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$50, 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 a barren place, for if
only one farm irrigates, the bug popu-
lation of the county hold a convention
and festival in it's crop beds; but by
cooperating with the homesteaders,
additional fields are now being ir-
rigated, and an era of prosperity is
setting in. Nicholas Ruiz, a former
teacher, at $11 a month, made $500
last year through the knowledge he
gained at Las Munos, and a higher
standard of living is inevitable.
The school is not an experiment sta
ton, but college. Its extension work
exerts a wide influence, however, as it's
graduates emigrate to the fertile
plateau of Mindanao and many other
places.
After leaving Las Munos the road
runs as straight as a 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.
It was surveyed by army experts, who
said it would cost $4,000. So far, it
has cost 40 times that amount, and
frequent slides and washouts add to
the total cost annually.
Peculiarities of Baquio.
Baguio is not a place, but a collec-
tion 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
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 a RAM
bling residence sh0ne 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 a dozen
questions, we arrived at the corral
and, by accident, came upon the cot
tage where she was staying. After q
four kilometers back to the hotel in
40 minutes.
slept well, getting up at 2 a. m
and putting on a sweater coat an6
pulling the blankets closer around me
Shivering in the Philippines. Brr-rrr7
| We spent next morning selecting
horses, or rather ponies, for our triI
and visiting the dog market, where the
Igorotes bought and sold half-starvet
CANNES with visions of great feast
off the protruding ribs. The Igorrotes
are about as much like the cultured
Filipinos as they are are like cultured
Americans or cultured Japanese; bur
the fact that the Igorrotes eat dogs has
done as much to prejudice US agains
the Filipinos as has the story that the
Chinese eat rats to turn us against the
well-bred Chinese, who not only do MOI
eat rats, but even have a distaste fol
caviar and limburger.
Our first 12 kilometers from Baguie
were made in motorcar on a narrow
trail, with primitive bridges and sharI
turns. On the way we passed parties
of Igorrotes returning from the noun
tain metropolis, leading gaunt dog
with cords in the middle of which 6
stick was tied, or black porkers witt
lead reins knotted through their ears
Our motorear caused no surprise. Mr.
Moss, whose 13 years among the
mountain peoples makes him an au
thority, says that the Igorrotes would
be surprised if the Americans did MOI
surprise them.
Up the Mountain on Ponies.
Mounting our small ponies, we rode
for 18 kilometers over high trails, ther
on the hillside opposite, stood the log
hut that was to house US for the night
A sharp gallop Of a few minute!
brought US to the resthouse at CAM
Thirty, 80 kilometers from Baguio.
Our evening meal was excellent ant
the big fire was a welcome companion
After dinner we stepped out into tht
moonlight. Someone said, "This il
Sunday" and the reverent answer was
II don't believe I ever worshiped Got
more truly than today!"
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