The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-06-04
ZEE WHIrE MAN.s MAaIc.
The Effect On Indians Of Moving Pictures
and Henmann's Tricks.

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Major Brewer Of the seventh cavalry,
q veteran 81 tho Wounded Knee fight,
and a close student Of the western IN
diam WIS talking recently Of Indian SUI
perstitiens. one of which, the belief
4 that the Messiah shirt would turn
the white mans bullet made the tribes
! haht fiereely at Wounded Knee Those
\ of the Indian who survived that fight
realized that The medicine men bad de-
ceived them, and one warrior at least
Z who was captured after being mortallv
! knife might find The heart Of the man
who had caused tho trouble.
After at said the major mo msdi-
cine man every lived who could com
pete with the white mans magic. I re-
member 3 striking instance Of this when
was stationed among the White Noun
tain Apaehes in Arizona
"The White Mountain Indians are TO
my mind the finest Of their race. IN
iteilieeat and brave TO an unusual de-
gree. Ono daF travelling Snowman
came RI i nearby town with 4 biograph
outfit. The iigst 1f it's kind seen III those
parts TIE officers hired him 70 give
an exhibition IN the post hall and in
vited The Indians to see the show.
eIhe biograph man had with him q
photograph to make music to go with
the picture, and as he had a blank
record NE thought Il would be good
idea to have the interpreter make
record IA Apache explaining how the bio
graph worked The record was made
and when the Indians Tea BY their chief
Ind gathered In the darkenea hall the
phonog1aph was placed on the stage and
the fun began.
1T was very quiet in the hall, and
when the machine began to speak in
Apache tie chief who sat beside me
caught hold Of my arm with hand
which shook like leaf; and that chief
was about the braYest man ever knew.
lie stood the strain for a moment and
then calling to Bis badly frightened fol-
lowers tie led on rsther followed for he
had 8 front seat--in wild stampede
from the hall.
Those Indians didn't stop running un.
til they got well into the open on the
parade ground and il took lot Of coax
ing and explaining TO get them to come
back for the rest Of the show. They
enjoyed the moving pictures, and appar-
emily were not at all frightened By them
but we saw to 1t that the photograph |
was silent.
After THE show was over the chief, I
who had seen an iee-making machine
few weeks before and was too full Of /
the modern miracles to speak slowly I
enough for me to understand him IN his |
own tongue, which is very difficult, called 4
the interpreter and said:
When white man make lee out OF
FIRE and talk out Of tin it's time Indian
went away"
Major Burke 81 the wild West show
beg pardon, exhibition it's always ey
hibiti0ns when the major speaks. heard
the story Of the photograph and capped
It with another
He said that a few years ago when
the Colonel Cody outfit was IN Chicago
the magician, Hermann, paid the IN
dams a visit The great master Of
sleieht Of hand did some simple tricks
which drew the attention Of the IN.
dams and then as they gathered about
him he began to pick gold pieces from
the finery of the chief The chief re-.
manned passive until Hermann pulled
a live bird from an Indians pouch
then turning to the other, he said grave
White man big thief. Steal every
thing Go sit on your trunks"
Every Indian ran for he belongings and
refused 10 raise the guard until Herr
mann had gone.-New York Sun.