The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-02-06


ciety. Washington. D. CO.
Abyssinia's application for member
ship in the League of Nations has beef
tabled by that body because SLAYER.
with all its horrors is practiced as fla
GRAVITY today in this native, independ
ent, Christian state as it was 100 year!
ago on the west coast of Africa.
Slavery is only one phase of the gar
fsh life of this topsy-turvy nation Of
100000 black-skinned people, who
are as obtuse and unusual as those in
Alice's Wonderland. In Abyssinia Gus
toms identical with those Of the pre-
historic lake-dwellers, a Christian
faith established before the German
and British barbarians were converted
by missionaries, and a feudal govern
ment exist side by side, though not
always in peace, while a European
traveller reports that upon entering
the thatched-roof palace in Ads
Abeba he found the Woodworking
Abyssinian "Prince of Wales" Ras Ia
fari, eagerly studying a recent work
on bolshevism.
Liberia, Egypt and Abyssinia are the
only three Independent native states in
Africa. Liberia owes its independence
to the protection of the United States,
Egypt to an agreement with England.
while Abyssinia owes its freedom from
control to it's own fighting men, and
geography.
The two continents in the southern
hemisphere are twins by virtue of their
general outline. If Abyssinia were
lifted out of the Dark Continent and
dropped in relatively the same posi-
ton in South America, it would form
a great cape jutting off the northeast
extremity of Brazil. Although the
southern limits of this African state
are within 300 miles Of the equator
and its capital is in the same latitude
as the Canal zone, its climate is not
tropical but similar to the American
Or English summer season.
knghthood in Abyssinia.
Cervantes poked fun at the dying
feudal system with all it's trappings of
in his great work Don
Quixote." Abyssinia today awaits
Jervantes to write a story of it's feu-
1al customs, that may easily possess
Ill the humor Of Don Quixote."
Let us sit by the side of the road |
While an Abyssinian knight marches
IN to battle. Here he comes, a big, |
black native, whose
features are more Semitic than ne
,roid. He struts down the trail, and
veil he may, for he carries nothing.
scant piece of dirty calico about his
waist and thighs is his campaign coat.
lis wolly hair shines like that of a
reshly barbered beau of an American
own, but his tonsorial aids are not so
ttractive to the nose, for the Eth
plan fighting man rubs rancid butter
n his head to make his hair glisten
nd protect him from the sun. Behind
i'm comes his Sancho Panza, black
egro squire who does not even gain
ne state of Don Quixote's able assist
Mt because he is a slave. But this
ave is more than a squire he is a
alking arsenal. In submissive silence
e carries the heavy matchbox rifle of {
Is lord and knight. And around his
aist ammunition belts, fortunately |
ithout many cartridges. He also
ends under load of knives, a spear, {
shield, perhaps primitive sling, t
nd a pack containing native bread /
nd other food for the noble knight l
hey pass and disappear down the t
all behind wild coffee bush. Thus l
lie black Don Quixote and his trusted l
Iuire enter the lists of battle, for c
lighthood of fashion still flourishes 4
Abyssinia. n
One traveller through the country e
i'd that he believed there were more h
ayes in its capital, Ads Abeba, than C
ere were freemen. Servants of Eu- V
peans living in the country have a
eir own slaves, and sometimes 1t Is +
lpossible for Americans or other for 8
gners to keep from owning slaves, q