The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-22

olive grounds and raise vegetables between
the trees. November and December are
the harvest months, and then the berry Is
not the pale green color we are accustomed
to see. but dark, glossy purple. peasants
climb up the trees and beat off the fruit,
while children pick them up and women
drive the laden donkeys or carts TO mill.
The careless Spaniards do not trouble
themselves to pick and sort the olives. but,
looking 10 quantity rather than quality,
dump all together into a great vat. ana
no doubt the offensive smell and flavor OF
most Spanish oil is due TO decayed and
wormy fruit There are. few modern
presses in Andalusia. The ordinary primi-
tive continuance is a circular followed
stone over which another stone is moved
by a mule The crushed mass is then
shoveled by barefooted men standing In
the midst on to round mats made of es-
parto and taken 10 the press. The latter
is forced down by a very long and heavy
beam made of half dozen pine trees, ike
a ships bowsprit, over which. in order 10
resist the strain, heavy tower OF masonry
is built. A number of mats of the crushed
mass are placed at once under the screw
and moistened with hot water to release
the oil. The liquor as 1T flows out passes
into rude tank below. The residuum
looks like a damson cheese and is used for
fuel and for fattening pigs. In the tank
the oil soon rises to the top OF the water
and is SKINNED off into the great earthen
jars called tinajas. Later IL is removed
TO much larger amphorae holding from 500
to 1000 gallons each. BY this primitive
process a good deal of oil is wasted, ana
the very best of il is strong and odorous,
by means equal to the finer product OF
Lucca. The second-class oils are exported
for soap grease or to burn in lamps.
must confess that after seeing Ii made
noting the wriggling worms and rotten
fruit and barefooted men tramping around
in Tiny long-indulged appetite for salad
oil has died sudden death. The Spanish
word for the oil is ace!te. and the Arabs,
who are equally addicted TO its use, call IL
azzait After the olives have been picked
a few days I'm brine made of water, salt,
thyme, bay laurel and garlic the peculiar
green color comes out. Without the brine
they would soon putrefy, as the berry
throws out a strong mold. San Esteban,
like other olive farms, is little village
by itself. the several hundred laborers liv-
ter's villa Each head of a family is al
lowed tiny bit of garden and rations OF
bread, garlic, salt, oil. vinegar and capsi-
Gums, which they make into crumb pan
cakes and the beloved gazpacho or oil
soup.
RELICS OF THE INQUISITION.
Returning to Seville in the afternoon.
we improved the last half-hour of day
light by look at the old Quemadero, on
the plain of San Sebastian, outside the
city walls, where the autos de fe Of the
Inquisition took place. The bricks of the
long-used scaffold, wheron thousands suf-
fered, are tossed about in the grass, which,
so well fortified, grows here with wonder
full luxuriance Historian Boussuet, in de-
scribing 1.-THE holy severity Of the Church
of Rome" says that 34.601 persons were
burned alive in Spain, between the years
| 1881 and 1700 besides imprisoning and send
| ing to the galleys many thousands of
others; and in every case confiscating all
their property and leaving their families
destitute. These autos de fe were always
made a solemn function. attended by the
royal family and the principal grandees OF
the court, sitting on elevated seats, as at
| circus, while the vista was closed by
vast crowds of citizens who. nurtured on
the bull fight, delighted in those scenes of
horror. On this green and quiet plain
what tragedies have been enacted-when
blooming youth and hoary age, manhood
and womanhood in the flower of life. hus-
bands and wives, fathers and daughters
persisted together. At O'Clock in the
| morning of an execution day. all the bells
in Sevilles hundred churches began TO toll,
and Immediately a procession moved from
the dismal fortress OF the Inqusition.
First came body of troops, then the con-
| demned, each attended by two familiars
of the holy Office; and those who were to
| suffer at the stake, by two friars in addi-
| ton, who ceaselessly exhorted the
hereto to abjure his errors. Those
who were admitted to penance
| wore black gowns; while the mar
| tyrs were enveloped in loose sacks OF yell
low cloth, the san benito without bless
| ing), their heads surmounted by conical
| caps of pasteboard. both sack and cap
| painted to represent flames and devils
dancing in them. Next came the magis-
trates of the city. the judges of the court.
the ecclesiastical orders and the mobiles of
| the land on horseback. These were fol-
| lowed by the members of the dread tri-
| bunal and the fiscal, bearing a standard
| Of crimson damask, on which were dis
played the arms of the Inqusition of its
| founders, Sixtus V and Ferdinand, the
| Catholic. Then came a numerous train of
| familiars, well mounted; among them
many gentry, who were proud TO act as
| body-guard of the holy office. The in
| quisitors took their places, the condemned
| were conducted to the scaffold. the King
| and Queen settled themselves comfortably
! i'm the royal gallery. surrounded by bril-
liant company, and the lengthy sermon on
| the beauties of the faith was preached
| by the bishop. after which the grand in
| guisitor administered solemn oath TO all
| present to maintain the purity of the faith
| and TO give information against any one
| who should depart from IL. Then all eyes
| turned greedily upon the victims, who
| stood with ropes around their necks. ready
| to furnish a climax to the show. Many Of
| them had been immured for months in
| the dungeons of the Inquisition and their
| haggard faces, emaciated forms and often
4 distorted limbs told a terrible story Of
| past sufferings. The process against them
was read, and the grand inquisitor deiiv-