Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-24
ms is A LAND OF MYSTERY.
THINKS SAVED JARMAL OF
OUR CIVILIZATION.
. DECLARES THAT WESTERN
,ropLE CANNOT PENETRATE
r,ir occuLTfsM OF THE EAST
us MAGIC is A RELIGION WITH
HIM. -


a.
Induced TO leave their country
W ,nst their religious preJudices, and,
ass"r The guidance Of his nephew, Ed
W. Rood. come TO this country. Sayed
Wal speaks only u few Words OF
Inal,,ish ana French, and Mr.. Rood
Lnnsis Interpreter, but In his expressions
= ~. " gestures he says much and shows
w astonishment at the ways OF the
Va than we do at the manners of the
All East.
.,hla 4 the land of magic. You need
y. % 10 India for wonderful things
you people are all bewltched, you are
iisssessed By Shlton, who liz driving
~ Ia his own place. You are got goi
IN I would be mad. All of our people
shon,d be mad IL they had to be this
Nv hurrying all the time. You call
NJ n press. Look! 1t is wild. See Il
II You say twelve hundred OF those
e,ners in minute, and every day ~
ise year That's the way you are IN
'' IKE faklr closed his eyes and shool,
NJ. head. He had said we were pos
,Ss,ed by Shiton. 1 inquired aDou,
nlton. and found him TO be the dew
a half orthodox devil. with horns
mi without a tail. Sayed Jnmal had
IL
hi d yerltable monster OF evil.
sseer' exclaimed the falSir, when his
svu name was handed to him on a IL
,otlype. See, magic! nugget la three
vdnks II was made. | could make II {.
,Aree days with sharp tools. My name
know my name in English. No!iti.
cheat, a trick. IT is only in my heads
You fool me. l take 1t to Bombay and
ind out II my brothers see 1t. Then /
know / have II. 1t IL only herew he
repsated, laying his finger on HIS fore
Rad "Magic."
He actually thought he saw form
simply pictured by his Imagination
which had hr'n impressed by the per
pns about him. He believed himself
% be hypnotized.
"All magic here" he continued. "See
ne cara 20. on the ground and in the
lf. Why such hurry? Get there to-
borrow. You are in n hurry TO die
md wear yourselves out. See the biz
,ores. Way high. and deep I'm Tho
round. What for2 A little shop 70
ut as good. Very strange. Is It this
way all the time? Elevators, Yes,
as up and down, cars right and left.
Co Co. all tho time"
Ne expressed his establishment in
nch a tumble OF words and gestures
nat the interpreter was not able to
tlow him.
Yes, have seen your jugglers," said
q faklr when l got him where walls
" the busy scene about him. "a l.,.
En jugglers here and in England uuu
/ France They are all clever, very
tsyer Their fingers and hands arr
rlck. You are all quick. You think
Vck and move quick. and yom
.ggers are the same way. Their
Ants move faster than your eyes.
They astonish me, l have watched
fsm carefully, and can't see how
hey do the tricks, but ! can close my
yes and see. for l know all that they
D. All When they begin know
md don't need my eyes. What g0Oc
ne eyes when hands are quicker? ]
know what they Will do and how. II
b all old.
Ny father and his father, and back
lack back. they all knew these thluE.
nat your jugglers do. 1t Is play, Prct
Y games. Yes, they change them
Things know they do many difercg'
n ways, Change them about; but theF
ue all the same thing. They only d"
n = many things as your fingers, only
III lnty make them look like many more
have not seen Hermann. but l will
ltt | know, 1 have heard OF his acts
lever, New ways OF doing old things
They must have a stage and Blal
IN hg lights, and all sorts OF properties
nh very much talk. Put them on III
Holnd with many persons about them
III 'll they are no good. Yet they ar.
WY clever. They know how to ufl
aErors. When you see a stage viii
sIlains or screens all Of the same col
al the back and sides, then you ma!
NOW there are mirrors about, No
" L.. - h. hoo a.
We stage, but you are not. So Their
cabinets and boxes with mirror
hem, to make you believe that yol
~ what you don't. These things ar
we nice, but / smile at them. G
on the grass and perform, an
'aM use are theyf
-FOUR clever men know what 20
w chemistry, and they use that. The
" u In many tricks. Then they hay
many cunning little boxes an
WW'sS and oanisters, and all sue
.nn with false bottoms and doubl
m.uh, and lots of the ingenious con
sNsnces that you people know how I
T. sac Why, making these things
s e.se magic than your jugglers do WY
IN Your tools and paraphernalia
~ your tricks of jugglery astonic
M %t,N hlle your use OF them IL for littl
e.ursn; You have done the wonderfl
wnss when You have made them; IN
w 'hey do. These wonderful thing
Nv quickness OF hand, are all thei
n ~ your juggling.
people" continued the fax
MI. race OF Jugglers. You make
WY Trick in the next room that
~ IN Paris; you talk TO ma
hsgs, many miles away; you tray
M ,nsF IMAM the wind, and you can vii
III maehlnery make anything, an
a. ,,s,,so iast. You perform wondel
yons, wnere except on the stage. whel
~ IVY Professors say. 'Prestor
u s9ur jugglars perform as bus
SAID Sayed Jamal, and he shot
insau dlsapproYlngly. "Think
e. business. How IL il VIII
a. lsorro You ask? With me It is a l
n e. ~ II has been with my fathe
vi ~ snerallOns that are lost In u
VI I'd past What | do they have don
AZ d IN ,h WI DO nothing different. l
WI mi ny e same way as they did 1t, az
III ~ ny change. New things? N
n NJ fora are enough, Let those who
IN A u tIsslD usiness try the new. When
thlns vhings as my father did the
NJ aads ~. VI those fathers who ages al
hksn vh motion as | make 1t. q
Iu OF myself and am better (
Nm ". my religion.
M IA. Your magiclans do all for bul
MI There is no religion. Your reilgi
ri winess. Your priests say III
Nf Ia, N1eh You for so many dollars
lbont ihey come to us, They a
NJ esm SeF magic. We are polite
theeI W INV tax, but they learn nothlr
s hey AZ, 70 them and learn nothii
kin u ~, teil US nothing new about
MM n. "lat they say 70 all old TO I