The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-18
with electricity, specially turned on
for the occasion.

SSSsSSASAs
On Friday. August 10. the skupsh-
tina, or parliament. will meet and
pass vote approving of the elevation
of the principality to the rank of a
kingdom. On the following Friday,
the actual jubilee of Nicholas ac-
cession, he will be crowned king in
the old monastery here with a blaz-
Ing diadem purchased by himself.
Then public rejoicing. military re-
view of the wonderful Montegran
army and the festivities will come to
a raptuous close on August 81.
This is the third of the Balkan
states to enter the charmed circle of
European kingdoms. the other two be-
ing Servia and Bulgaria, and while
the term of "Comic Opera" kingdoms
has been applied to these it is curious
ly appropriate to Montenegro. For
the country of the BLACK mountains"
Is the Marsovia of T.ehar's comic
opera, 1.-The Merry Widow" the
prince Danilo" of the opera is the
Prince Danilo. the heir to the throne
of Montenegro, and the merry widow
of the opera is Princess Radmovic,
the dashing relic of a rich Monte
negran.
There are those who say that the
determination OF Prince Nicholas to
elevate himself into the kingship
rest on the representations of his sub
jects that the comic opera had made
Montenegro laughing stock, and
that it was essential for him to as
sumo regal dignity in order to Off
set the ridicule caused by the musi-
cal travesty.
That is as 1t may lie. it is certain
that in July Montenegro sent out a
note to the powers announcing it's in
tentior to he kingdom. The pow
ers made no objections. and answered
that they would be pleased to be rep
resented at the celebration.
Royalty Will BE There.
The king and queen of Italy will be
there-the queen being a AIontene-
gran PRINCESS. and the car of Bull
garia. and Austrian archduke, two
Russian archdukes. Helma Pasha,
representing the sultan, and Prince
Alexandria, the heir to Servia, will
go to Cettinje to see the new king
made.
Whether the merry widow episode
had anything to do with the determin-
alton of Nicholas, or whether the di-
plOmatists are right when they say
that the scheme of kingship was forc-
ed upon Nicholas by Austria and Ger
many, with Italy mildly supporting
and Great Britain and France indif-
ferent, the fact remains that the idea
of Montenegro as kingdom is a
comedy in itself.
The little buffer state. lying wedge
wise between Austria and Turkey. is
100 miles long by so miles wide, and
has population of less than a quar-
ter of million.
The resources of the country are
almost nil, the people manufacturing
nothing but the things required for
their own housing and clothing.
When some ono ventured to twit
Nicholas with the TACT that Montene-
gro had no exports. the prince ex-
claimed: NO exports? Why, l ex-
port princesses.'
And he was right, for the daughters
of Nicholas have formed alliances
with half the leading countries of Eu-
rope. The eldest, Militia. married the
Russian grand duke Peter Nikolaie-
witch; Stanza, the second. married
George, duke of Leuchtenberg: the
third, Helena, is queen of Italy, and
the fourth became the wife of Prince
Francis Joseph of Battenberg.
The two remaining princesses are
unmarried.