Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-10-11

They Were SolG!y buiit in the various
styles which cha,actcrix,. many nf the
Tess modern buildings III the cites. sons
were constructed plainly If hrirh some
Of stone Nhiic others were made IN
what is called "FachNcrk." In the
the walls are bull; of brick but br:ict;i
with strong wooden tinbriS. i,i;t,,.
horizontally. Ter! cEdiculariy. ANA ~
liqucly. and ali showing At tlic suri;.r.,
flush with the brick. I'm uir style ri
FIchwtik the timbrl.i project about
half AN inch from th,. bricks, which at.
umDurii.l and covered with Il mortar ~
cement that fills The space even villa
the outer face of the timber. other
buildings we've covered. even on the
sides with the ''Zit2eiSttinr' which
formed the roofs OF all. These ziesci-
steinc are essentially bricks of peculiar
form. very thin,-often little more than
half an inch in thickness. Will,
straight in longitudinal section. they
are made in Il scalop or wave in the
cross So ton. The frames Of the roofs
of buildings are not boarded up closely
as are ours. but are Il very open Hattie.
often employing merely a system OF
inch-and- a half wooden strips. tiXei
with hook-likr projection on the
under side. above the middle. This
hook" is merely hung over the wooden
strips of the roof-lattice. and the brick
"shingle" is laid.
There were solid circular towers of
masonry from which great four-wingcd
windmills rose into the air. Some were
used for grinding grain. some for pump
ing water. In calling the attention OF
II German to the matter | mentioned
the four blade system as old-faShioncl.
and spoke of the continuous series of
blades ON our Windmills at home. Hc
was a man of considerable Information
IN purely German matters. He insisted
that the four-blade system was better.
1T is Just the same principle. he
maintained. applies in the case of
the screw of an ocean steamer. They
tllrd Il larger number OF blades there
and found that they could not get 50
good results. W., use on our WindmllS
the four long blades. which give
powerful plrcli.i:i,', and 1t works
better"
ON through Tie country we sped. pas;
great field, "f Augai-b.eiS. which
stretched away into the distance, Hat
and li.Vti as Il btrn-i1oof.
After Il while the. vast level plain
changed into Il gently rolling country.
The large inatkc; gardens and truck
farms We're left behind. and we Ioun!
ourselves surrounded by broad hay
and Gr:tin-tirldS.
Nov, for Il curiousity, ] saw wooden
barn. II stood off in Il field at quite Il
cist:nr,.-too far to allow an oath that
it WAS covered with cedar shingles: bat
t crrtniily looked like il from that
distance. 1t had the general appear
anCe of Il wcll-to-d, American farmers
barn. kept in good repair and we'll
filed.
Every few minutes we passed group
cf men. women. and youth trulginS off
To the fell with rake and pitchfo,k. At
one place We passed little process
ion OF perhaps a dozen women bound
for the field. some of them with feet
clad only in leather shoes. In one
field | saw Il woman working alone.
She was pitching green grass onto Il
hay cart The cart was nearly full.
On the outskirts of a village | saw
threshrg machine in operation.
Several men were at work about the
machine. On the load We're two or
three women. at work with pitchforks.
In farming villages between Han
mover and Hildesheim I noticed narrow
driveways paved with stone and bor-
dered by narrow brick walks. The
yards, fenced off by well-maintained
walls of brick. were generally vegeta-
BILE or flower-gardens.
In one of the smallest villages we saw
an excellent. apparently new, brick
schoOlhouse.
We noticed loaded farm-wagons
drawn by oxen, whose harness included
a pad placed at the base of the horns
across the forehead. and so arranged
az to receive a large portion Of the
strain Of the load, and reduce the pres
sure against the breast and q fore
shoulder. a.. i-Lt -'s7i o. FFi'@
Many fields had been harvested. re-