Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-03
A Lady CHARNER.
How She Discovered Her Powers
to Charm.
THE MOST DEADLY REPTILES.
The Mystery Of the PsyChlc Power Possessed
by Some Human Beings Miss De Vores S Ad-
venture and Conquest Of VanOmOuS Snake
Wore 4 for a Necklace and Mortified Her Com
paniOns.


Wore 4 for a Necklace and Mortified Her Com
panO1S,
in this Psychic Age we do not marvel
at the wonderful charming powers Of
human beings as we dl- only a few
years ago.
A great number Of wonderful Psy-
chics are continually coming to the
front, which proves that within each
one Of us there is tremendous force to
control nature.
Many persons without any special
training develop these hidden or lat
ent powers naturally. But the best
way to attain to adeptship along these
lines is to carefully study and live
to that end,
The following account of a natural
psychic charmer is of interest to the
student of psychology and occult sci
ence:
Living on Walnut street in Nunda,
~ Y, as a domestic in the family of
Capt G.. j. Campbell, is a young girl
who is proving herself a wonderinmore
ways than one, and the neighbors,
who were at first inclined to be fright
ened and made nervous over some of
ner strange acts, now merely gaze at
her with staring eyes in perfect as
| constituent.
The girl is Miss Lottie De We're, 20
years Of age, and she came to Nunda
| from Philadelphia about a year or so
ago. Her main peculiarity rests i'm
| the fact that she possesses power to
| charm anything, from an ugly crawl
/ ing snake to a house cat, in the ami
NAL line, and she also recently dis
played power to mesmerize or charm
! human beings Of the male sex. 1t is
/ said upon good authority that a few
| months ago she was so successful in
! her experiment with one young man Of
| this village that he took her to one Of
| the Nunda ministers and asked to be
| married But the girl did not want to
| be married as she was merely expert
menting with him, and besides the
| minister told the fellow he was too
young to think Of supporting a wife
few days ago MISS De We're went
out for a walk to nearby brook, ac-
companied by others. She has raven.
black hair and piercing black eyes.
While walking along the bank Miss
De We're was playing some sweet
strains on a harmonica, when she and
her friends were suddenly confronted
by huge and ugly looking snake four
feet in length, which Strengthened up
and appeared to-be eagerly listening to
the music. As soon as the music ceas
ed the snake became ugly. Those with
Miss De We're hurriedly left the spot in
fright at the appearance Of the vicious
looking reptile, but not so Miss De
We're.
Seeing that the snake evidently en-
joyed music. she played several selec
tions, the reptile rmaining motionless
just as long as the music continued.
but when there was a pause between
selections the reptile would run its
fangs out and make a Kissing noise not
pleasant to hear
Finally Miss De We're decided that
the snake had had enough music for
one time, and putting the musical in.
strument in her pocket she fastened
her piercing eyes on the reptile. within
about foot of its eyes, not moving a
muscle for nearly ten minutes. when
the eyes Of the reptile suddenly closed
Niiss De We're then grabbed the snake
in both hands and started for home
with it thrown around her neck as a
muller retaining possession of both
ends Of the snake She overlook those
who had been with her and nearly
frightened them out of their wits with
the snake dangling around her neck.
A peculiar thing is that during the
q handling Of the snake it bit her five
8 times so that blood came, yet she ex
perienced no in results from the bites
2 which were always considered of a
. very poisonous nature. Miss De We're
E Kept the snake for some time. until II
q became quite tame, then she killed II
. Miss De We're, who is or part French
e blood, astonishes everybody with hel
e various daring deeds in the art OF
. dancing, she having a style peculiarly
D her own, yet fascinating, as she is not
a a professional and is merely a domes
g tic, gifted with unusual abilities