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The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
THE MAORI VERSION.
Tradition of Savages Respecting the Great
 Deluge.

Tradition of Savages Respecting the Great
 Deluge.
 According to the tradition in the Nga- i-tahu tribe of Maoris, says Colonies and India, men had become very numer- ous and evil prevailed everywhere. The tribes quarreled and wars were ire quent. The worship of Tane was neg lected and his doctrines were openly denied. Men utterly refused to believe the teachings of Parawhneua-mea and Tupunuia-a-uta respecting the separa- tion of Heaven and earth by Tane, and at length cursed those two devout men when they continued their teaching. Then these two teachers were very an gry and got their stone axes and cut down totara and other trees, which they dragged together to the source of the River Tohinga (baptism). They bound the timber together with vines of the pirita and ropes and made a very wide raft. Then they made incantations, and built a house on the raft, and put much food into it-fern root, kumar Sweet potato) and dogs. Next they re- peated their incantations, and prayed that rain might descend in such abun- dance as would convince men of the power of Tane, and prove the truth of his existence, and the necessity of the ceremonies of worship for life and for peace, and to avert evil and death. Then these teachers-With Tu-iRete, a female named Walpuna-Nau, and other women-got on the raft. .Tiu, who was a1 &1o1 ba rain might descend in great torrents, and when it had so raincd for four or five days and nights he repeated his in- cantations that it might cease, and it ceased. The raft was lifted by the wa ters and hoated down the River Tohin- ga. All men and women and children were drowned of those who denied the truth of the doctrines preached by Tane. The legend then gives detailed account of the wandcrings of the raft, and the doings and adventures of it's oc- cupants. Once they saw goddesses wandering on the face Of the ocean. These came to make cOInnOtiOn in the sea, that the raft might be de- stroyed and those on it might perish. The sea was boisterous, but the raft and it's occupants were not over whelmed. When they had 1loated about for seven moons, Tiu spoke to his com panions and said: ''We shall not die; we shall land on the earth" In the eighth month the rolling motion of the raft had changed; it now pitched up and down and rolled. Tiu then said that the signs of his staff indicated that the sea was becoming less deep, and he de- clared that that was the month in which they would land on dry earth. They did land at Ilawaiki-the place from which the Maoris, according to their traditions, migrated to New Zea- land.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY.
Instances Illustrative of the Ignorance O
 Foreigners Concerning It.

Instances Illustrative of the Ignorance of
 Foreigners Concerning It.
 The confusion which foreigners make of our geography is well illustrated by a German poem which appeared several years ago, says the Youths Companion. The poet, with utter unconcern about To- cations and distances, makes such anus ing blunders that its literary value is entirely lost. The argument is some thing as follows:
 Under palm tree on the shore of Lake Erie the hero is devoured by an alligator. The heroine, hearing of his fate, rushes from her home in the Ever glades of Florida on the banks of Lake Superior, captures the alligator, eX- tracts the heros body and buries it with magnificent pomp in Greenwood, in the city of New York in the state of St. Louis.
 Another German, who really wished to know the geography of this country, fell into the mistake so common with Europeans of not appreciating the rather large scale on which nature has 1ealt with us in the matter of area of land and water.
 Near Concord, Mass, is Walden pond, .he little body of water near which rhoreau lived alone in hut for about TWO years. His most famous book is entitled ''Walden." It purports to be m account of his life in the hut, and ranks with the masterpieces of Ameri- can literature.
 Not long ago German professor, en- gagged in studies of America, received from Washington large map of the continent. Soon afterward in writing to an eminent American professor and historian. the German scholar said he mad looked all over the map without finding Walden pond. This seemed to him an amazing omission.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
A BEAR STORY.
Another Bear Assisted the Trapped Brut
 in Carrying or the Trap.

Another Bear Assisted the Trapped Brute
 in Carrying Of the Trap.
 Not long ago cow died in the vicin- ity of the Quinn ranch, near the head C Goose creek, south of Wagon Wheo gap, says the San Juan (Cal.) Prospec- tor. It soon became apparent to Will liam Quinn, owner of the ranch, that the carcass of the COW was being visited by bear of very large dimensions, and, in company with Dell McClclland, MT. Quinn decided to ''sit up with the bear and endeavor to get shot at it by night. This was done, but owing to darkness the bear was not killed by shots fired.
 As the next resort, large bear trap, weighing about seventy-five pounds. was procured and set near the dead ''critter," and the trappers went to bed laughing at the trick they had played on the bear. The trap was chained to pole eighteen feet long and eight inches through at the large end.
 In the morning an examination of the premises about the dead COW showed plainly that the bear and a cub had been there during the night. There was large track, eighteen inches long and six or seven inches wide, and small track, evidently made by cub. The trap, however, was gone, and with it the eighteen-foot pole, and the disturbed condition of the ground showed conclu- s::vely that the bear had been caught in the trap. The trail, however, away from the scene, was only the trail Of two bears-there was not a mark of dragging either trap or pole.
 MT. Quinn took up the trail, which he followed eight miles without coming upon the bears, trap or pole. At the camp of Tom Carey, seven miles away, that gentleman told how, in the night, he had been awakened by sound as of something walking, with an occasional pause and heavy fall on the ground, as though something had been dropped. Having no gun Mir. Carey sat up in his tent the balance of the night and en- deavored to keep warm by pol1ing wood into a sheet-iron stove.
 The trail was followed a mile or so further and then lost. In one place the bears had passed through a heavy quaking aspen thiclet and had literally moved swath through the saplings, showing that the trap and pole were being taken along.
 The natural inference is that the bear was caught in the trap and had picked up the same, with the pole, and started for the hills. The bear is an old offender in these parts, and Mir. Quinn hopes to find it yet.
 Later.-A man just in from the head of the San Juan reports that he passed the bears on the Pargosa road, beyond Summitvillc, jogging contentedly along, each carrying one end of the pole, while the old bear was caught in the trap by the right front foot.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
LIFE ON A BUCCANEER.
The Rules and Regulations Which the
 Pirate Had to Obey.

Pirate Had to Obey.
 The customs and regulations most commonly observed on board a buc- cancer arc worth noting, says the Ma tional Review. Every pirate captain doubtless has his own set of rules: bat there were certain traditional articles that seem to have been generally adopted The captain had state cabin, double vote in elections double share of booty. On some vessels 1t was the captain who decided what direction to sail in, but this and other matters of moment were often settled by a vote Of the company, the captains vote count ing for two. The officers had a share and half or a share and quarter of the plunder and the sailors each one share. Booty was divided with scrupu- lous care cnd maroCning was the penal ty of attempting to Gefraud the general company, if only to the amount of gold piece or a dollar Every man had full vote in any affair of importance.
 Arms were always to be clean and fit for service and deSertion of the ship or quarters in battle was punished with death. On Roberts ship man who was crippled in battle received eight hundred dollars out of the common stock and proportionate sum was awarded for lesser hurts. Lowther al- lowed one hundred and fifty pounds sterling for the loss of limb and other captains instituted a sort of tariff of wounds that extended to ears, fingers and toes.
 In chase or battle the captains power was absolute. He who first spied sail if she proved to be a prize, was entitled to the best pair of pistols on board her over and above his dividend. These pistols were greatly coveted. and a pair would sell for as much as thirty pounds sterling from one pirate to another.
 In their own commonwealth the pi- rates were reported to have been severe upon the point of honor, and among Roberts crew it was the practice to slit the ears or nose of any sailor found guilty of robbing his fellow
 Such feeble interest as now attaches to what was once the formidable fame of the pirates is not even esthetic; it is merely comic. No imaginative essayist discusses piracy as a fine art; but Paul Jones is resurrected as the hero of a musical burlesque. Poor Paul! And he is almost the only one of the whole buc- caneering race whose story discovers trace of the legendary gallantry of pi- racy. Paul, whose father had been head gardener to Lord SelllirIl, plum dered the Selkirl1 mansion of its plate, which he subsequently, returned in a parcel to Lady Selkirl with letter of polite apology.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
AN AMPHIBIOUS CANINE.
He Would Return Home by Swimming Or
 Travelling on Land.

Travelling on Land.
 They were talking about the wonder ful instinct of animals in general and of dogs in particular, when man living on Sixth street said to Free Press re- porter:
 q s'posc some of you remember that bob-tailcd brindle dog l used to own? I gave him away half dozen times, but he always turned up again. gave him to a man in Chcboygan some time ago, and he blindfoldcd him and took him up there on the cars and yet he come back within two weeks"
 Three or four of the crowd expressed their surprise, and the Sixth street man was encouraged to continue.
 "Hc came back from Chicago, Cincin- nati and Buffalo, and finally gave him to a man who was going to the Sand wich islands. I felt pretty sure I had seen the last of that dog, but in exactly three months from the day he left I found him on the front doorstep"
 Was he taken to the Sandwich is- lands?" asked one.
 ''Ie was, as I afterward found out"
 'Good lands! man, you don't pretend to say he found his way back from there?"
 II certainly do."
 Do you know where those islands are?"
 "I do."
 Do you know that your dog would have had to swim distance of several thousand miles to reach the nearest land?"
 ''I do; and it's right here I want to say that, while that 'ere dog wasn't worth powder to blow him up as trav- eler on dry land, he was the alliredest animal to swim that ever stood on legs! That's just why l wanted to get rid of him-the internal idiot always thought lie was born for fish instead of dog, and had to keep the cellar full of wa ter for him to play in.''
The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
Science in the uencoon.

The simian tongue is no longer the only language of dumb animals which is being studied by inquiring mankind. NJ. Pevot du Haudray has gone a step further than Prof. Garnier, and has car ried science into the hencoop. His manner of ascertaining whether the barndoor fowl clucl1s in a tongue under derstood by all its kind consists in plac- ing a telephone first in one henhouse where the family are at home. When the long-suffering receiver has been cackled into for half an hour it is taken away, and caused to repeat all the gos- sip in neighboring hencoop. The re- suits of the experiments are said to be marvellous, and the Academic des Sci ences is awaiting lecture on the sub ject with the greatest interest.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
BLANK SHOTS.
A Young Lady's Experience with Pho-
 tograph Camera.


 tograph Camera.
 A good story is told of one of Omaha's society young ladies who recently re- turned from a summers outing in the mountains of New York, says tho Omaha World-Herald. Before leavinc home she purchased kodak, which she proudly exhibited to admiring friends, promising each one cf them a photo graph of some mountain scene.
 The young lady's friends anxiously awaited her return, being eager to see the views she had promised them. Upon her arrival at home her friends called upon her and asked for their views. ''I have just sent the negatives down to have them developed by a photographer, she said. ''It is much more pleasant than developing them myself"
 Down town a photographer was wrestling with the machine with the agony of despair. Do what he would no picture would de velop. At last he sent for the young lady and she came to the studio.
 Are you sure you understand how to use kodak?" asked the photographer, after explaining his inability to pro- duce picture.
 Certainly do," was the reply. 'T read the instructions until committed them to memory"
 "Wel. how did you set about to take a picture?" asked the still doubting artist.
 ''Oh, I pulled that little string and pressed the button, just as the instruc- tions read.''
 What did you do with that little leather cup over the lens?" asked the photographer.
 The young lady looked, blushed and fled from the studio. She had actually spent month taking snap shots in the Adirondacks without uncovering the
The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
NIck-Names of Authors.

Some one gives the following as nick names of certain authors: Emerson The Sphinx. Schiller-The Republican Poet. Goethe-The Poet of Pantheism. Shelley-The Eternal Child. Keats The Resurrectionized Greek. Byron The Poet of Passion. Moore-The But terfy. Jeremy-The Shakespeare of Divines. Coleridge-The Insulated Son of Reverie. Bunyan-Sponsor of the People. Shakespeare-The Myriad Minded. Ben Jonson-The Divine Bully of the Old English Parnassus. Spenser-The Poets Poet. Chaucer- The We'll of English Undefled, or the Morning Star of English Poetry. Caed- mon-The Milton of the Forefathers.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
HANGING IN CHAINS.
An Obsolete Method of Executing Grim
 inals.

An Obsolete Method or Executing Grim
 inals.
 One of the last instances of m order being made for hanging in chains is that of chimney sweep, who in 1927 murdered man on the highway on the east side of Brigg. The culprit was tried by Mir. Justice Best, at Lincoln assizes. At this time, says the Athena nm, what used to be called the new law courts were building, so the Dean and chapter lent their chapter house for the purposes of an asSize court. The trial .asted all day. The poor wretch's body never underwent the proposed in- dignity. The inhabitants of Brigg took fright-thought, it has been suggested, hat the gibbet standing so near the highway would terrify people and hinder them from coming to market; :hey petitioned against the judges order being carried out, and the authorities remitted the horror. MT. Hartshorne believes, and we have no doubt cor rectly, that the last person hung in chains was man named Cook, who suffered for the murder of Mir. Paas Fms occurred at Leicester in 1884, the very year that the custom was put an end to by statute.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
Virginia Daisies.

Before the war there was no such flower as the daisy in Virginia The hardy flower was curiosity. Now the fields just around Richmond are white with them. This is especially so of the late battlefelds about the Chickahomi- ny river and wherever the federals h.. encampments. An investigation show that the seeds of the prolific daisy were brought there in the bales of hay brought by the union soldiers in Vir- ginia when they were camped near the city. An old battery west of Richmond Is the spot from which the daisy began 10 spread.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-04-06
B3SiliSkS.

The basilisk was the most famous of the many fabulous monsters of medic val folklore. According to the popular notion it was matched by toad from an egg laid by cock of the common barnyard fowl. In the ancient picture books it was usually represented as an eight-limbed serpent or dragon, some times with and sometimes without Win~S
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-03
A REPUBLICAN s.REMINIsCENcE..


For the benefit of our friends in
Utah county we clip the following
from the Enquirer of that city pub
lished just after the Delegate election
of last November. 1t will do as an
offset to some of the recent utterances
of that unprincipled apology for a
Republican paper What it may say or
has said is of no interest to people ex-
cept in the immediate vicinity of the
sheet that published it, but the para
graph has application to the present
situation:
THE defeat of the Republican party
in Utah was due to the Liberal party,
over all the broad land. If men who
say they are Republicans in national
affairs, would have voted for Frank
]. Cannon he would today have been
elected, and the Tribune would have
accomplished what it sought outside
Of the regular party lines, viz: the
postponement of statehood While the
Enquirer is decidedly in favor of
statehood for Utah, it would be idle
" say tndI FRANK j. cannon could OBJ
tain 1t, If elected, with both houses of
Congress and the chief executive Dem
ocratic. A republican delegate from
this territory would be a block in the
wheel, as it we're and statehood
could thereby have been postponed for
at least four years. AS it now stands
statehood will come in spite of all
that the Liberals can do, and many
who have claimed to be Republicans
may sit by and see Utah go in as a
Democrats state.'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-03

So. after all. the Tribune does not
think the President would sell the sill
yer i'll the treasury as 'old junk
That is gratifying. But it now says
Secretary Morton does want to sell the
silver bullion as old junk, and asserts
that the President is 'in perfect rap
port with the secretary. That is 4
way OF reasoning in a circle or turning
a double suplmersault peculiar to our
contemporary. The President does not
STant the silver in the treasury sold as
old sunk. but Secretary Morton does,
and the President wants what the Sec
rotary wants. Delightful logic, to be
found nowhere except in the Salt Lake
Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-03

Another piece of fine reasoning in
our morning contemporary is this:
IAN inscrutable Providence has raised
President Cleveland ito a pedestal for
which he was never intended" Now
if Providence raised Cleveland to the
Presidency, it is evident he was in
tended for it; and il he had not been
intended for it Providence would not
have raised him to it. 1t says, further,
of the President that Down in his
heart he thinks he is an honest man. y
That is as funny as it's Providence
paradox. If the President thinks that,
it is a pretty good sign that he is hon
est, but the thought would more likely
be up high in his brain. We fear our
contemporary does it's thinking still
deeper down than the spot in it's an
atomy that answers for heart.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-03
SHOW THEM UP.

A Republican stump speaker who
has in some places declared that he
is opposed to the admission of Utah
into the Union under Dmocratic adj
ministration and would rather keen
her out till the Republicans rule again
has been referring to alleged remarks
Of The Herald last fall after the cleo
ton. He has not put them forward in
way or q place where the Herald
would be likely to see or hear his
remarks- But from what we dan
learn the burden of them was to the
effect that The Herald promised an
era of prosperity, more railroads and
factories and other similar advantages.
Then he has pointed to the trade and
financial troubles of the past few
months and inquired as to where the
railroads, factories and prosperity are
to be seen.
These are simply the arts of the
demagogue. They may answer the
temporary purpose Of raising laugh.
or giving people of the same turn of
mind something wherewith to annoy
folks of another party. But they al
ways fail of any permanent benefit to
the demagogue and of helping the
cause he wishes to bolster up.
The Herald, neither last fall nor at
any other time, expected or announced
that the prosperity, relief from Re-
publican taxation and vicious Iegisla-
ton, and the results of Democratic
government would be experienced be-
fore the new administration had passed
law for enforcement or repealed a
measure that had worked mischief. IT
did not predict change from the evils
of thirty years of Republican wrongs
before a Democratic Congress and a
Democratic President had time to
right those wrongs.
On the contrary, reference to the
remarks of The Herald last fall shows
that we warned the country against
expecting anything but gradual
changes, and a conservative treatment
of the tariff and other questions con
fronting the new administration. 1t
never predicted that effects would pre-
cede causes, and anybody that expects
such a thing does not exhibit ordinary
common sense.
The depressions that reached their
lowest point during the past summer
began over two years ago, and are no
more to be charged to the Democratic
party than are the calamities by land
and sea, the railroad wrecks and other
woes that have come upon the coun-
try. II they are the effects of politi-
cal causes they must be the result
of Republican blunders and misrule
for which their successors cannot
justly be made responsible
Our friends in this territory should
take UP these points without hesita-
ton. Never mind about The Herald.
which can take care or itrelf, but
show the folly and the falsehood of
these Republican demagogues and de-
and your reward will come in
the triumph of the Democracy in this
territory and the admission of Utah
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-03

taste, blotchy impression, typographi-
cal blunders, grammatical errors, inten-
tional editorial Misrepresentation of its
contemporaries, and the lowest arts of
the vilest pettifogger, render it I'M
worthy Of ordinary reference.
Controversy with a sheet so destitute
|of the common courtesy between oppos-
ing journals is out of the question.
We are only surprised that the gentle
men who give it the countenance of
their names permit it's conduct along
its present lines. Having provoked this
notice at last, perhaps the thing will
be satisfied. If not it need not imagine
that The Herald is likely to pay fur
Their attention to it until it places it
celf within the pale of decency.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-03

The would-be silver oracle of the
West says the President has "a con-
tempt not only for the efficacy of silver
as money but for all those who hold
that it ought tol-be money! Then
seeing how false and absurd its utter
ance is it adds: 1--WE are not speak
ing vindictiveiy. We are simply tell
ing the truth But these protestations
only make clear the fact that it is
not telling the truth and that it is
impotently vindictiye. It was for the
purpose of clearing the way for silver
to be used as money that the Presi-
dent called Congress together to repeal
the Sherman makeshift which pre-
vented the proper use of silver as
money.