Telegram-herald., 1890-07-17
WHO CAN EXPLAIN?
4 Woman WITH Powers Before
Unknown IN History.
CRlyITlIIOs wHOLLY IGNORED.
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AT Powers Opera House last evening,
occurred Tue public exhibition OF tue
wonderful powers OF woman whose
Importance can not be exaggerated
The reporter 0f the TELE6EAN-iEkALD
Was Al eyewitness OF the marvellous
performances Of Mrs. X. \. Abbott, OF
Ml!.edgey Georgia, and here records
only what ne san.
Mrs. Abbott Is frail little woman, %
years OF age, aud weighs ninesy-elgnt
pounds. She Is without distinguishing
characteristics Of any sort, except IN
the possession of force before unknown
10 man. Neither the history OF the
past, nor tie science Of the present, has
anything te say of the existence OF a
power which has been defined by one
IN etaphyslcal authority as the power
10 suspend at wall the operation OF
gravity. Yet Mrs. Abbott exercised tins
power publicly before crowd IA Pow
ers' Opera House, and privately before
y TELEGRAM-HERALD reporter IN the
dlning room or the Clarendon Hotel.
IL seems impossible that there could
have been legerdemaln or trickery
about these deeds OF Mrs. Abbott, but
they are rather ocular, tactuai demon
stratlons that there are more forces
resident IN the human frame than either
our senses or our philosophy takes ac-
count OF. Mrs. Aobott's gift consists
IN power 10 hit, without effort, ponder
Gus objects which the muscular power
OF a giant could not lift. The lady ex-
hlbited her power IN many different
ways.
On the stage, last eveng, were the fol-
lowing gentlemen: l.. Is. Stanton, c.
c. Howell, DR.. W. II. Wood, III. +.
Bursch, L. l.. Cafiisch, OF Buffalo, Major
Tabor and Chancellor White. The
first test was 10 lift from the floor one
or these gentlemen, seated in ms chair,
while her own hands barely touched the
char. Then she lifted two at Il time;
then three; then four; then SIX. The
most ponderous test was as follows:
Seated IN two chairs, side by side, were
seated two of the above named gentle
men. Astride the legs of each
OF these, and facing them were l.. b.
Stanton and Chancellor White. Then
lying crosswise and top OF these were
two other gentlemen. Placing her
open palms on the outer edges of the
two chairs, Mrs. Abbott lifted clear
from the floor this elephantine aggre-
cation without particle of muscular
effort of her own. To prove that her
own hands did not press the objects into
which she threw this unknown force,
she repeatedly placed hen eggs between
70 of
She lifted from the floor four men AT
one time with an egg lying on each
palm.
Standing on the heel of one foot,
four Of these men, pushing together,
could not dlsplace her from her posi-
ton. She varied her demonstration of
her powers in many ways that ought 10
have been satisfactory.
But TO make assurance doubly sure,
the reporter followed the lady to her
hotel, where she performed the same
deeds under circumstances that rem
dered deception impossible.
4 strange feature of Mrs. Abbotts
gifts is that she herself has no theory
TO account for them. She has possessed
them from early infancy. Unlike all
other persons possessing abnormal ner-
vouS temperaments, Mrs. Abbott not
only is not exhausted by the exertion OF
| her power, but she is strengthened by It,
| Before she went to the opera house last
| evening, she was almost too Ill to &c
out; but the moment she got to work,
her strength revived, and when 1t came
| to the after private exhibition for the
reporters benefit, she did it with great
avldlty and enjoyment. Many attempt:
have been made TO give scientific ex
planatians of these phenomena, and al
are quite unsatisfactory.
Another exhibition of this remarkable
woman will be gwen at Powers thi;
evening.