The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-05

slits, into which stone is placed; it is then planted banked and watered
 for three years, and as it grows, is
 pruned into four upright branches. Be-
 tween the tenth and fifteenth year the
 bush begins to yield little, but is not
 profitable before it's fortieth year. and
 at a century is in it's prime. An olive
 tree however classical, is not pretty.
 Its pollarded trunk and ashy leaves re- mind one of a dilapidated weeping will low, affording neither shade, shelter,
 color nor even a picturesque feature in
 the landscape. The best soils for olive growing are indicated by indigenous
 scrub of ''oleastes'' (wild olives), on
 which cuttings are grafted and produce
 the finest crops. The Spaniards usual
 ly plant corn in their olive grounds and raise vegetables between the trees. Mo- vember 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 Fclimb up the trees ard 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 for quantity rather than quality, dump all together into a
 great vat, and no double the offensive
 smell and flavor of most Spanish oil is
 due to decayed and wormy fruit, There
 are few modern presses in Andalucia The ordinary primative contrivance is l a circular hollowed stone, over which
 another stone is moved by a mule Tine l crushed mass is then shoveled by bare
 footed men standing in the midst, on
 to round mats, made of esparto, and
 taken to the press, The latter is fore
 ed down by a very long an dheavy
 beam, made of half dozen pine trees, | like ships bowsprit, over which, in
 order to 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 it flows out, passes into
 rude tank below. The residum looks 1 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 wa
 ter and is skinned off, into the great earthen jars called tinajas. Later it
 is removed to much larger amphorae, holding from eight hundred to thou
 sand gallons each. By this primitive
 process a 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 grease, or to burn in lamps. I must confess that after seeing it made-noting the wriggling worms and rotten fruit and bare-footed men tramping around in it, my long in dulged appetite for salad oil has died sudden death. The Spanish work for the oil is aceite, and the Arabs, who are equally addicted to it's use, call it azzait. After the olives have been pickled a few days in brine made of water, salt, thyme. bay-laurel and gar lie, the peculiar green color comes out. Without the brine they would soon put rify, as the berry throws out strong mold San Esteban, like other olive farms, is little village by itself, the several hundred laborers living in matched cottages behind the masters villa. Each head of a family is allow ed a tiny bit of garden and rations of bread, garlic, salt, oil, vinegar, and capsicums, which they make into crumb pancakes and the beloved gas pacho, or oil-soup.
 Returning to Seville in the afternoon we improved the last half hour of day light by 8 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 scaffod, where on thousands suffered, are tossed about in the grass, which so well fertilized | grows here with wonderful luxuriance | Historian Bossuet, in describing "The holy severity of the Church of Rome, ? i says that 34.601 persons were burned 1 alive in Spain between the years 14S1 | and 1700 besides imprisoning and send 1 ing to the galleys many thousands of others. and in every case confscating | all their property and lcaving 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 those scenes of hor- TOT. On this green and quiet plain what tragedies have been enacted when blooming youth and hoary age, manhood and womanhood in the flow CT of life, husbands and wives, fathers and daughters, perished together. At 6 o'clock in the morning of an execu- tion day, all the bells in Seville's hum dred churches began to toll, and inn a procession moved from the dismal fortress of the inquisition. 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 addition who ceaselessly exhorted the heretic to abjure his errors. Those who were admitted to penance wore black gowns; while the martyrs were envel- oped in loose sacks of yellow cloth the san benito (without blessing), their heads surmounted by conical caps of sack and cap painted to represent flames and devils dancing in them. Next came the magistrates of the city the judges of the court the ec- clesiastical orders and the nobles of the land on horse back. These were fol- lowed by the members of the dread tri- bunal. and the fiscal bearing a stand-