Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-21
KEPT LIBERTY FOR CENTURIES.
The Hardy Mountaineers Kept Back
the Turkish Horde.

Montenegro is one of the smallest
members of the family Of nations.
Freedom has made It's sturdiest stands
among its dreary crags and unproduc-
tive rOck-strewn, gravel slopes. Now,
true to traditions Of centuries of in
cessant warning, 1t has Joined in the
world war, with eagerness to expand
in the tobacco and grazing lands Of
Herzegovina
a picture OF the strongly individual
characteristics Of this nation, nurtured
and contained upon mountain, whose
entrance into the war scales caused
hardly a trcmor of the balance has
been prepared for the National Geo
graphic 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 Islamic waves broke In vain for
centuries, the writer says
'tor 900 years they have main
tanned freedom, which of old has set
upon the heights; and, with sufferings
indescribable, with courage illimitable,
won from the great English apostle Of
Balkan freedom those words Of undy-
| deliberate opinion that the traditions
of Montenegro exceed in glory those
of Marathon and ThCrmOpylae and all
the war traditions Of the world"
Montenegro has little TO invite ex-
cept the majesty Of the vistas from its
higher Crests. The little band Of Savs
who fled hither had freedom more
than luxury and ease In mind. At the
creation, so runs a Montenegrin legend
given by Mr.. Noses an angel was sent
forth to gather the superfluous stones
on the earths surface. He placed
/ these stones in a bag which burst as
he was flying over Cernagora. Monte
negrO's richest dover is still the rocks
which the angel spilled upon It.
The approach to the kingdom, a
winding way all uphill, is spoken of by
the writer as a splendid piece of en-
gineering, which weaves up the gaunt,
gray cliffs, finally threading a narrow,
easily defended defie and crossing
owe. a path mostly swathed in clouds
Montenegro is webbed with fine roads,
the expression of the present kings
restless spirit for improvement. The
capital itself. Cetlnje, is hardly more
than knot of cross streets in two
/ broad roads of this system. There are
no pretentious buildings In the city,
only two being OF more than two sto-
ries In height the Russian and the
Austrian legations. The external lie
Nof /the capital Is simple in the ex-
treme.
Montenegrins are mostly Of greater
than average stature. and the men
have come TO feel their principal call
ing TO be- that OF war. The women Of
Montenegro are It's economic produc-
ers. and to quote King Nicholas, who
has married his delightful daughters
to some Of Europes leading houses,
the women are the lands most import
ant export. The men are good work
ers when put to II, and whenever
Montenegrin applying for Job Is
asked what he can do, he invariably
answers, "Superintend.
There is little commerce and al
most no manufactures In the kingdom,
whose lands are barely rich enough
TO support the needs of the people IN
tho most simple manner. Good to-
bacco is raised in the country, and a
few coarse stuffs are woven in Podgo-
rita. Nearly everything in use. how
ever, 10 imported and duties and
prices are very high.
King Nicholas a democratic mon
arch, more a patriarch than a king, is
an astute politician and capable ad-
ministrator. Throughout his long
reign Of more than fifty years he has
accomplished much In the develop
ment Of his land. He has Increased
his territory many times adding two
Adrlatic ports 10 his possessions and
thoroughly organizing all departments
OF his government