Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-07-19
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so, dismounted and made to drive
the machines. The moving picture
machine and the stereopticon are used
regularly, and six miles of irrigation
canals bring water from the nearby
hills,
As yet it is barren place. for if
only one farm irrlgates. the bug popu-
latiOn of the county hold 4 convention
and festival in its crop beds; but by
cooperating with the homesteadcrS,
additional fields are now being ir-
rigated, and an era of prosperity is
setting in. Nicholas Ruiz. a former
teacher. at Sl1 a month. made $1,000
last year through the knowledge he
gained ut Las Munos. and n higher
standard of living is inevitable.
The school is not an experiment sta
ton, but college. Its extension work
exerts wide influence. however. as its
graduates emigrate to the fertile
plateau Of Mindanao and many other
places.
After leaving Las Munos the road
runs as straight as Il die for miles on
end. Then comes the famous Benguet
road, Is miles long, one of the finest
mountain roads in the world, over
which the sturdy automobile trucks
carry freight and passengers from the
hot plain to the cool summer resort.
1t was surveyed by army experts, who
said it would cost $4,000. So far, 1t
has cost 40 times thnt amount, and
frequent slides and washoUts add to
the total cost annually.
Peeuliarities Of saguio.
Baguio is not place, but collec-
ton of places, separated by pineclad
hills and lovely valleys. Mrs. McElrOy
was at Camp John Hay, two miles
from the hotel, and the professor and
l set out after dinner to find her. The
moon was bright and nearly full. the
roads inviting and the air delightful.
Here and there the lights of ram
bling residence shone from some
rounded knoll above which the stately
pines rose in silhouette against the
glorious Southern Cross. After more
than an hour of walking and n dozen
questions, we arrived at the corral
and, by accident, came upon the cot
tage where she was staying. After a
false start and new start / made the
four kilometcrs back to the hotel In
40 minutes.
l slept well, getting up at Il. m.
and putting on sweater coat and
pulling the blankets closer around me.
Shivering in the Philippines. Brr-rrr
We spent next morning selecting
horses, or rather ponies, for our trip
and visiting the dog market, where the
Igorotes bought and sold half-starved
CANNES with visions of Il great feast
off the protrudinG ribs. The lgorrotes
are about rs much like the cultured
Filipinos as they are are like cultured
Americans or cultured japanese; but
the fact that the lgorrOtes eat dogs has
done as much To prejudice us against
the Filipnos as has the story that the
Chinese eat rats to turn us against the
wel-bred Chinese, who not only do not
eat rats, but even have Il distaste for
caviar and limburger
Our first II kilomcters from Baguio
We're made in Il mOtorcar on narrow
trail with primitive bridges and sharp
turns. On the way we passed parties
of Igorrotes returning from the noun
tain metropolis, leading gaunt dogs
with cords in the middle of which n
stick was tied, or black porkers with
lead reins knotted through their ears
our motorcar caused no surprise. Mr.
Moss, whose ID years among the
mountain peoples makes him an nu'
thorty. says that the lgorrotes would
be surprised If the Americans did not
surprise them.
Up the Mountain en- Ponies.
.Iounting our small ponies, we rode
for IS kilometers over high trails, then
on the hillside opposite. stood the log
hut that was to house us for the night
A sharp gallop of a few minutes
brought us to the resthOuse at Camp
Thirty. 80 kilometers from Baguio.
Our evening meal was excellent and
the big fire was Il welcome companion
After dinner we stepped out Into the
moonlight. Someone said. This Is
Sunday" and the reverent answer was
II don't believe l ever worshiped God
more truly than today"
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