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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 derido the Idea of mental telegraphy, but If they would spend a year or two In India,, as. I did, and work shoulder to shoulder with the educated East Indians they would cease their scoffing," said G. R. Scrug-ham, Scrug-ham, organization manager for tho International Policyholders' committee, commit-tee, and one of the most prominent i '$ electric railway men In Ohio, in the New York Press. "It is wonderful to what a degree of perfection thoso people peo-ple over there have developed the faculty fac-ulty of wireless brains. They were using the wireless system over there centuries before Marconi and Do Forest For-est were born. "Let me give you an instance In point, and It Is only one of tho many which changed mo from a skeptic to a convert. Several years ago, when I was in active work as a civil engineer with railroad construction as my specialty, I went to India to nsslst In building a line Into tho Interior. Wo came to a heading where tho use of rock drills, of the tripod stylo you see in use hero in New York in making excavations, was absolutely necessary. neces-sary. This had been foreseen In the surveys made in advanco of the construction con-struction work, and wo had ordered a battery of those steam drills. Finally we worked rlgh up to the place where we needed them, and wo could not do much more effective work until we got them. : s; "I was In the office one day, fuming and fretting about those drills and fi wondering whether the steamship upon which they should have arrived ' s had reached Calcutta and whether ' " the drills were in her cargo. I asked one of my assistants If ho had heard anvthlnc from Calcutta, which was many miles away. Ho replied In tho negative. He had not even received advices that tho steamship had arrived. ar-rived. I was turning away in discontent discon-tent when ono of the East Indians who had been assigned by tho government gov-ernment to assist us, stopped forward. Ho was educated highly and spoke English fluently. " 'Excuse mo,' ho said 'wore you asking If the steamship had arrived?' " 'Yes we aro expecting soveral ,tf steam drills on her and cannot do much more work until wo got them," I replied. "'She arrived this morning and tho drills have been unloaded from her,' n said the" East Indian. "They are on tho pier now, but something seems to bo missing from them. Aro they funny-looking things that stand on three legs?' "I told him they were and showed to him a plcturo of ono of the drills. Ho looked at It carefully and then replied: re-plied: n - - |