Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-07-11

sadly crippled-and instituted systematic plan
of military organization, on the model OF tne
greater European nations.
The result was that Turkey feared to wiring
from Montenegro all the privileges the sultan
had really gained under the last treaty.
During the next fourteen years there were
many covert outbreaks along the frontier IN
fact such affairs have always been regular top
les of gossip in Montenegro up to the present
time.
It came in 1876 when Servia declared war all
by herself against Turkey, and Montenegro thre"
in the whole force and weight OF her l9o,OOo In
habitants with Servias 100000. There hao
been some rumor of Russian declaration OF war
against the sultan. But Montenegro did not wait
for this That was not the Montenegro way.
Fight for your brothers against any odds, that
is the Montenegro creed, and Prince Nicholas
acted upon it, The blood Of Tchernagora ran as
hoty as Of old But there was more THAN not
blood and desperate courage to throw into the
balance for the principally this time. There was
the result of all the scientific preparations Mich
olas had been making for fourteen years.
His increased standard of efficiency told right
at the start when he was able to rally 2o,0oo men
to his standard-the largest army Montenegro
had ever put in the field. Instead OF waiting 1or
the Turks to attack he pressed the war into the
enemys country
Rv means of a series of combats that he after
ward loved to style "Homerc" in his moments or
"reminiscences the prince compelled N1kslc TO capt.
ulate an achievement which, in his peoples oplh
ion overshadowed all the, others of the war, lot
Niksic had stood for centuries threatening out
post of the Moslem power al their very gates
Then unweared by the months of steady night
ing the prince countermarched his army to the
south pressed on to the coast, and for the
first time in the centuries of Montenegros eX
istence the Montenegrin eagles bathed In the
brine of the Adriatic Antivari and Dulcigno
both fell and Skutari-the bloody Skutarl OF
the Montenegrin ballads-was besieged, when
news of peace came.
Well might Nicholas sit back content In
succession of campaigns that had met with un-
broken victory, he had pushed forward MS IRON
tiers in every direction. He had reduced every
Turkish fortress within striking distance or his
frontiers, Skutari.
So passed more than thirty years-eventful
they would have been called in any other part OF
Europe but somewhat dreary for Montenegro
So long ago as 1858 of his own free-will and
without any pressure-indeed, in the face of the
opposition of many of his advisers-he voluntar-
iIv granted the country constitution and aDro-
gated his despotc powers, in form al least-for as
a matter of fact long as Nicholas hVes the
government of Montenegro will be a benevolent
despotism. by and with the glad consent OF the
people.
Since then he has granted other reforms and
has done everything possible to promote the In
dfytduality and talent for selfgovernment OF his
subjects.
II ia as fierce ruthlessly fanatical crusaders
that like best to think of Nicholas and his peo-
pIe: such crusaders followed Richard the
Iion-Heart to within sight OF the walls Of Je-u-
salem: of the same caliber the Franks of the
Fourth Crusade, who, under Dandolo, Count Bald
win and Montserrat stormed Constantinople and
set I'D on the shores of the Bosphorus a Latin
empire that might have checked the Moslem :idsJ
wave had Europe backed them up.