Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-03
A WONDERFUL POWER.
Curious Manifestations Of a Georg' a
Girl.
\ Reporters Account of Her Perform
anCeS.

0eVeTdl Georgia papers having recentl
published accounts Of the alleged strang
powers possessed by Miss Lula Hurst, cir
lvlng with her parents near Cedartown, Ga
the Atlanta Constitution sent one Of its staff
70 investigate the matter The Constitutio,
representative saw the young lady at hel
home, and sent to his paper the following ex
traordlnary account Of his visit:
Lula Hurst is one Of the most singular
looking girls ever saw
che has the strangest look in her darE
Drown eyes that i ever encountered II
needed no recO lection of her mysterous
power to completely awe me whenever those
nnfathomahle orbs threw their weird fires
into mine
In fact, think lost five pounds Of flesh
everytime caught that girl looking at me.
The neighbors had told me she was an I'M
sophisticated country girl.
| couldn't see it.
Away around in the corners Of her ewes /
couid see lurking just the strangest expires
sion ever saw
Her father told me she always took delight
in mvstifying folks Nv opinion is that bnr
father doesn't understand her any more than
the alleged scientists understand the rose
tinted sunsets at West End
Freeman, of the Cedartown Adre,t;so,.
and Ponder, of the Rome Courier have hntb
staked their sacred honor on Iulu Hurst,s
beauty 1t takes rather gallant man to
make up such a verdict She is fiftean vaaro
old, unu ually large for her age, and her
wrists are as big al those Of a poo1-si7ed man
Instead Of a handsome and willowy fieure
found that she was inclined to be somewhat
round sh0uldered and her frame seemed to h
remarkable more for its welldeveloped mus
cles than for any statue-l like beauties IN
stead OF deicately -chiseled features and n
sAln Ike alahaster, as the enthusi astic ore
had told me she possessed, found high cheeL
pones and face with considerable amount
M color N it. Her nut brown hair stiff ana
lfuly, hung loosely from her head, its wild
! ! edom checked only by blue ribbon bow
fastened in some way on the top Of her heal
Tier hair reached slightly below her shou' |
dets, and heightened the awe-inspiring effe I |
2. her eyes aud high cheek bones She was /
dressed plainly to a remarkab 10 degree-and. |
nldeed she seems to be regardless Of her per- |
sonar appearance. She is five feet three |
inches in height
This is what Miss Lula told me about the |
beginning Of the mystery:
oIe night about two months ago | was
sleeping with my mother in nv room Wa Il
had retired about nine, and were lust pet
ting on 70 sleep when suddenly the bed Set
up q cracking and popping the ike IF
WHICH had never heard before. The cracI-
Ing was in all parts of the bed-all oyer Il
MY mother scolded me for making i nosa
but put was innocent. | knew nothing Of #
ne M noise, however, ceased, and we went to
hat was the next manifestation d,
The next night | was sleeping in the same
pel psi wllh my cousin, Miss Wimberly. when
The same noises We're repeated with even
greater force. My cousin called my mother
1nlo a1l1 ms room, and we took the bed-clothes
ana bedding off the bed We ave .-s:..~l li.--r
carefully, and found nothing the matter as
lar as we could see, although we noticed that
tne pieces that took off continued to crack
as was handling them. Ny mother said
tHe noises were caused by electricity but /,
q course. knew nothing of that. 1mmeli-
ately my father and the family all decided
that some odd powers were at work in me-
Mother sad, Lula, put your hands on this
chair. did 80, and the chair began to move
around. IL amused the little children, and I
kept i up for half an hour. NV father
LeHougll , y vas loke we were playing on
hlm, AM took hold OF the char, but he could
hoi mold II down although / simply had the
weight ot my fingers on it. Nv father then
heAan 70 experiment, and soon decided that
there was no limit to it, as five men could not
hoa chalr upon which simply laid my
hani Finally the forcc became SO great
that my father told my mother never FL let
me experiment when ha was not there. as the
furniture was liable to move round at such 4 |
rate aS to DO possibly great damage
lt was at Rome that | saw Miss Iulu a |
useless trip TO Cedartown made me a day late |
IN seeing her, but | turned up AT her hoteI /
at hGme today at noon, and in company /
Win Brother Ponder of the C0u,Je3. had 4
a private seance for my own benefit She
slxes an entertainment at Rome toni rht.
hele was no deception in what she did
LOT me- | watched her with my eagle eve.
Her father and mother and Mr. Ponder
ana myself We're in the room at the time
with the young lady
MT Hurst laid an ordinary chair upon
the floor on its back. "Lulu. YOU but your
hand on it, said he
ne young lady stopped down, put the tips
oT Two Of her fingers to the back of the
chair and Immediately the piece of furni
ture began to back around the room ~
Lively rate as if slid along by some unseen
power.
The chair was then stood III and MI
Ponder and | were asked to hold If IN tha
noor. Ionder took one side and took the
other we put our whole force to work to
Keep it still Miss Hurst placed the palms
p her hands on the back of the chair. and !
i was soon flying around the room. over !
powerlng Doth OF us, creating big stir ani ]
nearly knocking us down.
bliss hurst then took the chair and placed /
ooth hands unier the perforated bottom with !,
ler oaims uppermost. She took no hold On !,
Y but SIMPLY let it rest on her hands as a
ervant might Lave carried a waiter of fioyy
rs Thus the legs of the chair were abont
hree feet from the floor and the seat about
our and half. Ponder and attempte1 ~
lut " on the hoor, using all our might and
trength to do 50, bnt the chair would hot
own. It continued to rise and fly around in y
ne ar with the newspaper men swiaa4nsr on y
: each side. Mr.. Hurst, a man weighing b
ear two hundred pounds, then got up into the a.
half and sat there as calmly as if he were u
oy sitting on gate post. Thus Miss Hurst
Imported the combined weight Of the three.
he total weight which she thus Supported On in
ne palms Of her hands was nearly five hun l.
rel pounds, or much more than the weight di
| two barrels of -four 1t was indeed aston pa
hing, especially in view of the fact that not CT
muscle twltchel and the slightest flush did sa
ot mantle her cheeks She was as calm ana bu
nconcerned as if she had been twirling a at
lmmer hat by a string pa
does it not tire YOU asked. hu
I" Not al all she replied de
!. 70 you feel any. peculiar sensationsr' DO
None whatever leE
I" Doesn't it strain youT' fry
F" Indeed, if this were cane bottom chair III
~ would not see the slightest strain on tha i'm
'licate canes ter
!" hat do you think about ity' of
Il don't know a ything about itr pa
1 took heavy hickory walking-stick. and Cu
ught it near one end. Mr.. j. NJ Brown 0f Gus
iattanooea, caught beside me Mr. i w too
nton, Of Social Circle, and Mr.. B. NJ. Cor. lou
u, Of Goshen, Ind, took the other side dea
IN coupe laced the other We held on with u %
IA hands, the stick firmly pressed agrinst s' tne
a AA1Ah sAtSfL 40 IIlN i6II the en- OF the
ok projected foot Miss Hurst stenned tne
to il, raised her hands. and touched the O. q
$ Of her fingers to the end of the stick IN Ut
moment it moved to one side Then to the sl1e
Ter, then up, then down, across, around aol aol
! The next instant that young girl by ~ ~
.s,inp her hands thara haJ f.u.. auu in-li
Indering furiously around the room and wa, war
eral times was ten inches OF the fioor I'M I'M
W is that Ia =
I've men caught a chair and held il to the
u. She put her hands on it, and as the "
q held II securely, the chair was com I'VE
ely shattered In trying to get away from seve
N Another and stouter chair shared one
fate. A heavy bedstead was male To VI
acrc-s the room twice simply by the lay nine nln
on of bands nfty
sat in O chair. She touched il. and ana
nped me on the floor six feet away.
II these tricks were repeated several times ~
u 49,. - " o LnaL sne possessed drop
i ,,t,s go Po"eF .nat leave Tor the hibii
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- A-os - m 'anic 70 sse her attempt TO icen