The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-06-12
QhrB.rmurrat-s S.
THIS GIRL A LIVING MI
LOCATES GOLD AND Suy
700 FEET IN TIE EARTH ''
Chicago Inter Ocean.

cyccnt ,h,, "'' VI LOurds
.Accpl 'hat the mysterious ppv'.
TINS case Is vested, not in '"u
working figure, but in the a %''' =.
blood of an ls-ycar-old rirl ,as a'
this power produces wealth ~" 'aa
health. "''''u Instead
In other words, if reports fro,
parcnlly reliable sources can
llcved' either a most miraculon y p
lncomprehcnsible power is noss.' 'a
by this young girl, IA power to di,.s'
bodies OF any precious metal ~"
200 feet of the surface of tho . sa.''
ana TO mark out with nearly m',,
ma'lcal %exactness the track Of ,'
o~IsIbearing vein, or a hoax If Nv.
IL" '"@, ;nn rI has been dispIayr
On thr majority Of old miners Of ~.
region, and the fake thu, "'
ccive an old lead miner into cred",,',
must be very effective and skil,na'
planned piece of work.
Clayton county is one Of hal, /
dozen Iowa counties that, so,nn :" Y
90 years ago, were stricken with NJ
curse of lead mining. The enide.I'
has pretty well burned itself on, i.
this time, but its yirulencc is won :.
tested by the thousands of pocbm,,,'
covering the once smooth Surface !,
hill and valley and the general in,,
iidrd and dcbilitalcd expression yjv,,
to the whole country by great nilo, /,
yellow clay and gravel. Lend !,
mineral" as it is universally c,l,,,
through this country, has been rO,,I
in considerable quantities, and with
III the memory of the present genoa.
ton rich enough ore bodies have hO.,
discovered to satisfy the moderate Al
sircS of an Iowa farmer.
1t was in this locality two or ,hra
years ago that either Il maryelops and
unknown physic power or a caloss,l
fake was developed through Mis-,
Mary Schiller, Il girl about IS vc,r
old, and born and bred in Clnlm
county. 1t was at about that Tim.
that her seeming ability to %"localer
mineral by Il method akin to '.dmu,
S ny was first noticed. Now 'dop.
sing is something that that no miner
doubts any more than he doubts the
existence OF the big lead" Wlatil
Is he docs not pretend to say, and
''douSing" conveys to him a more OK
act idea OF the method than Of under
lying pscyhic facts or theories.
In nutshell, his idea is this: Ger
tain individuals are born with tht
power Of locating" mineral or waite
in crevices by means of a forkN
stick. This fortunate individual
when the spell Is on him, can pick NJ
a dry forked stick and locate a creyju
down to fifty or sixty feet in depth
The operator takes IA dry forkcd sticI
ana grasps an end firmly in each hand
leaving the fork free to vIbrate. Oh
passing over the creyicc the stick will
whip or vibratc rapidly and viii
continue to do SO until the crevice /
passed. Mineral is all through TIL
lead country found in crcviccs and til
service OF a tlrst-clasS ''douscr," d
recognized integrity, is always in de
mand.
The family of Miss Scluler has fU
years borne the rcputi0n Of possesslnl
this power t0a marked degree, but al
their abilities, il rolled into one
could not compare with what is cred
tied to this, the latest pOssessOT
They have only been able to l@cal
crcviccS, like all other ''d0users," AM
the crcvices contained mineral, Mar
Schiller claims to locate not crcylcC'
but ore bodies. Incredible and i'm
possible as this seems, experiment
seem to bear out her statement, and
wager OF some hundred dollars Ina
she can point out the location oil an
considerable amount of hidden metz
fis rs yet untaken.
Miss Schuler's father rarely permit
her to show her abilities, but som
weeks ,go, in the presence OF a l'
visitors, she successfully perlOrmc
the following tests: A sack OF ~
silver dollars was drawn from w
county bank by the visitors ana IN
coin was laid in the shape of a trlaO
gle on the ground floor Of the nous
and covered with planks. Miss DIV
Ter was taken up to the floor aoO,
and asked to locate the metal. 10 III
teen minutes a triangle was cllaiAo
out on the bare wood floor, under W
directions. which was found to corn
spond exactly with the space Occup''
by the buried ore.
A quantity of metal was then 0u
den under threcOr four of a numoc'U
packing boxes, arranged tn form
platform, and she successfully plcSe
out a the box every time.
This marvellous power, she cl'' os
is not confined to metals alone W
coal and other n0n-metalllc proou''
are also easy to locate. and a rep"'"
this reached the oil fields OF Olllo '"'
u special agent was sent out w."
yestigatc it. lie reported to thc ~" ~,
pany that IL would pay them lo," Nv,
nisht travelling expenses Tor Ms
| SchIfor tn Ohio in order tnae u w"
thorough test be made.
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