i8o AUTOBIOGRAPHY 



properly started and himself furnished the money 

 to build it. But both the barn and the foreign 

 professor were, failures. 



The barn was a large, expensive structure, two 

 stories and basement, located on a slight incline. 

 The second story or top of the barn was to be 

 entered by a long, steep earth causeway, which 

 would require at least a thousand yards of earth 

 in its construction. The plan was to use one-horse 

 Irish carts which could easily be turned round in- 

 side the barn when the carts were unloaded. I 

 never built this causeway, but I completed the barn 

 after altering it in some important particulars, and 

 it never ceased to be a monstrosity. It burned 

 down about 1 890 peace be to its ashes ! 



Mr. McCandless had purchased in Ireland sev- 

 eral hundred dollars worth of farm implements, 

 which I am quite unable to describe, so queer and 

 clumsy were they, and which were quite useless in 

 the United States. The greater part of them were 

 burned up in the barn and those that escaped were 

 placed among the other antiquities. 



Of Professor McCandless it may be said, how- 

 ever, that he excelled all of his successors in good 

 looks. He was a really noble looking man, soft- 

 handed and always perfectly groomed. He only 



