St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-26
Numerous U~ncpOWned Mon
archs Loafing at the
French Capital.
Dom Pedro Not the Only De-
bris Of Royalty Within
the City.
Story Of "The Last King Of
Naples" and His Old
Home.
Isabella H., Ex-Queen Of the
SpaniardS--Talk Of Other
EX-RulerS.

DON. VIZ ooJ GIL
old man went south on the Lyons IL
Mediterranean railway whom 1 used
often to see in different parts of the city
taking his daily constitutional. He was
a handsome old gentleman, and his
head was hoary. He had a flowing
beard, eyes full of benevolence, and the
long lose of the Latin races. He never
displayed luxury in dress, but he was
particularly neat and clean. and had all
the elegance of a person Of good taste
and manners.
He was a foreigner, that much was
certain, and he walked along with
thoughtful step, taking in the pc
culiarities of Partisan life as becomes a
philosopher. The only noteworthy
signs about him were his dogskin
gloves and the handsome bamboo cane,
Surmounted by q handle carved out Of
rhinoceros horn, that he carried in his
right hand.
Those who elbowed him on the boale
wards, not knowing him, may have mis-
taken him. perhaps, for some rich old
fellow going to the bourse to see if the
8 per cents had not risen half a franc or
so, while otners might have fancied he
was some picture buyer on his way to
the auction sales of the Hotel de VenteS
in the rue prOuot.
Well. that man of modest bearing and
diStingue appearance was none other
than a dethrOned monarch. He was all
'empereur en- exile" who, a year ago,
occupied an immense position in the
world. and reigned over a large portion
of fhn Olnlln rich on6 unndnd Ha nnu-
erned Brazil, an empire of extensive
prairies. Of large rivers, of immense
forests and of diamond mines. 1t is a
domain in which three countries like
France or Old England could be con-
v%enientlv placed, yet at this moment it
has. including blacks, but few inhabi-
tantS.
He used to travel from one years end
to another, and his presence was no
trouble to anybody. Liberal in his pol
tics, he abolished monarchism. eman-
cipated negroes, transformed mulattOS
into ~functionarles and tried to make
white men happy. Then the military
element took him into its grasp because
he would not go tt war. Captains com
planned of not being cOlOnelS; %colOnels
were dissatisfied because they were not
generals. and 10 this trouble | must add
the bad luck of his having as daughter
in-laW
An Orleans Princess,
who is noisy and peeviSh. They will
tell you all along the river Amazon
that, too much listened to. she alienated
from the emperor his subjects of all
cOlOrS.
One morning revolution entered his
palace without knocking, and asked him
to pack up, leave the capital, and go
whithe it pleased him. He could have
demanded asylum of twenty kings If he
had liked, but he preferred to come to
Paris and take his sea on the very
hearth of a republic, and Dom Pedro
ILL.,, whom all the personages in the
Almanach de Gotha had been CORE
spending with, became plain Pedro
d'Alcanuara.
He could have taken the name of
Braganza if he had seen fit, but. per-
hapS, he foreSaw the position of Deputy
Moreau concerning titles of nobility,
and the value attached to that great
historical name would have called for
$4,000 in French money in the way of
taxes, no small amount ever for a South
American,
I must say this for Pedro, that. while
the guest Of the republic, he never
thought of posing as a MAJESTY, and in
bAii0 Wv u hAoLO1 Ri " titC
COmte de Paris, who visited your shores
lately. At Athens, in the days of De-
mOStheneS, a person named CteSiphOn
enjoyed the privilege of walking about
with a crown upon his head; this right
offended the jealous democracy to the
highest degree, a fact which gave birth
to a famous speech that tyrannical
teachers used to compel US to translate
while at college.
Mr.. D'Alcantara wore a high hat like
the rest of us, but his, like ours, soon
got worn about the brim, for he had TO
take it Off a good many times, returning
the salutes of those who met him. He
was an old acquaintance, so to speak,
for he came to Paris nineteen years ago,
on the morrow of the disasters which
France had undergone in her war with
Germany. His presence at that mo-
ment was a novelty quite unexpected, a
thing that had never before occurred,
and TO think that since then he has had
his own fall.
Betrayed by Fortune,
for consolation he returned to Paris,
more like an Anarchists than a Denys
OF Syracuse, for, as an eX-tyrant, he was
never a tyrant who trampled ON his SUBJ
jects.
S~ixty-odd years before his coming
another emperor of Brazil came here
with his young daughter and asked hos
pitality of the triumphant revolution.
That was Dom Pedro L.. and his daugh-
ter's name was Maria ia Gloria. They
we've received with open arms, the same
as had been Hussein, the dey of AL
giers, and Duke Charles of Brunswick,
two other dethroned sovereigns.
Pedro and Dona Maria were very
fond of music. and, as it was in the
days when William Tell, "the "Mnette
de Portici' and "Robert the Devil" had
just been produced, they were often
seen in a box at the opera. But they
had not come here entirely to live the
life of dilletanti. He had an object in
view. and soon entered into plans to
wrest from his brother Miguel that
crown Of Portugal which he had
Usurped, with a view Of restoring it to
his daughter.
Dom Miguel was to Portugal what
the first Don Carlos was to Spain, a
bigot king of monks. covered with soap
ularies and rosaries. He was half a
Tiberius, half a Henry I'LL, and the
generation of those days held him in
holy horror. He used to make I'D
rhymes about luxury. the Lords sup
per and hanging, and it took European
satlrlsts to nail this BraganZa, side by
side with Ferdinand VII, to the pill
Tory.
Louis Philippe, king of barbados,
gave for residence the chateau of Meu-
don to Dom Pedro and his daughter
Maria da Gloria, and that palace with
its lovely park became not only a re-
treat, but a camp also. 1t was changed
into a recruiting bazaar, and all the
cut-throats of Brazil, all the free lances
OF Portugal, made it their daily rendez-
vous. Dom Pedro enlisted these ras-
Gals in the ranks against his brother;
the tragedy of Cain and Abel was
played over again, aud the Count de
Paris grandpa lent a helping hand.
Along about the year 1851 theyeom-
npllpd Dom Miunpl to cnt Stink NJ r,1n