nir; OMAHA SUNDAY REK: FKBKLWRY . 1909.
AFTER TOE TURK, AUSTRIA
little Montenegro Gets Beady to Face
a New Foe.
rBXSCE A5D HIS SUBJECTS
"atala resale Who Heaiatrd Tar.
kr for Jlta Oatarlee rissoles
a Gaerrtlla War to (aaa pel
Heraeraltlea af Serbs.
CATTRO, Jan- 7. Though thia Austrian
fort has a population perhaps a dosen
time aa large aa that of Oilnje. the little
Montenegrin capital can bnaat what thla
place cannot, a clean and comfortable
hotel. There la a reason for the existence
of a hotel at Centlnje.
fntil a few years ago diplomatic repre
sentatives accredited to the Montenegrin
court were In the habit of residing at
Raariiss, where many comforts are to be
had. But Prince Nicholas did not like Hie
diplomatists to live In Austria and -visit
him only when aome diplomatic business
brought them, so he causeJ to be e'tabllihed
a European hotel. The hotel ! without
competition, and con sequent ly prices are
high and waiters are as little civil as in
Amnrica. Nevertheless onV la grateful to
the hotel and to Prince Nicholas for pro
viding a good dinner In a town of "500
houses,
Only fir minutes walk from the hotel Is
the palace) of the prince. As on pas sea
down the main mad, which the Montene
grins are pleased to call a street, it Is
the custom to glance down the palace
street, a broad side road, ta sea If the
prince or any of the young princes are
walking up and down. The palace street
is usually left to the royal family, that is
to say no one loiters nesrer than the cor
ners at either end. This Is not because
the imperial guard makes people move on.
but as a recognised act of courtesy.
Ma-ntenesrrlas sad Balers.
The Montenegrins wait in numbers, how
ever, around the comers, for Prince Mirko
comes out for a stroll every bright day
and Prince Nicholas often sits In a chsir
st the . top of the step and sends word
round the corners that he wants to see
whoever Is there. Some of the Montene
grins take off their caps aa soon as they
coma in eight of the prince, and aome
of them do not uncover till they begin to
speak to him. At these receptions any man
may speak to him, though he is not allowed
to interrupt some one, else or to da all
the talking.
It Is especially Interesting to attend one
nf lh,i, mllnrki f AiA th nthflr morn
Ing after breakfast now while the country
generally feels that there might be war
with Austro-Hungary. The captain of
some rillage(milltary company will make
an appeal for the gift of a flag, saying his
men will fight better under a banner given
them by the prince himself. The tall peas
ant stands bareheaded, with his right hand
upon the pistol In his belt; the baggy blue
trousers, reaching to his knees, snd the
sleeveless Jacket of red both show beneath
an open overcoat the Montenegrins all
wear European overcoats, but no other
western thing except boots.
An Albtnlan subject, a Mohammedan, In
long, white trousers, tight fitting below
the knee and braided with broad black
bands, wears his red fes in the royal pres
ence, because according to his light to
remove the fes would be an insult. Salaam-
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Ing low, touching with the back of his
hands first the earth, then h'.s lips snd
forehesd, he begins an appeal for rifles,
explaining that he can muster a band of
forty volurteors. Another pessant. know-
Ins; no better, aoks when the wsr will be
tlecla-ed.
Prlara Is Also a IHplemat.
Itut the old prime Is accustomed to such
! questions K this snd he does not lack
the diplomatic girt. His reply, while satis
fying the peasant, does not offend the
Austrlsn minister, whose dragoman may
be In the crowd, or at any rate finds out
before many hours what advice "his high
ness has been pleased to give the people.
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thing and that he hopes there will be none,
but that they, the people and he, are Mon
tenegrins, and If driven to war they will
fight as becomes Montenegrins.
It Is my wlll.'ths prince might say,
-"that no shot shsll be fired scross the
frontier unless war Is declared. We must
prove that the chaige that Montenegrins
are lswless la a calumny."
When a man has made his speech snd
got his answer it is the custom for him to
mount the steps snd kiss the hand of the
prince. Some of the peasants go down on
their knees and kiss his feet. The prince
himself wears the native costume and
carries a long revolver in his belt. He
bears himself like one of the people, and
the people bear themselves like the prince,
for they are all Montenegrins:
Prlsaaers tssiksatl.
In sight of the palace, about 100 yards
away, la the low, stablelike prison. In front
of which la ths open street alls a guard
of two men, while prisoners with heavy
chains from nip to ankle stroll up and
down la pairs, conversing while they take
their dally exercise. Passeraby do not stop
to gaxa at them, nor do the prisoners
seem to bo ashamed. Perhaps ths crime of
those in chains la the continuing of blood
feud, which, though severely punished in
these days, was until recent years a thing
a man would be ashamed not to do.
There used to be almost continual fight
ing with the Albanians of Turkey because
they and the Montenegrins each in turn
systematically raided the others, and these
aggressions brought about wars between
the two countries periodically. Finally
they agreed to stop fighting; and on an
appointed day they met on the banks of
a river, and the Albanians and the Monte
negrins, one by one till all had given ths
pledge, came forward simultaneously to
opposite sides of the stream and cast in
each a atone In token that his enmity was
washed away forever.
Beealoa at tae Skaaehtlaa.
I attended a setting of the Skupsbtina, cr
Parliament, of this curious little country.
It is held in the theater, the tiniest little
theater I have aver seen.
Stadlna; on the floor one of the tall
deputies could stake hands with the repre
sentative pf the powers who sometimes
grace ths boxes in the first 'gallery. The
stags la not mora than twenty feet wida
Hera oa the stags are the chair and
desk of ths president and on either side
In front f him the table of the clerk and
that or tba stenographer. Ths latter Is a
Catholic priest in robes, whose small con
greg-atlon Is unable to support him.
Among the depputles on the floor, about
forty In number, are several Orthodox
(Greek church) priests. The members are
all In national costume, except one
Mohammedan, who wears ths Turkish
dress. One vain old fellow wears a breast
plate of worked sliver. In front of each
man on his little desk are a pad of scrib
bling paper and a pencil Most of the
deputies carry revolvers, though some few,
those who realise no doubt that their
per are. bad, have left their revolvers
outside, hung up with their overcoats and
umbrellas.
Military System Primitive.
It has been the custom for the Moham
medans to pay ths military tax instead of
serving In the army, but since the trouble
with Austria, in which Mohammedan and
frb are on one aide, arms have been
distributed as well to AJbamaln and Turks,
who form a small part of the population.
The military system of this poor country.
which would -hardly be able to supply Its
men with arms, except for glfta from
sympathetic Russia, Is somewhat primi
tive. Between the age of 1 and 17 each
hoy recelvea a gun, a revolver, a sabre
and a number of cartridges. '
According to custom he must always
wear the revolver; a form of punishment
for minor offences agsinst ths law la to
relieve him of this weapon for a time, and
It is a diagrsce to be seen without one. A
man may not, according to military order.
go a distance of more than two hours walk
from home without his gun and cartridge
belt. He must give an account to his offloet
of the use ot every cartridge given htm by
the War department.
At the ag-a of S the young man goes for
four months to one of the large towns.
where there are barracks, and there he
receives a course of instruction in the art
of war. Those who prove to be the beat
pupils and desire to become officers may
spend a year and a half longer at the mili
tary school.
The Montenegrin custom of carrying
arms at all times Is probably a natural
result of conditions under which the nation
lived until a quarter of a century ago.
They were the only people of the Balkans
who were able to maintain their Indepen
dence against the power of the Turk
when ho '.nvaded Europe 100 years ago la
an effort to conquer the world for Moham
med. Usg riaat far Liberty.
The Montenegrin wears todsy a border
of black silk round his red cap aa mourn
ing for Koasovo, the famous battle in
which bhe power of Christendom In south
eastern Europe waa broken. Five gold
drains m the corner of the cap's red field
denote the five centuries the country has
fought for and kept its liberty. It was
the flower of the Serb race that cam to
theae barren rocks after Koaaovo and held
them against all enemies, no matter what
their nirmbers.
One of the esrly princes lacked ths mar
tial spirit necessary for a Montenegrin
ruler." and with the consent of the people
ha left ths country to liva a peaceful
family life In Europe. His place as head of
the people was handed over to ths bishop.
the man next In authority and eat
This Is how the country cam to be ruled
until fifty years ago by a Vladika or
Prince Biahno.
The VUdika hal always to remain un
married and the croan descended to
nelhew, who went into ths church In his
youth. But when Danilo II cams to be
Vladika In 1&S1 one or hla first acta In
office waa to separata again ths place of
prince from that of bishop, for Danilo
knew a lady whom bo desired to make a
prmceas.
Danilo died without male offspring and
the throne came In the old order to tfce
preaent ruler, a sou of his brothsr. Nlch
olss has many children; one daughter is
ths queen of Italy; another, were she
alive, would be queen of Servia; one or
two are married into the royal family of
Russia. And ha has also several sons.
Prtnca Nicholas Is personally known and
respected all over Europe, and his In,
flunca at the courts ot Roma and St.
Petersburg is not small.
Last War with Tarka.
la in tba Moatenrgrlna fought their last
war with tha Turks, helping to liberate ths
Bosnians snd Hersgovinians. fellow
Serbs. But Austria-Hungary would not
permit tha formation of a strong Serb
state as a barrier between herself and
Turkey, and at the Corsress of Brl n she
exacted the right to sdmlnlster the lws in
these provinces ss w1l as to occupv with
troop the Sandjnk ef Novlb.ixssr. Turkl'h
territory, which divided ftervia snd Mont
enegro. The dual monsrchy hs now broken the
Berlin tresty by formslly snnexing Bosnin
snd Hersegovins. snd al! the Serbs, those
of the provinces, and the Servians and
Montenegrins, are at one In the purpose of
preventing their arbitrary act which blights
their ambition. Everywhere the Serbs ssy
that If the powers recognise the annexa
tion they will organise their comparatively
feeble forces Into guerrilla bands and fight
the army of Austria. They believe that In
their mountains they can keep up tne
struggle for at lesst a year.
If they can do this they believe -tfcat one
of two things must happen; the first Is
that the Russian nation, with Its sympathy
for them aa Slavs of the Orthodox church
must come to trxlr assistance; the other Is
the breaking up under the strain of Aus
tria-Hungary, an empire composed of con
flictlng elements. But should neither of
these things happen and shruld the Serbs
be forced to submit to the will of the
House of Hapsburg. then at least they will
sll be united, waiting ss a whole for the
opportunity to break from their conquerer."
Strength at tha Natleas.
The Servians can put about 200,000 sol
diers in ths field; tha Montenegrins claim
to have 40,000 men, beside arms for 40,000
Bosnians, who are not permitted under
Austrian rule to possess them. As ths
population ot Montenegro Is less than X-
000 people, this number of fighting men Is
proportionately larger than that of other
countries, which usually count 10 per cent
of all Inhabitants ss available for the
army. The difference in conditions in Mon
tenegro and elsewhere accounts for this In
creased percentage. Here younger men and
older men than fight elsewhere are called
upon to carry arms, and the country needs
no men at horns to labor, for tha women
have always hewed the wood and plowed
tho fields.
At ons of tha recent street receptions of
Prince Nicholas some women sppeared to
ask If It were true that they were not to
be allowed to do the transport work In
the war and Iosd the rifles, as they used
to do In the old wars sgslnst tho Turk a
When ths big guns were recently moved
up the "Loftchen." the high mountain
which dominates the Bocca dl Cattaro, ths
women had not been called upon to help,
and tha rumor had rot sbout that they
were to take no part Th the war.
On ths morning that I planned to de
scend from Cetinje to Cattaro; that Is, to
go back over the road by which I had come
from the Austrlsn port Into Montenegro, I
wes told that Prince Nicholas, who hsd
been Indisposed for a few days, was now
well again and would give me an audienoe.
1 was not to be received as a newspaper
correspondent, but as a private gentleman;
In other words, I was not to have an In
terview. Same Loe-al Color.
In order to meet the Prince I deferred
my departure till mlddsy. an hour after
that appointed by tha prince. Of conrse,
my coachmsn fussed and comptaliwd tnat
he had already harneased his horse; but I
knew that his chief object in protesting
was to procure extra compensation. Cab
men the world over, east and west, are of
a fraternity hostile to the rest of human
ity. . ,
On the way down over the mountains we
found ths peasantry on one place killing
sharp. They wera slaughtering a greater
number than the village coo Id devour In
many days and we asked tho reason. They
answered, beaming, that tha meat was for
the wsr; they were going to smoke and dry
it, they said.
In the custom house here In Cattaro
where our baggage was examined we met
four tall fellows wearing broad-brimmed
hats and conts with shoulders padded after
the American fashion. They were Monte
negrins who hsd been out mining In
California. I am told that hundreds of
them have passed through here, drawn
back from America by the rumors ot war.
The Austrian gendarmes sesrehed their
pockets and took from them their revolvers.
"That's nothing." said one of the Monte
negrins to me, "the prince has got plenty
mors up the mountain."
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also ansa era ths weighty question of why
tha possum has no hair on hla tail.
1 ut now, when the Georgia 'possum ia in
such prime favor, these verses will doubt
less be read with great Interest:
Go 'way fiddle! folks Is tired o' hearln' you
a-squakln'.
Keep silence to yo' betters! don't you hcah
da banjo talkin'T
About de possum's tail she's gwins to tec-
tur ls.iles listen!
About de ha r whut isn't dar, an' why de
ba'r is misata':
"Dar gains to be a oberflow," said Noah,
lookin' solemn
Fur Noah tnk the Herald an' ba read de
ribber column
An' so be sot bis handi, to wuk a'cl'arin'
timber patches.
Aa' lowed he's gwlne to build a boat to
beat ths steamah Natches.
Or Noah kep' a-nailin' an' a-chlppin' an' a
aawtn'. An' all de wicked neighbors kep' a-laughin'
an' a-pshawin':
But Noah didn't min' 'em. ktiowtn' whut
wus gwina to happen;
An' forty dara an' forty nights de rain It
Kep' a-drappln .
Now, Noah bad done cotched a lot ob ebery
sort o oeaa es
uo all de shorn s a-trabbe:in , It beat em
all to Pieces!
He had a Morgan colt an aebral head o"
Jersey cattle
An' druv m 'board de Ark as soon's he
heered ds thunder rsttie.
Den seen an'odor fall of rain! It come so
awful hebby.
De ribber lis uuraejltely, an' busted troo de
lebbee;
De people all wus drowned out 'cep' Noah
and de critters.
An' men he'd hired to work de boat an'
one to mix de bitters.
Do Ark she kep a-sailin' an a-aailin' an'
a-satlin';
De lion got his dander up, an' liks to bruk
da palln.
Do aarplnta hiaaed; de painters yelled; tell
whut wid all de fussm'.
Ton c'u'dn't hardly heah de mate a-boss-
in' 'roun' an' cuastn'.
Now. Ham, de only nigger whut wus run
in' on de packet.
Got lonesome in de barber . shop, an'
tudnl stan de racket:
An' so. fur to anvjse he-se'f, ba stesmed
some wood and bent it.
An' soon he had a banjo made de fust dat
wus invented.
Ha wet de tedder, stretched it on; mads
bridge an' acreas an' aprin;
An fitter In a proper neck twus berry
long an' tap'rin';
He tuk some tin. an' twisted him a thim
ble fur to ring It:
An' den de mighty question ris: how wus
ba gwlne to siring it ?
De 'possum bad as fine a tail at dla date
I s a-singln'
He ba r's so lonr an' thick an' strong
das fit fur banjo-stringin';
Dat nigger shaved 'em off as short as
wash-day dinner graces;
An' sorted ob 'em by ds stxs, fra little
s to baasea.
Ha strung ber. tuned her, struck a Jig
'twus "Neboer Min' de Wedder"
She souir like f ort y-l-.bhea bands a-playln';
Noes, called da riggers:
An Ham ba sot an' knocked do tuna, de
..i. .w .
Now, sence dat time It's mighty strange
dere's not de sllghtes' showin'
Ob any ha'r at all upon de 'possum's tall
a-e-rowln';
An' curls, too, dat nigger's ways; his peo
ple nebber los 'em
Fur whsr you finds de nigger dara de
banjo an' de 'possum!
BACK TO BOYHOOD'S DAYS
Happy t Sare! If Yaa Doabi.
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Yes, sir! Boyhood's hsppy days, of
course. We know about that. We haven't
forgotten the Joy of sleeping in an unfin
ished loft in winter, wlien, our breath froxa
to the bedding and as had to thaw out
with a hot flatiron every morning.
Morning, tool We got up at 4 a. m.,
pitch dark, M below rero, and still going
down! Ws had to get up, hustle out snd
feed snd milk the lowing herd, curry the
rear elevation of the family mule, wake
the rooster up to crow, thaw out the pump,
chop four cords of wood and ahoAel away
the snow to make room for the sun to
rise!
Sometimes wa went to school In ths win
ternot often. Only on the days when It
waa too cold and stormy to go outdoors.
Then we sat on a nice, cool board about
fifty feet away from the store snd gayly
blew at our fingers snd picked icicles from
our hair. And, aa we sat, we listened to a
wooden image with a teacher's license as
he handed us misinformation and perma
nently crippled our Intellects.
The came the merry springtime! Rise at
130 a. m. More lowing herd! The herd
towing owing to the supply of fodder being
low. Then the hired man, who had hiber
nated In the forest, rsms forth seeking
whom he might make happy with hla pres
ence. And we, being in need of extra Joy,
were allowed to slop with this woolly
hireling, who snored like the boom of the
sad aea waves He waa a good fellow,
this hired man. He taught ua to chew to
bacco and swesr. These gentle pastimes
procured us mors violent lickings than any
other Joy In our whole young life.
No memory Is more losded with Joy
germs than the spring crop working. Can
wa ever forget the plowing? How we held
the plow when we had to reach up with a
pike pole to get the handles; how we drove
the old plug tesm with the lines around
our neck; how, when the clevis broke, the
ares walked away with our frail body
dragging behind by the ears? When dark
ness came wa stsbled the plugs snd went
forth to milk the brindle heifer. The heifer
kicked us across the barn floor and an
old cow obligingly kicked ua back again.
Then, when the milking waa over, what fun
to turn in and teach a fool calf to drink!
This acting as dry nurse to a bandy-legged
calf waa one of the most unmixed Joys of
all. We tied the calf short, set the bucket
in front of him. got astraddle of his neck,
stuck two fingers in his mouth snd with
the other hsnd Jammed his head into the
pail. And all the time we were emptying
out abuse on calves In general and thla lop
eared Idiot In particular. Thla went on un
til dad came In and with loving patience
horsewhipped us all about the place.
Then, when ws hsd carried In ths wood,
brought forty gslions of wster from the
spring and esten about eight pounds of
solid food, we went Joyfully upstairs and
came down again Immediately to break
fast. We often dream and wake to weep for
tha days gons by when tbs hay waa ripe.
Ws recall tho old swsmp thst always bsd
to bo cot by hand. We recall little stones
that ws rasped tba edge of our blades on.
We recall tho pretty snakes we stepped on
with our bars feet. Ws remember It all
with solemn gladness.
Welt, well! How It all cornea back to
us! Chicago Newa.
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