Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-11

he has written several poetic dramas, including
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He was not quite nineteen when he was called
to take his uncles place Two months later be
married Milena Youkovich, daughter OF one Of
the principal voivodes who had been a brother
in-arms of his father Mirko. The Czarina MIL
ena is still one of the handsomest women in Eu-
rope She stood shoulder to shoulder with her
husband throughout all the trials and adversites
of his eventful reign, at times when he was
driven from pillar to post by the Moslem hordes
that were poured through the defles of the
Loychen range in wave after wave SO that even
the brave Black Mountain men quailed under the
attack and sought safety on the impossible noun.
tain heights.
They had peace of kind for year, and then
war broke out with redoubled violence. The in
surrection of the rayahs, or Christian peasants of
the Herzegovina, aroused the sympathies Of the
Montenegrns, and young Prince Nicholas found
his hands full trying to obey the injunctions of
the great powers to refrain from hostilities and
keep his fiery subjects in check
Foa some months he held out against the
wishes of the nation with somewhat dubious sue.
cess. He honestly did his best to remain neu-
trail; he consented to allow the Turks to
send their conveys across Montenegro territory.
series of frontier neidents'-"frontier Incl
dent" is the designation for any fracas along the
Montenegrin border which results in fatalities
followed close upon one another's hels The
Turks grasped eagerly at the chance they had
been looking for. Omar Pasha, viceroy Of the
western provinces, one of the bitterest foes of
Montenegro, threw huge army across the from.
tier, undeterred by his previous defeats at the
hands of Mirko. 1t was reasoned in CONSTANT.
nople that young Nicholas had earned the dis.
like of his subjects by his peace policy. and that
now, while there was turmoil in the Christian
camp, Turkey might find 1t easy to crack the nut
which had resisted so many efforts for many
hundreds of years.
Eut things did not turn out exactly as Turkey
had fwticpated A great part of the principality
was overrun, most of the villages were DESTROYED
and ruin stared every one In the face Omar's
army had entered the country in three divisions
aiming to comb it from side to side, and making
their principal effort against the valley of the
Zeta. which might be called the highroad of
Montenegro, the main artery of its life But led
by the giant fighter, Mirko, Nand their boy prince
in whom they trusted implicitly, once he had
sanctioned war-the Montenegrins took I'm nm
fiinchingly the struggle of their fathers The
Turks were assailed from every height from the
sides of every pass.
True, the valley of the zeta fell into the in.
vaders' hands, but on little else could they keen
their grip for long. The war was fought with a
fierce unreenting fanaticism which is all but in
comprehensive to the western mind After sixty
battles the Montenegrins were glad to meet their
foes halfway.
They conceded some unimportant points and
won breathing spell.
Cholera followed in the wake of famine and
despite the assistance of France which sent
shiploads of corn to arrest the ravages of HIM
ger, many who had survived the bullet and steel
of the Turkish armies were carried off by the
scourge of disease. among them Mirko the
Sword"
The loss of his father was a great blow to