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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-05-07
A Cherokee Dish.

An article of food much used by the
Cherokees Is made from corn. The
process is first to soak the corn in
strong I've made from hickory ashes,
just as white people in the country
make hominy. This removes the hulls.
The corn is then put into large NOR
tar made by following out the end Of
large log and is pounded by huge
pestle.
As the process Of pounding goes on
the crushed corn is removed from the
mortar and riddled with sieve made
of cane and then famed In the wind to
remove the bulls. The grit" as the
course meal Is called, is then replaced
in the mortar and pounded into fine
meal. 1t is then boiled up with cay
enne pepper and other ingredients. A
small amount Of I've Is left in the meal,
and it has tendency to preserve it for
long time. However, If the stuff
sours, 1t is regarded as a great deli
cacy. 1t Is known as "con-a-hanna."
The food is sometimes varied by the
addition of nuts, which is considered
especially fine. With the nuts 1t Is
called "ca-nutch."
In the olden times cakes were made
Of "con-a-hanna" by baking the sub
stance in rudely constructed rock
ovens or in hot ashes. These cakes
would keep for long time and, in con-
nection with the wild game, provided
nourishment for the Indians on their
long hunts. Many Of the older Chero-
KEGS still use the mortar and pestle to
make the dish.-Kansas City Journal.
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In the treatment and cure of womanly
ailments is the difference between skill,
and success on the one hand and casual
experience on the other.
GAINED TEN POUNDS
III took four bottles of DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription and two of his
Golden Medical Discovery and re-
ceived great benefit writes Mrs. Elmer
D. Sheare, of Mounthope, Lancaster Co.,
Pa. III do not have those sick spells as
formerly. Before took your medicine
I could hardly walk at times, when I had
uterine trouble l can truly say that
after taking four bottles of 'Favorite
Prescription and two of Golden Med
ical Discovery l did not suffer any
more. l gained ten pounds in weight
In June commenced using the medicine
and in July helped to harvest the wheat,
so you may know that | did not feel
very bad"
Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription
establishes regularity, dries disagreeable
drains, heals Inflammation and ulcera-
ton and cures female weakness. It
tranquilizes the nerves, encourages the
appetite, and induces refreshing sleep.
AS tonic for weak, WORKOUT, rundown
women it is unequaled. It makes weak
women strong, sick women we'll.
Accept no substitute for wFavorite
Prescription" The only motive for sub
stitution is TO enable the dealer to make
the little more profit paid on the sale OF
less meritorious medicines.
GIVEN AWAY.
The Common Sense Medical Adviser
referred to in Mrs Schnetyer's letter is
sent free on receipt of stamps to pay
expense of mailing only. This great
medical work contains over a thousand
large pages and more than seven hundred
illustrations Send 81 one-cent stamps
for the cloth-bound volume, or only II
stamps for the book in paper covers.
Address DR.. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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An ITncoutb Mode OF Burial.

OF all the modes of burial ever prac-
Heed by creatures in the shape of hu-
man beings the method of the Queens
land nomads is certainly the most I'M
couth. After drying the corpse in the
sun and knocking out its teeth for
keepsakes they deposit it on frame
work of rough poles and bury it under
a few armsful of rushes and old kan
CARGO skins, leaving the bush wolves
to sing its requiem.
No member of the dead mans tribe
will settle within a mile Of his grave
for fear of being haunted by the
spooks making the burial place. their
midnight rendezvous. The metaphys-
zeal opinions of the Australian aborig-
ines prove indeed that savages can be
afflicted with an abundance of super
natrralism without betraying trace
of anything deserving the name of re-
Hgious sentiment.
They believe in evil spirits whistling
In the blasts of the storm wind and try
to exercise them by splitting in the d.
rection Of the sky, but for the concep-
lions of the deity, of future existence,
of repentance, atonement and con-
SCIENCE their language has not even q
definite word From somewhere in the
land of their forefathers- eastern Asia,
perhaps they have imported notion
family resembling the Buddhist doc
trine of metempsychosis and believe
that animals may be reborn as men
and men as human beings of superior
rank
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The Hostess, Funny story.

"a very dignified young man took q
seat in a smoking car" said the host
ess, who Joined in the after dinner sto-
~ telling. 'Near him were three trav-
cling statesmen, well dressed, jolly fell
lows, one of whom suggested q game
of cards, and the others agreed. They
appealed to the young man to take part
and make up four handed game.
Thank you; never play cards.
came the response to the invitation.
"I am sorry for that. Will you have
a cigar with usT added the spok
producing his case.
81 am obliged to you, but never
smoke replied the dignified young
man.
''They thought they would jolly the
young fellow out of dignity, SO the
leader produced a travelling compan-
lon and asked:
"'As you do not play cards nor
smoke you will not refuse to join us In
a drink
"I thank you, gentlemen, but new
er drink"
with this a venerable man with
ministerial aspect sitting In the seat
behind the young man reached for
ward and tapped him on the shoulder.
"I have heard what you have said
to these men,, said the sedate old fell
low, and admire you for the stability
of character which has enabled you to
shun bad habits. have daughter In
the parlor car, whom should like to
have you meet
ct thank you, sir, replied the young
man, turning about and facing the
gentleman, but the fact is I never In
tend to marry milwaukee Sentinel
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me Women shave Their Heads.

The Women Shave Their Heads.
One part Of Egypt shows where the
outward and visible evidences Of the
aboriginal have been softened down
with a veneer which the softeners
fondIy imagined ia indicative Of in
ward and spiritual grace. This is along
$50 mile stretch of the White Nile.
where the Shilluks live and move and
have their being.
Now, the Shilluks are picturesque
and a promising people. They have
their Fashoda for capital and their
memories of Lord Kitchener of Khar-
tum which no man may take from
them. Wherefore, what matters it that
they have lost their original lawless-
ness, their former turbulence and their
cheerful speciality OF roasting the en-
envy on the point Of the spit?
Now the Shilluks are SO civilized
they carry short wooden clubs after
the fashion of the Broadway police
man and occasionally brandish long
spear In true light opera style. They
lead an enviable life, these Shilluks;
nothing to do all the livelong day but
lie. on the messy bank and spear the
horny hided hippopotamus as he glides
within range, or make a dead crocodile
Of live one by the simple expedient
Of harpooning him through his vitals.
AS for work. that is for woman, and
my lord of the Shilluks never puts his
hand to it.
Agriculture is yet an undeveloped
industry, and what little developing
has already taken place has been at
the instance and hands of the wives.
The Shilluk country is not the birth
place of the seven brotherhood sisters
Of glorious hirsute memory. All the
women of the tribe shave their heads.
New York Herald.
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Kentucky Negro Superstition.

If log should fall on negro and kill
him, the chances are that the log would
rot where it might lie, as it would be
hard to find anybody wiling to move it.
1t is belief among negroes that who
ever removes log or tree that has been
the means of death will meet a similar
fate, and there are many who share the
superstition. 1t is said a number of
years ago a man in Harrodsburg. it is
supposed, attempted to steal a log from
some wood pile and while crossing the icy
street slipped and was killed by it. He
was found the next morning and his body
removed, but for six months or more the
log remained untouched on the side of
the street, although the weather was
very severe and fuel was scarce among
the darkies.
There is another superstition among
them in regard to transplanting cedar
trees. They believe as soon as the lower
limbs of the tree grow to be the length
Of coffin the person who transplanted
1t will die Burgin Record.
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a1o sing, and we were only 80 against
them. They sent no flag of truce to de-
mand q surrender. They may have
even hoped we would show fight, as
they had met with no resistance as yet.
AS we had hoped and planned for, the
Yaquis advanced by the ravines. A
body Of about 500 was told off for each
ravine, skirmishers were sent on ahead,
and the main body looked on. Thirty
men with Winchester rifles inside Of q
stone fort are no mean foe, but we soon
realized that In this case we were al
most helpless. So swiftly and steadily
did the Indians advance and so hot was
their fire at the loopholes that we soon
had five men killed and could not reply
except at great risk. Their advance
was within stones throw Of us in both
ravines when we resorted to the cleo
trio wires. Few men will ever witness
the sight we did. There was a series
of explosions which shook the earth for
miles around, with bursts of fame and
smoke leaping to the clouds. and after
one fearful yell there was silence In
both ravines. 1t was half an hour be-
fore the smoke blew away so that we.
could see the main band. The warriors
stood there without movement, SEEM
ing to have been struck dumb, and 1t
was another hour before they broke up
into small parties and marched into the
mouth Of the pass. We thought 1t q
ruse. and no man left the power house
until next afternoon. Then it was dis
covered that they had gone for good,
and that without looking after their
killed or wounded.
Down in the two ravines, buried I'M
der the debris or lying scorched and
torn and mangled among the rocks,
were over 900 warriors, all wiped out
at the tick of the clock. 1t was such 8
stupendous loss, such terrible and
mysterious calamity, that even the
fierce Yaquis were terror stricken and
turned back. They. returned to their
valley, awed and frightened, telling
a story that awed and frightened those
left behind, and from that date their
power was broken. They have made
war since only in small parties and in
a half hearted way, and their dream
Of driving out the Gringo and the Mex
lean and recovering their own has
been shattered forever.
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a CevIop Cocoanut rore.t.

The tree which gives character to the
landscape in the island of Ceylon is the
cocoanut palm. whose slender grayish
trunk scars up for go or so feet and then
bursts into a dense crown of great feath-
cred leaves. each from 10 to II feet in
length. These palms grow close together
in vast groves, and to one walking about
under their shade their appearance is
very striking and recalls the comparison
which has been so often made between
forest and cathedral, for there is rude
but evident resemblance to architecture
in the lofty aisles formed by the shafts
of the palms and rooted in by the arched
and densely intermingled foliage. The
sunlight 6ltering through the leafy can
opy makes a golden green twilight. in
which multitudes of gaudy butterflies
sport about and fit from cup TO cup Of
the pink campanulate flowers that cover
the ground.
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A GEORGIA HEN COOP.
1t Was Sure Proof Against the InroadS Of
Outsiders.

1t Was sure PROOF Against the InrOA0D OF
Outsiders.
stThere isn't more faithful being on
earth, said Georgia business man to
reporter, ethan one Of our Georgia
darkies Neither is there one more su
perstitious, nor yet again is there one
who loves better the products of the
hen coop. And Gainesville ism It any diff
ferent from any one of hundred south
ern towns. When was down there
some time ago, customer of mine who
had fancy for chickens and who had
always had more or less trouble in
maintaining ownership of them told me
he had a remedy and asked me to go
around with him and see it, wanted
him to tell me what it was, but he in
sisted on my seeing it first, so went
along with him, and in few minutes
was standing in his back yard before
what was to me the oldest chicken
coop ever saw. It was constructed of
places in its walls where hand could
be run in and everything cleaned out
within reach Then there was no fas-
tening on the door, nor was there any
kind of protection to the fowls l
couldn't understand how such an in
viting snap could be of any use to the
owner and said as much.
"'The charm is in the timber, said
he.
"'No, said I.
"'Fact, just the same, said he. you
don't see it ON the outside and you don't
know it, but the darkies around here
do, and they won't come within 100
yards Of that coop If they can help it. I
don't care how full of chickens it is.
cause why? 1t is built of the timbers
of gallows on which man was hung
about three months ago in another coun-
ty. 1t cost me something extra to get it,
but it has more than paid for itself
since have had it, and / am in the
market now to buy all the secondhand
scaffolds in Georgia. If you run across
sheriff any place with one for sale, let
me know by next mail, won't you,
please?
cit was true BILL, concluded the
travelling man, ''for I saw a darby
tried on it, and he refused big silver
dollar to go down to the coop to get
chicken for breakfast. Washington
Star.
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The Kings Finger Bowl.

When a member of the royal family
comes to dinner, 1t is a point of eti-
quette to provide none but the illustri-
GUS guest with finger bowl at the end
of the banquet. The other diners must
get on somehow without that conven-
fence.
The reason is curious one. In early
Georgian days one never knew who
was loyal. Every other man might be
a Jacobite In his secret heart. Now, 1t
was a piece of Jacobite ritual whenev-
err the toast of 1.-THE King was drunk
secretly to pass the goblet over any
water that happened to be by the
drinker. This was supposed to con-
vert the toast into that of ''The King
Over the Water" the exiled Stuart at
Rome or St. Germans.
On this becoming known the court
insisted that there should be no water
within reach of any guest, and the pro-
hibition still holds London News.
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THE PEOPLE KNEW HIM.
Denson's Plaster Is Palms Mastsr.)

George Washington made and sold -four,
and every barrel of -four in the market
branded &c. Washington, Mount Vernon, ("
sold without delay. No question was ever
raised as to quality or weight.
Benson's Porous Plaster sells on its repu-
tation everywhere. All the buyer wants to
be certain of is that the plaster offered him
really IS Benson's, and not worthless imi-
tation of it or substitute for it.
A plaster is the best form of external rem
edy, and Benson's is the best plaster; 5000
physicians and druggists, and multitude
of people no man can number, have settled
that .'You can trust it, they say.
Coughs, colds, lame back, lumbago, mus
cular stiffness and rheumatism, troubles Of
the liver and kidneys, influenza or grip,
pneumonia, and all other diseases open to
external treatment, are at once relieved and
cured by Benson's Plaster.
Do not assume that Belladonna, Capsi-
cum or Strengthening plasters are s'just as
good as' Benson's. They are vastly in
ferior.-N0 other plaster is as good as
Benson's.
In competition with the best-known
plasters of Europe and America, Benson's
have received Jffty. JfOe highest aaoards.
For sale by all druggists or we will pre-
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States, on receipt Of Csc. each.
Seabury q johnson, Mfg. Chemists. NY.
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WHEN THE YAQU|S ROSE
By M. QUAD.
Copyright 1901, by C. B. Lewis.


They said it was reckless thing to
do and that only Americans would
have attempted it. On the west side of
the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico
are the roaming grounds of the Yaqui
Indians, and between the Yaqui and
Fuerte rivers Is their main stronghold.
And yet we opened the Sunset mine
with only the mountain range between
us and every man from president to
the cheapest workman realizing that
we might be attacked at any hour. The
Yaquis have warred with the Mexicans
for the last 200 years, and their hands
are raised against all others who in
wade their domains.
We were months in getting ma
chinery over from Chihuahua, erecting
buildings and fairly opening the mine,
and, though we had guard of so
Mexican soldiers, we worked in the
shadow Of death, as it were. II the
Yaquis came through the pass, they
would come In such numbers as to
overwhelm US. Strangely enough, as
we thought at the time, they let us
alone, and at length the guard was
Withdrawn, and we were left to our
selves. We had a force of 80 white
men and 100 peon laborers. Not one
of these poems could be depended on
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To put the brake on the wagon going
down the hill is help to the horse. when
the wagon is heavily loaded. But what
driver would think of applying the brake
to loaded wagon going up hill If he
did, his sensible horses would probably
balk. Many man is in the condition of
pulling load up hill with the brake set
against him. When his stomach is out of
order. and the allied organs of digestion
and nutrition impaired in their functions,
friction is set up which has to be over
come in addition to the performance of
daily duties. A foul stomach makes a
foggy brain, and the man with disor-
dered stomach has often to grope his way
through the days business like man in
a fog. He forgets appointments Prob
lens seem presented to his mind wrong
end to-" This condition is entirely rem
edied by the use of DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t puts the stomach
and digestive and nutritive system into a
condition of perfect health, and gives a
clear brain, steady hand and light
step for the days duties. When consti-
patton clogs the channels of the body, DR..
Pierces Pleasant Pellets will work an eff
fectual cure of that disastrous disease
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A SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS SHOOK THE EARTH.
in case of row. The engine house we
made our fort, and 80 men behind it's
loopholed walls would make good
fight of 1t. But yet we had something
more than powder and lead to depend
upon. II the Yaquis came through the
mountain pass, they would approach
the works, two miles distant. by way
of two ravines which led quite to our
DOORS In some places these ravines
were only six or seven feet deep, In
others over 30. with stone walls on
either side. Under the direction of a
civil engineer powder and dynamite
charges were hidden away In these
walls and buried In the earth and wires
connected with the power house and
an electric battery.
Had 1t been possible to buy the
friendship of the YaQuis we should
Phaye attempted it and thus secured
our safety, but we knew they were
not to be tempted by anything we
could offer. We had been working
full force for three months, with an
alarm now and then, when we learned
why we had not been disturbed by
raiding parties. The whole fighting
force of the Yaquis, numbering be-
tween 1000 and 5000, was gathering
for a grand effort to sweep across the
mountains and clear the country to the
Rio Grande. This had been the dream
of the chief for years, and his people
had been treasuring up rifles and am
munition. When the force was finally
ready to move, the Mexican govern
ment was powerless to stop 1t except
on the north, and 1t was too late to
send out anything like general alarm.
The 1900 well armed savages, know
ing no mercy, fell upon prospector,
freighter, hunter, miner and villager,
and not a man escaped from their
hands. Almost by accident we got
word of the movement, and the mine
was closed. the poems were sent away.
and we prepared for siege. Look
outs were established along both ra-
vines, and we had four days in which
to hear the tales of panic stricken
fugitiyes who passed our way.
The Yaquis had no pity for age, sex
or condition. They found the people
almost defenseless, and when they had
captured village every man, woman
and child was put to the torture. Ev-
cry habitation was burned, live stock
was slaughtered, and even the dogs
and cats were killed. The idea was to
leave nothing alive behind them. The
army did not push forward at swift
pace, but dallied along and spent hours
witnessing the torture of its victims
We knew when the Indians finally en-
tered the mountain pass, headed
straight for us. and it was half an hour
before sunset one evening when we
saw the first of their force debouch on
the plain and begin close survey of
our situation. We were ready for
them. but we knew that no attack
would be made before morning. They
would have had long march and be
fatigued. and they would wait until all
their force was up An hour after sum
rise next morning we witnessed spec
tacIe that made the flesh creep bit.
Fully 1000 Yaquis gathered In COM
pact body between us and the mouth Of
tAe>n ass and .chanted wild and sayx
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He was a Beggar.

Miss Bates, who has written and pub
lished an interesting book ON travels in
SPAIN relates that the beggars of that
country are amusingly proud and are ex-
ceedingly polite so long as nothing is said
or done to wound their pride. She tells a
story of friend. German woman, who
requested a strong man who had impor-
tuned her for charity to carry her bag up
the stairs The strong man started back
at this unusual request. drew himself up
haughtily, frowned and replied:
Madam, | am beggar not labor
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"She Let COnCealment
Like a Worm i the Bud
Feed on Her Damask
Cheek"

How aptly Shakespeare touches the
dominant chord in woman's nature.
She suffers in silence draws curtain
over her private sorrows, and endures
until endurance ceases to be virtue.
This is especially the case with the
modest minded women who suffer from
diseases peculiar to the sex. They are
miserable and unhappy, and yet, although
they know that they need medical aid
and assistance, they choose rather to
bear the ills they know than to submit
to the examination of some local ply
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a DREAM.

i stood where gifts were showered on men iron
heaven,
And come had honors and the joy thereof,
And some received with solemn, radiant faces
The gift Of love.
The green I saw of bay leaves and Of laurel,
OF gold the CLEAN.
A voice spoke to me, standing empty handed
'sFor thea dream
Forbear to pity ye who, richly laden,
Forth from the place of heavens bounty went
Who marvel that smile, my hands still empty;
am content.
Ys cannot guess how lowered beyond the measure
OF your receiving to myself SEEM
Lonely and cold, yet pass on enraptured;
! have my dream.
Anne Reeve Adrich.
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Never washed herself.

Benevolent Old Lady Ito little girl)-
My little dear, do you wash your face
and hands every morning2
mo, num-"
"Good graciousl That's perfectly
dreadful. Do you wash your face in
the middle of the day."
mo. num-"
Dear mel When do you wash your
self?7
81 never washes"
Horrible! 1t is shocking how de-
PRAYED the lower classes are! must
organize society to see that children
are properly washed. Tell me, little
one. do you really never wash your
self?''
mo, mum. Mamma washes me every
morning"