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Show Hii Mil g J1 ' 9 MENALIK. I mM Old King Menalik of Abyssinia welcomes Am- 1 oricans "in peace and without fear." He does not ill think much of the Germans; they are after ter- , i.njll rltory; he is not head-over-heels in love with the Hi fj HI English, for they are taking a few things to the H . ,'J II West and South of his empire, but he knows the B ISI United States does not covet his country. A great HB 11 ' fli ltl Chai) Is MenalIk- He nas a country as large H'Jn )"lH as California; he rules over eight million sub- Bii I J'', wm jects; he claims that his great-geat-great-grand- ii I it father was Solomon and that the Queen of Sheba Hi! I 111 I , WaS -th mother of his raceJ that tfle rulers of Hll ' B Europe are parvenus compared with him and that i! i M when it comes to royal stock, their lineage com- flil I ti H ' PaGd With hlS l00lcS 1Ike 30 cents True' he ls a IB -i I -".SHI littl0 sunburned, but neither Solomon nor Sheba K i 111 ; I if 1 was a blonde, and Menalik's home is almost under un-der the equator. He is a fighter and a philosopher philoso-pher and one of the most hospitable of sovereigns. Why, he has not a wife in the world that he would not sell to a friendj An alliance with him for pur-ft poses of trade ought to be most attractive. |