The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22

tom toms, dried betel nuts, pieces IF
cork, spools, snake skins, stones, CO.
coanut shells and tin dishes-every.
thing you can think ola pile of com.
mon things with very uncommon pow.
ers. as Ishmael makes them work.
The young Hindoo is fakir-not the
kind that haunts the street corners and
sells shoe strings and patent medicines.
for they are the creations of the slang
language of the day; he is real EastIn-
dian fakir. end the tricks which he does
are regarded by his people as well-nigh
supernatural. They have never been
solved excepting when betrayed by
some member OF the race who got
drunk on western fire water and ex-
posed the whole thing. These rascals
die suddenly soon after.
One of the best of his tricks is the
growing of bush out of q pile of dirt
in full view Of an audience. Ishmael
can do IT. He did it the other night up
in the jail when Sheriff Brown gave him
chance to use his apparatus, and Chief
Gilman has the plant as proof.
Ishnael took a little pipe of sand and
mud which had been brought for him
in the Jail yard underneath the window
where he looks out and thinks UP new
tricks every day, and placed it in the
middle Of the floor on cloth. Then he
took what he said was @ seed and
showed It to his audience. This seed
was the same thing from which he had
produced dollar bill few minutes be-
fore by simply squeezing II, but that
didn't make any difference to him, but
he put it in the dirt ard got ready to
grow his bush Nobody thought he
was really going TO do it. lie swore
that he would produce rnangrove tree.
Ishmael FIST took cloth and placed
It over the earth; then he began to say
off some kind of heathenish incanta-
ton, and in the course of half minute.
when he removed the covering, there
was q little sproqt starting up about Cd
inch above the pile. That's pretty good.
Isbmael smiled demurely and winked
the other eye.
Again Ishmael put the cloth on The
dirt and again he ratified off his rubbish
in choicest Hindoo. Something sudden,
" stuck itself up inside the cloth. which
peaked up and wrinl1led as il did so.
and then of came the cover with
swish and exposed avery healthy Young
bush standing there IN the dirt
OF course everybody said that the
bush was made of paper, but 81 wasn't.
1t WIS real thing, and il was moist and
soft and pithy Just "a II IL had been
newly piucked from the ground out
side. At its bottom was a full set %
little roots which were covered with the
o,inei1g earth in which II had-vell,
grown.
Chief Gilman, who wcs present, took
the bush home with him and set Il oEt
IN his garden. lie said on Saturday
that Il was getting on well. aud that i,
looked as II Il had co--e 20 stay he
can't understand how IshnaeI did IL
Neither can anybody else Some Of the
men II The Jail declare that The young
ser is deTil IL disguise. but mos: Of
them coBsiie- him mighty smart lsi.
But he is great vegetation starter;
ne beats suPer-phospka;es ~ their OWL
game.
The bush IA worth seeing; {. Is CON-
posed % elose-1rovving greer leaves On
{ straight stalk AID little r~9 blossoms
are beginning TO grow on the top Of !.
lis q curicsitY.
Iskmaal saws is IS easy - rcllirt
CT = icg-R1ugor Courier.