The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-17
SILVER IN INDIA.
1t Is Pronounced Curse to tho Country
Miracles of the Mahatmas.
(Erom the Cincinnati gimes-star)

and said "No'' with emphasis when
asked if he did not believe the silver
standard would be great thing for this
country.
''They have the silver basis i'll India
have had it for centuries-and it has been
given a fair trial. 1t would ruin this
country and bankrupt everybody" said
the bishop. "'The foundation of business
Is stability, and with silver standard
you can never have it. In Calcutta can
buy this suit of clothes for $40 today and
perhaps for $40 tomorrow, and the next
Gay it will be $50. oou can never tell
from the number of dollars you own how
much you are worth. The country is
at the mercy of the money changers and
spectators. The IDEA Of going to sill
yer standard from gold one is too ridIo-
ulous for serious consideration. I have
seen enough OF the nuisance in India"
The bishop is a serious-lookng man.
with stiff, beard, and dresses in the
simplest garb Of black cloth. 1 have
lived at Calcutta, but shall make my
headquarters at Bombay in the future,
for that is destined to be the great gate
of the Indian Empire
"Theosophye Oh. yes; I have paid
some attention to it. 1t is a thing OF
the past of India. 1t was dropped there
about the time it was taken up in Amor
lea. The native papers denounced Bla-
vatsky in the most decisive way in the
hope that she would sue them for libel
and thus give them q chance to expose
her in court. but she never would sue,
and when finally they got case in court
where they could force her way to the
witness stand she fad to this country.
They were prepared to prove from her
own lips that she never was in the noun
tains of India gathering wisdom, as she
claimed, but was, in fact, keeping house
in Egypt.
"Soms of her miracles were remark
able, however, and puzzled everybody
till they were explained. Thus, for in
stance, one day at picnic d set of dishes
waS brought out and cup and saucer
were missing. They wore of a peculiar
design, and probably could not have been
spur of the moment, ordered them to dig
under an old and gigantic treo OH hill
side, and there down in the solid earth,
that had NOS been disturbed for years.
with roots entWined about 1t as it had
been there for centuries, were found the
missing cup and saucers wrapped in
Thibetan paper. The company was DUN.
founded, and all of the skeptics and be-
levers signed a paper attesting the
truth Of the incident.
Again, say az Delhi, at a dinner par
ty, the company was in the height OF an
argument when a messenger boy entered
with telegram for one of the party.
The appearance OF telegram
at such moment attracted attention,
but imagine the CONSERVATION of the
feasters when the contents read. 1t was
from city 1000 miles away, and said:
The matter you are discussing is OF the
utmost Importance, and you are right,
and went on to discuss the very subject
then being considered by the party, and
supporting the argument OF the person
to whom it was addressed 1t seemed
inconceivable how a person 1000 miles
away could know what they were discus
sing at the particular moment and what
a particular one of the party should be
saying at that moment. The telegram
was genuine beyond question, and the
miracle was one of the most astonishing
and enc Of the frequently worked of all
the m iTaoles.
"Bus the miracle that excited the pub
lie most was one performed by request
by Biavatsky at Silma, in the mountains.
She was a guest at party and the hos
tess WAS anxious to see a miracle, and
asked BlavatskySto perform one, i shall
IL the conditions are right she replied.
Presently shrill whistle was heard out
side, and Blavatsky rushed to the porch.
and stood in listening attitude. can
do 1t, she said to the hostess a moment
later. Have you a diamond-shaped
flower bed? Yes? Is there any lost arti
sic; piece Ct jeweirry, or OF. the like, you
yes. shs had lost brooch years ago that
she valued highly as an heirloom. Then
dig In the dianond-shaped flower bed
and you shall find it, said Blayatsky.
They did, and there deep in the; solid
earth under the undisturbed roots of thu
flowers it lay wrapped in Thibetan paper.
Blavatsky had neyer been at the place
before, had never, even on this day, been
in the garden.
"Then the editors of the Herald and
others papers would be seated in their
Offices with the doors closed when a let
ter from a mahatma would fall into their
hands. No door opened. No person was
about the premises ana apparently the
letter came out of the air. The fact that
in one of these letters the word 'skeptic'
kas spelled with q 'k'-the American
way-instead Of with 20, as III India,
led Yankee to suggest that Blavatsky,
who was educated in America. had
written 1t, but that did not explain the
mystery Of the appearance
"N0w, how was it done One OF the
witnesses of the CUP and saucer miracle
In vesUigated later and found that the
cup had been introduced from under
the hillside up into the roots of the
tree. After the madam fed from her
Egyptian record French woman con-
fessel that she had been her accomplish;
that her husband, an expert woodworker,
had years before made tiny traps doors
in the ceilings Of the editorial Offices,
and she showed the trap doors to the
disgust of those editors who had mahat-
rna correspondents. The Simla brooch
had been stolen years before by an Alneri-
can who worked there and eloped thence
to Bomaby with his sweetheart and
pawned the brooch, which Blavatsky
had sent and had buried in the flower
bed two years before the party. in the
hope CT being some day asked to per-
form miracle SStberv. AS to the tele-
grams, you can, by paying double rates,