Show they dram among alic Samo ledes and the tribes of northern asiatic russia tho drum almost as an idol they address it erect it in their but and the arleata of the superstition by the aid of the divine instrument effect that magical a disappearance which has puzzled all travelers from sir hugh wiloughby downward to account for and has elv en rise to aa much guesswork at its elucidation aa the fiata of tho indian jugglers the Samol after beating his drum and working up the senses of his spectators to a pitch of great ex mysteriously vanishes into thin air before the eyes of all cd travelers naturally hold that it la a trick abo themselves declare that the power resides in the drum idol the peculiar thing la that neither one party nor the other baa been able to explain how the vanishing occurs |