The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-02-09

en- amazement the leaden weight fell
clashing on the pavement. and the
two performers came from behind
the audience smiling and saIaaming.
Next four bearers carried in wooden
trestle, on which was a box about
five feet in length; then SurcOohah.
a Hindoo, appeared. and opening the
box showed that it was perfectly
empty. and replacing the lid waved
his hands over it and mut!ered some
words suddenly the cry of an infant
was heard. SurcOObah removed the
covering, and there we plainly saw
an infant. apparently Just born. The
box WAS closed again and the incan.
tatiOn resumed for some minutes. and
when the hindoo again opened the
chest Nauch girl in full gala dress
bounded forth and began to circle
round to the music of the tom.t0ms.
Faster and faster played the MUSIC,
and in still more rapid time whirled
the dancing girl. At length old
Surcoobah seemed to catch the infec.
ton. and, grasping the girl, he, too,
spun round in mad gyratiOns. As
the pair, thus strangely ASSORTED.
circled round, change seemed 10
take place in the Hindoo; ttssc
man vanished and in his plx x d51t
peared youth just bordering N
manhood. Still with faster step the
dancers few round. but now tn girl
seemed gradually to fade awY and
presently the youth clasped only a
skeleton in his arms; on w'nt the
mad dance, but suddenly botl youth
and skeleton had vanished md old
Surcoobah, stopping in hs mad
career, salaamed to the spectators and
withdrew.
This Surcoobah was said to be a
yogee, and possessed certain super
natural powers that evening he per.
formed some very strange things.
He walked in the air at ditance oil
three feet from the surface of the
ground he took leaden bullets and
golden armlets. and when h. threw
them upward they f1oated inthe air,
and he sat cross-legged and smoked
hOokah fully five feet above the pave
ment of the courtyard. He asserted
that he could at any time die and
then come to life at an! given
time. and as many of the Silks con.
frmed this statement. it was deter.
mined to test his powers, and this
was what occurred {: A place was &C.
lected where the soil of the plain was
dry, and there an underground apart
ment was excavated /; when this was
finished guard of soldiers was plac'
ed over it, and on the appointed day
Lord Dalhousie and his suite, togeth.
or with a number of the Sikh nObil.
ity, assembled there. SurcOobah
came with an attendant. or disciple
He laid down on a carpet which ~
spread on the ground. He then clos.
ed mis- eyes, his attendant stuffed his
ears and nOstriIs with cotton, and
turned Ills tongue back wards until it
closed the openings of the windpipe
and gullet. Surcoobah now lay per.
fect!y mOtiOnless his body seemed
losing its natural heat. and the Euro.
pean surgeons could detect no puIsa.
ton he was dead to all appearances
and so the carpet was carefully lifted
aud the body deposited in the place
already prepared for its reception.
The aperture leading to ii was clos.
ed with a heavy trap door, the KEYS
of which were entrusted to European
officers and over the keyhOles were
strips of parchment secured with
wax, impressed with the seals OF
Runjeet and Lord DaIhOuie. Earth
was then shoveled over the trap door
ard leyeled down, so that 4 tent Ct uid
be pitched there, in which was sta.
toned guard of twenty men. half of
whom were Europeans, ami in charge
of an English officer. Thiswas main.
tanned for thirty days, ami then in
the presence of trusty officials and
many spectators the eartl was re-
moved, the seals broker and the
trap door unlocked. Surcsobah was
found still in the same lifeess condi.
ton. and apparently quite unchang-
ed, and was at once carried up into
the open air his attendant removed
the stuffing from his nostkls and
ears. replaced his tongue in itspstur.
al position and annointed his bon
with ghee Clarified butter). The eys'
when the lids were drawn bact,
seemed fixed and CLASSY, no respin.
ton was perceptible. no puIsation
could be felt but yet, after the at.
tendant had rubbed the body fora
few moments, Surcoobah sighed,
opened his eyes. and arose apparently
as we'll as ever.
How those feats were nerfor,,oA