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Caption: Sophograph - 1893 (Selections)
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THE DECLINE OF ROYALTY. IT FHE DECLINE OF ROYALTY. falling: away as silently as melts the pale winding-sheet of snow before tin* splendid herald of the new seas< »n. Man. a- a rule, is pleased with anything unusual. Within the last year the attention of the civilized world ha- been drawn to an event which will stand in history as one of thos n*eat social revolutions which mark an era in tlic progress ^\' man: an event which, fortln shrewd statesmanship exhibited and for tin' peaceful attainment of great ends, has never had unequal. Brazil, the only country (»n the svest ^\' the Atlantic over which a King ruled, i burst the bonds whieh held her political boing, and, easting aside the hated insignia of royalty, iej)j)C(| forward and took her place among the great Republics ^\ the world. No d iiionia < hi of an ansassin's bullet is heard. No motley troop ^\' insurgents is seen. No hlcxxh battle fields nor crim >ned scene of carnage. No burning town nor blighted homes. But on blow u,i- given, and thai a- sure and as swift as the lightning's stroke, ()neda> Horn I dr. ;i/.d with proud eyes upon a prosperous laud, and knew that it was hi- to *waj the n d ptre over thai land: the next he was an honored outcast, a man among men. \- 1 a- Dom IVdm turned hi r ret fill ey( for one last look at the land which had rejected him. I have < no doubt th<- breakers, a* the} dashed their foam capped heads against the gravell%\ strands old Brazil, winded in hi ear u mournful cadence, the requiem of hi- vanished power, Wh c m h-|| what thought filled hi- m i n d ' What are the t h o u g h t s ^\ a m a n . when he -• < ill
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