Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — They Fear Nothing. [ARTICLE]
They Fear Nothing.
The followers of Menelek, king of Shoa, while not so large as the fierce Zulus of the south, are about the toughest warriors In the world. They do not know physical fear. I have seen a man jab a burnt stick several Inches in his flesh without wincing, declares a writer in the New York Press. This apparent 'tnsenstbittcy - ttr patn ts~ac('6hipanied with a religious frenzy In battle that renders tin? soldiers unconscious of bodily harm. They have no fear of death, and their happiness is to kill. Whene’er two evils may befall, The less all wise men choose; ’TU wrong to go to war at all. But worse to go and lose. —Washington Btar. ' ’ ~ The funniest things around every house are the things called “ornaments.”
