The Anaconda standard., 1899-01-30

erty Of servia from that period up to
the present time. The Battle of Ko-
soyo' brought Servia down to vassal
state Of the Turkish empire. until
George Petrovich. or as the Turks call
him Black George al the beginning or
the present century. called the Serv-
ans to arms, and with the will of the
people and some guns made out of
cherry trees, cleaned the Turks out of
Servia. What Karagjorge begun was
finished by Molos Obrenovich, founder
of the Obrenovich dynasty, and to-
day Servia is an independent kingdom
which is ruled by constitutional form
of government and King Alexander T.
Servia has an army of 100000 men, and
is free country. But that is not all
the Servians have. There is a small
principality on the Balkans called Mon
tenegro and generally styled the mod
ern Sparta-and only a small fraction Of
the old Servian empire. The people of
that principality emigrated to their
present country after the battle of Ko-
sovo. They have stood off the bloody
Turk for five long centuries and were
never conquered. Its little army of 25,-
900 men fought against the great OF
toman empire for 500 years This coun-
try is ruled by Prince Nicholas l., the
prince of all princes. He Is the man
who led the Mentenegrin Servians in
1878 to great victories of Vusji Dol and
Fondina, when the Montenegrin yata-
gan or as the Cubans call it, machete)
destroyed two Turkish armies, number
ing 10 times as many as that of Prince
Nicholas, where two pashas were taken
prisoners and one killed. Every history
of small nations has some pages of
glory and victories over the stronger
enemy of their liberty and freedom
their victories number days and years,
but the glory of Montenegro goes on
for centuries, and to use the words Of
the grand old man of England, Will
liam Gladstone, the Montenegrins are
the noblest and bravest people in Eu-
rope. Prince Nicholas of Montenegro
is the man whom the Turkish fiends
fear. He would have done great t'eal
so far toward the union of the Servian
nation if it had not been for the treach-
cry Of certain powers, especially that
Of Austria, whose motto is the well
known 'drang mach oesten,' who has
been grabbing while the two were fight
ing. Austria holds several Servian
provinces, she got possession of them
by treachery. The treaty of Berlin
gave her the administration of Bosnia
and Herzegovina, that treaty which
preserved the integrity of the Turkish
empire.
Responsible for Crime.
"That treaty is responsible for
all the crimes the great assassin of
Turkey has done since it's ratification,
and, If there is such a thing as a uni
versal judge, the leading factors of that
treaty will have to answer for the
slaughter of $4,000 men, women and
children in Armenia and elsewhere
The Austrian administrati tion in Bosnia
is no better than that of Turkey. The
Turks had their pasha and his Bashi
Bazouks. Austria has Minister Kalaj
and his hired bloodhounds. No books
or newspapers from Servia, Montenegro
or any other country sympathizing with
that people are allowed in Bosnia and
Herzegovina; if you want to publish a
newspaper it will take you several
months to get a permit, and when you
do get it you must send your proofs
to the authorities to be examined. /
know of a Servian newspaper man who
sends proofs two days by mail and does
not go ITO press before they come back.
Consequently from the time he locks up
the forms until he goes to press it takes
him three days. You can't open or at
tend any kind of a private school in
that country. If you are a preacher
and wish to preach sermon you must