The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-27

were used to Robinson and loved and val
ued him."
.'On another OCCASION" went on Score
tary Morton, several OF US were together
when the conversation turned on legerde-
main. Everybody had told something Of
the shght-of hand exhibitions he had wit
messed, and some told Of facts of Jugglery
OF which they had read. At last il came
RobinsOn's turn. He usually waited until
every county was heard from before ne
made his returns.
When 1 was back in Indiana said
Robinson, i was a boy then, and see
a man do feat of legerdemain one time
that 1 never did see equalled- He dion [
do II in hall, and il wasn't at an eXhl-
bition, but on the street The fact Is, the
man didn't do il for a show; he did II
cause he had TO. You see, II was this
There was one of those sleight-Of-
hand fellows put up his bills in the little
town ! lived in in Posey county, ana al
lowed he'd give an exhibition OF slelgnt-oI-
hand a. Liberty hall one night. Well, i
reckon his advertisement was up about a
week before the man was to come TO town,
and the lead men Of the place-old Hawk
ms, / know, was one Of them-they got
together and talked this man over ana
said he couldn't give any exhibition.
They said what he did was black magic,
and that he was in league with the devil,
and they wasn't goin' to have him foolln
around our town with no show Of which
Satan was the business manager.
" Wen, this man come to town all
right enough, and Old Hawkins went down
TO the tavern where he was eatin' supper
and told this man shat the town didn {
want no exhibitions of black art, and that
If he offered TO give his show they'd ar
rest him.
1.-THE man was pretty sassy to old
Hawkins, and said that there was no
black magic about his show, and that
there was more devil in Posey county in
a minute than there was about his show
in month. He told old Hawkins he
was goin 10 give a show just the same,
and If any COnstables tusseled with him
he'd make them feel wan and weary
that he'd take them ia the supreme court.
But Old Hawkins kept a stiff upper lip
and hung round the tavern door, and
when this lege rdemain fellow come out
and started for Liberty hall 70 fix up for
his exhibition, Hawkins pinted him out
TO the two constables and told them TO go
on and collar him.
Il don't reckon the legerdemain man
really thought Old Hawkins would have
him arrested; but sorter took Old Haw-
kius' talk for a bluff. But, of course, when
he see the cOnstables a-comin', he knew
then that they were in earnest, and il
struck him naturally enough that he
couldn't afford to be arrested. Now, what
do you think he did? This is where the
trick come in / was speakin' Of
Just as the Constablcs got about fifty
feet from hm-he was lookn' over his
shoulder at the time, and see them comm
he out with something that looks ike
bolt of ribbon and throws it up into the
air hangin' on to one end of the ribbon.
Well. sir. this bolt never come down no
more. II just seemed to fasten there. THIS
legerdcmain man was stil hOldin' one end
of the ribbon, which hung down out of the
atmosphere like rope. Just before the
cOnstables got TO him he grabbed onto the
ribbon, just like a circus man does on
rope, and clumb it like a cat. And then
no floated off right before our eyes, and
see afterWard by the Indianapolis papers
as how that legerdemain man give an eS-
hibition just thirty minutes after he left
our town at place which was forty-seven
miles