Show CONJURING IN INDIA celebrated feat ic to I 1 indeed lurin ocl u I 1 mystery bytel y indian jugglers are famous not only for their tricks but for the apparent eaga casa arid and openness with which they perform them dr norman Mael maclhod coil describes his own owls futile attempts to discover how one of their mast celebrated teals feats was vas ace accomplished abrou through gh oue one of my friends I 1 asked for the well known mango trick I 1 am told that many intelligent young men profess to tornow know how the trick is done but whenever I 1 fin diw ado acs ics I 1 ism lia a found to my regret that at that moment they have always forgotten ell the secret while the toni was beating and tho the pipe playing tho the juggler singing all tho the tune time in low lov accents smoothed a place in tho the gravel three or four bards ards before us having thus prepared a bed for tho the plant to grow in ile ha look a basket and placed it over the ed place coveri covering ag it with a thiu thin blanket the man mail himself did not weir wear a thread of clothing except a strip round the tb loins the time seemed now to have come tor for the detectives eye I 1 so bo just as he be was becoming more earnest in ili his song and while the tom tom beat and the pipe shrilled acro loudly I 1 stepped forward with becoming dignity and begged him to bring bobring the basket and its cover to il m wool as the issue this year there will be no such narrow margin in that state oregon lias bas already voted tins this year mid and increased its republican majority to the little shadows of margins in hi new york and con ile cheerfully complied and I 1 carefully ther the basket which was made of open nicker work I 1 thou then examined tho the cloth coveting which was wai thin almost transparent and certainly had bad nothing concealed in I 1 it L then I 1 lived hied my eyes on his strip of 0 clothing clot liing with such intentness thatis that it was not possible po siolo it could be touched without discovery and bade him go on feeling suro sure that tho the trick could not succeed sitting down ho be stretched his naked arms und under erthe the basket singing mid and smiling an he be did so then lifted ilia basket off tho the ground and behold a green plant about a foot high satisfied with our applause lie ho went on with his incantations after havila sat fata a little to give his plant timo time to grow ho he again lifted the basket and the plant was now two feet high ile iio asked us to wait awhile that wo we might taste the fruit I 1 but being assured by those who had seen the iho trick performed before that this result would bo be attained I 1 confessed myself donell done without tho the slightest notion of the how bow I 1 examined the ground and found it smooth and unturned apparently Appi renty delighted with my surprise the juggler stood up laughing when one of bis big companions chucked a pebble at him w which aich ho he put in his mouth immediately the samo same companion walking backward drew forth a cord of silk twenty yards or so in length after which the juggler with his hands behind him drew forth from froin bis his mouth two decanter stoppers two shells a spinning top a sione and several other things followed by a long jet ot of fire are |