San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-21
A MYSTERIOUS FORCE.
REMARKABLE POWER OVER MEN
POSSESSED BY A WOMAN.
Six Strong Men Are Unable to Move Her.
She Can Resist the Combined Strength
of a Dozen PeopIe-she Is Slender and
Does Not Understand Her Gift.

A lew days since chanced to be where
that remarkable woman Mrs. Lulu Alb
bolt $50 have heard her Called didn't
notice the BILLS was exhibiting her won
derful powers. went to see her public eX-
hibitions, had ii private interview with her
and must tray say that she noaplused
me, as she did every one that saw her.
At one exhibition where | saw her there
were six or seven gentlemen on the stage
with her-gentlemen who represented the
business intelligence and acumen of the
place, a clergyman and several physicians
who represent the highest attainments and
skill in their line These were invited
there to examine, criticise and try by every
means in their power and knowledge to
find out what was the source of the re-
markable powers of this little woman.
Mrs. Abbott is a small and pretty wom-
an. Her normal weight is from ninety-five
to ninety-eight pounds. She is of delicate
complexion and of the simple ingenious
manners of a child. She is about 35 years
old, and she finds herself possessed of a
most remarkable power to overcome any
physical life or animal power that may be
brought to bear against her. She knows
nothing of what this power is. She is not
aware that she makes any effort of will
concentration of thought, certainly not of
muscular thought, to perform the wonder
full feats of what we call strength that she
performed by the dozen before audiences
made up from the best, wisest and best ed
ucated people of the place.
LIFTING SIX MEN.
For instance, half a 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 a piano or guitar to see Il 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 Mrs. Abbott,
mounted to the top and sat upon the top,
the hands of the six other holders of the
cue forming a kind of seat for him to sit
upon. The cue began to bend as though it
would break, when she touched it lightly
with her delicate fingers, passing them
li2 lily over it as along the strings of a
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 a 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 a little boy from the audience
she passed her hands lightly over his hands
and arms moment, ard he was firmly set
against the power of all these men as she
had been. Twisting a handkerchief that
some one handed her into a kind of ring
she and the little boy both took hold of it
with no apparent strength except merely
to hold it, and the little boy stood as inn
movable as mountain against all the at
tempts of one or two or more men las many
as could reach the child to move him from
the floor.
SHE MAKES NO EFFoRE
So standing with her hands pressed so
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.
tlemen, 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 to 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 tit really
lying on one of her hands rather than her
clasping it-one, two, three and even six
men together tried to wrest 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 current that in passing
through her is arrested for this application
in some way that she as little understands
as any one else Normally she is very deli
cate, and can lift only very light weights.
"This power" she said, docs not help in
the least to do my work about the house; |
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 pow
er when she was a child, when annoying
her father in playing about his chair. He !
told her if She did not stop he would put I