Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-31
KELLAR, THE WIZARD.
Mystifes Hundreds of People a
the Opera House.
Amazing Tricks and Wonderful Deceptions the
Order OF the Evening.

! Did you see kellar? If you did not.
you missed the chance of lifetime
| and If YOU did. the chances are FEN 10
one that you are still wondering where
you are at. so far as solving the WHY'S
and wherefores Of tho things that Won
saw done. last night. is concerned.
OF course, there are magicians and
| magicians. but there is only one KEEL
lar. and the public Seem to recognize
the fact. for the crowd that gathered
at the opera house last evening. to
see him was one Of the largest of the
season and when the curtain rose. at
o'clock, there We're but Very few vacant
seats in the house.
Mr.. kellar is a man OF pleasing per
sonality. and BY his informal and
friendly manner, he won the good will
of the audience at the start. He came
upon the stage just as one would enter
friends sitting room. for an after
supper chat ana after a lew prelimi-
nary remarks. proceeded at once to
business.
The first thing he did was to take az,
ordinary silk handkerchief. give il a
few shakes and pull five or six others
of different colQrs from it. laying them
one by one over the back of 4 chair.
Then he picked each one up in turn.
rolled ii in his hands. opened them and
il was gone. that. he came down
into the audience and pulled the whole
bunch from under n mans collar
Again, he took three cups. two of them
filled with scraps of paper. and one
with sand, and changed the contents to
milk, sugar and coffee. Another trick.
and good one, was performed with an
sheet of ordinary wrapping paper. Roll
ing this into cone. he waved his hand
over il. and poured from the cone
whole bushels Of paper roses. The pistol
and ring trick was also executed. Then
he came down from the stage with Il
bottle and gave the audience any kind
of a drink that they wanted. On going
back he cracked q long necker'' with
a hammer, and took therefrom a live
Guinea pig. This animal he rolled up
in paper for one of the ladies, then
opened the package, and it was found
to contain a bunch of roses.
One of the best tricks he did was to
grow real roses from two flower pots,
which were shown to contain nothing
but earth. He proved that the roses
We're real by giving them to the audi
ence. Another good trick was the hyp-
notism of the little girl whom he car
ries with him, and calls the Princess
Karnac. When she was rigid under
his influence, he placed her on a couch,
and passing his hands over and above
her. she slowly rose in reclining posi-
ton, and remained suspended in mid
air Some of the audience suspected
cbn c,1CnnndaH hN wires
but Kellar dispelled this doubt by pass
ing wooden hoop over her. forward
and backward
The princess was blindfolded and
placed in 4 chair on platform, and
Byron Boyd and q. w. Jones We're
called to the stage. to see that every
thing was done on the square. Then
the princess maze some astonishing
calculations in mathematics. in chess
playing. and finally told the denomina-
ton and number of any bin that was
presented. Then the two gentlemen
! tied kellars hands behind him as Sc
curely as they knew how, but they
, could not keep him tied two minutes.
Kellar also had what he called a
Hindu clock, and it was a wonder. 1t
would point to any number kellar told
it to, and could tell the day of the
week on which any date in the history
of the world fell. There was apparent
ly no connection between the clock
which was nothing in the world but a
plate glass dial, and anything else on
the stage. Then there were spirit cabi-
nets that would make an ordinary
humbug, bogus medium ashamed of his
profession. Kellar said that there
might be such things as spirit rappings
and so on. but he had never seen any,
and did not pretend to do any spirit
work, yet he said he could do all the
things that ordinary test mediums
claim to do with supernatural aid, and
with that he proceeded to give a finish
ed performance of all the things that
spirits are supposed to do.
The last trick was perhaps the most
wonderful Of all \ wooden cage was
rolled in on the stage. 1t had red cur
tains. and was empty. The little prin-
cess came out of the wings, and stepped
in. The doors were closed and in 10
seconds they We're opened again. There
was no little princess but very ugly
man. dressed as a guard, who haugh
tiiv Strutted off the stage. This was
wonderful enough but the next thing
was more so.