Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-27
ONE OF THE OLDEST
 COUNTRIES IN WORLD
Montenegro So Described By Former Minister To That Country and Greece.

Waeshington, D. C.. June 26-George Higgins Moses, former United States Minister to Greece and Montenegro. in a communication to the National C. describes Montenegro as one of the oldest countries in the world There. the women are the producers, clothes make the man, the king is greater than the ministry. the chamber o- the constitution, and a man may be i'm prisoned for eating hedgehog. A man who is struck may kill the striker, provided it be done at once: if he de- lays, he is punished as a murderer.
 The writer paints King Nicholas in glowing colors. In the 54 years of his reign. he has doubled his territory. added two Adriatic ports to his pos sessions and has organized minisii ies, the courts, finance. and all the de- partments of the government, he says. Where, when he came to the threaded the hills. today spierdid network of roads connects all the principle points of the kingdom, and it may be said of Montenegro alone among nations. that wherever one /nay go at all in a wheeled conveyance one may go inan automobile. NicHOlas has established posts and telegr1phs, so that whereas once MontenCSrin mobilization was effected by steI tor ian halooing from peak to peak. Gen. tinje is now constantly in touch with all parts of the country and witt the outside world. He has modified the laws a task already begun by his predecessor. He is a statesman al once bold and cautious. diplomatist of many talents. capable administra- tor. and a thoughtful reformer. writes MT Moses. Again and again he has repressed the varlike ardor or his mountaineers, ard has led them to battle only when no other course was possible.
 At the creation. 90 runs the Mon- tenegrin legend, an angel was sent forth to pick up the superb Ious stones on the earth's surface. He placed them in a bag. which burst as he was flying over Cernagora, ore or the Ioftiest of the Black Mountains, and certainly the landscape bears out the tale. European dress has made slight inroods in this part of the world. A Montenegrin's habit is as costly as his purse can buy, and there the ap- parel proclaims the man. The b1gsy blue trousers are the same for the King or the peasant. as is the sally colored sash which holds the invari- able revolver. But from the red jack ct and the redingote one con1otes whether the Wearer be man of SuD- stance and consequence or not. Among the women there are slighter distlnc- tions.
 The women engage in the produc- tive pursuits. And yet the man has capacity and when taken from his bellicose environment of his mountain home becomes one of the best of workers. His 500 years of freedom have given the Montenegrin a fine sense of order, and it is currant say ing along the Dalmation coast that when a Montenegrin applying for a job is asked what he can do he in- variably answere. 'Superintend'
 Respect for age is enjoyed by law and in the articles regulating public conveyances it is provided that the traveller may have the seat indicated by his ticket, but it is added. The de- ference due by youth to age requires that the former yield the better place to their seniors Another article de- cares the equality of all before the law, and lays down the democratic