Show Q 1 C- C 1 1 1 There I nero is is No o Such Thing I lung as Magic agic Mind lila Reading or Spiritualism All Fakes Rameses Ii There is no nonsuch such thin thing as magic ere is no such thin thing as second sight or mind reading or thought transference transference transfer transfer- ence there is nothing but fakery Bakery and humbug in Uin oo mysticism and 1 Challenge an any spiritualist or medium to show shor m me inc an any trick or trickery done by him or her that I haven't t done in iu the open or cannot do And I will repeat that challenge as often as they desire csire and aud meet the best of them under their own conditions and not onI only do things that they do 10 hut but things thing's that they can can- not do and do-and and without any any spirits either cither This sweeping assertion was nu made de by Rameses the magician now working at atthe atthe atthe the himself who learned man many of the tricks he lie performs from the thc magicians of Egypt where be he says the best in In the world are aro to be found doos oos things that are arc incredible to the naked eye cye But every trick he performs is simple when you rou know how That he declares is all there is to the best work of the best medium that ever over cajoled a duped circle And in his l list st of fakirs he includes palmi palmists astrologers and mediums alike who fooled the so called savants of two continents he went on was was found out John Slater the thc American was found out Its Ita the same with all of them tricks them tricks tricks that any anyone one can do who devotes otes the thc time timo and attention to that sort of thing We Wedo Wedo Wedo do those things on the tho stage all aU the time There they are too common to bo be worth worthwhile worthwhile worthwhile while any more Dont Don't yon you suppose if I went into a adark adark adark dark room room and surrounded myself with witha a lot of gammon and fakery I could bo the greatest medium that ever lived Jived if I merely merel made a girl go up in flames and then brought her to life from her own ashes Yet I 1 do t twice a a. day on a stage and it is is only ono one of a anum num nuni- her ber of tricks to amuse the public So divest a medium of Iris his or her embellishments embellish men ments s and mystery and pu put that same medium out i it In the Open and what would happen The Them m wonders would be so silly and so simple the tho present present pres pres- ent dupes would bethe first uirt t tp to laugh at them How about the celebrated fakirs of India 1 was asked What do they do that we cannot annot do dof I They make a man mau and a woman pear pear yes i I do the tio same sarno with a wom an They make flowers grow before your eyes So do I and I r give you the flowers to lo prove it They make a boy clImb a rope thrown into the air and disappear W Well II did you ever try to look up into the air on on a bright sunny day dayl How far up can you see see especially especially espe espe- especially if you are arc facing the sun f Take that same sun in ip in tho the tropics where it blazes still m more re intensely and your line of vision is lower How do you know the boy has disappeared H I has merely gone out of your range of vision that that's 8 all T never yet have seen a person per per- son who has bas actually witnessed these so called feats the they have always s heard of some one else who has Buncombe all of it |