Show TIM OCCULT OR THE HUMBUG the mind reader is the latest hero 1 of the public stage and the private parlor lie ile tells everything which any one can wish to know except something sensible ile can read a mani mans mind and discover where a pin was hidden but he lie cannot find the truth ot of the radway murder mystery he ile hates the spiritualists and ex exposes bows pows them lie ile claims to do m without supernatural aid all that they can do with the help of the invisible hosts tha this spiritualism are indignant their prestige wanes and they seek to eclipse the grobi growing in famo of their popular rival it is a war of occult power ere or humbugs humburgs hum bugs the latest effort of the spiritualists is intended to demolish all competition recently five fire women at fond rond du lac wie wis wore were outraged and murdered so no clue to the assassin was found by the detectives ti but after some days the following letter was received by the sheriff sioux CITY iowa lowa oct 17 I 1 11 I 1 SO a m to sheriff sheril pon vind lu lac wi Ps DEAR SIR having r rca ea 1 in tic papers a about bo f the in murder of the fis five e ladies ebin your your city and ae re I 1 am a spiritualist Bpi I 1 sent a spirit de detective t ec t ire t to 0 look up tho the murderer he ile reports to me as follow As a Aft after erthe the murder he went to whitewater from thereto there to on wis and was at five this morning walking in a northerly direction from ontario through foreste foresta as he lie is afraid and intended going to montreal canada please find a rough sketch of lii lit face as drawn by detective detec tire hiell they pay say ie Is a pretty fair likeness and might guide you to aonie extent the tire murderers name is john monroe Iou roc but vi ill call himself jack mush they say lie ie is a vicious character and is ready to do tho the same deed again iloco that you will succeed la in capturing him film 1 I 1 will write to you again jarr if monroe tops stops any place be k kind in gd enough to write tome to mo and say when rea re reward A ard is offered for his capture as ier if you dont succeed I 1 ma may some time do 0 go I 1 banat can at anytime any time learn where he I 1 is 1 I write this to you yon as I 1 am anxious that the ike villian should be brought to tice do not diwi this because of spiritualism yours truly M SOS accompanying the atter is a pencil portrait port it shows a young roans mans face not a prepossessing countenance wearing a heavy black moustache and with sunken eyes and rel treating forehead there is something practical about this kind of occult work it if only it can be proved to be true up to the present time the spiritualists and the mind readers have dealt with trivialities and impracticable proposition propositions it if these those people can be used successfully as detectives two long felt wants nill ill bo be filled one is for a detective who detects and the other is for a place where the professional spiritualists and mind readers can do something useful in return for the living winch which they demand from the world A pill pall filled with frech mortar fell from th phelop slop of om new court h aih in to macon Gs kud and squarely on I 1 t s bottom on the head of s delored workman who ww was mantling 0 on the ground the bottom wen was split lato into flin flandera dera nad and the pill tul and mortar completely hio hi face ire no so tbt that he ws was la to great art davilta ot of smothering until if a keyed by a fellow N 1 this is a reminder of the chestnut about the colored man on whose head a brick fell from the top of a factory chimney one hundred fee thigh the darkey staggered under the blow scratched crat ched hie his head an instant and yelled at the bricklayers yero if youre dont be kearful ke erful you Is gwine to hut some one allah M SOME OF he the I 1 maino indians are wealthy and they show tho the m most t astonishing aos toni shing love tor for finery at a recent ball one handsome young squaw was fairly dazzling in a very becoming costume of blue satin and old gold plush with an art elaborately embroidered front to tho the skirt and another wore a dress of combined bright scarlet and bri bright lit blue 0 4 THE rii z young masher mashor murderer of little mamie lamle kelley in san franeisco hag hall been righteously sentenced to death hie ilia mother is legging for money with which to save his ilia accursed life but few people are so ir human as is to respond to her ber solicitation miserable lable mother he be is anything but i golden bonto her fashionable TAILORS now use instead of thread in repairing trousers and tho the young roan man with a patch who he locates himself en on the sofa in ilia lifs pirla girls parlor haa ilia a good excuse for remaining until the next morning when the servant can bring a kettle of hot bot water this will bo be tho the greatest ot ol modern improvements the tobacco tax would decrease the revenue t annu ally 11 ly tho the government might inight continue tho the A ax and as it haa has no use tor or ith the money it might distribute dietri buto the lamoun amount among deserving newspapers al I 1 |