The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-14
MAnossr DERvIsnss.

To protect her vast empire, ON which the
gun never acts, requires the incexsant ex-
pe<iiture OF millions of money and thous-
ands Of priceless human lives. Al present
the readers Of American papers see ac-
counts Of contests waged on the hot sands
OF Egypt between Gen. Grenfelis forces
and the dervishes. Just what . dssrvish
may he perhaps few can tell. A writer in
tho Saturday Reriesc gives some In
serestina facts i'm regard to England's
African foes.
at has been more han once pointed
out here" he says, 'that the so-callcd
dervishes are no more or little more der
Az u fact, every follower Of Mohammed
word. Your donkey boy In Cairo or at
Zagazig, or, I'm short, anywhere through
out the length of the land, is a dervish-
more or Hess fanaticaI, of orthodox Mus
sulman faith. Some Of these sects are
more popular in one place than in nnother:
The Rufaych, for example, are the most
common In lower Egypt, hut others are
almost equally numerous. An immense
prostrate themselves under the hoofs of
their sheik's horss, at the annual doseh or
sreadinR, now abolished. Many OF thcse
in private families. The great Ahmedieh
order, which especially affects the cult OF
Byumeh. is perhaps the most numerous in
all northern Africa, hut new cults. ana
with them new orders, are constantly in
vadin9 the old, both in Arabia and Egypt.
we near less now imam FORMERLY % u ttie
Wahahpes, who at one time threatened to
overr,in no only Arabia b"t Persia ana
even India.
somewhat Of the same kind i'm the tcncts
at it's votaries, hut differs essentially from
any of the scctarian divisions of lower
Egypt. The Malbdist dcrvish belong tn "a
wholly different class from the Saidieh or
Rufayeh Egyptian who makes your bed.
He is an arab of pure blood. whittier than
the average European, handsome to- a
high degree, with pronounced features,
air of pride and probity coupled with n
~politeness and general superiority at hrst
sight most engaging and p a ne
valley, not an "a dcrvish hut AS "a jcllab-
pronounced in Egypt 'e~ailab'-a term
only too good, has of late year, denoted a
namely, slaves. The SLAYER ON the Nile
during the reign of such viceroys
us Baker Pasha and Gordon. and
took To honest merchandise, such as
the hides of antelopcs and icorsrtis. Dur
ing the short but prosperous period indi-
Gated. the jcllahs might have been seen in
Nubia or al Assonan with their cargoes,
and il was difficult to connect these noble
looking fellows. with their regal Manners
and their scarfs of priceless n~eedlc-work,
with the stories you heard from the people
m "rSsra, ~ .f craft. npnr.ssiam. rapiGe, lust,
and cruelty for its own X such AS
would make both n hearers ears to tingle.
These are the men whom the present turn
of affairs has rendered desperate. by
their own doing they have closed the icgl-
innate market they once enjoyed and their
fanaticism has grown as their wealth has
shrlnk, while the countless negroes whom
under Ismael Pasha they were enabled tn
. arr into aGyps are arr n ,S";r at ai i " annrcs. ass
and to revenge the WOES of slaughtered
fathers and outraged mothers upon the
To speak Of these black truops AS ma
nve.s' is somewhat incorrect. A few, IA
mere handful, arr. Of a second .ensr.',1,,
bulk OF the 'SoNdanese regiments are
slaves imported by thuss. very Arab trad
dition of their elders how they came into
the Egyptian house Of bondage, what hor>
rors of torturs. they underwent az the
hands of these loriiy jellabs, and how
finally, after undergoing and surviving
while thousands perished beside them
anee of the Egyptian government, and
under the name al liberated slaves, were
put into training for the army. The sup
ply of these soldiers il not, as some, AN
thorities seem tn think, inexhaustible
MIR. Stanley took away with linn IA gootil,
isi,ed AT S,iakin and on the Nile: but o
those that remain il may safely b, sait
that for war in 50 hot "A region, and cs'pc
dignity as 'dervishes' above all other der
vishesb, they are most useful. ANA ma!
eventually the Of further use AS silOwlfil
AN example to the fcllah soldier.
"Ihe great drawback tn their employ
meut lis their Inherent sav;gery. Ihs.
are. reckless of the lives they have wit
such difficulty preserved; and when the,
come hand tai hand with their foriiic
masters the unhappy jellab has hut "A poo
chance. when. al Silakim last autumn
they were ordered to charge "A trsnchfl
of dervisiles they went forward with reck
less fury. outstrippilg their Euroiei,
officers. and. occupying sinnultiiis"ousi
both ends of the trench. literally rakcd
from end to end with their fire, leavin
not "a single man alive. How far they ar
To b. tleuaudetl on before other troops W
have no means of knowing. The fe'
Egyptian regiments who weis. led to dir
tiefeat by the ex-khsslive's son in Ill
Turkish and Russian war were largel
composed of these black slaves, TIE
newly imported 10y the ~jellalDs, tastil
drilled. led by Turkish or Egyptian OH
GERS, and EXPOSED tai the one element,
condition of which they had prcvioisi
known nothing intenss. cold. They ha
been paripoiicd under the. equator AN
roasted i'm the desert, hut SHOW and fro
were too much for them. They hat
moreover. no special grtisigs against IL
R~ussians-on thc contrary, IL they ha
been long enough in Egypt they coul
not hut have learned to hate the Turk.
"Iheir Moslem fanaticisIn, III IL has eve
existed, had not had time to grow; am
unlike the jcllabs, the soldiers of the az;
had never injured them. With the 81