Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1903 — The Mad Mullah's Victory. [ARTICLE]

The Mad Mullah's Victory.

A good atory Is told of how the Mad Mullah of Somaliland worked one of those miracles which drew many wayfarers to bls banner. An English man-of-war had been sent to demonstrate off the coast, and at night threw a searchlight onto the Jungle-covered mountains. The mullah was in hiding there, a.vl knowing from his visits to Aden what It was that his followers hailed as a new star told them that the light was seeking lilm. When the electric rays actually flooded hfs encampment he cried In triumph: “Will you deny now that I am under the eye of God?” The Somali fell on tholr knees, \ »at the earth with their foreheads and replied: “Thou art truty the elect, the chosen, the mullah, the master. Outgoods, our existence, our souls belong to thee. We place ourselves entirely at the disposition of thy will.” A few weeks later came the news of the rising of 4,(x)0 of these Somali.