Show t I Il1sCI11BES EL MAHHI limb 11 li I ho Prophet Bui i iii P lie Fen ott Kilicd time lUngs u < t J nlbh rrtllt heathen md fullblown i rhl a poor boy without a pint li his 1S Ollll pocket Years ago when I ir m li used to snare suckers along t1i 1tIHli Nile no one thought that to hitl hea be the champion heavy would r 1 Itl ropliot of the known world Itt It-t It propht he done by a brave can Us irbat 1 I vl nJiw little hoy even ill a foreign lrl 11 In is i a brunette of about tiiiur n In l alic of the Successful meerschaum 1 not dress as we do but MO I iiI ii-I 1 ishde turban that looks some lP I trual hens nest On chilly Etrlls 1 IT e t all adds ot1P1 articles of apparel to r r i be iVn buckles a sixshooter around P11 j turhlll iidheis dressed It doesnt Ikl fust in1 long to make Ins toilet k Ill decided that he would re i 111 Vloiieh J i o island in the Nile and put = as a trutlll1 for a prophet so he uisdire 1tmllntua mtYe and lived there on wlt1 wler Ill iniW set hold of AVhile un anon at I1irloum having ail Inriitr i > a-il till Skdiup rum Mahdi re I I Lj ln > jjloomy cave setting uj the S l v till the prophet l business and n l r till knms Enghsh G jili lti ran to hear of El Mahdi i I input 1 1 rid in all the morning 1 the NHulni he at once had all iiMing I lit could do and had to ainueiisis or assistant prophet 1 m < ut During the t holidays TUIII iil4 brisk the Mahdi had to pull in < > iihesy till 10 or 11 oclock at i its I real name n Mohammed Achmed Jij I he wi the son of a petty sheik XM I H111H I have forgotten This man Sam infeiior poison and a very ordi ai n sheik 1 un told just such a sheik von could go in and find on the 10cent ininti of tin Niudan anywhere Moluinniwl fhmed for a long time Jiuttttl 1 one of the prevailing characteris giNofitiuup and so they began to ed ihtr linn as a fakir A fakir IS a man rliulus permission to ramble through b I country fhisoling people out of juicy and groceries in the name of rem re-m Hiis I a sort of Oriental gospel bum ulioH > business it is to go around jrr the country weeping over the sins of people who are too busy to be hypo = its These fakirs are always devout unrvantl Mil They yearn for a bright puuuitalit but they are in no great rush iiit acquiring it They are perfectly mtn t wait till the Egyptian pullets ui I am glad that we have no f iamerimLa u i j i Mohammed Achmed got a m nv rip William Riley and gather rims of the Soudan together lie tin lo them and he told them in con ltn that he was the only genuine ba nil prophet on the Nile and if they JllloJ Mime fun to get their double I I hot joins and join the gang They ho None of them ever did anything hate to obtain a livelihood so they J 1 go away on the warpath all sum 1 and their business wouldnt suffer 7 r lien proceeded to murJer the i English who had come there to mind acquire their sandpile Arabian style of warfare is pecu Diisists largely in drinking al 011 their part and in requiring vs to do the same for ninety I it becomes simply a question b as the firmest and most durable tier steel stomach f 1 one but a Bedouin would have L t of such a style of warfare It is hereforc question of courage or utmg justice it is a question of IL i uii drink concentrated lye all sum vand take his alilllenta anal home Minn in the fall In battle the Arab charge is peculiar tithe i extreme The Arab does not stand pin line of battle for an hour while the wanianding officer gallops up and down h Is line on a heavy horse and the enemy ars a heavy fire into his rarjks He f iiMip toward the enemy waves his nenul nightshirt in the Egyptian air nuts some one and goes away When if battleground is examined on the fol IBlrig day it is discovered that eight wired + brave and handsome English ltJirrs are killed and one old motheaten irlh has stopped on his Gothic shirttail I sprained I his ankle I El Mahdi is not a badlooking man at J and the report that he has lost his > Ih RO that when he gives his orders JI e iias to gum Arabic is not true |