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rosettes were then connected by stems and
branches incised in the clay. Often enough
a medallion portrait or heraldic panel occu-
pies the center of the piece, but such always
has the appearance of being a mere Access
sorry rather than an essential detail in the
general and harmonious design. The effect
thus obtained was heightened by the EN-
ployment of bright colored enamels, in
preference TO the rather gaudy taste of the
age; harmonious blendiDgs of puppies and
blues are the principal characteristics of the
ware.
1t is time. however, that we made the
closer acquaintance of the Kannenbacher-
land. Crossing the bridge of boats at Cob
LEM we pass where pretty road makes It's
way by easy gradients for some six miles or
SO to the country of the potters. Descend
ing toward the river is a succession of carts.
some heavily laden with clay. others carry
products of the local ceramistS; the Industrial
occupation of the district we are approach
ing is sufficiently indicated.
The Kannenbacherland of to-day COM
prises nine busy villages, of which the two
most pOpulous, Hohr and Grenzhausen, give
common title to the whole district. Hohr
has between 1000 and 5000 population, and
signs OF the craft 0btrude on every hand.
The process of manufacture is often carried
on under public gaze. There are about
fifty ovens in which ware is fired, and these
belong to fully as many master. employers.
At Grenzhausen chemical utensils and drain
pipes are among the special goods manufact-
ured. GreDzhausen's greatest fame, how
ever. rests on the making of a certain jug and
mug that are the Joy OF every beer-drin kor
IN Germany. In general appearance the
town is much like Hohr, as are also
Br0unbach, Rousbach, Hilgert, Mayendorf,
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record was then six feet eight and three
fourths inches; since that time it has been
SIX feet nine and seven-eighths inches.
Mrs. Langtry, however, was not altogether
indebted to either her imported jockey or to
Mr.. Gebhardt for the mention made of her
in connection with the exhibition. Her
handsome brown geldings carried off the
special prize set apart for the lady who was
adjudged TO have the finest turnout. This
year the competition Will be unprecedent-
edly keen. A II the choicest products of the
greatest stock-farms in America will be en-
tered for the prize for thoroughbreds. In
the associations programme this comes
first on the list.
To the display in tlfis class the famous
stables Of A. j. Cassett, William q. Fear
lam Eaton will contribute, to say nothing OF
the entries from the Rancocas, Chestnut Hill
and Boodgood stock farms. To give list
OF these entries would be TO enumerate the
names Of all the stations that have within
recent years made their mark upon the turf
and have won proportionate prominence as
slreS. High rank at the horse show will Of
course give their progeny added value. Some
pure-blooded Arabs have been entered. They
are certain to monopolize the lions share of
attention. Ii Leopard does not carry off the
prize it will be because some equine marvel
has been hidden away somewhere for disclOS-
ure at the proper time. Leopard was pre-
sented to General Grant by the Sultan of
turkey, ana, IN more senses OF tne W0rU
than in its literal acceptation, was the noble
animal a royal gift. When the doors of the
garden are opened the stalls reserved for
trotters will be occupied by horses almost
any one of which represents in its market
value enough to make poor man rich. .
They will come from the stables of John FL.
Shultz, Colonel Kip. Jacob Rupert and
other wealthy men, and many of them will
display formidable pedigrees. This matter
of pedigrees is regarded as being of supreme
importance by the association. 1t is dis
tinctly stipulated that each owner shall in
advance file with the Secretary the pedi-
gree of the horses he exhibits.
Every man in New York who follows the
hounds will be in the garden when the jump
ing record is again asSaled. 1t is very gen.
orally believed that it is destined to be low
cred once more. Leo will not be heard from
and File Maker must rest content with the
laurelS he has already won. The conviction
is that the contest, after few trials, will
narrow down to Ontario and Roseberry.
These horses are being specially prepared
for the fray and good judges will be mis-
taken ii another inch is not added to the
standard set by Gebhardfs horse and its
formidable competitor. In order to
be qualified for entry the. horses
must have been hunted regularly
Tor at least two seasons with some recog-
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POTTERS in
RHINELAND.
Making the Quaint Ware That Is
Known as Ores de Flanders.
The Ancient Art of the Throwsr"- Models
and Patterns Are Rarely Used-Ihe
Process Of Firing.

@.HE following sketch Of the work of
SIX, the potters of the Rhineland is from
J1SC the pen of William Woodhull, men,
Der of the English Parliament, and is repro
duced from the English Illustrated Maya
zine in which it was recently published.
Connoisseurs love-and many who have no
pretension to that title are familiar with
the quaint drinking mugs and other vessels
which are known as Ores de Flandres. Scot
fers have said that the peculiar stoneware
in question has been so named because it
was never made in Flemish-land; but, as
will presently be seen, the scoffers are
wrong. The province of Limbourg, however,
now divided between Germany and Belgium,
which was so long one of the principal seats
of this manufacture, has always been a
frontier State, and had always been, up to
1914. subject to the Counts and other rulers
of Flanders. The ware is. in truth, essen
tally German in its history, and in the char
acteristics of its diversified forms and artis-
tic embellishments. The precise date and
place of its origin remain unknown. A we'll
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Choking Catarrn.

Have you awakened from disturbed sleep with
all the horrible sensations of assassin clutching
your throat and pressing the life-breath from your
frightened chest? Have you noticed the languor and
debility that succeed the effort to clear your throat
and head of this catarrhal matter? What depress
ing influence it cxerts upon the mind clouding this
memory and filling the head with pains and strange
noisesl How difficult 1T is to rid the nasal passages
throat and lungs of this poisonous mucus all can tes
tify who are afflicted with catarrh. How dficut to
protect the system against its further progress TO-
ward the lungs, liver and kidneys, all physicians
Will admit 1t is terrible disease and cries out for
relief and cure.
The remarkable curative powers when all other
remedies utterly fail, OF SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE,
attested by thousands who gratefully recommend
it to feow-sufferers. No statement is made regard
ing it that cannot be substantiaed by the most re-
spectacle and reliable references.
Each packet contains one bottle Of the RADICAL
CURE, one box of CATARRHAL SOLVENT, and an I'M
PROVED INHALER with treatise and directions and
is sold by all druggists for 81
POTTER DRUG " CHEMICAL CoRPoRArIoN. Boston
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n 7 OMICH Scotland. Sept. 90,
II k 1S90.-Un coming face to face
II ~ with the factof the depopulation
of rural Scotland, and especially
of the northern and western
& highlands. it is astonishing that
any system of land laws is permitted to ex-
ist which will work such fatal results to a
country. There must be a practical reason
for all this, you feel. You dig and delve
for that reason, and you are still more as
toniShed. Inquire where you may, there is
in effect but one answer: ',Highlanders are
not worth to the great landlords so many
red deer. Crofters are of less account than
partridges and rabbits. Human beings in
the form of Scottish peasantry are less valu-
able than their weight in pheasantS or ish!'
Not satisfied with assertions and generali-
ties, you delye and dig again. 1t is easy
enough to find proof of depopulation. But
1t is difficult for the average American to
realize how land proprietors can find ade-
quate compensation for the loss of pSpula-
ton and its labor which ordinarily alone
give 10 land the greatest value possible for it
10 possess. Agents and factors everywhere
tell you that the income from hunting and
is hing privileges is more than repaying pro-
prlet0rs. This seems so ineXplicable that
you delYe and dig again. as | did, and finally
arrive at some most astounding facts. The
great Overwhelming fact is that greater
area of land in Scotland is now devoted to
the exclusive purpose Of game preserves
Than is occupied by farmers for the eXclu-
SIve cultivation of the soil, and that nine
tenthS OF all land and OF all rods of Loeb,
brook or river shores in the kingdom are
annually leased in shooting and fishing
privileges to British sportsmen.
Naturally Scottish peasantry are in the
way Of game and fish. But passing a dis
cussiOn Of the effect of this land policy upon
the Sucioogc and
ECONOMIC CONDITION OF SCOTLAND
We Americans have no conception whatever
Of the StupendouS sums annually paid by
British titled and gentlemen SDOrtsmen for
their few weeks delights with rod and gun.
The amounts received by single owners for
single privileges are equally surprising. Mrs.
Chisholm, owner of the Chisholm estates
which border StrathlesS here, must receive
$4,000 L find that for siXty-nine shootings
and iishingS the Duke of Sutherland receives
rentals amounting to e23, 1896. AS he has
more than 100 for lease, his income from
This source alone must reach G}5, 600 or
10000 In Forfarshire, on one estate
belonging to the Tutors of the Earl of
Daihousie," these privileges whose rental
prices L have been able to secure, reach
Elo,+9o; and of those of the Countess
DOwager Of Scafield, regarding which in
formation is available, twelve shOOtings and
nshlngs in Elginshire give her s3lS9, eight
In Bantfshire $500, and fourteen in Inver-
neSs-ShiTe 44605, or a total of 1850, which
is probably not one-third of her entire in
come from this source.
As l am quite certain these facts have
never yet appeared in the public prints,
either in Great Britain or America. have
been to the pains of putting into tabulated
form the actual rentals known to be annually
paid for these shooting and fishing priv
lIrues in Scotland:
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vived many vicissitudes at times has been
well-nigh extinguished, but has happily re-
vived, and it flourishes to-day in greater
volume than ever, the name of Kn0dtgen
being still borne by many of those who are
associated with its fortunes.
In the earlier days of which we have
spoken the stoneware Of the Kannenbacher-
land had no special character of its OVID,
sufficient to make it easily distingulshable
from the productions of the Limbourg cen
ter from which it had been imported As
general rule, it may be said that one seldom
finds original figure subjects or delicate
friezes of Ornamentatiou, such as those
which are the glores of the treasured exam
pies of old Siegburg and Raeren. When
subjects of this kind are found they are
generally borrowed from the older types.
The relief ornamentation was generally I'M
pressed by small metal seals, and these
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IT is TO BE
A BIG SHOW.
The Exhibition of Magnificent
Horses in New York City.
Giants From Normandy and Shaggy Dwarfs
From Shetland Will Be There - To
Eclipse Anything Of the Kind.

KH1UCH of the blue blood that courses
ilX1S in equine veins will be in the metrop-
1E%1.9 oils this week. Massive giants
from Normandy, slender monarchs of the
turf and shaggy little dwarfs from
Shetland will compete for honors at the
forthcoming horse show. For excep-
tional reasons the display will be memoir
able one. New York has not forgotten the
time when, two years ago, the Old Madison
square Garden blazed with electric lights,
flashing sabers, brilliant uniforms and the
sparkling eyes of fairest women of Gotham.
Some of the spectacles then witnessed.
were enough to recall the days of chivalry,
for, though mailed hands did not hold the
reins, there were gallant steeds and gallant
riders and feats of horsemanship which
would have put crusader on his mettle.
Society is stirred up over the promise of
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authenticated fragment of the brown ware
bears the date of 1888; but examples of
rude, unglazed. white ware, and of
coarse, earthen body of dark gray, smeared
with lead glaze. have been found in ex-
cavations, and may be supposed to have
been the productions of very remote pc
Rod. But evidently, by the middle of the
sixteenth century the art had attained to
something like perfection. For two centu-
ries Germany retained the monopoly, and
kept Europe supplied with drinking vessels
adapted very much 10 the tastes, to the the
measures and to the usages of different
lands. 1t was toward the end of the eigh-
teenth century when a successful attempt
was made by one Dwight of Fulham to pro
duce the like articles in England. This was,
however. a period of remarkable activity
among English potters The picturesque,
though rude, puzzle-jugs and tygs had been
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Treves and of the county OF WED. The
district had been from time immemorial
identified with the production of pottery to
the "Kannenbacherland," or the country of
the potters-much as the like region in
North StaffOTdshire is known to all men as
the Potteries.
In the year 1914, it appears that the Earl
of Isenbourg, with eommendable sagaeity,
made grants of land, and gave exemptions
from taxation, with other tempting privileges,
to one Bertram kuodtgen. potter of Sieg-
burg, by way of inducing him and his fell
low-workers to transfer their art from its
old home and to settle in this locality. The
couraged flocked into the new country. and
found there the peace and the protection for
which in their old homes they had sighed in
vain. Their art, thus tranSplanted, has sur
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An american Hou,e-Boat.

There are eight Holowell gentlemen who
propose to ring a Sigh! change on the COM
mon summer cottage, and are building a
boat which they will occupy on the VIM
throp pond. The craft is built much like
the ordinary logging. boats but it is finished
better and with more regard TO convenience
and light. The interior is to be fitted with
lockers and closets, and with iron bedsteads
and mattresses in place of hunks. A stove
and all the equipments for cooking and
housekeeping viii make it equal to cot
tage ON land, and with the addition that the
boat can be rowed to any part Of the lake,
and the fact that it eau be kept away from
the shore, and consequently the mosquitoes,
renders it far preferable to the cottage
Bangor News.
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sale, being disposed of by INSCRIPTIONS
dealers as genuine Siegburg ware.
Only second in historic Importance, but
quite distinct in character, were the pro-
auctions of Raeren. a town near Aix-a-
Chapelle. These were generally OF rich
bronze color, covered with a brilliant salt
glaze. Besides the familiar beer-pots, ewers
and jugs of great artistic pretensions were
turned out Decorative art at Raeren found
employment in religious and NEUROLOGICAL
drinking and dancing scenes. Similar were
the productions of Feehen, one piece being
tho renowned jug bearing on the neck q
grotesque. long-bearded face, known all
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over England as "Gray Beard" On all
these centers of ingenious and profitable
labor grim war brought devastation. Many
potters sought refuge on the other side OF
the Rhine, and others went to district east
of the confluence of the Moselle with the
Rhine. This territory, now forming part
of Nassau, was up to 1908 under divided
jurisdiction; it was part Of the electorate Of
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richly embossed with elaborate figures and
ornaments in relief. Siegbnrg suffered Sc
verely during the seventeenth century wars,
and the potters. despairiDg of carrying on
their industry in peaceful security. emf
grated to other lands. All attempts to in
duce them to return were unsuccessful, but
some fifty years ago an enterprising potter
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John l.. White, head master Of the Berke-
ley School, New York, is authority for the
statement that, In our cities at least. almost
every American girl ofgood parentage Of the
age Of 16 or II is taller than her mother, with
larger waist, better physical development
aud moro Staying power" This gain ne
thinks largely due to the present-day love OF
0pen-air games and exercise.
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the qualifying statement that his achieve
ment was matched by File Maker. magn-
ficent brute whose hoofs just grazed the bar
not dislodge the bar. the feat technically
counted as clear leap. and as both ami
mails broke the record the association
handsomely awarded two first prizes, so to
speak, instead of one. In Leo's saddle on
that eventful night was Mrs. Langtry's i'm
ported jockey. 1t was expected that Mr..
Gebhardts horse would have walkover, if
q fight like that could be so described, but
File Maker proved to be surprise. The
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what is in store for it, because the exhibit
ton will be upon scale never paralleled
either here or abroad. The National Horse
Show Association never had list of entries
that would hold anything like comparison
with it, The Directors of that powerful
organization. most of them millionaires, have
done all that lavish hands could do.
They have not only engaged the finest
amphitheater in America, but they have ar
ranged for special rates for transportation
on all the fast trains. So that those who ex-
hibit in Chicago may, if they feel disposed,
display the same animal in New York. they
have come to terms With the Directors of
the Chicago Exposition. Exhibitors who
take their horses from the banks of Lake
Michigan in time to be represented in Madi-
son Square will be excused" by the
Chicago Directors, and this makes it abb
solutely sure that nearly every remarkable
horse in the United States will be under the
The morning call., 1890-11-09
GAME PRESERVES
IN SCOTLAND
"Highlanders Not Worth to the
Great Landlords so Many
Red Deers.'
PARTRIDGES ANDRABBITs.

Wakeman's investigations Show That
the Scottish Peasantry Are in the
Way of Game and Fish-The
Annual Rentals for Shooting and
Fishing Privileges-They Do Not
Fall Short of $lo,ooO,ooo-An
American Claims the Largest
Deer Forest in Scotland.
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undertook to revive the business. With the
aid of old molds gathered from different di-
rections, and following closely the tradi-
tons, he began the production of ware of
the old type. These pieces found ready
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cautions are taken. but the element of dam
ger cannot be entirely eliminated.
and many Of the amateur riders
will 60 into the jumping contests
anxious mammas. There will be some
pretty spectacles, too, but it will be diff
cult to match the one presented two years
ago. when Miss Carrie Jackson of Jamaica,
L. l., a dainty and self-possessed little six
year-old, drove her handsome ponies Dinah
phaeton. She handled the rens with the skill,
courage and GOODNESS of veteran, and the
applause which greeted her performance
awoke echoes which many other achieve
ments had failed to disturb. 1t will cause
much regret if the Philadelphia Hussars
do not again try conclusions with the local
troop which they defeated two years ago.
II they do there is an old score to be wiped
out.
The New Workers claim that they were
forced to go into competition for which the
Philadelphians had been specially trained
and that they were to that extent handi-
capped. The Quaker City boys, they de-
clare, could not be persuaded to engage the
Gothamites on any but their own terms ana
that it was not to be expected they should
be beaten at their own game.
One feature of the show that will be par
tlcularly we'll worth seeing will be the dis
play made by the cabmen. In spite Of the
abuse which Is show cred upon the metro
politan cabby he has, when seen at his best,
good deal of pride in his profession, aud
some of the livery stables by which he is
employed can boast of turnouts which mill
ionaires would not be ashamed to acknOwl-
edge as their own. These fancy livery
stable turnouts are growing more nu-
merous every year and the reason for
it is not difficult Of dis overy Wealthy
families are finding it much less
troublesome TO contract by the year for
the exclusive use of fine team The driver
reports TO them every morning Just as
though he were directly in the family's EN-.
ploy, and If the carriage is not wanted for
the day the presumption is that it is used for
other purposes. The most valuable horses
and the handsomest carriages in New York
why, next month, the cabby will make q
showing that will surprise most Of the spec
tators. Then the New York and Brooklyn
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The total of these known rentals, el69,-
Gl2 exceeds 81, 800 coo. There are, alto
gether, 1918 "shootings" and CSC "fshings."
The above sum represents only the rentals
paid on not quite one-fourth of the entire
1924 shootings and fshings, so that moder-
ate estimate of the entire sum paid annually
IN rentals alone would probably not fall
short Of 100000 This vast sum is actu-
ally annually secured by Scottish landlords
exclusive Of all other
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which are not apt to occur to those who have
not fine horses OF their own stimulate unusual
interest in the forthcoming show. 1t is
two years since certain questions of supre-
macy were settled. There would have been
another settlement last year but, in the
meantime, the old garden had been disman-
tied. and greatly to the modification of those
who have firm seats in the saddle, no exhi-
bition could be held in 1889. 1t is almost
impossible to give an adequate Idea of the ex-
tent to which riding has become fashionable.
Academies have sprung up in all quarters of
the city and riding clubs are the rage. To
be the best dressed man on the avenue is
not now so much " the thing" as to have the
finest horse and the greatest skill in handling
it. Ladies who affected the languid style
and glored in an interesting pallor have
shaken off their lethargy and admira-
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in consequence. The owners of crack steeds
have been nursing their jealousies with
more or less impatience looking forward to
the time when the Horse Show Association
should step in and authoritatively determine
all disputes.
The association, in accordance with its
custom, will award prizes. They vary in
value. The highest is $500 and the lowest
S25. A financial stimulus is one of the
necessities of the case for reasons which the
association fully understands, but, in nine
cases out of ten, the question of money is
regarded with supreme Indifference. The
blue rosette of victory, in,rinsically worth
nothing, is more highly priced than if it
were made of $1,000 bills instead of ribbon.
When Freddie Gebhardts superb timber
topper, Leo, won the jumping champion
ship two years ago, excitement was at fever
heat 1t is perhaps scarcely fair to say that
Leo won the championship without adding
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Special to THE SUNDAY CALL.

= = OMICH Scotland. Sept. 20,
II k | 1S90.-Un coming face to face
II SSwith the factof the depopulation
of rural Scotland, and especially
of the northern and western
g highlands, it is astonishing that
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THE GLORY OF SCOTLAND

cent forest of AthOl, Blair-Athol which now
contains nearly 5000 deer at large. As it is
solely occupied by its proprietor. the Duke
of Athol, who is a strict preServer of the
breed, it is the acme of social and hunting
ambition to be once admitted TO the chase in
these noble grounds. The English sports
man who has killed one Athrl deer is almost
as great as a nobleman in Great Britain.
Il,.t .hn larrn.E door fnrnst II, S.ntla,aA e