Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-06
: WE DESCRIBES Ell MAHDI.
so,EDinIhe Prophet Busi-
." -, and KILLED the Kings
English


.oot heather and full-blowr
This si i,s once a poor boy, without {
rJphei "I his pocket. Years ago, when
IlIar III Il In 1sad to snare suckers along
bic MaIlG WiIo no one thought that to,
Nm ,,g.o I, be the champion heavy
IA ne ~U of the known world. II
Seslt P o55t can be done by a brave,
ONS "r little boy, even in foreign
8gd. oo,rance he is 4 brunette of about
IN a5IPoi fine successful meerschaum
ID S!iTTr o does not dress as we do, but
Din. ~ white turban that looks some
FeaTS q rtr,,snan hens nest. On chilly
ke an u, n adds other articles of apparel to
dys Df l "u buckles siX-shooter around
bi' tllp'" and he is dressed. 1t doesn't
b Va Is5T long to make his toilet.
BE Nan ,ro he decided that he would re-
leaTs Ian I57nelv island in the Nile and put
4 b 70 !: = IN raining for a prophet, so he
nls FL n INTO a cave and lived there on
Fa0 p,,,r he could get hold of. While
\ la'r, ,r,ra down ut Khartoum having a
ItI ,, "s at the skating-rink, Mahdi re-
o. I' "i' IN his gloomy cave, settingup the
i.l, ,so into the prophet business and
n,irihe kings English.
lIa ,n naople began to hear of FL Mahdi,
'y .-b s mt a card in all the morning
- Sg the Soudan, he at once had all
,,besving he could do, and had to
u %mgnuensis, or assistant prophet,
= him out. During the holidays,
..i ir,Je was brisk, the Mahdi had to
"qnd wophesy till 10 or IL O'Clock at
! h raol name is Mohammed Achmed,
], he was the son of petty sheik,
Iasp name have forgotten. This man
y an inferior person and a very ordi-
,r sbeik. am told-just such a sheik
| van could 90 in and find on the 10-cent
-orrtqrs of the Soudan anywhere.
Vobammed Achmed for a long time
boued one of the prevailing characters
rs Of tramp, and so they began to ed
BATE him as fakir. A fakir is a man
r6o has permission to ramble through
country, chiseling people out of
mey and groceries in the name of re-
ron He is a sort of Oriental gospel
rm. whose business it is to go around
fer the country, weeping over the sins of
h people who are too busy to be hypo-
.tes. These fakirs are always devout,
rngrv, and sad. They yearn for a bright
mortality, but they are in no great rush
bout acquiring it, They are perfectly
him. to wait till the Egyptian pullets
rplt. am glad that we have no
.r n imerica.
lbs ani " Mohammed Achmed got
ll to rise up William Riley, and gather
r clans OF the SOudan together. He
rnt to them and he told them in con-
hence that he was the only genuine,
-Vool prophet on the Nile, and if they
aned some fun to get their double
lurl shot guns and join the gang. They
iiO None of them ever did anything
home to obtain a livelihood, so they
Ild 90 away on the war-path all sum-
Is. and their business wouldn't suffer
ball.
hey then proceeded to murder the
BIZ, English, who had come there to
IHand acquire their sand-pile.
! Ehabian style of warfare is pecu-
D. hcOnsists largely in drinking al
4vEOn their part and in requiring
laaLes to do the same for ninety
IN 1lt becomes simply a question
bNlaS the tirmest and most durable
bsSner steel stomach.
None but a Bedouin would have
-Ht of such a style of warfare. 1t is
, therefore, a question of courage or
1asting justice, it is a question of
1can drink concentrated I've all sum-
rand take his alimentaTy canal home
him in the fall.
D battle, the Arab charge is peculiar
The extreme. The Arab does not stand
in line of battle for an hour while the
officer gallops up and down
line on a heavy horse, and the enemy
rs heavy fire into his ranks. He
sup toward the enemy, waves his
entail night-shirt in the Egyptian air,
OTIS some one, and goes away. When
battle-ground is examined on the fol-
mg day, it is discovered that eight
ldred brave and handsome English
Hers are killed and one old moth-eaten
ID has stepped on his Gothic shirt-tail
Swained his ankle.
i Mahdi is not a bad-looking man at
and the report that he has lost his
tn, so that when he gives his orders
has to gum Arabic, is not true.