Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-04-13
GIRLS PSYCHIC FEATs
Peculiar Power of a Sioux CITY
(1a.) Student.


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Do He Bidding With Ease-Discov-
cry Of Her Power Came as Result
OF Proficiency In School Studies.
Anna Christie Miller, a six~teen-year-
olo girl of Sioux City, Ia, attending the
pubic schools, has within a month or
30 discovered that she has exceptional
psychic ability, says a Sioux City dis
patch.
In addition to describing articles held
before her when she is blindfolded, tell
ing the amount Of a handful Of coins
which no n else In the room knew,
but which was later verified, acquiring
because of her peculiar mental Qualif-
cations 100 per cent in all her studies
n thus earning rapid promotion, this
remarkable young girl can make a ia
Die dance a Jig, move acros a room
and fall into her lap, send it the oppo-
site direction In the lap Of another per
son on the opposite side Of the room,
make it stand on one leg, move it by
b mere touch of her fingers while a
man sits upon it and do other feats
that have amazed every one.
Miss Miller is a pupil at the Arm
strong school in Sioux City. She went
there from Grant Center, Ia, where
her father is section foreman Of a rail-
way, and obtained employment in the
boarding house of Mrs. Ella Mahaney.
At this establishment she washes, dish
es and does other work to pay for her
board and lodging while she attends
school. Her ambition was to become a
teacher in the public schools, and her
aim in going to Sioux City was to fit
herself for this avocation. Now, how
ever, Miss Miller is imbued with an
other idea. She has discovered that
she possesses ability along the lines
followed by Anna Eva Fay, the Geor-
gia magnet, and others who have DEM
onstrated psychic power.
The girl has been aware Of her pc
culiar powers not much more than a
month. Knowing that she possessed
extraordinary faculties, but not recog-
nizing them as such, she needed an a c
ddent to discover them.
The discovery came as the result Of
her proficiency in her studies. At ev-
cry recitation and in every exam1na-
ton her markings were 100. Her teach
ers searched her papers In vain for an
opportunity to give her a lower mark
ing. When they failed to find any flaw
in her work they decided that she was
%"cribbing." They went to the extent
Of accusing her Of the offense. They
could find no other explanation of the
perfection Of her W The accu-
sation was met by panied surprise on
the part Of the girl. She had been hon.
est, and she resented the i%mputation of
her teachers.
II can do the work Of the high
school as well as Of the sixth grade"
she said. cit is all plain before me
when you give the problems, just as II
I read it in a book"
The teachers did not yet understand.
They planned a test. Problems were
given her belonging to a grade far ad-
vanced over the one to which she had
qualified on entering the school. She
did them accurately. Her ability as
tonished the teachers, and her fame be-
gan to spread.
At the boarding house where she
works while attending school her mis-
tress, Mrs. Mahaney, dressed to go out
one day. Her side combs were missing,
and she failed to find them after a long
search. Although Anna did not have
general access to the room of her mis-
tress, Mrs. Mahaney inquired of the
girl if she had seen the side combs.
Anna replied that she had not. But
maybe I can help you find them," she
added.
Thereupon she went directly to the
dresser in Mrs. Mahaney's room, and
from behind that article Of furniture,
where the ornaments had fallen, she
recovered and restored them to Mrs.
Mahaney.
From that time on Annals gifts have
afforded amusement and wonder to
Mrs. Mahaney's boarders. While the
boarders were holding an informal
levee in the parlor a few nights ago
Anna was requested to undertake ex-
periments in mind reading. A picture
was placed before her while she sat
blindfolded. She described it accu-
rately. Other experiments were at
tempted, and in all she proved success
full.
Personally Miss Miller is Of prepos-
sessing appearance. Although young,
she is we'll developed and has a pleas
ant face and figure. Her mentality,
aside from her peculiar gift, may not
be said to be above the average. Pre-
v1ous environment served to put her
behind the average school child of her
age, she being in the sixth grade when
her exceptional ability was first dis
covered, and her scholastic achieve
ments were, If anything, below the
average. But she is making rapid ad-
vances, and such is her power to under
stand complex problems and her ability
to read the minds of her teachers that
she is fast moving ahead.
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