Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-09-25

tIe Hetu. Oh the EXPOSURE OF WHICH
grand salute was fired. and the sur
rounding multitude came crowding to
the door to see the spectacle After
they had gratitied their curiosity, the
Fakir's servant putting his arms into
the box, took the figure out, and, clos
ing the door, placed it with its back
against it, exactly as the Fakir had
been squatting Qike q Hindu idol) in
the box itself. Runjeet Singh and
myself descended into the cell, which
was so small we were only able to sit
on the ground in front of the body, and
so close to it as TO touch it with our
hands and knees. The servant then
began pouring warm water over the
figure, but as my object was to see il
any fraudulent practices could be de-
tected, l proposed to Runjeet Singh to
tear open the bag and have a perfect
view of the body before any means OF
resuscitation were employed. l ac-
cordingly did so; and may here remark
that the bag when first seen by us
looked mildewed, as if it had been
buried some time. The legs and arms
of the body were shriveled and stiff,
the face full, the head reelined on the
shoulder like that of 4 corpse. l then
called TO the medical gentleman who
was attending me TO come down and
inspect the body. which he did, but
could discover no pulsation in the heart,
the temples, or the arms. There was,
however, a heat about the region of
the brain which no other part exhib-
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bathing him with hot water, and.
gradually relaxing his arms and legs
from the rigid state in which they We're
contracted. Runjeet Singh taking his
right and his left leg. to aid by friction
in restoring them to their proper ac-
ton, during which time the servant
placed hot wheaton cake, about an
inch thick. on the top of the head-a
process which he twice or thrice re-
peated. He then pulled out of his
nostrils and ears the wax and cotton
with which they had been stopped, and.
after great exertion, opened his mouth
by inserting the point of knife be-
tween his teeth. and. while holding his
Jaw open with his left hand. drew the
tongue forward with his right.
in the course of which the
tongue flew back several times
to its curved position upward, in
which it had originally been. so as to
close the gullet. He then rubbed his
eyes with ghee Tor clarified butter) for
some seconds, till he succeeded in OPEN
ing them. when the eyes appeared quite
motionless and glazed. After the cake
had been applied for the third time
to the top of the head the body was
violently convulsed, the nostrils became
inflated, when respiration ensued. and
the limbs began to assume a natural
fulness; but the pulsation was still
family perceptible. The servant then
put some of the ghee on his tongue
and made him swallow it. A few
minutes afterward the eyeballs be-
came dilated. and recovered their nat
ural color, when the Fakir recognized
Runjeet Singh sitting close to him. and
articulated in a low, sepulchral tone.
scarcely audible: DO you believe me
now? Runjeet Singh replied in the
affirmative, and invested the Fakir with
pearl necklace aud superb pair Of
gold bracelets. and pieces of silk and
muslin, and shawls, forming what is
called khelat. such as is usually con-
ferred by the Princes of India on per-
sons Of distinction. share entirely in
the apparent incredibility OF the fact of
man being buried alive and surviving
the trial without food or drink for
various periods of duration; but, how
ever incompatible with our knowledge
of physiology, in the absence of any WIS.,
ible proof to the contrary, am bound
to declare nv belief in the facts which
l have represented, however impossi-
BILE their existence may appear to others.
London Telegraph.