The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01

- NOE upon a time. some people in India
] made new Heaven and new Earth out
OF broken teacups. a missing brooch or

NOE upon time people In India
made a new Heaven and new Earth out
OF broken teacups. missing brooch or
two. and harbrush. These were hidden under
bushes. stuffed into holes in tho hillside. and
an entire Civn Service of subordinate Gods used
to find mend them again; an6 every said:
"There more things in Heaven and Earth
than arc dreamed of in our philosophy" Several
other things happened also. but the Religion
never seemed to got much beyond it's first mani
fsstations: though 1t added airline postal dak.
and orchestral effects in order keep abreas.
OF tho times and stall of competition.
This Religion elastic for ordinary
IL stretched itself and embraced pieces Of every
thing that medicine Of all ages have manu-
featured. 1t approved OF and stole from Free
masonry; looted the Latter-day Rosicrusians OF
half their pet words: took any fragments OF
Egyptian philosophy that II found IN the Encyr
ciopaedia Britannica; annexed many Of tho
Vedas as had been translated into French or
English, and talked OF all the rest; built in tho
German versions OF what left OF the Zend
Avesta: encouraged White. Gray and Black
Magic, including spiritualism. paimistry. for
tune telling by cards. chestnuts. double
kernelled rutB and tailow droppings: would have
adopted Voodoo and Oboe had 1t known any
thing about them. and showed itself. in every
ments that had ever been invented since tho
birth of the Sea
When 1t was in thorough working order. with
AL the machinery down the subscriptions
complete. Dana Da from nowhere with
nothing in his hands and wrote cha pier in It's
history which has hitherto been unpublished
he said that his first Dana, and his
seoond was Da- Now. setting aside Dana OF ths
Now York Sun Dana is a Bill name. nd Da ATS
NO native of India unless you accept the Bengal
Dc as the original spelling. Da is Lap or Fin
nish; and Dana Da neither Finn. Chin.
Bill. Bengal. Lap Nair. Gond. Rornaney. Mssh.
Bokhariot. Kurd. Armenian Levantine. jew, Per-
sian. Puntab. Madras Parsee. nor anything
elne known to ethnologis,s. He simply
Dana Da and declined TO give further informa-
ton. For the sake OF brevity and roughly
Indicating his origin. he was called The Native"
He might have been the original Old Man OF tho
Mountains. who is said be the only authorized
head of the Teacup Creed Some people said
that he was: but Dana Da used to smile and deny
any connection with the cult; explaining tina, ne
was "Independen, Experimental"
AS have said he came from nowhere with
his hands behind his back. and studded the Greed
fer three weeks sitting at the feet OF those best
competent explain its mysteries. Then no
laughed aloud and went away, but the laugh
might have been either OF devotion derision.
When he returned he was without money, but
his p-ido unabated lie declared that no
knew abou, the Things in Heaven and
Earth than those who taught h!n and for this
contrnlacy abandoned altogether.
I!s mex; appearance IN public life a big
rantonment in Upper India. and was then tell
ing fortunes with the help OF three leaden dica
very dirty old cloth. and little tin box OF
o1F,,y, pf1 ,ol5
was allowed hnlf bottle OF wh:skcy: but tho
things which re invented the opium
quite worth the money. He IN reduced cir
cumssancen Among other peoples he told the
fortune OF ar Englishpaan who had once been n
teres ted IN the Simla Greed. but who. later on.
had married and forgotten all his old knowledge
In the study OF 4oa bies and Exchange. The Eng
Nshman allowed Dana Da 10 tell fortune
charitys sake. and gave him nve rupees. a din
ner and some old clothes. When he had eaton
Dana Da professed gratitude. and asked IL there
were anything he could do for his host-iu tho
esoteric limo.