Show THE DAVENPORT TRICKS dr 11 I 1 11 van 7 er recently delivered liVered dO a lecture on alic the psychic force before till tile loly polytechnic abao of the american institute in which by way of nf illustrating points lie gave lie ful following lowing insight into certain wonderful performances of tile davenport brothers it is ii impossible to give an all ex cx P nation I 1 or ilia dicig without seeing ili am an account of the perform baca aach ill n not enough the person re lates latch what he noticed but bat there may bei other things which were they noticed would ci the whole thing thin lor for instance when the D 3 came came hor bore I 1 WM was at farat fierstat at aloes sloes a lol to 0 o account for their experiments I 1 was wag selected as ai one or of the committee commit tco to go upon the platform ard tio tic them and a nd aioo if everything was rightly dono done it lad had been my good fortune to see a great areat many tricks for my bareno thought it a good way to teach q itic kness of perception and I 1 ilaw saw bit all kinds nod and when I 1 I 1 was 6 a boy I 1 was a ju juggler aglor myself and pcr formed thousand thou sant s or of tricks when W jor on I 1 camo came upon the platform I 1 saw that the davenporte davenports Daven ports were to be tied witha with a new manilli manilla rope which cannot pe be tightly tied I 1 called for an rope and tied ono one of them so well that he was an hour in getting out the other oue bouc was tied with a manilli manilla rope and soon got loose they threw a speaking caLing ep trumpet out through a holo hole in the closet in which they were tied but after they were gone I 1 found by trying the experiment myself that I 1 could lift aft tile with teeth and stick it through the hole of course when the doors were opened their hands were found still tied now to show chow you yott the mount amount of perception of tho elio public gener generally I 1 fer t wil will cerion gay eay that suspecting how low it WM was done I 1 thought that I 1 would filp giap the public the key to iti it and so I 1 took up tip the trumpet ITT in ID y teeth thinking they would hat I 1 meant but instead of taht some of them came to me after the exhibition was wai over and said the most wonderful thing of the whole was irae to tee see that trumpet stuck fast tomy nose J 1 when you have such people cople to see is it any wonder that taken in 1 when the davenport aro are once loose they tic rhems elres they tic lio the two end of elie I 1 fofa lo 10 their kcf t and a J ti iid I 1 th tac 1 v 1 bolln D X ilir their get fret their le I 1 r danili I a n 4 ar are i y they cm can do I 1 what that they please so till all their tricks tricka wonderful as a they or are a L when unexplained are arc simple I 1 anila I 1 have found it ey ev |