Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1871-07-27

Ticket- - cent
To be bad at the door
All the little township was presently
a1og with excitement for while every
one possessed the greatest curiosity
with regard To the subject Of the Pro
iessor 5 proposed lecture, very few had
ever had an opportunity of witnessing
any OF the singular experiments said
To have been performed bv means of
tins wonderful science. The news now
spread through all the neighborhood,
and pa the following day, farm-.a.Ons
IN numbers came into town, Il. though
II were market day, bringing the
farmers and their families u bear the
Professor lecture.
Meanwhile Tom and Jack were still
absent, and about noon on Thursday
came Il letter to the landlord, saving
that. as the fishing was SO good they
had concluded to remain until Friday.
Great was the disappointment of Mag
gle and Susie; and, indeed they could
hardly keep from crying when they
thought of the young men missing the
intellectual treat of the evening.
The Professor and his assistant kept
their room continually, having their
meals served there. and being reported
BY the servants as buslly engaged in
writing whenever they were visible.
Evening came and the hall was rap
idly filled. until before eight o'clock it
was crowded TO its utmost capacity.
The gentleman who had been annouuc-
ell Is Mr.. Mcdonald sold the tickets
at the office, while Il Young man, hired
for the occasion, acted as door r-keepcr.
Mrs. Campbell and her two daughters
attended. of course, unde: the escort
OF Bob Rogers, the landlord, who
kindly purchased their tickets for
them. AS he left the office. with the
/ tickets in his hand, he was observed To
make peculiar noise in his fat, bull
neck-something between hoarse
laugh ana strangulation-while his
great, re-. face became purple, and
Maggie Campbell had to pat him on
the back to bring him to. He said he
had swallowed 'chaw O terbacker.
and it went down the wrong way J; but
the girls continued to regard him with
considerable suspicion Tor some time,
as man who was not to be fully
trusted, but might take it into his
head TO have tit of apoplexy AT any
moment without regard 10 time or
place.
But the entrance upon the stage Of
the professor silenced the hum of the
voices in the hail, and at once attract
ed every ones attention. The gentle
man entered at once upon his subject.
and discoursed most learnedly on the
character of animal magnetism its
causes, effects, and uses its connec-
tion with polar magnetism; modes OF
applying it in cases Of disease; the
distribution OF the fluids in man, and
through all Nature; and SO on, for
about twenty minutes, when he con-
cluded his Introductory remarks by re-
questing such Of the audience as were
willing to step upon the stage and SUBJ
nit to various experiments. which he
assured them would not in the least
annoy or injury them. His request
was followed by quite an inuudaLion of
rough farmers, and few young ladies'
of the village. Seating about dozen
of chairs in semicircle, the professor
requested them to close their eyes.
He then passed slowly from one TO an
other, laying his hand lightly on the
forehead Of each, and making passes
longitudinally down the body, and at
a few inches distance from it. He
then stepped back q couple of PAGES
and waved his hands with a slow fan.
ming motion, in the air and then, clap.
ping his hands, he said quickly and
sternly, Now you can't one Of you
open your evesP The effect was cleo
trical-all tried, and not one could dc
it; it seeming IS though their eye,