The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-04
THE BAMBOO ZONE in RUwE NZoRl.
A Fantom and a Picture
Tragic Conclusion Of Brahman Experiments the Occult Before
Gathering in the Country.

dasamy sat down, his legs crossed and as
motionless as bronze statue, staring
straight in front Of him at the glass Of water.
We watched him, keenly interested, and
presently a curious sensation crept over
us at seeing the glass move of itself into
the air. describe circle without spilling
any of its contents and gradually sink back
to the table again
Before we had time to do more than
exclaim- Sir Lionel requested me to cut
five short sticks in the park and insert them
in the first empty flower pots l came to,
putting each stick through a leaf stripped
from it. The flower pots were then placed
In front of Covndasamy. and he gazed
at them as fixedly as he had done with the
glass of water. After a short pause the
leaves assembled from the ground and rose
to the top of the sticks through which they
were thrust and slowly huttered down
again.
Then the fakir's eyes fastened them
selves upon mandolin lying upon the
table, and the strings vibrated and began
to play an air unknown to any of US but
which Won Hirsch remembered vaguely TO
have heard in India.
DR.. jolly was asked to strew fine cover
ing Of sand upon the smooth table and to
lay beside it his own pencil from his note
book He was then to think OF three OF
Of medical science.
The fakir raised his hands above the
sand; there was long pause, but at last
the pencil rose of itself and wrote very
legibly in the sand the three words -ac-
tinomycosis, dothienentiritis pemphygus."
There was a strange expression in the
DOCTORS eyes az the pencil ceased finally to
write.
But the last exhibition was the most re-
markable. As we sat with our cigars long
forgotten and gone out and our eyes glued
on the Brah,nan his face suddenly shone as
if in an ecstasy of happiness and he gently
rose in the air to the height OF about yard,
remained for few instants and then grad
ually returned to his former position. 1t
was enough for one evening, both for him
and for us.
When he had gone to his room to rest,
exhausted. as Sir Lionel informed us, we
were at first silent, amazed at what we had
seen. But DR.. jolly, who could not long
remain silent, soon said thoughtfully:
Il do not believe in miracles, or any OF
natural But l am convinced that such
things as we have just witnessed belong
TO the law OF nature, to material nature,
understanding by these words the cosmic
matter with the forces which animate 1t
and the laws which govern it. although
what is meant by such words. In spite OF
our observations, our scalpels and our
microscopes we have made but little prog
ress in the knowledge Of the world about US.
Even you, Hitzig, with all your brave talk
OF metaphysics. are as ignorant as the rest
of u.s.
1t was late the next morning before we
assembled again on the terrace. Sir Lionel,
In reply to our questions concerning GOWN
dasamy, said that he was quite recovered
and would be glad to give us two more ex-
hibitions Of his power before their departure
On the following day two experiences far
more remarkable and difficult than any
OF the preceding evening.
We drew our seats about in q circle, for
It was scarcely necessary to assure the
Englishman that. for that day at least, we
preferred a study Of the occult sciences to
shooting. Pres emily the Brahman APP
peared dressed, or rather undressed, as be-
He also held In his hand q little bag Of
earth brought from his own country and
spite Of their tiny size build hills Of great
height.
Beaufort was again requested to bring
a large dish and to empty into it the con-
tents Of the bag, which he had previously