Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-04-05

quired directly from the superhuman
that mysteries can be worked. Dur
ing talk in New York recently he
said:
1t only takes very small thine
sometimes to puzzle great minds, and
whatever Is the least bit mysterious
and battles explanation will make mer
ascrbe what they see to the super.
natural because of their conceit In
their own intelligence. What they
cannot explain they say must be due
10 unexplainable powers.
of course, this is all folly, for II
anything but natural laws were al
work about us we would not be able
TO determine our action five minutes
In advance. Anything that lnterfered
for one instant with the natural law of
gravitation would set things all agog
about US.
But regardless of this there is a
great deal OF superstition among the
Intelligent and, when you come to
think of 1t, 1t is not to be wondered
at When the greatest minds in the
world go almost crazy over some little
thing they cannot explain, we wonder
why there is not more superstition.
The great Betini was so puzzled once
over simple little trick In magnetism
that | performed for him that he did
not rest for weeks until | had ex-
planned 1t to him.
"Of all the people IN the world the
Hindoos are well known to be the
most expert in the mysterious things
Of magic. One will see things in India
that will make him superstitious
unless he is mentally pretty well
balanced. There are two classes of
Hindoo fakirs: First the fellows who
carry their trick around In a bag and
for few rupees will perform with
snakes and swords and other trinkets.
and then those who are of the higher
class, who study magic as a part of
their religious ceremonies and attempt
20 make converts by making people
believe they have supernatural
power and are divinely appointed to
preach the faith of the great Hindoo
god.
The men of the latter class are very
expert and perform things that are
marvellous In my Indian travels |
have seen them do things that are be-
yond the explanation of any but the
priests. When one hears of snch
things as man throwing rope into
me air and then, without the slight
est appearance Of anything to climb
on. going up after II. he Is apt to be
skeptical, but l have seen things Just
as marvellous.
The priests of India are scientific
men who have studied their art fol
years, not for money gains, but for tn,
sake of their religion. They are taker
good care of for their entire lives ant
study ard delve into the mysteries O.
science with the fervor OF religion,
fanatics. OF course. when their trick!
are learned 1t is found that the sim.
plest scientific principles are be.
aeath them all. What we learn as
youths In school about the siphon and
the sucker and other fundamental
tricks in physics, they put to the most
startling uses.
For instance, in the northern par
Of India there Is temple to tn,
mother of the god Buddha, wher,
great throngs go to worship. In tn,
temple there is a statue of the mothe,
with the child god in her arms
Around the mother there is grea
ehalice into which runs a stead,
stream of water. The superstition
about the statue is that 1t Is impossible,
tor the water even TO touch the fee
af the god The water will flow int
che chalice and I'LL II clear up to IN,
sect OF Buddha, and then It will sud
1enly begin 10 sink down to the bot
tom OF the cup. The chalice is con
stantly filled and emptied In this way
ana the people think that there is
magical power in the god OF course
Il Is nothing more than a trick per
formed by siphon within the statue
out Tor centuries the priests hav
MADE the populace believe In tn
divinity of Buddha through IT,
There Is no doubt that the Hindoo
have found out the secret OF man,
laws OF nature unknown 10 ne 20
centuries they have known thing,
which for centuries to come we may No
know. Things are occurring thor.
constantly that battle the English az
fcers and all efforts TO bribe AN,
threaten the secrets out OF the Hindoo
have utterly failed. The British hav
spnt every effort to find out how IN
priests perform some Of their mys
eeries. but il looks very much p
though they would never know. Ever
ence in a while we discover somethin
wonderful In science. which has bee
known for ages in India. II Is not yer
many years ago that we would hav
thought the idea OF wireless telegraph
preposterous, but since Marconi's di:
eovery il does not seem so strange.
The Hindoos, however. have a sy:
sem of secret communication that