Wichita eagle., 1888-02-18
A MAN OF MAGIC.
INFORMATION FOR THOSE WISHING
TO LEARN SLEIGHT OF HAND.

A Reporters Chat with a Modern Maei-
cian-Outfit Needed by an Amateur
Conjurer-Deeds of Diablerie-Several
New Tricks.
Militiaman John A. Schultz, the genial
conjurer Of the Eighth regiment, had just
! produced the pleasing illusion that the re-
! porters hat was savings bank by appar-
/ emily abstracting from the lining several
crisp bank notes, half q dozen s. gold
pieces, and a quantity of silver dimes and
| quarters, when the reporter seized the op-
| portnnity and fired questions straight at
him without any deley whatever.
"Well," said Militiaman Schultz, with
smile, ''as magicians are good people to
have around, and as the more good people
there are around in the world the better
1t will become, don't mind giving you
the secret that will increase our number.
The first tip is to go straight to some good
magician and take lessons in the art direct
from him. Books of instructions are use
full only after the first principles of the
art are mastered.
when you can palm and pass things
so that you can fool all the smart small
boy and all the smarter grown up folks in
your house and in the family next door,
you're ready to 60 ahead in your career
as a professional deceiver of your fellow
man. The next step in that career is to
get magical apparatus. That's the way
globes Of gold fishes and dishes of blazing
oil and other startling things are pro-
duced from empty pocket handkerchiefs.
1t was by mechanical devices that Robert
Heller was able to take out of mans hat
a cart load of fruit jars, piles of tea
caddies, innumerable lighted Chinese
lanterns. about ton of rubber balls and
wooden blocks, a wardrobe of clothes,
pyramid of dishes, and finally the bright
little girl who used to run down laughing
to seat among the spectators. When it
comes to the apparatus you can go it
economically. or you can. revel in the
luxuriant expenditure of a prolific income
Magical outfits range in cost all the way
from 500 up into the thousands. A good
amateur, unless he wants to confine him
self exclusively to card tricks, can't pos
sibly get along in parlor entertainment
without a center table. These range in
cost from about f2J to $500. according to
finish and the number of traps and things
intended to produce the startling effects
that demonstrate to your smart spectator
that he isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
OTHER NEEDED ARTICLES.
CATER you get your table the rest of
your outlay is for mechanical tricks. the
first thing, of course, to procure being
your conjurer'S wand and a trick tube
pistol, into which You can load things
that you have smashed to flinders and
ovsf to -hntn
eral kinds of wands. One sort will feat
in the air, another you can make disap-
pear down your throat, and another viii
fish silver half dollars from the empty air
for you. Then you will want glass boxes
that look empty until you want them to
be full of curious things; card cases for
other queer antics with; the inexhaustible
bottle, time honored chestnut of trick,
but perennially interesting to the chill
dren-magic bird cages, money chests,
and lots Of other paraphernalia. In all
there are over 200 pieces of apparatus for
tricks, from the simple tiny rub
the conjurer tells it to lie down. to the ep-
paratus that Will enable you to safely cut |
off the head Of your best friend among |
Militiaman Schultz stopped for breath |
when he had piled all this mystic lore /
upon the reporters head. and gave the !
scribe chance to talk on his own account |
Tremendous the reporter said, '.and /
what did you say it would cost 10 learn it
alls"
Il didn't say vet, retorted the militia
man. who can do over 300 strange, be
and incomprehensible deeds of |
didn't say yet, but I'm |
going to tell you now You or anybody
Else can learn to become q magician of
varying excellence by paying from SIS to
$500 TO any one of the pupils whom Herr
man or Heller has kindly taught. For
e25 you can learn select few good tricks. |
but for $500 probably. or $500 at the out
side, you can get training that will enable
You to do everything that anybody who
DOESN'T want the earth would care to per-
orm.
1.-The couiurer must be a good talksr