Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-19
THE MEN WITH e. MAHDL
How the Sultan Told the Arabs to Eight
the English In Soudan.

the English in oudRn
PhAa+Sp1ia N,tcs.
"KsrabeeshY'
"Kalabeesh, no; Hadendowa. You know
Kalabeesh and Hsdendowa?'
The first speaker was a News gatherer,
who noticed the similarity in headdress and
costume Of one Of half a dozen "Nubian
warriors" now in Hagar, Campbell & Co.'S
Museum, TO a picture ola KarRbeesh guide,
which appears in the March Century maya
zine.
Uadendowas the men proved to be, mem
bers OF the Arab tribes who have given the
British so hard q pull in the Soudsn. Their
eyes sPsrkled, and al gathered round the
writer as he showed them COloQel Colston's
aTncls IN the Century. and without being
told what pictures represented they recog-
nized ana named in turn the pictures Of
Suakim, Jebel, Arrawak, Wady- Hegatt and
Assouap, though they shifted at the portrait
OF s eameEdriyer, and said be was no Arab
freeman, but a "fellahd."
Some interesting points were CLEANED
from the crowd By the assistance of pictures,
sign language and broken English. They
come of the tribe of Hadendowss, and OF
them Colonel Colston says they are the
great bulk of the Mahdis force and are the
most formidable sdyersaries the British
have to encounter
DO you believe that Mahomet Achmet is
FL MahdiY' was come.
Yes. Long time ago, three, four Mshdi
come. No good. All killed. / see one hang
with throa. cut. Now Ell Mahdi fight Inge-
land two year. No one kill him. He beat
Ingeleesh. We know he FL Mahdi."
Suppose he is killed tomorrow
No suppose. No believe he die. FL MGhdi
no die. Mahomet Achmet die another Mshdi
come again"
'.fEl Mahdi dies viii you fight the Eng
lish stills
yes, always fight Ingelsnd. Ingeless
kill me 90 straight to heaven. | kill 1nge-
lees l go to heaven sure. l kill American,
very good. Kill Ingelees best, We be-
lieve Mahomet one Sultan. We want Que
Sultan. No want many, ike Ingelees and
American"
How about General Gordon
~ see him once. He great Pasha Of
Becawee. ARAB al like him before he,
fight FL Mahdi; then no good. Kill him
SURF"
DO you know FL Mshdi?'
No. Never see him. Ne know Osmsu
Digma. You know 0sman Digmsg
yes. The telegraph SAYS he isa French
man"
lie no French. He same as me; he
Hadendowa. He belong same as me. NJ
see him many times at Hsssala. All
Hsdendows at Kasssla, fifteen day camel
from Khartoum. 0sman Digms big man
He thity year old. Before FL Mshdi come
him sane as me. Wear DO clothes, no
sheike, no house, hair ike re (stsnding up
straight from the head on TOP Ike a tall hst
and standing out sll around from the sides)
When Ipgelees come Osmsn Dgms see ali
Hsdendowa man and tell him fight In
gelees. He ger many men, then cut hair
and put on taiboosh and be great mar Of
all Hadendows. He Hadendo~s sure.
When me 60 home all go 0smsr Rgma
from Suakim. After Ramadan 1.-THE holy
mouth) nice, cool, we all fight and al all
Iugelees."
is Osman Digma the Sheik of the Had
endowasY'
No. Achmet MOUSSE Sheik; he die;
have little boy, Ibrahim and Mshomet Ach-
met. Ibrahim Shiek. He tell all Haaes
dows SIGHT Ingelees."
How could a little boy tell you to fight
the Engli.h2 Who told himT'
Pas Aladdin. he live SuRkm. All
Arab have Sheik. All Sheik have Pashs.
Pasha tell Sheik, Sheik tell Arab"
Who tells the PsshaT'
"Stamboul Sultan"
You mean to say that the Sultan at Con
stantinople told the Arab Pashas to fight
the EnghshT'
ayes; before we come to America | see
Pasha Allied. Din ut Suakim. He say Siam
roul telegraph him all Arab fight lngelees.
He send Ibrahim Sheik say all Hadendowa
foht ID.seG All Aahomet man tsieve
sultan at Stamboul say fight Ingelees, 80
we fight Sultan say send Turk to tight
Arab with Ingelees. Turk no fight. 1t
Turk FIGHT we ILL Turk. Turk no fight"
ADO YOU know the Mudir of Dongolay'
"No; he great mar. Long, long time he
GREAT Pashs. He like Ingelees. Ingelees
give him much money. No good Mahonet
When asked if the So I6auese would fight
the English this summer All, the speaker
said: ,.u
TOO hot. The wind aboo bow and kill
Ippalees. He no fight. When Ramadan
come then fight. We read in book in Arab
the Mahdi come and fight for Mahomet long
time. Then Romadsn come. Two months
after Romadan book say FL Mshdi kill all
not Mahomet man, Ingalees, American,
italian. FL Mahdi kill all and Mshomet
man all 90 heaven quick
Rsmsdan is the ninth month of the Mo-
bsmmedsn year and corresponds to the Chris
,;sn lent. Ii retrogrades with the solar sea
sops as the year begins with them, and this
ysar "a nearly as eould be made out 1t
comes in June. Two months later viii be
sbout the time that the English propose to
move from Korti. and, according to these
~snudanese, they viii have to light against
re doubly renewed fSnaticisu OF the Mo-
S-smmedsns relying on their belief IN the
nropbecies Of the Mahdi.
For the benefit Of the resdersot the News
ANA of ADMINISTRATIONS Of the principal
Games and towns made familiar during the
n-ogress of the war is given as taken nom
The Inns of these S~oudanese, who are inaao-
;,srts IF Kassala, q town on the Atblosls
r;~sr 6Aeen days camel jOurnsyfrom Khar-
p.:ha (Pcsheer); Mshdi, (ModSyl;