The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-27
LIFTING SIX MEN.

For instance, half dozen of the gentle
men on the stage piled one upon another
on One-again upon two chairs that were
on the stage, and she, standing behind the
chair and touching lightly the wood of the
back Of the chair, would instantly lift the
chair and all those men from the floor
She barely touches the chair. passes her
hand and fingers along the upright posts
as a musician runs his fingers lightly over
the keys of piano or guitar to seeif it be
in tune or TO find the dominant tone or
chord in the piece he is about to play; or,
it seemed to me the most like this of any
thing, that she was seeking ''the dominant
seventh
Again, six men took billiard cue, and
standing it upright on the floor, with their
hands clasping it tightly near the top, an
other man, the heaviest and strongest per-
haps Of all on the stage, with AIRS. Abbott,
mounted to the top and sat upon the top,
the hands Of the six other holders OF thet
cue forming Kind of seat for him to sit
upon. The cue began 10 bend SIS though it
would break, when she touched it lightly
with her delicate fingers, passing them
liz lily over it as along the strings OF
guitar, when it at once Strengthened, and
clasping it in the most light and deli
cate manner, and apparently putting forth
not the least effort or strength, she lifted
the cue half foot from the floor against
all the force these six men and one on the
top could exert to keep it down.
Again, standing upon one foot on the
floor, not the force OF the strongest man or
any two men could pull or push her from
her position.
Calling little boy from the audience
she passed her hands lightly over his hands
and arms a moment, and he was firmly set
against the power of all these men as she
had been. Twisting handkerchief that
some one handed her into q kind Of ring
she and the little boy both took hold of it
with no apparent siren 6h except merely
TO hold it, and the little boy stood as i'm
movable as q mountain against all the at
tempts of one or two or moro men (as many
as could reach the child to move him from
the floor.
SHE MAKES no EFFORT.
So standing with her hands pressed go
lightly against the door castings that she
held an egg under the palm Of each hand
and did not crush it all the strength of as
many men as could reach her could not
pull her from her position. This feat she
tried many times, and sometimes placing
her hands over the hands of one of the gen
tlenen, who himself held the egg under
his hands, and one Of these gentlemen who
assisted in this feat assured me that he
felt but the slightest touch OF her hand
upon his and no pressure whatever 70 indi-
cate any effort put forth on her part.
Indeed she makes no effort. She says
she is not conscious of putting forth any
will power or aiming at any concentration
of thoughts The effort does not tire her
in the least. Again. she took the cue in
her hands, so lightly holding lit really
lying on one OF her hands rather than her
clasping itr-one, two, three and even SIX
men togasher tried TO wrcst this from off
her hands rather than in them, and they
were as powerleSs TO do this as would be a
fly lighting upon the rod. The power
would seem to be a current that in passing
through her is erressed for this application
in some way that she as little understands
as any one else. Normally she is very deli
cate, and can lfs only very light weights.
This power" she said, docs not help in
the least to Go my work about the house: l
wish it did, " for she can with it only lift
or move things that have animal life in
them.
She found herself possessed of this DOW
er when she was a child, when annoying
her father in playing about his chair. he
told her If she did not stop ne would put
her away from him. Size said it came to
her TO say to him, You can't put me-
away" lie tried to lift and carry her of,
and found himself powerleSs 10 lift the
child. An Older brother then tried TO put
this child, only years old, out the door,
and could not stir her from her standing
place on the floor. She IS conscious OF no
peculiar feeling except kind of trsmor
passing through her arms. Holding glass
lumber between her hands one may hear
a loud musical whirring aud every second
or go a chick Ike that of teIegTaphing In
conversation nothing is more appsren5
than that she is entirely sincere and SIM
pie as a Child She would like as well as
any one co know what this strange power /
is and whence it comes to her.-Cor. De |
troIt Tribune