UNITED STATES INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

CHILOCCO, INDIAN TERRITORY, Third mo. 22d, 1885. In 1870 a school-house was put up at the Kiowa and Comanche Agency. Josiah and Elizabeth Butler were employed to have charge of the school, but the effort made to induce the Kiowa, Comanche or Apache Indians to send their children to it proved futile. The Indians were very resolute in refusing to have their children educated, or "to follow the white man's road," and the school, by authority of the Government, was filled by children from other Agencies. How marvellous has been the change within fifteen years! We now see Indians from that Agency, and from others where the Indians at that time were as wild and refractory as the Kiowas and Comanches, sending their children to this training school and to various other industrial schools, besides filling their Agency schools. The buildings at Chilocco were designed to accommodate 175 students, but there are now 200 on the roll. For a time after the school started the officers were much annoyed by children running off home. Of late this has ceased. One of the last scholars who left was a man near 30 years old. He told some of the boys that he intended to leave. The Superintendent, Dr. Minthorn, thought that he was not likely to do much good here, and that a better use might be made of him, so he called him into the office and said to him, "You wish to go home and be a wild Indian, do you ?" "Yes," was his reply. "Do wild Indians wear boots?" "No." "Do they wear socks?" "No." "Do they wear pants and coats and vests?" "No." "Where did you get the clothing that you have on?" "I got it here." "Then here you may leave it. Take off your boots and socks." The man looked indig. nant, and showed some signs of not complying. "Take them right off;" and off they came. "Now, take off your coat and your vest. Now wrap this old quilt around you; it will do for a blanket. Put on these old moccasins." "I would rather stay and not go home." No, you cannot remain here. Get into the wagon and the boys will take you part way home, and you can walk the rest of the way." This example, with other training, seems to have had a very salutary effect, for the large number of scholars now here appear to be contented and take to work kindly. The tract of land assigned to the school is 4x41⁄2 miles, and contains 11,520 acres. One tract of 100 acres is under cultivation, and 4000 acres are enclosed with a wire fence for pasture. The school has 330 head of cattle, 19 horses and mules. The farm and whole institution require II white and 4 Indian employees. Except the very small children, half of the scholars are kept at work on the farm or in the house in the forenoon, and the other half in the afternoon. In this way all are taught practical business duties, without interfering with their class exercises. Dr. Minthorn certainly has unusual ability for organizing and conducting such a school.

I regard this as one of the places where boys can be taught the practical business best adapted to their future needs, and in this respect presume it is not excelled by other schools in the Indian service. The boys are taught to carry on most kinds of farm work, for which the large landed property offers great facility, and to understand how to raise various kinds of domestic animals. Besides this, there is instruction in gardening. This training will be of more general practical use to the Indian boys than the trades acquired at other schools. It is, however, the intention of the authorities to have some mechanical business carried on here.

A very good religious influence pervades the school.

The Superintendent and whole force of employees appear to realize that the foundation of permanent success with the Indians liés in their accepting the gospel and living in accordance with it.

We have had several meetings with the children and others, and some specially for the officers and employees. The last of these was the crowning one. More than twenty of the scholars have given evidence that they have been converted, and about as many others have expressed a wish to have this experience, and have asked God to forgive and bless them. There is reason to believe that a number of the latter have been blessed of the Lord. All honor to Him who loves us freely. LAWRIE TATUM.

PSYCHIC RESEARCH.

Prof. H. Carvill Lewis, the distinguished geologist, gave, Third mo. 25, a very instructive parlor lecture, in Germantown, Philadelphia; setting forth some of the results of his personal investigations, partly in company with Professor Newcomb, the distinguished astronomer, and Professor G. Stanley Hall, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and other well trained scientific men.

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Five lines of inquiry have been proposed, in a circular of the Society for Psychological Research, which was organized a year or two ago in England. These 1. Thought-transference. 2. Mesmerism or Hypnotism; the artificial trance-state. 3. Animal magnetism proper, as studied and described by Prof. Reichenbach, of Germany. 4. Spiritualism, commonly so called. 5. Apparitions, especially in coincidence with, or anticipation of, deaths occurring at a distance from the place of their appearance; and "haunted houses."

By thought-transference, or mind-reading, is meant the asserted conveyance of impressions, as those of form, number, names of objects, &c., from one person to another, without contact or ordinary communication through the senses of sight and hearing. For example: An "operator" goes into one room and there looks for some time steadily at a simple picture or outlined figure; while, in another room a "subject' is closely blindfolded. Then the operator comes and stands silently behind the subject, and, without touching him, fixes his mind intently on the figure or picture above mentioned. After a little while, the blindfolded subject, having a pencil in hand and paper before him, draws a figure, representing. that which the operator has in his mind. The English Society, in its published proceedings, gives a considerable number of well. marked figures, purporting to have been thus drawn ; with copies of those looked at and thought upon by operators in such experiments. Professor Barrett, as a representative of the English Society, exhibited several such drawings at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia. The resemblance between the original drawings and their copies was quite close.

Careful examination of the evidence in regard to these examples of supposed "mind-reading," has convinced Prof. H. C. Lewis, that, plausible as they appear, and respectable as have been the personal associations of some of the subjects and operators, the improbability of the genuineness of such occurrences requires a kind of proof, beyond the possibility of either voluntary or involuntary deception, such as the cases in hand do not satisfactorily afford. His judicial decision in regard to them, therefore, on scientific ground, is, “not proven."

On the second subject above named, of hypnotism, or the mesmerized state, Prof. Lewis had met with a

months devoted to the study of the sugar industry in Kansas, I see no reason to doubt that the time is coming when this State will lead the van as a producer of sugar. The broad acres of producing land afford room enough to raise sugar to supply the Union, without materially interfering with the amount of other products." In other words, the sorghum industry is only another string to the Kansas bow.

CITY PARKS.-The figures contained in a recent report of the New York Park Commission are in part as follows:

THE GOOD ECONOMY OF THE CHINESE.-From the San Francisco Chronicle I take the following paragraph, one of several which make up a short communication thereto, entitled "Chinese scavengers:"

"A great quantity of orange peels are gathered by these industrious scavengers; and perhaps many a fall on the sidewalk, with consequent breaking of limbs, has been escaped by the removal of the innocent cause of accident by the nimble fingers of the Chinaman. To such a great extent is this orange peel industry carried on that many roofs in Chinatown are sometimes covered over with the yellow rinds. After they have become thoroughly dried they are used in kindling fires, and are said to be superior to any other fire kindler."

So much at least may be said of a few of the most despised and at the same time most industrious race on the face of the earth.

Santa Cruz, Cal.

KALMIAS.-Now that it is found, by a little adaptation of the soil to the roots, that the Rhododendron can be grown as easily as a cabbage in our gardens, the Kalmia is also making its appearance as a garden plant. It comes into bloom just as the Rhododendron is leaving us, thus prolonging the season. The large Kalmia, K. latifolia, is here chiefly referred to, though the dwarfer K. angustifolia is also very beautiful. To prolong it still further, the Rhododendron maximum, the mountain laurel of the Northern States, follows the Kalmia, but we seldom see it under culture.— Gardeners' Monthly.

What did the sparrow do yesterday?
Nobody knew but the sparrow;

He were too bold who should try to say
They have forgotten it all to-day.
Why does it haunt my thoughts this way,
With a joy that piques and harrows,
As the birds fly past,

And the chimes ring fast,

And the long spring shadows sweet shadow cast?
There's a maple-bud redder to-day;

It will almost flower to-morrow;
I could swear 'twas only yesterday,
In a sheath of snow and ice it lay,
With fierce winds blowing it every way;
Whose surety had it to borrow,

Till birds should fly past,

And chimes ring fast,

And the long spring shadows sweet shadow cast?

"Was there ever a day like to-day,

So clear, so shining, so tender?"

The old cry out; and the children say,
With a laugh, aside: "That's always the way,
With the old, in spring; as long as they stay,
They find in it greater splendor,

When the birds fly past,

And the chimes ring fast,

And the long spring shadows sweet shadow cast!"

Then that may be why my thoughts all day—

I see I am old, by the token

Are so haunted by sounds, now so sad, now gay,
Of the words I hear the sparrows say,
And the maple-bud's mysterious way

By which from its sheath it has broken,
While the birds fly past,

And the chimes ring fast,

And the long spring shadows sweet shadow cast! HELEN JACKSON, in The Century.

SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-Advices from Europe are to the 14th inst.

GREAT BRITAIN.-The excitement and uneasiness respecting the difficulty between England and Russia were much increased by the reception on the 9th of ac counts of a collision between Russian and Afghan forces on the 30th ult., on the banks of the Kushk, in which the latter were defeated. The Russian commander, Komaroff, in his explanation to his Government, admitted that he had advanced against the Afghans, but said that he had found them entrenched on the left bank, and had summoned the commander to retire therefrom, which he, acting as he said under British advice, declined to do. A private letter in amicable terms was then sent to the Afghan leader, and Gen. Komaroff advanced to support his demand, but still expecting a pacific issue, when the Afghans attacked him with artillery and calvary.

Premier Gladstone stated in the House of Commons on the 13th, that on receiving from Russia this statement of Gen. Komaroff, the Government had telegraphed it to Sir Peter Lumsden, the English commissioner on the Afghan frontier, asking for his information as to its correctness. His reply had not then been received. The accounts given by the Russian officers engaged in the fight, and by the English officers who witnessed it, differed so materially that the Govern ment felt it necessary to make an independent in. quiry. This was then proceeding, and every effort would be used to learn the facts. On the 14th, he said that the report of a Russian advance after the battle had not been confirmed by the information received from Sir Peter Lumsden.

Earl Granville is said to have informed the Russian Ambassador that England would not allow any further discussion concerning the delimitation of the Afghan frontier to go on, until the Russian troops have been withdrawn from the present outposts in the disputed territory, to the positions they occupied when England appointed her part of the Commission to adjust the Afghan boundary.

On the same day, the Secretary of War, in moving in the House of Commons a reply to the royal message summoning the reserves, said that he could not speak of the military measures under consideration by the Government, because recent events had modified the views of the Indian Government concerning the extent of reinforcements required. He hoped to submit a vote of credit on the 20th. The House after rejecting by a vote of 148 to 39 an amendment offered by H. Labouchere, that England at once evacuate the Soudan, agreed to the reply proposed.

The steamship Germanic, which left Queenstown for New York on the 3d with 850 passengers, returned to the former port on the 7th, having encountered a terrific storm, in which all the boats were swept away, the pilot house destroyed, and the vessel so injured, although the engines were not damaged, that it was thought unwise to proceed. One seaman was lost and several injured, as well as some passengers.

The Parliament of the island of Jersey, after a warm discnssion, has rejected a bill to expel Jesuits from the island.

rival at Mallow Junction, Co. Cork, to make a visit in the neighborhood, a large company of Nationalists, headed by three members of Parliament, had assem bled, and made a demonstration which led to a riot, repressed by the police. A riot also occurred at Cork in the evening, some doors and windows being broken.

FRANCE.-Premier Brisson, on the 7th, made in the Chamber of Deputies a formal statement of the policy of the new Ministry. They would demand from China complete respect for all the French rights resulting from the treaties with Anam and China concerning Tonquin, which China had recognized by a convention in 1884. This would be attained by amicable nego. tiation if possible, by arms if necessary. In European affairs they would seek, by an attentive and circumspect policy, to guarantee the position of France as one of the first Powers; while at home their only wish would be to serve the national sovereignty. He asked the Chamber to vote the remaining $30,000,000 of the Tonquin credit requested by M. Ferry; which was granted by a vote of 373 to 92. A member moved that the French evacuate Tonquin; but the Premier denounced the proposition, and it was not pressed.

On the 8th, the Minister of Foreign Affairs informed the Senate that the preludes of a treaty of peace with China had been virtually concluded, but he had telegraphed to Pekin for the opinion of the Chinese Government on the effect of recent negotiations, and must wait its reply. It was said on the 9th that advices from Pekin stated that China adhered to the peace preliminaries signed on the 4th. A telegram received on the 14th from the French Minister in China, announced the official publication in Pekin of an imperial decree ordering the execution of the preliminary treaty of peace. It orders the Viceroy of Canton to send commissioners to Hanoi to make arrangements with the French commander for the Chinese evacuation of Tonquin.

TURKEY. In the present disturbed relations between England and Russia, the possible action of Turkey causes some anxiety, as she commands the entrance to the Black Sea. The Turkish Minister to London has informed Earl Granville that Turkey is unwilling to enter into active alliance with either party.

Gen.

CENTRAL AMERICA.-The report of the death of President Barrios of Guatemala is confirmed. Barilas, the constitutional successor, assumed the duties, and announced the fact by telegraph on the 10th to the President of the United States. A report has been received via Mexico that the Congress of Guatemala has declared Alejudora Sinivaldy Provisional President until an election can be held. A telegram of the 14th from La Libertad said that the bases of peace were that day accepted by San Salva dor and Guatemala; hostilities were suspended, and plenipotentiaries will meet to arrange a definitive treaty of peace.

DOMESTIC. With some considerable variations, the condition of Gen. Grant has mostly been more com. fortable for the past week than for some time preceding, though there is no arrest of the disease. He is liable to sudden changes at any time, yet it appears possible life may be prolonged beyond present expectations.

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