Bellefonte, Pa., April 15, 1910.
A FEAT OF CON]JURING.
A trick always popular with the pro-
fessional conjurer is that known as
the “coffee trick,” though sowe high-
falutin title, as, for lustance, “Mar-
about Mocha.” is betier for a pro-
gram. It has the advantage, too, of
not conveying any iden of what the !
trick is to be. The trick is as suita-
ble for the drawing room as for the
stage, and anv amateur with a little |
practice may do it eaxily. Hemember,
with a little practice. for, like every-
thing in conjuring. not only a little
but sometimes a great deal of practice
is necessary if the performer desires
10 do his tricks with ease and skill
and so as to bewilder his audience,
When about to present this trick the
performer has on a table three wooden
boxes, a large goblet shaped glass jar
and two Germap siiver "shakers" or
cups, such as are used in mixing lem-
on juice, ice, ete., for a glass of lem-
onade. In owe of the boses is a
quantity of bran. in unother some
pleces of chopped up white paper and
in the third a similar lot of blue pa.
per. These, with two pieces of black
velvet, each about nine inches square,
and a paper cylinder, are all that ap-
pear to be used in the trick. Picking
up ove shaker, the performer fills it
with white paper and immediately
pours it back Into the box. Again he
dips the shaker into the box and, with
a shoveling wotion, tills it and stands
it on a table so that every one may
see it. The other shaker he fills in
the same way, but with the blue pa-
per. Finally the glass jar is filled with
bran and stood on a table by itself.
Over one shaker is spread oue of the
velvet squares and on top of it is
placed a small, round metal plate, The
other shaker is covered with the sec-
ond velvet square, but without any
metal plate.
“Remember,” says the performer,
“thiz cup ix filled with white paper
and that oue with blue.” and, pulling
the velvet plece off one cup, he pours |
from it into a small plicher about a
pint of milk—"The milk of buwan
kindness as extracted from the daily
press.” Removing the metal plate and
the velvet from the secoud cup, he
pours from it into the Hrst cup “steaw-
ing Mocha coffee;
complaint.”
of the glass jar, and, lifting it up al-
most immediately, it is found that the
bran is gone and the jar i= filled with
lump sugar.
it is a showy trick which is general-
ly followed by applause, that sweetest
of music to a performer. Here is the |
explanation
In each box of paper is a duplicate
shaker, one filled with miik. the other
with coffee. Fitted into the mouth of
each shaker is a shallow metal saucer, |
the edges flaring out so #s to rest on '
the mouth of the cup. At one point on
the edge of each saucer is soldered a
semicircle of stiff wire about the size
of a dime, so that the performer may
easily grasp it. On each saucer is
glued some bits of the paper with
which the sbaker is suppoced to be
filled. These shakers stand upright in
the box in such position that the wire
plece of the saucer will be toward the
performer when be is ready to remove
the velvet cover. As he shovels the
paper into the shaker he leaves that
one io the box, grasps the other filled |
with milk or coffee and brings it out.
some of the loose bits of paper cling-
ing round the top. These he brushes
off carelessly and in doing so, when |
necessary, adjusts the shaker so that
the wire finger piece will be in the
proper position. lp covering the shak-
ers the performer takes hold of the
velvet covers so that the thumb and
the third and fourth fingers are under
the cover, and with these he catches
hold of the projecting finger piece,
lifts up the saucers and draws them
off. dropping them instantly into a pad-
ded hox or hag fastened at the back
of the table,
As a glass jar is transparent, it fol-
lows that a inere saucer of bran ip its
mouth wonld uot do, =o resort is had
to auother device. A hollow shape of
tin, slightly tapering. that tits loosely
in the jar ix used. The larger end,
which is the top, is closed while the
bouttom is open. From the top is a tine
stiff wire passing from one side to the
other. It describes a small bow that
serves as a handle to lift out the
shape. Bran is glued over the outside
of the shape. aud some loose bran is
spread over the top. The shape is
filled with lump sugar. placed inside a
second jar und stood inside the box of
bran. When the first jar is put into
the box, ostensibly to be tilled, the per-
former exchanges it for the second.
This he takes out and shows it ap-
parently filled with bran. Ir is cov-
ered with the paper cylinder, which
goes on loosely, and in removing this
the performer slips one finger under
the wire handle, lifts out the shape,
and the sugar falls into the jar. As
the shape is taken out the performer's
hand passes carelessly over the box of
bran, into which the shape is dropped.
At almost the same moment the paper
is crumpled up and tossed iuto the au-
dience. The trick is so neatly done
so simple that he must
The coffee may be served to the au-
dlence.—8t. Nicholas.
Violence in the voice is often only
the death rattle of reason in the
throat.—Boyer.
Our life is short, but to expand that
span to vast eternity is virtue's work.
~Shakespeare.
ne grounds for |
Pleking up the paper cyl- |
inder, he drops it over the upper part
A Ussful Reminder.
An M. 1’. whe Iu nis magisterial
capacity periodically visited a private
luvatic asylum told the story of a
man of some position io the legal
world who went to see a patient who
hud occasional lapses into sanity, The
patient made a great impression on
his visitor as a well informed. beaithy
minded gentleman and was assured
that his case should be inquired into.
On leaving, the grateful patient
courteously conducted his
caller to the front door, affectionately
! pressing his hand at parting.
! “You won't forget what I've told
you,” he pleaded. with tears in his
voice.
“No,” responded the visitor, turning
round to descend the rather long flight
of steps.
“1 don’t think you will,” said the pa-
tient dreamlily, “but lest you should
| you know" -
| And, lifting up his foot, he gave the
| unsuspecting, defenseless visitor a
kick behind that sent bim spinning
down the stairway and sprawling on
the gravel.—I’earson's Weekly,
A Bird's White Feathers.
The occurrence of white feathers in
a bird's plumage is very common. It
is, of course, due to lack of coloring
matter and ix liable to appear in both
young und old birds. | have known of
several old birds to exhibit this pe-
culiarity (mostly in the wing feathers,
however), and it may be due to imper-
fect nutrition and circulation as the
bird ages. | bave also voticed it in
young birds in a number of instances.
The phenomenon thus cannot be said
to occur simply as a result of old age,
but is rather une of those slight
changes in the bird's system the
causes of which we do pot know.
There is this much more to be said.
however—when a young bird starts
out with a few white feathers they
are usually retained throughout life,
molting each time In a similar man.
ner. Old birds may exhibit this loss
of coloring at any time.—St. Nicholas
| Patrick Henry's Fee.
It is said ot Patrick Henry that dur
ing his practice of law in the Virginian
courts and when he was familiarly ad-
| dressed as “governor” a man who had
| been arrested for stealing a hog and
who was out on bail went to the gov-
| ernor to have him defend him.
| The governor said, “Did you walk
| away with that shoat?”
| “I don't like to say.”
“Out with it.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Have you got the carcass?"
“Yes, sir.”
“You go home, you wretch, cut the
| plg lengthwise in nalf and bang as
| much of it in my smokehouse as you
| keep in yours.”
At court the governor sald, “Your
| honor, this man has no more of that
| stolen shoat than | have.”
The man was cleared.—National
{ Monthly,
A Lincoln Story.
When Lincoln, a struggling lawyer,
| was doing circuit duty in Ohio he
once visited a country town where the
| general storekeeper had the reputation
of adulterating, even to the danger
| point, his cider. In the midst of a
| general condemnation of this store-
| keeper Lincoln rose one night from his
| seat by the hotel stove.
“Come on, boys," he said.
And be led a party of a half dozen
lawyers and judges to the general
store.
“Let me have a quart of cider,” he
said to the storekeeper.
“Yes, sir,” was the cordial reply.
“And which grade, sir—the ripe, at 3
| cents; the mellow, at 2, or the new, at
iam
“It doesn’t matter which grade, mis-
ter,” Lincoln drawled. *“l only want
to poison a dog.”
The Inventor of the Match.
The first match was the product of
the ingenuity of John Frederick Kow-
erer, who «arly in the nineteenth cen-
tury was imprisoned in the peniten-
tiary at Hohenasperg, in Germany.
He invented the lucifer match while
in his gloomy dungeon. The German
government forbade the manufacture
of matches on the ground of public
policy because some children playing
with them had caused a fire. Komerer
was ruined by Viennese competition
when he was released from prison and
died a pauper. Up to 1862 the Vienna
manufacturers controlled the match
business of the entire world.
A Way Out.
“1 have six doctors, and they can't
agree on what ails me. Three think
it's one thing and three think it's an-
other. What would you advise me to
do. Discharge them all?"
“No. Hire one more and give him
the deciding vote.”-Cleveland Plain
Dealer,
Time's Changes.
“In ancient days.” said the pedantic
person, “the greatest triumph at the
Olympian games was won by means
of a four horse chariot.”
“And now.” said the thoroughly in-
dignant athlete, “some of 'em are con-
tent to win with a one horse referee.”
-—Washington Star.
Better Than Wealth,
Employ your time by improving
yourself by other men's documents;
so shall yon come easily by what oth-
ers have labored hard for. Prefer
knowledge to wealth, for the one is
transitory, the other perpetual.
The Reward.
Doet’'s Wife—My husband read this
poem at a public celebration before
thousands of people. Alas, it was the
last poem he ever wrote. Publisher—1
see. Did they lynch him or shoot bim?
~Leslie's Weekly.
Got the Oil King Unconsciously to
Submit to an Interview.
Playwright Eugene Walter Is num-
bered among the newspaper wen who
obtained the “first interview with
John D. Rockefeller.” When the First
Interview With Rockefeller club is
formed Mr. Walter will be one of the
charter members.
This is bow he managed it: In the
days when he was a vewspaper re
porter in Cleveland Walter wax an
extremely youthful looking young
man. He decided to capitalize unis
puerile appearance, for it was not an |
easy task even at that time to gei |
Rockefeller to say anything. He wax
utterly “improachable,” as a colored
man once remarked,
Walter got into the Forest (lil
grounds from the rear and wuiked
about. looking at the flowers nna
shrubbery with an apparent lack of
purpose, just as a boy would.
Rockefeller finally noticed him guz
ing abstractedly at a flower bed and
went up to talk to him.
“Ab, my fine ad.” began Johu bh.
“are you foud of flowers?”
“Indeed | am, sir," replied Walter
in true McGuffey Reader style.
“Well, 1 am always glad to see a
boy who appreciates the beauties of '
nature. Would you care to walk over |
and look at the pond lilies?” i
“Ab, sir, | should enjoy that more !
|
than 1 can tell you!” !
Thus the conversational ice was bro- |
ken, and the youthful visitor was so
enthusiastic over all he saw that the '
master of Forest Hill passed him out |
platitudes for about an hour. ‘The in-
terviewer didn’t even have to ask ques.
tions,
Next morning Walter's interview
was the best thing in the paper --
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Courting a Belle. !
“Would it be any harm to deceive |
her about my age?” inquired the elder- |
Iy millionaire.
“Probably not.” :
“I'm sixty. How would it do to con. |
fess to tifty
“1 think your chances would be bet.
ter with ber it you claimed seventy-
five." — Kansas City Journal.
The Pleasanter Route to Ruin. :
“Prosperity has ruined many a man.” |
“No doubt, but if | were given any |
choice in the matter I'd rather be
ruined by prosperity than by adversi-
ty. The process is more enjoyable.” —
Chicago I'ost.
The Test of Salesmanship.
Anybody can sell goods everybody |
wants, but it tukes a real salesman to
dispose of something that everybody
ought to want.—Detroit Free Press.
Most of us are extremely wise when
it comes to knowing what other people
ought to do.
——An advertisementlin the WATCH. |
MAN always pays.
Naturaily.
Scribbler—1 am going to call my new
play “The Wicked Flee.” Wigwag-I
suppose you'll—er—try it on the dog.
—Philadeiphin Record. :
As Usual.
“Mrs. Parker is back in town.”
“Has she any servants yet?
“No. She's screaming for help.”—
Harper's Bazar.
investigation. |
“Half the world doesn't know how
the other half lives.”
“Possibly,” answered Miss Cayenne.
“But that isn't the fault of the ladies
who get together with their knitting
in our hotel.” —-Washingon Star.
uality that fears morality.
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