The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-09-16
be lsrgest proytnces Of India.

the largest provinces OF India A
great fair liz held here every year
an on every twelfth hit becomes q
great national event. At these fairs
the fakirs ov India get In their best
work. Some ov them can do won
derful things In the practice of hyp-
notism an other subtle arts. I visit
ed a theater In Allahabad an saw
some ov their work in hypnotism,
that bein' the favorite entertainment
In India. the average Hindu caring
but little about ordinary theatrical
plays. For the benefit OF the Eng
disappearing people In the audience
includin' myself, the stage manager
announced In English that the prin-
cipal part ov the play that night
would be the wonderful hypnotic IL
fusion called Growing Tree From
an Acorn" The performer came on
the stage carrying a small brass
pan about the size OF an ordinary
saucer an in about the same shape
waved the pan back an forth a few
times an talked Hindu. In a few
seconds the acorn appeared to swell
an hit burst open. A small, tender
lookin' sprout appeared to come from
the acorn an hit quickly took the
shape ov tree with leaves an
branches. Then he stood still an
while we watched branch after
branch an leaf after leaf appeared,
an the small bush grew till hit APP
peared to be az tall az the overhead
ceilin', tree probably forty feet
high. Among the branches we could |
see number ov different kinds ov
birds hoppin' erbout. The performer
too step forward, waved his hand |
an the wonderful tree had disap-
peared, an We say him standin' there |
smilin' an he held the little brass |
dish or pan in hiz hand. But there
was no large tree in site.
The Hindu and the African look |
somewhat alike, In color at least. |
But they air not alike. The Hindu |
delights in the mysterious, he stud |
les an develops it; the African abb |
hors hit. wants to 60 the other way. |
An English officer connected with the |
army in India relates an incident |
that occurred durin' hiz stay in that |
country, he havin' only bin there a |
short time then. One day a fakir ap-
preached the officer an offered to |
show him wonderful feat for a |
small coin. The officer handed over |
the coin. The fakir wuz accompa-
MED by small boy, hiz son, he said. |
After receivin' the coin the fakir |
produced small kite an up hit an |
the boy went, the fakir releasin' hit |
az hit scared higher by givin' hit |
gan to abuse the fakir fer riskin' the |
life ov hiz child in such a foolhardy |
trick, though hit appeared so remark |
able. Then the fakir called the boy,
tellin' him to come down. In a few
moments he appeared and came slid
in down the small string attached to
the kite, reachin' the ground in safe |
ty. When the officer took a second |
look he found that the kite had not |
gone up an the boy had not gone up. |
He wuz sittin' on the ground a few
feet away, laughin' at the officer be- |
cause he wuz SO thoroughly deceived |
into believin' that he actually saw
the kite soar high into the air with |
the boy hangin' to hit
When the world grows wiser, when
gives way to common |
sense, hypnotism will furnish world |
Of fun an healthy entertainment, to
say nothin' ov the actual value hit |
will be in treatin' certain forms ov
disease. Hit will be ov greater, an
more far-reachin' in hits value, than
What electricity haz bin
an will be to the mechanical world,
will be to the medical
world, to humanity in general. This
may sound absurd to some ov you
Smart Alexis" But remember that
wuZ not harnessed until
within the past hundred years an
some ov the wise ones sed it wuz'
nothin' but nonsense. But you know
that the wise ones didn't know
beans" Az ever,
ZEKE BLIKINS.