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Show Their Weapons Ready for Use. Of King Nicholas of Montenegro somebody writes that "he stops people peo-ple to examine their guns nnd pIstolB and rates anybody who carries them unloaded" which recalls nn anccdoto related of himself by Count Moltke, when, In 185C, he accompanied tho crown prlnco of Prussia to Moscow to attend tho coronation of Alexander II. At a ball In tho kremlln Moltko wno Introduced to a group of picturesque-potentates picturesque-potentates from central Asia, with their girdles stuck full of daggers and pistols In tho Albanian manner, and ho begged to know whether these flrc-armB flrc-armB of theirs wero loaded. "Why should I carry them If they wero not loaded?" replied the spokesman of tho party; and In n letter to hlB English wlfo Moltko confessed that ho had novor experienced such a setback In nil his llfo. "Horo at last," ho said, "I havo found 'un hommo Berleux,'" a man who Is what ho looks and means what ho Buys. |