MAN OF MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1642, 8 January 1913, Page 9

MAN OF MYSTERY.

YOGA KAMA'S WONDERFUL POWEItS. ■ ; , : He was - dressed .in i'a; frock' stiit •. with whichnoSayilellow.arHst would have spats'decor- . ,'tited his'.patenVleather sh6es;:and,:a-white. , dip: outfitted his wnistcoat/An incangru- , • ity was that in placS of, a top hatlho.wore. a : blue .turban, aiid his skin was :as dusky, - as an African, ancestry 'could make ut. . Such was Yoga Rami (writes a "Daily ■ Chronicle" represeritati'rt) as I 'saw him. " The' apostle' of •: a, peculiar-'-fcrrtop which; ; .he argute ,i&' within:! the - reach; of'every ■ 1 ■man', .A'ogtt hnsJatoly-arrived'.in- Londpnii.; ! In a'TooiiV of th<J»ffltrinvbers . Mafcoapies; 1 'near Bcgent^t?eet: l h&'iccomplished.;Soni6 : extraordinary "mind" feats of :ivh'ich;;l tyis the- sole - observer. -V - • . : ;'i '?;I went'to Yoga a sceptic; I left lmpress- \ ed--' by/his' faculty 'to, understand' and. to .. interpret. I>y- slleiit ; 5, ■. to / impose : his will tijpo'i mine so-that' I would \hesitate. and- finally;follow the courss ho.had mutely directed.' • . ' • : r ' The room was in'every sense a-Western 'apartmefit; the only occupants .were Yojft }.- 'and myself; V After, I had placed:,plasters. ; upon his |eyes, •a, bandage over ,tliem, my . : gK>ves- over.that;--and! had .then - enveloped r his 1 was .. free to mako any teste. It is important /to remember: that thero was not, as in : the case, of other, "telepathic professors,, y any.third person present..;- it < Yoga said ho' would toll me the, names ■! of relatives, no did. I was .required ,io ■ ,;' print Hn'itheVpalm' of my, handihe initial' i- letter and to'beat in tho air tho-.number e 'of other letters composing the name.; 1 nen.. ■ he told'.mo tho names I: had traced; i' j My respect for Yoka outgrew tlio seep- .*• ticism. X holped him to - remove the ban*, daces;- and taking .'my pencil from my hand he wrote-on ■> piece of paper and . placed pencil and paper wide aiklrt.' m !' told me .'to' go ;to: a. bookcase, read tho 'titles ! of- the voluihcsito {return to 'the. 'sofa; hnd'to name' the.tatle of one of ,the j.' : volumes; '•' J wavered, .between -titles. by Jerome K. Jerome and Allen Upward, and l' I selected the latter. • ' „ E-i : "Pick up that pieco of paper now, .he • directed,/and read.",.-And I,read-th&eon-' V that I was to speak the -Upward title— he had decided and recorded the .decision r beforo-1 approached the book! _ • ■ - Theso >ire samples of Toga,s undoubted - 'rower.' ■ "I have reached ..this . Rtagd; of development Ithroußlr processes .of /evolu-: >• : Hon." hO' uays. : ' faculties.'that if . you: crossed il :and entered a shuttered roota I could tell when you moved. II you put 1 ije and tL'frLv hair of tho EthiopiK but ho-left: Abyssinia as a boy, and he 'r ini-tfed-with Westernising- currents in u3 eltovhei-o:'. SoVthat jUie.has attained: such earlyone wonders what ho win do cap < ablo of when a greybeard. .