The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-01

As coins fall he deity RECEIVERS then
and bites each one to test its genuine
ness. At last he piles the contribu
tions neatly, shakes the cloth and
again spreads it on the floor,
Again the ju=gler's eyes fix them.
selves in cataleptic trance. Again he
PAGES around the red square. mutteriug
ouJlanll>h words
Something helms 10 move beneath
the cloth 1t S~ows in size as the
spellbound audience ~azes There is
faint Sound-and-out hops grinn:nc.
chutteriug monkey. while from the far
thrr edge 0f the red rag cobra pokc~
its venomouS head and writhes its bulk
along The plauks.
The pa>SeLGerS-cven the sailors
shrink and shudder but their feet seem
spiked 10 the deck. No one moves
though disgust and horror are mani.
fest on every face
\ much larger object hcavcs beneath
the clotn-lowIy. gracefully, Il Hindoo
girl rises to her feet, casts the red
cloth from her shoulders and smiles
upon a ships company. rs silent ana
a4hust as We're the voyuEcrs in that
dread ship, the Mystery"
BEFORE anybody is able TO stir the
ju~-ler claPS his hands. his creatures
vanish. lie rolls up his coins in the rel
cloth. ties ii around his neck. leaps
over the rail into the stream and
swns 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.
Hinloo juggie"S supply have the pow
er to make not only one person. but an
unlimited uumhcr 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
subiuGaton 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 immemorial. We cannot dispute
That the IlindoOs 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
charlatan. He is a man with ''yoca'
J ton" 1t may be while he works in
the rice field that the Hindoo boy
! hears the mysterious call of Brahma
and tells his parents:
"Kopal me likkha." CIT is written
upon my forehead.'D
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, 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 pilgrimage to Bcnares-the
residence of the gods the HindoC
Olympus, not stridng over the journey
i erect, with strong young limbs, but
| falling Hat on his face, measuring his
length with his brass water bottle fol
/ all the weary way.
Thus does the chosen" accomplish
his pilgrimage. never lacking food OIL
I drink or sleeping mat, for all jewellers
/ in the land know that he is "a Bair
! agee" he helps to keep the worlC
! straight with the gods. At last, eye,
| bIoodshot. feet blstered, he washes il
the sacred Gauges and bows in til,
great temple at Benares and The
priests recognize his holiness and say
1T IS written upon his forehead" Aft
cr which the chosen" is for years Sc
cluded in the silent places of India
that by prayer and austerity and medi
taton he may subdue the body and de
velop the mind until he acquires th'
! occult force whereby he compels his
| fellow mortals to see things which are
| not
In the VIII rccp5@oS Of his mountain:
behind t." walls Of his temples cary
I'd into the SOIL rock-the Hindoo still
holds the key Of mysteries that defy
| and most scientific reasoners Of the
modern civilization - Los Angelo;
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