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The Zigzag on the Way to Baguio, Summer Capital of the Philippine*.
All aboard! Lot’s go! Wo’ro start-
Ing from Mtinila, the trout picturesque,
Amorloniii/oil Orioiilnl oity, mol will
travel liy mitoniohlle ”00 miles to tin
north to Baguio, the summer capital of
the Philippines. The trip can also tie
made h.v I rain.
We have ahead of ns one of (lie most
scenic, spectacular and thrillinK auto
mobile trips in tlie world. Wo will
have excellent roads all the way. The
Philippines are, In fact, a paradise for
autoists, possessing 11,500 miles of fim j
innendainlz.ed loads.
The first part of the trip Is through
typical small towns and then across
the central plain of Luzon and through j
several rich and fertile provinces,;
where tropical vegetation is seen nt It*:
best. Here one is Impressed with tlie j
great agricultural wealth of the Philip-1
pines, which represents one of the
Kast's greatest producing areas, with
the advantage of Immense natural re
sources for the development of further j
production. II Is regrettably true that)
even In the United States there is far
from any real understanding of the!
potentialities of the Islands.
At some points rice fields, looking in
the distance like the greenest of green
lawns, stretch away as far as the eye
can see. If you want color, If you
want to fool the romance aifrl mystery
of an Oriental twilight, pa-s this way
as the red eyed sun at the end of the
dying day is slowly sinking behind the
unending expanse of green fields. At
first you cry out in ecstney nt the i
gorgeous scene. But as you ride along, !
your eyes fastened on the panorama
of tints and colors, and with the im
penetrably black Oriental night com
ing on fast, you become enthralled, i
You no longer try to express your feel
ings. You cannot. You realize that thosi
now fast changing, colorful master j
pieces lit the heavens and on the land
scape are pictures that no man can ad
equately describe nor human hands du
plicate. So what's the use of trying!
True, these are but impressions, but 1
the trnveleguer considers himself Just!
fled in mentioning them, for they are a
part of the trip to Baguio and return
Indeed, the gorgeous sunsets in all
parts of the Philippines leave an 1m !
presalon on the mind of the tourist that;
is everlasting.
We leave the paints and troplcul
follagejtnd .liter the zone of rt g.
pine no pa l .'III tin ..ft. i ,11-
laden air of the warm lowlands to the
erisp, invigorating ozone of the tent
Iterate zone, all within a few hours'
time.
For mile after mile the rx-ml now fol
lows tlie tortuous course of a river, the
road lying in tlie bottom or on tlte
rocky sides of a granite canyon.
The Philippines are rich in hydro
electric possibilities. This power is the
cheapest power »n earth. And It is
everlasting. Your travelogtler is nei
ther a prophet nor the son of a proph
et, but lie predicts that one day there
will be innumerable Phlllppfne govern
ment owned hydro-electric plants in
this canyon we are now passing
through. Think of the possibilities of
such a project! Jthlu.x the trip front
Manila to Baguio is too expensive fer
the average Manila worker and his
family, many of whom may live and
die without beholding the wondrous
beauties of their own island of Luzon.
Think of what a blessing it would be
to Filipino mothers and children to
feel upon their fevered brows the cool.
Invigorating brceies of the mountain
tops, now so near and yet so far! With
the Philippine government owning It*
own electric railway* and hydro-elec
tric nlanis ll would bo possible to bring
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Hie trip to Baguio within the means of
hundreds of thousands of Filipinos.
Not only Is there sufficient power In
this river to electrify a line from Ma
nila to Baguio, hut to operate tlie
street railways of Manila, light tlie
•Ity and furnish power for manufac
turing concerns.
But we have now arrived nt Camp
One. From this point the scenery
rapidly changes as the elevation in
creases. We are traveling over the
famous Benguet road, the construction
>f which through the mountains is a
nost remarkable engineering triumph.
\t places tlie road is blasted out of the
-.olid granite. Biding on the edge of u
100 foot precipice makes one feel like
'wv. . r .
“At times we seemed perilously near
the jumping off place.”
he is on the rim of the world. Some of
; the turns are so sharp It Is impossible
i to see lit) feet ahead, and we seem to
; lie perilously near the jumping oif
place. We wonder If it is safe to lean
out and peer into the can yen far below,
and when we do we are perfectly sat
isfied we are flirting with death. Yet
the triii is a safe one, providing our
driver has better nerves than our own.
All too soon we reach the outskirts
of Baguio, a city among the clouds,
and are rather surprised at the inotjem j
city we tlml tt to be. In ten years Ba
guio has grown from a village of huts
to the now Justly famed mountain re
sort of the Philippines, sometimes call
ed the Philippine Simla. It is un
doubtedly destined some day to become
a large city.
Baguio ranges In elevation from
I.bOO to 5,500 feet and is surrounded
practically on all sides by high moun
tain ridges and "hogsbaeks" towering
into the skies at a height of almost
S.tKHI feet.
As tie from the scenery, which is
noteworthy, the great blessing of Ba- '
guto i- Its temperate climate, which is
indeed a godsend to those Impoverish- j
ed by the tropical temperatures of tlie
lowlands. Not only is the mountain j
air rich in or.one, but tt has been deiti- i
onstrated to be extraordinarily free i
from germs of all kinds.
U-noh year during »he hot season the
school teachers of the entire archipela
go are enabled by the government to
spend a month at the teachers' camp i
in Baguio for recreation and confer- i
ence on school work. American army
officers mid their families also go to
Baguio for the hot months.
And now that your travelogner has
jou in Baguio, he believes he will leave
you there, for there are many Interest
ing aide trips to take, and, besides,
Baguio 1* the most delightful place for
a x acatlou In the entire Orient.
c. a x.
MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY. JUNE 24, 1920.
Post Your Lands.
Open your woodland to the pub- \
lie and soon there will not be a ]
stick of wood or timber on it. )
Put the public on notice by post- '
ing up printed notices. Get the [
printed notices at The Monitor '
office, 10 cents each.
Cypress Shingles.
I have on hand an unlimited
number of hand-drawn number
one cypress shingles for sale. See .
me at once. A. B. Hutcheson,
lOlfitf Mt. Vernon, Ga. !
Farm Loans
Loans on Improved Farm Lands j!
in Montgomery and Wheeler!
Counties, Interest rate 0 per ot. ;
Reasonable commission. I can ‘
handle good propositions for col- !
ored people owning farm lands.
FRED M. HARRIS,
Mt. Vernon, Ga.
TWELFTH DISTRICT
A. &M. SCHOOL i
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COCHRAN, GA.
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Offers splendid op- i
portunities to limited
number. Regular Lit
erary subjects, Agri- <
culture (for boys) and j
Domestic Science (for ;
girls). <
Second annual ses-jj
sion begins Sept. 14. ;
Printed Announcements
will be ready for distri
bution about July 15th.
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For further information, write l ;
J. W. MOSLEY, Principal!;
COCHRAN, GA.
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I Complete Electric Light I
Plant for the Farm jf
»n. Do you want things more handy around jp
the house and barn? Put in Delco- S
( Light. It furnishes electric power for 0
( operating light machinery. It furnish-
os electric lights for the house and barn. 0
■| It pumps and forces the water to wher
ever you want it, and does other work. 0
I With the coming of electricity to the top . g runninj? or nQt the stor age battory ig §
farm the farmer has become interested in USGd< The storage battery is simply an
the storage battery, a piece of electrical electro-chemical machine consisting of a SB
equipment which has undergone very ex- a number of jars filled with a chemical 0
tensive development in the last two years- mixture called electrolyte, in wnieh are
A eood manv vears atro engineers caw suspended lead plates. When current is
A good many years ago engineers saw sent through this battery by the generator
that some way would have to be developed a chemical reaction takes place which stores *
to store electrical energy generated by electrical energy in the battery. When < 3
mechanical devices such as the electric current is wanted for the burning of a light 0
generator. This necessity arose from the or the running of a motor, the storage 0
I fact that there were various classes of battery supplies it, releasing the electrical
electrical service which demanded the pro- energy stored in it while the generator was as
ductiori of current in comparatively small running. In this way it is necessary only sP
amounts for intermittent use. One of the to run the generating unit for a farm light- 0
best examples of such intermittent use is ing plant two or three times a week, at
the electric service demanded by the farm which times it may run for an hour or so.
home. Lights srg ot course used principal- This combination of the generating unit,
ly at night, but there are many times dur- consisting of a kerosene engine and gene-
ing the day when electric light is wanted rator, with the storage battery makes it 0
for a few minutes and there are many more possible for the farmer and his family to 0
times when electric current is wanted for have electric service in the home as com- 0
the operation of power appliances, such as plete and as convenient as that given to the
pumps, vacuum sweepers, washing ma- city dwellers by a central power station, ,s
chines, churns, etc. If this electric cur- and both the generating units and the
rent ha'd to be generated for each of these storage batteries have in the last few 7 years C?
uses by going and starting an engine and been developed to such a high Doint of 0
generator it wobld obviously be very in- efficiency that they deliver this electric 0
convenient. In order to have current service at a very low cost and w'ith the A A
available at any time whether the genera- greatest of dependability. A
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IR. A. MAYER, Dealer I
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I REVIVAL AT THE PRESBYTERIAN
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1 CHURCH BEGINS SUNDAY
JUNE 27*
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52 REV. DOUGLAS WAUCHOPE
£ Evangelist and Singer.
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Revival services will begin at the Mt. Vernon Presbyterian
Church Sunday, June 27. Rev. Douglas Wauchope, evangelist and
singer, will be present to assist the pastor, Rev. F. M. Baldwin.
I Mr. Wauchope has been used of God in similar meetings in the
deepening of spiritual life of Christians and in the saving of souls.
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Will all the Christians of every denomination unite in prayer
2 for a real outpouring of the Holy Spirit? See the subjects to be
3 discussed on the posters in the show windows.
Services on Sundav at 11 a. m. and 8:20 p. m., and during the
g week days at 4 p. m. and 8:20 p. m.
All will be given a cordial welcome to all these services.
