The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-11

hunters and others that tho govern
mcnt has now organized what Is known
as tho mountain province OF Nortaern
Luzon. That country Is as big as Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut combined
and IL IL inhabited BY wild or semi
civilized paople. 1t has, altogether
about i've hundred thousand, many of
whom have been head hunters, and
practically all OF whom arc the de-
scendants of head hunters.
The province has a Governor, who
lives at the capital which is Bontoc
and 1t has seven lieutenant governors,
one over each of the subprovinces In
10 which the mountain province has
been divided.
In this region there are Ave great
tribes, all OF which live in villages
and have moro or less civilization
Many OF them have been semi-clvIlized
In the past, only the wilder ones be-
Ing head hunters. Take tho T!ngyans,
OF whom there are perhaps loo. oUO
Thay are farmers living in villages.
They have religion of their own, ono
part OF which Is belief in spirits who
are always lowering around them and
affecting every net of their lives. The
Tinsyans sacrifice pigs and chickens
10 thesa spirits.
HHptHtE DIS tElDt Is the IN aIlnsaS,
who in the past havo teen famous IA
head hunters. They have axes made
for chopping OFF the head at n blow
and sAields for defense. Some of them
live In the trees. and they are expert
raftsmen and make their way to and
fro as far as possible by water.
Head hunting has been religious
business with the kalingas one of the
ceremonies being the taking out OF
the brains aud eating them. The
chiefs OF these head hunters are now
cooperating with the American lieu
tenant-governur They have settled
in villages and are beginning to farm.
The rfusaos md Their Rice Fields.
Every one In the United States has
heard of the Igorrotes. some of whom
were seen AT the st. Louis exposi-
ton They have number of tribes
in Northern Luzon. and notwithstand-
ing their head hunting, have had a
high degree Of civilization. They have
farms and grow coffee rice and raise
stock. From reports which have re-
Gently come from Dr. Marion Miller
and other cthnoiOgiSt5 of the Bureau
Of Science at Manila. | learn that these
people arc rapidly Improving. They
nrc beginning to send their Children
to school. aud hundreds OF little Igor
rotc boys, clad In nothing but a cap.
jacket and string around the waist
may be seen trudsins along with books
in their arms.
snvnscs Who Arc Worth $3.50,
I he same is true of the Ifugaos. an
othsr agricultural people. The lfu-
gaos have rice fields which are faced
with stone walls. The walls are built
to hold back the earth and in some
places they are forty feet high. These
terraces rise up the hills like gigantic
stairways, running hundreds and some
times thousands of feet over the riv-
crs wher' they begin. In each little
terrace rice grows, and tho land Is so
valuable that the people are among
the richest semi s0vages OF the world
Their wealth Is said to be about
forty-fivc million American dollars. or
three hundred and nfty dollars per
capita.
The Ifusaos have their own religion
and their own priests They think the
world is divided into six regions. all
cf which are Inhabited by both. spirits
and human beings. At first they were
much afraid OF tho Americana and