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E,oR SALE OR RENT.
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bIne of the best business stands between
York and Frederick, on the line of the Penn
syIyania Railroad, and no better place in
CarEolI county for conducting the Coal, Lum-
ber and Produce Business. Having fully
determined to discontinue my present bust
ness, | offer in whole or part all of my prop
critics for sale or rent, consisting of Grain
Warehouse, with Elevator and Cleaner; large
Coal aid Lumber Shed, with Lumber Yard
and additional Lumber Shed. This constitutes
one part of the business. In addition to this
/ have large Warehouse 30xS0 feet, Hay
and Straw Shed combined, 30x100 feet; engine
house between the two buildings, with Is
horse power engine; hay press for baling hay,
straw press for baling straw in large bundles,
all complete, with two wagon scales, one for
coal and the other for hay, &c. This last
named property has been used for conducting
the Phosphate, Hay and Straw Business.
Will sell or rent all or part to suit parties
For further particulars apply to or address
T. II. ECKENR0DE,
deco If Taneytown, Md.
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The population Of England is very large
ly in cities, as may be expected from its
enormous manufacturing industries. But
it sounds rather strangely to be told, ac::
knowledges the Boston Cultivator, that
the rural or agricultural. England is very
sparsely populated. Yet this appears to
be the fact. Enormous tracts of fertile
land are held for game preserves and in
forest, and support comparatively few peo-
pie. When these acres are made available
for cultivation the farm products and farm
population of England viii largely increase.
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GROCERIES.

Our line of Groceries and confectionery for
the holidays is complete. We want You TO
come in and feast your eyes on our bargains
if you don't buy cents worth. twill make
you happy TO see what bargains we can make
TO those who wish TO buy. Respectfully
yours,
GEO. C. ANDERS,
deco If New Windsor, Md.
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Iii very difficult 10 know Just J
much we ought to expect from our fel
men, but it is far better TO err on the /
Of expecting too little than TOO much.
50 easy to make too little allowance
deficient training, for nnfavsrable eirc|
stances, for incapacity, for inexperienel
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GUN MUTUAL AID SOCIETY

BALTIMORE CITY, MD,
Safe, Practical Successful, Sure.
INCORPORATED FEB. $780,
Built on the Honor and Integrity of its
Members.
viii not cost over
$3.50 a Year to Carry $l,25O.
The Insured Reap Benefit While Living.
SUN MUTUAL AID SOCIETY,
Marine Bank Building, Room IA,
Baltimore City, Md.
SAMUEL A. PITT,
sept 13-'90-1y Gen'l. Manager.
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A youngster caught under an apple tree
with a stolen apple in hand, said that he
twas only goin' to put this ere apple back
on the tree, sir; it had fallen down, sir.
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OVERCOATS

Of every description for men, boys and child
rem. Styles are beautiful and cheaper than
ever before.
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FOR Low PRICES.

Trhepsople have been here and attested TO
,ourllownirces.
A greatrmany of our goods are so extremely
cheap goOdmany come to the conclusion We
hnd few anotion goods to sell and we were
here for a week or ten days only. But we
wish to say,to the people of Westminster and
vieisity that we have come here TO stay and
will continue to hand you ont bargains.
Remember we get onr goods from Head
quarters, and can, will and do sell them
cheap.
We will sell you q 40 qt. Bucket for l9c.,
pit cup &C., other Tinware proportionately low
rates; paper of Needles 1c.; Pins, /, 2, and
5 cts. per paper; Envelopes for 1c.; ream
good Note Paper 25 cts.- Hosiery and Under
ware equally cheap; Shoes from 10 cts. up.
Prints, Maslins, Ginghams and Woollen
Dress Goods at lowest rates.
Comes and see US and be convinced. For
if there is honor in man or virtue in good
goods at low prices, we mean to be master Of
the situation.
NEW YORK BARGAIN STORE,
"A West Main Street,
Westminster, Md.
I. W. MATHER, Proprietor.
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CHRISTMAS HAS COME
AT OAK HALL FOR 1890.

1
We have the finest line of Christmas goods
ever offered in this town.
Plush Goods in Great Variety
Such as Manicure, Toilet and Shaving Sets,
Whisk Holders, Clocks, Vases of all kinds.
BOOKS, ALBUMS, GAMES
Ofall kinds; Toys for the young; Wall Pockets,
Picture Frames, Paintings. splendid line OF
Silver Ware of all Kinds.
Queensware and Glassware in great variety;
Lamps, all prices Our display of Silk and
Linen Handkerchieis and Muifiers is a
wonder to see. Our line of Towels and
Table Linens are so very low you will think
the tariff never touched them.
We have hundreds of Bargains all through
the store suitable for holiday presents. We
have not time nor space 10 ennmerate them
ALL
We will offer you bargains all through the
store this month.
A nice hat given with every suit or overcoat
from $500 up.
We are making special offers on all Ladies
and Children's Coats to reduce stock.
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We have the finest line of Christmas goods
ever offered in this town.
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Silver Ware of all Kinds.

Ofall kinds; Toys for the young; Wall Pockets,
Picture Frames, Paintings. A splendid line of
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-01-10
Plush Goods in Great Variety
BOOKS, ALBUMS, GAMES

Such as Manicure, Toilet and Shaving Sets,
Whisk Holders, Clocks, Vases of all kinds.
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deco tt
DRICES TALK.
OUR IMMENSE STOCK
CLOTHING, SHOES & HATS

long before the advance we are enabled to
sell You
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-05

them, live fish, potatoes and syrup. sea
slugs and pIums. fish soup and bean cakes.
and sake! sake, sakes and on the other
side . group Of eeisha girls, with their
whitencd faces and gorgeous coiHures apd
costumes. playing the koto, and biwa, and
sarnisen, and monotoning in their squeaky
little voices. the floor being dotted all over
with the tail candlesticks and the little to-
bacco-monos (pipe stovesb for smokers.
The excitabie gentleman, as he heated,
was diyesting himself OF his clothes at an
alarming rate, so We thought it prudent
to beat retreat, having ladies' in our
party
A fea-house means . hotel, and varies
from the low-browed country hotel, which
would only make one decent room If all
the partition shutters were pulled out, to
real hotels like Yaami's at Kyoto and the
enough accommodations for an English
prince.
Yaami's, where the Duke and Duchess
of Connaught spent fortnight, stands at
the head of the native hotels of Japan. 1t
is situated on the hill of Maruyama, over
looking the great city of Kyoto, the strong
hold of the mikados, and for 700 years was
the capital of Japan.
All around are huge groves Of trees, and
jest outside it, separated only by wall,
is the great and important Chionin temple,
the parent house of the Jodo sect of
Buddhists, and the possessor Of the
mighty bell. eighteen feet high and seven
ty-five tons in weight, which shakes the
hotel like small earthquake every time
it is rung.
The hotel itself has most delightful
gardens, with little scarlet shrine to
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without sugar or milk, for drink. Meat Is
never procurable, and only occasionally
fish. chickens and eggs altogether, though
one can generally obtain one or the other.
What an uncomfortable night we spent
At Nara. half way from Kyoto! 1t had
come or, TO pour. and we had TO have our
rikisha hoods and tarpauiins drawn, 80
that We could see nothing of the road, and
when we got to our hotel at nightfail We
discovered that we had left our passports
behind. and should have had to have gone
back straight of if my iinnkiska boy had
not told the head Of the police that We
were friends Of the English prince, and
that Count KIDD, the japanese functionary
in attendance on the prince, would
certainly make . very great fuss
if any incivility were offered to
the princes friends. This, or the
fact that il was exceedingly rainy and there
were q lady and child in the party. molli-
fed '.Dogberry," who said we must be sure
to return on the following day, and We
were glad to obey him, for long before
morning we cot Immortality tired, lying on
the floor Of the Musashiya with only fu-
ton between US and it, and only paper
slide between male and female.
A tea-house Of a very different kind was
the Maple Club (Kovokwan) at Shiba, the
most fashionable japanese club, to which
every parsonage from the court downward
belonged. / don't think there are any
sleeping rooms. The swell Jap goes there
to banquet himself and look at dancing
girls and play at fox and geese (under 9
grand japanese name). We had q ban
cuet given us there, the most unique
thing in which I ever took part. It began
at Q o'clock in the afternoon and ended
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CORBIN'S DEER PARK.
Big Slice Of New Hampshire
With Fence Around 1t.
HAS COST HALF a MILLION
Expensive Experiment In Raising Large
Game-Other Large Preserves Of
Americas 6portsmen.

n any vell-meaning bnt misguided
friend offers the gentle reader half dozen
Young deer in frisky condition and good
appetite. the gentle reader will do well TO
admire their dappled coats, stroke their
beaded black muzzles, look longingly into
their limpid eyes and send them back at
the first opportunity. To keep them IS to
run big risk of being forced TO mortgage
your watch.
This is what the fortuitous possession OF
. fer deer may lead to. The expenditure
of half million in cash; the purchase OF
thirty-four square miles Of land; the will
ing dispossession Of dozens Of farmers
families. whose natural regret at leaving
their old homes is charged for i'm the bill;
nine or ten keepers lodges, with the
keepers to correspond to the lodges ana
salaries to correspond to the keepers;
small army of men chasing wild animals
ON contracts and q crust Of snow: half
thousand miles of barbed wire cut up for
fences: 1900 ten-foot posts, cut. hauled
and planted to hang the barbed wire upon;
hay and incidentals according to circum-
stances.
At least that is what a present OF deer
received six years ago from railroad man
involved for Mr.. Austin Corbin, banker
and president of railroad companies. But
then Mr.. Corbin has q way of never doing
things by halves. 1t must be admitted
that he has made very thorough job OF
his great deer park in New Hampshire.
1t was something ike three years ago
that the fame of Mr.. Corbin's deer park on
Long Island, then well established, began
to be noised abroad. He had put the deer
which had been presented to him out to
grass, had imported a lot of elk from Mon
tana to keep them company and had hired
a wonderful Irishman named Mike
to take care of them. This was
really the beginning of the great
Corbin game park-the mustard seed from
which the bigger park has grown. The
Long Island deer farm fiourished, but the
climate wasn't suitable for the Northern
species Of deer, and, besides, Mr.. Corbin
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wanted more room than he could get at
Babylon, where land is held at pretty high
acre prices and millionaires are as plenty
as blackberries. He wanted space and
verge enough for lots of animals to thrive
without fighting each other and under en-
tireIy natural conditions. and it occurred
to him that big slice of land up
among the famous abandoned farms"
in New Hampshire would answer
all the conditions of climatic fitness,
cheapness and pleasant aspect which he
had established in his mind. Probably the
decision was influenced somewhat by the
fact that away up in the foothills of the
White mountains still stands the old Cor
bin homestead with its precious heiriooms
the cradle which has rocked dozens of
Corbin babies to sleep. the dishes from
which they had eaten samp and milk, the
quilted coveriids. the tall clock which had
tick-tocked, and the spinning wheel
which had buzzed in their childish ears.
At any rate Mr. Corbin decided that the
precise spot where the old homestead
stood was just the place for a deer park,
and he began quietly buying up the farms
thereabouts. The first ones came cheap,
from $ an acre up, according to desirable
ity. meadow and pasture land thrown in
with the scrubby wood lots at bottom rates.
Then it began to be whispered that sport
ing club was after land and prices rose
right away. People discovered that they
hadn't valued their lands high enough.
When Mr.. Corbin's identity was at
last revealed there was another boom
in tumble down barns and second
growth hemlock and "popple" lands.
Finally Mr.. Corbin rested content with
1900 acres at an expense of about $500, OOo,
and $4,000 more for fencing. Ordinary
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lection to the spirit theory, it seems to me
gratuitous. If the force must have
name, the old one of animal magnetism
suits me as well as any. l don't know
what it means; but it seems to point TO
living human beings as the source of the
phenomena, and that is satisfactory as far
as it goes.
Who the genius was who invented the
little table on wheels, with a pencil on il,
have never heard. He deserves the thanks
of the many people who have been enter
tanned by the little instrument. 4 man of
an inventive turn might doubtless greatly
improve upon it. / first heard of plan
Ghetto about thirty years ago; but the first
one possessed was made by my own
hand ont Of the bit of cigar box. in 1ss4.
Summer visitors were staying with US,
and there were half dozen children
always on hand. l expected 10 amuse
them for an evening or two, but the fun
lasted three or four months and was even
renewed the following year.
The grand initial march is, that plan
Ghetto viii move. When You first sit down
10 il, the idea seems so palpably absurd
that it is with difficulty you compel your
self 10 remain in position. After ten Iain-
utes Of silence and immobility, you are
tempted 10 give the thing q second jerk on
your own account, and YOU are morbidly
suspicious OF your partner in the transac-
ton All of a sudden. pianchette, with a
faint preliminary crash, starts of and
makes long, swinging, side-long move
mens, marked by the pencil with 3 straight
dash. It takes you by surprise, and you
know you are innocent in the matter: but
you are convinced your partner is guilty.
He meets your glance, and you see IN his
eyes MS own corresponding conviction re-
garding you. No; YOU are both alike
bsarneiess. But then, what made plan
Ghetto mores
/ confess this question interests me more
than any ghost story ever heard. A more
curious sensation than this movement be-
meath your hand Of thing which Is not
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HOW JAPS DRINK TEA.
In Scented Bowers That Are =
Dream Of Paradise.
The PRETTY LITTLE MusMEes.


There are three or four kinds Of tea
houses in Japan, from the lordiy native
hotels patronixed by the Duke of Con-
naught at Kyoto and Miyanoshita and the
sumptuous Koyokwan Club at Tokyo down
to the humble inns which stranger has
10 put up with in the country, and the
tsgerns where the japanese disports HIM
self in the great cities.
There are tca-gardens usually attached
TO the great temples. The japanese evil
GENTLY believe in the Roman proverb,
Commfscerc scria ludo, for the temple
grounds are always full OF shows and stalls
for holiday-makers, in which foods and
drinks, archery, knocking down the gods
Of wealth Ia species Of Aunt Sally,
trained monkeys, or quack dentists are
conspicuous. Some ofthese tea-gardens are
very beautiful. There is one at Nagasaki,
ferraced in the hillside, which has its
whole face covered with the exquisite and
;rterminable temple of the bronze horse,
eloquent with memories Of Pierre Lofts
fascinating Madame Chrysantheme, COM
handing view on one side of the fantas-
tic mossy-thatched roofs Of the great
shinto temple. and on the other by the
green, Firth-like harbor, once black with
tho bodies Of nearly $1,000 Christians.
There is another we loved to haunt under
the shadow Of the geographer's monu-
naent at Shiba. After We had been spend
ing morning in rambling through the
temples Of the dead shoguns, glorious
with scarlet and gold and carven psacocks
and dragons, or toiIing up over sod
heavy with the fallen needles of the
Cryptomeria pines. to the bronze-columned
shrine in the dark wood that hold the
famous gold lacquer tomb Of Hidetada, or
faring on . public holiday, or watching
the tortoises in the Lotus lake, we used to
haven ourselves with sigh of relief in
this little tea-garden. on hill with great
scarlet pagoda halfway down its slope, and
a view across the bay, broken in the fore
ground by the fimsy French-built island
forts and the Japanese feet. and bounded
on the horizon By the blue hills of
Kanozar.
The tea garden consisted only Of the
view and of the broad benches with futon
tciishions) strewed over them for the
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"Inari," the "rice goddess and fish
ponds, and waterfalls, and clear, running
brook. and tangles Of scarlet azaleas and
camellies almost hiding the winding
stairways OF messy stone which lead up
TO the quaint beetling gateway. Just out
side the dukes rooms there was another
little garden, or courtyard, built in ON all
sides. and containing fantastic rock work,
azaieas that were perfect snowballs of bios
sons, tall purple irises, and an ex-
quiste bronze fountain, while tall bronze
storks stood about in various pastures.
This tea-house, or hotel, which was three
or four stories high, had capital European
rooms, with doors and walls, and COM
manded magnificent views. The furni-
fure was all right for us-old campaigners
hut it must have been a change to the
duke and duchess to have to share one
basin in a little wooden washstand that
could be ratified up for 80 cents, with a tin
slop palm atehing them, and. at the out
side. cane chair apiece; however,
and there was plenty Of variety of food,
and the proprietor spoke excellent English
and sold the duke whisky which could be
bought down in the town for As cents a bot
tie Charging him, suppose, couple of
dollars.) But though it is funny to look
back to. Yaami's is really very good ho-
tel for people to go to, the rooms are SO
view, and the food was SO plentiful and the
proprietor so obliging and our bedroom
boy was familiar with the Chinese classics
and explained the illusions allegorized in
every curio that we had bought.
Japan is tissue of allegory. The SIM
plest decoration on the humblest article of
domestic use emblemizes something.
Every gaudy picture that comes to Amer
lea muddle of red and blue and bad
drawing, is an episode in the life OF some
famous parsonage. Kyoto is the most in
teresting city in Japan, and Yaami's the
finest of native hotels, but one gets, per-
haps. more fun out of the Fujiya at Miyan-
oshita. The Mattresses and the baths
what baths they were made of wood
about 6 feet long, by feet wide, by feet
deep, sunk in the floor, and filled with
steaming water, conveyed through two
or three miles Of bamboo pip
ing from the bowels of the siumber-
ing volcano above, Ojigoku, which being
interpreted means "Big He'll" The Duke
of Connaught told me that he never en-
joyed a bath so much in his life as at Mi
yanoshita. One stripped off ones clothing,
and wrapped up in crepe kimono, orna-
mented with Japan blue palm trees and
storks, was conducted to ones bath by one
kirtled and gaudily hair-pinned, who
waited at the hotel. To shy man it was
little embarrassing, but, in japanese
ethics. bathing is the merest tribe. Funny
little damsels, these musumees were with
cheeks as plump and as rosy as ripe red
pluns. and white teeth and silvery laugh
ter. They had all sorts of engaging little
tricks, but there never was q shadow OF
immortality in the house. Mr.. Yamaguchi,
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barbed wire is used for cheapness, as be-
fore limited. This might be Objectionable
if dogs ever got in and began chasing the
deer, but eminent specialists agree that the
locality isn's going to be healthy one for
dogs anyway. and under ordinary condi-
tions the animals won't see much Of the
fence, the tract is so large. If they do
meet it in their travels they will soon ap
preciate its admirable qualities.
When the fence was finished Mr.. Corbin
turned in his menagerie and sighed for
more. His deers, buffaioes, antelopes and
elk, not over 80 animals in all, shipped
from the little farm on Long Island. we're
lonely in the big park So Mr. Corbiu i'm
ported eighteen wild boars from Germany.
set men hunting deer on the snow and
sent West for more game. The method
adopted in hunting was to surprise the
deer when the snow was deep and, when
they plunged into it up to their shoulders.
to catch and bind them, drag them on
wood sleds TO the nearest railway station
and ship them in box cars.
This hunting on the snow during the
winter just closing was mostly done in
Canada, tor Mr.. Corbin's hunters were not
allowed to ply their undestructiye indus
try in New Hampshire, the laws not hav-
ing provided for the contingency of a big
game park which might want live deer.
There was some trouble in the Canadian
custom-houses over the expectation of the
bodies but finally common-sense deci-
SION was reached and the deer passed.
Moose. elk, caribou and buffalos-the
latter almost the only ones in ex-
,stence except in the Yellowstone
National Park-vere brought from
Minnesota and turned in with the rest.
AT present Mr.. Corbin wants some beavers
and beaver dam or two on some Of his
orooks. and won't be happy till he gets
them At wolves, panthers, foxes and
such vermin he draws the line. but the
graminivorous wild animals are going to
nave an opportunity to increase and null