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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-31
AGURAI IN MAROCCO.
The Whole Population of the Town /
Descended From Renegades.

The Whole Population of the Town Is
Descended From Renegades.
Agura is small town surrounded
with walls of from 40 to 90 feet In
height and built of tabia, or con-
solidated rubble. It owes its existence
to Mulai Ismail, who held the throne
of Marooco from 1722-1757. One gate
alone gives entrance to the place, and
IN this respect, as we'll as in its arohi-
lecture within and without, it much
resembles the "ksor" of the Sahara de-
scribed in the writer's 'Tafilet." But
1t owns one feature of curiosity which
was lacking in the desert, for almost
without exception the entire population
are descendants of the renegades and
Christian slaves of the time of Mulai
Ismail, with the addition of stray rene
gades who have been sent there since.
Probably no such cosmopolitan place
exists in the world. for its 800 or 400
inhabitants are representative of no less
than IS nationalities. Each family re-
members and is proud of its origin, the
Arab equivalent being applied as sur
names.
The family in whose home the writer
spent the few days of his visit were
Flemish, while the next door neighbor
on one side was an elderly female,
whose father, an Englishman, had be-
come renegade some 80 years since,
and who quickly tired Of it, leaving a
wife and daughter, the neighbor in
question. The other neighbors were the
descendants of Spanish gypsies, the
head of the family being "Absalam ben
Mohammed ell Gitano ell Espanoli. :"
They were particularly proud of the
"Gitano" GYPSY part Of the surname
and begged me not to confound them
with the ordinary Spaniards, of whom
there were many descendants in Agurai.
The ancestor Of this gypsy family was
two generations back He had left his
country, they naively told the writer,
because he was not on good terms with
his sultan, who wanted to imprison
him, being afraid Of his influence. Prob
ably it was more Of an affair of the po-
lice courts than political intrigue
The "Ulad Ell Aluj'' SONS of the
converts }, as the inhabitants of Agurai
are called, have entirely, except in one
or two cases, lost the type of their Eu-
ropean ancestry, and through marriage,
no doubt, are as largely Berber in ap-
pearance as the wild tribes that sur
round them. They speak among them
selves both Arabic and Berber, and
both, curiously enough. with strong
foreign accent, easily distinguishable.
They are exempt from all taxation, but
have to serve in the sultan army, where
they perform the duties Of cooks and
butchers Geographical Journal
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VERY few know it, but it is fact, I"
explained a prominent builder to re-
porter, that the pension office building
is the largest brick building in the
world. 1t has been subjected to much
criticism, but it can stand it, for as
time passes along there are many things
seen about it that escaped notice when
it was newer In all there are over 49,
900, 900 bricks in the building. General
Meigs took liberties with bricks that no
other architect had ever attempted. He
not only used bricks exclusively for the
building, but he used them in construct
ing the stairs throughout the building.
In the matter of stair building bricks
have often been used for the riser, but
the step has always been of iron, wood,
slate or stone In the pension Office both
riser and step are of brick. AS brick
building, therefore, pure and simple, it
is unique in construction outside of the
fact that it is the largest exclusively
brick building in the world. Wash
ington Star.
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DISCERNING CATTLE.
The Operation and Its After Effects Pro
ductiVe of Extreme Torture.

The Operation and Its After Effects Pro-
ductive of Extreme Torture.
Professor Mccall, for many years
principal of the Glasgow Veterinary
college, speaking of the practice of dis
horning cattle, said: II have heard the
evidence of Professor Valley, and 1
agree with him that the operation is
one of extreme torture at the time and
afterward. There must be more or less
pain until the wound is entirely healed.
Under the most favorable circumstances
1t must be painful for ten days. The
operation does not benefit the animal in
the least nor the flesh as food. But if
the animal is vicious l consider it suffi-
Gent to remove the tips of the horns. /
have known of an animal from which
the tips of the horns had been removed
to take to butting again, but very rare
~ Even then he did not do much
DAMAGE
George Andrew Leper, fellow of the
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons,
said: Il consider the practice of dis
horning cruel because it causes fearful
pain and is absolutely unnecessary.
have heard the previous evidence and
agree with ii. .
Professor William Pritchard of the
Royal College Of Veterinary Surgeons,
London, and for 30 years professor at
the Royal Veterinary college, Camden
Town, had heard the previous evidence
and agreed that the operation tortures
the animal and is unnecessary.
Professor Cox. Fellow of the Royal
College of Veterinary Surgeons and for
some time its president, said, "In my
opinion dishorning is extremely cruel
and quite unnecessary.
Professor J. Macqueen, for ten years
professor at the Glasgow College of
Veterinary Surgeons and afterward at
the Royal Veterinary college, Camden
Town. said: 1.-The operation is not
necessary, and, if performed at all,
should be done on the animal before it
is 8 or months old. That prevents the
horns growing, and the operation is
comparatively painless. Our Animal
Friends.
The train of the dress worn by Cath
crime de- Medici on her marriage in 1898
with Henri, second son of Francis l.
king of France, measured no less than
AZ yards i'll length and was carried by
ten pairs of pages.
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NOT THE WAY 1T WAS.
Things Had Not Changed at All Since He
Was Young.

Things Had Not Changed at All Since He
Was Young.
Three young men were sitting to-
gether in the rotunda of one of the big
hotels. They were discussing the prog
ress of invention.
Its strange" said one, ''how COM
pletely old ways of doing things have
been superseded. You may talk about
its being hard to introduce inventions,
but if scheme is any good it'll be uni
versally adopted nowadays in no time.
Why, you'll find even middle aged men
who remember when everything In use
was different There's hardly thing
now that's done the same way or by
the same appliances as it was when
they were young Why, my uncle can
remember the time when every kind of
goods was made by hand, and he isn't
very old either. It's laughable to hear
him tell how they used to get along.
Everything, it seems, was done about
the slowest and hardest way on earth.
People used to think that they were in
the world to work, and it didn't make
much difference what they were at. /
tell you, boys, you don't appreciate
what it is to live in these days"
At this juncture man with entirely
gray hair folded his paper preparatory
to departing and looked at the crowd
near him. One of them, observing him,
ventured to ask what he thought about
it.
Pretty nearly right, guess, he
said
Now, J suppose, began another,
''you can remember when the horse car
was the only known method of metro
politan conveyance, when bicycles were
a thing to come, when telephones were
an experiment, when they didn't make
any ice in July, when most of the steel
in buildings was in the door locks,
when newspapers printed two sheets
and thought them heavy, when fountain
pens were an undisturbed dream, when
aluminium was theory and when
harvesters were beginning to be talked
about. y
Nc" returned the person addressed.
I'D like to agree with you, but can't
do it. The facts are otherwise. When
was young man, business men used
typewriters A good many were think
ing about putting in monograph.
People who didn't own any bicycles or
feel like paying for cab usually trav-
eled around town in cable or electric
car. Telephones cost 10 cents try just
as they do now, unless you knew some
body you could sponge on. Airships
would go up and come down pretty
much as they do now. The Sunday pa
pers were SO full of ads. that it took
till Monday to find anything to read.
Smoke consumers were making Chicago
beautiful place to live in
The gathering was now looking in
credulous. Things seemed to need an
explanation. So he concluded: "You
see, ! got this gray hair trying to make
a soda water mandatory pay in Kan
sas Then a beard will add few years.
was "a last March. Chicago Times
Herald.
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RicheIieu as an Editor.

The first reporter of France was Louis
XIII. The National library possesses
the manuscripts of SO articles written
by that king. Almost all are accounts
of his military operations. These arti-
Giles were published in the Gazette de
France. The copy" however, did not
go directly to the printer. Louis XIII
wrote abominable French, and he had
vague notions of photography. His ar
ticles were corrected and often entirely
rearranged by secretary named Lucas,
who copied them, sending to Riohelieu
the new manuscript. Richelieu exam
ined it in his turn and often introduced
additional corrections. At the siege of
Corbie the king wrote few lines eulo-
CYSTIC of the cardinal, but afterward
crossed them out of his article. Richie
lieu wrote them in again, and so they
appeared in the Gazette de France. -
Revue de Paris.
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baby's cheeks may be too waxen-white
and its body too puny and when that's the
case, baby's cheeks won't dimple or its lips
laugh, and death is in its eyes.
Above all things woman wants healthy
baby and she may have one if she will but
use the right remedy for weakness and dis
ease of the delicate and important organs
that make baby possibility. Dr.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription is the best of all med
icines for prospective or would-be mothers,
1t makes a woman's distinctive organism
strong, healthy and vigorous. 1t allays in
hammation, soothes pain and heals ulcera-
ton. 1t banishes the discomforts of the
waiting time and makes the little new
comer's entree to the world easy and almost
painless. 1t insures baby's health. In
writing for advice to DR.. R. V. Pierce, for
thirty years chief consulting physician to
the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
at Buffalo N. Y, mother, wife or maid
writes to one of the most eminent and skill
full specialists in the world, at the head of
staff of physicians that has treated over
$50, 600 women.
when was taking your treatment sent in
the names of three ladies who sterile, -
writes Mrs. M. A. Scott, of Park Rapids Hubbard
Co., Mimi. lone had been married seven years
and had no children, and after taking DR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription she gave birth to big girl
inside of a year. The other one was confined
within year and half, after going six years
without having any children. ! do not know
how the third one came out for we moved away"
Torpid liver and constipation are surely
and speedily cured by DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets. They never grippe. They regulate,
tone up and invigorate the liver, stomach
and bowels. No substitute urged by mer-
cenary dealers is as good.
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that when you are suffering from catarrh,
you want relief right away. What is the
use then of experimenting with blood
"cures" upon a climatic disease? Use g
local remedy. Use Ely's Cream Balm,
which relieves at once the attacks of ca
tarrh and cures chronic cases. This rem
edy can be used by all without injurious
results. 1t contains no mercury nor in
furious drug of any kind.
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Not Discouraged.

A duffer of a sportsman went out
partridge shooting, accompanied by an
Irish keeper who was good natured
enough to make all kinds of excuses for
his patrons bad shots. At last the
shooter, made reckless by i'll success,
perceived covey of birds quietly feed
ing on the other side of a hedge aud re-
solved to have slap at them ON the
ground. He fired, but to his mortifica-
ton they all flew away untouched.
"Oh, faith, :" cried Pat joyfully, 'be-
gorra, scr, you made them Pave that
anyway. Household Words.
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You can't hear the day break or tn,
night fall.

Let parents not live for their children.
but with them" The mother should al
low no false modesty to stand in the way
of her daughters knowledge of herself, OF
her possibilities, of her perils. For over
thirty years DR.. Pierce has used his Cav.
orite Prescription" as a strengthened, a
purifier, regulator. 1t works directly
upon the delicate distinctly feminine or
gans, in a natural, soothing way. 1t
searches out the weak spots and builds
them up. A woman who would under
stand herself should send 81 cents to the
Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y, fol-
Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser, a book Of
1908 pages.
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Hires Rootbeer Cannot be Imi,a,ed

ltls doubtful II any modern commodity ex-
cept money, has been connterfeited more thln
Hires hoolDeer by progressive and covert
advertising this article has attained n trads.
mark peculiar TO itself and lis wide popular
ity ana Immense sale is an Irresistible ittrae-
uon Tor Inc ui scrupulous lmitator. Justice.
however is beginning to realize thnt rho mn
nc must be protected from such practices as Is
evlnceu uy the decision just rendered by
. uuges flnietler ana Gordon in Philadelphia,
Court OF Common Pleas No B reslrainin !,
george A. Hires. a namesake OF Mir. Charles 4
Hires from manufacturing and selling a prep
a r,h under the name of Hires Rootbeer
rms is a move in The right direction AS This
inferior stuff -
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The proverb Necessity is the mother
of invention" can hardly be traced to
one independent source. The idea was
expressed by Persius, the Roman satirist
about go A. D., and is found, in the
precise form now quoted, in Richard
Franck's Northern Memoirs" (printed
in London, 1894. and in various later
English writers.
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From sire 60 son.

AS family medicine Bacon's Celery
King for the nerves passes from sire TO
son as a legacy. If you have kidney,
liver or blood disorder get free sample
package of this remedy at once. If you
have indigestion, constipation, headache,
rheumatism, etc, this specific will cure
you. Wells & Son, Columbus E. D..
Prickitt, Mount Holly w. q. Jones, New
Egypt; Edw. W. Rossell. Pemberton, and
J. H. Leeds. Rancocas, the leading drug
gists, are sole agents and are distributing
samples free. Large packages SOC and 25c.
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BarrIe's Candor.

]. NJ Barrie is more conscious of his
limitations than are some of his fellow
workers of the period. At the repeated
solicitation of his journalist friends be
consented some time ago to write the
life of the late Alexander Russell Of The
Scotsman, but he Immediately relin-
quished the task when he perceived that
biographical writing lay altogether out
side his particular sphere of work.
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1t is folly to build upon poor foundation,
either in architecture or in health. A
foundation of sand is insecure, and to
deaden symptoms by narcotics or nerve
compounds is equally dangerous and de-
ceptive. The true way to build up health
is to make your blood pnre, rich and
nourishing by taking Hoods Sarssparills.
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No Inventor.

They do say that every American is
born inventor" said the patriotic
gentleman.
my husband, said the fat lady, is
an exception. He uses the same old ex-
cuses for being out late that used to
hear my father use. "-Indianapolis
,TOurnal
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for those who go to-day and get package OF
GRAIN-O. 1t takes the place OF coffee at
about II the cost and can be gwen to the
children as we'll as to the adult with great
benefit 1t is made of pure grains and looks
and tastes like the finest grades OF Java coffee
A cup of Grain-O builds up. Ask your grocer
tor Grain-O. l5c. and 25c.
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Don't give them tea coffee. Have you
tried the new food drink called Grain-O2 1t is
delicious and nourishing and takes the place
of coffee. The more Grain-O You give the
children the more health you distribute
through their systems. Grain-O is made OF
pure grains, and tastes like choice coffee but
costs about Il as much. All grocers sell it. l5c.
and 25c.
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Is at all times to attend to the comforts OF
your family. Should anyone of them
catch slight cold or cough, call at once
on Wells & Son, Columbus; E. D. Prickitt,
Mount Holly; w G. Jones. New Egypt
Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton, and ]. H.
Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents, and get a
trial bottle of Otto Cure, the great Ger
man remedy, free. We give it away to
prove that we have sure cure for coughs,
colds, asthma, consumption. and all DIS
eases of the throat and lungs. Large sizes
SOC and 25c.
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One re smaller after using Aliens Foot Ease
powder TO be shaken into the shoes Ii
makes tlght or new shoes feel easy; gives in
staht rellei to corns and bunions Il's the
greatest comfort discovery of the age Cures
anu prevents swollen feet, bIisters, Gallons
and sore spots. Al ems Foot Ease is n cerIain
cure for sweating, hot, aching feet All All
druggists and shoe stores, 25c Trial package
Roy, N. Y. &c
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Punctures in the well known Nor
gan & Wright tire are mended about
as easily as a man would close hole
in his finger with a bit of court p1as-
ter. Inside of the inner tube of the
tire lies long strip of patching rub
Der, like this:
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There Is a Class of peon,a

mo are injured by the use of coffee. Recently
there has been placed in ali the grocery stores
u new preparation called GRAIN-O, made OF
pure grains. that takes the place of coffee.
distress, ana but lew can tell it from cotfee II
does not cost overN as much Children may
drink u with great benefit. IS cts and 25 cts
per package Try ii. Ask for GRAIN-O
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MRS WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP has been used
for over fifty years by millions OF mothers for
their children while teething, with perfect
success, 1t soothes the child, softens the
gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and is
the best remedy tor Diarrhoea. 1t will relieve
the poor little sufferer Immediately. Sold by
Druggists in every part of the world. Twenty.
I'VE cents bottle. Be sure and ask for emil
Winslow's Soothing SYRUP" and take no other
kind.
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Sir James Grant predicts that the
gold output of Canada, especially of
British Columbia, will astonish the
world at no distant date.
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A SIMPLE TIRE REPAIR.

We are always bored by those whom
we bore. La Rochefoucauld.
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Hoods Pills act easily and promptly on
the liver and bowels. Cure sick headache.
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In Italy there are more theaters in
proportion to the population than in
any other country.
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Next to clear conscience, for solid
comfort, comes an old shoe.

Many Children Are Troubled With Worms.
Mother Grey's Sweet Worm Powders cure
Feverishness and Destroy Worms. Used by
Mother Grey, a nurse in the Children's Home,
New York. AT all druggists, Csc. Sample
FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmstead, LIE Roy,
N Y.
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CTS ABOUT BABIES.

What woman doesn't
want a baby-a dimpl-
ing, laughing darling,
dainty enough to be
Graded in a snow
white lily? Every wo-
manly woman wants
one, but she doesn't
.rrnr,f too dns..f.rn ianh.
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It Goes without Saving

The fellow who picks a pocket works
for all there is in it.
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For over Fifty Years.

Boston people eat baked beans because
they don't like them raw.
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1t is not the wise men who ride home
on the owl train.
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CROOKS
BOUGHT AND SOLD

on Commission and carried on favorable
Terms.
Being members OF DoLh the Philadelphia anu
New York stock Exchanges, and having
private wire direct from our office to New
YORK, we are prepared to execute orders lefi
Win us promptly and satisfactorily Ac
counts received and interest allowed.
DeHaVen 4 Townsend,
NO 81 CHESTNUT sTREET PH1LA pnLPHi
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Wise Men KNOW

Even carpets have to be whipped be.
fore they can be put down.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it's
different with rolling mill
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KELLY THE KING.
REcKLEsSNEss OF THE Big HEARTED
BASEBALL PLAYER.

His Little System That Won a Nice Sum
at Guttenberg-A Case of ''Come Easy,
Go Easy"-What He Did with the Last
So of That Particular Pot.
The late Mike Kelly probably made
and spent more money during his career
as ball player than anybody else in
his profession. Kelly was an inveterate
gambler, and. like John L. Sullivan,
he had a heart which constantly led
him to do acts of charity. Kelly was
in his element when at the race track.
He got hold of more ''good things that
went wrong than the average bettor,
but he was always cheerful whether a
winner or loser One day Mike went
over to Gutenberg, when the hilltop
track was fourishing, and after two
races had been run he had just $40 and
enough change with which to get back
to the city. As Kel walked into the
betting ring preparatory to the third
race he saw on Bookmaker Ike Thomp-
sons slate.