Show jinICS OF MEDIUMS l nsi1T Grcnt ITIcii rc Wi IIoW buijeil achIer hale n eci how I got into the U ell Ill saitl i loll Mr von Keller the magician luIimmc s of his lively chats ester m ng Olle I traveled hinn f ears ago ooilinany 1 years A gocal M mwnpoH brothers Their wiih time old man then and he used Mltf was Jr Iwl over that his SOilS llllie OUl 1 mifni mm P llpdlUlTlS 01 C1I1H 1 Jllii venlrue > ro called to that mission ntltl 1 it t the wiII werl Well he being an old lWa llix > v of course I believed I It JI all 1 111 Xlial whcn I saw their mex him l trick L 1 looked on the brothers jjiwblitnt traveled with them for luth awe ami JJgtjmt > Finally filled as puht I ycare dcsi irl to serve te spirits a ttith a 1iOU llf I got holfl Of a rope alone litlleiny 1Ctin best T could imitate Itietim1 I to sort 0 j COIIX the spirits lum t I I rolhIS mite ItS If thy didnt care for 11mev hul anil whether I wanted my Ilm1 erVie untieli I had to do It myself 1 1 t I I I or 1 1 k twhill and practiced making J 1Hlid 11111 IiiRtllV t I got one of the other I 11l1I1 I < uimtS U to tit oforl found I could I 1 > tIIII kt I ltiium I tie it as lie I time rl pt t out ot keptiCtuum had already set in wOUld found myself working at the 11111 ml II I tricks oon oi thC brothers and could do o lr of OllII iout this I time Fay m1I Oil old manager of the brothers jtIlmtI 1110 11 omit Vit I had discovered their TlI 11111 J AU > at OIU ° started up a com r li or to and struck off on our own V all the world nit Wo traveled over I ave soon all the tricks going Your You-r < teat stories about the tricks of I i m infers and a great many of I I saw a n an pirn yarns newspaper r1I f jlII t the other day that was full of I 1III Midi as a man throwing a piece of r Knii ill the I air climbing up out off of-f lit fillmj down in pieces and putting hiliHlf lojiither and all that t It isnt sy 1 Tiio juroK > an magicians are far ciporior to tin Orientals nut it Mho incdiuinisliu tricks that I aw tail on exposing without hurting the U MiiiNs of any reputable juggler To Itgit I with I think that spiritualism puts uioiv projilo in the insane asylum than amtlniifr iNe except liquor But we can txtle till majority of spiritualists when I pujt men allow themselves to be so easily lonlwl For instance I was the assistant at a private Slam which the Davenport Illothers jrave in London to a number of pntlttnen among whom were Dion Bon lifjult Charles Kcade Algernon Borth wirk Lord Hurry Captain Inglelield ami other The brothers were both tied in llnir cabinet Lord Burrey stepped up and leanei1 over one oL them to examine till knot ulien the other qni kty slapped linn on the hack There was a murmur in the room These great men were trurk with awe Now let me tell you tin rope triek depends upon mere physical physi-cal dexterity and the slap was made like a flali and pretty hard But here is the ItNTiption Dion Boucicault wrote of it A inall white delicate female hand niild < Mily appeared above one of the doors of the cabinet It quivered for several secomK and then slowly descending billed lord Burrey gently on the shoul thr and then melted in air I It is just in this way tint otherwise Miwhle people allow their senses to be dciiivcd and tHeir imaginations preyed DjKilThe celebrated theosophist Englington ifimjilotcly dumfounded me in Calcutta TWof us were seated by a plain round UiV Two slates were brought in I 11 < t the two and washed ajjd wiped Am clean He then gave irie a little JIete ot slate pencil which I put between time two clean slates lie took hold of one corner with one hand and I took hold with the other We then clasped our free hands and held the slates under the table Presently there was a noise af of the pencil writing and when we opened the slate I beheld the following My name is Geary Dont you remem berme We used to joke of this matter at the St George I know better now 1 remarked I knjw no one by the name of Geary The slate was put under un-der the table again and the words Mieary was written several times Other slates were put under too and one was brought out with this on it I am Alfred Geary You knew me and Saint LejrerThen 4 Then I remembered having met both men at Cape Town in South America four years before Geary had died three years before Geary and I had joked aboit spiritualism at the St George hotel in hat town thousands of miles away Well I had to confess I didnt know how the thing was done and paid my forfeit But the mystery is now clear I learned it several years afterward At the hull in Cape Town Africa where I I ivrfonned there was a janitor named I Hutchinson a great spiritualist Eng linjrton had been there just after I left ami of course Hutchinson told him all aliont me Thats how he got his information in-formation f for the spiritual letterand me diums are always preparing themselves in this ray As to how he wrote the communication on the slate I found that out too and havedone it before the Sie iIeit commission which is investigating ritualism and will soon report They ave had Flade and Lord and a great manv alleged mediums before them It Nearly all spiritualists are honest in their ridiculous belief however much accused I ac-cused of dishonesty and stranger still I believe there is a chance medium who speaks in a trance who really believes in Ins agency but those mediums who make iof tricks are frauds every time I Iilutkjjli ja l Xorlh American |