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LITTLE SE1MON' KM HIE WI0B1 EN 0)
Spiritualism and MK'
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Member of congress, like most ntticr
folkK, believe In the old saying that all
the world lovci a. lover, and they ai
smiling benevolently at the latest recruit
to the ranm of Pan Cupid.
Henry Clayton, representative In the
hoimo from Alabama, wan famed unill re
cently for his readiness to sing ling and
loud the praises of the democratic party.
He did this on the floor of the house us
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Often as he could do so without making: It
, appear that he desired to have ills name
in the Congressional Record as often as
Robert Hi ucn Mhcoii of Arkansas. When
, Mr. Clayton hd any pent-up feeling
I'out the Iniriuiiy of the republican party,
fl did not feel like expressing- his views
In the house, he at-scinblcd his er nles
around him at his hotel and told of the
' vices of the U. O. I. und of the virtues ot
( Miss Democracy, lie came pretty nearly
I being a man's man. He lived with men
i and spent all his time with them.
Now it Is all changed. Henry Clayton la
' married. No longer can lie be found lean
ing back In a hotel chair, careless of the
! approaching hour of nildliiRht. In th old
( days after the house had adjourned Clay
ton walked down town with Ollie James
nd Tom Heflln. Clayton continues to-walk
down town each night after the house ad
1 Journs. but his old time friends are
' barred. He permits no one to Intrude
when his bride joins him at the Capitol for
; a walk home,
f Clayton Is so enraptured with married
life that he cannot stop talking about it.
When he save hla bachelor dlnne.r he began
by lifting his glass and remarking fer
vently, ."Here's to tho ladles, Ood bless
them." The next night he was toastmaa
ter at a democratic dinner and as he ln
troduced each of the speakers he proposed
l toast to the ladies in the same language.
I (ienrral Method of I'repnrlnn Meat
for Ile Table.
', The question of the amount and charac-
ter of the ingredients which escape from
I the meat and other changes occurring In
It during cooking is too complicated to be
. discussed in detail here. Much careful ex
perimenting along these lines has been
done In experiment station and other
laboratories, and the results Khow that
the losses vary considerably with the
method ot cooking employed, being of
course greatest where small pieces of meat
are aubjected to prolonged cooking.
Among the principal conclusions drawn
!rom the experiments referred to are tho
following: Tho chief loss In weight when
meat la cooked is due to the driving off of
k water. When beef Is cooked by pan broll
ing that Is, seared In a hot, greased pan,
a common cooking process no great loss
of nutritions results, vartlcularly if the
fat and other substances adhering to the
pan are utilized In the preparation of
' gravy. When beef Is cooked by boiling,
there is a loss of 3 to 20 per cent of ma-
terial present, though this la not an actual
1 loss it the broth Is utilized for soup or in
some similar way. Kven In the case of
meat W'blch Is "used' for the preporatlon
of beef tea or broth, the losses of nutritive
material are apparently small, though
much of the flavoring matter has been re
nrnwVt The amount of fat found In broth
vm'i'."' directly with the amount originally
presentfln the meat; the fatter the meat
the greater the quantity of fat In the broth.
The loaa of water In cooking varies In
versely with the fatness of the meat; that
In, the fatter the meat the smaller Uut
'linkage duo to lots of water. In cooked
meat the loss ot various constituents la In
versely proportional to the i-lze ot the cut,
In other; words, the smaller the piece of
meat the greater the percentage of loss.
Loss also appeals to be dependent some
what upon the length of time the cooking
Is contlriutd. When pieces of meal weigh
ing one and one-halC to five pounds are
cooked Jin water somew hat, under the boil
ing polut there appears to be little differ
ence in' the amount of material found in
t broth whether the meat 1h placed In cold
water cr hot water at the beginning of
the cooking period. When meat is roasted
In the oven the amount of material re
moved 1 somewhat affected by the charac
Types We Meet Every Day
1 BY BOBBIE BABBLE.
Says Trivia, "Well I must confess
I've taken to fly-fishing less
Because- 1 like this outdoor spoil
I And mqr because the natty sort
i Of clothes one weura when angling seems
To fit my modiste's maddest dreams;
I Fish ho I will, yet 1 must say
T big ones always get away!
"And sometimes as I whip the streams
My ught stray far In Idle dreams,
'Jj ayly here and there
Then suddenly I am aware
Of springing rod and whirring reel;
i I feel the shock from head to heel;
With utmost science then I play
Alas! the big fish gets away!
. ' But when a tiny little mite
Cornea leaping up and takes a bit
t He's sure to ruin my best fly.
And, though I land him high and dry,
He's always such a little fish
(He wouldn't fill the smallest dish).
If lu'd been Digger.
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u,'d been bigger. I dare say.
and got a ;
lit never sure
Evidently It has become a habit, for Clay
ton, atlll a newlywed, proposes a toast to
the ladle even when he drlnka a glass of
water.
' "Speaker Cannon I without' doubt the
bent known man In the United States."
declared Representative John W. Weeks
of Massachusetts. "I have long been of
that opinion, and last week It was con
"I accompanied the speaker to Hoston,
where he was to spenk before the Middle
sex club. On our way back to Washing
ton we stopped in New York. After
breakfast the speaker suggested that e
walk down to the ferry. As we started
out of the 'hotel tho speaker was obliged
to respond to half a dozen salutations. As
we passed the first street crossing a
mounted policeman saluted and said:
'Howdy, Mr. Speaker. Next we passed a
milk wagon. The driver stuck his head
out of the side of the wagon and called
out: "Hello, Uncle Joe.' As we walked
across Broadway wo encountered a squad
of mounted police escorting a Chinese
prince, who was being shown the sights of
the city.
"The officer In command of the squad
recognized the speaker and -saluted, and
all of his men, Instantly recognizing him,
did likewise. And so it was from the mo
ment we left the hotel all the way down
to the ferry. Just by way of variety we
met four tramps near the ferry. One of
them saw us coming along and -udged
his companions. When we reached them
they straightened tip and respectfully
passed the time of day.
"I doubt If there haa ever been a pres
ident of the United States whose face Is
so familiar to every man, woman and child
In the country aa Is that of Speaker Can
non." ter of the roasting pan and similar fac
tors, thus the total loss In weight Is natur
ally greater in an open than in a closed
pan, as the open pan offers more oppor
tunity for the. evaporation of water. Judg
ing from the average results of a consider
able number of tests It appears that, a
roast weighing six pounds raw should
weigh five pounds after cooking, or in other
words the loss Is about one-sixth of . the
original .weight. This meana that If the
raw meat costs 80 cents pe pound the
cooked would represent an Increase of 4
cents a . pound . on the original cost; btit
this increase would . of course be lessened
If all the dippings and gravy' are utilized.
With the quantities used In the ordinary
home the relative losses sustained in dif
ferent methods of cooking meat are not
great enough to be of. particular importance
with reference to economical management.
However, In public ' Institutions where a
small saving per day for each Inmate
represents a large Item In the course of a
year, It may be desirable to select meth
ods Involving the least loss, which would
mean that the advantage would 11 with
stewing and bulling rather than with broil
ing and roasting, ao far as the relative
losses of materiul are concerned. The
relative economy of different methods ot
cookery depends very greatly, upon the
kind of fuel, the form of stove and oven,
and other similar factors. These vary so
much under different home conditions that
It Is difficult to draw general deductions,
though the subject has often been inves
tigated. However, it may be said that it
is often possible to effect a saving If the
housewife can so plan the cooking of
meat and, other foods as to take full ad
vantage of the heat supplied by the fuel
used.
The Angling
Girl.
What sort ot fly will most allure.
Now, when I use a pretty one
With every color neath the sun
The trout just glance at It and glide
Away up stream; while my old guide
Casts an old fly, o f somber gray.
Cast an old fly, of somber gray,
"With finest tackle I may toll;
The wise old -guide lakes all the spoil '
With simple meana. and, strange to autt,
Uses all aorta of things for bait
A mouse, a fly a bit ot park;
I think if he should use burnt cork
A fish would rise and bite It; say,
You bet It wouldn't get' away!"
Daily Health Hint.
Physical 111 health which results from
care, anxiety or any overworking of the
brain, may beat be cured by simple diet,
rest, sleep and exercise in the opcu air,
which is belter -than luediolaia,
Spa -W-
Ilnmllliy and Ma
Kuke H ll "lie That Humbleth Hlmsrlf
Shall be Ex'alted."
Would you behold a beautiful portrait?
1 point you to the canvas upon, which Is
painted the picture of an individual going
to the front, not to fall back again, but to
remain steadfast, gradually making prog
ress. Ho is the humble soul the picture
of a man exhibiting what the famous Aug
ustine called the first, second and third
article of the Christian religion.
The greatest problem of human life
that problem which so few among men
ever solve la Involved In the question,
"Who am I or what am 1?" No better
advice could be given to a young man, or
any man for that matter, than that which
Is expressed by the inscription on the walls
! of the Delphian temple and which Is as
cribed to the great Athenian lawalver
namely, "Know Thyself!" Ignorance on
the part of man with respect to himself
that lack of self-knowledge, is responsible
for his unjustifiable exaltation and his
consequent abasement which is thus made
Inevitable. And as Ignorance of one self
is productive of self-exaltation, so humil
ity Is the natural consequence of self
knowledge. Humility of man is the surest
evidence that he knows himself. You can
not flatter such a man; you cannot puff
him up or make him vain. You may in
language elegant in diction, adorned with
rhetorical flourishes and full of sublime
sentiment heap upon him much praise
and thus seek to exalt him far above all
others whom you may know; you may cast
beautiful bouquets at his feet and shout
triumphantly when some victory ha has
won; you may bestow upon him precious
gifts In recognition of his superior service
and worth yet, knowing himself, he wll
realize that He possesses many weaknesses.
And while his powers and capabilities have
enabled him to attain success, and he Is
worthy, therefore, of great Praise, yet
he will know that the future Is full of pit
falls Into which there is constant danger
ot falling. The spirit of self-exaltatlont Is
cast out of his whole life, and accordingly
his growth, development and elevation is
Iterrard. I IfA I -. -
The Tired Business Man
BY WALTER A. SINCLAIR.
"Do you think thai the comet will cause
any disaster?" asked Friend Wife, anx
iously. "If you entertain a fear about It, calm
It," ald the Tired' Business Man. "I don't
know what Professor Halley's little wan
dering pet can do when thoroughly an
gered, but I can't suggest a better disaster
job than its carrying off a' few thousand
pests who have been making positive pre
dictions on the subject. While old Sirlus
Is the watchdog of the heavens, and a sil
ver watchdog at that, the comet seems to
be a sky terrier.
"It keeps men up nights until the wee
hours. Or, at least, that's what they tell
their wives'. It has been a blessed relief In
the way of a new excuse for coming home
two Jumps ahead of the milkman and tell
ing the spouse that hubby has been up
watching the comet. As a matter of fact
most masculine persons of my acquaint
ance would nut even go out nights to look
at a star of course, excepting a comic
opera star.
"I imagine that before the open season
for comets is over it will have also been
blamed for the peculiar gift affected by
gents rolling home after midnight and for
the unexplainable laughter which accom
panies this phenom. I read the other day
that. Professor Somebody says that the
comet Is surrounded by a stratum of
laughing gas and that when It sideswipes
the earth the population here will get one
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IPAY-. j MOW HAND ME SEVEMTY LTHE5E
By Ksy. J. E. Hnmmon. Pastor Xountie
Memorial Church.
made sine' It us 'a principle of life. Hu
mility is the price of exaltation.
The grain of wheat that Is cast Into the
ground In exalted In the harvest which In
due time It will bring forth; the tiny seed,
though it lies buried In tho soil and must
undergo the process of decay is in due
time exalted in the beauty and fragrance
of the rose. The young man finds him
self unpopular among his fellows, often hu
miliatedbeginning at the lowest round
of the' ladder, occupying an Insignificant
and lowly positon in an important and
prominent business but in due time ky
honest service, fidelity, and diligence and
with humidity of mind, he Is exalted to a
better and higher position, and up he
goes to the very top of tho ladder. "He
that humbleth himself shall be exalted."
David at one time, when It was proposed
to him to brcome a son-in-law of King
Haul, feeling his utter un worthiness, said:
"Who am I and what Is my life or my
father's family In Israel that I should be
come the son-in-law of the king? Seemeth
it to you a light matter to become the
king's son-in-law, seeing I am a poor man
sniff and then laugh themselves to death.
Jolly finish! Of course, all grouches will
survive, because they haven't a laugh In
them.
".Still that's just supposing that no gas
trust gets to the supply first and puts In
quarter in the slot meters to peddle the
cyanogen gas. Queer'gas, eh? Sounds like
the name of aome county In New York.
"In addition to this laugh-and-the-comet-laughs-wlth-you
line I read that some tele
scope experts have discovered that the tail
of the comet Is freighted down with cathode
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and lightly esteemed?" And yet he who
felt himself unworthy of a king's daugh
ter was In due time exalted to the king's
throne. I'oor lame Mephlbosbeth, son of
Jonathan, rtrelving recognition at the
hands of David, fell on his face before
him, saying: "What is thy servant that
thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog
ns 1 am?" was given an exalted position
at the king's table as one of his sous and
became the master of all the servants of
the house ot Zlbii. John the Liaptlst, feel
ing unworthy even to stoop down and un
loose the latches of the shoes of Him
whose coming he appeared In the Judean
Wilderness to announce. Is counted worthy
to be His harbinger. Paul, though on be
ing made an apostle declared himself un
worthy of the name and later cried out,
"I am less than the leHst of the saints," and
again Just before his martyrdom having
reached the most sublime heights of Chris
tian attainment, exclaimed, "I am the
chief of sinners," lives today In history
as the greatest of the apostles, the chief
of saints and the noblest Christian hero
that the world has evfr known. Truly he
that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
"The bird that sours on highest wing
Builds on the ground her lowly nest;
And she that doth most sweetly sing
Mings In the shade when all things rest.
In lark and nightingale we see
What honor has humility.''
"When Mary chose the better part.
She meekly sat at Jesus' feet;
And Lydla's gently opened heart
Was made for Uod's own temple meet;
Fairest and best adorned Is she
Whose clothing Is humility."
"The saint that wears heaven's brightest
crown
In deepest adoration bends;
The weight of glory bows him down
The most when his soul ascends;
Nearest the throne Itself must be
The footstool of humility."
The lesson of humility , is hard to learn.
Experience is a good teacher, but much
humiliation can be avoided by sitting aa a
pupil at the feet of Him who said, "Learn
of me; for I am meek and lowly of
heart." There men learn to know them
selves and to know oneself is to possess
the charming virtue of humility.
Tells Friend Wife the Comet is a
Sky Terrier.
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bands. Don't know what they arc, but If
they turn out good we can all go out In
the park nights this summer and listen to
the cathode band concerts.
"Everything considered . unusual by per
sons of short memory can be attributed to
the comet these days. The high cost of
living, the trusts, the perverseness ot the
weather In getting bad at the beginning of
the base .ball season, the spectacles of leg
islators confessing about bribes in Pitts
burg, Albany and Chicago, the Insurgent
rise up and sit down, the snuffing out of
Uncle Joe, the announced retirement of
Aldrich and Hale, the Back from Elba
movement, the admission of Poe and. Po
cahontas to the Hall of Fame, the meat
boycott, the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy,
the opera consolidation and accompanying
twitters by the song birds, large hats and
small dresses In fact everything you can
think of Is laid up to the comet.
"If we didn't have a silly season every
year anywhere from twelve months up
I'd say that the comet caused that, too.
It's a great thing to Invite a man out to a
little friendly quarter limit game and have
htm tell his wife that he la going to observe
the comet, but if he comes tlptolng home
In the dark he's liable to step on the
comet's tail and wake the household."
"Will the comet assure good crops
asked Friend Wife.
"The O. O. P. tends to that," said the
Tired Business Man.
(Copyright, 1S10, by the N. Y. Herald Co.)
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It slate writing has deceived . Its thou
sands, the tricks of the sealed letter and
pellet writer have deceived their tens of
thousands. The list of these trick Is so
long, the variations of each trick are so
many, and the results ao thoroughly mys
tifying to the uninitiated, that it Is email
wonder that even the highly Intelligent at
least are forced to the conclusion that
theie in truth In the work of
the spiritualist. It Is of no use
to trust one's )es In these things, for
seeing is not always believing. The profits
that grow out of exhibitions of sealed letter
trkks are so great that they can be ar
ranged with very elaborate settings.
Here, for Instance. Is an account of a
seance that has mystified every, living soul
who has attended It, with the possible ex
ception of the few experts In the ails of
legerdemain who have come to get Ideas.
Sitters are asked to write their names and
their questions on paper brought by thetii
selves, or even to write and seal them
brfore polng to the seance. Then the man
after gives each sitter a number, which Is
placed on the sitter's envelope. - The med
ium Is duly blindfolded on the stage, a
lady's glovo being placed between the hand
kerchief and the eyes, to make sure the
blindfold is sight-proof. Then a volunteer
spectator Is asked to take the managers
hat and collect the envelopes and carry
them to the stage. He does so. The man
ager takes the hat, covers It with a cloth,
hands it back to the volunteer, who holds
It In his own lap during the whole per
formance. Then the manager makes a fifteen min
ute speech about the miracles of spiritual
ism, after which the performance Is ready
to begin. Tho medium, seated behind a
flower-covered table at the rear of the
stage, announces- that he hears the call of
some spirit, the son of a certain sitter
present, who Inquired about this spirit.
Silence reigns. ' No one announces that he
made the Inquiry: Then the hand of the
blindfolded medium points to a sitter and
declares that he wrote the message, and
proceeds to tell him the answer. The
doubter winces and declares he no, longer
doubts. Then the medium hears another
spirit, which wishes to speak to Mrs. So
and So. It Is a son who was drowned.
The spirit answers her questions to her
satisfaction, and she la convinced. One
after another hvara his questions answered,
his location In the crowd pointed out. After
all the questions have been answered the
writers arc requested to call and get their
letters. They do so and find them Intact
And they go away completely mystified.
It Is impossible, you say. Certainly.
But when the manager received the hat
from the volunteer, he. substituted another
hat. The medium has' a confederate Who
secured the messages, opened them and
sent them to the medium, who, behind hla
flowers, read them one by one, having
worked the bandage over his eyes up
slightly by moving his eyebrows. When
he got through he returned them to the
confederate, who sealed them In duplicate
numbered envelopes and placed them on
the top of a little table In the wings.
When the volunteer was through with his
hat-holding performance, the manager took
the hat, poured the dummy letter! on the
table and bade the sitters claim their mis
sives. In moving the table from behind
the wings the real letters were substituted
for the dummies and everybody got his
in.tiinij. hnfk ancorrilnir n Its numh.r
There are a vast number of" variations
to this trick. In one the medium wears a
turban with a large1 tassel over the ear,
which conceals a. watch case telephone re
ceiver. His, heela are covered with a cop
per plate to which the wire leading from
the heel to the ear la soldered. The copper
plate Is placed In contact with two secret
tacks In the floor, and a confederate under
the stage opens the letters and reads them.
In still another variation the aittera write
their questions on tablets handed them for
the purpose. A lower sheet has been
treated with a coating of invisible parra
fine. When the sitters .tear off
their questions and fold them up and place
them In their pockets, the attendant take
the pads down to the front and place them
on a table. Here, while the attention of
the audience la attracted elsewhere, a con
federate lowers a trap door in the tablo
and substitutes dummy pads for the real
ones. A Utle plumbago and charcoal makes
legible the impressions on the parafflne
and the confederate under the stage com
municates the questions through the tele
phone to the medium. On other occasloni
the sitters write their message on their
own paper and put them In their pockets,
after having shown them to the assistant
uii the floor. He passes the message by a
telegraph code to the medium on the stage.
Another trick, very mystifying and seem
ingly conclusive, la that ot reading sealed
pellets by the dozen, every one with ab
solute accuracy. This requires, for Its best
manipulation, a confederate among the
spectators, though It often Is practiced
sii.gie-handed. livery person present Is
The Onlooker
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Fierce discussion raging about the date
the straw hat comes In. Open season be
gins June 15 ordinarily, but the comet may
shift it this year.
tfee that a rich woman has been arrested
as a smuggler. Naturally. Persons in that
business generally amass aome coin until
found out, and some run or) quite a while.
Having been made a Great Dane in Co
penhagen. Colonel Itooiievelt has bi er) made
a Midnight Hon In Norway and publicly
referred to as a demigod and a human en
gine. They surely are not Joshing the
colonel, are they?
That the world betterment is no myth is
evidenced by the fact that the girls of
Harnard college yesterday afternoon held
their annual field day games and for the
first time In five years It did not rain.
Oirl of t struck by lightning because she
was wearing corseta manufactured by her
self out of discarded tin cans Illustrate)
tbe eternal feminine somewhat.
Man wants to be released from Sing Ming
because he a vegetarian and the diet
doesn't agree with him. I'm! Ought to
have thought of that before; besides, prices
are away up and maybe It's fc( well as It is.
Colorado man on a rampage was lassoed
with a clothesline by a ranch bred woman
and roped to a water plug until the arrival
cast, where he would have run against a
house broke woman and been sent to hos
asked to write a Question on a hIIp and
hand It In laiefully folded and rolled Inl
a tiny pellet. All the pellets are placed
lefor the medium In a little basket. Ha
telln what fne question l and then openJ
the pellet to verlfy'll. A sitter acknowl
edges It to be hi. Then he tells the other
(m by one. with never a slip or a word
missed It Is very puxxllug. but the ex
planation is easy. Tim medium knows In
advance the iiueMiun the confederate will
sk. He also knows his pellet by an un
detectable fold known only to them. He
announces this question and then piiks
u4 a pellet to vcilfy It. Hut the pellet he
takes up and opens Is not the one written
by the confederate. He announces that
he was right. He ha thus gotten on
liell.-t ahead ir the game and he reads
the mess.age on pellet number two and
dt dares It to correspond with pellet tium
Ur three. Uy thus opening a pellet ahead
of the one he processes to have, read he.
is able to see eveiy pcilet In advance of
announcing its contents.
' One of the most mystifying tricks of
the average medium Is to have tho sitter'
write down the names ot halt' a dozen
people,- some real. Home fictitious, and one
dead. After Hie names are written they
are .cut aatt by the sitter, handed to the
medium, who tolds the slips and plates
them In a basket beneath the table or In
a human skull on top of the table. The
sitter takes them out, onv by one, and
when the name of t tie departed friend
appears, the medium promptly announces ,ii f
ilie tact and tolls the name.
This trick Is one of the mor-t legitimate n
J and at the same time the must surprising
of all. Here mcdlumlstlc power actually l
brought Into play. The medium really dues
divine the very thought of the sitter; but
ho does it by the use of his must carefully
trained powers of observation. He knows
that In writing the names of.pcrmins the
sitter already has made up his mind about
the departed friend. The others ho will
think about momentarily before writing
them down. The medium watches the writ
ing operation intently. He notices It may
be only an Instantaneous hesitation before,
each name until the real one comes, in id
that goes dOu without the slightest pause.
The medium notes which iiiiino this Is In
Its order on the sheet of paper, and when,
the list is cut Into slips and handed to him,
he gives that one an .unobserved different
fold. When the slips are all placed In the
basket and shaken up and the sitter draws
tllem out one hy one, the muaiuin recognizes
It' by this method of folding. Having seen
the name when folding the slip he carries
It hi his memory until the slip Is produced
from the ' basket, only tho most expert
truth seeker ever has been able to unravel
this test, and It has converted Its thousands
to spiritualism.
. Many a sitter has carried to a seance a
message In a sealed envelope and has taken ' "l'
away from It the message undisturbed, atnlj",)
has found his answer' to that message wri- b:M-ti
ten on the Inside of the envcloDe itself. Ha '
Is at a loss to account for this by natural (,,
means. As a matter . of fact tho medium.'
has a half dimeii ways in which he may
read the message. In some he may read it
by the use of an egg tester,, which often
will show through several thicknesses of
paper. Or, a little alcohol and a sponge will
make an envelope temporarily transparent..
The medium ascertains tho questions, and
then by the art of mirror, or reverse.- ".' a
writing, places a message on a slip of paper
wlth a copying pencil. The lower flap of ah '
envelope Is usually easy to open. Ho opens , ' i
envelope la usually easy to open. Ho opens
it, tlips In the n. e -sake, fuce to the etiveloj o, . 'hi
and by running hiH hand over a piece ot
paper on top of the envelope, makes, the
message copy Itself on the Inside of the
envelope. He then withdraws his Blip ot
paper, seals the lower flap and returns the . ,
letter to the sitter. .. ; ,
In one brightly conceived method of mes- iiU
sage reading the sitter writes his quesdoua, ' J'.f,''
on a tablet. He then lays it face downward' ,'uVr(
on a table. In this table there Is a tiny '
trap-door, slightly smaller than tho writ- '
Ing pad, upon which the questions are
written. Straightway the medium reads the
message, and otherwise describes it, and'
the Bitter has his last doubt removed. He
goea away absolutely convinced. The
medium simply let down the trap door
after the pad . had . been properly placed'
over It, and a series of reflecting glasses
mado tho questions visible to him, but not
to the sitter.
Sometimes the medium takes the sitter's
pellet, holds it to Ills forehead and shortly
after answers the question it contains. Sub
stitution Is effected here, and it may be
said that there are a hundred different
tricks which depend on clever aubstitutlon.
When a sittej- displays a tendency to divine
the tricks of the medium there Is always a
convenient tfuge behind the excuses that
the sitter does not lend himself to the opera
tion of the occult forces, that the medium
Is exhausted or one or another of a dozen
excuses.
BY TSEDEBIO J. HA8KIW..
Tomorrow Spiritualism and - Magic. VI
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skull.
One good thing about tho bakers' strike,
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bread pudding.
If Signor Caruso, as intimated, comes
here and prosecutes his Black Hand perse- ' "
cutors he will still further enhance the ,'
esteem In which he Is held aa an artist,
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