| Show I Fill 11l11 IILE11EIt I 1 OSMAN THE TFFIROR OF AO CntSBORS IN AFRICA Unlit In lie a K rnini tif mnh east linn Stew 111 euchre ItefMMltii 10 rjr Mrlurr of III lying l lIfe lImo lM lfnL MAN niONA the great leader of tb C dervishes against o wbom the Urltlsh Oj are now marsh I J leg up the Nile ls one of those toys J terlous adventurer 1 I thrown up every I 1 few yean by wonderful 05 won-derful and romantic I roman-tic Africa All sorts ot tale ire told of hi origin U Is wld In V a born I at ttual Im thai tile grand falhir wos a Turkich sliveilesli r and lu > hinsflf like his two preceding an ip tur < Is I 1 dealer In slave Another Sim r irs It that he was born in France In li in nod ibrlstcned at the Cathedral of lu i n under the name ot Ueorge Ills lilier was a Joseph Nlshet who iiiui in business and went to ligyp with file wife and child He died here and the wllow married Oiman nisnn a chive under who gave hl < slam and fortune to the French child hlitnvrr emery Is I the true one It Is I rertiiln that Oiman All or Olgna mean log h of the beard was a powerful and rli h merchant In WU when lb bourn nn broke ont under Arab Pasha and that he espoused the eau r h f OSMAN r 1HONA of the latter Ho great wise Osmani I power that Iho mahdl and Ills successor suc-cessor were compelled 1 to treat tho Tremh troll with great consider I lion and in ever to his power Oimiin Ii of hirnilesn stature with eyes nf piercing blackness shaggy eyebrow and nn Immenw licnnl lie fins lost life left arm In battle and contend him elf with as few M three wlve who however are daughter ot tho chief ot the mol Important and powerful Arab lrliK of the Soudan lie Is n splendid oldler and expert In the con rtriietlon of Intrtnchmtnti and ford lentlona which are fully equal to the best products of tho Drliliti royal en Rlneem Osman Ii I withal n very tn temtllnK Inoon and bit engineering ri nklll his long teen regarded ni the proof of file Kuropcnn Intellect |
