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iicly confessed their sin before the
people of the town and expressed
the deepest contrition. 1t may be
that before long the people who are now
responsible for the abuses of mental heal
ihg-the intelligent and honest folk. who
ought to know better-will be. following
the example of the Salem judges. There
is just as much evidence that witches in
1892 caused commissions. rheumatic pains,
and other diseases among their victims
as thsre is now that case Of diphtheria
or smallpox was ever healed by prayer.
Everybody knows that diseases of the mind
can and must be cured by mental remedies.
II a woman is suffering from a hysterical
conviction that she is nervous wreck.
she will be one il somebody does not take
her mind from OFF herself. But II she has
yellow fever or consumption or spinal dis
ease or the measles the remedies used in
her case will have to be as tangible and
material as the disease itself.
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THURSDAY. JUNE 5, 1899.
A Samoan Settlement.

The ease with which the tripartite COM
mission, representing the United States
Great Britain. and Germany, in Samoa, ap-
pears to have been able to bring order out
of chaos. to stop the fighting among the
Samoans and to force the rival claimants
to the throne to terms. and disarm them
and their adherents, is prima facie evil
dence that there has been a great Geal
more trouble in the islands than there was
any excuse for. If the Consuls of the pow
ers interested in the condominum had
been as able to act in harmony as the three
Commissioners evidently are, all the fuss
and bother Of the late disturbance with its
attendant loss of valuable lives, and dan
gerous friction between Governments
anxious to maintain friendly relations
among themselves, might perhaps have
been avoided.
1t is eminently satisfactory to learn that
the natives have finally given up their
rifles, and that they are willing to abide by
the decisions of the international tribunal
That point having been gained. there is
good ground for the hope that a scheme Of
control may be evolved that will render
the islands a place where Europeans can
settle and trade without fear of savage
outbreaks.
II appears that our engineering force has
arrived to construct the jetties. piers. and
fortifications at Pago Pago Bay. When
that work has been completed. it viii
amount to a new assurance of peace, and
no doubt other things will he done TO rem
der Samoan riots more difficult in the flu
turp
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To1BERT ALLOWED TO GO HOME.
Bnni>hed south Carolina Politician
Has His Ban Removed.

Columbia s c., June S.-R. r. Toibert.
whose contest for the seat of Congressman
]. r. Latimer has just been taken up al
Washington. has been allowed TO return
to his home at Phoenix. Greenwood coun-
ty. from which he was expelled last No
ve;nber at the time of the election riots.
Tolbert came quietly and is with his
family. The other Tolberts expelled by
the popular will are still under banish
ment and cannot return.
Il. 4. Tolbert recently got the editor of
his home paper to meet him in Greenville
and TO him the Republican leader made a
statement for publication that changed the
sentiment of the people. Tolbert said that
he had opposed negro domination, negro
office-holding, and ignorant negroes vot-
ing. He would be the first to fight for
white supremacy.
He had othing to do, he said. with in
citing The negroeS-iiad never attended or
encouraged their night meetings. II he
had thought his candidacy for Congress
would have resulted in riot or blocdshed
ne would have refused the nomination. He
had been Republican. he said. because he
thought their policy the best, but if he
was shown to be wrong he would change
All he wished to do. Tolbert said in con-
cit lsion. was to live in peace III a communi-
t. where his friends were.
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INDIANS SELECT A CHIEF.
at "a Grand Council
Choose Leader.

Hartford, Mich, June S.-About one
hundred OF the Pottawattamie Pokagon
band of Michigan and Northern Indians
met under the old council tree here Sum-
day to hold the first grand council held by
the tribe since the death of their chief.
Simon PokagOn.
The object was to select a chief. An
old Indian chairman said: Although We
are civilized. We are. so far as the OBJ
ject of the meeting Is concerned. Indians
sill, and l propose that we vote accord
ing to our ancient custom
This was agreed to. Two men were Sc
lected to run for chief The chairman in
structed one of them TO take his position
on the east side of the council tree and
the other on the west side. Then a re-
quest was made that the members Of the
council should form in line around the
man they desired to elect. Meso Motu.
seventy-f five years old. and brother-in-
law of Chief Pokagon, was declared the
choice of the council, and was hailed by
some of the young men as Our old war
chief"
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MIR. scHURMAN's RETURN.
His Intention to Leave Manila M
Surprise Here

While no information has been received
at the State Department to Justify an as
sertion that President Schurman will re-
turn TO the United States very soon. il is
not denied that his Homecoming is proba-
BILE before very long. Before Mr. Schur-
man went to the Philippines it was the
understanding between the President AMI
himself that should Mr.. Schurman deem II
advisable he would return to this country
to assume his duties as President Of Cor
nell University at the beginning of the
fall term. Mr.. Schurman did not resign
the Presidency of Cornell and the report
from Manila that he would start for home
next month after completing tour of the
southern islands of the Philippine group
is not disc-edited Should Mr.. Schurman
return home he will resign from the Com
mission.
Nothing has been heard at the State De-
partment as to the desires of the other
members of the Commission, Prof ID. C.
Worcester. of Michigan. and Col. Charles
DENLY. of Indiana II is believed here.
however. that they will prefer to remain
in the Philippines until the work CT the
Commission has been accomplished There
is no truth in statements that the Admin
istration has ordered the members of the
Commission to come back to the United
States on account of dissatisfaction with
their work. There have been differences
of opinion among the Commissioners but
only such as would naturally arise be-
tween men of positive views
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DISCOVERY OF A NEW CAVE.
4 Wonderful suhterranenn Region
Found in New ZcriRnd.


Victoria. b. C. June S.-New Zealand
advices Of May 10 just received contain
news OF the discovery twelve miles from
Wakato of what is probably the largest
and most interesting cave in the world
The location was purely accidental. Wal
lace Johnstone. the antiquarian, being lei
to the entrance in the side of limestone
cliff by the fall of a pigeon he had shot.
The mouth was some twenty feet wide by
fifteen high with an even floor dipping
from the entrance at an angle of thirty
degrees. The discoverer saw amid the
darkness white shining columns, which
glistened in the light of the wax matches
lighted at the extremity to which he woul /
not venture without lanterns and guild
ance cord. The noise of countless futter-
ing bats and 4 constant drip cf water were
the only sounds accentuating the general
stiffness. Procuring candles and a suffi-
cient party the following day. Johnstone
explored the main hall. in reality n second
cave commencing at about 600 yards from
the entrance and containing innumerable
amount OF stalactite and stalagmits- 1t
was traced for upwards CT 81 1-2 miles at
which point the cavern appeared to be
widening rather than contracting. the roof
being lest to sight in black space.
Many fragments of burial utensils were
picked up. quite sufficient to stamp the
immense cavern as the ancient place of
sepulture depicted in Maori legend and
heretofore regarded as mythical by stu
dents of New Zealand aboriginal history.
There appears to be no limit to the length
Of the cavern. The explorers proceeded
without difficult until they encountered a
subterranean lake, the width Of which has
not yet bsen determined.
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TO EXPLORE FOSSIL FIELDS.
GeO1OEists Invited to n Sixty-Day
Scientific Excursion.

Scfenf1dc Excursion.
Omaha, Neb, June S.-The Union Pacific
Company has forwarded 800 Invitations to
prominent geologists and paleontoIogists
throughout the country to join in a free
excursion of sixty days to study the re-
cent fossil finds in the Wyoming wonder
land. The professors Of the various large
colleges throughout the country are espe-
cially invited and transportation is to be
furnished for at least one assistant free.
The excursionists are expected TO gather
at Laramie. Wyo. on July 10. and begin
their research under the direction OF Prof.
Knight. of the Wyoming University. They
may carry all the baggage they desire.
One object Of the trip is to give the pro-
fessOr a chance to see and study the great
fossil unearthed by Prof. Reed. 1t is the
complete petrified body Of an animal
weighing 10000 pounds. The monster is
relic of the Jurassic age. thirteen feet
long, thirty-fve feet high at the highest,
and twenty-five feet at the shoulders. The
giant lies ninety miles from Laramie and
the company will do anything the scient-
lists think feasible to secure the great fos-
sill and transport it to a less obscure place.
This field of research is the richest known
to the geologist. and no effort will be
spared to give the college men all the
chance they desire to investigate the fossil
field
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Cbtidren,s Games.

One of the things obtruded upon our at
tention during these summer evenings is
the sound of childish voices as the little
folk of the streets and alleys play their
games in the only out-of-door place they
can find-the sidewalk. Most of us are
quite willing to turn out for the skipping
ropes and roller skates, and other articles
in evidence as we pass along the street:
and most of us do not mind hearing 'Loii-
don Bridge" or some other quaint old
melody from under our windows. At any
rate, it Is preferable to street organ
playing "A Hot Time in the Old Town
Tonight while a sad-eyed little monkey
dances to the music.
II it were possible to make thorough
study of children's games. 1t would prob
ably be found that they are records in
religious ceremonies. Some of the rhymes
and songs are so old that all trace OF their
beginning has been lost. The counting
out rhymes are in a jargon which varies
in different countries and languages. but
it has been thought that the language is
really Romany. or gypsy talk. and the
gypsy language goes back to the begin
ming of all history. II is possible that
some of the games played by negro chill
dren were brought from Africa, along with
the weird folk tales of Uncle Remus.'
and sundry plantation ghost stories. One
traveller. while lying under a tree in the
Soudan somewhere, saw the native chill
dren playing ball game. which. he says.
closely resembled one which he himself
used to play when a child. Some one, in
looking up the history OF London Bridge,
discovered that the chldren's rhyme is
the record of a time when London Bridge
actually fell. during an invasion OF the
Danes hundreds OF years ago. The event
was probably described in ballad. and
acted out in the spontaneous fashion Of
a primitive people. and finally relegated
to children.
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more efficient and less troublesome man
substituted. But, meanwhile, the dis
charged man has to be supported somehow.
Perhaps his wife and daughters have to
do it, and when they are forced to
enter into competition with men wages
are lowered just that much. and so the
waste is increased.
Another evil for which the monopoly Is
responsible. and 1t is the greatest which
can befall a free state, is the chaining OF
speech and action. By this is not meant
the devotion which each man must give to
his work in these days of competition. The
true man feels a great desire to make his
work good. even at the cost of his own
comfort, health, or life. But when he
works over hours and at feverish pace, not
because he wishes to work but because he
is driven by the scourge of fear; when he
votes. speaks, and even thinks as he is
told lest he lose his place: when he is ami
mated, not by honest thought. but by
slavish cOwardice in his support of his
masters aims, then there is danger for the,
Republic and il is serious.
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The DelusiOn of 1S:l0.

One Of the questions before the public
in regard to the clique of mental healers.
Christian Scientists and ether quacks who
have been operating on deluded people of
late. is the proper punishment of these
charlatans in case CT the death of the pa
tient. Up to the present time the sentence
imposed ON those who have gotten them
selves into trouble in this way has been
simply that for practicing medicine with
out license. In the case of Mrs. Muller
the Brooklyn scientist who treated gan
CREME with prayer. and thereby caused
little girl to lose her foot, the penalty was
five months in the penitentiary. The gen.
eral opinion is that this sentence was alto
gether too light. There might be an OBJ
lection 10 sending deluded. though harm
full character 10 prison at ALL on account
OF the severity of such a punishment ap-
piled to person of some sensibility; but
If there was to be prison sentence it
should have been heavy enough to estab-
lish precedent. 1t is time that an exam
pie be made. Certainly a woman who de-
liberately cripples child through the tor
turing process Of gangrene is as guilty as
if for any reason she seized the child on
the highway and chopped its foot off with
an AK.
In Buffalo the plan adopted with regard
TO the healer" and the parents of a child
who died Of neglect and Christian Science
was TO indict them all for manslaughter,
and after one such conviction, parents will
probably hesitate to jeopardize the lives OF
their children however strnnu tba;r do,,,
sion may be. When a case of this sort is
hauled into the criminal courts and the
common sordid consequences of a prosecu
tion for murder ensue. it takes the glamour
oil from it and abolshes the herosm.
Christian Science will probably be some
what discouraged in Buffalo hereafter.
In some ways this delusion resembles
the witchcraft delusion which was fraught
with such terrible consequences in Europe
three hundred years ago, and which. owing
to the healthier and more practical life of
the new country, cropped out only once in
America in any violent form. The world
moves by action and reaction, and after an
age of great practical achievements the
stimulus TO the Imagination frequently re-
suits in an outbreak Of superstition or re-
iigous excitement among those whose
minds are slightly abnormal. After the
Elizabethan age, following the discovery
of the New World. came the Matthew Hop
kins witch-finding craze in England.
Toward the end of the seventeenth cen
tury, when this craze had scarcely died out
in England. there was a sporadic outbreak
OF II in Salem. due perhaps to reports of
the English witch -burnings and trials, or
to immigrants from that country. This
single outbreak was brief. lasting but
year, and, compared with the form which
the superstition took in England and Scot
land. and on the Continent, was extremely
mild, no one being burned at the stake and
but twenty people hanged. as against
three thousand executions in England and
no one knows how many in Europe. After
1t was over the judges and citizens con-.
cerned in the Salem affair pub
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The Trinidad Negro.
Frcm the London Chronicle.)

VhfuhlcTeJ
Sir William Robinson's paper on Trinidad y
read before the Royal Colonial Institute la,i
night. was of a far more gossipy and entertain.
ing character than the average contribution to
the proceedings Of academic societies He retailed
some Of the negro stories he collected while
governor of the island. 4 Church of England
digntary had servant a negress who was
very fond of hymE-singinS and petty pilfering
She took loose money off his dressing table Ia
the tune of Hold the Fort and under cover
of Onward. Christian Soldier seaue>trated the
eatables The late Bishop Rawle asked a negro
sitting in idlenesS by the roadside how he man.
aged TO pass the time. Il sit in lie sun. mass.
and let de time pass me- was the quaint and
philosophical REPLY These Trinidad negroes. il
appears, are long and heavy seepcrs. There was
a severe earthquake at O'Clock one morning.
and Sir William. driving into town, said to
his groom: Edward did you feel the earthquake
at o'clock this morning." "Nn. maSsa' he
replied, Il on'y. went to bed at hJlf-plst eight
last night"
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THE CIVIL SERVICE ORDER.
The President Opens the Gates 70
lO.OnA gnAflsmen.

1
10000 Spoilsmen.
New York, June 8.-The world this
morning prints the following under a
Washington, line:
| President McKinley's recent civil SER
| vice order is, not merely ''step back
ward" II is long leap toward the cor
rupt and chaotic conditions which pre-
vailed before there was any serious
! thought of putting a civil service law in
| force.
when the order was issued friends Of the
| Administration announced that it would
| exempt 1000 officeholders from the opera
tiOn of the law. The declaration OF this
| departure from the precedents OF years
| caused great surprise and much condemna-
| tion. 1t appears. however. that not half
| the tale waS told.
Experts who have just concluded an ex-
animation of the effect of the order declare
that it will place more than 10000 offices
at the disposal Of Republican spoiismen
THE experts give facts and figures. They
declare:
l. That the order will revive the old system of
political retaliation, and destroy the whole merit
system.
:. That it viii open the gates to thousands of
incompetent place-hunters in river and harbor
work
>. That it will turn loose from the Internal
Rsyenne Bureau ,GJ0 employees who gained their
positions through merit, and put in their places
1.dDJ favorites Of the spoilsmen
1. That it will turn to the place hunters
the Engineer Corps and the National Armories-
D. That it will affect hundreds OF deputy mar
shais scattered throughout the country
d. That it will let down the bars which have
protected the Land Office and the Indian Bureau
from the politicians.
.. That it will out the higher class of
clerks in the PoStofice Department.
$. That by annullinG the old rule that per-
son discharged for any cause could not be rcfn-
stated after the expiration OF year, ii will open
the WY for the reinstatement of any political
heeler who get his boss to certify that
the charges on which he lost his Office were
true
o That it will. revive the old system Of dis
charging employees under Administration and
restoring them under another.
10. That il increases indefinitely the number. of
persons who will be exempt from civil service
examination.
II. That il encourages a system Of transfers
which will make the civil service sectional ratb-
er than national, and promotion dependant upon
political service rather than merit.
II. That il permits chiefs Of divisions to ad-
vance 10 higher grades, regardless OF the
Civil Service Commission.
The experts cannot, of course, compute
the whole number of offices affected by the
order. but they give table of actual ex-
emptons as follows:
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The MOnOpOlist.

A great deal has been said against the
trusts, the syndicates and the other agen-
cies which are helping to throttle the free
dom OF human life just at present; and one
argument used by the staid and conserva-
tive. ii slightly Illogical. people who sup
port this system of things is that if a
man behaves himself and is Industrious
and quiet he will not get into trouble. trust
or no trust. While the people who use
this argument pride themselves on their
safe attitude. they are really promulgating
one Of the most dangerous doctrines on
earth. 1t is that any sort of tyranny is
justifiable so long as man is not actually
killed by it, and the oppressors have a rea-
son for their behavior. 1t would be just
as logical to defend King John and abuse
the mobiles who got up the Magma Charta,
on the ground that some quiet. submissive.
Industrious people were not troubled by
the liberty allowed the King.
1t is true. of course. to some extent, that
syndicates have suffered from the work.
ings of them, and that often they are not
as able or as shrewd as those who have
prospered in the employ of the mono
polist. A man always speaks with more
force on a subject when he can argue
from personal experience, but his evidence
as to the cause of the experience is not
invariably to be discredited on that ac-
count. Moreover. the monopolist is
shrewd man, or he would not have attain
ed his present position: and he knows that
the wisest thing he can do is to secure for
himself the best workmen in every branch
of trade, and so long as there is any pos
sibilty Of their leaving him. he must take
pains to make them contented. Human
nature is so constituted that 1t would
rather consider bread and butter than alb
stract questions; and so long as man
fares well at the hands of his employer he
is not likely to abuse that employer with
out particular cause.
The anti-monopoly argument is not that
the less competent are left out, though
that is rather bad in a state of civiliza-
tion The law of the survival of the fit
test does not work badly in a state of abb
solute savagery, because when the savage
leaves his weaklings to die that is the end
VI H. pu' VIC nave sol'eh psyouu THAT, ana
when man is made into a tramp and a
pauper by lack of employment, or disabled
through the greed of employers, somebody
has to support him-he is not left to die.
The only logical plan of civilization is
10 SO arrange matters that every person.
whether man. woman. or child. shall have
suitable to do. so that the maxi
mum amount Of work with the minimum
amount of killing labor. waste. and loss of
time may be gotten out of the people as
a whole. But when the monopolist gets
hold OF a community he practices wedding
out the unfit on plan of his own. II one
of his workmen is discharged, worn out
and exhausted. or demands too large wages,
he can be promptly dispensed with and al i
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The reported action Of the Order of For
eign Wars. in rejecting Junior Rear Ad-
miral SIMPSONS application for membsr-
ship, seems to put cap on the climax
OF the only naval scandal of the war. The
ambition of the famous absentee. TO he re-
garded as the hero of a victory he was rot
near enough to see through a telescope.
may now be considered as dead as his Ma
tanzas mule 1t is time 10 leave admiral
and mule to a well-earued repose. Both
have been before the country to much
greater extent than the impo tance of
either has justified.
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RISE IN COLORADO RIVER.
Much Damage Done to Towns Along
the Banks.

AUSTIN Texas. June s.-The Colorado
River and its tributaries are higher than
known for thirty years. AT Kingsland 100
miles above here, an IS-foot rise occurred
suddenly yesterday. large part OF the
toxin is under water and houses were
washed away At Marble Falls. the water
works power house was destroyed and
nearly all OF that town is under water.
Thousands of acres of crops are destroyed
The great dam here. which was erected
at cost OF 81 500. .OG0 a few years ago. is
having its first test of a food 1t is ap-
parentiy bearing the terrible strain per-
fectly. The water is flowing over its crest
to height OF fifteen feet. The depth of
the lake formed by the dam is over eighty
feet. The lake is forty miles long. The
river is still rising at rapid gate.