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The election of the other officers immediately followed. The 

 election of each remaining officer was somewhat similar to that 

 of governor, except in the case of the minor officers. Each of 

 these was nominated by the retiring officer; and, as soon as 

 elected, the retiring officer turned his rod of authority over to 

 him without any ceremony. In all, thirty-one officers were 

 elected. 



When all the officers had been elected, the cacique again 

 prayed long and earnestly to his gods and to their symbolic 

 paintings on the estufa walls. With his prayer the election 

 closed. 



THE APACHE INDIAN AND THE CAMERA. 



The Apache has an abhorrence for a camera. He peoples 

 everything with spirits or ghosts. He believes the camera to 

 be a box in which the white man has legions of evil spirits to 

 turn on his red brother. He believes these spirits are to harm 

 him in some way or other while he is here as a living being. 



He furthermore peoples each thing with its counterpart 

 spirit ; consequently, when he dies he destroys everything which 

 belonged to him of earth, that the spirit of his effects may ac- 

 company him to the Beyond. He wants no white man to have 

 his picture after his death ; because everything of his would not 

 be with him in spirit then ; and he would be one most miserable 

 there, though surrounded by all the enjoyable things of the 

 happy hunting-grounds.* He therefore will have no picture 

 taken, if he knows it, provided he is not paid for it. He will 

 sell his chances for happiness in the land of bliss for immediate 

 gain, as his white brother sometimes does. 



* The traders used to threaten to take a picture of an Apache short in his ac- 

 counts to induce him to "pay up"; and as a result the debt was usually promptly 

 paid. 



