The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-09-20

da, but not in Mexico.
Hieronymus Carbon, a monk,
credited with having been the first {
introduce 1t fIom Peru into Spair
while from Spain 1t WAS carried int
, Italy, and gradually spread in,o othe
parts Of continental Europe.
In 1886 potatoes were brought frOl
Virginia and North Carolina to Ire
land by the colonists sent out by 81
Walter Raleigh, and were first cult
vated ON Raleigh's estate near Cork.
The Irish soon developed a specis
fondness for the es2ulent vegetabl
and made 1t staple article of diet
so much so that it is everywher
known as the Irish potato.
Some authorities state that it wa
brought from Santa Fe, in New Mexi
GO, to England, by John Hawkins |,
1862; hut others claim, and apparent
ly with good reason, that this was no
the common potato, but the sweet po
tato, and there is no evidence that /
was known to any of the aborigines o
the North American continent, it !
further believed that it's occurrence il
Virginia and Carolina was due to al
earlier introduction by the Spaniards
In work published In 1897, enti
tied "Girard's HeI bal, " the potato il
pictured In way to show that ther,
can be no mistake concerning i'll
Identity, and is described as follows
under the name of "Batata Virgin
lana, sur Virginianorum, vel Pop.
pies" (potatoes of Virginia.:
"phe root is thioke, fat and tuber,
Gus, not much differing either In
shape, color or taste from the com.
mon potatoes (or sweet potatoes) ,
saving from the rootes hereof are moi
80 great nor long; some of them as
round as ball, some oval or egge-
fashion, some longer and others short.
er which knobbie rootes are fasten.
ed into the stalk with TN infinite
number of threddie stl inRs. 1t grow
eth naturally In America, where II
was first discovered, as reported by
Q. Clusius, since which time have
received rootes hereof from Virginia,
otherwise called Norembega, which
grow and prosper in my garden as in
their own native countrie."
But though the potato was a native
Of America and had been cultivated
to some extent In the southern states,
1t was unknown in New England un.
til the early part of the eighteenth
century, when it was introduced from
Ireland, where it had already become
one of the staple articles of diet.
In the year IT'S company OF
about 100 families from then north OF
ireland came to New England, and
after wandering for several months In
search of a home, the larger part OF
the company located in the southern
part OF New Hampshire, at a place
which they called Londonderry, after
the principal city in the country they
had left.
They we're known as Scotch Irish,
because they and their ancestors, who
came from the adjoining portions of
Scotland, had lived in Ireland for 100
years or more. But they we're of
nearly pure Scotch blood, having
mixed but little with their Irish
neighbors, with whom, indeed, they
we're on anything but good terms.
Finding themselves prosecuted by
their heighbors and our Of favor with
tho 70 lowers of the Church of Eng
land, which was then the state relig.
ion, they, like the Puritans 100 years
earlier, sought "fredom to worship
God" in home beyond the sea. With
them they brought the potato as
part Of the legacy from Ireland.
The story is told that some of them,
in their wanderings, made their home
for few months in neighboring
township in Massachusetts.
gin the spring they planted their gar
dens with potatoes, as they had been
accustomed to do IN their mother
country; but before the time for haI.
vesting them had come they had join.
ed their friends in Londonderry, leav-
ing the potatoes to the fostering care
Of their Puritan neighbors.
When the autumn came and the
stalks and leaves had withered, the
Puritan seeing nothing which looked
as though it could by any possibility
be eaten, save the little round seed
balls that hung from the stalks, and
apparently not having learned that
the best things of life often lie below
the surface, carefully harvested the
crop Of potato balls, and strove by all
the various methods Of cooking with
which they we're acquainted to make
them edible, hut all to no avail.
"And so," says one, "they gave 1t
up that those Scotoh-IIish had unac-
countable tastes. "-Globe- Democrat.
Dedication Ceremony Was Impressive.
The dedication ceremony perfOrmed