The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-10-25

an earlier day who stretched out the
lion of st. Marks from the Lido to the
Italian in appearance. Austrian In al
legiance, but Serb in feeling, it's heart
ever in the Highlands. Beyond smiles
the Adriatic, and above tower the
gaunt gray rocks against which the
road seems a veritable ladder laid
upon wall.
A Wilderness Of Rocks.
Threading at last a narrow defile.
whose walls are pierced with caves
where lurk the fables Of the noun
taineers. and crossing a pass too often
swathed in clouds. one turns corner
and comes face to face with the an
cient realm of the Vladikas.
The smile of the soft blue sea lies
behind. and before stretches a wild,
turbulent ocean of rock, rising and
sinking in angry gray waves fiecked
with white, which seem to leap and
rage and battle together like a sea
dashed by storm. Stones. rocks and
crags, nothing else; not a tree, not q
blade of grass; scarcely even a tuft Of
brushwood to relieve the dreary seen.
| of desolation.
At the creation, so runs the Monte
| negrin legend. an angel was sent forth
| to pick up the superhuous stones on
| the earth's surface. He placed them
| in a bag. which burst as he was flying
over Cernagora-and certainly the
landscape bears out the tale
And vet the scene cannot be said to
lack charm-the charm of majesty al.
ways to be found among the hills. And
while Cernagora at first sight-gaunt,
gray and drear. an arid wilderness OF
bare rock-tells in one blow of the SUI.
ferings of centuries. pity does not long
endure; it passes almost at once to
praise for a people who have pre-
ferred liberty in this desolation to
slavery in fat lands
From the old Austrian border tc
Cetinie one encounters but one village
Niegush. nesting in a little cleft IL
the hills and claiming attention as the
cradle of the Petrovich dynasty. which
for more than two centuries ruled the
destinies of the land. Here was borr
not only Danilo 1. progenitor of the
line, but most of his successors, includ
ing the late king. whose tiny villa Il
the show-place Of the town.
From the pocket Of Niegush, one be
gins the ascent and an hours climbin!
brings him to the top of the pass Il
sight of Cetinie. The distance as tn
crow flies is short: but the windin.
road multiplies the miles, and one ha
ample opportunity to survey the tin,
former capital which boasts-aIbei
somewhat inaccurately-that It
streets alone OF all the Balkan CAPT
tails have never echoed to the tread O
a conQuering Turkish host.
cetinje, the Capital.
Two broad, parallel streets, connect
ed by irregularly laid out cross street:
comprise the town, which lies hemme
, in on every side by the stern hills. TIL
| green fields the elmS- the buttercup
, by the roadside, and the steep gable
of the houses. which often lie banke
to their caves with winters SHOWS ar
reminiscent of White mountain vi
, lage.
l European dress has made slight IL
: | roads in this part of the world. Thong
r the army. thanks to Russian genera:
: ity. wore khaki, the palace guard wor
Montenegrin garb TO the end. and
r was the habituai dress of both kin
, and queen, the latter having pointed
: refused the suggestion of her daugl
: ters-in-law that. together with II
? royal title. she should take on moder
, gowns.
MontenegrinS are nearly all giant
l and they stride as though each wol
: seven-league boots. Indeed. when
e Montenesrin wants 10 90 anywhere
{ hurry he walks, not using the Splel
!. did roads with which his mountain
|. are threaded, but taking the old sho
I cuts among the hills
< These Mouteneglins are race
+ warriors, and before the World W;
e sat about in the coffee houses hemcal
/ ing their lot. What Il life for a man
y they said. Thirty years without
war; nothing for man to do" RI
Y there was always plenty for the womt
i to do, and the women Of Mon,enesr
: 50 alert and graceful in their yout
{ soon lose their good looks RHl besou
( bent and bowed and uslk