The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-17

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cation lasted. He MAJ T5T 1FooIPIF
was taught to enjoy robbery, plumber,
torture and killing. He was made to
win his teachers applause by gallop-
ing at full speed through Moscow's
crowded streets and trampling help
less women and children to death I'M
der his horses iron-shod hoofs. The
boy was Ivan ". of Russia. known as
Ivan the Terrible"
Russia was least civilized of all
European lands. Its early history was
one of needless bloodshed and merci-
less conquest. The rulers We're called
grand dukes, until Ivan the Terrible
became the first car. He took the
title of GEAR" because that was the
Russian form of Caesar" a title ap-
piled to Rome's emperors. ("Kaiser"
is another form of the same word.
Ivan mounted the throne in 1888. at
his fathers death. He was but four
years old at the time and was for the
next ten years wholly in the power of
brutal mobiles who ruled the court.
Then when he was fourteen a political
clique made up of his relatives came
into power and proceeded to teach
him to be more a fiend than a human
being. When Ivan was seventeen he
had vision. or trance, in which he
believed an angel warned him to lead
a better life. He obeyed-more
through fear and superstition than
from religious zeal
For the next Is years Ivan was a
model ruler He did much for his peo-
pie, was gentle and wise, and gave
promise of an ideal career. The
noblest influence in all his life was his
lovely wife, Anastasia. He loved her
and was guided by her advice. In 1860
came the change that made him an
object OF dread
In that year Anastasia died. Ivan
fell dangerously i'll through grief.
When at length he was we'll again his
whole nature had changed. 1t is prob
able sorrow and illness had affected
his brain. In any case he rose from
his sick bed more like Wild beast
than man. He was filed with fear
Of fancied conspiracies. To crush these
imaginary plots he slew numbers OF
nohlemen, along with their entire fam
lilies. He devised fortunes too repul-
sive to be named. Among the mildest
OF these was the turning loose OF wild
dogs and bears among throngs Of inno-
cent people.
The city of Novgorod incurred his
displeasure. He marched against 1t
with an army and maSsacred $4,000 Of
It's inhabitants. He had the prisoners
herded in an Enclosure and slew them
with his own hand as long as he could
strike a blow. Then he ordered his
fierce troops to continue the slaughter
on them
A thousandth part of such cruelty
rs his would have set any nation. in
late days, into a flame Sc revolt But
the sixteenth century Russians looked
on their ear as a god, ana bore NEE
" whatever outraees his maniac brain
mieht choose Is iuhjct upon them.
Ivan had seven wives in rapid sue
cvssion, ana sert IS Queen ENzabeth's
court fer m eisbth But The EngGsh
Elrl IS chose daughter of the earl OF
l.untington-h te2%G 81 pfttously 10 be
saved from the fate 81 wedding the
imperial monster that the match was
broken on
Ffend As he was, Ivan the Terrible
dt6 great thiugs far Russia. He opeped
IFS PORTS to the commerce oil the world.
established the first prinung Office
there, conquered and annexed Siberia
and-eXcept in his fts OF madness
encourased civilization and progress
among his sayase people He was a
shrewd statesman. a crafty warrior. a
man not devoid of genius.
As the Years went on Ivan's insane
fear of conspiracy and assassination
grew stronger. Falsely suspecting his
eldest and ablest son of plotting with
his foes. he struck the young man
dead with blow of his iron stan.
Remorse for this murder fastened
VANS own, death. Surrounded bv
Quacks and "magicians" prey to
superstitious terrors-now repenting
his cruelues, now feyerishly planning
fresh atrociues-the tyrant wore out
the last three years Of his vie life.
dying in 1884.