The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-02-05
The HIND0O rAKIRS
They ARE PRINCES or JueeLERs
AND MAeicIANs

Of the Mystic Arts OF the Orient are
Said 10 Perform.
4stoppedr'
In the sudden stiffness that pervades
the great liners saloon everybody
pauses without knowing it and looks
at the captain.
This gentleman merely settles to his
luncheon more comfortably than Le-
fore. while anchor chains rattle out
and the steam whistle blows and tLs
passengers hasten on deck to feel a
heavy. tropical wind blowing or low
shore, along which tigers and alliea-
tors may creep to the waters edge by
night. but where now a noon sun lies
yellow on the huts and rice fields
which are the strangers first glimpse
OF Calcutta.
The liner swings wen out in the
stream.
Presently dashes through the brown
ripples of the HoogIy river duslsy
body. and up the anchor chain nimbly
as q monkey scrambles a man, clad
only In a ioin cloth and having tiny,
tight rolled red bundle fastened at the
back OF his neck out OF reach Of the
water. =
The mans Hrst action is to pick up
from the deck ball Of Irvine with
which a sailor is mending pawlin
and unwind the string, which goes
straight up in the air in defiance OF
the law OF gravitation which should
have trailed It along the deck.
As the fakir passes another sailor
who has bought cocoanut and is
cracking II open, he gently takes from
the mans hand half of the still full
shell, holds 1t high above a ships buck
ct. into which water streams from the
cocoanut until the bucket has been
twelve times filed and emptied. Nsxt
the juggler asks for a large earthen
dish, pours into It gallon of water,
raises It aIoft In his left hand-hls
right being laid against his forehead
The dish grows smaller by almost i'm.
perceptible degrees OF shrinkage until
It completely disappears. Then, after
a pause, tiny brown speck is seen
in the juggler's hand. 1t grows larger
and larger until the dish is visible as
at first. filed to the brim with water,
which the juggler pours out and which
runs down into the deck cutters.
A little aloof from the eager circle OF
spectators sits young American wo.
man, her baby swinging In a ham.
mock, her fve-year.old daughter on o
cushion at her feet. The juggler stands
perfectly still, his eyes fixed absently
upon the group. apparently concentrat.
Ing his forces upon some fresh wonder.
The American shrinks backward with
movement Of repulsion, which the
Iuggler evidently notices. for he turns
his gaze upon an English miss of If
teen who stands on the opposite side
Of the snmiclrcle.
Suddenly tile young mother sees the
English girl begin to rise from the
deck and float across the space be.
tween her and the hammock in which
rests the sleeping baby. To her hor-
FOR. the girl stoops over and takes up
the infant. Then the girl rises from
the deck. higher and higher, until she
Is lost in the clouds.
The mother Is helpless to cry out or
to move She is in sort of waking
nightmare. As she stares she per
selves a spot in the fieecy clouds-near-
er. nearer 1t comes-she discerns the
form Of her baby-safe in the arms Of
the English girl, who gradually de
Icends to the deck and lays the infant
back 10 the hammock.
with a frantic effort the mother
bursts the spell that binds her and
matches up the child to find 1t sound
asleep. "How could you let that
strange girl take your little brother
away? she screams to her startled
daughter, who sits quietly on the cush.
ion.
"why. mamma" replies the child.
bAVSASL Los bCSh aSlGGP III uA5 Aulu-
mock all the time. No one has touch.
ed him."
It was but one more trick of the
senses played by the holy man from
India. 1t was utterly inexplicable.
The fellow came over the ships rail
dripping wet after long swim from
shore. The liner has just dropped an
Choir after a voyage OF several thou
sand miles. confederate is an i'm
possibility. An audience of about 500
skepticai persons crowds close around
the juggler. There is no chance for
deception.
Now the Hindoo unties the bundle
from behind his neck, opens a square
Of red cloth. passes 1t to the audience
Tor inspection and then spreads It nat
on the deck. His eyes turn inward
and become fixed. He mutters to him.
self. and, after walking three times
around the square, he thrusts his bare
hand and arm under the cloth and
brings forth a rudely carved little boat
measuring NOT moro than nv inches