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A Magazine .ROMANCE AND REASON

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Threading the MazesBy Rhode Knight

How I Became a Spirit MediumBy A Medium

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Improved Ink Versus Water TrickThe effects produced in this trick far surpasses an v InkTrick yet brought before the public. The performer comesin showing four empty tumblers, a bottle of ink, and a glassjug containing water, and a small finger bowl. In to the latteris poured the bottle of ink. This is then poured into one ofthe tumblers and covered with a handkerchief and given toone of the audience to hold. Another glass is filled with waster from the jug and passed to someone to hold. After a few

seconds this a seen to instantly change into ink, the otherglass upon l'ins unt overed is seen to change to water.NOW NOT b - The glass which changed to water is pouredinto one of the entity glasses when it instantly changesback to ink. I "glass of water is poured into the other tumbler when it instan...y develops into ink. Description failsto fully justify this splendid illusion. Price. 14 | 6 ($3.48).Post free, 15||3 ($3.66). Postage extra for abroad.

CYCLOPS COIN TRICK •

This consists of a brass cap in the top of whichis a small hole. It may be thoroughly examined.Three coins are borrowed and placed on a tableand covered with the cap. The coins and cap arethen placed on the hand of one of the audience.Upon the cap being removed only two coins arefound, the other coin having completely vanished.

The cap and coins may be thoroughly examinedto prove there is no deception, the hole in the capallowing the audience to see right through it

.

This forms a splendid pocket trick. Price, 1 || 8

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PROBLEMS IN MYSTERYBy Max Sterling

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A MAGAZIN IS OF ROMANCE AN I) REASON

V().I.U M E I CONDUCTED BY A. M. WILSON, M. I.). NUMBER 1

CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1910

COVER From a rare book in the Astor Library, New York

DIRECTIONS FOR SEEING THE SPECTRES Frontispiece

Illustration from “Spectropia’’

SPECTRAL ILLUSIONSPlates and illustrations from drawings

THREADING THE MAZES RHODE KNIGHTIllustrations from drawings

TI IE SPHINX RIDDLE OF HUMANITYHENRY RIDGELY EVANS

Illustration from a drawing

AN AFTERNOON IN A MAGICAL LIBRARYERNEST EVANGELINE

Illustrations from old prints, etc.

HOVV. I BECAME A SPIRIT MEDIUM A MEDIUM

GHOSTS is published every other month (six issues a year by Ernest Evangeline, 203Temple Block. KansasCity. Missouri, U.S. A. Yearly subscriptions, 60cents. Single copies, 10cents. Copyright. 1910,by W. J. Lucas.

THE TWIN MAGAZINES OFw - *- - *MAGIC ENCHANTMENT- GHOSTS is a twin to MAGIC, The Magazine of Wonder.

THE MAGAZINE OF WONDERThe two magazines are published every month alternating,making six numbers of each a year. 60 cents a year each,

or $1 a year for both; single copies, 10 cents.

These twin magazines present magic and allied subjectsto the general public in the most attractive manner, witha strong leaning towards the recreative side rather than

the sceintific or philosophical.

The March number of MAGIC, ready February 25th, willcontain a novel paper cut-out trick, an original comedymagical sketch, interesting illustrated articles on magicalsubjects, practical tricks, and lots of pictures. A prize package of wonder, entertainment and novelties for amateurs,|-10 enthusiasts and students.---

WhatA ConjurerCanDo Magic, Ghosts, Conjuring. Puzzles, Sleight of Hand, En;- tertaining, Illusions, Spiritism, Ventriloquism, PsychicalResearch, Psychology and Sorcery are some of the subjects to be thoroughly and completely covered in “TheTwin Magazines of Enchantment.”

ERNEST EVANGELINE, Publisher, 203 Temple Block, Kansas City, Mo.

TheMarvelousRisingCardsof Joseffy-

PLATE. I. Changes to white skeleton, with green mantle, blue background.

DIRECTIONS FOR SEEING THE SPECTRESTo see the spectres, it is only necessary to look stead.

ily at the cross, below the chin in the above figure, forabout a quarter of a minute, or while counting abouttwenty. the plate being well illuminated by either artificial or day light; then turn the eyes to the ceiling, thewall or sky, or better still, to a sheet hung on the wallof a darkened room (not totally dark), and looking steadily at any one point: the spectre will soon begin tomake its appearance, increasing in intensity and thengradually vanishing, to reappear and again vanish. Itwill continue to do so several times in succession. eachreappearance being fainter than the one precceding.Winking the eyes, or passing a finger rapidly to andfro before them, will frequently hasten the appearanceof the spectre, especially if the plate has been stronglyilluminated.

Those who use gas light will find it convenient, afterhaving looked at the plate as above described to extemporize a darkened room by having the gas suddenlv turned low.

The size of the spectres will be determined by thedistance of the eyes from the plate and from the surface against which they are seen. being larger the near

er the plate, and smaller the nearer the surface; so thatshort-sighted persons will see them larger than longsighted, if both are equidistant from the surface againstwhich they are seen.

Should anyone not be able to see the spectre's features, the reason will be that either the eyes have beenallowed to wander or the head move while looking atthe plate.

Many persons will see some one colored spectre better than others in consequence of their eve's not beingequally sensitive to all colors.

The colors in the plate will be found to reverse them.selves in the spectre, the spectre always appearing ofthe complementary color to that of the plate fromwhich it is obtained. Thus, red will appear green, andgreen, red, etc.

An infinite amount of amusement can be derivedfrom the simple experiments here given. Hauntedhouse parties, with a white-heet in a darkened room.against which the guests in a lighted hallway or adjoin.ing room) can see ghosts, thus off ring a splendid evening's entertainment. The experiment must be repeated,if the ghosts are not seen on nr.st trial.

VOLUME I FEBRUARY 1910

THE NEW ( p ≤

FU3LIC LIBRAR*-1

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TILDEN F.CUNDATIONS.n 1910 L

NUMBER 1

Yes, I believe in Ghosts. Not the kind youthink I mean, but—I believe in Ghosts.

I believe in Ideas. The thought is the thing.

But then, I've had lots of pleasant thoughts.Many a man with a good one has to beat itup and down Main Street blowing for his ownin vain. It takes a good salesman to sell a better idea.

I am going to thresh out this ghost business.The LAST WORI) on this subject is going tobe said in this magazine. I am going to print

ideas enough here, during the next few years,

to enable any living being to decide for himself, once and forever, whether there is anything beyond the grave.

At the start, I want it to go on record that Idearly and truly want to believe that if I die,I will live again. I know you believe as I do.I will have a sympathetic audience. So, wewill go into this matter together carefully andthoroughly. As the months go by we shallsee what comes. May be we will prove something—demonstrate something.

Publisher’s PrologueSend me YOUR ideas—and your friends'

ideas. Tell me anytime anything that will helpus make connections with the next world. Iwant other people's experiences. I have hadremarkable experiences myself. Were I toput them down here you would not believe—to me they are real.

But I pray you not to send me any writtenword of yours or of others' psychic experiencesthat I cannot print in this magazine withYOUR NAME AN ID A.I.) I) RESS AT THEBOTTOM. I want to convince others. Youand I may KNOW but the rest don't. I haveno patience with those “well known" and“responsible” men and women who haveexperienced most wonderful and convincingpsychic phenomena but refuse to give thepublic names, dates and places for verification and analysis.

Truth has never injured the human race, butthe misapprehension and fear of it have.

ERNEST EVANGELINE

Spectral IllusionsShades, Shapes and Shadows of the Eye and Imagination

From “Spectropia,” Astor Library, New YorkGI IOST, according to the

# general descriptions of thosewho fancy they have beenfavored with a sight of one,

*=2# => appears to be of a pale phosphorescent white, or bluish white color;usually indistinct, and so transparentthat objects are easily seen through it

.

When moving it glides in a peculiar manner, the legs not being necessary to itslocomotion.

All the senses are more or

less subject

to deception, but the eye is pre-eminent

ly so; especially in the case of persons

who are in ill health, because the sensibility o

f

the retina is then generallymore exalted, a

sis also the imagination,

We may divide the illusions to whichthe sight sense is liable into four kinds.First, mental, o

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those arising from the

brain itself, and only referred to the eye.Second, those produced by the structure

of

the eye. Third, those arising from theimpressions o

f

outward objects on theretina. Fourth, those produced by various combinations o

f

the forgoing. It is

only the second and third we shall haveoccasion to touch upon. But before wecan well understand their nature, it willbe necessary to get a slight knowledge o

f

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the eye, and some idearespecting the nature o

f light.With perhaps the exception o

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the ear,

the eye is the most wonderful exampleof the infinite skill of the Creator. Amore exquisite piece o

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mechanism it is

impossible for the human mind to conceive. The annexed diagram (Fig. 1

) of

a horizontal section of

this organ willgive a better idea o

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favorite and picturesque pastime. Thesedances, like the mazes themselves, were

Fl(;. S. V.hedge maze designed in 1608.The tending of allthe hedges involved an enormous amount of labor.

intricate, and recall the lines:

“Mark how the labyrinthian turns they take,The circles intricate, and mystic maze.”

The famous maze at Hampton Court,

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Fig. 4, was constructed in 1700. The keyto this maze is to keep to the hedge on

FIG. 5. A garden maze designed by Batty Langley in 1725.Constructed of hedges 8 to 10ft. high.

your right and follow it without deviation, both in going to the center and onleaving it

.

The maze at Versailles, Fig.

1,

was laid out in the midst of a densewood and the most beautiful ever made.

The Sphinx Riddle of Humanity

By Henry Ridgely EvansHIS is the question o

f

thew ages, the Sphinx riddle that# Humanity has been trying

# to solve since time began.- *'. A scientific demonstration

of innmortality is

declared to be utterly impossible.But why go to science for such a

proof: The question does belongsto the domain ofphilosophy andreligion. Sciencedeals with physical forces andtheir relations;collects and inventories facts. Its mission is not to establish a universal metaphysic o

f

things; that is philosophy's prerogative. All occult thinkers declare thatlife is from within, out. In other wordslife, o

ra spiritual principle, preceeds

organization. Science proceeds to investigate the phenomena o

f

the universe in the opposite way from without, in; and pronounces life to b

e "afortuitus collocation o

f

atoms." Still,science has beenthe torch-bearerof the ages andhas stripped thefringe o

f superstition from thetree of life. It hasrevealed to us thegreat laws o

f nature, though it

has not explained them. We nowknow that light,‘heat and electri

city are modes of motion; we know no

more. Science is responsible for the materialistic philosophy in vogue today.

A philosophy that sees no reason in theuniverse. A powerful wave o

f spiritualthought has set in.

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An Afternoon in a Magical Library

2: FEW hours#| research in a

magic library would, no

- *> doubt, rudely disillusion shortsighted, near magicians, whobelieve that magic wasinvented in 1872, the

date of the first book byProf. Hoffmann. In 1774

gentlemen of leisure,court hangers-on, students, and teachers andbusiness men, divertedthemselves by performing tricks that lots ofyoung fellows fall uponnowadays accidentally,and imagine that theyare uncovering a reallynew sleight. But in 1774,

they called them Recreations !'"

The most interestingwork in Dr. A. M. \\ ilson's splendid collection ofbooks, is Rational Recreations, printed in

By Ernest Evangeline

R AT I O N A L.

R E CREAT I O NS,In which the PR IN C I P L E S of

N U M B E R S

a N D

N AT U R A L PHILOSOPHYAre clearly and copiouslyelucidated,

B Y A s E.R.I.E.S. O.F.

EAs Y, ENTERTAIN IN G, INTERESTING

E XP E R IM E N T S.

Amongwhichare

All thosecommonly performed with the CARDs.

By W. H. O O P E R, M. D.

V O L. IV.

-L O N D o N,

Printed for

L. Davis, Holborn, J Ronson,NewBond-treet,

B. Law,Avemary-lane,and G Robinson,Pater-noderrow.

MDCCLXXIV,

magical

six volumes in 1774, andprofusely illustrated byfull page copper etchings. To reproduce thesebooks today, would cost

a small fortune and nopublisher could be foundwho would attempt it

.

The title-page and one

of

the full page illustrations from this work areshown here with, greatlyreduced, and the readerwill discover in one corner o

f

the reproduction

of

the copper etching,an explanatory diagram

of

the rising cards from

a gollet. They are doing that trick yet !

It would take manyafternoons and dozens

of pages of

this magazine to digest and describe Dr. Wilson's magical library. The lower

part of

the walls of nearly every room

in his home are completely covered with

AN AFTERN ()()N IN A MAGICAL LIBRARY | 1

shelves of books. And many volumes,

and thousands of pamphlets, newspaper

Z IV*zzi.- PLATE, XIV

Azz/r * Ż.2 /*-*. Ay. .3/.2×!

COPPER ETCHING FROM A BOOK ()N MAGICPUBLISHED IN 1774. Wilson Collection.

clippings and magazine articles are kept

in boxes, awaiting Dr. Wilson's time forclassification and indexing. For fortyyears the editor of 77te Sphina and "TheTwin Magazines of Enchantment" has

been gathering together this storehouseof magical literature and odds and ends.

Hundreds of friends and correspondents

in all parts of the world have contributedeverything from magicians' programs

and newspaper notices, to magazines

and books. An endless chain of magicand-Magic!

In glancing through the many volumes, I was especially attracted by the

Overture''' to the Life of Robert Houdin, written by himself:

'Eight o'clock has just struck: my wife andchildren are by my side. I have spent one ofthose pleasant days which tranquility, work andstudy can alone secure. With no regret for thepast, with no fear for the future, I am—I am not

afraid to say it—as happy as man can be.And yet, at each vibration of this mysterious

hour, my pulse starts, my temples throb, and I

can scarce breathe, so much do I feel the wantof air and motion. I can reply to no questions,

so thoroughly am I lost in a strange and delirious reverie. Shall I confess to you, reader. Andwhy not? For this electrical effect is not of a nature to be easily understood by you.

-

The reason for my emotion being extreme at

this moment is,

that, during my professional career, eight o'clock was the moment when I must

appear before the public. Then, with an eye fixed

on the hole in the curtain, I surveyed with intense pleasure the crowd that flocked in to see

me. Then, as now, my heart beat, for I was

proud and happy of

such success.At times, too, a doubt, a feeling of uneasiness,

would be mingled with my pleasure. “Heavens !” I would say to myself, in terror, am I

so sure of myself as

to deserve such anxiety to

see me?' "

But, soon reassured by

the past, I waited withgreater calmness the signal for the curtain to

draw up. I then walked on the stage: I was near

the foot-lights, before my judges—but no, I errbefore my kind spectators, whose applause I

was in hopes to gain."

I found the old scrap-books the mostentertaining o

f

all. Some of them, past

ed full by Dr. Wilson in the early daysof

his interest in magic, are especially

curious and instructive. Old clippings

from Scientific American, Harper's II ee//y, Vew York Sun and the leading jourmals o

f

the world, are found in profusion.

The history of

American magic is written there. Careers o

ffamous performers,

like Carl and Alexander Herrmann, Hel

-MAGICAL COMBINATIONS

From "Fifty Years in the Magic Circle.” by Signor Blitz.Wilson Collection.

ler, Keller and Thurston can be followedalmost month by month. And for thosewho fear the results o

f exposure of

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H()W I BECAME A SPIRIT MEDIUM 13

and the attempt at development begun.I begun my "development" sittings

in as handsome a cabinet, and with asgood instruments as the purses of myfriends, who would not allow me to goto any expense, would permit. Thosewho sat outside were Spiritualists, six ofthem; all interested in seeing the prospective medium developed to the fullness of his capabilities, whatever theymight be. They were friends of my family and I found the development business quite pleasant.

The sittings were kept up for the threemonths named as the time that the manifestations would begin, but none hadput in appearance, neither had I experienced anything that led me to believethat any progress had been made. I wasabjured to be patient by the "sitters,”who told me that it was an easy thingfor the spirits to be mistaken as to thelength of time required to bring aboutresults, but that they were probably notfar wrong, and possibly the next sittingwould see the first of the manifestations.

Thus encouraged, I continued the sittings for six months. Nothing occured,except a healthy desire on the part ofboth medium and sitters that the manifestations be forthcoming, giving me aninclination to cause some phenomena onmy own hook. The more l thought aboutit the stronger became the desire topractice a little deception on my friends,then, after telling them about it

,

dropthe matter entirely. After turning it over

in my mind for some time, I concluded

I would see what effect a few spuriousmanifestations would have upon myfriends. It would be easy, they havingunbounded confidence in me. My mindmade up to do it

,I hardly knew what to

try, and finally concluded I would waituntil the sitting came around and, aftergetting into the cabinet, see what suggested itself.

This was the course I pursued, and onone Saturday evening, after the firstsong had been sung, the sitters were delighted to hear sharp raps, seemingly onthe walls o

f

the room, within the cabinet. Of course, I had to b

e happily surprised, o

r appear so, which I did, andmy first act o

f

deceit was done. I wasforced to deny the authorship o

f

the rapsalso, and the first lie had been givenbirth. The sitters endeavored to get replies to questions, but they did not suc

ceed, for I did not care to go to thatlength with my deception and, besides,did not know what answers to make tothe inquiries. Nothing occured but theraps, although every ear and eye wasalert to catch anything that might transpire. The sitters also displayed a tendency to connect any noise occuring to

Spiritual agency. Noting this, I couldnot help reflecting with what ease onecould deceive them. It also gave me an

Instructions for DevelopingSpirit Mediumship

Construct a cabinet in the corner of your

room by hanging across it a pair of heavy

curtains, fastening them to the walls of

theroom where they touch a

t

the sides, but leaving them open in the middle o

f

the front. Putinto the cabinet a banjo o

r guitar, tea-bell,tambourine, pair o

f

slates and tin trumpet.Have four o

r

six persons to sit

with you,equally divided between the sexes. They areto sit in a semi-circle about the front of thecabinet, the sexes alternating, clasping eachother's hand. You are to sit inside the cabinetalone, and remain one hour in a

s passive a

condition as

it possible for you to attain. Thesitters outside should sing about four songsduring the hour you are sitting. You shouldsit twice per week, always the same eveningand hour, Tuesday and Saturday evenings,eight until nine o'clock.

These instructions are all that will be necessary until you are able to get further advicethrough your own “mediumship.” There is

no such thing as failure if you persist in fol

lowing out these instructions, and you willbegin to receive demonstrations within threemonths.

idea that the average medium had prettysmooth sailing when he had none butSpiritualists in his circle. If he could notreadily offer an explanation for anythingoccuring, some one o

f

the sitters woulddo it for him, thus educating him in thebusiness.

When nine o'clock had struck and I

came from the cabinet, you may restassured I felt strange. I was sure thatevery time one o

f

the sitters looked uponmy face they not only knew that I hadmade the raps, but had lied about it

afterwards. A dozen times I was on thepoint o

f peaching on myself, but as many

- times did a sense of

shame overcome myresolution and I told myself that I wouldtell them one a

ta time, as I met them,

laugh it down and dismiss any furthersittings.

The sitters were so delighted, andoffered so many unselfish congratula

14

tions and encouragements, shaking myhand and patting me on the back, it isno wonder that I felt my smallness. Oneof the ladies remarked:

''There! I am sure none of us need

ever have any doubts regarding physical manifestations after this. I am sureMr. would be guilty of no actof deceit.'"

Think of it,

reader. A respected ladyfriend offering such an expression o

f perfect confidence in me regarding the verything in which I had just been deceivingher. Would you have felt perfectly a

t

ease in my place? I think not.

I was glad when the sitters had departed, and thought long and deeply on mydeception, and concluded not to say aword to any o

f

them about it,

but justshut down on any more seances. My witswere a

t work the entire time that elapsedbetween the regular sitting nights trying

to concoct some plausible reason why I

discontinued the development course.The evening came, however, and no

excuse that I could offer without exciting the suspicion that the manifestations

of

the previous sittings were a fraud,had been formulated. After the sittinghad gotten under way, the requests bythe sitters for phenomena were so frequent and entreating that my consciencesmote me again and again for my previous deception. I lowever, I soon foundmyself rapping again. This time I essayed answers to the questions regarding

the progress made in the medium's development, rapping a

n affirmative answer to the questions, "Is the development proceeding satisfactorily, and willhe develop good physical powers?' "

Nothing but raps occured at this sit

ting, and the sitters were much pleasedthat the raps had been made to answertheir questions. This was looked upon a

s

a decided impovement over the preceeding sitting. I was not so much abashed

at

their compliments and encouragements a

s on the previous occasion, andduring the following week I actuallyfound myself wondering what new thing

I could do that would create more interest and enthusiasm than the raps. Theonly thing I could think o

f

was to produce "spirit lights.” This I tried withmatch-heads. It was successful and the

sitters were delighted.The lights and raps were all that were

produced for some dozen or

more sit

GHOSTS

tings, for the reason that I could think

of nothing more wonderful. One evening

I went to sleep in my cabinet, and uponwaking found that I was supposed bythe sitters to be entranced. It struck me

as

the proper thing to allow them to remain undeceived, which I did. The sitters took this for a sign that some newphenomena was about to occur. It didnot, however, until one evening I foundabout twenty feet o

f rope that had beenconcealed in the cabinet without myknowledge. I found it nicely coiled andtied with thread to the under side of thecane chair seat in which I sat. I had noknowlege o

f rope tying feats, but undertook to bind myself with the ropes, andthis I finally succeeded in doing. I thenessayed my first speaking under controlby exclaiming, "Look, look, look,” un

til

the sitters understood that the spiritswanted them to examine the medium'scondition.

The sitters were delighted beyondmeasure a

t finding me apparently so securely bound. The light was so dim that

it was impossible to detect anythingwrong with the knots o

r

manner of tying.

I was fearful, though, all through the examination that some of them would discover my deception, and only breathedfreely when the examination had beencompleted and I was admitted to be"most securely bound, and in a way that

it was impossible to have accomplishedhimself.'"

I realized, however, that the absoluteconfidence of

the sitters in my honestyhad as much to do with the successfultermination o

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Little did I think at this time that at

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f

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