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Newspaper Page TextUIHclal (Jreran or IVebil.r County. nUDAY. APHIL 3. ’89. LULL’ IIURST. Her W»dtr>EipUlo«l. Mb. Editor: Laot Friday nigbt week Miss Lulu Hurst exhibited in the Opera House. A number of gentlemen, I among them, were in- vited on tbe stage; I complied with the request, tbe more readily be cause my wife bad specially re quested that I should do so if called upon and learn all I couid about her strange power. Or. llyals bad told us that be and tbe other Pro fessors of Mercer University bad witnessed her feats and that they were really wonderful. When Miss Lulu bustled me | done; mind, be is to bold tbe cbalr about tbe stage much to the amuse- | and himself stilt. Have you got marvellous Georgia Wonder, her innocent rural father, and tbe big end of the show, Mr. , who acts as ring master. Suppose we ought to handle tbe subject in a more scientific way. but it is too absurd. We know that tbere are thousands who believe, as tbe Tribune 6sys, that Miss Lulu Hurst succeeded in proving to her audience that the number of things the world cannot understand is increasing quite as rapidly as the area ot its scientific knowledge. We have had no con versation with any one who ever tried Miss Lulu's odic force, but have proved tbe whole proceedings by reasoning and experiment, just as we are going to prove it to you If, as we asked before, you did see Miss Hurst on tbe above date, please step this way to this part of tbe room wlisie the green carpet is drawn tightly, as the foothold is not so good tor tbe man from tbe audience; then be will be somewhat nervous anyhow, ns the perform ance is a novel one to even an old stager. Now let your assistant bold tbe ebair just as you saw it ment of the audience, I too, in common with the public, lelt that her power was wonderful. While on the stage Mr. Parker Invited my attention to the position of her right hand when she lifted Maj. Hudson, it indicated physical force on her part, and yet not enough to have lifted so much avoirdupois. When I left the hall that nigbt the power exercised by Miss Lulu seemed mystic, and yet I bad come to question whether there was not deception on her part. The next day I commenced testing tbe sev eral feats which she performed Soon I ascertained that the lever age which she had on my person in the use of both tbe umbrella and chair enabled her to whirl me about •n the stage and worry me no little. Mr. Clay and I readily discovered the secret of ber resisting pressure on one foot. When Messrs. Clay and Bagley were exerting them selves to press tbe billiard cue to the stage floor I noticed that tbe cue rested in tbe palm of her band while the back of ber hand rested on ber knee. The secret slight by which she kept the chair from the floor against tbe pressure of many strong men puzzled me. I felt inclined to expose her tricks, but this being a mystery I hesitated. In the mean time 1 was called to Lumpkin early last week and while there met Col. Lowe, of Buena Vista, who bad seen her exhibit tbe nigbt before her performance at Americus. I was endeavoring to explain some ot her feats to him and some other gentlemen and while doing so it occurred to me, for tbe first lime, that Miss Lulu could easily prevent one side of the chair from being pressed to the floor by holding the rim of the ebair bottom in the palms of her right band while the back ot the wrist of the same hand rested on her knee, the left bund at the same time bolding as a lever one of the tall posts of a chair, which,was about the position of ber hands. It will bo remembered, too, that tbe manager admitted that the chair could be forced to tbe floor in spite of Miss Lulu, it forced sidewise. Returning from Lumpkin last Saturday morning, Dr. Brooks handed me an expose of Miss Lulu’s performances by a Chicago editor, which be bad clipped from * New York paper last week, which I now band you with tbe request that you publish it with this com munication. It is evident to my mind that Miss Lulu is a fraud, almost equal to tbe Davenport Brothers. S. H. H. The American Marketman is a weekly paper published in Chicago in the interest of the canning,pack ing and grocery trade, and is most ably edited by Mr. J. IV. Lynch. One of the marked features of tbe paper is what is best known as “horte sense.” A fair specimen of this is the following practical ex pose of the Georgia Wonder hum bug, which we condense: lulu nunsT. Ever since the above young lady gave her first exhibition atC< n«ral Music Hall, we have been trying to get time to write her up, or rather Sown. Why so many have been puzzled at ber wosderlesa decep tion is to us a mystery. True, this is oat of our line of business, and •sly take it nn on ao-oimt of the miserable failure by the daily press ■ad scientists. We *liall address •nr talk to those who bare seen the on your rubbers so you won’t slip on the carpet? Now put your left band on the scat of tbe chair and your right band on the flat middle round of the bacK. Let tbe ball of your thumb press hard on top of this round. Don’t take any stock in the “laying on lightly business.” Bosh! now push, don't pull, as you can’t pull without grasping, but push with both bands in a strong spasmodic way as Lulu did, and when you get your man started you can defy a giant to bold tbe chair still. He is using bis strength on tbe slippery carpet to bold the ebair firm; you are using yours with tbe leverage and sure footing. Hold your arm and hand still in any way you can fix it so a child can’t move it—it is imposible; it is the same principle. Now take your billiard cue,grasp it in the middle, fingers up and bands about eight inches apart. Hold your elbows down and press hard against your sides. Stand on one foot, as Lulu did. Let who ever is assisting you take hold of tbe cue as be likes, but see that be spreads bis hands out at least twelve inches from yours. Do you re member what the young man said to the audience? “If you get Miss Hurst’s bauds above ber bead she loses her power.” Now if you have tbe cue just as we have described, let your assistant push with all bis might, anu if you find that he is too mucb for you let your hands go above your head. But without lie is a very strong man it will be impossible to pusli you off the one legged eentvo of gravity. You may say that Lulu did not appear to lean forward, but she did. though. Her dress being of heavy stuff it swung us a pendulum and guve the appearance ot standing erect. Nowgctl.be umbrella, open it, give it to your assistant, let him grasp the stiek with bis left hand close up to the stay ribs, bring bis right band down to the lowest point of the stick. Now lie must bold the umbrella and him.-clf still, nothing more. Lay your right band tightly, as it were, on the cen tre ot the stiek, just as Lu. did,hut be sure you lay your hand on so that tbe flexor of tbe first joint of the thumb cun be put on where it will do Hie most good when you begin to exert your strength in tbe least expected direc tion. Again, as with the chair, don’t attempt to pull, nlwnys push sideways. Do you remember tbe man who was nearly run over the foot lights, bow lie was pushed sideways and backward? Then, if your assistant won’t push as you want him to, why, break tbe slick or let your band slip up among the ribs and break them—the odic force must escape somewhere. Now for the heavy act, lilting man and chair clear of the floor excepting his feet. Do you remem ber the kind of chair that act was done with—a cane bottom with straight legs and back perfectly plain ? You must nave that special shaped ebair or you will fail in this; let your assistant seat him self, and, as the stage manager directed, “set well back and brace yourself to keep from falling on year face;” now place your hands as Lu. did, but don’t attempt to raise him bodily but push the chair from you as though you were try ing to throw him on his face; at tbe same time lift as though you were going to throw the chair over your bead, but don’t grasp the ebair, as the audience would see that and there is no need of il; tbe flexor of tbe flrst joint of the thumb is all you want to use In pushing forward and upward; your assistant’s feet act as tbe fulcrum of a lever. Now let another assistant sit across his legs faee to face, and, strange as it may seem, tbe chair may be lifted with less trouble than when tbe one man was in it. Do you remember that on the Monday nigbt we are ■peaking of Lu. made a complete failure in trying to lift Mr. Arthur C'atton, because he insisted on keep ing his feet off the floor, and would not brace back in tbe chair? Miss Hurst can’t, as strong as she is, and she is no kitten, lift a four year old child in a chair tbe way she takes bold of it. Should this article meet tbe eyes of a skeptic in a city where Miss Hurst is ex hibiting, sit in tbe chair and keep your feet off tbe floor, no matter what the stage manager says; if you arc one of the two whom she tries to lift at once, be sure you are the bottom man; keep your feet up and see that the top man, if a stran ger, does not raise himself ofT your lap, and our word for it, she will never lift you. Now get your billiard cue again for the “pressing to the floor act." Do you remember bow tbe hi Id i ? Small end up under the arm pit, with tbe palm of tbe hand turned out, and close down to tbe butt end, so close that one gentleman had to ask ber to give bim room to take hold, which she did very re luctantly. Now, having tbe cue under your arm, make your assist ant spread bis bands as far apart as he can, giving him barely room to lay hold of the lower end; then tell bim to push it to tbe ground; tbe harder he pushes tbe more co hesion there is to your band, and by pressing tbe arm bard to tbe body it will be found almost impos sible to get it to tbe floor; yet, on this night, one gentleman, did so twice, and then Lu. just laughed, tel he! Did you hear tbe whistle of the cue as it slipped over her open hand showing the heavy leverage and pressure she was exerting? Now for forcing tbe chair to the floor act, and that will close tbe performance, but we must have more than tbe one man or two you have been following our test with, as this will have to have a confed erate, and tbe more we get around tbe chair, and the more confusion, tbe less chance of your audience getting away with you. Was there a citizen of Chicago at that exhi bition who knew tbe young man that Lu. always got away with, tbe one in whose hand she broke tbe umbrella stick, and who sat in a chair on the extreme left of tbe stage, and who in this chair act at one time when tbe ebair wa> being forced to tbe floor, got almost under il? Don’t you know that the stage manager called for more men to pull the chair down? Do you sup pose that the young fellow who took that running jump and landed on tbe backs of tbe gentlemen who were at tbe chair would have dared to do such a thing bad be not been in tbe troupe? Again, as Miss Hurst’s feats are tricks, tbere were many ways it could have been done. Take any two gentlemen who are known to each other, no more, and see if Miss Lulu can prevent them from forcing the chair down. In conclusion, pay no attention to that little ghost story tbe old man tells about the Georgia experi ence at homo. Why don’t she do so now? If you buy that crowd for a simple plain, unassuming country people,you put your money in a "stone blind pool.” IVo have not written this in a scientific or metaphysical strain,because science electricity, metaphysics or an un known force has nothing to do with it;it is trickery, fraud, practice and newspaper gush from beginning to end. Georgia is coming to the front. Among the nominations made by the President on Monday were A U. Lawton, 'A Savannah, ns Minis ter to Russia, and Col. Evan P. Howell, editor of the Atlanta Con stitution, as consul to Manchester, England. Tbe only trouble with these appointments is that tbe chances of the other fellows are les sened thereby. Hon. Norman J. Coleman, tbe new Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington, is editor and pro prietor of Coleman’s Rural World, of St. Louis, now in its thirty-rev- entb volume. He has been Lieu tenant-Governor of Missouri, and is a prominent citizen as well as an accomplisned agriculturist. Tbe Macon Tel"graph says a tele- gram has been received in that city announcing that the President has decided to send to tbe Senate tbe name of Hon. Lucius M. Lamar, of Uawkin8ville, for the appointment of United States marshal for the Southern district of Georgia. Secretary Bayard means busi ness, and has telegraphed to the commander of the war vessel at Panama to protect the lives and property of American citizens with all the force at bis command. The appointment of Editor Evan P. Howell to a foreign consulship is a graceful acknowledgement of tbe influence of tbe Constitution, Georgia's favorite journal. LATEST APrOfST.MENTS. Following are tbe latest apoint- ments sent in by tbe President to the Senate: To be envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary of tbe United States—Wm. R. Roberts, of New York, to Chili; Charles W. Buck, of Kentucky, to Peru. Charies T. Russell, of Connec ticut, to be consul at Liverpool, England. Henry G. Pearson, to be post master at New York. Norman J. Coleman,of Missouri, to be commissioner of agiiculture. John T. McGraw, of West Vir ginia, to be collector of internal revenue fc. tbe district of West Virginia. Henry P. Kernocban, of Louis iana, to be a naval officer at New Orleans. Andrew J. Boyd,North Carolina, to bo collector of internal revenue for the fifth district of North Caro lina. Richard B. Hubbard, of Texas, to be envoy extraordinary and min ister plenipotentiary of the United States to Japan William B. Lang, of Texas, to be United States consul at Hamburg, Germany. Mercnry and Potash Vanquished. Mr. Wiley F. Hood, known to almost ev«ry man, woman and child in Athens, bears tbe following tes timony us to tbe virtues of Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.) For twelve years I suflcred from mercurial poison, with all of its torturing pains. I was treated by- several physicians, and was dosed on iodide of potassium abundantly. Th'u treatment increased my trou ble. My blood was thoroughly in fected; my skin was thick and yel low; my stomach was weak so that 1 could not retain my food; my person was broken out with sores which became offensive ulcers, and my stiength was gone. Mercury- brought on rheumatism, and potash had ruined my stomach', and I thought tbere was nothing left for me to do but to die—so thought many of my friends as I went hob bling along the street. I tried all the remedies within reach, but to no avail. At last a friend suggest ed tbe use of Swift’s Specific. Like many other drowning men, I was ready to catch at any straw that came insight. I procured six bot tles fiom Dr. Long. The first bot tle gave me hope. The nausea of tbe stomach disappeared, and by tbe time I had taken tbe third the hard lumps on my neck went away; tbe ulcers were healed; my com plexion cleared up, my skin smooth ed off, and my strength began to return. I have taken in all about thirty bottles. It has made a new man of me. I am a ina-i of C3 years, but am strong ami vigorous, eat anything and do any kind of work. I am sound and well. It is my bonest opinion that Swift’s Specific has taken me from the grave's mouth and added many years to my life. I would recommend it to suffering humanity svery where, not as a universal panacea for all dis eases, but as a specific for all blood and skin diseases, 6uch as blood poison, rheumatism, scrofula, ecze ma, tetter and catarrh, for I have seen It tried on most all of tuesc. 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Tobacco w||i grow in any part of the State, but it is on this The re-appointment of Mr. Pear son as postmaster of New York is very conclusive proof that Mr. Cleveland meant what lie said about civil-service reform, and also that he is a man of earnest convictions and great moral courage. This ap point ment means that he is Presi dent of tbe people, and not of-a party, and while the appointment may be condemned as a matter of policy, it can but be commended as an example of courageous convic tion and adherence to principle. Under all the circumstances we be lieve it will prove, as a matter of policy, to be wise. Mr. Pearson has proved to be an excellent offi cer, free from extreme partisanship, and as tbe office is a most impor. tant one, in which experience is of great value, tbere could be no rea son for supplying his place with a new man except to reward some one for bis political labor or influ ence. 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Geohoiv— Somteu Cotjq, Will b. n>ld beforo tbe Conn ton. door, in tbe city of American, Snrr,, county, Georgi., on tbe first Tue«l«, M»y next, between the usual hunt, sale: The undivided two third, interest lot. of land. numbers one hutuli and seventeen and one hundred fifty-one in tbe Old Sixteenth Diatrict Sumter County, Georgia, and known part of tbe Dobb'a old place, now r*. pied by K. L. Kite. Levied on as ti property, of B. L. Kite by virtue of County Court fi fa from Sumter conn in favor of Albert DeLeon & Co. va. n Kite. Alao. at the aame time and place . be sold: One bonae and lot in the citr American, Ga., bounded aa follow*’ wit: On aouik by Lamar street, onin by Dudley street, on east by Mr*, a Adams' place, on north by Andrew D, ley's place, at d now occupied bt- sj. Josey as a dwelling. Levied on a* t | property of Addis Simmon, by virtu,, lax fi fa for State and county tax tor a year 1884. Alan, at the same time and place be sold: North half of lot of land No. ii in tbe 20:h district of Sumter couutv] (V containing one hundred acres, end 0 » occupied by Sirs. Pnleria AloMath, ,, levied on as her property, by virtue o! County Couit fi fa in favor of Geonj Chemical Works vs. Poleria Mollath ,7 W. A. McMatb and F. B. McMuth. T t . ant notified in writing. Also, at the aame time and place - be sold: One bale of ootloa in wurebo of Toole, McGarrah & Tondee, and . bunared pounds of seed cotton, mote less, and seventy-five bu.bels of cm more or Ie«s, and aix hundred bundt^ of fodder, more or leas, and sixty bu»br; of ceil too seed, more or leas. All of property, < xcept bale of cotton, to be d livered at the Mrs. Surah Baines' plir, Levied on as tbe property of Johnj Warnook by virtue of distress warns. from Superior Court of Hornier for ret; in favor of John Ed. Thomas, agent ft Mrs. 8. A. Barnes, vs. John S, Warnotl and other papers in mv hands, this Am 3,1885. Also, at tbe aame time and place be sold: One house and lot in the city< Americus, Ga., bounded east by lianr ton street, north by Sullivan street, *oo| by land of Fred Lowery, we*t by vac« land of Sullivan. Levied on as the prep erty of John Wilson by virtue of two t, : ft fa. in favor of State nnd county u John Wilson for taxes of 1883 and 1881 Also, at the same time and place vii be sold: One hoase and lot in the city< Americua, Ga., bounded weat bv May street, north by place of Faaon tlpabit east by Howell Daniel's place, and aoati by alley running east anu west, ami lead, iug to East Americua Church. Levied o: as tho property of Kelson Bright by tit tne of two tax ti faa in favor of State ad county vs. Kelson Bright, for State aof county taxes for tbe years 1883 and 18:1 Also, at tbe same time and place, *£ be sold: One house nnd lot in the city t Americua, Ga., bounded as follow*' south by placo occupied by Carolio Laramore, on the north by Charlie Pait place, on Ibe west by- Hampton utrcv and on tbe east by place of Mrs. J. I Stewart. Levied on as the property - James Langley by virtue of a tax ti fa it favor of Staro nnd county vs. Jhio-i Langley for taxes fjr the year 1884. Tim April 1, 1885. Also, at the same time mid place will be sold. One kouai and lot in tbe city ot America., On., bounded on tbe south tt Miles Burnell, en-t by Troup street, nor'i bv Bob Walker, sr, place, and west It vacant land of Frank Cok-r. Levied or n. the properly of Mary Jones, agent <■ Itobert Jones, for Stale and county lent for tbe year 1884 Also, st tbe H-ime time nnd place wtS be sold: One bouse nnd lot in Ibe city I Americas, Ga., bounded on the west l-t Lee street, smith by Church strret, uoiti by land of P. L, tlize, east by lend ' Krnline Coleman, containing nue-foiutl ncre, more or less, nnd levied on ns tht property of George Brooks, sr., for Stall and county taxes lor tbe year 1884. Also, at the same time anil place be sold: Two rrcr-a of loud in the 27tk district, Sumter county, Ge. Hounded o: east by lands of J. G. Shockley, went bj lands of Emanuel Johnson, north '"5 lands of Hays end south by land at Alla Turner. Levied on ns Ibe property - Elisha Barker, agent. By virtue ol tt- eral tax fi. fas. in favor of Elisha Dark-: agent, for tsxea for several years, Also, st tbe Mime time snd place will be sold: One bona- and lot in tbe city d Americua, Ga., bounded on tbe south l; Foraytb street, on tbe north by Evnli< James, on the west by Henry Jones an! on tbe east by Tom Edwards. Lctiel on as the property of Dock McCoy hr virtue of a tux fi fa for the taxea of sail place for the year 1883. April 1, 1885. W. H. COBB. Sheriff. •VEIT 14 FIXUUll Intel Grain Cradle Man ti fact nn«l l y Smit If s Metal Grain Cradle Company ATLANTA, GA.. Only Ma'nl i. adle m-idc. Welsh* onlv 9pound? Strongernnd better than Wo den Cradles. «w for Illustrated Cetalogue ami Testimonial** Address, SMITH’S METAL GRAIN’ CRADLE CO. apnltwim 1\ O. 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Americus weekly recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1891, April 03, 1885, Image 4