Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-09-23
BURIED FOR FORTY DAYS.


a wei-Atte.,ed Account er aa Inaian
Iakir who was sealed Up nnried. aud
Resnscltatcd Aucr Forty Dnys-The
Pro"ess of KaViViaE tAe Vital spark.
VIZ are not told whether the seven
Sleepers who retired % cave In Epho-
sus during the reign Of the Christian
killing Emperor hccius, and only woke
up one hunlcod and iifty.hye years aft
crward. whom Theodnsus III. was on the
throne, made any special preparation,
but pcnbahly they did not. Perhaps Il
was not necessary. Those wero stirring
tines for members OF tho new faith,
aad they had little opportunity to grow
obese. But, as n rule, 90 fast success
fully Il is said to be necessary for man
% abstain beforehand. and reduce him.
self most carefully % tho required con-
dition by a long course Of preparation.
Pre-eminent at this art OF suspending
animaiiou---for an art IL bccomes---aro
the Easterns and most wonderful stories
arr told of the natives Of india, which,
whether their powers are due 60 narcOt-
ios or any other process, seem 10 open
up-n true-a wide feld of medical
study. One of these Indian stories, not
easily accessible, but OF considerable
interest on account Of the known We
racity Of the witnesses, viii probably be
read with interest AT the present time,
and Is inserted here Tho author of il
WIS one Hon. Captain Osborn. and the
notes ma.io OF his statement, here sub
loned, come from an almost unique
copy printed for private circulation.
Runjoot Singh had heard from n
seyd or Faldr, who lived in the noun
tains, that the latter could allow him
self 20 be buried when in condition OF
apparent death, without really ceasing
To live, sealing that he understood the
art OF being brought back % life on be-
ing eShumcd after several months had
passed. To the Maharajah this APP
poarcd 10 be rank impossibility. In
order, however, that he should be CON
vinced one way or the other. he or
dered the Fakir 10 bc summoned 10 the
Court, and caused him TO undertake the
singular experiment, under threat
thal no means OF precautiOn would bo
wanting toward the discovery OF fraud.
lhe Fakir consequently caused himself
70 appear In u state Of apparent death.
Whom every spark of life had seemingly
vanished, he was, IN the presence ofthe
Maharajah and the mobiles who SUR
rounded him, wrapped up in the linen
on which he had been sitting. and on
which the seal Of Runjeet Singh was
placed, The body was thon deposited
N chest, on which Runjoct Singh, with
MS own hand, fixed paddock. The
chest was carried outside the town and
buried In a garden belonging to the
Ministers harley WAS sown over the
spot, wall was erected around II, and
sentlnels posted. On the fortieth day,
when the chest containing the FakiI
was dug up and opened, the man was
found cold and stark In precisely tn,
samo condition as that IN which he had
been left With much trouble he wa
restored 10 life by means OF heat ap
piled to the head, nlllhtion In the ear,
and mouth, rubbing the body. etc. Tho
Minister Raiah Dhyan-Singh, assured {
friend that he had this FalSir
whose name was Haridas, for I
period Of four months undor the
earth nj JummOo in the mountains
On the day of his burial he haC
caused his beard TO be shaved Oh, ant
when ne was taken up again his chir
Was Just as smooth as on the day wher
he was consigned 10 the eartha proof
as would seem, Of suspended animation
II Is related that the Fakir In question
took purgatiye some time before th'
burial display. and for several day
aiterward lived only on soanty mill
diet On the day OF the interment II Il
said that, instead Of taking any nour
ishment, he swallowed thirty yards of !
strip Of linen OF the breadth Of thre'
fingers. which he Immediately drew ~
again, his object being TO clean tn