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fire, old gold, emerald green and earth
yellow are left on the urns. Each is
made completely by one man; older
pottery is the product of several work
men-chemists, craft workers, artists.
For centuries the Chinese possessed
a secret process of making and deco
rating porcelain which they guarded SO
zealOusly that in time even they ceased
to excel in it. The most brilliant col
or made was the ruby red, and the
chief of these was called peach blow.
The latter was a wonderful red-"red
like crimson"-streaked and mottled
with yellow, blue, purple, gray OF
green. The combination was glorious;
people who have observed pieces of the
ancient ware in the museums of Eu-
rope say it is the nearest approach to
the colors of the sunset and the sea
achieved by man. For years the rare
specimens have been becoming extinct
the apprecia ton of them by connois-
seurs and collectors is increasing, and
the European manufacturers have re-
doubled their efforts to reproduce the
ancient art. All that was known was
that the coloring matter was some
form of oxide of copper and that to OBJ
tain the wonderful reds the porcelain
had to be fired and suddenly cooled.
At Burselm, in England, at last the
secret was discovered. Potters there
began to produce the ware not more
than a year ago. But other potters re-
main as unenlightened as ever, and
they have 1ocked to the exposition to
observe the pieces on display here, in
the hope of detecting some shred of the
process by examining the vases. They
are kept in glass cases near the west
end of the varied industries building,
and the attendant is kept busy pro-
nouncing their magic names. Sang de
Boeuf," Rouge Flambe,' Peach
Blow" 'tHaricot." One vase of porce-
lain pleases first the touch by the fine
ness and smoothness of the outside and
the red in which it is clothed burns it's
way into the brain and imagination. 1t
is deep, memorable color, and the at
tendant told me that the same people
come day after day to hold it and to
look upon it.
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mentatiOn, Of course, because no other
people pretend to rival the Japanese
in sense of decoration. But they have
attained neither the color nor the va
riety visibly in the exhibits of Rook-
wood, Grueby, Van Briggle or Teco
pottery. The Grueby ware is green,
like the grass and the forest. The
green is claimed to be the closest re-
production of the green of nature
from the light emerald on the under
side of leaf or on its stems to the
deep, restful color at the end of a for
est lane. The note is subdued, whether
1t be in green, yellow, gray or blue
The vases are massive and each one
shows the qualities of It's creator, for
1t came from his brain and his hand,
and each carries with it an atmos-
phere not to be found in manufactured
cup or turned timber. A single vase
is usually of fiat color covered with
dull glaze obtained by the firing
which decides, in the making of pot
terry, whether the piece is to be good
or bad. The perfect mold is stained
and emblazoned with the gorgeous coll
ors fire paints when it unites rightly
with clay, or it is perfect mold spoil
ed because some subtle force was
missing and the elements failed to
unite.
In Colorado Springs a clay was dis
covered some years ago which experts
said would make good pottery. The
artists set to work with it and aimed
to give it not only beautiful form,
texture and color, but, by virtue of the
new clay, to create a quality in the
ware not found except in the old Chi
nese pots. They have made vases in
dull yellows, browns, greens, blues,
pinks, grays and blacks. Flower, ami
NAL and human forms were used in
the decoration. They thought it bet
ter art to bring out a limited edition
of careful, wonderful design, making
each piece different in color and glaze,
than to seek and execute hastily a
new design for each piece So the
| pottery from Colorado Springs is not
all different, although there are few
duplicates on exhibition. Streakings Of
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SHOWS MARVFLS OF
ARTISANS SKILL
Japanese and Other Works of
Art Crowd the Palace of
Varied Industries
Globe Worlds Fair Bureau,

Ok LOUIS MO-
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 25.-Half a
million dollars is much money even for
an exposition to spend in one tempo
Fary building. 1t cost $65O,00O to erect
The palace of varied industries 1t is
one of the structures to receive the
bend which the broad cross avenue
makes in its effort to keep within see
ing distance of Festival hall, the focal
point. One side of the palace presents
long row Of grooved white columns
to the grand plaza, one looks over the
motley roofs Of the pike, another casts
shade on the flower beds in the plaza
Of Orleans, and the Ionic pillars of the
others are reflected in the ripping blue
water of the west canal. 1t is the cen
trail building of the exposition, the pur-
est and least fantastic in architecture,
the costliest of any of the main struc-
lures, the most crowded and the recep-
tacle Of the most valuable exhibits.
In the center of the north side of the
varied industries building is a low
dome, bounded by triangular towers 100
feet high. Beneath the dome is an en-
trance, and this is at the point of the
acute angle formed by the buildings
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Beneath the imposing arches with
which Germany has bordered it's space
is the exhibit of little Holland. The
space is rectangular and i'll adapted
for display, yet the Dutch have filled
it so artistically-with almost the deco
rative feeling of the Japanese-that
blue delft and white porcelain are a
sign and magnet for visitors in the
west section. Like homely little Hol-
land, the place is bright, domestic and
unstrained. Of course, blue delft ware
is the principal thing-the same which
the pilgrim fathers brought to Ameri
ca with them after their sojourn by
the Zuyder Zee-and the pictures in
white and blue of canals, cows and
general contentment are eagerly
bought both by descendants of the
Mayf1ower's company and those who
would like to be. But the most mar
velous ware in it's way in the whole
pottery section is the white, light por-
celain the Dutchmen at Rosenberg
have been manufacturing for the last
decade. In the first place it is milk
white, and so hard that pieces have
been dropped from the hand to the
floor without breaking. Then it seems
to have no weight whatever; the fin
gers grasp the precious thing tightly
weight than a soap bubble. If any
thing could be more beautiful than
spotless white the Dutch have found it
in the paint laid on the porcelain and
then glazed over. A new brown and a
new pink are the discoveries of the last
year and they are used in the painting
of some marvellous nasturtiums, per-
feet enough to pick, and a trailing de-
sign of autumn leaves.
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where the sand is of dazzling white
ness and the water shows every shade
of the opal, turquoise and sapphire.
Along the edge of the sea, and ex-
tending for several miles on both sides
Of Pago Pago harbor, runs a smooth
and level path, which, built up on the
wall of coral rock that rises a few
feet above the water. leads by gentle
curves around projecting promontories
into avenues of cocoanut trees and pic
turesque banana glades, where sleepy
villages browse under the rustic and
shade they afford, and in hearing of
the perpetual symphony Of the waves.
From this path the eye extends to
the encircling coral reef against which
the ponderous waves of the Pacific
burst in huge clouds of foam. The
heavenly blue Of the water inside the
reef forms a beautiful contrast with
the purplish indigo expanse without,
and the drowsy air is made droWsier
still by the incessant reverberant roar
of the distant breakers. This sound is
heard nowhere else in the voice of the
sea. 1t has no intervals, but resem-
bles the continuous passage of heav-
lily loaded railroad train, the hollow
semi-elastic structure Of the coral CIV
ing 1t a metallic ringing quality that
is as noticeable as it is difficult to de:
scribe.
If you will launch a boat at noon,
when the vertical sun lights up every
detail in the bottom of Tutuila harbor,
you may introduce yourself to
strange and lovely spectacle. You
float over fairy grottoes, looking into
which through translucent fathoms,
you see coral in every tint of blue,
green, pink and creamy brown, the
recollection of which will give you
ever after a distaste for its bleached
and CHASTITY skeletons in cabinets or on
bric-a-brac tables. Through its finest
of branches floats armies of little fish
the color of topazes and rubies, and
of quaint or monstrous forms; enor-
nous purple and crimson star fish
sprawl upon snow white sands, while
around them the hideous (but edibly
delicious) sea slug-the famous
Beche-le- -mer-glides in writhing pro-
gression,, and sea urchins expand and
contract their iridescent spines. Now
and then you drift over spaces dusky
with depth, through which enormous
conger- -eels pass with wavering fms,
and green turtles flap like strange
unwieldy birds; while rainbow-hue
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have looked upon her as one not well
balanced mentally, may now take
themselves into the henceforth. The
Kansas reformer seems to be wiser
than she looks and shrewder than her
conduct in the heretofore seemed to in
dicate. 1t pays sometimes to be a large,
robust freak, If one may dodge the
police and keep out of JAIL and, as a
rule, this is quite easy. Men and women
who evangelize in a sensational way
generally get along all right. Dowie
built Zion. Despite the fact that his
creditors pursued him with WritS and
all sorts of upheavals beset him, even
in the thickest of his misfortunes he
was able to ride around the country in
q special car. Again, whole lot of
wealth has been accumulated out in
Utah by the men who are at the head
of a movement which crystallized in
that part of the West. If a man or a
woman can successfully pose for a
while as an ite or an ist of some strik-
ing kind, the thing may be turned to
good account and the day will roll
around when the shekels will come in
almost unasked. Emma Goldman is
now devoting her time and attention to
a discussion of 'emancipated woman
and there is dignity, elegance and force
about what she has to say, nothing that
is in the least inf1ammatory or calcu-
lated to stir up strife Yet she has
been pursued by the police and accused
of being a sort of high priestess of an
archy. Who can say that she may not
in a short while be turning all the free
advertisement she has received to good
account? For one, would not venture
the saying that she would not be doing
this identical thing. Why shouldn't
she? She is smart, studious and re-
sourceful in a way, and, having been
foolishIy exploited, just as Carrie Ma
ton was, by those who should have
permitted her to run her course un-
pestered, she may reap a harvest in the
finish. Carrie Nations latest move
should teach us to beware of the &C.
centric man or woman."-New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
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American Pottery

In close and not altogether disad-
vantageous contrast to Japanese vases
is the section for American pottery in
the varied industries building. The
Oriental vases are ahead in orna-
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dents concerning olden days on the
island. His father, he said, had been
a famous cannibal, and although he
denied that he himself had eyer eaten
the flesh of his kind, yet in the course
of his descriptions he fingered my arms
and pinched my legs and poked me
In the ribs in a manner which seemed
to be not altogether platonic. Native
flesh, he stated, was much superior to
that of white people, who tasted of
the salt they ate with almost every
thing; while a tough old sailor was
practically useless and waste of raw
material from the tobacco and grog
with which life before the mast has
a tendency to flavor the system.
Interrogated as to choice cuts, he
gave the palm to the head-the brains
and eyes being particularly desirable,
and the cheeks, especially in young
subjects, submitting to taking very
kindly indeed. The upper part of the
arm, too and the calf and other por-
tions of the leg were not, however. to
be despfsed; but, said this epicure, as
for the rest of the body, throw him
away" In the afternoon my interest
ing friend called to see me and in
N1IGu lie 10 go INTO QenS6 cOcOanuC
forest, where he would show me plen-
ty of parrots, but after the enthusi-
asm Of his morning description, we
thought it prudent to decline, especi-z
ally as he carried an ancient and wick
ed looking head knife.
A quaint feature of Samoan life is
kava drinking. This beverage is made
from the root of the angona shrub,
which, being pounded and mixed with
water ferments and forms a mild in
toxicant. 1t tastes like soap suds and
ginger ale mixed, and the relish for it
has to be acquired. 1t is drunk with
solemnities at meetings with chiefs
and at conferences generally, it's alb
sorption being governed by strict rules
of etiquette. 1t must not be slipped, but
swallowed at gulp, as Western COW
boy assimilates his whisky; and it is
fine touch, and an instance of savoir
faire after drinking, to skitter the CO.
coanut shell cup in which the bever-
age is served along the ground to the
presiding genius at the supplying bowl.
Delicious is life at Tutuila, Americas
dominion in southern seas, dreamy as
the lotus that typifes it, not to be un-
derstood by residents in colder climes,
but delicious even to the after taste
to him who has experienced it.
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"HE earliest impression one gets
of Tutuila is that it is a land Of

"HE earliest impression one gets
of Tutuila is that it is land of
contentment and joyous hearts.
Before the steamer which brings him
has cast anchor, the air is ringing with
the songs of canoe girls as they row
or paddle to welcome the newcomers.
Later, when wandering among the
strange surroundings of semi savage
life, the impression is confirmed by the
sound of happy voices swelling in cho-
rus from this native hut and that. Sa-
moan melodies are probably as old as
the life of the people, for like the Ma
oris, almost all their knowledge of the
past has been preserved in song and
handed down with music.
The "meke- -mekes," or descriptive
songs and dances of the people are par
ticularly impressive, such, for instance,
as a party of warriors giving the
'wave meke," describing the move
ments of the sea on the reefs.
The hands sweep the ground slowly,
with waving motions of the fingers to
initiate the ripples crisping in the
wind. Then the bodies sway In unison
to show the roll of the ocean; other
movements of rising and falling fig.
ures show the leap and fall of the
breakers. Action then grows more vio-
lent and confused, the performers rise
from their knees to their feet; finally
with spring and clapping of hands
the wave is described overlapping the
barrier of the coral reef, and as it falls
Into the still lagoon the dancers drop
to the ground in unison with a long cry
and softly diminishing cadence-then
the "meke" is over
An island like Tutuila, withsits CO.
pieus rainfall, is naturally full of
water courses, and the mountainous
character of the land gives opportu-
atty for numerous waterfalls, which
Ore among the most charming features
Of the place. Nothing can be more
Beautiful than these silvery cascades,
Oct, as they are, in dense Jungle of
covering trees, variegated shrubs and
@aettled crotons, or in ravines where
enormous orange colored spiders swing
% webs that glitter like diamonds
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Method in Madness

Speaking of this business of being
freakish, it pays" said an observant
man, "and I want no stronger evidence
Of the fact than the report recently put
out that Carrie Nation is to get $500 a
week in a dime museum. Now what
do you think of that for high? Per-
sons who have been scowling and scoff-
ing at the saloon smasher, and who
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your breath is taken away by it's au-
dac1ty and beauty. There are several
of these Cloisonne vases, each made of
gold and the prices marked therefor
in four figures. The glass cases con-
tain the last word in the wares, which
are shown en- masse on the shelves
along the various aisles. The display
of Japanese art in stuffs and metals is
not duplicated anywhere, the attend
ants Say-nOt even in Japan.
Although most of the costly pieces
are behind glass, much of the japanese
display, worth thousands of dollars, is
held on low shelves, in reach of the
hands of a child. Two Satsuma veses,
one painted in red and brown and
glazed safely over centuries ago, and
the other presenting the dotted brill
lance of a street procession in Tokyo,
are placed aggravatingly barely above
the fingers of the talleSt man. A tea
set of pallid white, very old, is touched
with a wilderness of cherry blossoms
below faint blue mountains so deli
cately that artists from English fac
tories may be seen vainly making
sketches, and tired women, who know
not Satsuma from Rookwood pottery,
take seats opposite and look at it for a
long time. At the end Of one of the
aisles sit two exhibitions of celestial
humor-fat, smiling, small Geisha
girls, their eyes forced into still closer
Sits, but their red, smiling lips and
their heads nodding mechanically.
Children grow tired of the silly make
believe American nodding dolls, but the
ingenious japanese jokes seem to
make grown people happy, for they
stop in numbers before them.
The display of screens includes some
pictures of swans sewn in white silk,
which look like the real animals be-
cause silk reproduces the sheen of
the plumage almost exactly.
American Pottery
In close and not altogether disad-
vantageous contrast to Japanese vases
is the section for American pottery in
| the varied industries building. The
Oriental vases are ahead in nrna-
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A Summer Isle OF the Southern Seas

this race. Mr.. Rawei is on his
way to the worlds fair. He
spent some months in the South
Sea islands on his way hither.
and the following article. with
with the pictures, is the result of
his observations, Mr.. Rawei is
at present residing temporarily
in st. Paul, being detained by
the illness of Mrs. Rawei, who
accompanies him.
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The Rev. WherahiRo Rawei is
a native Maori, an educated man
of evident refinement and a mis-
sionary of the Baptist church.
He has been stationed among his
own people, up-country, in New
Zealand. He comes of a race
common to the South Seas and
which shows its best types in the
Maori, the Samoan and the Ha-
waiian. The Tutuilans belong to
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peculiar ground plan, shaped like an
open book to meet the requirements of
the general plan. An acute angle is an
impossible place for an imposing en-
trance as long as it remains acute, but
the architects have managed cleverIy
to make the south entrance to varied
industries by far the most imposing on
the grounds. A magnificent circular
colonnade of white columns entirely
masks the sharpness of the angle and
apparently bids the stranger to enter
The building is pure white and entirely
surrounded by colonnade of regular,
Ionic columns, which give both dignity
and variety to the lines in the huge
structure. Aside from the main en-
trance the sides are pierced by dozens
of smaller doors which you may enter
as you walk beneath the side colon
nades. The roof is of glass and the
great central court furnishes more light
and air to the inhabitants Of the in
terror. The roof springs over a wide
passageway which leads down the CEN
ter of the building and through it from
north to south.
In Japan's Section
The japanese section stretches from
west to south entrance, and the aisles
are SO many and SO intricate that
sometimes people are seriously lost
among them.
AS an exhibit case the Japanese
have imported Buddhist temple and
put glass into the sides. to show the
display. The most remarkable thing
in it is group. of shambling, loose
limbed, wrfnkled elephants, cut from a
single tusk of ivory SO perfectly that
the swaying motion in the trunks and
limbs of the huge beasts as they hurry
down to water is felt instantly. The
piece is mounted on stand of ebony
carved elaborately. Near it is a Cloi-
some vase of pure gold, colored SC
daringly in orange and crimson that
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shells incrust everything in wanton
profusion, and add to the beauties
of fish, coral and swaying weed, to
produce a scene of exquisite lowell
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ness which fingers in ones recollec-
ton like an enchanted dream.
When at Tutuila we met native
who related many interesting Incl
The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-05
INCOMES AND COST OF LIVING.

Mr. Carroll d. Wright's report ou
the cost of living since 1896 comes a.
an opportune moment if it is INTENDED
to serve not only as en- Official 1ocu.
nlent but as a contribution TO the lii
arature Of the campaign, but the aoT-
binary wayfarer who has rent. fuei
and meat bills to pay will not attach
very much importance to II.
Averages are deceptive sometime
For example, If A earns $40 a week
and 3 Is out of employment their ay-
erage earnings are $40 week, but
tae demonstration does B no good
when the bill collector comes round,
alr. Wrlgla's flEares show. or par
port to show, that the living cost o.
the average worl,ingnsn's family has
Increased les per cent during this
period and the average income 1Gc
per cent. Thus It appears that wages
have kept a tile In advance Of COM
modities and the cry thst the work
ingrnan is loser by the prosperity We
have had is false.
There has been no calamity CRY"
calling for 4 reply thus far aud there
Is no need fer one. There has been a
period OF depression. but that woul5
have cone under any administration
Democratic o. Republican. II Is hardly
conceivable that any political party
though IN full power at Washington
will ever be able 20 prevent the hish
tide Of speculation or the eeh thai
follows. though commercial and in
dustrlaI evolution may solve the prob
lem in tine. Let US assume, there
fore that the tabor commissioner
figures are purely Official
The nan whose iacoms IS larger
now than formerly. compared With his
expenses, will ineorse them and the
one whose legitimate living expenses
nave increased cat q proportion Z
mis- earnings will not. That is th'
long and short Of Y.
E,r. Wright is al expert calculator
Of averages and can furnish a com
for,ing table Of statistics 10 order II
Is a never falling fountain of stats
ucal good cheer. bnt lis figures VII
convince only those who are prepared
/ BIZ Individual Giro instances Tor col
viction.-Minnespoiis Times.