The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-04

card that has been hidden away, and
reads its face, without even putting her
hands on it; finds Il pin that has been
carefully secreted reads the number of a
bank note.
This new mind reader is a very slender
young person, not at all handsome, but
gifted with a pair of great, dark, liquid
eyes that almost transform her severely
plain face She looks ascetic, and speaks
with a peculiar far-away intonatlon, as II
she did not see the people in front OF her
even when the cloth which she wears be-
fore her eyes so much Is removed. Her
arms. bare to the elbows, are so delicate
that they seem almost transparent, and
her long, white hands are apparently a
mass of tender nerves. They move in
cessantly i'll a slow, rhythmic, graceful
manner and seem to be mediums through
which she first feels the thought-waves
that come from the people in the room.
The performance last night was ar
ranged in the shape Of programme con
tanning six numbers. In her peculiar
voice She first explained to the people
who had been summoned to meet her her
| method of thought transfer" as she
called it, without personal contact.
If some lady or gentlemen will hide q
pin somewhere after | withdraw, will
return and lind it" she said.
In company with two of the spectators
she left the room, and at given signal
| she returned blindfolded. The pin had
been hidden in the underside of q mantel
lambrcquin by newspaper man. Miss
Lancaster gently waved her hands In the
air, passed in front of the people seated
on either side of the room, and with
slight hesitation, she went directly to the
mantel Here she lowered for some time
as if in doubt. but finally she pulled out
the pin amid general applause.
Miss Lancaster withdrew again under
proper escort, and the company selected
a lady and gentleman to whom the mind
reader was to present bouquets of flowers
which had been prepared. A. II. Hum
mel, the lawyer. made the selection. fix
ing on Mrs Cyrus Edison as the recipient
OF bunch of pinks and on a reporter as
the recipient of a white rose. Miss Ian
caster came in blindfolded as before,
picked the pinks from the table, and,
after walking half way round the room
once, she retraced her steps and, after
gently touching Mrs Edson's head, she
presented the flowers to her. The white
| rose was handed to the reporter chosen
with even greater rapidity. The young
woman bowed as every one applauded,
and, removing the cloth from her eyes,
! she said:
CHOW l will find stolen jewelry. If
| some lady or gentleman will take piece of
I n
| find it and restore it to the owner"
! DR.. Edison was selected after Miss
! Lancaster had retired. He took an emer-
| aid ring from the finger of DR.. @. w.
! Weld, and hid it in the plush Of settee
! in the room Within few minutes after
! her temperance Miss Lancaster had
| found the ring.
Then a peculiar thing occurred. DR.
! Weld had unconsciously changed seats
with lady who sat beside him. No one
! in the room had noticed this, but the
mind-reader was evidently influenced.
| After some hesitation, and cropping
| around, she finally placed the ring on the
! finger Of the lady. There was murmur
! Of dissent which showed the mind-reader
| that she had made a mistake. Again she
! began her cropping, gently swaying to and
/ fro and feeling the air necessarily. She
came back to the lady and placed the
! ring on her finger again, then drew it off
| again. and then, suddenly taking hold Of
DIR. Weld she slipped the ring on his
| finger.
One of the reporters took the ace of
| spades out of a pack of cards and hid it in
| the pocket of another reporter Miss
| Lancaster returned blmdfolded, deter
mined where the card was, and then,
! without taking it out of the reporters
/ pocket, she said slowly: ut is the ace of
! spades.
She repeated this trick twice. She also
! read the number Of a bank note which
was held by Police Capt O'Connor
without touching the captain or the note.
Then she picked out blindfolded one of
nine knives that had been used in the
commission of mock murder during her
| absence fro1n the room, selected the
| murderer from the audience, picked out
| the murdered man, who was Francis st.
George Howe, the railroad contractor,
and illustrated exactly the manner in
which the killing had been done, by bend
ing Mr.. Howe's head back and drawing
the knife across his throat.