Show I Evil Spirit in Slot Machine Proves Trick of Ventriloquist VentriloquistS 0 E 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 o 0 o S Please do not try tty to play this machine Nickels irritate it and make It 0 o S talk Leave it alone v 0 M v George Washington Morgan had just completed this placard yesterday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon when llac the Scotch Scot h aide whis whispered whispered i something in his chiefs ear Th f I dickens you say Morgan organ muttered That beats anything Uncle Unee Henry ever did in the Caribbean sea Then ne e etore tore up the card It all happened at the Vienna cafe about noon yesterday when a thin Thanksgiving line of were In Inthe Inthe inthe the place Chester Sutton manager of the Orpheum theatre Howard Garrett and a tall blond stranger had eaten lunch together had duly shaken to see who would settle after which a proposition proposition proposition to match for the cigars was neg negative l by Garrett with a laughing boast Watch Vatch me beat the machine In went a nickel The machine rattled and aud the cards spun and stopped Noth Nothing NothIng ing log doing Then another nickel with the same result A third nickel had incited the machine to action when a weird cry was mingled with the metallic whirring What hat happened Howard inquired Morgan politely Pinch your finger I No The machine Just pinched a nickel of mine Must have disagreed with my the dear little money makers tum tummy tummy tummy II r v V V V V Vc Get out you ou sucker came from the machine in unmistakable tones when a fourth nickel was Us dropped In Inthe inthe the slot and the lever pushed Push your money under the door if you have ha e emore more than you ou need Get out Leave me alone Youre hurting me nie O oh h The voice ended in a wail wall of agony Mr Morgan not usually ethereal in appearance became pale of or visage What do you think of that he In Inquired Inquired inquired as he absentmindedly ab took a box of his best cigars from the case and passed pa sed them around Can you beat bent it he continued his rumination as he looked at the bedevilled machine It cant be a banshee Any way wa I dont believe in banshees Still it must be a spook of some me sort After Garrett and Sutton with their friend had left heft the restaurant an amused diner held a laughing conversa conversation conversation tion with Mac after which that gentle gentleman gentleman gentleman man had the whispered confab with Mr Morgan Later in the afternoon Mr Morgan admitted that Reynard the ventriloquist who Is playing at the Or 01 Orpheum Orpheum this week had been in to lunch I He won Hon a cigar all right all right he added At any rate he got one So did Garrett and Sutton Also very I privately and confidentially they had my goat for a af few minutes |