sewed that way, and I turned to the 1. NYE WRITES TO-PLUM Rom teble' 80 8h0 bad to wear ber wm" BILLIARDS' BIG THREE. AKRON DAILY DEMOCRAT argue tnat "I tie wizara rraccurea inn in a great deal more effective than it was before the accident happened. I There also appears to be considerable doubt in the public mind as to who is balk-line billiard champion of the world. Ives How Jules Wallace Imposed Upon St.
Louis People. Dack or tne victim's neaa. men rs disappears. Finally the medium releases the victim's hands, rises and with a pieceof round rubber draws the hand back-to his leg with a snap. The seance is over and the victim is a believer.
"Any ordinary person with a piece of silk thread, made strong by waxing, can move a chair and make it follow him around the room. The operator is provided with a piece of black silk thread, made stronger by black wax. One end is att-sJied inside his left leg and the other is attached to the right trouser leg. The loop thus made hangs down and touches the floor, but even in a room well lighted the fine thread cannot be seen. The medium takes the chair, and after twisting, tilting and rubbing his palms over it- causes the leg to fall in the loop.
He then backs away gently, and the chair follows Biuiwhile he pretends to be throwing whole chunks of magnetism into it. The chair follows him, and the illusion is complete. The thread cannot be seen at a distance of 10 feet, and in a half darkened room it is impossible to see it at two "et:" The St. Louis Post-Dispatch explains one of the best test tricks a medium can perform by the aid of a shrewd confederate when giving a public seance, A plain, ordinary kitchen table is brought upon the stage, and a committee of 10 is called from the audience. Five of the committee take the professor out of the theater, while the other five watch the man on the stage.
A watch is borrowed from a man in the audience. The manager then asks one of the committee at what time he shall stop it. The watch is stopped at 3 minutes past 12. The manager sees this and places it carelessly upon the table. A cigar case is borrowed and filled with six cigars, or as many as the committee decide.
The manager then carelessly lays it upon the table. He then asks one of the committee to write the first name of some friend upon a card, handing him a small pencil. The pencil is then laid upon the table. A number is written upon a card, sealed in an envelope and given to anybody in the audience. The manager then carelessly throws a long pencil upon the table.
Five of the committee then take the manager from the room, and the other five bring the medium back. The committee ask him when the watch was stopped, and he answers 12:03. He then tells that the number of cigars in the case is six and that the name in the sealed envelope is Harry trArt Qri4, cg Tkmvy ffiwmiu frznut ijidtfrA GkuJ Cfavtd- jrauA (2dfyJi vU ftlanm when I met any Seeing some hanc some steamer rugs in the -window, i sterned into a store on Air street an-. looked at them. I did not say a word.
The clark came to me at once. "Woult you like to look at a rug? We have quite a variety. This way, sir. Some thing new, light and soft, sir. They art very popular this autumn, especially among your countrymen.
We have sol-3 hundreds of them to Americans." "I will take this one and no questions asked," said "if you will tell me how you pick out an American in English dress who has not opened his mouth." "Well, sir," said he, with evident em barrassment, "you see, sir, it's your gait. An Englishman walks as if he were after the doctor, sir. The American walks as if he were going to the station to meet his mother-in-law." And that is a fact, i P. S. Let us strive to learn something wherever we are.
Then we will gradu ally know more by acquiring this knowl edge. B. N. His Bad Luck. It was a sharp, sunshiny October morn ing as I rode along the back of Pine mountain where it overlooks Virginia and Kentucky, and I was thinking about the loveliness of nature and cognate subjects when I came upon a mountaineer with a gun in his lap, sitting on a log where two or three mountain paths con verged.
"Good morning," I said breezily, for I felt good. "Mornin," he responded. "Beautiful morning?" said I. "I hain't noticed," said he. "Been hunting, I see," said nodding toward the gun.
"Yes some," said he. "You haven't had very good luck, I should judge?" "I haven't had none," said he surlily. "What's the matter?" "Derned ef I know," he said, getting up and taking a look around. "I've been waitin here on this log sence sun up er that leather faced Jim Mulhns, an I haven't got a crack at him yit." And he tried the hammer of his gun, gazed off down the path from which James might come, and with a hasty good morning I trotted along down another road. De troit Free Press.
MASONlu Supreme Council, Ancient Accepted Scot tish Bite, Elects Officers Notes. At the recent session in "Boston of the supreme council, A. A. for the United States, officers were elected as follows: M. sovereign commander, John J.
Gorman. New York; past lieutenant grand com mander, W. M. lleirser, Columbus, O. grand minister of state, Granville A.
Frani bee, Mears, grand prior, William Narranmore, Bridgeport, grand treasurer general, David W. Thompson. New York; grand secretary genetmi. John G. Barker, Brookjyn.
The annual report of Grand Secretary H. Bromwell shows that there are about 60,000 Masons in Ohio. Masonry is one and the same everywhere. but its standing and efficiency differ great ly. It is the same institution, having the same noble history, sublime principles and lofty purpose.
It differs not in itself, but in its representatives. The largest lodge in Brooklyn is Com monwcalth. The last official report shows a. membership of 435. At the last meeting of the provincial grand lodge of the Royal Order of Scotland for the United States, which was held in St.
Louis, two well known Washington Masons received the orders, Bros. Andrew and Benjamin Wall, who are father and son, and who have received all the higher degrees of Masonry together. Next year promises to be an unusual lv active one in social Masonic circles. The average of membership of each lodge is greatest in the following states: District of Columbia, 192; Connecticut, 144; Massachusetts, 140; Rhode Island, 120; Maine, 111; New York, 111; New Hampshire, 110; Pennsylvania, 108, etc. The ne6 gain in order last year was 24,704, which is equal to 3 50-100 per cent.
The financial condition of the Twenty- eighth Masonic district of New York, which is composed of lodges working in German in New York city, Kings and Richmond counties, sljows over $100,000 on hand. The Masonic Temple association of Ver mont was organized recently in Burling ton and stockboos for subscriptions. The following have been commissioned as representatives from Missouri grand lodge to the lodges indicated: William Hammond, near grand lodge of Ireland; H. F. Gudger, near grand lodge of North Caro lina; Albert G.
Russell, near grand lodge of Florida. The Freemasons of Minneapolis are form ing a Masonic library, planned like the great Masonic library at Cedar Rapids, and, properly, they are seeking assistance and giving entertainments as a source of incopie. The Missouri grand lodge suspended the worthy master of beligman lodge. No. 517.
St. Louis, for the Masonic offense of saloon keeping. Giving jp. "Say, old man, you sip that'wine as if it were your life blood." "Well, it cost enough $50 a bottle." "H'm! I don't wonder you feel as if you were bleeding at every pour." Truth. Both Wrong." "Now, Georgie, which is correct mamma gave me a piece of pie, or mamma give me a piece of pie?" Georgie Neither one.
I took it when Bhe wasn't lookiu. Chicago Inter Ocean. Forebodings. The glorious fair has passed away; No chance remains to doubt it; But still we'll dread for many a day The books they'll write about it. Washington Star.
A Alan's Excuse. Young Biido (pouting) Here we have only been married two days, Clarence, and you're scolding me already. Husband I know, my dear, but just think how long I have been waiting for the chance. Tit-Bits. The Hardest Part.
"Ho, hum!" sighed the defeated candi date. "It's bad enough to be beaten in an election, but this having to find sat isfactory reasons for the defeat i3 the most unpleasant thing of all." Somer-ville Journal. By the defeat of Mascot and Alix and his other numerous wonderful races in compe- iiiion nuu against time, directum. has demonstrated that he is kine of trot ters and pacers for 1803. Many horsem*n believe that Nancy Hanks.
8:04. could not defeat h'm in race. HE EXPLAINS WHY HE WAS SO ANXIOUS TO SEE THE QUEEN. Ho Gets Soda Valuable Suggestions From tho Royal Family and In Turn Ventures to Giro Her Majesty an Idea of His Orm. Bill and the Prince.
ICopyrurht. by Edgar V. Njre.l Piccadilly Crecrs. London. W.
Nov. 11, 1S93. Mr. Plum Levi (colored). Hair Poinping, Shamioointr, Shaving Without Pain Both Before and After Death.
Shop Down Stairs on Patton Avenue, Ashe-ville, N. C. 'Dear Sik I promised you when leaving the shores of America and the richly caparisoned forests of Buncombe county, as the gay billows of color rolled up the smoky canyons of the Blue Ridge, that I would write you from London and tell you how times are hfre, especially in the barb line. As a matter of fact I should have written to yon ln'fore, but I've beeri bo much taken up with gayety, and my English friends liavo been so constant in their kindness and hospitality I have-neglected my rorrespondence or turned it over to my valet, Clarence, a man who has acquired so nmch ignorance in S3 years that he almost a phenomenon. As you know, Plum, my principal business here is to consult her imperial majesty the queen regarding the best style of furnishing my house at Buck Shoals.
It was completed over a year ago. Seven or eight times I have had it completed again. My contractor began on tho house, forgetting that he had a contract covering the same time for an alcoholic carnival. lie told me that he could turn my house over to a subcontractor, but the alcoholic turnverein was something that he wonld have to look after personally. So he turned the house over to a subcontractor.
Anyway he turned it over to some one, for it was wrong "side up when I moved into it. Well, now I am looking over St. James' palace, Buckingham palace, Windsor, Hampton court, Balmoral, to get ideas and suggestions, which, with my delicate and artistic natural taste, will aid me, Plmn, in fitting up my house as it should be. 'The queen is away, but Albert Edward is here and says anything he can do will be cheerfully done. He showed me WITH THE PRINCE.
through Buckingham palace day before yesterday. He said, "We are all torn up here, and as he did so he drew my at tention to the view jout at the window as he stepped on a co*ckroach and ground it into the rich carpet. The style with which the house is ur nished is rather a mixture of the Byzan tine and San Francisco styles quiet, yet rich. The stairsteps are wide enough for a team to drive up, and the palace it self 13 rather low and flat, but the lion and unicorn may be noticed on the bat tlements engaged in an animated con versation. 1 he lion and unicorn may be seen over half the shop entrances in London, with the announcement that the merchant or tradesman there is, by special appointment, fishmonger or plumber to her most gracious majesty the queen of Great Britain and empress of India.
One tradesman on, Old Bond street deals in nothing but elephant guns, and announces that he is by special appoint ment elephant gunmaker to her most gracious majesty the queen of Great Britain and empress of India, by the grace of God. Another man, a tailor, who makes nothing but fine trousers, has the audac ity but we will let that pass. I always look carefully over the door before I go in to buy, and trade only where the proprietor is entirely unfettered. I do not want a suit of clothes started and half made perhaps, only to be tossed aside, while Albert Edward has eleven suits made against Saturday even ing. Moreover I do not like the fit of Albert's clothes very well, and I am a little fussy about my raiment.
The prince is not a well man. For some time his life has been far more un certain than that of his mother. His beard is rapidly whitening, and his mer ry, giausome gambols as a young man are beginning to tell on him now. Few think he will get a crack at the throne, and he himself is falling into melancholy. He says: "Of course I am as fond of mother as anybody could be.
but some times I think that both she and Bill Gladstone are running longevity into the That, of course," he added, as he stopped to inquire the price of a portable bathtub, "is entirely between themselves." This conversation occurred on Oxford street, where he had mentioned the fact that he thought some of coming to Amer ica next summer "that is," he added bitterly, "if mother decides to run her reign into eternity." His purchase of a portable bathtub would seem to indicate that he hoped to visit America soon. I give here a copy of photograph of her majesty the queen and his highness Prince Maurice of Battenburg. Batt, as ther call him. was Dowerful wiinrlr. tiie day was not, ana ncr majesty toid me that it was a poor picture alt around, for she had promised to rush down and get the picture as soon as possible, for parliament was in session and she had left off in the middle of a letter to the police regarding the cuttings up in the house, so, as she said, she was in no state to have her picture taken.
It will be observed that Batt has the same way of curling up all his toes in a bunch that children have who are born under a democratic form of government. dld her crown np in a piece of "ssuo paper, ana intended to bring it to wear while being photographed, but awsv ami left it on the dining William B. aud Rcsseli. T. Dobson EDITOR ASD MAXlOtRf Fi II.
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Da La Court TEN CENTS A WEEK Delivered Every Evening by Carrier Boy By mail. 15 a year tXSO for six months TOSINGORNOTTOSIXG Excellent Advice From Mme Melba, the Great Cantatrice. TIS DESIRABLE TO GO ABROAD, Tli life of Operatie Artist la Not as Uninterrupted Holiday Constant "Work and Study Are Necessary How the Be ginner Should Proceed. Mme. Melba, who is now under engage ment toi.be management of the Metropolis tan Ooera House.
New York, is said to re- eeire larger compensation for her vocal efforts than any singer in the world ex cepting Adelina Patti alone. Melba is paid 12.500 a niiiht, and it is certain that she at tracts very much more into the honse, or he would not get so much, aa impresarios are exactly like grocers and other merchants they must have something left as prolit on every investment. Mme. Melba oezan her professional career without in fluence and with no great fortune at hex command to aid her in becoming famous. She is therefore well qualified to speak ol the advisability of attempting to become a star of grand opera.
"In the first place," said Mme. Melba a few days ago at her hotel in New York. "if a girl really has talent, persistence and pluck and is not afraid of hard work and occasional setbacks, I should advise her to adopt my profession. "What plan of action should I advise? Oh. simply go to a good, reliable master and study hard.
It is of course preferable to go abroad to I ranee or Italy, for In stancefor to prepare one's self for grand opera it in necessary to acquire languages. and that is not an easy matter, I can assure you. Ik now from experience. As for myself. I went from my native city, Mel bourne, to Paris, where I sang for Mme.
Marches! in private. She is one of. the most conscientious and competent vocal instructors in the world, and. when she told me that I showed promise 1 believed her. for she never misrepresents or flatters.
-What next Oh, yes. Well, at the end of my term with Marches! I was heard at that excellent lady's rooms by the directoi of the Brussels theater, who was there by invitation. He was delighted charmed with my voice, as he expressed it and forthwith engaged me as his prima donna for two seasons. My debut was made in "Rigoletto," and I was not at all confident of the outcome, I remember. But I suc ceeded, and the rest is soon told.
di Lammermoor," "La Traviata," "Faust," "Hamlet" and "Lakme" followed in rapid succession, and ince that time, as you Americans say, I have been all "The point which 4 wish to particularly Impress upon aspirants for operatic honors la this: J. he life of a singer, no mattei how famous she may become, is not a long, uninterrupted holiday, as so many girls Imagine. It iswork hard, hard work all the time. To illustrate: I sing 17 operas, and it is not child's play to commit them to memory in a language not your own, to aay nothing of studying the music and ac-' oaring all of the little but essential de tain. Is would never do to let your lines matic escape you for even a moment, and to keep them constantly in your mind involves much study.
"What is my favorite opera? Strange as it may appear, I have none. There is no role that I sing with which I am not thor- MME. MK L1IA As OPHELIA oughly in love. Yes. I do some of Wagner's operas 'Lohengrin' and they are grand, majestic works.
I have been very pleasantly and perhaps flatteringly criticised in both of them. "I really do not know whether the climate affects the voice injuriously or not, but I do know that it must be cared fot very tenderly, or it will fail you. I think twice a week is often enough for a female voice tc lie tided, although if the operas are very light perhaps three will do no harm. However, that a matter of individual capability awl judgment. I think the Metropolitan Open House beautiful.
It will compare favorably with any similar structure in tho world, and the Xew York public is discriminating and generous in its appreciation of conscientious effort. America has produced some fine singers, and I am confident that iuauy more of her beautiful daughters will earn reputations in the lyric world." Most of Mme. Melba 'a pictures do her injustice. She is a tall, magnificently formed woman, with a strong, handsome face, to the charm of which her mobile mouth and appearance has aided her exquisite voice in i causing critics to pronounce her Ophelia the best in the world. Leer Lawn.
7 Mm Manager Maurice Daly Writes of the Coming Tournament. SCHAEFER, SLOSSON AND IVES. The Great Triangular Match Will Begin at Madison Square Garden Concert Hall Dec. 1 1 and Continue Six Days Careful Preparations For the Notable Contest. Although the championship of the world Is not involved in the coming match between Frank C.
Ives, Jacob Schaefer and George F. Slosson the "big three" of billiardsit promises to be the most notable contest lovers of this great game of the head and hatid will have had the opportunity of seeing for years. Never before perhaps has there been such intense rivalry between the three experts, a rivalry that has been intensified on the part of two of the players by the recent remarkable match between Schaefer and Ives. Slosson and Schaefer, the veterans of many a phenomenal battle with the cue, are both anxious to defeat the young Napoleon who so cleverly worsted them in separate matches last year, and Ives is equally as desirous of retaining the great prestige he gained owing to the outcome of those contests. Another strong incentive before the players is the fact that $1,500 in stakes and a large share of the gate money will go to the winner.
The match will begin at the Madison Square Garden concert nail Dec. 11 and continue six days. Each player has posted $300, and the winner of the match will take all of the stakes and 5C per cent of the net gate receipts. The second man will receive 30 and the third man 20 per cent of the net gate money. The match, which will be on a Brunswick-Balke Collender table, will be 14 inch balk line billiards, 600 points a night, and during the match each contestant will play his opponents twice.
Tho expert winning the largest number of games will be declared winner. In one respect at least the contest will be quite a novelty. Owing to the fact that the manufacturers hava declined to offer a purse the match will bt entirely- in the hands of the players themselves, and it will be managed by a fourth player, the writer. Few people not closely identified with billiards have any idea what an arduous task rain in for a great contest with the cue is; what patience and self denial are called for, and what hours, days and even months of the hardest kind of hard work each contestant does before he is in the pink of condition. For many weeks Ives has practiced six hours a day to get on edge for his recent match with Schaefer and the still greater triangular battle of December.
Schaefer has been and is working tire lessly to get fcis 'playing clothes" on, ana it may be said with but little exaggeration that he has almost slept on his table. During the past two months he has worked with his cue from six to seven hours daily, ami the result appeared in Ms recent game with Ives, when he made the unprecedented run of 343 points Nov. 22, eclipsing the. best record ever before made by 113 points. When it is remembered that two nights later Ives made a run of 45Ti, also breaking the new world's record by exactly 113 points, there seems no room to doubt that Ives, too, is in form to play the match of his life.
Thirteen may be an unlucky number, but judging from these two record breaking performances there is nothing the matter with 113. In the meantime Slosson has not been idle. Every day for week3 past "The Student" has been havsl at work, and it is safe to assert that he will "have his stroke" by the time the big games begin." i lothe uninitiated the cartful prepara tions made by the players for a great match like the one of Dec. 11-16 would perhaps aiAURICE UALV. seem affected and finical, but when three sueh balk linn giants as Slosson, Schaefer and Ives are to battle on the green covered table a misplaced cue, a cue slightly over or under weight, a loose or a rough bed cloth, a slight variation in weight between the three balls, a leather tip too hard or too soft for one of the contestants, or a light differing from that under which the players have been practicing may mean success or defeat to one or another of the experts.
Like the little drops of water and the little grains of sand, these apparently trifling agencies combine to make the grand total exemplified by a billiard king's play. A more apt simile perhaps would be to liken a billiard player and his paraphernalia to a watch or any other delicate mechanism, the usefulness of which is impaired or destroyed the moment even one of its minute parts is out of gear. One illustra tion will show how careful the players are in their preparations for the coming match. Madison Square Garden concert hall is lighted by electricity, but as all three of the contestants have been practicing by gacligbt I shall at their request have gas substituted for electricity. Slosson will put the finishing touches on his training at his cafe in New York, aud Ives and Scbaeferwill do the same at my New York and Brooklyn rooms.
The bed-cloth used by each player will be off the same piece of goods, as will bo the cloth used during the match. Each player will also have for practice purpose wo set balls as nearly like balls to be used during the contest as ic is possible to select them. These arrangements are of a general character, but in tho matter of selecting cues the players are governed by their individual preferences. Slosson is partial to a light cue aud will use one about 17 ounces in weight. Schaefer prefers an 18 ounce stick, and Ives is accustomed to a still heavier one 19 ounces being the weight he favors.
There has been considerable speculation as to whether or not Schaefer has fully recovered the use of his wrist, two small bones of which were fractured by a fall in Chicago last March. It strikes mo that the best answer to the question is Schaefer's recent run of 343 in Chicago. This would seem to won the trophy and still holds it, although he has offered to surrender it to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender company, the donors. But as Ives and Schaefer have bot violated the conditions governing the possession of the trophy it has, technically at least, reverted to the donors, and there is today no champion of the world. On this account it is much to le regretted that the coming triangular match between the big three will not result in the naming of a new champion.
ONE OF THE IMMORTALS. H. Branetiere Has Achieved the Highest Literary Honors In France. M. Ferdinand Brunetiere, who has been appointed to succeed M.
Buloz in the editorship of that great French magazine. The lievue des Deux Modas, has been a contributor to tbs magazine for a considerable period. His position in French literature may be estimated from the fact that be attained last June the highest honor coveted by literary men in France election to the French Academy. His principal competitor for the honor was the more widely known F.mile Zola, but M. BRUXETIERE.
Brunetiere got 22 votes to.Zota's 4. It must not be forgotten, however, that Zola is very unpopular with the Forty Immortals, and that Bruuetiere's election is not an infallible indication of superiority, though it certainly is a great distinction. A native of Toulon, where be was born in July, 1849, M. Brunetiere "was educated first at Marseilles and then at the Lycce Louis le rand in Paris. After completing his studies iu these schools he prepared himself for the higher normal -school examinations, which, however, he failed to pass.
The war of 1870 prevented him from making a second attempt, and he turned his attention to literature, in which field he soon attracted attention by his critical articles and scholarly contributions to the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Revue Bleu. The reputation thus acquired was sufficient to secure his appointment as lecturer on the French languiige in he very normal school whose examinations ha had failed to pass as a young man and br3ught him the decoration of the Legion of Honor iu 1SS7. His works, which number some dozen volumes, are mainly critical essays on French literature, but he has published besides a number of annoted editions of French classic authors. The scandal attending the somewhat precipitate retirement of his predecessor, M. Buloz, is recent enough to be readily recalled.
He "turned up missing" one day ia Jirly last, and investigation showed that he had fled to escape the systematic extortions of a gang of blackmailers, who had already succeeded in fleecing him of the fabulous sum of 10,250,000 francs. They wrote him letters threatening to expose bis relations with a number of dissolute women if certain sums of money were not forthcoming, and, fearful that his wrongdoing should come to his wife's ears, he weakly paid the money demanded. Then the blackmailers increased the frequency and amount of their demands, and in his frantic efforts to satisfy their voracity Buloz drew upon the funds of The Revue and finally fled from Paris on the verge of ruin and ASTRONOMY AND PHOTOGRAPHY. The Combination That Resalted In the Discovery of st New Star. Many people imagine that new stars are always discovered by looking at the t-ky with a telescope, but the idea is erroneous.
Many of the most important modern discoveries are made by photography. A photographic plate is placed at the end of a telescope where the eyepiece usually is, at. 1 the stars record themselves on this instea of on the retina of the eye. When the astronomer examines the plate, he carefully notes every object upon it and is riot likely to miss a new star. That is bo Mrs.
Mil i Fleming discovered the star Nova though she was at Harvard university, in Massachusetts, and the star in the South American sky, 3 degrees below our horizon. Mrs. Fleming is a young Scotchwoman who has been doing astronomical work at Harvard for the past six or seven years. She is at the head of a regular staff of wo- MRS. MTJA FLEMTJfG, men employed by the university in what ia known as tho Draper memorial work, which is sustained by the liberality of the widow of the late Dr.
Henry Draper of New York. Harvard has an observatory in Peru, and the photograph by means of which the new star was discovered was taken there last July. About a month ago the nega tive came into Mrs. Fleming hands for examination, and she made the discovery which has already Immortalized her, for in a few days as soon as the verification could be made the wires Cashed it all over the world that a woman at Cambridge had discovered a new star. This is not Mrs.
Fleming's first Impor-. tant astronomical discovery, for hers is the honor of having discovered the first planetary nebula ever found through photography, and she has propounded and proved a theory according to which cert sin classes ol stars are found to be by the presence or certain bright lines in thrir spectra. Nova Norms is new star iu a double sense, for its spectrum shos it to be in a much earlier stage cf evolution than our sun, which in turn ia sot near ko old as some of the other stars. This is DM Raying that Nova Norma la cat many thousand Tears old, and it is quite possible thai it has hitherto remained unknowu to astronomers for the reason that its light, tbouyh traveling at the rate of 86.800 miles a second, has only recently reached the atmosphere of the earth. Guilty Freddie.
Tommy (in tears) Ma, Fred Tibbina busted my new hat! Tommy's Mother The naughty boyl What made him do it? Did you do anything to bim? Tommy No'ni, notliin. I was just jabbin my bat at bis bead fur fun. an he didn't dodge! Chicago Uncord. SPIRITS SUMMONED BY SPIRITS. Alcohol Used to Make Plain Names and Questions Placed In a Sealed Envelope.
The Spirit Hand, the Moving Chair and Other Apparently Marvelous Feats. Some philosopher has remarked that at least one member of a certain foolish, gullible and easily hooked fish family is born every'minute, and judgina from the suc cessful operations in St. Louis of one "Jules Wallace, medium and healer," this statement seems to be well founded in fact. There are a great many intelligent people who believe there is something in spiritualism, and while their confidence may not be misplaced it is a well established fact that a large percentage of the alleged mediums are tamrs, tricksters and impostors like WORKING THE SPIRIT HAND. Jules Wallace, who was recently compelled to fly from St.
Louis after he had driven one person insane by his alleged power to communicate with the spirits of those gone oefore and after he had induced hundreds of other credulous people to line his pockets with coin of the realm. The general scheme of such tricksters is to convince some credulous person of their power to communicate with spirits, foretell the future's mysteries, dispel dark clouds that already actually hover over the dupe or clouds that the fakir's active imagination sees gathering in the near or dis tant future. When the victim is well-, alarmed, the mediums kindly offer to do the dispelling at $10, $20, $50 or $100 a "dis-' pel," the sums varying according to the apparent financial condition of the dupe. One of allace's tricks was to give a seeker after knowledge two cards and two envelopes. On one card was to be written the name of a deceased male relative and the question the patron desired the spirit to answer.
On the other card was to be written the name of a deceased friend and a question. The St. Louis Republic recently sent an investigator to expose this trick. and the reporter tells the following story: Wallace told me to put the cards in the envelopes with the writing toward the front, as he was going to cut holes the back of the envelopes and seal the envelopes to the cards with sealing wax. The name of the deceased relative I placed on the card was Martha Jones, an aunt of mine, who is living.
TJie questions I asked were as follows: 'How soon do you suppose lam going to be 'Is the lady to whom I am engaged "Now, I have been married for two years, but Wallace did not know that, nor did the spirits either, apparently. The deceased male friend I wrote down as Philip McBee, a living man, and asked him the following questions: hat 13 the present outlook for my fu 'Will I get the money I expect 'I am not expecting any money and have no resources except the money I work for. hen the envelopes had been sealed, Wal lace pressed them to his forehead and began to go through a variety of motions. He then carelessly stepped behind me, where I could not see him for two minutes; I am convincedJthat while there be rubbed some- hing over the face of the envelope and hus easily read my message. He came to he table and laid down the envelope, cut side up, and said: 'I learn from the spirit Martha Jones that you are a single man and that there are some doubts as to how soon you will be married.
The lady you are engaged to is true and faithful, as you take her to "1 took this gorgeous lie all in. He con tinued still more impressively: 1 find Philip McBee is here with you. He is very glad to see that you are in a prosperous condition, and says you will re cover your financial losses. The prospects for your future look favorable. 'As I had had no financial losses, was married and as both the spirits summoned by Professor Wallace were living mortals, 1 naturally did not place much confidence in his boasted relations with the other -world.
Jie then went on to tell my future. He said there was a heavy cloud hanging MEDIUM MOVING A CHAIR. irrer me. l.nad ltianey trouoies ana was subject to inflammatory rheumatism, all of -Mch I learned for the first time. He then he could cure.
my ailments for $50. As t. matter of fact I was never in better health In my life. I see that this is the way he works the suckers. He starts in on them with $2 and then strikes them for $50.
'The simple explanation of this trick is that Wallace had a little sponge saturated with alcohol in his hand. When he stepped behind his supposed dupe he moistened the face of the envelopes with alcohol and then easily read the writing on the cards inside the envelope. The alcohol quickly evap orated and the writing disappeared. The trick may be performed by any boy of 10 years. The private sitting with one inaiviaual in a half dark room is a most barefaced fraud.
The victim and the medium sit op posite at a round table. The medium says: 'Place your feet on my toes, sir. That's riaht. Now you could feel my feet if I should move, couldn't The victim says he could, hut hedoea't. The medium's foot is quietly slipped out and a very neat imitation of the toe of a shoe made of steel is held down by the victim's foot.
While the medium is asking him a few questions," a lubber hand, cold through chemical preparation, is pulled from the trousers leg and adjti.ited by a fairly long piece of steel upon the right foot. The operation occupies but a half of a minute, ana tnen tno says: 'Place your hands upon mine, sir. Now, sir, It 1 were no move, you couia teei it, couldn't you, The victim is certain he could, and then tho medium goes into a trance, iks for spirit hands, and one shows up. rTMimbs near the victim's face. It is made to appear four feet from them.
It raps a tambourine four feet awav and hits a euitar hansrinir i 1 i I I I THE QUEEN' AND BATT. net. She has rather outgrown her crown, she says, however, and even with a hatpin through it the fool thing falls off, even at state dinners, and gows crashing into the Irish 6tev. There is a sort of assembly room at Buckingham palace which I caught my self every little while calling "the other room," thus giving myself away and showing that our own castle only had two rooms viz, the kitchen and "the other room." This assembly room, as her most gracious majesty calls it, I presume is where she meets the members of the assembly or legislature of London on certain days. I presumed to tell her most gracious majesty that I would, if it were paper it with a pale green shade of paper, sprinkled with silver sprays of lilies of the valley.
Also, that I would take out the whole front of the house, including the stone lion and unicorn, and put in a plate glass front. "Then," says "you will not go groping about here in this dim religious light, resting anon upon a hair cloth covered throne or passing among royal purple or scarlet typhoid hangings, rich in royal microbes of forgotten years. "Come into the garden, with a ringing laugh. "Get more sunshine if you have to send to Kentucky for it. Allow the breezes to blow into this old stone foundry, and you can easily plant Albert Edward ere the scepter of England shall ornament his umbrella stand at home." I thought a look of pain seemed to come over the face of the good queen, and pretty soon there was onecameover my own face also.
I found myself among the other plumbers and carpet beaters to the queen, and a large, muscular equerry or yelper to the royal hounds was just going away with my collar and cravat in his hands. One certainly feels a kind of restraint here that he' does not in America. In America even our servants speak up as freely as the flowers of May. You asked me, Plum, how the barbing business is here, with an idea no doubt of coming here and opening up a shop, but I would not encourage you in doing so. Besides you would be lonely.
I only 6a two colored men outside of a very decayed minstrel show in the two months and over that I have been here. One of them was standing in front of a public. A jiublic, Plum, is a place where you can get "a mug of bitter," or "a mug of mild and Burton," or "a thrippence of gin," or "a sixpence of Scotch," or a pint of Bass, but the guileless American who eats a sandwich with his nip will pay for it at a high rate or find himself in the hands of the police. I never saw such a place. The "free lunch" may only be found where the Americans are very plentiful, and in places connected with the hotels where the Yankee abides.
i met this colored man in front of a place called the Red Cow. vln Dakota it would have been called the Yaller Dog. A GESTLEMAN FROM HIND1A. The colored man was about 60 years of age and poor. His hair was gray, and his toes just able to be out that day for the first time.
I had been lonely all the morning, for I pined for home a little, and the sight of an old colored man" came to me like the odor of the magnolia and the azalea. "Uncle," says "you seem to be out of luck." "Beg pawdon, sah." "I say you seem down on your luck out of soap; up a stump; stranded; pooped, as the navigators say; wrecked; busted." "Well, I am rawther on me oars, as the savin his. I've done nothink for a year but 'obble abeout or sit on me 'unk- ers and go 'ungry, sah." I was thunderstruck. He had got the melodicus English accent so soueht aft er by the weu to do young American who sleeps in the hay mow at night with his English groom in order to learn the stud English of the Derby stables. "Oh, now, thats enough of that, uncle," says "drop it.
Talk plantation and you'll be rewarded, but when you put on frills you lose my influence. When did you leave "Georgia. Uncle Pete?" "Beggin your honah's pahdon, sah, I was never Georgia, sah, and I never talked anywy but the wy I am a-talkin of. I was born in Calcutta, sah, and don't use the cawse Hinglish of the Haf-rican Hamerican. I'm a gentleman, sah.
from Hindia, sah." It was a fact. "Here," said I. "Gentlemen froin Hin dia, 'ere is a arf a crown. Buy a gunny-sack, gentleman from Hindia, to do up your little toe3 in. I hate to see them peeping, like Brazil nuts, from your smiling shoes." Yesterday I dressed in a complete.
Pic cadilly outfit, took an umbrella and lighted a black pipe that had the snuffles. iNow," I said to rnyiclf, "I'll see for an afternoon if I can be an American incog." My gloves were large and com fortable. Onb of them I wore, and one I carrWil in my hand. They were a slate color, and my shoes were broad and lib-oral. Mv trousers were turned un and TABLE WITH IMAGINARY SQUARES.
and that the number written is 94 All prove correct. The committee is then prepared to take oath that there has been no collusion. This trick. is simple, and only calls for a good memory. The table, which must be square, is divided into 24 imaginary squares by the medium and his manager, as shown in the cut.
Each square represents a common first name. There is also an im.igi-I nary face of a watch on the table, the XII being toward the audience. The manager places the watch with the ring toward the audience, which means 12 o'clock, and in the third space marked off mentally, which indicates 3 minutes after 12. Had the watch been stopped 12 minutes past 3 it would have been laid in thesquare marked "Mike" in the cut. The ring would have been pointing tothe right, meaning thatthe hour hand was at 3, and the twelfth space would indicate the minute hand's position.
The small pencil is laid in the space marked "Harry," and the medium knows that Harry was the name written. The cfci gar case is lying upon the sixth space and means that there are six cigars in it. The long pencil is laid iu the ninth toward the fourth space, and indicates that the number is 94. "Honorable" Association of Pickpockets. All Madrid has been amused at a remark able experience which recently befell Senor Chucca, the popular com poser, in theSpan-ish In his latest, piece, "La Gran Via," which has been the chief attraction at the opera house for some time, the maestro has.
endeavored to immortalize three pickpockets known as "Les Tres Ratas." The characters in fact are the chief ones of the piece. While riding recently in one of the tram cars of Madrid one of the "long fingered gentry" relieved Chucca of his pocketbook, containing his photograph and 300 pesetas. The composer reported the robbery to the police, wit little hope, however, of regaining his property. The incident naturally was told in the newspapers. Twenty-four hours later the senor received a package containing the money and the following letter- Most Honored Master By mLtuke one of our colleagues yesterday stole your pocketbook Mid its contents.
Through the papers he learned of his error. The president of the society, to -whom was intrusted the duty of repairing the evil done, honors himself in returning this to you, with the 300 pesetas. In order to avoid such a mistnke in the future we have retained your photograph, to which we shall give a prominent place in our council chamber. Never again will the honorable Association of Madrid Pickpockets forget that it was on, honored master, through your oper etta, who gave us a respectable and deserving place in society. With the highest respect, Les Tubs Ratas.
The Duel Didn't Come" Ofl. M. De Fillemessant, the founder of the Paris Figaro, being insulted daily in a Belgian paper by a writer whose nom deplume was Marco Spada, took the train to Brussels, with two friends and a pair of swords. On his arrival he wrote to Marco Spada that at 2 p. m.
sharp he should call on him to arrange an encounter. On the stroke of 2 M. De Villemessant appeared at the editorial office and asked for Marco Spada What was bis amazement on seeing an old lady, all wrinkled and with curls about her ears, appear from behind a small window and reply, "I am Marco Spada, sir, and am at your irdersl" The Murderer's Hand. A recent conference of French chiro-manists laid down tho followinsr rules for telling a murderer or one likely to commit murder upon slightest provocation: He always has the true pouce de bille, or "baldheaded thumb" that is to say, the thumb has a round, bulbous appearance. It is also short, and tho nail is so abbreviated as to suggest the idea that the owner has the habit of gnawing it down to the flesh.
The nail is deeply buried in the flesh, which rises on either side and extends much above the surface. A remarkable or abnormal development of the "Mount of Mars," which, plainly speaking, means a thickening of the outside edge of the. hand. Chiro-manists Fay that persons with this mark, when in a passion, have rushes of blood to the brain, which cause them to "see red." He has the "scaffold sign" a violent and abrupt cutting off of the "lino of the head" (the one running across the palm) by the line running toward the fingers from the wrist. The presence of but three lines in th6 palm (these occasionally reduced to two), and always of a bright scarlet.
Crooked and uneven, knotty fingers, with broad tips, and nails very small, ragged and uneven. St. Louis Republic,.
