The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-08-15

TO Be A KINGDOM SOON
Celebration Of His Jubilee on August
10 will BE an important Event
Amongst European Royalty.

Vienna. Aug. l4-After ruling as a
prince for fifty years. Nicholas of
Montenegro has decided that he will lie
a king, ana for week his little capi-
tai OF Cettinie, percherl on one OF tire
steepest hiI,sides OF the Galkans
! range, viii fa In world Of monarch.
'ial eXciteme l. There viii he. fire.
works. OF course, but most wonder.
Aful Of all Cettinjc viii be liumilated
with electricity, .csrecially turned on
for t1e occasion sd
On Friday, Auslist 10 the Skupsn-
/ tina, or parlimcnfyy III meet and pass
a vce approving Of the elevation Ct
the principalityto the raDk OF a king
dom, On the follc~ing Friday, the
actual jubilee of Nicholas accession
nc viii be crowned king in the old
monastery here with i blazing diadem
purchased BY himself. Then public
lretoicing, military review OF the
wonderful Montegran army, and the
Festivities will come to raptuous
close on the 10th.
Tnis is the third of the Ealkan
states to enter the charmed circle OF
EuroEean kingdoms, the other two be.
ing Servia and Bulgaria and white the
term of Comic Opera" kingdoms has
been applied to these 1t is crriousy
| appropriate to Montenegro. For the
country of the black mountains" is
the Marsovia of Lehar's comic opera,
The Merry Widow" the Prince Dan.
| lilo OF the opera is the Prince Danilo,
4 the heir to the throne OF Monte egro
and t:le merry widow ut ne opera is
Princess Radnovic, the dashing relic
lof a rich Montenegran.
There are those who say that the
determination of Prince Nicholas to
elevate himself into the kingslMp rests
on the representations of his sub
jects that the comic opera had made
Montenegro laughing stock, and
that 1t was essential for him to as
sumo regal dignity in order to off.
set the ridicule caused by the musical
trayesty.
That is as it may be. it is certain
that irf July Montenegro sent out a
note to the powers announcing its
intention to be kingdom. The pow
ers made no objection, and answ rel
tnat they would be pleased 10 be rep
resented at the celebration.
Royalty Will Be There.
The king and queen of Italy will be
there-the queen being a MMonte
bulgaria. and Austrian archduke,
Russian archdukes. Helma Pasha, rep
resenting the sultan, and Prince Alex
andria, the heir to Servia, will 20 to
Gettinje to see the new king made.
Whether the merry widow episode
had anything to do with the detcrrnin-
alton of Nicholas. or whethey the dip
lomatists are right wnen they say
that the scheme of kingship was for
ced upon Nicholas by Austria and
Germany, with Italy mildly supporting
and Great Gritian 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 80 miles wide. and
has a population of less tnan 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, they
keeping pigs and maintaining family
feuds, and make potent brandy
from the native plum.
When some one ventured to twit
Nicholas with the fact that Monte
negro had no exports. the prince ex
claimed: "No EXPORTS Why | ex
port princesses.
And he was rigrr, for the daugh'
ters Of Nicholas have formed allia1c.
es with half of the leading countries
Of Europe. The eldest, Militia, mar
ried the Russian grand duke Peter
Nikalaievitch; Stanza. the second,
married George, duke OF Leuchten.
berg: the third Reiena, is queen Of
italy. and the fourth, became tae
wife of Prince Francis Joseph Of Bat.
tenberg.
The two remaining princesses are
unmarried.
Through his sons also Nicholas
has added to his family prestige.
Prince Danilo married daughter OF
the grand duke of Meklenburgn-Stirt
litz, and his second son, Mirko, mar
ried the daughter Of the late kins
Alexander of Scrvia.
Nicholas himseif Is one of the mos.
picturesque figures Of Europe. He is
huge in person, but cLiItklike in ma
tive simplicity: en autocrat, but a
tender father to all his people; nigh
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