The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-04
HOW IS IT DONE?
The Startling Manifestations of a
Sixth Sight by a
SMALL PEASANT BOY.

III NoINoN WIN itSS - H1
inc Persons, Found Lost Articles
and Unravellcd Murder and Other
Mysteries in a Way That No One
So Fay Has Cccn Able to Satisfac-
tcrily Explain.
A letter from London to the New
York American says there can be no
further doubt that the marvellous
clairvoyant powers of Johann FIoet-
tum, the fourteen-year-old farm boy
whose sixth sense" has enabled him
to perform feats that have set the
whole of NORWAY, his native coun-
try, talking. -,
He has located missing articles,
explained mysterious murders. re-
veaLed the spot where the body OF a
missing child lay, and directed the
police in many searches for crlml-
mails. ,
Sir Henry Seton-Karr, the noted
traveller and hunter of big game, has
lately returned from a visit at the
home of this remarkable boy, where
he tested mis- occult gift with results
which enabled Sir Henry to endorse
all that has been claimed for it.
Sir Henry describes Johann tIoet
tum as an apparently normal and
healthy Norwegian farm lad Of the
peasant class, of good size for his
age, which is barely fourteen. A
closer inspection reveals, however, a
pair of eyes which seem to have the
habit of turning their glances inward
rather, a lifting Of the pupils until
they are nearly or quite yelled by the
upper lids.
When engaged in ordinary CONVEX
sation the lads glance is frank and MS
eyes do not appear different from
those of ordinary persons. Its when
Johann exerus mis- strange power OF
seeing" things which have happen
ed, or are happenings, elsewhere,
that this transformation IN his Or
gans of vision occurs.
Sir Henry's visit to the lad home
was at a time last Spring Wnen
J~ohsann's powers were about to be
put to a most eXacting test. Beng
owner Of an elk forest not far from
Sing-Sass, the boys native please,
Sir Henry had heard much Of the
gossip circulating about the neigh
borhood concerning Johann's feats
of clairvoyance. And he knew the
sad story of tic little girl VINO was
10 It in the woods near Aalesund two
years before, the mystery OF whose
fate was now expected to be solved
by the "sixth sense of Johann
Floettum.
This widely announced test Of the
boys powers was looked upon as d
great occasion, especially by the
peasant class. For many miles about
Sing-Sass came peasants of both sex
es, IN their quaint national costume,
full of confidence that the BOY would
tell what had become of little lost
Sophia
Johann, my boy, you used to
know little Sopia, didn't you?" quer-
led Sir Henry, 1.-THE little girl who
has been missing two years.
Eyes, sir, we used to go to the
same school," said Johann.
Try and tell us what has become
of her; tell Us where VIZ can find lit
tie SOPHIA" Sir Henry urged gently.
Johann did not appear to 60 into
the conventional trance. At first he
seemed TO be LOOKING FAR, tar away
to wards the mountains al AaleSund.
Gradually MS glance turned inward.
the pupils of MS eyes turned upward
until they were concealed by the lids.
Every now and then he passed his
hand lightly across his brow. Pres
emily his lips began to move. The
audience became absolutely silent.
At length the boy began speaking,
hesitatingly, IN low. dreamy tones.
He said he saw the little girl leav-
ing her home with the permission Of
an elder sister to 60 and pick berries.
He saw her pass her father who was
at work in a field near the house and
disappear in the mountainous woods.
He said he saw her picking berries
and she was happy and singing. Then
he said he saw her sad and she was
going in the wrong way. Then he
concluded by saying:
81 see poor, lost--little- Sophia
crying and stumbling along oy the
river. I---see her--tOot trlpped---
by a vine.--and she alls--into--the
river. | hear her screams, and---l---
see---her---carried swiftly over the
falls. Now--something seems TO-
hide her from--me.'
The peasants are powerfully stirr-
ed in their emotions. They lean tor
ward eagerly as Johann brushes his
forehead absently. Now his lips move
again, and he says, with absolute GER
tainJy in his voice:
Il seem to see little Sophia's. body
lying at the bottom OF the water
fall"
At this point Johann comes out of
his t~rance-IlHe state. 1t vas not real
ly a trance, for he remembers all the
details of what he has seen.
ia. ia, ja," says a peasant from
Aalesund. Il know that waterfall.
Come, neighbors, we will go and fad
the bOdyof little Sophia
Sir Henry Setou-karr returned to
his hunting lodge in his elk forest,
where a few days later he learned
from a message he had sent to Aaie