The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-02-05
sunshine and scatters diamond drops
untii the iuggler again gives a com.

"stop!- And it stops.
Once more:
'.Spoutr'
And thus the crystal fountain spouts
and stops as hidden until more water
rs running over the deck than Is alto.
gether comfortable for bystnnders.
During his whole performance the
juggler repeats over again the mystic
but apparently irrelevant words:
'Bandar Ia kopra! Bandar ka 10.
pras" t-skuil Of a monkey! Skull Of
a monkeyr'l
'BacksheeshF' the holy man now sug.
gests and indicates the red cloth as in
appropriate receptacle for cash ac-
acknowledgement of his occult power.
As coins fan he deity RECEIVERS them
and bites each one to test It's genuine
ness At last he piles the contribu.
tons neatly. shakes the cloth and
again spreads 1t on the door.
Again the juggier's eyes flx them,
selves in cataleptle trance. Again he
PAGES around the red square, mutter.ng
outlandish words.
Something begins to move beneath
the cloth. It grows in size as the
spellbound audience gazes. There u a
faint scund-and- hops grinning,
chatterlng monkey, while from the far
ther edge Of the red rag cobra pokcs
its yenomous head and wrIthes its bulk
along the planks. '' alFa
The passengers the sailors
shrink and shudder. but their feet seem
spiked to the deck. No one moves
though disgust and horror are mani
fest on every face. {i}
A much larger object heaves beneath
the cloth-slowly, gracefully. a Hlndoo
girl rises to her feet. casts the red
cloth from her shoulders and smiles
upon ships company, as silent aud
aghast IS We're the voyagers In that
dread ship. the Mystery"
Before anybody is able to stir the
juggler claps his hands, his creatures
vanish, he rolls up his coins in the red
cloth. ties 1t around his neck, leaps
over the rail- into the stream and
swlms away.
There can be no doubt as to these
mystic performances being Illusions.
for any attempt to photograph them re,
suits in an empty plate
Hindoo jugglers simply have the pow
er to make not only one person, but an
unlimited number OF persons, see, taste
and hear things which do not exist.
To attribute this power to hypnotism
does not detract from the marvel of the
phenomena. We must admit that the
basic principle of the mystery is the
subjugation Of the weaker to the
stronger will.
Secondarlly, there is in the Hindoo
race an increase In the power O.:
thought, resulting from their Intense
love of solitary meditation, one of the
nations most pronounced traits from
time immemorial. We cannot dispute
that the Hlndoos have acquired mental
faculties of which the younger western
civilizations are altogether ignorant.
as a matter of experience.
The Hindoo has attained marvellous
results on speculative philosophy.
Through centuries he has developed
his mental powers by persistent exer
else and persistent effort-as with us
athletes develop and perfect the mus
cles OF the body.
The Hindoo conjuror is no unlicensed
chariatan. He is man with "voca.
ton" 1t may be while he works in
the rice field that the Hlndoo boy
hears the mysterious call of Brahnia
and tells his PARENTS: r
"Kopal me likkha." cit is written
upon my forehead,'g 1880
At first 'the chosen wanders
through the streets of his native town
black ropes Of dank hair falling
about his face, streaks of clay across
his forehead and down his nose, a sin.
gle cotton rag wound about his mid.
die. The million gods that 5000 Hin.
doc years have accumulated for faith
full souls know that the chosen has
vowed a pilgrimage TO Benares- the
residence of the gods - the Hindoo
Olympus, not stridlng over the journey
erect, with strong young limbs, but
falling Fat on his face, measuring his
length with his brass water bottle for
all the weary way.
Thus does the chosen" accomplish
his pilgrimage, never lacking food or
drink or sleeping mat, for all dwellers
in the land know that he is "a BAR.
ageeF he helps to keep the world
straight with the gods. At last, eyes
bloodshot, feet bllstered, he washes in
the sacred Ganges and bows IN the
great temple at Benares and the
priests recognize his holiness and say
at is written upon his forehead" All
er which the chosen" is for years Sc
cIuded in the silent places Of Indli
that by prayer and austerity and metli
tation he may subdue the body and dc
velop the mind until he acquires the
occult force whereby he compels his
fellow mortals to see things which are
not.
In the wild recesses OF his mountains
behind the walls Of his temples cary