The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-04-12

cloth. Address as above
The trees are planted N straight rows;
airy, the end is opened into four Sits, into
which a stone is placed, it is then planted,
banked and watered for three years, and
as it grows is pruned into four upright
branches. Between the tenth and fifteenth
year the bush Gt is not yet tree) begins
to yield a little, but is not profitable be-
fore its fortieth year, and at a century is
at it's prime. An olive tree however clas-
steal, is not pretty. Its pollarded trunk
and ashy leaves remind one of a dilapi-
dated weeping willow, affordng neither
shade, shelter, color, or even pictur-
esque feature in the landscape. The best
soils for olive growing are indicated by in
digenous scrub of ''oleastes, "(wild olives),
on which cuttings are grated and produce
the finest crops. The Spaniards usually
plant corn in their 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, CLOS
sy purple. Peasants climb up the trees
and beat off the fruit, while children pick
them up and women drive the lad en- don
keys or carts to mill. The careless Span
iards do not trouble themselves to pick
aud sort the olives; but looking to guam
tity rather than quality, dump all to-
gether into a great vat; and no doubt the
offensive smell and flavor of most Span
ish Oil is due to decayed and wormy fruit.
There are few modern presses in Andalu-
STA. The ordinary primitive contrivance
is circular followed stone, over which
another stone is moved by mule. The
crushed mass is then shovelled, by bare
footed men standing in the midst, on to
round mats, made of esparto, and taken
to the press. The latter is forced down
by a very long and heavy beam, made of
half dozen pine trees, like ships bow
spirit, over which, i'll order to resist the
strain, a heavy tower of masonry is built.
A number of mats OF the crushed mass
moistened with hot water, to release the
+ oil. The liquor, as it flows out, passes
into a rude tank below. The resdium
looks Ike 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 it is
removed to a much larger amp hora, hold
ing from eight hundred to a thousand
gallons each BY this primitive process a
i good deal of oil is wasted, and the very
best of it is strong and odorous, by no
means equal to the finer product of Lucca.
The second class oils are exported for
soap greese, or to burn in lamps. ! must
confess that after seeing it made-noting
the wriggling worms and rotten fruit and
bare-footed men tramping around in it,
my long INDUCED appetite for salad oil
| word for oil is aceite, and the Arabs, who
are equally addicted TO its use, call it az
zait After the olives have been picked
few days in brine, made of water, salt,
thyme, bay laurel and garlic, the peculiar
green color comes out. Without the
brine they would soon purify, as the
Esteban, like other olive farms, is little
village by itself the several hundred labor
ers living in thatched cottages behind the
MASTER villa. Each head of a family is
allowed tiny bit of garden and rations
of bread, garlic, salt, oil, vinegar and
capsicums, which they make into crumb
pancakes and the beloved gazpacho, OF
/ oil soup.
| Returning to Seville in the afternoon
we improved the last half hour of day
light by look at the old Quemadero on the
walls, where the autos de fe of the To-
QUESTION took place. The bricks of the
long used scaffold, whereon thousands
suffered, are tossed about in the grass,
| WulCu, 81 well AcIClllLCu3 SIOWS uClO Will
wonderful luxuriance. Historian Bossuet,
in describing "The holy severity of the
Church of Rome" says that "a ,601 per-
sons were burned alive in Spain between
the years 1881 and 100, besides imprison-
ing and sending to the galleys many
thousands of others, and in every case
conhscating all their property and leaving
their families destitute. These autos de
fe were always made solemn function,
attended by the royal family and the
principal grandees of their 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 these scenes of horror. On