Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1917 — VAST WEALTH OF ABYSSINIA [ARTICLE]

VAST WEALTH OF ABYSSINIA

Country Has Remarkable Agricultural Resources and la Developing Rap- _ Idly Under Native Rulers. Oulzero Zeodlta, daughter of the late Menellk, has been proclaimed empress of Abyssinia, says the Christian Jerald. She is forty years old. The empress succeeds Emperor Lldj Jeassu, who has been deposed. Abyssinia Is one of the most interesting nations of the earth. It is the Switzerland of Africa. It is one-third larger than Great Britain. It occupies the mountainous regions of the valley of the Upper Nile, extending to the lower end of the Red Sea and over the watershed toward the Indian ocean. The land is fertile, yielding the products of all climes, some of them three crops a year. Bananas, dates, sugar, cbtton, grapes, oranges, lemons and coffee' all flourish, and on the tablelands, hay, oats and barley are cultivated. Abyssinia is the only independent native state ,in Africa. It has fine public improvements and conveniences of civilized living, Abyssinia is the Ethiopia of ancient history.