The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-05-13

try OF people without houses and
with nothing out OF which to build
houses; he found as subjects hostile,
half-civilized tribes with very little
basis for uniting them into a single
loyal nation.
Prince William. however. went to
the task like a boy to swimming
hole and remarkable results have al
ready been attained. Difficult as were
the material tasks which he had to
| face they were nothing compared
with that of winning over to himself
and wife the goodwill and support
/ OF their new subjects. But by ser
/. kindhness and real human brother
/ hood the two Eonarchs already have
won the Albanian people to their
hearts. On March Z, when Prince
William and Princess Sofia landed at
/ Durazzo the reception accorded them
j by the Albanian people was no more
than respectful. But within a week,
! Princess Sofia had pierced this half
repeilent respectfulness. There were
at Durazzo two or three schools
founded and maintained by the Ital-
ians and Austrians in their efforts to
gain the upper hand of and goodwill
OF the Albanian people. To each of
these schools Princess Sofia went on
foot and got acquainted with the
children. Then when she had got
ten them over their shyness, she in
vited them to the palace and most of
them who had never seen the interior
of an actual house before, got for
their first glimpse that of a royal
palace, even if the latter would hard
~ rank better than the home of a
prosperous workingman in another
country
/ Then Prince William and Princess
Sofia put over one of their greatest
strokes. They decided that their
own two children the heir apparent,
Prince Charles William and the lit
tie princess must come to Albania
to share the life of the people over
which they might some day reign.
The two tots were taken from the
luxurious surroundings in Germany
and brought to Durazzo on an Ital-
ian yacht. The landing of the little
bits of royalty, the kissing and EN-:
bracing by their parents, the holding
up of by Prince William of his little
son for his future subjects to see,
was more than Albanian stoicism
loose demonstration which made
the one accorded to the two soverigns
on the day of their arrival a month
previous seem like frost
Prince William and Princess Sofia
needed nothing after that to endear
themselves to the hearts of their peo-
pie, and their next stroke was to win
themselves the support of the various
banians are divided. On the occasion
of the first Mohammedan feast day
Prince William went in full regalia
to attend the services. The joy of
the Mussulmen knew no bounds. Two
days later function took place at
the Greek orthodox church and was
| heard by William. The Greeks and
Albanians the day after were in the
tended services in the Roman Catho-
lie church and the followers of that
religion were as content as had been
the others.
From seven in the morning until
Ieleven at night Prince William is at
work on the problems of his country.
In the three month he and Sofia have
been at Durazzo they have taken OF
Some one had told Princess Sofia
herself a musician, of the beauty oil
1.-THE guitar on a quiet southern night
Princess Sofia wanted to try it, but
unfortunately the customs of the
MOhammedans do not permit OF
music after sunset. Not to hurt the
feelings of the latter therefore, Prin-
cess Sofia with all the members OF
their court and an Italian guitar
player who had been found, sneaket
out of rear door of their palace one
dark night down to the sea, and
played the guitar to its fullest ca
pacity, without danger of a note dis
turbing even the wakeful hours o
some of the faithful.