, did
/ not?"
We were fourteen hours on that Jour-
ney, returning to Philadelphia ut 8 p.
m: ] was quite worn out and went to
bed. Rising early I picked up the Led-
ger, and about the first thing that
caught my eye was an account of the
Emperor's attendance the night before
at q meeting of the Academy of Natural
Sciences. where it appeared, he had
taken part in the discussions of the
evening. I mention oil this to show
that n monarch in the world, at least,
is q man of energy and broadest intelli-
gence and kindest sympathy. He
seemed to know all about Professor
Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute,
when I made them acquainted; speak
ing of his original aud practical appli-
cation ofthe telegraph. The Professor
invited him to visit Washington and the
Smithsonian Institute. and he went.
Again, when ! introduced him to Joa-
quin Miller, he instantly spoke in praise
of the Sierra Nevada poems. Indeed,
there was apparently nothing notable in
literature, art or science that had not
engaged his attention. In women's
medical colleges he wa much inter-
ested. I broached the subject during
our trip to the coal regions, and he
amazed me with the breadth of his in
formation, dwelling, as he did, upon the
labors of those women who were sent
out as missionaries.
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