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Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14044, 29 April 1920, Page 6

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HOME MARKETS. [fix Elbotbio hlkqbaph—Copybmm,, Fib Fbxbb Association. (Aub. and N.Z.. Cable Assn.) LONDON, April 27. At the wool sales merinos and lilt crossbreds were unchanged. Lone crossbreds were' largely witliclrmro Fine slipes were very firm. There to some withdrawals oi : lower slipes. Ne Zealand C.M.C. realised 6s, Copper: Spot, £lO5 :1 s 8d; fonvnn £lO7 12s 6d. Electrolytic: Spot, £ll2 forward, £115; best solerted coppa £llO 10s. Lead: Spot, £4l. 10s; fornwrd, & 15s. Spelter: Spot, £49 ss; forward, fii Tin: Spot, £347 17s 6d; form £347 2s 6d. Silver: 5s 5d per oz'. The decline. in silver is duo to CI nese and Indian selling. BREAKING LIFE'S FETTERS, (By Houctini, the Handcuff King,) If 1 were to die to-morrow I could t I complain. I would pass out conte with the fulness of life and with I knowledge of experiences such as f men have had. i have performed tv known feat of magic. The, lnrg thing, -probably, was my vanishing! pliant, Jenny, weighing 10,000lbs,« used to disappear systematically wm nightly, and my smallest feat, ewallfl ing a couple of packages of needles, M bringing them out threaded. ■ a About two years ago I decided toB into motion pictures to porpetuatoa work as a magician. The next genß tion will be sceptical about the-stofl of my magic, and I want handedwß actual proofs. Even then it will WM ficult to convince the sceptical. , M A noted Scotch psychologist ■ stated the secret of my success «B the fact- that my astral bodyittjl within the shackles and handcuffs; <■ ihy .physical b'odyis not within theM building,. This'theory has beei«| vanced in all seriousness, but I cqa| credit it. I believeiin a ."> rm <M incarnation, -and I have discußSWM question of spiritualism- with sciaßß and learned men all believe i there is something bcuinaj veil- that has not jet been tP®$H but. I; do not believe m spinWjU''M practised; by so-called mediums. H not think' that spirits return. H Great scientists have been v jH| winked by those who have merely™ ed the art of magic to no g rca ™ r M «B than is practised by any gician, who makes no secret . 0l ™wJ that he is deceiving his » udI SM people are despicable, for ">ff_V| making capital out of tho hoM passions—tho love ot man rorw™| have gone before „ nn «H ■Men,..like myself. *ho .«»■ ly risking their lives, arc ' ncll "M brood upon the Great B p }° nd < "■ fondness for magic has W,"M vestigate tlie mj stones ot "'. cults. Particulnilv since * come engaged in motion M| Where I have horn dangerous feats than e\". *"' jBB thinking what the iutiire MaW- 1 What would happen it m ' £_■ suddenly extinguished '' kc f ",,s«■ Durine the scieenmg ot •■ HBJ Game,"! thought ,t one fJB had come. I ivas SOOOfr aeroplane, circling aho«' « n ' JHJ chine. I was to drop < to into the other In rowns o ' was dangling from the r °f tffo «M for the leap, when ««,£,-■ crashed together, the and we were plunging "° hJH earth—and eternity 1«\ fIH but strangely' ■""'!' passed in an instant llt "tha(MM come-i shall be R" ne T?!ltte<iH all—there is another lite- ,9B| ' be These were the in,my head, but lato i By a:miracle the ■ « nd *SwlH srhaßliedftintoblicters impact with the *«»■ lously unhurt. The tin» |k oH , ripe for me to P as Vri W»BBBJ to come. When it does i c flflß mirf, it fearlessly.