The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-11-21


trouble might return any time, I doctored
three years without any relief Haven't had
sick headache since | took the first bottle of
your medicine"
DR.. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation.
city is divided into three distinct parts
each enclosed by itself within other
high walls. The most important quar-
ter contains the citadels, old and new.
the government buildings, residences
of the Pasha and the foreign consuls
and shops of Christian merchants
Next is the space given over to mar
kets, bazaars and caravanseri; and last
and meaneSt, the Mellah, or SWarming
quarter of the Jews. Water is brought
by aqueduct, two or three miles across
the desert from kSeb Owing to wretch
ed accommodations, crowded with camel
trains which have brought the above
mentioned ostrich feathers, ivory, etc,
to port from the far interior-you will
not care to remain in Mogador minute
longer than is necessary to make ar
engagements for the overland journey of
125 miles to the southern capital.
In these parts you seldom hear the
City of Morocco spoken of by the name
under which it figures ON the maps.
The natives call it Marakash; the Span
iards, Marco ah-ko: the French. Ma
rok. The city, at an elevation of per
haps two thousand feet, is approached
across great, green PLAIN, which looks
the greeuer by contrast to the deserts
passed-for in this land of contradic-
tons, barren sands and spots of incred-
lble fertility appear to be scattered
about hap-hazard, with no apparent
reason for either. This part of the En-
pire happens to be surprisingly pro-
ductivc, with blooming gardens, rich
plantations, olive groves and orchards
stretching to the very base of the At
las peaks. The words of the dear old
hymn-"Where every prospect pleases
and only man is vile''-recur often to
mind on this journey. Under the bluest
and brightest skies in the world, at lust
the right latitude and elevation for per-
petual summer, without excessive heat,
the climate is ideal; never hint of
frost in the air; the warmest DAYS tenn
pered by ocean breezes, and very rarely
the flag ends of the scorching siroccos
which make life burden on the other
side of the Atlas range What pity
that this most beautiful part of Moroc-
co, whose dry and even temperature is
declared by European physicians to be
an almost unfailing panacea for con-
sumptives, should be inaccessible to
those whom it would most benefit, be-
cause of the undying hostility of the
people towards all outsiders. The fierce
antipathy of the Arabs for everything
denominated ''Christian' keeps foreign
ers in perpetual peril of their lives, be-
sides subjecting them to endless insult
and annoyance, which an invalid could
not endure.
Nothing more imposing can be i'm
agined than the City of Morocco as
seen across the plain, the minarets of
Its nineteen mosques shining white
against the azure sky. The six-mile
circuit of its lofty walls has a huge
square tower at every fifty paces-all
built of understandable tappla, (lime,
beaten with earth in case, or frame),
on foundations of massive masonry.
There are eleven gates in the wall, each
specially defended and so narrow as to
remind one of the parable concerning
the camel and the needles eye The
entire space inside is not covered by
dwellings, but there are MANY gardens
and large open squares, some of the
latter twenty to thirty acres in extent.
The streets-like those of Fee. without
the vineclad, cobweb-draped arbors-
are excessively narrow, irregular and
mostly unpaved. Houses of tappia,
with few of stone, are commonly one
stored; all tlat-roofed and whitewashed
eXterlors, presenting blank walls to the
glazed aperture, set too high for curious
eyes to peer into, doing duty as win
dows. You are particularly struck by
the great number of ruins-half the
city apparently fallen down, furnishing
sad example of what war, pestilence
and misrlle can do. But you are con-
stantly meeting with proofs of the ar
tlstlc genius of the early Moors in
nodded stucco, exquisite wood-carvings,
tile work and time softened colorings.
The city, you know, was founded about
the year 1910, and in it's glory must
have been worthy of Haroun al Reasch-
Id. Its population has dwindled from
several hundred thousand to perhaps
SIXTY thousand-the figures being nee
essarily guessed at, as a census was
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