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Show Notwithstanding! tbe frequent exposures of the raediumiatio materializing mate-rializing humbug, the frauds continue con-tinue to prosper. They find people who are willing and oven anxious to pay for being duped. The latest exposure ex-posure of note occurred in Salem a few daya ago. James M. Cboate had been lor some time practicing upon the credulity of Massachusetts people, performing the apparently wonderful feat ol bringing natural flowers from the spirit laud. This was done as a teat trick on several occasions, but finally a committee solved the mystery, by discovering the flowers cleverly secreted in the folds ofCboate'a handkerchief. The bilk made no further explanation than to hastily depart through. a back door. |