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MOQUIINDIAN MAGICIANS.
ACabinet Trick That Would Set the Pale^^face Conjurer* Diss*.
Palefacesleight of hand performers^and fakirs would do well to go west^and learn the true art from the Mo^qui Indians of the southwest in New^Mexico. A paleface is not permitted,^however, to witness these ^religious^teste^ unless he has renounced civi^^lization and become what is known^among frontiersmen as a ^squaw^tuau^^that is, a white man married^with an Indian woman.
Thisis the original cabinet trick:^The select audienoe of worshipers is^^discovered^ in the estufa (church)^aeated on the ground, lights down.^Enter into the open space several^men, who move around in a circle to^a solemn chant to a drum accompani-^nscnt. An Indian drum is a vessel^partly filled with water, with a hide^stretched over the top. The scene is^weird, and the audience is as quiet^as a spook seance. Presently there^is heard a rustlincr of pinions and
feathersand the hooting ot an owl,^a bird of ill omen to the Indian. The^audience become terrified, and fre^^quently the squaws make a hasty^exit. Then the noise becomes faint^^er and fainter still, as if the bird was^making his exit through the flies or^tule roof. Torches are brought in^by the supernumeraries and^presto,^change.
