Show HOW A HINDU FAKIR FAKES Th The Tree-Growing Tree Trick In India Didn't M Make Great Impression on E. E W. W Howe Travelers are always unreliable AUm All AU m my life tire I have heard hearl tal tales os of the magicians magi magi- clans dans In lii India One story was ws of oC the effect that a real eal Indian magician would appear In the street without apparatus and cause causo an nn enormous tree to grow out of ot the ground A boy would climb the time tree and shake down oranges and apples and pineapples I Everywhere In IndIa I looked locked for tor these wonderful magicians They do not exIst exist ex ex- 1st except In the tales tules of travelers I 1 saw sav the tree trick performed a dozen times I have hare seen better tricks performed per per- formed at the time theater In AtchIson Instead In stead of making a tree grow the Indian In In- dma dian produces a n plant about a afoot afoot atoot foot toot high fr from m under a blanket It Is IsIl Isa Isery isa a Il Iler er very ery clumsy pet performance How lIow people love to fool tool themselves I How they love lovo to repeat n R lie tie knowing It to be a ri lie to enlarge on on It and at last to accept It as the truth E. I-E. E. E W. W Howe in Dally Daily Notes of ot a Trip Around the time World |