El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-05-14

, ton on a slip and hand 1t in carefully
folded and rolled into a tiny pellet
/ All the pellets are placed before the
| medium i'll a little basket he tells
what one question is, and then opens the
! pellet TO verify it. A sitter acknOwl-
! edges it to be his. Then he tells the
/ others one by one, with never slip or
a word missed It's very puzzliDg, but
! the explanation is easy. The medium
! knows in advance the question the con-
| federate will ask. He also knows his
pellet by an undetectabIe fold known
| only to them He announces this ques-
| ton and then picks up pellet TO verify
/ it.
But the pellet he takes up and opens
! is not the one written by the confeder-
| ate. He announces, that he was righ--
He has thus got 6.e pellet ahead of
! the game, and he reads the message on
| pellet number two and declares it to
correspond with pellet number three.
BY thus opening a pellet ahead of the
| one he processes to have read. he is
able 70 see every pellet in advance OF
announcing it's contents
Recalling the Dead.
One of the most mystifylng tricks OF
the average medium IS to have the SIT
ter write down the names of half a doz-
en- people, some real, some fictitious,
and one dead. After the names are writ
handed to the medium, who folds the
slips and places them in a basket be-
Meath the table, or in a human skull on
top OF the table The sitter takes them
out. one by one. and when the name of
the departed friend appears, the medium
promptly announces the fact, and tells
the name.
Real Power Used.
This trick is one of the most legiti-
he OGr
surprising OF all. Here the mediumistic
power actually is brought into play.
The medium really does divine the very
! thought of the sitter; but he does IL by
the use of his most carefully trained
powers Of observation. He knows that
in writing the names of persons the sit
ter already has made up his mind about
the departed friend. The others he will
think about momentarily before writing
them down. The medium watches the
writing operation intently. He notices
it may be only an instantaneous hesita-
ton before each name until the real one
comes, and that goes down without the
slightest pause. The medium notes
which name this is in its order on the
sheet of paper, and when the list IS
cut into slips and handed to him, he
gives that one an unobservably differ
ent fold.
When the slips are all placed in the
basket and shaken up and the sitter
draws them out one by one, the medium
recognizes it by this method OF fold
ing. Having seen the name when fold
ing the slip he carries il in his memory
until the slip is produced from the bas-
ket- Only the most expert truth-seeker
ever has been able to unravel this test,
and 1t has converted its thousands 10
spiritualism.
Answers TO Questions Easy
Many sitter has carried to a Seance
a message in a sealed envelope and
has taken away from it the message un-
disturbed, and has found his answer TO
that message written on the inside OF
the envelope itself He is at loss TO
account for this by natural means AS
a matter of fact the medium has a half
dozen ways in which he may read the
message.
In some he may read it by the use of
an egg tester which often Will show
through several Ihicknesses of paper.
Or. a little alcohol and a sponge will
make an envelope temporarily trans
parent. The medium ascertains the
questions, and then by the art of mir
ror, or reverse, writing, places a mes
age on slip of paper with a copying
pencil. The lower flap of an envelope
IS usually easy 10 open. He opens II,
slips in the message face TO the en-
velope, and by running his hand over
a piece of paper on top the envelope,
makes the message copy itself on the
inside of the envelope He then with
draws his slip of paper. seals the lower
flap? and returns the letter to the sitter.
Tables Also Have Trap Doors
In one brightly conceived method of
message reading the sitter writes his
questions on a tablet He then lays it
face downward on a table. In this table
there is a tiny trap door. slightly small
Ter than the writing pad upon which the
questions are written. Straightway the
medium reads the MESA ge. and other
wise describes il. and the sitter has his
last doubt removed. He goes away abb
sOluteIy convinced. The medium simply
let down the trap door after the Fad
had been properly placed over IT, and a
series of rejecting glasses made the
questions visible to him but not TO the
sitter.
Substitution Again.
Sometimes the medium takes the sit
ter's pellet holds it 10 his forehead and
shortly after answers the question it
contains substitution is effected here, !
and IL may Be said that there are a hun
dred differ ent tricks which depend on
clever substitution. When a sitter dis
plays tendency to divine the tricks !
of the medium there is always a con- /
venient refuge behind the excuses that !
the sitter does not lend himself to the /
opration of the occult forces. that the /
medium is exhausted, or one or another /
of a dozen excuses.
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and the paper that can and will locate
such a bow for me- or place me in DOSi- .