Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-29
FREEHAND NOTES.
A CORRESPONDENT DIPS INTO FOREIGN
AFFAIRS.
The False Prophet-Par Y Giving Balls
and Revslry-rhree Pretty Things
IN San Francisco
Correspondents Rrco.p-unos l

to be very much known BY ar expectant
world as the False Prophet is decidedly the
most picturesque figure of the hour, not
prolific of the picturesque. The mental
image Of him, raidiug fiercely through the
Soudan at the head of troop Of mounted
fanatics, bis name and his "settipg" un-
der heavy suns and mighty skies, are all
intensely Byroaic. Would that Lord
George might arise and book him. lie
will be crushed, too, in time, poor Prophet.
Let US hope he will be killed, and not
tamely capitulase and be tried, as they
insist upon calling Arabs post-bellum en-.
targlemert And the very latest is that
this wild rider has been in California. 1t
is good to believe. As Edward Eyeretts
son said that no man could be
QUITE GENTLEMAN
Without living some portion OF his days In
a seaport, so il seems SIS If no renegade,
wild, SURFING, lawless spirit could quite
gain It's full, fervent development without
having at least once bresthed the air Of
California. The story comes from Phil.
adelphia II is stated that early in 1900
a cargo of slaves from the Arsbic-s speaking
regions of Northern Africa were sold among
the VirgiEian planters, and they did not
prove nice domestic characters either. A
great many of them ran away to the North,
and their descendants are believed to be in
Fayette county, Pennsy lvania. The No.
hammedsE negroes have thin lips, high
f,robaadu ,nl
colored skins, go the False Prophet may be
good locking, which ia such prime neces.
sity for renegade hero. One Of the slaves
who escaped was sheik and priest with
the glorious, unpronouucsable name Be.
yash Ell Asewah, which he TRANQUILITY al.
tered, for purposes of Occidental residence,
to George johnson. He had wife for his
sins. They lived in hiding for awhile,
fearing recapture; even went TO Canada,
but returned to Pennsylvania and wandered
from town to town there. At Connells-
vile, in 1880, his sen Thomas was born.
He is, it ID claimed,
THE FALSE PROPHET
Himself If so he must be fifty years old,
which changes him from p C1rsair to Q
Rochester. These Johnsons never relin.
pushed inc practice of the Mohammedan
rites, ard when, after many wanderings,
including his California experience in 1919
Thomas johnson crossed the Sahara with q
caravan and took Up his abode in the Sou.
dan, his perfect knowledge of the Koran
was a greater power among the people than
even his familiarity with Western civiliza.
ton. He became leader, and at the time
of the English Invasion of Egypt pro.
claimed himself Imam Mahdi, the last
prophet Allah shall send to queuch all en-.
nifty to Islamism and rule the world. Tie
defeat of Arab is spoken Of as possible
agent to swell the lists OF the False
Prophets followers. 1t belongs to the
traditional character of the looked. fol
Imam Mahdi to be possessed Of
worldly pomp. and victory must perch
on his standard, the mere spattcred with
blood of Christians and Jews the better.
One wife was spoken OF for Beyash Il
Asewash; his more fortunate SOD, the
False Prophet, has harem of 100, and the
queen of this Institution is an octoroon
from Uniontoyn, Pennsylvania, who is
likewise a descendant of the Arab slaves
brought to Yorktown early in the century
Apropos OF all this Egyptian imbrsglio, the
article in the RECORD UNION on the irony
OF events-by which Gladstone's policy was
so very like TO Beaconsfield's, that it was
beginning to be extremely difficult to dis.
tinguish that opposition to force which
William Ewsrt go long proudly boosted his
chiefest chsracteristic-wa the cause Of
much rejoicing in . small circle of Disrael.
ties, so TO speak, who deeply appreciate
THE WELL DESERVED SLAP
At the ecclesiastical premier, whose admin
istration has just enough of the Tommy
Goodchild flavor 10 be exasperating to the
perverse provincial.
Meantime politics are the only wear, for
conversation, sin ball room, il parlor, in
station" like the celebrated Major Gil
feathers choicest of choice aphorisms.
The defest-or the victory, the clean
sweep, the look out for the future, the
retrospect, Buffers Joy, Harrisnn's tears,
Arthurs apprehensians, Blaine's preteu-
sious "gone glimmering down the dream
of things that were" and nearer home
Measrs. Toohey, Mcguire and Clough, Gu
phonious trio among the newly elected iu.
dietary. With so much talk of revolution
one almost expects to see barricsdes A;
vet, certainly, there are none. The Paris.
ians always gave their most light-hearted
revels during revolutions, and III that al
leatt San Francisco IS up to the revolution.
ary standard. Every one asserts, as with
one voice, that the ball given at the Palace
Hotel Tuesday night was ball
TO BE REMEMBERED
For fun aad choice arrangement. 1t was
one Of the many farewell entertainments
that have been given TO Miss Nina Plat,
who vent overland Saturday to jain hcI
father and mother IN Rochester, where DR..
Plast has taken church None If the
bon ton there, said young legal Mercutio
in the exuberance Of lis delight at he bali,
"and you CANT shial how well We 90. on
without them" But ne is a eddy youth
TO want to sacrifice soulful truths to ep-
ipram. Ire ball was really mora than
usually gracsd with pretty and pleasant
women. and naive and witty and sponts
neons as of wore was Mss Mollie Dodge.
lust come back from her Eastern visit, and
more than welcome to every one who has
the happiness TO know her. Miss Crocker
of Sacramento was also present to witness
that Mercutio used his fancy as source of
Inspiration. TIE Iarlor floor of the
Palace was used f,r the reception,
dancing and supper rooms, snd
the supper itself called forth wild
expressions Of approval, especially
from the msn, since 1t was served ct small
tables arranged for parties of four, and by
trained servants 10 the proper rotation of
slec able courses, and other faithful re.
liners were present with bottle Of sweet
champagne IN one hand aud dry in the
other. the flsgons knotted up in napkins in
the most delicious manner, while the at.
terdant's torso resembled nothing more
than the walking beam of a steamboat as
he struggled to keep the goblets brim-
m ne. as all Anacreontic verse assures US
po5lets should be when they are on
their good behavior. A gentleman with
a peculiarly happy faculty in turning
neat sentences, once covered the sup
per question, and, SO to speak, finished it.
lit is SO embarrassing" he murmured,
$50 unfair, to be euddenly required, at a
marty, to perform waters duties with
noae of his experience.
heard a letter read the other night
from a young San franciscan abroad,
which impressed me more forcibly as a
waste of valuable "copy" than anything