The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-28

$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 II is u barren place, for II
only one farm irrigates. the bug popu-
latiOn of the county hold n 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 former
teacher, at S11 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
tiOn, but a college. Its extension work
exerts wide influence, however, as it's
graduates emigrate to the fertile
plateau Of NIlndanaO and many other
places.
After leaving Las MunOs the road
runs as straight as 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
Nl.t
frequent slides and washouts add 10
the total cost annually.
PeeuIiarities Of Raguo.
Bagulo 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
set out after dinner to find her. The
moon was bright and nearly full, tho
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 dozen
questions, we arrived mt the corral
and, by accident, came upon the cot
tage where she was staying. After
false start and new start | made the
four kiIometers back to the hotel In
40 minutes.
slept well, getting up at a. III,
and putting on a sweater coat and
| pulling the blankets closer around me.
; Shivering in the Philippines. Brr-rrrl !
, 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 great feast
/, off the protruding ribs. The lgorrotes
) are about as much like the cultured
' FilipinOs as they are are like cultured
t Americans or cultured japanese; but
? the fact that the IgorrOtes eat dogs has
I done as much to prejudice us against
4 the FilipinOS as has the story that the
] Chinese eat rats to turn US against the
: well-bred Chinese, who not only do not
eat rats, but even have diStaSte for
C caviar and limburger.
V Our first IL kilometers from BaguiO
d were made in mOtOrcar on narrow
S trail with primitive bridges and sharp
r turns. On the way we passed parties
t of Igorrotes returning from the noun
), tain metropolis, leading gaunt dogs
It with cords in the middle Of which a
r stick was tied or black pOrkers with
a lead reins knotted through their ears
S Our motOrcar caused no surprise. Mr.
: Moss, whose 13 years among the
!. mountain peoples makes him an au'
l. thority, says that the Igorrotes would
IS be surprised If the Americans did moi
e surprise them.
u Up the Mountain on Ponies.
Mounting our small ponies, we rode
for IS kilometers over high trails, theI
# on the hillside opposite, stood the los
o hut that was to house us for The night
:. A sharp gallop of fer minutes
~ brought us to the resthOIse at CamI
n Thirty. 80 kilometers from Baguio.
d Our evening meal was excellent ant
le the big fire was welcome companion
Is After dinner we stepped out into TIT
If moonlight. Someone said, "This i
ut Sunday" and the reverent answer was
n 81 don't believe ! ever worShiped Got
st more truly than todayV
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