Photo from Katrice Nicolson 



A GROUP 01^" monte;ni;grin boys 



Note the military salute, a sign of the early appearance of the warlike spirit in these 



unconquered mountaineers 



years dispensed a quick and shrewd jus- 

 tice to his people has disappeared, the 

 master of the house remains the same 

 father to his people that he always has 

 "been. 



Tut DE^MOCRATIC KING 



Access to him, now that he has be- 

 come a King-, is slightly more difficult 

 than in the olden days ; but every after- 

 noon he may be seen driving- about the 

 streets of Cetinje in a low phaeton, the 

 Queen or one of the princesses with him, 

 and frequently he stops to exchange 

 greetings with one of his intimates or to 

 give to one of his people that highest of 

 all Montenegrin privileges — that of kiss- 

 ing the sovereign's hand. 



Wherever he goes he finds the evi- 

 dences of his rule. As I have said, all 

 Montenegrins bear his cipher on their 

 caps. The same initials, formed of cap- 

 tured Turkish cannon, stare out from the 

 gable of the huge barracks of Cetinje; 

 within sight of his study windows rears 

 the bulk of the new sfovernment house 



which he has built; across the street are 

 the guest house and the home of his 

 second son ; from his own garden he can 

 stroll to that of the Crown Prince and 

 thence to the public park which he has 

 created. 



Close to one of his gates stands the old 

 Billiardo, whose name is shrouded in 

 mystery ; for none can declare with cer- 

 tainty whether it is because the building 

 once had at its corners little towers which 

 looked like the pockets of a billiard table, 

 or because in one of its rooms was in- 

 stalled the first billiard table in the king- 

 dom. In this little building Nicholas was 

 voted his royal title, and there the Coun- 

 cil of State has its apartments. 



On another corner of the little Place 

 du Palais is the long, low dormitory of 

 the old monastery. In its upper rooms 

 Danilo II taught his chiefs to read and 1 

 write, while further on, at the base of 1 

 a high hill, stands the monastery itself, 

 the most interesting building in Monte- 

 negro, for here were made the desperate 

 defenses asfainst the Turks which have 



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