Show I TRICK OF SPIRIT WRITING Spiritualistic slate writing If It clever cleverly cleverly ly Iy done always makes a I marked Im Impression on a 1 magicians audience bo be because cause It utterly banes baffles their efforts to detect tho the trick They rhey see seo a small smal cabi cabinet net suspended above tho the stage by means menns of cords or ribbons It has nn an open front and Is empty Tho The magician turns It around so that every part of ot It may bo be seen and taps U It I Inside and out with his hits wand wan to show that It Is hollow I On a n stand stanl near by he ho has hns a small easel a 11 common school slate elate a n bottle of India Ink ante with a 0 quill pen In It and anda a few tew sheets of ot ordinary white writing paper All these he passes around among tho the audience aUdle for tor examination Then he ha fixes fixell n sheet of ot the tho paper to the slate date by means of at wafers places tho the slate elate on the tho easel and antl the easel In tho the cabinet together with tho the bottle bottlo of Ink the latter bavin having tho the pen still In It Having allowed the time audience to see sec seethe seethe the articles thus arranged In the tho cabinet cabi cabinet net he throws a n largo large silk handkerchief chief over U It Mysterious sounds are arc Immediately heard and the cabinet shakes ns as If I some living hiving had en cn entered entered It When the sounds and ho tho slinking shaking cease ha lie removes remove the tho chief showing an Inscription written In bold black letters on the paper and the pen en not In the tha tb Ink bottle bot lie but lying on the the bottom of ot the cabinet lIe He then removes the tho paper from tho the slate and passes It around for examination when tho the writing Is Immediately recognized as lulling lining been bren done with India Ink Tin Time explanation of ot tho the trick Is dim aim dimple pie pIc The Thu writing was done one In advance by the tho performer end and used be being being beIng ing a IL 8 of or acid add of ot tho the purest quality To 10 make the concentrated of fifty fifty drops drop drops of o the th tile concentrated add acid are added to one ounce of filtered water Writing done Iono with this notation Is la In Invisible invisible visible unlit exposed to heat hent when ao so exposed exp ed It tomes comes out perfectly black looking exactly like dried India Ink The Tha heat beat Is applied by means of at an nn o current curl ant running over oer wire with which the slate la Is i wound Th The corda cords by I which the cabinet U is suspended ed conceal conce 1 copper wires which conduct t the tho cur current current current I rent to the slate elate Block Black slut threads g w H MN suitably attached enable the tho perform performers performer er ers Era to make mako the sounds In tho the cabinet to o cause tho the cabinet to shako and jerk the pen out of the Ink bottle bottlo Ferral erral f of ot paper are prepared In n ne each with a In Inscription the time performer telling one In from another by secretly marked pin York Herald HeraldS S |