Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-01-13

"stopv' And 1t stops.
| Once more:
Spout"
And thus the crystal fountain SHOUTS
and stops as hidden until more water
is running over the deck than Is alto.
gether comfortable for bystanders.
During his whole performance the
3uggler repeats over again the mystic
but apparently irrelevant words:
"Bandar ka kopra! Bandar ka ko.
pra!' ("Skull of monkey! Skull of
monkey?D
| "Backsheesh!' the holy man now sur.
gests and Indicates the red cloth us an
| appropriate receptacle for cash DC.
acknowledgement of his occult power.
AS coins fall he dcrtly RECEIVERS them
and bites each one to test it's genuine
ness. At last he piles the contribu.
| lions neatly. shakes the cloth and
again spreads 1t on the floor.
Again the juggler's eyes ok them
selves In cataieptic trance. Again he
PAGES around the red square, muttering
outlandish words.
Something begins to move beneath
the cloth. 1t grows in size us the
| spellbound audience gazes. There Is Il
faint sound-and-out hops grnning,
chnttering monkey. while from the far
Their edge of the red rag a cobra pokes
its venomous head and wrthes It's bulk
along the pinnks
The passengers-cven the sailors
shrink and shudder, but their feet seem
spiked to the deck. No one moves.
though disgust aud horror are mani.
fest on every face.
y much larger object heaves beneath
the clotli-slowly, gracefully Hindoo
| girl rises to her feet. casts the red
cloth from her shoulders and smiles
upon ships company, MS silent and
aGhnst rs were the voyngers in that
! dread ship, the Mystery"
Before anybody is able to stir the
| juggier claps his hands, his creatures
vanish he rolls up his coins in the red
cloth, ties it around his neck, leaps
over the rail into the stream and
swims away
There cnn be. no doubt rs to these
mystic performances being Illusions,
for my attempt to photograph them re-
SUITS III IN empty plQte.
Hindoo jugglers simply have the DOW
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
bnslc principle OF the mystery Is the
subjugatlon of the weaker to the
stronger will.
Secondarily, there Is in the Hindoo
race an increase In the power of
thought, resulting from their intense
love Of solitary meditation, one Of the
nations most pronounced traits from
time immemorlal. We cannot dispute
that the Hindoos have acquired mental
faculties of which the younger western
civilizations nre altogether ignorant
as matter of experience.
Tho Hlndoo 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
Giles of the body.
The Hindoo conjuror Is no unlicensed
charlatan. He Is man with "voca-
ton" 1t may be while he works il
the rice field that the Hindoo bdy
hears the mysterious call Of BrahRn
and tells his PARENTS:
"Kopal me likkha." CIT is written
upon my forehead,'.9
AT first "th.e chosen" wanders
through The streets Of his native town
BLACK ropes of danl hair falling
!, laDOut his face, streaks of clay across
| his forehead and down his nose, n sin
| gle cotton rag wound about his mid
die. The million gods that 3,O0O Hin
doc years have accumulated for faith
! full souls know that the chosen" has
vowed n pilgrimage to Benarcs-the
residence of the gods = the Hindoo
Olympus, not striding over the journey
erect, with strong young limbs, hut
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
j drink or sleeping mat. for oil jewellers
In the land know that he Is "a Bair-
agee" he helps to keep the world
straight with the gods. At last, eyes
[ bloodsbot, feet blistered, he washes In
/ the sacred Gauges and bows IN the
great temple, at Benares and the
| priests recognize his holiness and say,
1T ls written upon his forehead Aft
er which the Chosen is for years Sc.
! cluded In the silent places of India
that by prayer md austerity and medi-
tation he may subdue the body and de-
velop the mind until he acquires the