Show VIEW OF TILE AUDI FATHER tlONOMIS STORY OP 1118 CAPTIVITY the M111 VVn w irwt Unite lie Cs 1 VI lo Vftrflrl Humility In Puln lie mil Inilnlgnl In ItUMiM In I ITI a ATH1W Iloaoml r = Iho Itdnn lrlNt r who one for some l yens lrlllOMr to the > Mahdlsta In tin 5 Roudan was Interviewed Q Inter-viewed tho other day at hie homo Inn In-n quiet street of 1 Verona by a reporter re-porter nf tho Italian Ital-ian weekly paper llluitrailone nnd the father talked al some length of his raptlvlly Tho priest was found at table with Ills old mother his sister another priest and A young ann Ho Ii I described na n miburned man with vivid black eye and n look of alertnnH and courngo He wllevea that Italy Is I to derive benefit from her rosily African possetwlona and hat the dervlshee have been weakened hr dissension and fa in I no besides lie bog afraid of Italian arms after recent Iclorles When asked whether be bad personally known the Mahdl lalli r lonomli gnawer with a laugh was Yes my friend perforce Father Ilnnomls view of lie Mal Is I fresh and Instructive Tho father was captured with several other ml slonarto by a company of dervlthes flvo days Journey from JI Obcld They were not maltreated but merely forced to accompany their captors Two ale 1 ttra and one missionary died on Iho way as much from fear as ought ell 1 f TATIIKU nOKOMI Tho others having been laken to III Jlield which Iho SoudalioM had token were Ml free and left to earn their living I liv-ing by labor The prisoners oootipM i a hut and the men met ihnnnelvcs to earn tometblug by repairing arm and W rrl t I utensils while Ihe Kilter attended to the household duties HI Obcld then contained about 00000 Inhabitants sheltered In huts of n single story roughly made of clay dried In the sun and bedaubed wllhout so that water I might not filter through The city In eluded fMds and gardens and was of great compass to that one might not go round It In a day It wan traversed I by nmple and regular streets The people I did not trouble themselves I about Iho prisoners but the Mahdl a uumed with them after his custom the pomp of an affected humility lie came from his hut at dawn mltcrnuly clad IIi I In a patched shirt and sold his prayers Ii In the presence of two or three ihousan I persons gathered to eco him Then sealed on the earth ho made rather i |