The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-03-19
wHAI IS III
Miss Simpson Gives Public Exhibition of Her
Mysterious Power.

Ihemysterious force possessed by Miss Ma
ME Simpson of this place, had been talked
/ Of SO much in order to crafty the curious.
she was induced to give her FIRST public exhi-
/ bItion on last Thursday night at Nichols
Hall. Notwithstanding the threatening dark
clouds and vivid lightning omnous Of
coming storm, large crowd greeted her.
After few preliminary remarks by Col
| Frank Irwin, the chair test was first intro
duced. Col. a. S. Clay atIectionatey en-
braced the chair, by pressing it to his breast,
4 but when Miss Simpson placed the palms Of
her hands on the chair, it began to writhe
and squirm, and Col Clay found himself
dancing double shuttle, Virginia reel
and two or three watzes thrown in for good
measure. The perspration rolled off freely
and the audience laughed Col Clay has
the true grit in him however. and he tack
Ied that chair several times before he sur
rendered Several othe, gentlemen tried
| the same chair test, but.wth no better result
at resistance As many gentlemen as could
get around the chair attempted to press ii to
| the floor but their combined strength failed
to do so. Four abe-boded men seated
| themselves in a chair, and her hands placed
alongside the chair tumbed them out A
! splendid test of her strength was made when
| four men tried to hold the end OF the stick on
the floor, but when She stepped up and placed
her hands on the stick ii raised up at least
| six inches in obedience to her touch An
| other remarkable manifestation of her power
was made when she stood on one foot hold
ing stick in horizontal position, and the
combined strength of Messrs W. p. Steph-
ems, A. S Clay, Joe Alexander and W. P.
| McCIatchy failed to push her off her bal
ance. The success with which she perform
ed these teats carried the house by storm.
| applause after applause greeting her
After going through several such efforts
for about one hour, Miss Simpson became
somewhat fatigued and did not retain her
| selfcOnfdence when confronted by a drum
mer, who was over six feet high and "a Giant
in frame and weight Whether it was the
| proyerbial check drummers are noted for
carrying around with them, that abashed
Miss Simpson, and, like Sampson, shorn her
Of her strength, we cannot opine; bur he
succeeded in getting her off her balance
when standing on one foot, which four men
failed to do few minutes previous
Taking everything into consideration
Miss Simpson stood the trying ordeal of
first appearance remarkably well
What the force is we cannot explain If
il be physical force, then for one SO young
and fragile, she certainly must be Her
cules in disguise to successfully resist four
or five strong men in the various tests made.
| If the human body can be converted into
a battery to generate electricity, then she
| certainly seems to be well charged 1t it be
possible for disembodied spirits to iniuse
| their supernatural powers through the fbres,
| nerves and muscles of the living, then this
rosy-cheeked girl must be the medium Of
some of the most robust spirits that ever en-
tered spirit land. Then if it be none of
these, but is magnetism, we can perceive of
the pausibiity Of the solution, for we have
known the magnetism Of pretty girl
sparkling eyes and charming smiles to draw
a Marietta young man as much us twenty
miles once every week, which throws into
shade stick and chair lifting and such mag
netism is irresistible, and you may depend
upon it.
However, We do not youch for this being
a correct solution OF the problem But we
congratulate Miss Simpson on the success
Of her power, be il what it may.
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