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The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
TIE cHocTAw HEREAFTER.
Primitive Religious Beliefs of That Tribe
 of Indians.

Primitive Religious Beliefs of That Tribe
 of Indians.
 A son of the first missionary among the Choctaw Indians once related to me, says Kansas City Star man, some of the primitive religious beliefs of the tribe, among them Q version of 9 uni versal deluge, which, it was stated, was one of their oldest legends. Once, many years ago, it was night over the whole nation for 9 long time, and the whole nation despaired. After waiting many months streak of light was discovered far away in the north, and the people rcjoiced until they found to their horror that it was an immense mountain of water that was rolling down toward them. The flood killed every one but a few families, who, somehow or other, had been warned of it, and having built themselves a raft, were rescued.
 From their earliest traditions the peO- pie have been taught to believe in life after they leave this world. They be- lieve that the spirit, the moment it leaves the body, is compelled to travel a long distance to the west, until it ar
 
 tom of which flows very rapid, rocky and dangerous stream. This terrible gorge, which is surrounded on every side by great mountains, the soul has to cross on Hong and slippery pine log with the bark peeled of, g the only pas sage to the happy hunting grounds which lie beyond the dangerous bridge. On the bank of the stream, just at the other end of the log, there always stand six persons, who have reached the happy hunting grounds" and who throw. sharp rocks at who ever attempts to cross the treacherous log the moment the middle of it is reached. Those who have lived prop erly. according to the Indian idea of morals, have TO trouble in crossing the log; the stones fall harmlessly from them and they reach the ''happy hunt ing grounds, 5 where there is perpetual day, without difficulty. There the trees are ever green, the sky cloudless, and the breezes always gently blow ing; there, too, continuous feast and dance are going on, the people never grow old, but live forever in perpetual youth. The wicked, when they att tempt to cross the dangerous bridge, can see the stones which are thrown at them, and, in trying to avoid them, they fall from the giddy height into the awful gorge thousands of feet below the slippery log, where a rushing, boil ing stream is tumbling over the great sharp rocks, filled with dead fish and animals which are continually brought around to the same place by the eddies and whirlpool. There all the trees are dead, the waters infested by poisonous snakes, toads, and other repulsive- looking reptiles; the dead are ever hungry but have nothing to eat; are al- ways sick, but never die. There is no sun, and the wicked are constantly climbing up by thousands on the sides of high rock, from which they can overlook the beautiful country of the good hunting-grounds, the abode of the happy, but can never reach it."
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
QUEER IDEAS OF AMERICA,
The Germans Think It Is Not a Large
 Country.


 Americans who leave the beaten track of travel in Germany are always ob- iects of more or less interest to the peo- pie. says the New York Tribune. There is the curiosity due to the great distance that the visitors have come from, and besides German who has not rela- tive or at least a friend in this country is a rarity. The traveleris asked all kinds of questions about tho United States, and often a most lamcntable ignor- ance is displayed by the Germans about the distant country. A case in point is related by New Yorker who spent some time ono summer in village in Hanover, at some distance from rail road. He was visiting a physician whom he had met at Berlin in the uni versity days of both of them.
 One afternoon the physician, accom- panied by his friend, drove to farm house to visit q sick child When he alighted the American remained in the vehicle. Tn the course Of his call the physician happened to mention that his companion was from the United States. As they drove away an old lady rushed out of tho house, gesticUlating wildly, and calling or them to stop. They did this, and she ran ID, all out of breath. shouting:
 "How is my son? He is in America"
 She did not hear of the New Workers nationality until after the physician left tho house, and ran to make inquiry about her son, who had been in Amer ica for fifteen years. The woman had received no word from him or about him for several years. She thought, of course, that every one in America knew every one else there. The foreigner had much difficulty in explaining that he had never heard of her son, who was in Minnesota when he wrote his last letter. For some time the good woman believed that the New Yorker was an impostor and that he aid not come from America at ell.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
Immigrants to Turkey.

The mountain tribes of the Caucasus are emigrating in large numbers to Turkey. Russian settlers gre not slow to take possession of their lands. The Government has been petitioned by such settlers to divide the lands that were vacated by the Caucasians into regular settlements and to establish proper judiciary cireuits there. But the Governor of tho Eooban district has in formed the petitioners that their de mands can not be fulfilled, that the time has not come yet for the central government to talle into possession and to dispose of the lands Of the abo- GigineS. Ss.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
Servants of the Justices.

Each of the Justices of the Federal Supreme Court is allotted a body servant. who is paid out of the contingent fun of the court. These servants report promptly every morning at nine at the residences of the Justices, whom they attend constantly during the day. They shave the Justices. do their errands and occasionally act as coachmen for them. Each Justice is also furnished with q private secretary.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-06-11
CATTLE BRANDS.

Ear marks: Clean split from root to point left car, upperbit in right ear Wattle (varuga) on jaw. under mouth, e on left jaw cheek bulls c on left cheek only. Flooded stock c on left cheek and C on left ribs.
 HENRY HUNING Post office: Show Low Arizona Range: Show Low creek, Silver creek, Lagun6 Ortega and Laguna Salada.
 Horse brand c k left shOulder7
The critic., 1891-02-26

Ir WILL NOT he MANY days now before q
mourniul procession will be seen slowly
winding its way out Of Washington. IL
will start from the Capitol. There will be
no escort of local militia with the Marine
Band playing the Dudes March, in front.
The cortege will consist of the members Of
Congress who have not been reelected.
There will not be dry eye in the pro-
cession, but many dry man.
Some of the more ambitious ones who
had looked forward to long forensic
careers, and whose young hopes were
blghted by the nipping frost of the last
election, will return to their districts badly
bruised, but still in the ring, with the light
of battle in their eyes and determination
to bide their time and try again.
others will drift home to find them
selves supplanted by the men who stayed
behind, sawed wood and said nothing.
These will have to begin again almost at
the bottom of the ladder, and will curse
the day they vcnturcd to chase the
butterfly of political preferment.
Some who have had taste of Wash
ington life and enjoyed the homage OF
the bell boys i'm the hotels and the walters
at CnAMBERmS's, will linger, 10th to
leave, with no particular plan of future
life in view. Their scant savings will
soon be gone and they will embark on
the treacherous sea of law or agency. A
good many will fall into the noble army
of martyrs to popular iickleness and be
come "Colonels' for life about hotel
corridors.
The critic., 1891-02-26
An Heroic Rescue,

CfoUe tte LHtthutI"tW LfHtccs
The rescue of four of the imprisoned
miners in the GAINESVILLE mine after
nearly twenty days confinement without
food, furnishes q marvellous illustration
Of heroic human endurance. Men of ex-
ccptional vitality, with pleasant surround
ings and pleanty Of fresh air and water,
have existed without food for longer
time than this. But in every such case
there was the stimulus of religious fervor
or the prospect Of wealth or fame to buoy
mp the spirits and lend to the bodily sys-
TEN its EXTREMIST power of endurance.
In the case of the imprisoned miners all
the conditions and surroundings were of
the most depressing nature, tending to
Danish hope from the heart and strength
and life from the body in the shortest
time. Gagged withina narrow cross head
ing so small that there was scarcely room
for the four bodies to wedge themselves,
surrounded by foul water and a fouler at
mosphere, an atmosphere so foul that the
rescuing party were driven back five times
before they could reach the starving
men--their survival seems little short Of
miraculous.
The heroic efforts Of the mine superin-
tendent and his assistants, extending over
SO long period and involving the utmost
risk to their own lives, cannot be praised
too highly. The story Of the Jeanesville
mine disaster, pathetic rs il Is in its record
OF death and suffering, has its bright side
in the self-sacrifice and heroism exhibited
by those who labored night and day,
Drawing death itself to rescue the living
and perform the last sad offices for the
dead
The critic., 1891-02-26
Colonel Richard F. o'Beirne.
From ne Ne,O YORK. san, a5M.


Colonel Richard Il. O'Beirne, Twenty
first Infantry, U. s. A., died yesterday
morning about G o'clock, in the 59th year
of his age, at the New York Hotel.
Colonel O'Beirne was born in Canada in
1888, and was the son of Judge o. Beirne
of Detroit. He was brought up in the
family of General Lewis Cass, and, upon
General Cass' appointment as Secretary of
State under President Bnchanan, he be-
came his private secretary. On the out
break OF the war of the rebellion
. .OBeirne entered the Army as a volunteer,
and was appointed First Lieutenant in
the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry Of
the Regular Army.
. This regiment was attached TO the Fifth
4 Corps of the Army of the Potomac, COM
mand by Brigadier-G General Romaine B.
Ayres, and later by Brigadier-G General
Charles p. Stone. Among other battles the
at Bull Run (second battle), Gettysburg
the Wilderness and at Petersburg, where
OBeirne, then captain, was wounded in
the chest. Colonel O'Beirne was twice
breyeted for gallant service, first atthe
battle Of North Anna, Va, August l, 1854,
to the rank Of major, and again at the
battle Of Weldon Roads, Va, August 18,
1864, TO therank Of lieutenant-colonel.
At the close OF the war Colonel o. Beirne
was connected with the headquarters of
| the Army OF the East, and later, in 1866,
served in California and Washington Ter
| ritory. From 1860 to 1875 he was in
| Arizona, taking part in the affairs with
| the Utes and Apaches. From 1875 to
| 1870 he acted as aide-de-camp of General
Scofield, the Commandant at West Point.
Later he served as Major of the Twenty
fourth Infantry in Texas, as Lieutenant.
| Colonel Of the Fifteenth Infantry at Fort
Randall, in Dakota; as superintendent Of
the recruiting station on Davis Island
neal near S Chicago, s about v wear p'a ago, % he wa.
| put in command there. Last November
he came East to be treated for Bright's
| disease, which finally caused his death
His appointment as Colonel or the Twenty
| Iirst Infantry was received but three week.
ago. and, had he lived, he would hav.
| taken command of this regiment at For
| Sidney, Neb. Colonel O'Beirne leaves
| widow and three adopted children.
The critic., 1891-02-26
Colonel Thomas plcton Dead.

TyOOl NE NfgD TOTl RecOrdfr. 9Jfh instant
In ,he proes Clnh Iot Il, c,vnross Hills
Cemetcrv yesterdav the cIods raitled NJ,
,bc rofliy ~ ono VIC wLen alive wos the
host ;nfor,,, od MAJ, about oid Nav yorL
of Ga anv who dweli % w;ti;n ;ts J limits
Iho dead man b"d q stranoa and event-
FIJI h;stnrw Iia ,vas horn T6on,as Picton
M;,nnr H., he fother,s s;da bn ,ros a rei.
oi;ua of tha fo,oons Cothni;c d;v;ne Dr
Miirer v,,n ,vrnto VIVA Ind ~ Pal;1;ous
tnntroyersv ), and b;s mother was a ,,iece
of the fa;noua S;aneraj Tbomaa P;rton
who cornn, anded tha Eisth d;v;s;n,, af the
Rr;tisb arn,v NJ Waterloo and ,vos IilIad
In That fam1is battIe He claimed IN he
ibe iccit;mate successor In fhc titles Of
that fannn,,s ofticer s,,cb no Connt Of
Tones Vadros W,dalgo of Snoin' For
reasons hest known 10 I;mse,f ha dronned
ti,e M;lner frn,,, h;s name and ,yos tLu tnn,v,,
bv his intimatcs No ,coinnel Thomas Pic.
ton -
Wo wos horn NJ ts Mott straet In This
ciiv IN 1sSo W;s fotber senaraled fron,
hid mother who after his death married
again this time n very vo,,ng man Her
mother inot voung pIcfon a,,d raared hin,
elegantIv J};s nsotber ,ras nossessed Of
f5rimne n, ber ow,, ,;abt Which, x,ie,ded
hetwecn f;ftv aud s;vty tSonsand doiIars
n vcar Her mother @ Was also verv rich
Yonno pictnn ,vas one of 1be first gradu.
otes Of he ITn;yersitv of Nav Ynris ante-
da.;.., n: ~: .n;1 s'y n ~. Uoi ~ go 'ni''.
The critic., 1891-02-26

photography of Colors.


The recent success of NJ. G. Lippmann
in solving the problem of reproducing the
colors of the solar spectrum photograph
ically is one of the most interesting and
beautiful results Of modern laboratory
experiment.
In announcing his discovery to the
Paris Academy NJ. Lipmann says the con-
ditions essential to the photography of
colors .are-iirst, a sensitive film showing
no grain, and second, rejecting surface
at the back of the film. Albumen, collo-
dion, and gelatine films sensitized with
idodidc or bromide of silver, and proved
by microscopic examination to be free
from grain, are placed in a hollow dark
slide filled with mercury, which forms a
rejecting layer. The exposure, develop
ment, and adjusting of the film are done
in the ordinary way, but when completed
the colors Of the spectrum are visible.
The explanation is very simple. The
incident light which forms the Image in
the camera interferes With the light re-
guently formed in the film a series of
| fringes or maxima and minima OF lumi-
Mostly. At the close of the experiment
the maxima are seen to be marked by de-
posits of silver. The thickness OF the
| film Is divided according to, the deposits
of silver into laminn of thicknesses equal
to the interval separating two maxima of
light in the fringes.-that Is, half the wave
length OF the incident ray; and 1t Is these
laniinm Of metallic silver which by re-
fiection SO beautifully reproducetlie colors
OF the incident light.
!. This discovery marks new and bril-.
liant era in photography, the Importance
Of which cannot now be easily exagger.
ated.
The critic., 1891-02-26
rASenoN RELEASED.
She Broke Through the Gangway aud
! TnmbIed TO tile Ground After Push
ing Mr.. Reic1re Oyer.

She Broke Through the Gangway aud
! TnmbIed 10 tile Ground After Push
ing MIR. Reicfc Oyer.
From ne Me,o Fork Continent, 95M.
Fanchon, the trick elephant, which has
held possession OF the second story OF the
building at No. 143 East Fifty-seventh
street since Saturday last, was conducted
to the ground, or rather tumbled to the
ground, yesterday. Trainer Reiche made
O very sudden descent also.
She was led over inclined planks TO the
sashless window and out on the timber
gangway in the presence OF surgng
crowd Of several thousand men, women
and children, who filled the street and
every available point of view. This was
exactly at 1880 p. m. Fanchon was led
by Trainer Reiche and Keeper Fisher to
the turn in the gangway. Here the disas-
ter happened. She became alarmed at the
cheering of some boys in the street, and
with sudden lurch pushed Reiche oyer
the wall. He fell TO the ground, some
fifteen feet below, alighting on his shoul-
ders. A cry of alarm came from the
crowd, but the trainer was not seriously
injured. He managed to walk into the
stable.
AT the same time Fanchon slipped of
the planks and fell on her side to the lower
gangway. The planlts crcaked ominously
under her weight, but Fisher held her
lightly by the ear and directed the crowd
to roll bales of hny beneath Then the
planks were pulled out, Fanchon fell on
the hay and rolled down To the ground.
. With the exception of a slight wound on
the fore leg she was unhurt.
The critic., 1891-02-26
CHARLOTTE BRoNrE IN SOCIETY.
.,.a uana, ~ ..Iaaa Is,...a B,

PARTY NJ Tbacterav,s Hon.c 10 Meet
The Author OF ..,Jane 1,vre.v
y,s Anns ybocttyov RitchL in Ngo,ujpou,s
.,' "u.' ,,'a;,J s,s ~. ,,~;,,..,, w.,
s.,yono "%'a 10 w '.,,'' .,, ia.
versstion wiich never oegan AT al. MISS
Bronte retired to the sofa in the study,
and murmured low word now and then
to our kind governess Miss Truelock
The room looked very dark, the lamp
began to smoke littlc the conversation
grew DINNER and more dim, the ladies
sat round still expectant, my father was
too much perturbed by the gloom and the
silence to be able to cope with IL at all.
Mrs. Brookficld, who was In the doorway
by the study, near the corner in which
Miss Bronte was sitting, leant forward
with little commonplace, since brill
lance was not to be the order Of the
evening.
''Do you like London, Miss Bronte?"
she said; another silence, pause, then
Miss Bronte answers yes and no very
grayely, and there the conversation drops.
NV sister and I were much too Young TO
be bored In those days; alarmed, inn
pressed we might be, but not vet bored.
A party was a party. loness was d
lioness; and--shalI / confess it?--at that
time an extra dish of biscuits was enough
to mark the evening. We felt all the inn
portance of the occasion; tea spread in
the dining room, ladies in the drawing
room; we roamed about inconveniently,
no doubt, and excitedly, and In one Of
my excursions crossing the hall, was
The critic., 1891-02-26
UNDERBRED BOOKS.
Their Influence Worse Than an Epi-
demic.


Their Influence Worse Than an Epi-
demic.
Charles Dudley Warner In HdJper's.
An underbred book-that is, book in
which the underbred characters are the
natural outcome of the authors own
mind and apprehension of life--is worse
than any possible epidemic; for while an
epidemic may kill q number Of useless or
vulgar people, the book will make great
number. The keen observer must have
noticed the increasing number of common
place, undiscriminating people of low in
tellectual taste in the United States.
These are to degree the RESULT Of the
feeble, underbred literature, so called, that
Is most hawked about and most accessible
by cost and exposure, to the greater num-
ber Of people. II is easy to distinguish the
young ladies--many Of them beautifully
dressed and handsome on the first ac-
guaintance--whoh have been bred on this
Kind Of book. They are betrayed by their
speech, their taste, their. manners. Yet
there is marked public insensibility
about this. We all admit that the scrawny
young woman, anmmic and physically un-
developed, has not had proper nourishing
food. But we seldom think that the mem
tally vulgar girl, poverty. stricken in ideas,
has been starved on thin course of diet
on anemic books. The girls are not to
blame if they are as yapid and uninterest-
ing rs the ideal girls they have been asso-
ciating with in the books they have read.
The responsibility Is with the novelist and
the writer of stories, the chief character
istic of which is vulgar commonplace.
b. Probably when the Great Assfze is held
one of the questions asked will be, "Did
you in America ever write stories for
children?' What quaking of knees
there will bel For there will stand the
victims of this sort of literature, who be-
gan in their tender years to enfecble their
minds with the wishy-washy food of
commonplace prepared for them by dull
writers and commercial publishers, and
continued on in those so-called domestic
stories Gas if domestic meant idiotic)
until their minds were diluted to that de-
gree that they could not act upon any
thing that offered the least resistance.
Beginning with the pepsinized books, they
must continue with them, and the dull
appetite by-and-by must be stimulated
with spice of vulgarty or little pepper
Of impropriety; and, fortunately for their
nourishment in this kind, the dullest
writers can be indecent.
The critic., 1891-02-26
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

MetIop0litdn-Mr. and Mrs. A. ID. Thompson
plainleld, N, D.; Luther W. King and wire,
bnltimore; staniorth, Mexico; H. a. Curtis,
winston, N. O.; Dudley 7. Brown, New YORK;
=; w. Price and Wife, Danyille, va; y. N.
G1,aSii,Ef, Efic' r"'' d. H. simpson, Sou'h
S"io,ha'
4. y. Robbins, Adrian, Mich; +. d, Forbush,
Srsia hapius' Mich; Johh ~ White' Cum-
oeriahu' Mu'
81. Jdmes-W. II. Keycs, New. York; John
Gran, pittsbnrg; W. u. Paterson, Montgomery,
Turner and wifc, San Francisco; q. u. kascr,
rh,iaueipni"i ~, u Lowe, oleVsiahu' ohio.
WHdiUs-W. Il. Abbott, ihiiadelphin, WI,
liam ;. Anderson and wife, D.. b. Sanders ana
nooga, Tenn; Mrs. 4. 2; Wells, Miss Ella Bar
The critic., 1891-02-26
FrOm Me LondOn Standard.


A curious light is thrown on Russian
regimental discipline by the case of
Prince Bartinief. Thisyo officer was
known to have shot q girl, but all further
details were carefully suppressed. Yet
the story is worth repeating.
In moment Of jealousy he lured her
to his house and there murdered her. He
then went to the colonel of his regiment,
one of the Imperial Guards, and related
what he had done, ending by laying. the re.
volver on the table. His superior listened
quietly, and when he had finished, re-
J marked: II suppose You do not need any
advice from me,h and left the room. In q
quarter of an hour he returned and found
Bartenief still there. He asked him If It
were possible that he had not understood.
Bartenieff replied that he had not the
courage. His colonel then reviled him in
the grossest terms and told him to leave
his presence.
The murderer then went to the project
Of Warsaw, where the same scene was re-
peated, except that the official was at the
pains to procure pistol and leave II on
the table. The project then cut off bis
epaulets and took him IN custody: HI
will probably be condemned TO Siberia
and as probably will never go there; but
he will not be able to show his face In
society again.
The critic., 1891-02-26

Mrcn is SAID of Speaker REEDS NERVE
and backbone" and "plucls." We con-
fess our inability to perceive it. The
quality required TO sustain one in course
OF tyranny involving no personal danger,
and subjecting him only to dislike and
contempt and resentment, should be
called insensibility-not courage. Mr..
REED has made himself odious TO the
minority; that is all. He has not ex-
pedited business at all. He has simply
INDUCED in wanton and Improbable
persecution of his political opponents and
he seems to possess a temperament which
permits him to enjoy the sensation of
being despsed and hated. We recognize
in this neither pluck nor "backbone''-
nothing, in fact, beyond thick skin and
torpid conscience. These are the attri-
butes Of the pachyderm, not of the hero.
He was never in any physical danger and
be knew it. He was, and is, as secure
against bodily harm as though he were
the mildest and most lovable philanthro-
pist on earth, and he has known It from
the first. We would not willingly do in
justice to Mr.. REED. We have always ad-
mind the mans brains, his adroitness and
his intellectual resource. But we do not
think that he has been brave any more
than he has been wise in this. Andif we
doubt whether he would have been SO
tyrannical had he incurred any risk
thereby, il is because we see by reference
TO his record that, during the period in
which brave men exhibited their courage,
he kept himself as carefully remote from
danger as he is at this moment.