The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-20

Only through centuries of careful
work with hoe and pillow has it been
possible to create the garden that ex-
tends from Verona where the Adige
river strikes the Venetian plain, to the
impossible mountain valleys many
miles away where the absolute absence
of soil for6ids any attempt at farm
ing.
The fields en- either side of the riv-
er are broken into small lots, thou
sands being as small as a city. block;
| many are much smaller in order to
completely fill a segment of rocll-lOck-
ed earth. On these plots, that have
been ieveled with infinite care, the
farmer of the Trentino grows grain,
garden truck, grapes, and often other
fruit. The grapeylnes are kept pruned
/ to about four and half feet high for
the main stem, which grows to the
thickness of mans wrist, while the
tendrils are trained onto sticks, or in
many cases to trees that are kept
pruned down to thick stump six or
seven feet high with small branches
half an inch in thickness protruding
in sheaf from the stump.
Ancient Consiglo Castle.
During the middle ages Trent was
| typical fortified city crowned with an
old feudal castle. Built in 1890, this
stronghold, Castle COnsiglio, has come
| down TO the present generation in a
/ fx,I e,ta ,r
the Austrians held Trent the place
was used as kind of town Jail.
| Ceasare BattiSti, native of Trent, an
! ardent pro-ltallan who had the nerve
| to enlist in the Italian army against
| Austria, was shot in the courtyard OF
the castle, and is today the town and
the Italian nations martyr.
Stored in the wonderful old castle
were $4,000 captured Austrian rifles
| Piles of gas masks, trench tools, muir
derouS trench knives and other odds
and ends of fighting mans equipment
were stacked in several Of the large
| rooms.
! In one of the main corridors was a
! typical Austrian torture machine. It
consisted of two rings, the first about
nine inches from the floor and the
second about four feet above ground,
The practice was to fasten a prison
er'S ankles TO the lower ring by means
of piece of cope, while the unfOrtu-
nate mans hands were tied behind
him through the upper ring. This
threw all the prisoners weight on the
wrists and ankles. Usually a man
tainted after several hours.
Inspection Of the old Consiglio cas-
tie revealed how the war machine of
the sixteenth century-for the castle
itself was a fort-had been made to
serve the purposes of the twentieth
century war lords.
In the highest room of the place, a
circular chamber of the tallest tower,
was all that remained of a German
wireless outfit. The operators bad
made themselves comfortable in the
damp old place by putting storm win
dowS in the loOpholeS that were orig
inally cut for the convenience of cross
bow men.
To get to the tower one has to pass
through a freseoed courtyard where
men were hanged centuries. ago. About
five or six feet from the old gallows,
a double affair runs sheltered gal
lery from which the dukes and their
courtiers, sheltered from the weather,
could witness the execution.
Some of the public squares in the
city of Trent have fine old buildings
in Italian architecture, decorated from
ground to roof with gorgeous frescoes,
the coloring of which is still vivid.