Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 164, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1904 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. ■VBBT IVININO, BXCBPT SUNDAY, BY U■ W GS . ELLINQHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, fly oirrler, per week 10c By Barrier, per year >4.00 By m*U. per month 2SC By mall, per year 52.50 Single copies. Two Cents. Rflwartiling rates made known on application Bntered In the postoffice at Decatur. Indltaa, as lecond-olass mall matter. J. H. HELLER, Managir. NATIONAL TICKET For President ALTON B. PARKER of New York. For Vice-President HENRY G. DAVIS of West Virginia WALL STREET. You frequently hear the labored argument that Wall street, the great moneyed industry of the east, is looking with favor on the election of the national candidates of democracy. And this is true. You generally hear this argument keyed in a tone that is intended to convey the impression that Wall street has some illegitimate reason for desiring a change in the policy of the national administration. This is untrue. Wall street has no spumous coin or shady deals to work off on the government, but as an in-

terested party in the business world, thev simply join the large business element of the country in desiring a conservative and safe president of these United States. Wall street has millions and millions of money tied up in stocks, in bonds, and in business industries of every nature and kind, and they are right in knowing the man who fills the executive chair of the greatest office of the greatest people on earth. An unguarded word spoken by a president has many times declined stocks and raised havoc generally in the industrial world. This is the fear of Wall street, and why it is, that men and candidates are more and more becoming the platforms of the political parties they represent. Wall street, and by Wall street we mean the whole business element of the cc 'ntry. care not so much what partv is in power, as thev do as to who is president of the United States. This is the condition confronting the country at this time President Roosevelt and his friends would have you believe that his halfcocked and insolent manner of dealing with great men in the army and navy and other branches of the government comes from a stock of independence which the American people admire. But this is not true. Independence is all right, but foolish independence shows a lack of development that is so necessary to one destined to occupy the highest office within the gift of the American people. The business interests in their united support of Parker do so because he is sane and safe, and as president will carry forth such policies as will make still greater those interests that are represented by the wealth of the country. These are reasons sufficient for Wall street, as well as everybody else, to support the candidacy ot, Judge Alton Brooks Parker. The New York Herald, known in the journalistic field as the greatest of all the great newspapers in the world, declares in favor of the election of the democratic na tional ticket. The Chicago Chronicle should console itself August Belmont Jets it be known that his preference for National chairman is the Hon. T. Taggart. The announcement, has caused a change in eastern sentiment, and the tide is now turned toward the one man all Indiana hopes to see s o honored. Grover Cleveland is in a happy frame of mind and in Colliers’ Weekly for July gives expression to congratulation and hope for the success of the standard bearers of democracy. Mr. Bryan won at St. Louis the good opinion of all democrats, and his manly action was calculated to heap coals of fire on the heads of

men in the party who had not hesitated to do with less provocation, what the Nebraskan scorned to do. For this he deserves honor and credit. Ho could not rule but he would not ruin. He bowed as all regular democrats must, to the will of the majority formally expresed and he bowed gracefully and manfully. His conduct at St. Louis excites admiration and adds to his well earned fame. There are large opportunities of leadership still in store for Mr Bryan in the democratic party. CONJURERS OF INDIA THEIR FEATS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF OUR MAGICIANS. The Wonders That an English Officer Saw Performed by a Hitch Caste Hindoo—llerrmnnu'N Pigeon Trick That Bewildered the Orientals. The wonderful tales that have been told of the feats of Hindoo conjurers doubtless derive much of their effect from the inability of untrained observers to report trulj what they have seen. An ordinary trick of sleight of hand may be so described in all sincerity by one having no knowledge of the art as to be utterly Inexplicable. A simple reversal of the sequence of movements may be sufficient to make the described feat an utter impossibility, and yet the relater will demand that you account for it as he thinks he saw It or admit that the dead or the devil had a hand in it. Herrmann went to India to see for himself what the jugglers of the orient could do, hoping to pick up some wonderfully clever tricks, but be was utterly disappointed. Heller. Hertz. Kellar and other western magicians. I believe. had similar experiences in India. At least, none of them brought back any notable addition to his repertory of illusions. Herrmann told me that the Hindoo fakirs had a few stock tricks depending upon apparatus, such as the mangrove feat and the basket deception, but were not adept In pure sleight of hand. His feats of palming mystified them completely. For example, a party of native jugglers boarded the steathship In port and performed some of their feats. Herrmann appeared before them with a live pigeon in his hand, twisted off the bird's head and threw the body over the ship's side and directed their attention to the severed head, which he then "vanished.” He then held his empty hand outstretched, and the pigeon alighted upon his palm unhurt. The Hindoos were deeply Impressed, but the trick was simple. The pigeon was a pet bird, trained to come to Herrmann's band. When he pretended to twist its neck he tucked its head under its wing and brought into view a prepared head which had lieen palmed. Tossed over the side, the bird fell until It got its head out from under the wing, and so was lost to sight for a moment. While Herrmann was holding the attention of his audience by vanishing the fake head the pigeon was ■oaring to get its bearings, and it came to hand at the right time. Yet there are travelers who aver that Herrmann and his fellows saw only the common Jugglers of India and that the tales of oriental marvels are not all lies out of whole cloth. If their descriptions of what they profess to have seen are to be accepted as approximately accurate, there is a fine field for psychical research in Hindustan. and our western mystifiers have much to learn. Some years ago I met a veteran of the British army who had served seventeen years in India and bad seen many strange things in his time. His name was O’Farrell, and when he retired he was sergeant major of the Eighty-fourth regiment of foot. He i was one of the garrison of Lucknow ■ during the siege in the time of the seI poy mutiny and wore the "defense of i Lucknow” medal. I told the veteran what Herrmann had said about Hindoo magic, and he replied that it was more I than probable that nothing remarkable was done by the sort of fakirs one would be likely to see in a run about I the country. But O'Farrell declared that he bad seen tricks which could not be performed by sleight of hand nor explained by any theory based upon the methods ot weiurn conjurers, and he referred for specific corrobomt'nn to General A. Herbert. Sir Havelock Allen. General Thomas Lightfoot, General Barton and other British officers of note, who, he averred, were present at a remarkable exhibition in Lucknow In April, 1859, and made notes of what they saw. I never have had an opportunity to verify tiie references. Sergeant Major O’Farrell produced what be said was bis diary of 1859. and from the entries then made he verified all the essential features of his narrative of an exhibition given by a native conjurer before the officers of the garrison at the request of Lieutenant Burns of the Uoyal artillery. The scene was one of the officers' mess rooms, selected without consultation with the performer. "The conjurer.” said the old soldier, “came without any apparatus or baggage other thun a casket the size of a cigar box. He was s tall, dignified man about fifty-five years of age and evidently of high caste. He wore a turban, flowing white robe, white pajamas and red slippers. When be entered the room he bowed to his audience and then directed upon each person in turn the steady gaze of a remarkable pair of dark eyes. When be looked at me I could Ms- only those lustrous eyes, and my perception of the surroundlugs became confused and vague. "The man said nothing, but at a ■ llvht Mliru hln slnsle nnenaA

the casket and took tnererrom a casumere shawl, which he spread upon the floor. The conjurer seated himself upon the shawl and asked in English for the loan of a rupee. Colonel Montgomery marked a coin and handed it to him, and the conjurer laid it upjn the shawl. He raised the forefinger of bls right hand, and the coin turned up on its edge. He waved bis hand, and the coin spun across the floor some | three or four yards. At a sign of the j forefinger the rupee stopped spinning > and stood on its edge. A slight wave I of the hand and the coin danced back, stopped and vanished. “An officer asked how the trick was done, and the man replied that he had I done nothing. ’But we saw you,’ per ■*. - . 1 listed the adjutant. ’You thought you did,’ replied the Hindoo, with a smile, ‘but the colonel has the rupee in his pocket.’ It was as he bad said. All i the time bis gaze ranged from face to face of the audience. "A white silk handkerchief was spread before us, and in a moment I saw hundreds oi brilliant beetles of all j colors crawling upon it. I nudged my neighbor, a noncom., and called his attention to the display. His head had been turned for an instant, and I feared be would miss the sight. Turning his gaze as 1 directed, he seemed puzzled for a moment, and then lie muttered to me that he didn’t see anything but a white handkerchief, and the next second the beetles faded from my sight, and I was not sure that I had seen them at all. "The conjurer unwound a few feet of thread from a ball of spun cotton and east the end into the air, where it seemed to float. Presently a cobra appeared beside him, its head elevated I and gracefully swaying, its tongue | darting out and in and its hood spread, showing the spectacle mark. At a sign the serpent glided up the thread and balanced in midair, and at another sign it turned, swarmed down the vertical thread and disappeared the instant that it touched the floor. “Lieutenant Burns had made two attempts to leave the room, but the Hindoo had caught bis eye each time, and the officer’s purpose seemed to fade I from his mind. After the cobra trick. I however. Burns managed to slip out. and when be came back the conjurer | was sitting cross legged in the air, two or three feet above the floor, his left arm resting upon a short rod under cover of the shawl. Burns stepped quickly forward and snatched away the shawl. No rod was there, and the man was seated upon the floor, although I could have sworn an instant before that be was at least two feet above the floor. "The diary shows that fourteen tricks were performed, all of them bewildering. concerning the details of which no two of us agreed exactly. The I last was a striking one. The carpet j around the seated conjurer became violently agitated, and presently a number of cobras—my diary says six, but others saw three, four or five—and a green snake appeared. They glided about the man. reared and struck at him. and the green snake twined about his neck. The Hindoo arose, drew from his girdle a long sword that certainly was not there a minute before and cut the serpents In pieces. The severed parts squirmed about, and the blood dyed the white shawl crimson. It was all done An silence, as things happen in a dream. “At a nod the attendant gathered up the shawl by the corners, concealing the snakes and the blood, and nt another sign he spread it out again as unspotted as new snow. No sign of the slaughtered reptiles remained. “At the conclusion of the performance the man was urged to give some explanation of his feats, but he smiled and said he had done literally nothing. The officers insisted that they had seen things done, but be only shook fils head, repeated. ‘You thought so. but nothing whatever was done.’ and went away.”

The explanation obviously to be inferred from the veteran's manner of telling the story was hypnotic suggestion. He declined to commit himself either for or against that theory, said he had no explanation to offer and would go no further than to say he thought he aaw what he had described. Hypnotism and telepathic suggestion are occult enough to appeal powerfully to the minds of those who deem the feats nt spirit mediums worth investigating and, if one assumes the veraclcnr accuracy of Fs«t Indian jugglery tales, should be mysteriously and pseudo scientific enough to explain the miracles of Mahatmas and Yogi.—Allen Kelly in New York Post. <««»» Mountain The most lofty mountain lakes are found among the Himalaya mountains in Tibet. Their altitudes do not. however, seem to have been very accurately gauged, for different authorities give widely different figures regarding them. According to some. Lake Manasarowar, one of the sacred lakes of Tibet, is between 19,000 and 20,000 feet above the level of the sea, and If this is so It ii undoubtedly the loftiest in the world. Two other Tibetan lakes, those of Chatamoo and Surakoi, are said to be 17,000 and 15.400 feet In altitude re spectlvely. For a long time it was supposed that Lake Titicaca, in South America, was the loftiest in the world. It covers about 4,500 square miles, is 924 feet in Its greatest depth and Is 82,000 feet above the sea. In spite of tbs Inexactitude with regard to the measurements of the elevation of the Tibetan lakes, they are no doubt considerably higher thun this or any other,— Philadelphia Ledger. ty officers and 200 soldiers, 40,000 rounds and all the rebels’ reserve ammunition and fifty animals. The balance of Ducharmes' army fled In ths direction of Orltuco.

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Everybody Goes To the German-American \ auderiJ show. This show carries none b;l the best performers; every me com nected with it is an artist. We hai Prof. G. A. Gardner, the world's b mous hypnotist, who has demonstnt ed his wonderful powers here in I> catur. We have the Serpents Dancers, the wonderful Flving Gi who soars through the large tent a bird; also the largest collection! bones ever placed on exhibition; a of these bones actually weigh 8 pounds, these bones are from a w historic bird which once soared the forests of North America. Tbs bones were found fourteen feet do* in the sea of the Alaska g< Id fe We also have Irish. Dutch, bla face,( 'hinaman and other cotnmediatt .songs, dances and sketches. fail to see the funny clowns. W member the show is made up tj fenny people. Come and seetbetnj their funny acts and funny sayinfl under a wa er proof tent all w’ week in Decatur. In connecW with this show we have the (terms* Atnencon doctors who cure where* other dactors fail. Do not miss I Ten cents to all. Wanted A girl to do general ho* work; good wages. Inquire of W Gaffer. INSURE WITH THE “Graham Agency Company" One hundred companies failed * a result of the Chicago and ton conflagrations, ami ptne have failed because of Haltimor' j But the “Graham Agency < 0 panies” paid in full the loRH . the above fires, and have ne failed to pay 100 cents on ‘ dollar. GRAHAM & LOWER, AGTSOffice over Tague’s Shoe Store. L. E. DOLUH, Solicitor. Phone 239.