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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
CAUGHT BY ACCOUNTS.

How a Pennsylvania DairymaE Kept Tab
on His Employees.
The habit of keeping strict accounts
is one cause of the common success OF
the farming of former business men.
The farm needs business habits as much
as a store does. was once running a
dairy with large and valuable milk
route. Two men were employed to de-
liver the milk. Each helped at the
milking, weighed the milk and recorded
the weight on sheet hung in the barn,
and changed weekly. Occasionally l
watched the milking and the weighing
so that standard of the yield was SCI
cured. ANY falling off in the yield of
course would be noticed at once, and it
varied very little from day to day. BY
and by l found the returns of sales
much shorter than the yield of milk.
The difference made sos in one month.
At payday l kept back the wages of
the two men until the shortage was ex-
planned. l was sued by one and as l
produced in the court the statement of
the milk yield in the mans handwriting,
and he could not account for the short
returns, | recovered judgment against
him. Then the other fellow confessed
to me he had been induced to keep back
every day so much money. Had the
men not left witness in their own
writing they could not have been con-
victed of the stealing. This hint may
be valuable to owners of milk routes
n " Tribune
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02

nected by steams and branches incised
in the clay. Often enough medallion
portrait or heraldic panel occupies 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 harm onious design.
The effect thus obtained was heightened
by the employment of bright colored
enamels, in Difference to the rather
gaudy taste of the age; harmonious
blendings of puppies and blues are the
principal characteristics of the ware.
The Kannenbacherland of to-day COM
prises nine busy villages, of which the
two most populous, Hohr and Grenz-
hansen, give common title to the
whole district. Hohr has between two
and three Thousand population, and
signs of the craft obtrude on every hand.
The process of manufacture is often car
ried on under the public gaze. There
are about fifty ovens in which ware Is
fixed, and these belong to fully as many
master employers. AtGrenzhausen chem
ical utensils and drain pipes are among
the special goods manufactured. Grenz-
ausen's greatest fame, however, rests
on the making of certain jug and mug
that are the Joy of every beer-drinker in
Germany. In general appearance the
town is much like Hohr, as are also
Brounbach, Rousbach, Hilgert, Mayen-
dorf, Wirges, Hillscheid and Arzbach.
The last place chiefly produces mineral
water bottles, of which millions are dis
posed of annually. At the Staffordshire
potteries, where 'the Wedgwood ware is
produced, the whole or nearly all the
material is brought from distance, the
clay and marls found at hand century
and over ago having been exhausted.
In the Hohr-GrenZhausen country, to
the contrary, raw material is contiguous
and abundant. In general appearance
the factories or Hohr-Grenzhansen sug-
gest comparison with the small pot
teries that might have been
built in Staffordshire in the far
away pre-Wedgwood days. There
is the same absence of architectural de-
sign, the same look of haphazardness,
the familiar maze without the smallest
Suggestion VI pam hii wv
over, indeed, there is family likeness
between the workshops, wherein the
potter's simple craft was pursued until
the very modern edifices of the great
houses Of to-day came to be con-
structed. 1t is not i'm possible that
under the influences thus fore
Swallowed the handicraft may disap-
pear, and with 1t the imagery that is as
true to-day as it was thousands of years
ago, of clay in the potter's hands, and OF
the power which he possessed, of his SIM
pie volition, of the same lump, to make
one vessel unto honor and another unto
disho9or.
1t is, however, noticeable that the
ancient art of the "thrower''-the pot
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02

made in Flemish-land; but, as will pres
emily be seen, the scoffers are wrong.
Tho province of Limburg, however,
now divided between Germany and Bel
gium, 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 essentially Ger
man in its history, and in the character
istics of its diversified forms and artis-
tic embellishments. The precise date
and place of its origin remain unknown.
A well-authenticated fragment OF the
brown ware bears the date of 1889; but
examples Of a rude, unglazed, white
ware, and of coarse, earthen body of
dark gray, smeared with a lead glaze,
have been found in excavations, and
may be supposed to have been the pro-
auctions of very remote period. But
evidently, by the middle of the sixteenth
century the art had attained to some
thing like perfection. For two centur-
les Germany retained the monopoly, and
kept Europe supplied with drinking ves-
sells adapted very much to the tastes, to
the measures and to the usages of differ
ent lands. It was toward the end of the
eighteenth century when successful
attempt was made by one Dwight, of
Falham, to produce the like articles in
England. This was, however, period
of remarkable activity among En-
gIish potters. The picturesque, though
rude, puzzle-jugs and tygs had been the
product of much ingenuity; but they
were disappearing before the beautiful
saIt-glaze ware, much of which has new
er been excelled in perfection of form
and sharpness of ornament, and which
had attained to the highest degree of
artistic quality before the advent Of
Josiah Wedgwood.
The stoneware, however, properly so
called, was probably produced in num-
berless localities all over Germany and
Che low countries, where suitable clay
and natural aptitude existed. But there
are a few districts to which peculiar in
terest attaches; these were seats of
characteristic and often remarkable
original styles Among the most notable
places was Slegburg, situated not Tar
from Bonn, on a tributary of the Rhine.
There were produced the tail, cylindri-
cal cannettes in what was long known
as Cologne ware, and other articles of a
like kind in white body, often un-
glazed. but richly embossed with elab.
crate figures and ornaments in relief.
Siegburg suffered severely during the
seventeenth century wars, and the pot
tiers, despairing of carrying on their in
dustry in peaceful security, ,emigrated
70 other lands, All attempts to induce
them to return were unsuccessful; but
some fifty years ago an enterprising pot
ter undertook to revive the business
With the aid Of old molds, gathered
from different directions, and following
closely the old traditions, he began the
production of ware of the old type
These pieces found ready sale, being
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
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FIG. 8.

low with thin boiler-plate iron, making
socket for the tongue. This arrange
ment is slightly heavier than the ordi-
nary jaws of wagon tongue, but need
not add more than fifteen or twenty
pounds. The back end of the wagon
tongue is shod with iron on all four
sides to strengthen and prevent wear.
A prominent commission firm in
Akron often has occasion to load and
unload in an alley alongside the store
where the horses would be across the
sidewalk. 1t uses a wagon with this
device, and by partially withdrawing
the hammer, taking only few seconds
of time, the team is removed and
hitched to one side, thus removing all
obstruction. A wagon tongue not only
takes eight feet additional room, but
is always in the way, especially on a
barn floor, and the ability to withdraw
it and lay it under the wagon would
not only economic room, but save
many a sore shin and muttered CURSE
L. b. Pierce, in Ohio Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
; How to Take OF Horseshoes.

When shoe is to be taken off it must
not be violently wrenched at the risk OF
splitting off large piece of hoof with
it. says Rural World. Let the clinched
end of each nail be first turned back.
Then the shoe may be carefully raised
with the pincers far enough to with
draw the nails, so that their heads may
be taken hold of by the pincers and
each nail separately drawn out. The
nails may also be drawn out one at a
time SO as not to alter the position OF
the tip of the shoe, and fastnail, made
to exactly fit the countersink in the
shoe and to pass through the same hols
in the hoot, may b driven in its place.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
PACKING AN OVEN.

disposed of by INSCRIPTIONS dealers as
genuine Siegburg ware.
In the year 1914, it appears that the
Earl of Isenbourg, with commendable
sagacity, made grants of land and gave
exemptions from taxation, with other
ItsmPting privileges, to one Bartrain
Knoatgen, a potter of Siegburg, by way
of inducing him and his fellow-workers
20 transfer their art from its old home
and to settle in this locality. The men
of Siegburg and of Raeren thus encour-
aged aocked into the new country, and
found there the peace and the protec-
ton for which in their old homes they
had sighed in vain. Their art thus
transplanted has survived many vicis-
.situdes, at times has been well-nigh
~extirSuished, but has happily revived,
and It dourishes to-day in greater
volume than ever, the name Of
Knodtgen being still borne by many Of
those who are associated with its.fort-
ures
In the earlier days Of which we have
spoken the stonewear of the Kannen-
bacherland had 10 special character OF
its own sufficient to make it easily dis
tinguishable from the productions OF
the Limbourg center from which it had
a5een imported. As general rule, it
may be said that one seldom finds
original figure subjects, or delicate
friezes 81 ornamentation, such as those
which are the glories of the treasured
examples 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 impressed by small metal
seals, and these rosettes were then con-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
Efiwsoss Way f.Sa RIGHT WAY

also be seen that the same grain rs
it runs along the face of the plank
makes long, sharp splinters, which in
rain and shine soon warp up and en-
danger the feet, and tear the dresses
and are unsafe in many ways, besides
rotting out the planks SO much quicker.
Now turn this same plank over, as
shown in Fig. ., and it will be seen how
each close grain makes a little roof over
its fellow, and all liquids percolate
through the loose grain and drain away,
allowing the plank to dry quickly,
while the splinters are nowhere to be
seen. Planks and boards should there
fore be laid properly as in Fig. 2, and
not as in Fig. 1.-American Agricult-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
A PRACTICAL DEVICE.
New and Simple Method of Fore-Short-
eniur n Wagon,

NOW anu s1uiPtc utthoo Va
ening a Wagon.
On a narrow street in a crowded city
/ noticed what appeared to be wagon
shed, but on quite reduced scale. 1t
was about six feet wide and not more
than eleven or twelve feet deep, and
was closed in front with close picket
gate. A wide plank spiked edgeways
on either side was greasy. marked and
SCARED where the wheel-hubs had
scraped it, so there was no doubt that
a heavy wagon was stored there when
off duty; but where did the tongue
lodge when the wagon was quietly
sleeping in the shed? 1t would not be
permitted to protrude over the sidewalk
for people to trip over, besides the
piclxets would not allow of it, so con-
cluded it must be cart-shed instead of
a wagon-shed. One night, however,
CHANGED to see the teamster come home,
and the cart was afour-wheeled wagon,
and heavy one at that. l watched
with considerable curiosity to see the
puzzle solved.
Opening the picket gate he backed
the wagon in, taking very little heed to
where the horses faced, for when the
hind hubs were once inside the wagon
was bound to GO straight, as the planks
prevented any erratic wanderings from
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02

left the city and are in pursuit of these
scattered or seemingly scattered regt
ments. Joshua stands on rock.
The men rush out from behind the
rocks and take the city and it is put to
the torch, and then these Israelites In
the city march down and the flying reg
irnents of Israelites return, and be-
tween the two waves OF Israelitish
prowess the men of Al are destroyed
and the Israelites gain the victory.
But this is no place for the host of
Joshua to stop. Forward, march,
cries Joshua to the troops There Is the
city of Gideon. 1t has put itself under
the protection of Joshua They send
word, There are five Kings after us;
they are going to destroy us; send troops
quick; send US help right away" Joshua
has three days march more than
double quick On the morning of the
third day he is before the enemy There
are two long lines of battle. The bat
tie opens with great slaughter, but the
Canaanites soon discover something.
They say: 'That is Joshua; that is the
man who conquered the spring freshet
and knocked down the stone wall and
destroyed the city OF Al There
is no use fghting."R And they
sound retreat, and as they be-
gin to retreat, Joshua and his host
spring upon them like panther, pur-
suing them over the rocks, and as these
Canaanites with sprained ankles and
gashed foreheads retreat the catapults
of the sky pour a volley of hailstones
into the valley and all the artillery of
the heavens with bullets of iron pound
the Canaanites against the lodges of
Beth-horon.
''O!' says Joshua, ''this is surely a
victory" ''But do you not see the sun
| is going down? Those Amorites are go
ing to get away after all, and then they
viii come up some other time and
bother US and perhaps destroy u.s."
See, the sun is going down. Oh, for
longer day than has ever been seen in
this climate! Has he fallen in a apo
pletic fit? No; he is in prayer. Look
ont when a good man makes the Lord
his ally.
Joshua raised his face, radiant with
prayer, and looks at the descending sun
| over ulOeOn anu dU the ldluJ cEtSCcIb VI
the moon. Pointing one hand at the
descending sun and the other at the
faint crescent of the moon, in the name
of that God who shaped the worlds and
moves the worlds, he cried: 'Sun,
stand thou still upon Gideon; and thou,
moon, in the valley Of Ajalon." They
halted. Whether it was by refraction
of the suns rays or by the stopping OF
the whole planetary system l do not
know and do not care. / leave it to the
Christian scientists and the tinfidel
scientists to settle that question, while
l tell you 1 have seen the same thing.
"What!" say you, mot the sun stand
still?" Yes. The same miracle is per-
formed nowadays. The wicked do not
live out half their day and the sun sets
at noon. But let man start out for
God and the truth and against sin and
the day of his usefulness is prolonged
and prolonged and prolonged.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02

ter of antiquity-is largely practiced
here, though many OF the objects are
pressed from plaster molds. Women
are employed to attach the handles and
spouts and to finish the ware after 1t has
left the thrower. Upon the women too
devolves the delicate work of scratching
in the clay such patterns of flowers and
arabesques as form a rough decoration
on the surface. Models or patterns are
rarely used. The women trace their
design with great freedom of hand.
These devices in scratching" are sub
sequently relieved by broad touches of
color, the cobalt used being mixed with
water and clay. with further admir-
ture of salt TO make the pigment run
fiuidly under the brush.
The apprentices serve a term Of from
three to four years, and the work people
are paid upon system of piece work
called "Tagenwerken," under which a
given number of differing articles are
adopted as the unit for calculating the
work per day. For example, man is
understood to make in one day two hun
dred and forty mineral water bottles or
one hundred and sixty mugs Of one liter
size.
The process of firing differs material
~ from that commonly pursued in the
ordinary manufacture of pottery. There
the oven is vertical, inclosed within a
bottle-shaped ''hovel," which protects
it and the fires from the external wealth
er. At Hohr-Grenzhausen the oven is
Of long horizontal form, with apert-
ures at intervals along each side Of the
arched roof, covered with earthenware
slabs which are removable at particular
stages of the firing. This is for the
purpose of throwing in the salt, the
fusing of which at the proper heat gives
to the ware its glazed surface.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
ETC VI

strap, h. that holds the doubletree pin
points back instead of forward, and
thus enables the doubletree to remain
attached to the tongue whether the lat
ter is in or out of place. 10 attach the
tongue Gig 81 is inserted in the
throat Zig. y and the draw-bolt or
hammer dropped down, when all is
snug and ready for business. Fig. is
a cross section of the jaws at the
hammer hole, showing how the wood
en- pieces are connected above and be-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02

the straight and narrow way to the
hack of the shed. When the wagon
was clear back, the man drew the draw
pin part way up, started the horses a
little, and presto-the tongue pulled
out and dropped upon the ground.
After unhitching, the doubletree was
thrown into the wagon, the tongue
bounded after it; then the picket gate
closed, making all secure for the night.
1t was all very easy, and eight feet of
shed room was saved by simple de-
vice that might be had with every two
horse wagonsin the land. The accom-
panying illustrations show the manner
of construction.
Fig. 1 is a portion of front axle, q,
with hounds, b b; IA, are the jaws of
the wagon tongue, kept in position by
the bolts, G c, put on from the outside
and held in place by pins passing
through the jaws: this is done to give a
clear passage, G, for the rear of the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
A Train Wrecked.

Blobson-I don't see how Jabber got
an invitation to this party. He's reg
ular train wrecker.
Snapper-Train wrecker. Why isn't
he in Jail?
Blobson-He can not dance with a
lady three minutes without stamping all
over her dress.-Boston Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
A svmpathizlpr Emp,oye.

Mrs. De Fadd (who can not stand the
odor of turpentine)-I would have sent
for you to have done this cleaning last
week, but we have been having the out
side of our house painted and it made
us all sick.
Mrs McSadd OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
Oh don't wonder. Thin colors is enough
to make any one sick.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
SOME USEFUL HINTS.

The Proper Way of Laying Plank Walks
and Stable Floors.
If the reader will study the grain in
the end of the planlss in any walk, or as
represented in Figs. and ?, it will be
seen that in the first the grain forms
successive cups or cutters, which catch
and hold the rain water, which causes
the plank to decay quickly. 1t will
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
about the Same Thing.

He-Now, my darling, you know how
strong is my love for you. Do not say
YOU will be sister to me.
She-No, George. will not say 50.
You
He-Then you will
She-You may be a brother to me,
George.-Boston Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
RHINELAND POTTERS.
Something of the Ware Formerly
Made Exclusively In Germany.
Tong Established Potteries Broken Up by
The Seventeenth Century Wharf.-The
Condition of the Business
at This Time.

Connoisseurs love-and many who
have no pretension to that title are IA
uniliar, says the English Illustrated
Magazine, with-the quaint drinking
mugs and other vessels which are known
as Ores de ,Flandres. Scoffers have said
that the peculiar stoneware in question
has been so named because it was never
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
No Leisure.

Edith-To think that it should come
to this! My husband turns out to be a
scamp, and 1 have to sew for living!
Eva-Well, you married in haste; now
you can repent at leisure.
Edith-Indeed, can't even do that; ]
have to work all the time.-Jury.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02
His Way Out of 1t.

Miss ontente-What perfectly lovely
rosesi
Outpocket-Ya-as, er-er-exquisite.
Ito the diminutive fower-girD C-can
you-er-ahem!-er cash a check?-
Judge.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02

THE al-the-year-round cow is :Ae
paying cow. The real dairy cows all
tend in this direction, and n cow that
goes dry longer than two months ought
to be got rid of unless shs IS heavy
mixer for the ten moE.hS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02

tongue. A por-
tion Of t h e
tongue is repre-
scented in Fig. 8,
showing how the
The National tribune., 1891-12-24
New WaItham Movement.
Offer No. 207.

A 5000 solid gold Watch cannot be bought
for $40, but THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
offers a Watch under the above number that
has all the appearance and most of the
good qualities of 500 Watch. You have
never seen Watch like this, and yOnr
jeweler has not either, although the works
are familiar To any jeweler, so that i'm case
of accident there would be no trouble in
getting il repaired. You must therefore
depend upon us for the description of the
latest, handsOmest, and best Watch made
by the great American Waltham Watch
Factory. Time and money have been liter
ally sauandered in bringing this particular
Watch TO perfection. The movement for
works. is made according TO the celebrated
Waltham Riverside model, in which the two
nickel winding wheels are plainly seen.
The case il the thinnest filled watch-Case
ever made. Remember, we mean that the
Watch when closed in the pocket is thin.
The lids of the case are the usual thickness,
aud form perfect protection for the move
ment. IL will not take up much room in
the pocket. This case Is made of plate OF
fine composition metal over which two
heavy sheets of AK. gold are drawn, making
ease that is for all purposes "a good az
solid gold, and warranted for 90 years. A
written guarantee accompanies each Watch.
Every part which il subjected TO constant
wear such as the ring, thumb-piece, Joint
plugs, hinges, etc, is of solid gold. The
works are especially recommended where
The National tribune., 1891-12-24
No. 3O6.
No. 3Oi.

We offer herewith fine assortment Of
"VictOria" watch chains for the ladies'
They are guaranteed by the manufacturers
to wear 10 years.
No. 304 is just the chain for soldiers wife
or daughter. The chain is made of solid
rolled gold plate, and the charm Ia hand
some drum is made of mo- hero -pearl,
trimmed with solid rolled gold plate We
send this TO any address for S2.25. Sent free
for a club Of 10 subscribers.
No. 3O5 is Victoria" chain for ladies'
wear, with heart pendant or charm. The
charm is engraved or plain, as you may
choose. The gold plating is very heavy, and
guaranteed to wear 10 years. Mailed TO any
subscriber for $3.50. Sent free for club of
8 subscribers.
No. 300 is like No. 800, but instead of a
mere pendant the charm is iOcket, in the
front Of which brilliant rhinestone CLEANS
and scintillates with the most dazzling lus-
ter. Just the thing in which TO preserve the
picture or hair of loved one. Mailed for
only $3.50. Sent free for q club of IL sub
scriheTs.
No. 300 is beauty, and we advise every
man to buy one for his wife, daughter or
sweetheart. No. 304 and No. 800, while
modest, are worth double the amount asked
Tor them.