Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — MUD GOOD AS STOVE [ARTICLE]

MUD GOOD AS STOVE

Earth Heated by Volcano Hot Enough for Cooking. • —— Los Angeles Physician Tells of Visit to the Taal Crater in the Philippines, Says It Is an Indl- * vldual Type. ■ •• Los Angeles.—Writing from Manilla, P. 1., Dr. J. N. Martin of Los Angeles, says he the pfeasufe of visiting the Taal volcano. “I passed a whole day and night on Volcano island,” he writes, “which was longer than I had intended, because the launch that conveyed us there and was to have brought us back failed us through an accident to'her machinery. “My interest in Taal was out of the ordinary, as I had already seen every other type of volcano except that represented by Taal, and was greatly entertained and deeply impressed by the wonderful results of the explosion of last year. “Taal is, undoubtedly, one of the places that should be visited by all who have not seen it, as it is a type of volcano the equal of which is not to be found'ln any other part of the world. At the present time the heat is increasing and at a depth of a few below the surface the mud is hot enough for cooking purposes. “One of the things I was most agreeably impressed with in Manila was Bilibid prison. Manila has the model prison In the world. I have never seen anything anywhere in any country in which I have traveled, and I have traveled much with my eyes open, that will compare with Bilibid as a prison or with its administration. “The same I must say as to the Iwahig penal colony and its management. It is a model colony and a credit to any government “There is one thing I think of now

and which I would like to mention before I overlook it, and that is the cockpits. I have not much to pay on the subject, and may confine my remarks to saying that a people, any considerable part of .which spends Its Sundays in the cockpits, will never

be able to rise to the level of the respected or progressive nation. “As far as political relations with the United States are concerned I am a strong advocate of the retention of the Philippines as a part and parcel of the nation.”