The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-07
NICHOLAS OF MONTENEGRo.
 71, TO-DAY WRITES OF
 LOVE, SWEET LOVE

Amidst the flash of the swords And the thunder of the cannon,
 Ny, NY eye, ,ea, full fo of rapture, follows greet you with kisses, with sighs. | With trembling, / and hope, and despair:
 In palace and cabin I seek for
 The sweet consolation of love- How is that for sentimental poetry considering that the author is a
 youth who is today celebrating his seventy-frst birthday? True, the meter is about uncertain as that of a gas company, and cannon" and
 love- critics might allege. do not rhyme with any remarkable degree of precision. Yet, in justice. it might be remembered that the above lines are but a rough and literal trans1a- ton from the original Servian which is the language used by the poet, King Nicholas of Montenegro, ruler of the smallest royal realm in Europe. King NichoIas-he was formerly a
 Prince, but promoted himself a few
 years ago to the full rights and title of kings1ip-h1s always been handy with the zen. and from singing the praises of red war. Now that he has
 something like real war on his
 hands in the clashes between his peo- pie and the hated Turks, he has aban- doned Mars for Venus, and his latest 1IOTdTy 011OTI FD6e1IE5 IQe IlIIo O1 He
 Power of Love- One gathers from a perusa1 of the volume that Nicholas despite his gray hairs and his dignity as a king and a father-fn-law of the
 dog with the ladies, and glories in it. He makes little effort to hide the fact that he was the hero of the amorus incidents of which he signs.
 King Nicholas, although his land is small and poverty-stricken, can well afford the luxury of writing and pub sa1,s +oia h ir7a a
 salary Of $2o0.OO0 a year and Austria adds half as much more to his per- eona1 budget. His subjects contribute
 enough in taxes to the royal treasury to bring his income up tot about half a million dollars a year, and yet he he is alleged to be the stingiest mon wore one hat for over dozen years. At the earnest requests of his rela- lives, especially the Queen of Italy. he bought new lid and presented had the hat cleaned and pressed, and in it's restored condition it became go pressntale that that i, the n. King foresd %bsn he he poor fellow meekly objected, and pointed out that he had paid fifteen cents to have the hat cleaned and froned. Nicholas generously returned the fifteen cents-but kept the hat.
 Nicholas is the seventh in line of the royal house of Petrovio. and was was born at N1egos. the family seat, on Oct. '. 1841. DanilaL Petrevio, tthe
 first of the line. of the little Balkan country. The predecessor of the pres ent king. Danile l., assumed the title of gospodar. or prince. Danile; uncle of Nicholas, was assassinated in 1860. and Nicholas l., who had been well educated at Trieste Austria, and Paris. ascended the throne. Two years age Nicholas issued proclamation declaring himself a king, and the powers of Austria and Russia ac> knowledged the title. His son, the Crown Prince Danilo, is familiar figure in the Moribund Dodent and other gay resorts of Paris, and along the great white ways of Vienna. Rome Sofia and Belgrade. It was one of his love affairs, 'tis said, that inspired Lehar to compose 'The Merry Widow