Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-01-16
NO. 9
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with mis- whole army.
THE lfAHDI FIGHTS THE BATTLE ALONE Z
The collapse of Arabi's rebellion left
the Mahdi TO fight this battle alone.
So far, all circumstances have helped
him At first the mountain tribes and
inhabitants generally of the Soudan re-
fused to place faith in his divine mis-
sion. but by degrees they discovered in
him the attributes of the true Mahdi
and have ended by convincing them
selves that he is the Simon pure. His
disciples are said TO rely in part on
book which corresponds somewhat to
the Apocalypse of tie Christians. styl-
ed 'El Gafr" This work should be of e.
a very comprehensive character, for it
is alleged To indicate that Hahn Pasha,
the Youngest son of Mehemet Ali, is
the lawful khedive. The Egyptian
Government did more than anything
else for Ahmed Suleiman. If Cairo
had taken no notice of the religious
pretension, it might have been allowed
to die out The Khedive's Cabinet
adopted the opposite view 1t hoped,
by denouncing Ahmed Suleiman az
false prophet, to detach from him his
Moslem supporters Instead of doing
so the fetvah had quite the contrary
effect Men suddenly awoke to the
fact that there was a Mahdi in existence
| and, hating the rule of the actual gov
ernment, quickly arrived at the con-
clusiou that he was the true one.
Various other events have increased
| the sympathy for Ahmed Suleiman.
Most of the Soudanese are Malkites.
Sheik lesh Mufti of their sect was
thrown into prison by the Egyptians
and died there under suspicion Of poi
son. Desire of vengeance prompted
his people to join the Mahdi. The
treatment of Arab and the fact that
the English had to snatch him from
execution solemnly decreed even by a
fetvah, has created the impression that
the Egyptians were less disposed to
be lenient to the Mahdi's friend than
the English, who overthrow him. A
great ally has likewise joined Ahmed
Suleiman in the person of Sheik Elem
ousi, " ho styles himself the fore-run-
ner of the Mahdi and, what is OF still
greater consequence, has at his back
large stores of munitions of war. But
| after all the sheet anchor OF Ahmed
| SuIeiman in the disaffection towards
their own rulers of the Egyptian peo-
pie.
For the First Class in Arithmetic.
| In one lot there are four calves and
in another two young men with their
| hair parted in the center How many
calves in all?
| A man ordered q ton of coal and re-
ceived l,S00 pounds. How much
more was due him and how should he
go to work to get it?
A woman bought eleven yards Of
cloth and paid for it with butter, Civ
ing three pounds for yard. There
was stone weighing five pounds in
the center of the crock, and the dealer
cheated her yard and a half in meas
uring the cloth Who was ahead ON
the trade, and how much?
A farmers wife has twenty-five
hens A preacher comes to stay over
Sunday, and she cooks nice piece of
corned beef How many hens has she
left?
A boy can earn 80 cents day and
beats the old man out of his board at
| SO per week How much will be have
after the first grand aggregation OF
gigantic wonders leaves town.
Albert has nine marbles and Aaron
steals four. How many are left2
Aaron drops dime from his pocket,
and Albert swallows it. What was
Albert's profit on the whole businessY
Tack heavy piece of woolen cloth
to your heel aud you won't slip on the
ice.
Nothing makes man feel so inde
pendent of public opinion as to have
the price of fine horse and carriage
in his pocket.
Some people seem to have been
born witout conscience. You can no
more teach them TO do right than you
can teach a crab to crawl straight
ahead.
How can you expect your child to
be better than you are yourself The
old proverb is true one. How can
the foal amble when the horse and
mare trot?
Mr.. james Exley, 1908 n. 9th street,
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, say: al have used
Browns Iron Bitters as an appetizer
and found them excellent"
Philanthropy sometimes tries to do
| to much. On cold winter night
good man was leading little child by
the hands saying Here is poor little
orphan and Pm trying to find his par
ents."
Nothing in the world could posi-
bly be more exquisite than this notice
in q partially vacant house:-The up
per part of this house to let, containing
three rooms. q cellar, kitchen and back
yard.
aIsy3 Ladies', attention In the
Diamond DYES more coloring is given
than in any known dyes, and they give
faster and more brilliant colors. Zoe
at all druggist. Every body praises
them. Wells, Richardson & Co, Bur-
lington, Vt.
An exchange comes TO us with
poem entitled How to Kiss" marked
in blue. Either the author is blamed
proud of his production. or else he
thinks we don't know how to do it
in either of which ease he is way oil.
We often say if we could only
live our lives over again we would