Show MONTENEGRO'S KNIGHTLY KING A. A short time a ag ago Prim Ferdinand lie of Bulgaria proclaimed himself king and mot met wit with h f some ome opposition from froni th tin tin- courts of Europe In I thc tho lie present in instance instance in- in stance stanro no opposition wa was manifested On t flu tho contrary Prince Nicholas Nicholas' proclamation pro pro- elu was was- hailed with expressions of pleasure Ho He has powerful family connections and in addition his courage his Int Integrity and his knightly ideals of the thc duties of If his hit position have havo already made him one of the most regal tI figures ures in Iii International JOI politics One of his daughters dUlIg is Urn tho beautiful and gracious g Queen Helena wife wire of King Kin Victor of Italy whose bravery dur- dur Inc recent earthquake disasters disaster has hos en endeared en- en her to her people Another daughter daJ married I into nto I the tho he royal family of and Russia Hussla is showing her friendship for fOI the new king icing and his big country in III every ery possible wa way In Jn fact it IL would like to have the tho world at ut largo think of or Rus Russia da aa as the protector and sponsor of or Montenegro ro bat hat to those who know anything of its history it poems poems- as if the new king king- dom dorn Ol small though it is with an area of or little over square squa nines miles Is It able to lo take care cans of itself It has hUH maintained some tome f form rm of separate government since sinco the tIu fifteenth century y though nominally nominally-a 11 tributary state stale of Turkey Cn inder er the thc present ruler who succeeded his uncle and und whose father Marco was his leading general Nicholas forced an acknowledgment of Montenegro's Montenegro's Montenegro's Montene Montene- gros gro's independence after aCter a series of at brilliant bril bril- Ilant und and daring campaigns ns which re reminded reminded re- re I minded amazed Europe more of the con on filets mets of or tho the Homeric age than of those it had seen leon ought fought In tho In-tho U th tho nineteenth cen con tur tury Tho Tho Tho Christian Herald |