Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-03-06
Ell nAHDrs RIGHT HAND.
The Career In New Ye.k OF the False
Prephcts Chief Aid.

Prophets Chief Aid.
One night cf May, eleven years
ago, in q dingy back room OF an old
house ON Wooster street, I met q
young Frenchnan who even then
had played a part which doubtless
had prepared him for the extraordi-
nary adventure in which he was
now engaged. He was amid =
group Of his friends, And had just
reached this city as q refugee. He
had been an actor in tho Paris re-
volt of March, 1871; he had escaped
the msssacres that followed the
suppression Of the Commute; he
had after erwards been arrested and
condemned to death; his punishment
had been changed to that of ban
ishment to the penal colony of New
Caledonia in the Pacific; hs had
there, with few companions, get
up daring plan of escape; they
had carried out that plan amid dan
gers as great as ever were encoun-
tered; and in May Of 1874 the little
party of fugitives arrived in San
Francisco, from which Olivier Pain
fastened to New York, where he
spent few days prior te his depar.
ture for England as place Of safe
ty.
| When here he locked about thir
ty years of age, and was tall, 1.-the
and handsome, possessed of both tbs
vivacity and the gravity of an expe
riencsd .worldling of Paris. He had
done duty On the press as an assail
ant of the empire; he had done ser
vice In the field during the Franco
German war, and subsequently du
ring the rev,lt of Paris; he had SUI
fered the hardships of French con
vict life, and was then in full figh
from one kind of peril to another
but, withal, he demeaned himself a
: though bis resources had not ys
been tested.
r Well, according to the cable dis
patches, this young Frenchnan, Oh
ivier Pain, has for the past yea
been the military adviser of th'
"Falss Prophet" who is now lsadin
his wild hordes of Arabian spear
: men against the British invaders G
Egypt and the Soudan; and it is thi
same Frenchman who led the storm
ing party that captured Khartour
# and put an end to the career Of Ger
]. eral Gordon. 1t is long distanc
. from Paris to New Caledonia, an
from Wooster street to the Soudar
" but Mr.. Pain has measured it; it
u queer change from convict and f,
!. gitivs to his present rank in tn
. host of the "Faitbful," but he hs
= undergone it. AS far back as la,
year the dispatches told of myst'
J. rious Frenchman who was reporte
to be in the Arab camp, and VIII
was high in the confidence of ]
ID Mahdi; but it was not till last Jal
a- uary that we were assured of M
PAINS being in command of 1906
' Of ths Mahdis troops at Metsmne
u now>we have the news Of his vict
~ ry at Khartoum, under which Il
o. British government is rssling.
q. Mr.. Pain had q varied experien
after leaving New York. He wei
y to London and next to Gensv
ss where he was concerned in sever
newspaper ventures. When Il
Turko Russian war broke out he c.
.t tered the Turkish service, was ca
! tursd by the Russians and condemn
cd to death as spy; but the Sci
As tence was not executed, and ha G.
c. out of prison in time to return
,e France and to Partisan journals
IL under the amnesty of 1880. It wi
:. as . correspondent that hs penetr
~ ted to the camp of El Mahdi, whs
n, his knowledge of the art of W
ys brought him to the front. The f
s- glish papers have given notice th
:. he will be hanged as soon as Le
Wolseley gets hold Of him.-Jo'
o SUinton's Paper.