Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-19


you return to the table lay down the
pipes One of them should be permitted
to fall to the floor and break. Pretend to
he embarrassed by this, but continue by
saying: Now 1 propose to show you an en-
tirely departure in smoking, d depart
ure, in fact, which it is confidently expect
ed will meet the approval OF the most COP
firrned anti-tohacco reformer, inasmuch as
all the Objectionable features are removed
and only the pleasures remain. First, we
take the phantom knife in this manner"
Simulate the motions of taking a knife
from pocket and opening 1T. Then take
the phantom tobacco thus. and fill the
pipe" Initiate all the motions of cutting
and rubbing tobacco between the haEdS
and filing plpe, emitting no 1etail, for this
can lie made very lauShable if well DONE
You can see the pipe is now we'll filled
with phantom tobacco" Show pipe. which
is, of course, empty as at first. Then place
it in the mouth and draw. AS 1t appears
to draw hard, make pretense of running
broom straw through the stem, etc.
Mystery Made Plain.
Now. as 1 am just out of phantom
matches, will use this other pipe" Show
it still empty, scratch it on leg of trousers
or sole of shoe as you would a match. then
hold the opening of the bowl against that
of the pipe in your mouth and Immediately
commence to puff out huge volumes of
smoke. Go among the audience and show
the pipe still empty and apparently free
from preparation, but by putting them to-
gether you can smoke much as you
please. Then return to your table, and.
with small hammer, break one of the
pipes into small pieces. Put these pieces
into the other pipe and smoke as before
Turn the piece out again ard break up the
ether pipe, keeping the two lots separate.
Then gather all the pieces in the clasped
hands and smoke through the opening be-
tween the thumbs.
Tho secret lies in the previous prepare
ton OF two of the pipes; the third is I'M
prepared, and is only used to disarm sus-
picion. Just before you wish to use them,
rinse enc of the pipes with common mot
chemically pure) muriatic acid and the
other with strong aqua ammonia. Be sure
to keep them apart until needed, for the
moment the fumes of these two agents
mingle dense smoke is the result. In rims
ing be sure to hold the pipes in such a po-
sition that the chemicals will not run into
the stem, otherwise the acids might burn
the lips or tongue. In passing for eXamina-
ton don't give the ammonia pipe, but hold
it in your mouth after showing it
empty, as the fumes of the ammonia might
betray your aids. When smoking be sure
not to inhale the fumes into the lungs, as
they would be more than likely to cause a
fit OF coughing, and thus mar the effect.
The fermentation Test.
Another chemical trick, used by the best
magicians today in one or other of its
many possible forms, is styled the Trans
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youngster not much bigger than the tricks
name. According to It's patter, it consists
in changing wine to water and back to
wine again mysteriously. In doing it have
on o. tray on your table seven glass tum-
blers and a pitcher of water. Begin by
saying: II am about to show you one of
the favorite tests of the so-called spirit
mediums. 1t consists of turning wine into
water, and vice versa. For instance, 1 have
pitcher here containing a quantity of
pure water, which you can see for your
selves" Pour out glass Of water and
drink little to prove that it is all right
set down the glass and pick up another,
saying: Il will now pour out another glass.
and by simply exerting a hypnotic in
fuer ce will make it appear to you to be
wine" Fill glass after glass. announcing,
Now water, row wine; now water; now
hypnotic you to make you see things
just L wish. Now / will put
the contents Of all the glasses back into
the pitcher again, and / would like as many
to hold up your hands. OF course, just as
L expected, you were hypnctized. for, you
see, the pitcher rtains nothing but
wine" Pour out several glasses of wine
You see. it's all in the way you look at it.
Now you all wine, and, again, first
wine and then water"
AS you say this return all the wine to the
pitcher pour out one glass of wine, then
one of water, and continue: Now that 1
have shown you the wonderful effects Of
hypnotism, / will remove the influence en-
tirely and show you that the pitcher con-
tains as / told You at first, nothing but n
quantity of water; pure, sparkling water"
While speaking fill all the glasses with
water, and show pitcher empty.
At the beginning of this trick. the second,
fourth and sixth glasses should contain
each about two drops of tircture of iron,
and the seventh has in the bottom about q
quarter of an inch of a saturated solution
of oxalic acid. This glass should stand be-
hind the others. The water in the pitcher
should contain a pinch of tannin. In pour
ing out the first glass it appears to be
clear water and you may taste it, as the
tannin is quite harmless. The second will
be colored and will look enough like wine
for the purpose third water, fourth wine,
fifth water and sixth wine, and this should
use up all the water in the pitcher. so
there will be nothing to put in the seventh
glass. When you pour them back they will
necessarily all be colored. SO at the second
pouring there will be nothing but wine.
After returning all, pour out the single
glass of wine, then pick up the seventh
glass. fill it quickly and the acid will bleach