San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-07
NAMES HUMAN MAGNET.
His Finger Tips Too Strong for the
Heavy Heights Who Visited
Him.

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Auburn Gazette.
Perhaps it Is not generally known,
but in the City of Lewiston lives
man who is possessed of q magnetic
or some kind of wonderful power
which Is truly miraculous. Oscar F.
Whitman, the man in question, is SO
years old and lives with his wife and
little daughter in cozy house at IS
College street. A Gazette reporter
called on Mr.. Whitman and received
cordial reception. Mr.. Whitman is
q man about the average height,
with q pair Of broad shoulders and
deep chest. He is In every way an
athletic and healthy appearing speci-
men of humanity, and his face;
though at times it appears stern, is
In itself picture of benevolence and
kindness.
After brief conversat on the party
adjourned to the kitchen and Mr..
Whitman proceeded to give an ex-
hibition of his power.
Seating himself at the head of
large table in the middle OF the room
Mr.. Whitman held his hands out at
an angle of about forty-five degrees.
In q short time q convulsive express
ion seemed to creep over his face,
and placing his finger tips ON the
table he raised 1t up and held it in
the air as if 1t was nothing but
sheet of paper. The reporter, with
Mr.. Whitman's consent, then took
seat at the opposite end of the table
and tried to hold it, but the magic
finger tips were too much and he
was pulled over, chair and all Now,
Mr. Bradbury prides himself on being
a very strong man, so with smile
on his face he changed his seat for
the one at the end of the table.
Grasping the table legs firmly he
braced his feet and the look that
stole over his face plainly said:
"Now, friends, spirits or whatever
you are, I've got you" He did not
have them, though, and the 2l5
pounds of human flesh, chair and
table followed the dictatiOn of the
finger tips over the room in man.
ner which made every one else
laugh.
Mr.. Linscott during these proceed
Jugs had been rubbing up his mus
cles and preparing for grip with the
supernatural. He took q seat, calmly
got q good hold and announced that
he was ready. He was ready, too, for
his muscles stood out like whipcord,
but still he was not Gin 1t" and, like
the others, yielded to the inevitable,
Messrs Tarr and Wood concluded it
was no use to try it, and so this part
of the proceedings came to an end.
Now some think that Mr.. Whitman
is q walking electric plant, but such
is not the case, for he placed q pane
or glass on the table, and placing his
fingers on ii, lifted it just as if the
nou-cCnductor was not there.
Mr.. Whitman does not claim to be
q spiritualist or an electrician. When
hs wants to use his latent power he
holds his hands out as stated above,
at an angle of forty-five degrees. and
the current starts from his shoulders
and runs to his finger tips, and when
he is done using it he dips his fingers
In cold water, sprinkles few drops on
his forehead, and, holding both
hands in the air, allows it to run
back toits receptacle in his shout
ders. 1T seems, )" said Mr.. Whitman,
las If there was hollow in my bones
through which this power Is trans
mitted."
This power was noticed in MIR.
Whitman when he was small boy.
Sometimes, when playing with the
other children, he would place his
fingers OH a chair and, for his amuse-
ment, pull the other children around
the room hanging to it. Mr.. Whit.
man grew up the same as other boys,
and being of rather reserved dis
position said little about his powers.
He has been working, and is now
employed as a cutter with the firm of
GAY, Woodman & Co. although lately