National Affairs: In the Philippines

The War Department was happy to announce, many years ago, the conquest and suppression of the last of the headhunters in the Philippines. Yet last week brought a report from the Islands that a small epidemic of head-hunting has broken out. The Ilngote* tribe in

Isabella and Nueva Vizcaya provinces is responsible. Within two months they have appropriated the heads of some 15 of their Christian neighbors.

*It has long been an Ilongote custom for every bridegroom to present his bride with several heads, Christians preferred.

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