The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-04-09

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I'LL dom has made her sturdiest
stands among its dreamy
crags and unproductive rock-strewn
gravel slopes. Now, true to tradi
lions of centuries OF incessant war.
ring, she has joined in the world war,
with eagerness to expand in the to-
bacco and grazing lands of Here
govina. A picture of the strongly
individual characteristics of this ma
ton, nurtured and contained upon a
mountain, whose entrance into the
war-scales caused hardly a tremor of
the balance, has been prepared for the
National Geographic society by George
Higgins Moses, United States minister
to Greece and Montenegro during 1909
1912. Surveying the history of the
miniature country, against which pow
erful Is1amic waves broke in vain for
centuries, the writer says:
For 500 years they have main
tanned freedom, which of old has sat
upon the heights and, with sufferings
indescribable, with courage illimit-
able, won from the great English
apostle of Balkan freedom those words
of undying praise, in which he gave it
as his deliberate opinion that the
traditions of Montenegro exceed in
glory those of Marathon and Their
mopylae and all the war traditions of
the world" Everywhere within the
little kingdom, the writer says, one
can see memorials of the grim, I'M
broken struggle of Montenegro's peo-
pie against the power of the Turk. a
struggle in which the Turk, master
through the Balkans, battered against
the mountain heights to no avail.
Montenegro has little to invite ex-
cept the majesty of the vista from its
higher crests, and the little band of
Slavs who fed hither had freedom
more than luxury and ease in mind. At
the creation, so runs a Montenegrin
legend given by Mr.. Moses, an angel
was sent forth to gather the super1u-
Gus stones on the earth's surface.
He placed these stones in a bag which
burst as he was flying over Cerna-
CORA, and Montenegro's richest dover
is still the rocks which the angel
spilled upon it.
Webbed With Fine Roads.
The approach to the kingdom, a
winding way up hill, is spoken of by
the writer as a splendid piece of en-
cheering, which weaves up the gaunt,
gray cliffs, finally threading narrow,
sily-defended defile and crossing
pass mostly swathed in clouds. Mon
tenegro, Mr. Moses continues, is
webbed with fine roads, the expression
of the present kings restless spirit
for improvement. The capital itself,
Cetinje, is hardly more than knot of
in two roads of this sys-
tenn. There are no pretentious build
ings in the city, only two being of
more than two stories in height, the
Russian and Austrian legations. The
life of the capital is simple
n the extreme.
Montenegrins, declares the writer, |
are mostly of greater than average
stature, and the men have come to feel |
heir principal calling to be that of
var. The women of Montenegro are
is economic producers, and, to quote
King Nicholas, who has married his
delightful daughters to some Of Eu-
'ope's leading houses, the women are
he lands most important export. The
men, Mr.. Jones says, are good work
RS when put to it, and whenever a
applying for a job is
sked what he can do, he invariably
nswers, "Superintend"
There is little commerce and almost
% manufactures in the kingdom,
those lands are barely rich enough
D support the needs of the people In
be most simple manner. Good tobac-
o is raised in the country, and few
parse stuffs are woven in Podgoritza.
Iearly everything in use, however, is
nported, and duties and prices are
cry high.
King Nicholas, democratic mon
rch, more a patriarch than king,
an astute politician and capable
iministrator Throughout his long I
,ign of more than fifty years, he has 8
much in the develop 8
ent of his land. He has increased l
S territory many times; adding two I
driatic ports to his possessions, and I
oroughly organizing all departments q
his government. Q
Smallest Of Capitais. a
Cetinje, the capital Of Montenegro, e
the smallest of the war capitals. o
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