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tuft* eees ^ W. H. TROXELL, Editor & Pub1i8her. Established by SAMUEL 1VIOTTER in 1879. TERMS—$1.00 a Ten r in Advance VOL. XXVI. EMMITSBURG, MARYLAND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1904 NO. 21 WASHINGTON LETTER. merce and Labor, is energetically A Sight For The Morbid. TYING KNOTS IN JAPAN. VEGETARIANISM. THE HEAD ON THE FLOOR. SKELETONS IN The morbid curio hunter has BOOKS trying to bring to punishment the It Is a Serious Art, as a Mistake Hap A Theory That Has Been Maintained Startling Incident Accompanying the (From Our Regular Correspondent.) missed his opportunity if he has Mean an Insult. scoundrels who were responsible for From the Earliest Days. Death of a Slave trader. SECRETS THAT ARE UNWARILY LEFT Like the arranging of flowers, the Washington, D. C., Oct. 8.—The putting on the market life-preservers overlooked the display in a Broad- From the earliest days vegetarians In a squalid court in Edinburgh IN LIBRARY VOLUMES. tying of way jeweler's window. It is the knots has been carried to the have maintained that fruit and vegee many years ago a man who had been death from consumption of the fa- concealing within their cork inter- of a complex point art by the Japa- tables are the proper food for mankind, notorious for his cruelties as a slave Bartholdi in Paris mummified head caf a dead South nese. There is one way—one right Stories of Love as Well as of Crime mous sculptor iors bars of iron six inches long—of and in ancient times such leaders of trader lay dying. Mental terror made way, that Buried Between the Leaves by Alb- causes deep regret in this city where course because crude iron is much African, The weazen, coal-black is—to knot the cord that thought as • Plato, Pythagoras, Empe- his end appalling to witness. Accord- confines a birthday or New aentminded Readers—The `Way One visage, as it rests on a silver pedes- Year's pres- docles and Plutarch can be counted ing to Scotch custom, the family open- he was well known. In 1886 your cheaper than cork. A more hideous ent There is one way to tie the bro- Murder Mystery Was Solved. among the advocates of this doctrine. ed the door to let the spirit pass. To tal, suggests the harrowing history cade correspondent was present at the offense against human life has not bag of the tea *jar when the lat- It fs in this connection that we find their infinite horror, the bloody head of The letter began, "My Sweet Anne." ter is empty and another unveiling .of his great statue of Lib- come to light itethis generation, and of its original owner. The card that when it is Virgil singing the praises of a natural a black man suddenly rolled into the Surely a stranger must be pardoned full. Not only general Ignorance of room. The family shrieked with fright. erty Enlightening the World in New the Secretary vehemently declares is appended testifies that the exhibit diet apart from the use of flesh: for reading it through, for it was foetid tocial customs but deadly insults may The man on the bed gave a yell of ter- Liddeu snugly away between the is "A genuine heall of the South Af- Soft chestnuts We possess leavee York harbor. It will be remember- that he will detect the guilty ones to communicated by the way a knot is And apples ripe, with store of curdled ror. They turned to his bedside, but of a dusty and uncient volume of pocine ed by all who "assisted" on that oc- and punish them for their crime. It rican Indian, who was killed by his tied, foreigners often making dreadful cream. he expired as they watched hint. When drawn from a great library. The end- tribe, and that afterward his mouth mistakes either through not knowing Still more to the point are Ills words they looked toward the door again, the er took it carefully to the librarian. casion that the eminent creator of seems that some of them, especially or from ignoring the niceties of knot head had disappeared. There was a was sewed to keep hint from reveal- In the Second Georgic at the close of a "Anothee.-one?" said the librarian In- the colossal statue that loomed above the manufacturers who furnished etiquette. vivid description of the joys of a golden splash of fresh blood upon the floor to 'quIringly. ,"Out of the old editien oe them, though he could speak Eng- the life preservers, are already well ing secrets in the other world." Hooks and eyes, buttons and buckles age: mark the spot where it had been, but Moore, eh? Well, I guess we 'won't Am- are unknown so far as Japanese dress nothing else to certify thaterthe horrid send it back. I generally return per- lish fairly well, was permitted to known ; it seems also that there is Pill Pleasure Before the reign is concerned. They do not have much Of the Dietcean king, before the days sight had not been a creation of morbid sonal letters if they are of enough en- take only the slightest part in the no law under which they can be ad- If you ever took DeWitt's Little to fasten, but What they do have they When on slain bullocks fed an impious imaginations. terest and nobody calls for them, but race. celebration. The stupidity of the equately punished. To punish them Early Risers for biliousness or con- fasten with cord. That is why they This appearance of a negro's head in if I sent everything back that we find have carried the tying of cord so far. This further rendering from Latin the room of a man dying after be had management conspired with his own the directors would be about my ears by a fine "for an attempt to evade stipation you know what pill pleas- The Japanese have hundreds of orna- poetry proclaims the same primeval committed innumerable barbarities up- for wasting postage stamps." The aft- modesty to shove him completely in the United State's laws" seems like ure is. These famous Little pills mental knots, some of them so old that teaching: on black slaves was a strange coinci- ernoon was a quiet one, and the li- the background, while DeLesseps trifling with the sacredness of hu- cleanse the liver and rid the system they antedate written history. Forbear, 0 mortals, 'to taint your bodies dence and nothing more. Professor brarian continued: Japanese children are taught to make with forbidden food. Owen, the famous anatomist, had been "We shake every book that Is return- came forward and talked for an hour man life. of all bile without producing un- knots just as they are taught to write Earth is lavish of her riches and teems attending an anatomical lecture where with kindly stores, ed, and almost always something falls about his great Panama canal which The mighty question whether the pleasant effects. They do not gripe, and draw. All sorts of flower and Providing without slaughter or bloodshed the body of a negro had been dissected. out It may be a letter like the one even then was a disastrous failure. suspension of partisan banners sicken or weaken, but pleasantly animal forms are copied. 'There is the all delicacies. He was taking the head home with him you have just found or a visiting card chrysanthemum knot, the iris knot, to examine .it more carefully. The distinguished artist was or a hairpin. Almost Invariably the Perhaps the across the streets of Washington give tone and strength to the tis- plum blossom, pine tree and cherry DUCKS AND THUNDER. streets were wet and slippery. Just as treasures that we unfold bear the ear- content in the reflection that he had shall be permitted has been decided sues and organs of the stomach, blossom knots. There is a stork knot, he was passing the open door of the marks of feminine possession. I am provided himself with a magnificent in the affirmative at last. It seems liver and bowels. Sold by T. E. a turtle knot, a knot named for the The Possible Origin of an Ancient house in which the Man lay dying he not charging women 'with carelessuees. sacred mountain Fujiyama. An easy English Expression. tripped, and the heal, slipping from goddess I am simply stating a fact. monument in the bronze like a work of supererogation. There Zimmerman, Druggist. knot is called the "old man's knot." The phrase, "like a dying duck in a the cloth in which he lied it, &fled "Generally the things we find are 'through the centuries will lift are no There is also an "old woman's knot." thunderstorm," probably originated in into the little room. The cry of the documentary In who party caucuses here ; no par- Shy Leap-Year Maid their nature. Laet her torch to light the pathway of ty conventions ; no party meetings ; the peculiar susceptibility exhibited by dying man diverted the attention of week I sheok out of a book on home "Yes," said the egotistical youth. these birds to electrical disturbances. those who were in the room, so that life n signed and indorsed check for the world's commerce. no party speeches ; no party pla- THE PARISIAN LUNCH. e, "I have been called a mechanical They hang their heads at such times Owen was able to secure his treasure .$79 made payable to the dressmakee distinguishsd visitor from Substantial and turn up their eyes in the most and depart unnoticed.