Show mediumistic TRICKS tim THE brooklyn ahnes description of the manner in wb which ich professed spiritualistic mediums deceive the public the criterion AM b bield an audience of good size last evening when miss helen sawyer and her assistants endeavored to furnish amusement and instruction by showing how some of the as spiritual irl t manifestations performed by y mediums were accomplished miss sa sawyer wyer performed several n neat eat tricks rather cleverly and then ex ased posed the methods briefly but cleanly cleany Y most of the tricks exposed were performed ito so easily that they lost their interest as soon as explained pla ined the entertainment was opened by abail all slim gentleman who walked leisurely out on the stage and in a drawling tone of voice informed the audience what miss mias sawyer was going to do then he th one hand deep in his trousers jacket ceet and spoke a few words on re religion glon which he called a very pretty thing when he had observed that the expose was not intended to reflect upon belief he introduced trod miss saw sawyer er she is a rather pretty young lady with a pleasant voice and a bright smile which last evening made its appearance pear pe arance anoe every few minutes as a sort ot indorsement endorsement indor to the laughter of the audience picking up a slate from a table she asked that some gentleman step anthe on the stage and a large and UZ plump lump young man promptly stumbled up the stepladder step ladder leading to the footlights the audience laughed and the young oung man who wair waff rather baehr bashful laughed too showing an elastic mouth he was requested to sit in a chair near a table which be did and then th the e lady seated herself directly opposite op ite and handed holmone end or of the slate he giggled and took it the slate was held under the table and after a few minutes returned covered with faint writing the young man looked surprised and blushed while I 1 e miss iss sawyer explained how she h held a little piece of pencil unde the nail of her middle finger wrote to then turned the slate over so as to make it appear that the writing had been done on the side laid against the bottom of the thea table and produced it the young man was excused and after gazing dubiously at ae the stepladder step ladder turned his back bathe to the audience abd climbed down miss sawyer also explained how she could change a clean slate for one covered with writing with the aid of an invisible pocket and also how two slates could be tied together and writing made to appear on the inner surface of one of amr them hem by means of a false piece of slate held between the two in this work she was assisted by another young man from the audience who looked mystified and chewed gum the old ballot test reading a name written on a piece of paper folded up was explained pla ined several A slips being written on by members of the audience including the plump and bashful afuli young man who wrote grover cleveland on his ballot and immediately became known by the occupants of the gallery as Grover 11 II I this young man having overcome his timidity volunteered his services evry time a request was made for gentlemen to step to the stage his servi services serviced cei were deell declined ned with thanks every I 1 time he climb clambered ered up the stepladder step ladder but he stuck to the idea that he was needed and aurnt furnished shed much amusement whenever he crawled into the orchestra admonished by the chei irful advice of don dont it break your neck grover from the gallery manifestations from the cabinet were bl cleverly everly performed by miss sawyer after she had leen securely tied to a staple in the back of the mystic looking affair so many knots were tied in the bandage eat rf which held her that she was abelew b move her wrists and hands easily as she demonstrated by rattling Rg a with the curtains of 00 to cabinet drawn back table U orp t i by aid of a trick ring and table tipi V 1 ping by use of a cuff were shown and after an intermission a water was given with the a j house in total darkness the bract fee that the lights were down seemed to amuse the upper pir tion of the audience and MIN i sawyer had to plead for quiet sever a al times the apparent rising 01 spirit forms from the floor was WE ef t by the manipulations i f tho st black curtains and the use of J white cloth one of the alleged alaj r spirits the audience were informed was a I 1 little ittle girl named bessie bessie beasie tried her band at talking lo 10 a spiritual infant voice which to w j say the least sounded queer H choice of words too was a little rat ew 2 of the ordinary and an audic asked to guess whom such a voice 1 belonged to would probably have ba said that it was that of a sick china man trying to talk E english n lish cju cabnet s the expose of the cabinet methods the entertainment closed J CJ |