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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17
History Of Russian Coronation.

The first Russian Gar who intro
duced the ceremony of coronation into
Russia was the mighty John Ill. or
| Ivan LII. Q462-15O5), the contemporary
our Edward ", Richard Ill, and
Henry VII. He married Sophia, the
niece of the very last Imperial orthodox
Emperor of Constantinople, and by this
marriage claimed sort of succession
to the first Christian Caesar. It was in
MS reign, when the Turk became mas
Ter Of the ancient capital of Eastern
Christendom, that the kings of Western
Europe seem first to have become aware
Of the rise of the powerful new Chris
tian monarchy in Eastern Europe, and
began to send Ambassadors to Moscow.
Ivan did not crown himself, but in 1893
solemnly invested his grandson. De-
netrius, with the Imperial Christian
laden and robe which had been
brought from Constantinople, and had
been worn by the Caesars of the Eastern
Empire. The ceremony of JUNCTION at
the coronation was afterward intro
duced by Ivan ~, or 'sThe Terrible"
and has since remained as it had all
along been in Western Europe, an in
separable adjunct of the coronation.
Ivan Nv. was the first Car who received
the Eucharist at his coronation. Mich
ael Theodrovitsch insisted upon being
anointed, not only on his forehead and
over his lips, but on his beard also, af-
ter the biblical precedent. In earlier
times the clergy of the Russian Church
played a greater part than they do at
present in the coronation ceremony. As
it was held almost indispensable alike
IN England, France and Germany that
the National Primates, the Archbishops
Of Canterbury, Rheims and Mainz,
should .tconsecrate" the national mon
arch to his office, so it was in Russia
with the Patriarch of Moscow. The
Prelate was supposed to be the peculiar
steward and minister Of the sacramental
rite of coronation. He gave the divine
confirmation and JUNCTION to the pre-
sumed free choice of the people. The
voice of the people was thus supposed
to become the voice of God. The no.
ton of divine right inherent in the
head Of reigning family was a COM
paratively late conception in Russia, as
well as in the West. This appears,
however, to be now the predominant
notion both of the Russian Cars and
the Prussian Kings. The present Ger
man Emperor took the crown from the
altar and placed it upon his own head.
Similarly in Russia the representatives
of the Church now Aay quite subor-
dinate part in the coronation of the
Cars, being little more than minister
ing servants and assisting spectators.
Formerly the Muscovite Patriarch stood
in much the same relation to the Mus
covite Monarch as the Roman Pope
stood to the Roman Emperors through
out the Middle Ages. The thrones OF
the Car and the Patriarch stood. upon
an equal level, and the Russian secular
and ecclesiastical chieftains represented
the ancient theory of ''the Two Swords"
London Echo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17
COnceit Of the Hungarians.

The regular Hungarians are the most
intensely conceited men on earth or
everything pertaining to their own ma
tionality. They believe themselves to
be the greatest people on the earth, the
only people really worth saving, and
this good opinion of themselves runs
through everything. There are only
16, 100000 of them, and they are so sur
rounded as to make their complete alb
sorption into other and stronger races
only matter of time. But they do not
believe it. They hold themselves tie be
the most important factor in the Aus
trian system, and look upon the Ger
man as an inferior and the other ma
tionalities making up the Empire as
people hardly worth associating with.
At their theaters the Bohemian is the
standing Joke, and, next to him. the
German. The stupid fellow in their
the Sclav and Creation not being con-
sidered of enough Importance to bur
1esque.
Their delicious pride and conceit
compels them to hold to their semi
barharous language. The Bohemian
has humility enough to know that his
uialecG must give way 10 the herman,
but the Hungarian will none of it. He
is a Hungarion, and proposes to live
and die one. The Hungarian is the
only language permitted in their
schools, and Hungarian is the official
language of the country. The members
of their Parliament charge each other
with corruption in the choicest Hun
garian, and accuracy in speaking the
language goes much farther than facts
and figures.
They even aspire to. a literature OF
their own, and they erect statues to
poets who were never heard of outside
of Pesth, and to statesmen whose cOun-
sells have had no more to do with the
politics of the world than the vaporings
of George Francis Train.
However, all these things please
them, and it is we'll. They are a SIM
pie, guileless sort of people. thriftles5 to
a degree, generous to II fault, and de-
Gghtful because of their qualities.
Isolated from the rest of the world, their
belief in themselves is very natural and
not to be wondered at.-D. r. Locke, IN
Toledo Blade.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17
CUTTING OFF THE BABYs cJRLs


aE ~ beautiful darling ran in from his play.
q. m, HIS blue eyes swimming with tears unshed;
And S0fI is all ea diT me he ,d ia;d mamma
like iIrrs, -
And / wish you'd cut off all these mis- able
curls."
held my darling close, close to my breast
Nnu husned his sobs with u sigh and
But oh. my heart was so i'll at rest
AS thought of the past the while:
must sever those ringlets, half silk, half
That lovingly over my fingers rolled9 -
j thought of the baby kisses and wiles;
Alas! had my baby gone far away?
Aansti look in vain for his dream-like smiles.
AND watch him no more at his play?
NOR ns call II, !, him my wee dimpled pearl of
While 1 stealthily fondled the hated curls?
A., 4 lifted them gently-my boy, my pet
them shorn; ,-s- 49,
His cheeks were like scarlet, his eyes were
- - As he lisped of his playmates' scorn;
ana my own eyes were heavy with unshed
As the shining tresses fell of the shears.
1t was doneTmy darling no longer wept.
seel now you can't call me dirl any
My curis are all gone-Ts mani"
All. poor little manikin. what did he care
That my tears fell hot on that glistening
hai5Sf dsE
hid them aside in a carven box,
Those living tresses of amber glow,
And l look ut them now with yearning
Though my locks are as white as the snow;
And they straighten and spring into spirals
.. of gold
AT the touch of my tremulous hand, as of
old.
And think of the head where they Glus-
''i.'' tered soft, '"f-'H.T-..-
OF the fearful voice and the wet blue eyes;
And wist if his ringlets are grown again,
In his beautiful home in the skies.
My baby his triumph was brief wild
He died on my bosom a little child.
i had dreamed my dreams of the coming
man,
My proud. high dreams. but they never led
so high as the Heaven to which he has gone,
Or stopped to that narrow bed;
They were full of glory, untrOubled by
Now God has the glory and he the gain.
And sometimes see through the open door
My darling, my baby, my pearl of pearls!
His hands outstretched and his shoulders hid
In cloud of golden curls.
Yet my tears fall like rain as l hide them
away.
Mary A. Denison, in Youths Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17

-Georgians fish during the evening.
Perhaps, they catch moonshlners. ".
i. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17

There are sixty thousand orange
trees at Bay st. Louis. Miss.
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04
Two of a Kind.

John -, had but one small
steer, and in order to haul some
wood, concluded to yoke himself
up with the steer. After getting
himself geared up, up the hill
they went after wood. And, hav-
ing gone to the top of the hill, the
steer became frightened and start
ed down at a rapid gait. John in
his efforts to stop the steer fright
ened it worse, and away they went
the further the faster, until at
length they struck the road, and
up that at full speed, John being
compelled to run his best 10 keep
his part from throwing and iniur-
ing him. At last John saw man
coming, and cried out at the top of
his voice: Head us, or we'll kill
our damned fool selvesp' But his
friend not being able to stop
them, ON they went, John Gilpin
like, until they came to the river,
when the steer proposed to cross,
and as John saw a good chance be-
fore him of being drowned if his
partners intentions were carried
out, caught hold of a root and held
on for dear life with such grip
that his companion was at last
brought to a halt. Then a man
appeared on the scene, and John
halloed tc him to come to their
rescue. "Come SLOW" said John,
we're skeered, and you'll skeer
us agin."
Finally the friend got up to
them and took hold of Johns
head to unyoke him, when John
exclaimed:
"D-n it, unyoke the bull, I'll
stand!
The hero of this story is said to
be Martin county man.-Pres-
tonbury Banner.
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04
just the Time to be.Pleasant.

"Mother's cross!' said Maggie,
coming out of the kitchen with a
pout on her lips.
Her aunt was busy ironing, but
she looked up and answered Maggie:
'Then it Is the very time for you
to be pleasant and helpful. Moth
er was awake good deal in the night
with the poor baby"
Maggie made no reply. She put
on her hat and walked off into the
garden. But a new idea went with
her.
"The very time to be helpful and
pleasant is when other people are
cross. Sure enough" thought she,
'that would do the most good"
II remember when was sick last
year l was SO nervous that, if any one
spoke to me, I could hardly help be-
ing cross and mother never got an
CRY or out of patience, but was inst
as gentle with me ought to pray
it back now, and I.will.'
And she sprang up from the grass
where she had thrown herself, aud
turned face full of cheerful rcsolu-
ton toward the room where ber
mother sat soothing and tending a
fretful teething baby"
Maggie brought out the pretty
ivory balls, and began to jingle them
for the little one.
He stopped fretting, and smile
dimpled the corners of his lips.
Couldn't I take him ont to ride
in his carriage, mother? It's such a
nice morning. she asked.
81 should be glad if you would"
SAID her mother.
The little hat and sack were
brought, and the baby was soon
ready for his ride.
"Ill keep bim as long as ne is
good, said Maggie: land you must
lie on the sofa and get a nap while
| am gone. You are looking dread
fully tired"
What happy heart beat in Mag
gie's bosom as she trundled the little
carriage up and down on the walk
She had done real good. She had
given back little of the help and
forbearance that had so often been
bestowed upon her.
She had made her mother happy,
and given her time to rest.
She resolved to remember, and
act on her aunt's good words. "The
very tine to be helpful and pleasant
is when everybody. is tired and
cross
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04

SENTENcED:-There was a sad
scene witnessed in Wisconsin
courtroom the other day. A
manacled young man, convicted of
murder, stood up to be sentenced.
As the kind-hearted judge referred
to the sorrowing mother, the
prisoner wept like a child. When
the sentence was pronounced
State prison for life-he shudder-
ed and almost fell to the floor, at
the thought of the living death
awaiting him.
The youth was not q rough, !"
the police did not even call him a
"bad one" He was a smart boy,
but he drank and gambled. And
he did not murder his victim in
cold blood, but when drunk with
whisky and maddened by losses at
the gaming-table.
There are scores Of smart boys
who are beginning the terrible
end, where waits the entombing
cell or the gibbet of death. If
they would gaze on the heart
broken mother, or listen to the
clank of the youths manacles as
he shudders at his sentence, they
might realize that they are going,
as he went, to destruction. The
man never lived who beat whiskey
and the farobank, and continued
their slave. Youths Companion.
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04
immigration Difficulties.

The New York correspondent of
the Charleston News and Courier.
challenges the statement that peo-
pie looking for new homes shun
the south ON account of the pres
ence of the negroes in large num-
ber. The correspondent talked
with Mr.. Jackson, superintendent
of Castle Garden, and his reason
why SO few immigrants turned
southward, are at least interest,"
ing. First" he said, "because
the pay for farm labor is not so
large as in the west; secondly, be-
cause the immigrants do not like
the food. A German or a Swede
Will not thrive on cornbread and
bacon, and he wants more than ten
dollars a month. I have ques-
toned all those who have come
back here dissatisfied after'a trial
OF life down south, and the COM
plants are always the same-not
enough money, and not the right
kind of food.
So it is the negro after all that
keeps newly arrived people
from settling IN the south. The
negro reduces the price of labor
and accepts the plainest and home
liest kinds Of food. He is willing
to labor for rations of cornmeai
and bacon and very little money.
Mr.. jackson also stated that the
plans of immigrants are in most
cases made before they leave the
other side and that as a rule they
gowhere friends have gone before
them and done we'll. This indi-
Gates that it will prove difficult
task to turn the tide this way.
In former ar icle we were
speaking more of settlers from
New England, looking for small
farms, than of laborers from the
old world. We then insisted that
such settlers go to Manitoba or
anywhere In the north In prefer
ence to the old states of the south,
because they are unwilling to work
side by side with negroes. This
may be an unwe1come theory, but
we have seen no reason in all the
criticism that have been written
for changing it. Superintendent
jackson says he has never discov-
cred in immigrants from Europe,
any personal dislike of the negro,
and he may be right; but the New
Englander, seeking a new home, is
very different person. His pre-
Judices are sharp and we'll defined.
He is thinking of those that are to
come after him, and he invariably
decides to confront the frosts and
hardships Of the northwestern
frontier rather than to go to the
sunny land that is all he desire if
it were peopled only by his own
color. The negro is at the bot
tom of the tronble in either case,
whether our theory or that of Su-
perintendent Jackson be accepted.
The remedy is not easy to find.
Mr.. jackson thinks immigrants
should be induced to go south who
have large families of children
Then we are to wait until these
children grow up before we can
take another step forward. If
this is the best remedy the case
affords, very many of us will not
be here to participate in the sub
sequent proceedings.
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04
Plant Oats.
Columbus Enquirer Sun.

Columbus Enquirer Sun.
In order to make the raising Of
oats profitable, it is necessary to
comply with the rules that expe-
rlence teaches to be the best. One
of these is to plant them at the
proper time. It is a mistake to
wait until spring to SOW oats. The
time of planting is of great impor-
tance. A practical farmer saws
that one part of his cropwas plan
ted between the LIST and goth of
October, which yielded fifty-fve
bushels per acre, and another por-
tion Of the crop was planted in
November, which yielded twenty
bushels to the acre. One was a
profitable crop; the other barely
paid expenses. Both were planted
on the same kind of land and
treated exactly alike in all res
poets, except the time of planting,
to which he attributes the differ
ence in the yield of grain.
Some of the advantages of the
oat crop are that it does not seem
to be particular upon what kind of
soil it is planted, provided it is
properly drained. Itrequires but
little labor to plant and harvest
the crop, for when the land is in
proper condition, a great deal of
the work can be done with i'm
proved implements. 1t is planted
at the time of the year when we
always have the kind of seasons
the crop requires. It is the best
food for work stock that can be
grown, besides more can be pro-
duced from an acre than from any
other kind of grain. And if the
farmer makes more than he re-
quires for his stock, he can dis
pose of the surplus to as good an
advantage as any field crop he can
grow. The crop is gathered at the
time of the year when he can put
the land it occupies in variety
of crops. He can SOW the land in
peas either to gather or to leave as
manure for another crop. The
land under that treatment will
steadily improve, as all who have
experience will testify. If the
land is rich and free from stumps
it may remain undisturbed, and in
the fall, with mower, fine crop
of crab grass can be cut Corn or
cotton may be planted after the
oats, and a full crop made.
1t is important that the farmers
should not neglect this crop, and
we desire to remind them that it is
time to preparefor it. 1t has saw
ed many farmer from the en-
barrassment of asking for credit,
or what is worse, allowing his
pillow stock to go half starved
Let every farmer in all this sec
ton plant plenty Of oats, and if
the price can be reduced to twen-
ty-fve cents a bushel, it will only
argue the prosperity of the agri-
cultural community.
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04
PERSEVERANCE.

One step and then another.
And the longest walk is ended;
One stitch and then another.
And the largest rent is mended;
One brick upon another,
And the highest wal. is made;
One flake upon another,
And the deepest snow is laid
SO the little coral workers,
BY their slow and constant molten,
Have built those pretty islands
In the distantdark- blue ocean;
And the noblest undertakings
Mans wisdom hath conceived,
BY oft-repeated offort
Have been patiently achieved.
Then do not look disheartened
On the work you have to do
And say that such mighty task
You never can get through;
But just endeavor, day by day,
Another point to gain,
And soon the mountain which Won feared
VIII prove to be plain.
Rome was not builded in day."
The ancieut proverb teaches.
And nature, by her trees end flowers,
The same1sweet sermon breaches.
Think not of far-off duties,
But of duties which are near,
And having once begun to work,
Resolve to 'pRRsEvERE.'
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04
Saving His Fathers Life.

KEYToN, CALHOUN CouNrY. Sep
tember 22,-Allison, the little nine
year-old son of Mr.. w. P. Perry, ol
Calhoun county, saved his fathers
life by a remarkable display of cour
age and deliberations.
This little son OF Mr.. Perry and a
stout negro man named Pleasant
Woedson, were driving the gin OF
Mf. Perry. Allison had a whip that
had been given him by negro boy
on the place. Pleasant wanted the
whip and being refused by the little
boy, took it by force, choking and
otherwise treating the little fellow
very roughly. Abont the time Pleas
ant attacked Allison Mr.. p. rode up
In his buggy, and seeing his little
boy in the hands of the enraged ruff
ian, ran up with his buggy whip,
when the negro rushed on Mr.. Perry.
who, being unarmed, struck the ne
gro with the butt end of his whip.
hoping thereby to check his advance.
The whip broke, however, and Mr..
r., stepping backward, stumbled
over a wagon tire and fell, his assail-
ants knife piercing his clothes and
slightly cutting his thigh. The ne
grofell on Mr. Perry with open knife,
and was just in the act of plugging
the long keen blade in Mr.. Perry's
heart, when Allison seeing his fa-
theirs extreme peril, picked up an
old axe and with the courage and
precision of man struck the negro
a stunning blow on the head, SO COM
pletely demoralizing him that he
scampered away with added brain
and bruised head. Thus it will be
seen that nine-year-old boy saved
his father from a horrible death b7
having pluck.-Macon Telegraph.
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04
JACK FROST.
He Pays His Respects to the
Northwest and Does COnsId.
cradle Damage.

NfOe III SfSA tthAW E(OCS OOn6AWS
cradle Damage.
New York, Sept 9-Reports from
MINI, Iowa, and Wisconsin, states
that great damage was done to corn
and other crops in those states by
heavy frost on Friday night. In
many places ice formed to the thick
ness ola dinner plate.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 10-Frost is re-
ported very generally throughout
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky the
last two mornings. The report from
Kentucky says oil tobacco on low
grounds and creek bottoms is ruined
and vegetables everywhere are injur-
ed. The weather is warmer to day.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 1O-Tbere was a
heavy frost IN this county last night
md corn on low lands was killed.
BuckwheAt also suffered and the
whole cucumber industry was ruin
ed. The loss in this enterprise alone.
is placed at $500,000. Cucumbers
are made a speciality by many far
mers in this county because of the
large pickle factory at Wannatosa.
A dispatch from Caldwell prairie
states that there were light frosta
on Friday and Saturday nights and
a heavy one on Sunday night, which
did great damage. Frosts doing
more or less injury to crops are re-
ported from all parts OF the North
and West.
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04
Because he kissed a Widow.
An Old Gentleman Driven from
Society, Business and Home.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 26.-Evans-
vile for some time has in a quiet
way been agitated over a mild
scandal which has had most seri-
Gus results. The scandal involved
Mr.. F. M. Thayer, for many years
editor of the Journal, of that city,
and postmaster, and leading
member of the Methodist church,
and a gentleman advanced in
years to the dignity of a grandfa-
ther. 1t was charged that he kiss
ed a widow, and, although nothing
more or worse urged against him,
yet he was allowed to withdraw
from the church to avoid charges.
He sold out his paper, his regisna-
ton as postmaster was accepted
before it was rendered and he has
disposed of his property with in
tention of moving from the city.
In the Journal of yesterday, Mr..
Thayer published a card, in which
he alludes to the reports and Sian,
ders circulated about him, and
says: "That in all my attentions
TO the lady in question nothing
whatever Of criminal character
ever occurred or was designed
These attentions never transgress-
ed the rules of social propriety ex.
cept in the alleged particular OF
exchanging kiss. For the I'M
propriety I assume all the respon-
sibility and blame, as | have re-
ceived all the censure." 1t is GER
tainly remarkable case, and
probably the costliest kiss on rec
ord
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04
Keeping Potatoes.
Editor Home and Farm:


If "Steeles Bayou will take su-
gar, flour, or potato barrels and and
fill one-third full of Irish potatoes,
and then take perfectly dry sand, or
dust, and pour over them and shake
down until every crevice is filed
with sand, repeating the process un-
til the barrel is full, and keep pro-
tected from rain, he will have no
trouble in keeping nice sound pota-
loes. have yet to hear of fail
ure when put up in this way. The
same plan is equally good for sweet
potatoes in barrels or hills. Try it,
farmers, and save yourselves much
trouble and expense.
Sanford, N. G. j.
The Dawson journal., 1883-10-04

CLEVELAND, OHIo.-The Plain
Dealer reports that Hon. Martin A.
Foran, congressman elect from the
Cleveland, Ohio, district, has used
St. Jacobs Oil IL his family and has
always found it safe and reliable,
and it afforded him great relief to a
lame knee.