The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-02

berries and peaches while you waltz" Practical use of it might also be made
 in the household so that while dinner | is being served your dessert will be I sprouting before your very eyes. Ara l mtnta has but to plant a seed from the
 orange which she shared with Ru- | dolphus the day before, and behold!
 while her attendants are adding the last artistic touches to her bridal array, the orange blossoms are opening their
 creamy tinted, perfume-laden petals for her adornment. "You cannot have your cake and eat it too" is an old saw, but
 the edge is taken off it now, for it will soon be possible for you to eat an ap- pie, plant the pips, and in an hour or so be gathering apples enough for pies and cider. And what economy, what despatch! Solomon gave us an inkling of his occult philosophy when he ad- vised the luggard-meaning the human family in general-to go to the ant and consider her ways, and when he com mended her as exceeding wise" Per haps he was aware of this very secret. We remember that he was very success ful in growing cedar trees. And we know that he was botanist, an orni- thologist, and entomologist, scientist ruler and warrior, in fact, his ac- complishments were as varied and use- ful as if he himself had been an ant.
 Sometime in the nineteen hundreds the full value of his discovery may be made known to us. However, 1t is only fair to say that there Is another theory concerning the cause of these marvels. To transfer the mystery from the ma gician to the ant makes it so less mystery. The other explanation is quite as difficult of apprehension.
 pr. Heinrich Hensoldt, who has spent ten years in India, engaged in archaeo logical researches, wrote for "The Are na" of December, 1893, an account of the mango trick" which differs from that ordinarily given. He says that in- stead of tiny shoot of a mango, slow ly unfolding, he saw in the air, above where the mango lay buried, the form of a large tree, at first with vague out lines, but becoming visibly more dis tinct, until a huge tree, at least two feet in thickness at the base, fifty feet in height, in full foliage and with man. goes growing upon it, stood clearly re- vealed. There was something unearth- ly about this tree-it was rigid as if | carved from stone, and it was entirely | without a shadow. As he drew nearer | to it the outlines blurred and faded-at | a distance of ten feet from the supposed | trunk the tree had completely vanished, 1 He retraeed his steps and again it ap- l peared he approached 1t again and it | the Yoghi meantime smil- | ing a strange, unscrutable smile And | it was evident that other onlookers un- derwent the same experience, that is, each individual saw the tree only from the place where he stood The Yoghi | spread a mat upon the ground and seat ed himself upon it in Oriental fashion; the bystanders, a large concourse of people, also seated themselves and the Yoght preached them very serious ser mon When he had finished his dis course he went to the spot where the tree, that was then no longer to be seen, had been standing, and dug up the hard, unripe mango, that he had plant ed. In this case the supposed tree was an illusion brought about by the hyp- notic influence of the Yoghi. His audi ence expected to see a mango tree, therefore they saw 1t.
 That many of the tricks of these jug glers are illusions, produced in just this way, is probably true. The camera can- not be hypnotized and it has been used to test the reality of the seeming mar vels, proving conclusively that the marvel lay in the power that one mind can exercise over another. But let us hope that these lesser won- ders, such as the growth of the little tree from the seed, that so many tray- slers have witnessed, was really due to the stimulating power of formic acid For this theory opens up an alluring and limitless vista of pleasing experi- ments in fruit and flower culture and we are 10th to part with it. At least, ct it not be discarded until further ex- oeriments have proved it's worthless ness HILARY.