Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-28

ed Montenegro with a rockbound sea-
shore whercupon the wreckaSe or
Sav freedom was cast up by the
waves.
The wreckage of 500 years, from the
battle of kossovo and the Turkish de-
struction of the Servian Carbon to
GhaZi Osman's heroic disaster at
Plevna; 500 years during which the
| Black Mountain, unsubduable amid
! the surrounding ruin, became the ha-
ven of refuge to her Bosnian, Servian
Herzegovinian kinsfolk, and the in
heritress of their dream of Slavic
renaissance.
What mean the color and design of
| the pOrk-pie national cap Whlch
Prince Nikita-Nicholas- doubt
| less, wear this day, when his jubilee
and his elevation to the royal state are
to be celebrated, and which, one may
be sure, is dearer to him, romantic pa
| triot as he is, than his brand-new
crown? The black border Of the cap
| is the emblem of mourning for the
battle Of KoSsovo, the five yellow
bands symbolic the five centuries OF
warfare and the scarlet color their
sanguinary story So says the noun
taineer His very headgear proclaims
him the typical Slav and the guardian
of the Serb idea. And what is more,
the Black Mountaineer, proudest and
bravest of the Slav race, has his own
legend of a hero-sleeper. The Holy
Roman Empire had her Friedrich
Barbarossa, seated, full armed, and
asleep i'm his Thuringian grotto, des-
tined to awake with the uprise Of the
Germanic people. And so Nikltas
Liliputian kingdom has her own hero.
Tsernoievitch, asleep In his cave be-
meath his old castle Of Obod ever since
1890, destined to start up from his
shroud of stone when the trumpet
summons him to conquer Albania and
restore the empire Of the Serbs.
Homeric in his patriarchal simpli-
city and exaltation of valor as the su-
preme virtue, primitive In his httul
ferocity (therein a match for the
Turk, the Black Mountaineer remain
ed until little more than fifty years
ago. AS late as 1853, in the reign OF
Danilo H., Nikita's uncle and prede-
cessor, the Montenegrins cut OIL the
heads of 3l7 Turks, whose camp they
surprised, and stuck them on the top
of the Turks tower" in their capital,
Cettinje-where the sultan's envoy, IN
the company Of foreign kings and
princes, including the representative
of the "Caliph of Prussia" presents
his masters congratulations to the
new king. Turk heads were habi-
tual adornment of the Turks tower
since 1884, when the heroic Ivan the
Black, driven cloudwards by the OF
toman invaders, fixed his capital py
the Cettinje hills-the "eyrie" from
which "the mountain eagles" OF the
strolling minstrels swooped down,
generation after generation, upon
their hatred and implacable and ever
bafIled enemy. Neither then nor in
the nineteenth century were the at
trocities all on one side; and the
Black Mountaineers were as deft as
the Turks in locking the doors upon
multitudes of people and burning
them to death. Tribute and a mino-
taur offering of maidens the Pashas,
age after age, demanded. And the
minstrels have perpetuated the typl-
cal answer: For tribute you shall
have our rocks, hurled down upon
you from our mountain tops; and, for
virgins. so many pigtails to ornament
your turDdns withal.'
Little more than half a century ago
the ruler of the Black Mountain dis
pensed his patriarchal justice from
his stone seat beneath the great plane
tfee In Cettinje The prince was
Judge, legislator war lord, priest, all
i'm one. His was a Homeric society.
He was a Homeric shepherd of the
people" When the gentle poet and
nature lover. the reformer educa-
ZIONIST, fighting Saint Peter Il,-who
also lftel many q Turk head In his
day. and who died prematurely in
lS51-succeeded to the chiefship, the
bishops crook was placed in his hand
for sceptre, and he was clothed in his
priestly robes. His career, like that
of all his great predecessors, reveals
ments in character and action. The
first printing press in the land Of the
Southern Slavs was set up In Cettin1e
by a ruler of the Tsernoievitch dynas-
| ty, above named, a few years after
| Caxtons press in Westminster. Time
after time it was destroyed by the
Turks, or converted. for dear life's
sake, into bullets The second Peter
re-establshed the press in its famous
monastery-the very place that is the
scene of this days ritual, with the
Turk-a Young Turk this time-look-
| ing on!
And from this press there issued
how short time since!--the hrst
printed history Of the Montenegro
race and the first batch Of printed
ballads. One may fancy the warrior
saint sauntering in. now in civil garb,
with his rifle and his voluminous sash
stuffed with knives. and now in his
ecclesiastical robes, with his hair'
| long as a woman's. let loose and the
black veil from his tall cylindrical hat
hanging down his back. a little Ia
| ter, and out there came the first Mon
tenegrin almanac, momentous inno-
vation for a people whose almanac
| had been sunrise and noontide ana
sunset, and the phases of the moon
and Of the revolving year. But before
this happened the long duel with the
Turk broke out afresh, and the PRINT
ers dropped their composing sticks
and turned their leaden type into bull
lets. In that same periOd-still so re-
cent-the very schoolmasters carried
revolvers and yataghans.
They are doing ii at this hOur In
Macedonia, where the Young Turk Is
disarming Moslem and Giaour alike
Shortly before the late insurrection L
was spending the night in an assem-
bly, of peasants. Seated in a circle on
the floor the women sang OF the hald-
luks-otherwiSe commitajis. outlaws
| and their deeds in the forest stand
among the rocks of Mount Perrin. And
the daskol-village school teacher-a
finely athletic youth, was reciting a he
rolc tale and fourishing his naked
dagger. The Turks burst in with
shout. The commitaji ringleader-
for such the young schoolmaster was
I-vanished like a fish through Sc
cret passage. and escaped over the
house roofs to his "brigand' COM
rades i'm the mountains.
But in Serb-land the Turks day Is
over. To the strife between Turk and
Slav has succeeded the strife between
Slav and Teuton. That Tennyson's
smallest among peoples
military organization is progressing
fast. and who. by the way are more
numerous than the morning papers
Iallege-may play a noticeable part In
the political evolution, is scarcely
more incredible than their 500 years
victorious resistance to the ottoman
hosts. Put the subject cannot be con-
sidered at the end of this sketch
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