Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — Abyssinians Are Good Fighters. [ARTICLE]

Abyssinians Are Good Fighters.

The Italians,' of course, explain their defeat liy the presence of French- and Russian officers with Menelek, but it may be questioned if any Anglo-Indian general accpstomed to mountain warfare would agree with them. Drill does not improve Oriental soldiers like the Abyssinians. They are Semites In blood, of exceptional courage, men who did not hesitate to charge into the center of the Italian regiments; they have been accustomed to defend their hills for a thousand years; and they have generals accustomed to utilize masses of men who recently destroyed an army from Khartoum at Kassala. They had good rifles, they were op the higher ridges . when they started, and their king, Menelek, Is obviously a soldier of the Hyder Ali type—that is, a man who can induce his soldiery to die. To beat such men they must either be decoyed out of the hills or attacked from above, and the Italians were still mounting when an avalanche of riflemen swept down on them, The number of the dead suggests that the Italians fought well, but the frightful proportion of officers killed, two-thirds the whole Humber, tells a different tale. The officers, we fear,, exposed themselves to arrest a panic, which may, however, broken out at first only among the native troops.—London Spectator. Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can’t do it. FITS.— AII nti stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and 12.00 trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline. SCI Arch St.. Phils, Pa. y * Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Stout for Children teething: softens the gums, reduces Inflammation, allays pain, cures wind coUc. 25 cents a bottle.