Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-09-02
A PHILIPPINE PARADISE.
as Hawaii and aS Bracing as
the Adirondack

:ropical lands are important for the
health and comfort of white immi-
grants from the temperate zones. If
hey may have breathing spell during
he most heated period at an altitude
where the air is bracing, the tempera-
| :ure moderate, the water pure and cold
ind the scenery beautiful and inspiring,
hey may acquire fresh stock of health
and vigor to carry them comfortably
through their daily routine, says the
| New York Sun
Such spot was found in the Philip
pines in August, 1900, when our meteor
illogical station was established in Ben
| suet, In northern Luzon, $50 miles north
IT Manila and 20 miles from the China
Tea.
During the first year the mean. tenn
perature in April, May and Jyx.e. the
hottest months in the Philippines, was
$50 degrees Fahrenheit, and the mean
temperature from November to Febru-
lry, inclusive, the most temperate
months, was $40 degrees. The amount
Of rain, cloudiness and humidity and the
nature Of the soil made it certain that
| The fruits of temperate climates would
thrive in this favored region
When the Philippine weather bureau
was organized in May, 1901, it began to
| give special attention to the climatology
Of various regions in the archipelago
that might be chosen as health resorts.
Benguet was the subject of the first
exhaustive study and report. Father
Algue, director of the bureau, wrote
| pamphlet of II pages on the climatology
Of Benguet, which was published last
| year as the first number of the series on
health resorts. 1t is not surprising in
| view of the facts he presented that we
| are now hearing Of Benguet as the COM
| Ing summer capital and perhaps the per-
manent capital of the archipelago.
Benguet is small province of Luzon,
considerable part Of which lies over.
1000 feet bove the sea. The little pla-
teau among the mountains where the
| government buildings are to be erected
| stands at an elevation Of TIT feet above
sea level. Gov. Taft has just returned
| to Manila in splendid health after two
months on this plateau. His cable dis
patch to the secretary of war announcing
his arrival at Benguet on April 10 last
| contained the following:
Great province This is only $50 miles
| from Manila, with air as bracing as
Adirondacks or Murray Bay. Only pines
and grass lands. Temperature this hot
test month in the Philippines in my cot
tage porch at three in the afternoon, 6S
degrees Fahrenheit. Fires are neces-
sary night and morning"
Fathnr Al0I1o RI ho elip1 r
| illogical data Of Benguet with those OF
all the hill stations of India and Ceylon
situated above 5000 feet, finds that the
climate of the Philippine station ap-
pears to be milder and more favorable
| for health resort than that of any other
station. The Benguet highlands, with
| their forests of pine and cedar, their
| rich, red soil where all the garden, field
and fruit crops of California thrive, and
| their grass lands where thousands of our
cattle will some day Craze, are evident
ly destined to play most useful part
in the development of the Philippines.
The Wise Katydid.
Here is case analogous to the Irish
man who lets go in order to spit on his
hands for a fresh hold 1t is reported
by Prof. Smith, of Iowa An ordinary
katydid in trying to climb along the
Stats of window blind that were very
smooth continually slipped. 1t raised
one front leg and then the other, bring
ing the foot, or claw, to it's mouth to wet
it with the molasses exuding from the
creatures crop. Is this one of the prac-
| tical uses made by the locust family of
this sticky fluid to enable it to walk
ON very smooth surfaces?
The Same Feeling.
Her Grandmother (reminiscently)-
Yes, Dorothy; l remember how happy
was when some one told me your
yrandfather's name was one of the best
In Burke's peerage.
Dorothy-Oh, l suppose you felt just
as l did when 1 found Charles name
in MISUNDERSTANDING.
Teaching I'm Porto Rico.
Prof. Lindsay, commissioner of
schools in Porto Rico, is putting two
teachers in each rural school, one to
teach in the house and the other out
Of doors, the children being divided
into two classes, one-half working in
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