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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01

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 it has
left the throwec. Upon the women Coo
devolves the delicate work of scratching
in the clay such patterns of flowers aud
arabesques as form rough decoration
on the surface. Models or patterns are
rarely yseae The women trace their
design With great freedom of hand
These DEVICES in scratching" are sub
sequently selieved by broad touches OF
color, the cobalt used being mixed with
ture OF salt to make the pigment run
fuidly under the brush.
The apprentices serve term OF FROM
three to four years, and the work people
are paid upon system of piece work
called esTagenwerken," under which q
given numbec OF differing articles are
adopted as the. unit for calculating tho
work per day. For example, snan 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 materials
ly from that commonly pursued in the
ordinary manufacture of pottery. There
the oven is vertical Enclosed within @
bottle-shaped ''hovel," which protects
it and the fires from the external wealth
er. At Hohr-Grenzhausen the oven is
of a 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.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
FIG. s.

aoys with thin boiler-plate from. making
a socket for the tongue. This arrange
ment Is slightly heavier thsn 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 I'm
Akron often has occasion TO load and
unload in an alley alongside the store
evhere the horses would be across the
sidewalks It uses q wagon With this
device, and by partially withdrawing
Che hammer, taking only few seconds
of Simes the team is removed and
hitehed to one side, thus removing all
obstruction. A wagon tongue not only
Cakes eight feet additional rooms but
is always in che ~ay, especially on a
barn foofs and the ability to withdraw
it and Icy it under the wagon would
noe only economize room, but save
many @ sore shin and muttered CURSE
L D. Pierce, IN Ohio Farmers
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01

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 a 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
ica1 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 a century
and over age 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 Of plan. All She world
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 it 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
dishonor.
1t is, however, noticeable that the
ancient art OF the ''thrower''-ehe pot
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
BUREISHERS.

made in Flemish-land; but. as will pres
emily be seen, the scoffers are wrong.
The province Of Limburg, however,
now divided between Germany and Bel
GUM, which was so long one of the
principal seats of this manufacture, has
always been 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
apd place Of its origin remain unknown.
4 well-autbenticated fragment of the
brown ware bears the date of 1889; but
examples of rude, unglazed, white
ware, and of coarse, earthen body of
dark gray, smeared with lead glaze,
have been found in excavations, and
may be supposed to have been the pro-
auctions of a 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 YES
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
Fulham, to produce the like articles in
England. This was, however, a period
of remarkable activity among En-
glish potters. The picturesque, though
rude, puzzle-jugs and tygs had been the
product Of much ingenuitys but Shey
were disappearing before the beautiful
salt-glaze ware, much of which has.nev-
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 NUNS
berless localities all over Germany and
the low countries, where suitable clay
and natural aptitude existed. But there
are few districts to which peculiar an
terest attaches; these were seats OF
characteristic and often remarkable
original styles. Among the most notable
places was Siegburg, situated noe far
from Bonn, on a tributary OF the Rhine.
There were produced the tain cylindri,
cal cannettes in what was long known
as Cologne ware, and other articles OF q
like kind in a white body, often An
glazed. but richly embossed with olab
crate figures and ornaments in relief
Siegburg suffered severely during the
seventeenth century wars, and the poe
ters, despairing of carrying on their ine
dustry in peaceful security, emigratet
to other lands. All attempts to induc'
them to return were unSucceSSfula Au
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 tn
production of ware of the old type
These pieces found q ready sale. beinl
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
MENDlNG DAM

Dhaereeabse Work That sIay Ne Rendzsed
Pleasant.
There is a pleasure in daxainF and
mendin9 chat very few women appree
ciate. OF COURSE this does not apply to
mending yawning rents in the seat and
knees of boys trousers. which, mend
ed, will be ripped ont again withip
twenty-four hours, but the nice, artistic
needle-work that may make the old gar
ment '.maist as good as new"
There is no reason why it should be
done in the seving-fooue or a back
chamber usually seS eside for that pure
pose. It eau be prearranged and taken
to the library or the parlor and there
displayed in the midst of pleasant sur
roundings with no fatigue and q good
deal of enjoyment OF course. all good
managers go over the family linen every
week when it is fresh from the clothes
horse Missing buttons are replaced.
torn button-holes are repaired, with
Sips rents and ragged edges
The preliminary trimming and clip
ping where the patch must be applied
to mend Nith hunted up and put into
the work basket and every thing is
ready.
the ms and outs of darning. seem con-
ducive to pleasant thought and If there
is gentle rain pattertng againss the
window pane. and a cracking fire in
the CRATE, there are all the requisites
for no end of day dreams and castle
building. 1t is wonderfully soothing to
irritated nerves-and temper-which is
frequently the same thing.
If there is some one to read aloud
while the work is going on SO much
the better, for it helps wonderfully,
and the work is not so exacting that it
need absorb the entire attention Or,
If neighbor drops in. it is the time Of
all times for a social chat
The writer has very delightful recol-
lections of visits with certain gifted
member and her capacious mending
basket She lived in Western city.
and presided over a most delight ful
home. There was special invitation
to dinner. with the theater or opera
afterward But the day itself was fire.
quently sacred to mending and the
heaps of garments and hose were
brought into the guest cham er-a big,
CHEEKY room. with a sunny south win
dow, and the tongues kept pace with
| the needles Every thing was discussed
art books, politics and travel, for the
hostess was a woman OF great culture,
of wide reading, and of close observa-
ton.
| Those were days to remember al
ones lifetime. 1t is true that all women
are not like her; that her ability as 9
| thinker and a talker was above the
average, but the point is that she did
not save her bright observation and
opinion for the drawing-room or the
dinner-table, but kept them to brighter
| task that otherwise might have beer
dull
Rightly regarded. mending may b
made more or less pleasant and rest
full part ofo the regular weekly pro
gramme Chicago Inter Ocean.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
TRAPPING BEAVER.

TIE Strange Faculty Possessed BY the Lit
tie Animals
The animal, says well known trapper.
has the most acute sense of smell Of
any animal that exists In setting the
traps you must wait till low water, in
order to have the tide when it comes in
obliterate all traces of your presence.
When beaver is caught in a trap the
other beavers at once enable him to
male good his escape by seizing him by
the tail and hauling him away until
they release him. often leaving the
limb in the trap as an evidence Of the
struggle that ensued He caught q
beaver last winter on Puget island. and
says that it only had two toes on hind
foot the other three legs being ampu-
tated as close to the body as If the
limbs had never existed
There is one faculty the beaver po-
sesses that would be profitable and
interesting study for scientific men.
and that is the power of making objects
adhere to the bottom of a stream without
any apparent means of securing them.
The beaver lives mostly on wood. which
it cuts and deposits on the bottom,
where it remains contrary to the
natural laws which would In ordinary
face. How this is accomplished il il
difficult to decide. but it is nevertheless
a fact Beaver trapping pays well
where any considerable number can be
caught. the average price of the furs
being from s. so to s. per pound
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PACKING AN OVEN.

disposed of by interruptions dealers as
genuine Siegburg ware.
In the year 1914, it appears that the
Earl of Isenbourg, with commendable
sagacicy, made grants of land and gave
exemptions from taxaelon. with other
tempting privileges, to one Bartrain
Knodtgen, q potter of Siegburg, by way
of inducing him and his fellow-workers
to transfer their art from its old home
and to settle in this locality. The men
of Siegburg and of Raeren thus encour-
aged foclxed 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
extinguished, but has happily revived,
and it fourishes to-day in greater
volume than ever, the name OF
Knodtgen being still borne by many OF
those who arc associated with its.fort
ures
In the earlier days of which we have
spoken the stonewear of the Kannen-
bacherland had no special character of
its own sufficient to makeit easily dis
tinguishable from the productions OF
the Limbourg center from which it had
been imported. AS general rule, it
may be said that one seldom finds
original figure subjects, or delicate
friezes of 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 ernamentation
was generally impressed by small metal
seals. and these rosettes were then CON
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01

Ef 1waona Way 6.fa RIGHT WAY

also be seen thaS the same grain as
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
end are unsafe in many ways. besides
rotting out the planks so much quicker.
Now turn this same plank over, as
shown in Fig. 2, and it will be seen how
each close grain makes a little roof over
its fellow, and all liquids percolate
TIN ough 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. American Agricult-
uriSt
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
REDUCED TO FIGURES.
The Romance OF Year Summed Up BY
Mathematical Genius.

The ROInance OF = Year Summed Up by @
Mathematical Genius
There is an English literary man
who. at the end of each year. pene-
trates into the published fiction and ex-
tracts therefrom very often some ex-
ceedingly interesting figures The re-
suits OF his researches into last years
Action are entertaining OF the hero
ines portrayed in novels he finds S73
were described as blondes while 100
were brunettes OF the 500 heroines 4S7
were beautiful, 2T4 were married to the
men of their choice while so were un-
fortunate enough to be bound in we'd
lock to ahe wrong men. The heroines
of fiction, this literary statistician
claims, are greatly improving in health
and do not die as early as in previous
years, although consumption is still in
the lead among fstal maladies to which
they succumb Early marriages, how
ever are on che increase. The person
al charms Of the heroines included $50
Oppressive eyes" and 1872 'shell-Ike
cars" OF the eyes 543 had @ dreamy
look, $50 flashed fire while the RENAME
dee had no special attributes Eyes of
brown and blue are in the ascendant
There was found to be large increase
in the number of heroines who pos
sessed dimples; 500 were blessed with
sisters and $40 had brothers In forty
seven cases mothers figured as heroines.
with 112 children between them. OF
these seventy-one children were res
cned from watery graves Eighteen of
the husbands of these married hercines
were discovered to be bigamists, while
seven husbands had notes found in their
pockets exposing ''every thing" And
thus is the romance OF year reduced to
figures Metropolitan
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
African Anour<.

A plot for . new novel, with a gloss
OF novelty. illustrating the old-fangled
ways of an ancient race seen by Stanley
IN Africa: He was a young Yambuya
chief. stalwart proud and black; she was
a Yambuza maiden handsome, grace
full and swarthy He was brave in the
field. bold in the hunt and merry At the
feast; she was true-hearted and gentle
and could carol like q bird He wooed
her. but she was coy; he almost won
her, but she shrank from his EN- braces
He gave her flowers for her hair. charms
for her fingers and handkerchiefs for
hsr wardrobe; she required him to fetch
her the skin Of a tiger the jaw of a ser
pentAnd the head Of her rival The
next day she got them all and ere the
set of the sun they were welded They
lived in happiness ever afterward, he
proud of his prize. she vain of her
babies. Brooklyn Eagle
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
A sympathi.ins Emp.oye.

Mrs. De Fadd (who can not stand Che
odor Of turpentine)-I would have sent
for you to have done this cleaning Lass
week. but we have been having the out
side of our house painted and it made
us all sick.
Mrs. McSadd OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OF don't wonder. Thin colors is enough
to make any one sick.-N. Y. Weeklys
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
NEW STYLES I'M HATS.
A Number of the More Popular Shapes and
the Trimmings Used

A Number of the More Popular Shapes and
the Trimmings Used
'Capeline" is a term applied TO a
fashionable form of hat made in soft
felt, which can be Swisted into any
shape. A great many have beaver
edges and low black crowns, while
others are of perfectly plain felt A
silk cr.nkled crown with plush brim,
and others more unique in shape. have
the raised crowns quite at the back, the
brims standing out well in front, and
often made entirely of beaver, while
the crown remains of plain felt Some
untrimmed hats have the brims covered
with ostrich feathers. others again have
lust q narrow band of feathers at the
edge Of the brim. The ''Capeline" felt
hats age twisted into every Imaginable
shape and form, the newest trimming
being BILE tails, but far more general
is the ostrich feather, for wf13ch the de-
mand is SO great that the price. has con-
siderebly gone up-especially for the
Ssiliputian tips which are not only
placed around the crowns but border
the brims Cocks plumes trim many of
the new hats, and are accompanied by
boas OF the same feather and muffss
trimmed to match Cloth is universally
used for millinery purposes, plated for
crowns, which often show an applioued
bird on the center and fur or beaver
edges
The varieties of modes in which the
broad brims can be twisted are really
endless and distinctive class is of felt
with a crown of hatters' silk, which
means the same material as is used for
mems high hats In regard to the hats
with close brims, the Spanish element
prevails The Carmen" for exam
pie, in felt, has the all-round brim
turned up almost as high as the crown,
and visible beneath it two folds of soft
red silk like the handkerchiefs which
the matadors wear. The trimmings are
of velvet and three soft silk pompons
The so-called '.Matador" shape has the
brim stitched in four rows. or covered
with a network of chenille, with q
pointed crown. adorned with pompous
of silk or feathers The "Valrose" is
another Spanish hat with the brim not
SO close to the crown, which Is rounding
on top.
The fan-shaped bonnet, formed of or
gan-plaits in velvet or cloth. with jetted
borderings. are in favor, and SO is the
| new heart-shaped bonnet Leather
| trimmings are used and q great deal of
| jet One pretty device is . jetted owls
head. placed immediately over the GEN.
| ter OF the forehead, but as q general
| rule the trimmings are all msssed at the
back. on the crown of the head--N Y.
World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
Flow to Take or 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 dawn out one at a
time. 30 as not to alter the position Of
the tip of the shoe, and a fast nail, made
to exactly fit the countersink in the
shoe and to pass through the same hols
in the hoof. may - driven in its place,
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SOME USEFUL HINTS

The Rxoper Way of Laying Plank Walks
end Stahle Floors
If the reader will study the grain in
the end of0the planks in any walk, or as
represented in Figs. and 2, it will be
seen that in Che 6rst the grain forms
successive cupe OF cutters, which catch
and hold the rain water, which causes
the plank to decay quickly. 1t will
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
FIG. 9.

strap h, that holds the doubletree pin
points back instead of forward, and
thus enables Che doubletree to remain
attached to- the tongue whether the Tat
ter is in or out of place. To attach the
Songue e Gig 81 is inserted in the
throat Gig. y and the draw-bolt or
hammee dropped down. when all Is
snug and ready for business. Fig. is
cross section of the jaws at the
hammer holes showing how the wood
en- pieces are connected above and be-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01

Edith-To think that it should come
to thisl My husband turns out to be a
scamp, and 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.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
RHINELAND POTTERS.
Something of the Ware Formerly
Made Exclusively In Germany.
Long Established Potteries Broken Up By
the Seventeenth Century War-The
Condition Of the Business
at This Time.

Connoisseurs love-and many who
have no pretension to that title are ia
miliar, 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