Show MENTAL TELEGRAPH EAST INDIANS HAVE DEVELOPED ART TO FINE DEGREE Incident That Converted Skeptic Into Ardent Believer Wireless System an Old One In That Land of the Occult Many persons deride tho Idea of mental telegraphy but if they would spend a year or two In India as I did and work shoulder to shoulder with tho educated East Indians they would cease their scoffing said O H Scrug I ham organization manager for tho International Policyholders committee commit-tee and ono of tho most prominent electric railway men In Ohio In tho Now York Press It Is wonderful to what a degree of perfection thoso people peo-ple over there have developed tho faculty fac-ulty of wireless bruins They woro using tho wireless system over thero centuries before Marconi and Do Forest For-est wore born Lot mo glvo you an Instance in point and it Is only ono of the many which changed mo from a skeptic ton to-n convert Several years ago when I was In active work as a civil engineer with railroad construction as my specialty I wont to India to assist in building a lino Into tho Interior Wo came to a heading where tho use of rock drills of tho tripod stylo you seo in uso hero in Now York In making excavations was absolutely necessary neces-sary This had been foreseen In tho surveys made In advance of the construction con-struction work and wo had ordered a battery of thoso steam drills Finally wo worked rlgh up to the place whoro we needed them and we could not do much moro effective work until wo got them I was In tho odlco one day fuming and fretting about those drills and wondering whether the steamship upon which they should have arrived had reached Calcutta and whether tho drills were in her cargo I asked one of my assistants If ho had heard anything from Calcutta which was many miles away He replied In tho negative Ho had not oven received advices that tho steamship had arrIved ar-rived I was turning away in discontent discon-tent when ono of tho East Indians who had been assigned by tho government gov-ernment to assist us stopped forward Ho was educated highly and spoko English fluently Excuse mo he said were you asklnglf tho steamship had arrived Yeswe are expecting several steam drills on her and cannot do much moro work until we get them I replied She arrived this morning and the drills have been unloaded from her said tho East Indian They are on the pier now but something seems to be missing from them Are they funnylooking things that stand on three legs I told him they were and showed to him a picture of one of the drills He looked at it carefully and then replied re-plied Yes theyre what are In those long packages on flue pier but that part Is missing from each of them Ho Indicated nn essential part In tho body of tin drills as that which was missing from each At first 1 was inclined to regard what he said as a joke but his seriousness impressed me I Instructed the operator to wire to Calcutta and ascertain what the condition was In a little while he received re-ceived a reply which corroborated everything the East I Indian had told mo and worst of all that when tho cases wero opened It was discovered < < the parts wore missing That meant long delay because the drills were worthless without tho missing parts In my dilemma I called the East Indian In-dian to me and said Can you toll mo whether those missing parts were shipped with the drillsWithout Without hesitation replied Yes but they have not been taken from the ship They are away down < < In the hold beneath a lot of heavy bales which are going to bo taken to another port ho said with perfectly serious face I summoned the telegraph operator and Instructed him to wire to our representative in Calcutta what tho East Indian had told mo With that information I gave Instructions that the hales In till hold should be removed re-moved and the missing drill parts got from beneath them Within three hours I received a return message that my orders had been carried < < out and that the missing purls had been found exactly where the t East Indian said they were concealed In a few days therentter the drills reached us and wcie put at work cutting Into the rock In the heading After that experience ex-perience and others like It do you wonder that I believe in mental telegraphy teleg-raphy as It is practiced in India by the educated Knst Indians |