in the cabinet.  Of course it was not necessary that the medium get out of his fastenings, and the facts are that he did not.  The table was placed across the cabinet door, not to lay the instruments on, but to be very much in the way should anyone make a rush and “grab” for the materialized forms.  In case this occurred, the “spooks” above would close the light, making the room perfectly dark, and the manager would do his utmost to turn the table on end, or side, with the legs out in the room.  Before the “grabber” could get the lay of things and get past it, the spooks would have gone through the trap, closed it, pulled up the ladder, and the “grabber” would have found the medium writhing and groaning and bleeding from the mouth.  The bleeding was for effect, and was caused by sucking very hard on his teeth or gums.

The table also served a convenient purpose in the materialization and dematerialization through the floor.  You now know where the spooks came from, in this particular house, and how they got in and out.  Now let us see how they managed the materializations, and the properties used to produce them.  The trap and ladder were practically noiseless in their operations, but the music box made assurance doubly sure that the least sound from the cabinet should not he heard in the seance room.

When the box began its first air the trapdoor was opened and down the ladder came a young man clad in a suit of black tights.  He was entirely covered with black with the exception of his right arm, which was bare to a point a little more than halfway from the elbow to his shoulder.  The bare arm glowed with a luminous bluish light.

This condition of things was brought about by powdering his arm with pulverized luminous paint.  If you are not told the method of transforming the sticky paint to powder, you will not be able to do it, and will conclude the writer was romancing in this case.  The most essential thing to you will be to know where you can procure this paint.  The writer has been unable to procure it anywhere, except of Devoe & Co., of New York City.  It is put up in a package resembling six-ounce jelly glasses, and you will get six of them for five dollars.  In order to reduce it to powder, thin the contents of one of the glasses with one pint of turpentine.  When it is thoroughly cut and incorporated into the turpentine, soak strips of muslin in it and hang them out to dry.  When thoroughly dry you can shake the powder from the cloth.  In order to powder one of your arms, gather one of the cloths in your hands, and use it as a powder puff on your arm.  You will not be able to get all the paint out, but the pieces will make luminous crowns, slippers, stars, and luminous decorations for your robes.  You will be under the necessity of perfuming your robes each time they are used, for the odor of the turpentine will always remain to a greater or less degree.  To illuminate a robe or costume (the