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By AGNES L FREER
of the sights in store for
ONE sailors of the American
fleet -while In the Philippines
consists in the falls of Pag
sanjan pronounced Paxauhan These
falls are unique In their weird wild
beauty and a first view of them is
fust as much a never to be forgotten
Experience as Is a first view of the
great cataract of the Niagara river
They undoubtedly form one of the
grandest spectacles under the Ameri
can flag The pale blue veils of water
plunging hundreds of feet down pre
cipitous cliffs clothed hi a tangle of
giant ferns and rank tropical verdure
make a sight well worth the exertion
of an expedition Into their secluded
wilds but they are by no means the
only thing to charm the traveler uponH
this most unusual journey There Is
the placid Pasig slipping softly to the
sea between its banks burdened with
luxuriant lazy tropical life There is
the Lake of Bays shining in the white
sunlight its far away shores lifting
themselves in rounded peaks through
n mysterious opalescent haze And
then there are the towns and the peo
plethe people whom we call our lit
tle brown brothers seen to the great
est advantage in their inland homes
where they have lived and showered
their open hospitality upon pilgrims to
Pagsanjan generations upon genera
tions
When our excursion was determined
upon telegrams were sent to provincial
officials in Santa Cruz the big town
upon the way where we were to spend
the night This was a necessary pre
caution because there are no hotels or
lodgings in Filipino towns and travel
ers are always dependent upon this
hospitality of officials or friends
We left our river landing at Manila
In a good sized launch at 0 oclock in
the morning The sky was overcast so
instead of suffering all day under a
tropical sun we were wooed to a luxu
rious enjoyment by a soft odorous
breeze which swept down upon us
from the palm lined shore After pass
ing the Manila suburb of Santa Ana
where an old Jesuit monastery lifts its
picturesque moss covered walls against
intrusive eyes and where a long line of
old Spanish mansions half reveal them
selves in the midst of alluring tropical
gardens around the deep curve of the
rivers bank the panorama broadens
The banks become lined with feathery
bamboo trees under each of which
there seems to be a nipa hut the
palm tuatched house of the native
Avhich sits up in the air like an over
grown bird house on bamboo poles
Native bancas canoes loaded with
the emerald green sacate glided swift
ly by us On every side there was a
vast variety of cargo Rafts of bamboo
and cocoanuts floated down A creak
ing ferryboat for a moment intercept
ed our course It was filled with na
tives on foot and in carromatas the
native two wheeled vehicle drawn by
ponies Darkness fell before we reach
ed the vicinity of Santa Cruz By flick
ering lights on a delapidated wharf
we descried the town but as the water
was too shallow to permit our
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proach our old skipper anchored some
distance off while we listened amazed
to strains of Hiawatha and A Hot
Time In the Old Town Tonight which
floated out to us We knew that meant
a genuine native welcome with a fan
fare of drums and the accompanying
fiesta Presently the inevitable band
playing Sobre las Olas was poled
out to us on a raft prettily decorated
with palm leaves and flags and hung
with Japanese lanterns The provin
cial governor and several dignitaries
greeted us cordially and once on shore
they placed us in carromatas and we
lurched along over a rough road like
ships at sea
An elaborate dinner was prepared for
ns at the governors house and in true
Spanish style we were told that the
house and Its belongings were ours
After some two hours of dining being
tired by our journey and our laborious
Efforts to converse Intelligently in
Spanish we were glad to escape to our
rooms for the night The dawn found
us awake listening to a ceaseless cho
rus of cockcrowing which is the na
tional noise of the Philippine Islands
With breakfast over we were soon in
Hie carromatas on the way to Pagsan
jan a drive of forty minutes through
groves of tall slender cocoanuts All
along the way the palm thatched huts
nestled cosio under the trees through
which we caught occasional exquisite
glimpses of distant purple mountains
Great clusters of nuts hung down invit
ingly and as we were thirsty we stop
ped and asked a native if he would get
us one to drink from With much alac
rity lie ran up the tree placing his
toes in the notches made in the trunk
lie was soon at the top and down
again with several big nuts lie then
squatted on the ground sliced off the
outer green covering and made a hole
in the top from which he poured the
sweet milky water into a cup It was
cool but too sweet to be palatable
Then he chopped open the nuts and
scooped out the meat with his bolo for
us to eat Ilere was another child
hood illusion dispelled Neither the
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coeoanut nor milk contained that nec
tarlike flavor which my Robinson Cru
soe imagination had pictured
Continuing on our way we met wo
men in bright red sarongs and white
camisas looking graceful and pretty as
they strode lightly along carrying on
their heads baskets of fruit vegetables
and fish for market Men lazily strok
ing game cocks followed preparing for
the sport of the day Swarms of chil
dren waved us an adio
The entrance to Pagsanjan is
through a massive stone arch which
looks as if the villagers had once con
templated a wall around their snug
substantial town The houses on the
principal street are built of stone with
tile roofs Their well kept streets
gave a prosperous air to the place
which I have never seen in other
towns except Jolo in the Sulu archi
pelago We were taken to the tribunal
where officials met us The arrange
ments were all made for our ascent
of the river and the canoes waiting
into which we were soon seated and
the banqueros were paddling- up
stream to the rhjthm of a curious song
drawled in a minor key The current
became stronger and the river bed
more shallow and stony until at last
the banqueros got out and waded
pushing the boats over the bowlders
On both sides the rocks rose higher
as the gorge narrowed Vine covered
trees sprang from rock crevices and
the chattering of monkeys could be
heard in the foliage overhead After
an hour and a half the head of the
canyon was reached where walls of
rock tower above a thousand feet or
more and a cascade of water dashes
from bowlder to bowlder to the deep
pool below Here we sat for some
time contemplating the grandeur of
the scene in delicious cool shade Our
boats could go no farther and we had
not the time to penetrate the narrow
fissure in the rocks and explore the
rivers course farther up
On the return we shot the rapids
over which our banoueros had so
carefully pushed us With the water
swirling and eddying over the stones j
it was both exciting and perilous and
it was a relief to find ourselves with
out a mishap again In the broad course
of the river
THE PRETZEL
Its Simple Figuro Scheme and Infinito
Possibilities of Variety
The pretzel is one of the most re
markable creations of the human mind
and hand It stands almost alone as
an artificial product displaying the
countless varieties of form produced
by nature In the leaves of trees and
blades of grasses Of the millions
upon millions turned out by the pretzel
bakeries since the Inception of the In
dustry it is not probable that any two
were exactly alike
The general figure scheme of the
pretzel must have been an inspiration
It would have been impossible for the
human mind to conceive a scheme so
simple and yet permitting such ap
proach to Infinite variation Because
of the peculiar shape of the pretzel its
construction is most easily described
by employing sailor mens terms A
bight is taken in a roll of dough and
the ends are given a half twist and
brought back upon opposite sides of
the bight This makes the article
somewhat heart shaped There can
have been no sentimental reason for
this shape for there is no product of
art or nature further removed from the
realm of sentiment than is the pretzel
The finished article looks as if it had
been varnished and exposed to a sand
storm before the varnish dried
The pretzel is unique as an article of
Internal use It cannot be classed as
food or drink It is not a dessert nor
is it a medicine Perhaps it should be
classed as an appetizer an appetizer
not for food but for drink ami therein
lies its uniqueness It is the great
thirst producer It is the third of a
Sahara done up in a twist of dough
If any one could invent something that
would quench thirst as effectively as
the pretzel can produce it his fortune
would be made
The home of the pretzel is Ger
many where it is called bretzel or
pretzel according to whether it is in
north Germany or south Germany but
In America it is pretzel all the time
whether in North America or South
America The name is commonly re
garded as being derived from words in
the Latin language meaning bracelet
But Germans are not fond of taking
words from the Latin tongues Per
haps the pretzel owes its name to the
fact that it is baked on a flat board
like surface The German word for
board is brett Washington Post
READING THE STARS
An Authors Mastery of the Science of
Navigation
By the end of the week teaching
myself writes Jack London in Har
pers Weekly of his mastery of the sci
ence of navigation I was able to do
divers things For instance I shot the
Nortli star at night of course got its
altitude corrected for index error dip
etc and found our latitude And this
latitude agreed with the latitude of the
previous noon corrected by dead reck
oning up to that moment Proud
Well I was even prouder with my
next miracle I was going to turn in at
9 oclock I worked out the problem
self instructed and learned what star
of the first magnitude would be pass
ing the meridian around half past 8
This star proved to be Alpha Cruris I
had never heard of the star before I
looked it up on the star map It was
one of the stars of the Southern Cross
What thought I Have we been sailing
with the Southern Cross in the sky
nights and never known itV Dolts that
-we are Gudgeons and moles I
couldnt believe it I went over the
problem again and verified it Cuarnii
an had the wheel from S till 10 that
evening I told her to keep her eyes
open and look due south for the South
ern Cross and when the stars came out
there shone the Southern Cross low on
the horizon Proud No medicine man
nor high priest was ever prouder Fur
thermore with the prayer wheel I shot
Alpha Cruris and from its altitude
worked out our latitude and still fur
thermore I shot the North star too
and it agreed with what had been told
me by the Southern Cross Proud
Why the language of the stars was
mine and I listened and heard them
telling me my way over the deep
Weight of a Lion
Yhit docs a lion weigh Those who
know the look of the kinj of beasts
best and how small his little body
really is will probably come farthest
from the truth About SCO to 350
pouuds is a usual estimate but a full
grown lion will tip the scales at no
less than 500 pounds Five hun
dred and forty pounds is the record for
an African lion His bone is solid and
heavy as ivory The tiger runs the
lion very close A Bengal tiger killed
by an English officer scaled 520 pounds
A tiger this size has however con
siderably more muscular strength than
the biggest lion
One Point Gained
lias that girl next door to you
Btill got her parlor melodeon
No she exchanged it for a cornet
Im glad to say
But gracious if she plays the cor
net thats worse isnt it
Not at all Its only half as bad
She cant sing while shes playing the
cornet Philadelphia Press
The Two Women
An old offender was introduced to a
new county justice as John Timmins
alias Tones alias Smith
Ill try the two women first said
the justice Bring in Alice Jones
Uncle Remus Magazine
The Wiles of Women
There are only two possible things
that a woman can do if a man pro
poses to her but there are more than
2000000 she can do If he doesnt
Golden Penny
AN OLD ill MYTH
It Tells a Curious Story About
the Creation
MOUNT TAHOMA MADE FIRST
Then Came the Trees the Birds the
Fishes and All the Animals With tlin
Grizzly Bear the Last and the Great
est of All The Origin of Man
The Indians say that the Great Spirit
made Mount Tahoma the first of all
Boring a hole in tho sky using a large
Btone as an auger he pushed down
snow and ice until they reached the
desired height then stepped from cloud
to cloud down to the great icy pile
and from it to the earth where ho
planted the first trees by merely put
ting his finger into the soil here and
there The sun began to melt the
snow the snow produced water the
water ran down the side of the moun
tain refreshed the trees and made
rivers The Great Spirit gathered the
leaves that fell from the trees blew
upon them and they became birds He
took a stick and broke it into pieces
Of the small end he made fishes and
of the middle of the stick he made ani
mals the grizzly bear excepted which
he formed from the big end of the
stick appointing him to be master
over all the others
Indeed this animal grew so large
strong and cunning that the Creator
somewhat feared him and so hollowed
out Mount Tahoma as a wigwam for
himself Tybere he might reside while
on earth in the most perfect security
and comfort So the smoke was soon
to be seen curling up from the moun
tain where the Great Spirit and his
faniilj lived and still live though their
hearth fire is alight no longer now that
the white man is in the land This
was thousands of snows ago
After this came a late and severe
springtime in which a memorable
storm blew up from the sea shaking
the huge lodge to its base The Great
Spirit commanded his daughter then
little more than an infant to go up and
bid the wind to be still cautioning her
at the same time not to put her head
out into the blast but only to thrust
out her little arm and make a sign be
fore she delivered her message
The eager child hastened up to the
hole in the roof did as she was told
and then turned to descend but her
curiosity impelled her to look at the
forbidden world outside and the rivers
and treees at the far ocean and the
great waves that the storm had made
as hoary as the forest when the snow
is on the firs So she stopped and put
out her head to look Instantly the
storm took her by the long hair and
blew her down to the earth down the
mountain side over the smooth ice and
soft snow down to the land of the
grizzly bears
Now the grizzly bears were then
somewhat different from what they
are at the present time In appear
ance it is true they were much
the same but they walked then on
their hind legs like men and talked and
caiTied clubs using the fore limbs as
men use their arms At the foot of the
mountain at the place where the child
was blown to lived a family of griz
zlies The father grizzly was return
ing from the hunt with his club on hi
shoulder and a young elk in his hand
when he saw the shivering little waif
lying on the snow with her hair all
tangled about her
The old grizzly pitying and Avonder
ing at the strange forlorn creature
lifted it up and carried it in to his wife
to see what should be done She too
was pitiful and fed it from her own
breast bringing it up as one of their
family So the daughter of the Great
Spirit grew up and the eldest son of
the old grizzly married her and their
offspring was neither grizzly nor Great
Spirit but man Forest and Stream
An Original Oath of Allegiance
In the old days when the Spauish
province of Aragon was a proud and
independent monarchy the people used
when choosing their king the following
singular form of election
We the freeborn inhabitants of the
ancient kingdom of Aragon who are
equal to yen Don Philip and some
thing more elect you to be our king
on condition that you preserve to us
our rights and privileges If in this
jou should fail we own you for our
king no longer
The Red Ferns
Stop the auto
But sir
I think I saw some red fems
Better lemme keep on boss ad
vised the chauffeur earnestly Them
red ferns is the local constables whisk
ers Washington Herald
The Open Window
The best part of a modern house is Its
windows To keep these open day and
night and to make the air inside ap
proach as nearly as possible the air
outside should be the first business of
the housekeeper Good Health
A Precaution
Every man is the architect of his
own fortune quoted the wise guy
Yes but he wants to keep solid with
the building inspectors added the sim
ple mug Philadelphia Record
Reason Enough
The Butler What makes the missus
In such a bad humor this morning
The Maid Some woman told her a se
cret last night aud shes forgotten it
London Telegraph
The web of our life is a mingled yarn
good and 111 together Shakespeare
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SEPTEHBER
EXCURSION
RATES
GO NOW
Visit the Old Home
Low rate excursions to eastern
cities and resorts Northern
Michigan Canada and New Eng
land daily until September 30tn
See the West
Attractive low excursion rates to
tho Pacific Coast Yellowstone
Park Utah Colorado Big Horn
Mountains and tho Black Hills
Low Colonist Rates
Daily during September and Oc
tober to California Washington
Oregon and hundreds of inter
mediate points
Irrigated Farm Lands
Ready for Immediate
Settlement
at Garland and Powell Wyo
Personally conducted excursions
to these lands the first and third
Tuesdays of each month Govern
ment engineer at Powell shows
the land Also deeded and Carey
Act lands
Write D Clem Denver General
Agent Landseekers Information
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Its free Write a brief description
of your proposed trip and let us
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D S HOSTETTER
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At my farm 3 miles north and 1 mile west of Danbury and 9 miles
south and 1 mile west of Indianola beginning at 10 oclock a m
Tuesday September 22 08
I will offer the following property at public auction
14 Head of Cattle 18 Horses and Mules
30 Head of Hogs 6 Dozen Chickens
MACHINERY ETC McCormick 12 foot header Deering S foot binder
Deering mower and rake 2 row weed cutter John Deere lister Climax
gang disc plow three walking plows breaking plow Moline wagon steel
truck wagon 12 disc Superior drill 5 hoe drill 5 disc drill 2 hole corn
sheller DeLaval cream separator top buggy feed cooker 2 horse gasoline
engine Champion blower Champion press drill bone cutter tank heater
two sets work harness single buggy harness two header boxes hay rack
fence machine 3 section steel harrow feed grinder Aermotor wind mill
road scraper steel tank Chattam fanning mill two heating stoves 6 hole
range and numerous other articles
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
TERMS Sums of 810 and under cash On sums over that amount a
credit of 12 months time will be given on bankable notes 10 per
cent interest 3 percent discount for cash on suni9 over 810
JOHN CASHEN Auctioneer
W A REYNOLDS Clerk
James Williams
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