Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-22

sacred oil. So that it was the 9th of
August, 1926, before the new car
made his solemn entry into Moscow.
and the Sd of September before the
coronation ceremony took place. Ru-
NOR had whispered that it was to be
something more than an ordinary cor
onation, and all Europe in consequence
flocked to see it. Ambassador WED
with ambassador to put in the most inn
posing appearance at the fete; and
even Pope Leo XII. sent his representa-
tive to join the diplomatic corps at
Moscow. as for once he CHANGED to be
on good terms with the Russian court.
Many khan and ameer was present
whose territory had been mediatized
long before. and the burly Hetman of
the Don Cossacks, might have been
seen fighting for a place in the pro-
cession with some stiff little duke or
landgrave from the Taunus or the
Rhine. There was placid Marie Feo-
dorovna, Paufs widow, who had done
with thrones, and felt, with her cum
brouS crown on, that she was onlv
playing at empress for the day; and
CZarina Alexandra, of course, wearing
sadder look, for her troubles were
only beginning; and Charles of Prussia,
leading the little czarewitch by the
hand; and Grand Duke Constantine.
who had turned up quite Unexpectedly
from Warsaw the evening before, and
made everybody, from car to cham
berlain, feel more or less uncomfortable.
1t was very brilliant affair, however,
altogether; and on this occasion Nichol-
as used the famous diamond" throne
which the Armenians of Ispahan are
said to have presented to Car Alevis
Michaelvitch; while Alexandria filled
the golden" throne on which Michael
Feodorovitch, the first of the Roman
offs, was crowned.
No sooner has the car been crowned
than he hastens to perform the same
office for his conSort. First he touches
with his own crown the forehead of
the kneeling czarina, to show that she
must take her part in the responsible
ties of power; then. assisted by her la
dies, he fixes the proper diadem of the
empress-consort on her brow. When a
cZarina is crowned independently of
her husband, she enjoys q more mag
nifcent ceremonial. Marina, the Polish
wife Of the False Dmitri, was crowned
at Moscow with extraordinary magnifi
cence on the 18th of May, 1906. This
wayward lady, who was a Roman
Catholic, refused, it is recorded, to
make the orthodox confession, and
claimed the right to go to church
dressed after the latest French fash
iona robe with long waist and a
ruff two feet in diameter, and the
smallest slippers that could be bought
in Paris on her fetal which was a
grave scandal to the simple Muscovites,
who had been accustomed to see their
cZarinas wearing the national garb
which had no waist at all, and hob
nailed boots such as Russian peasants
wear now on their cornation day
Catherine. Cheremeteff's slave, Mems
chikoffs mistress, and Peters cZarina
was not crowned till the 18th of May
1924, just seventeen years after hel
marriage; the manifesto published by
the czar explaining that she concession
was a reward for her b Eoic conduct al
the Pruth. The ceremony was per
formed with great splendor, Peter at
tending on foot, while the globe and
sceptre were carried before her as sht
left the cathedral. This was taken by
GATHERINGS friends to mean that the
concession was reserved for her. A
like Interpretation was placed upon tht
famous "Remettez tout" the frs
words of an injunction which deatf
would not let Peter finish. But i
might have referred just as well t.
any one else; and it was notorious tha'
Catherine was at that time by M
means in favor with the car.