The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-18
GEoRG1A's ELECTRIC GIRL.


Several Hundred Pounds without Effort.
Atlanta Constitution.
Mr.. Hurst laid ordinary chair upon the
floor on its back. Lula, put your hand on it,
said he.
The young lady stopped down, put the tips of
two of her fingers to the back of the chair and
Immediately the piece of furniture began to back
around the room at lively rate, as If slid along
by some unseen power.
The chair was then stood up and Mr. Ponder
and [ asked to hold it to the floor. Ponder took
one side and took the other We put our whole
force to work to keep it still Miss Hurst placed
the palms of her hands on the back of the chair,
and it was soon flying around the room, over
towering both of us, creating a big stir and
nearly knocking us down.
Miss Hurst then took the chair and placed
both hands under the perforated bottom with
her palms uppermOst. She took no hold on it,
but simply let it rest on her hands, as servant
might have carried waiter of flowers Thus
the legs of the chair were about three feet from
the floor and the seat about four and a half
Ponder and | attempted to put it on the floor,
using all our might and strength to do so, but
the chair would not down. 1t continued to rise
and fly around in the air with the newspaper
men swinging on each side. Mr.. Hurst man
weighing nearly 200 pounds, then got up into
the chair and sat there as calmly as if he
were a boy sitting on gate-post Thus
Miss Hurst supported the combined weight of the
three. The total weight which she thus sup
porced on the palms of her hands was nearly 800
pounds, or much more than the weight of two
barrels OF -four. 1t was indeed astonishing, espe-
ciay in view of the fact that not a muscle
twitched and the slightest flush did not mantle
her cheeks She was calm and unconcerned
as if she had been twirling summer hat by its
string.
Does it not tire you9" asked
mot at ALL" she replied
DO you feel any peculiar sensations9'
None whatever"
Doesn't it strain you?"
Indeed, if this were cane-bottom chair you
WOnd 10 Sill ctr he dn1ip
canes"
what do you think of it,"
II don't know anything about it."
l took a heavy hickory walking stick and
caught it near one end Mr. j. n Brown of
Chattanooga caught beside me: Mr.. J. w. Hin
ton, of Social Circle, and Mr.. b. NJ, Cornell, of
Goshen, Ind, took the other side Each couple
faced the other We held on with both hands,
the stick firmly pressed against each mans chest.
To my left the end of the stick projected fooE.
Miss Hurst stepped up to it, raised both hands
and touched the tips Of her fingers to the end of
the stick. In moment it moved to one side.
Then to the other. then up, then down. across,
around, and the next instant that young girl by
simply touching the end Of the stick and keep
ing her hands there had four men foundering
fu11ously around the room, and several times l
was ten inches off the floor How is that2
Five men caught a chair and held it to the
floor She put her hands on it and as the men
held it securely the chair was completely shat
tered in trying to get away from them. Another
and stouter chair shared a like fate. A heavy
bedstead was run across the room twice simply
by the laying on of hands.
/ sat in chair. She touched it, and dumped
me onto the floor six feet away.
All these tricks were repeated several times,
and fully convinced me that she possessed some
remarkable power that leave for the scientists
to eXplain-if they can.
| did not have time to see her attempt to move
a bed by getting on it and simply commanding
it. as that required an hour or two more timo
than had at my disposal. Neither did she at
tempt any spirit rapping. There is no doulS o.
ono thing. and | mention it briefly for the benefit
of those who may choose to study the matter,
and that is this Whatever inanimate object she
touched appeared to be charged with force that
impelled it to move and that too most vigorous
ly, and always from her, and with an irressti-
Bile force. Her touch has no effect on animate
objects
Mr.. Hurst and his wife have grown very en-
thusastic their daughters powers and pro
pose to take her on the road if she can make
success. She has certainly created big sensa-
ton in her section of north Georgia. The PEG
Pile are talking of hardly anything beside the
wonderful Lula. The spiritualists are beginning
to flock to the scene and to write to her father,
audit may be that few more weeks will find
her a full fedged medium. A gentleman who
is neither spiritualist nor a scientist suggests
that perhaps Miss Lula's powers were developed
by the same causes that produce the rosy sun
sets, as they are contemporaneous and that they
will both take their departure together The
negroes of Cedar valley are afraid of the young
lady. and great alarm has taken possession of
many of them, who think she has power to cause
their death at will
Some local wiseacres accredit her with animal
magnetism others electricity, and still others
the "odic influence developed.