Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — Why She Trick Failed. [ARTICLE]

Why She Trick Failed.

A conjurer was exhibiting in Nashville. and prepared in the usual way for the well-known trick of passing a marked coin into the center of an uncut orange. He found an intelligent urchin, and promised to pass him into the show provided he agreed to come on the stage at a given signal. Of course the urchin assented. The boy was provided with a marked dollar, and when the curtain rose be was in the front row. The professor proceeded to borrow a dollar in the audience, marked it similarly to the one in the urchin’s pocket, and. after some flourishes, passed it into the orange, from which he extracted it. •“Now," be said. “I’m going to ask some member of the audience to step on the stage, and then I'll pass the dollar into his pocket without going near him." The youngster stepped up; the conjurer made the usual flourishes. “Now, my boy." he said, “put your hand tn your right-hand trousers pocket and give me the dollar." The boy looked sheepish, but he dived his fist down. Then, to the horror of Herta, be produced a handful of silver and said: “I've only got ninety cents of it left, air."—Saturday Evening Post.