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Show THE MAD MULLAH. The mad mullah mutt not bo taken too lightly. Theso fanatics pf tho orient from tlmo Immemorial have exercised ex-ercised enormous power over unthinking unthink-ing multitudes, and Jutt as Solomon ltsule. In Alntworth's romance, Ira-"'aiU Ira-"'aiU hi. ll.... m.L.J'lJ t'ui i iiJ-of iiJ-of hit fellow -creatures In a wave of superstitious msgnetltm, so tho mol- IIU IS NOT DEAUT1FUL, lh, by sheer force of character, carries car-ries low masses with blm. Many of. tho humbler folk of thla day In England Eng-land regard a lunatic as tho Inspired mouthpiece of the Almighty and attach at-tach unutterable lmportanco to hla mouthlnga, and thla la much the sort of significance attached to the wild rauiic and raving utterances ot tho mullah. Ho bos power of a tort, though It would appear from tho picture that tbo adults about him aro amused rather rath-er than awed by his ferocious song. Only the little children peep with scared faces at the fantastic croature. |