The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-24

driven by blows and threats, he COM
menced the ascent and going higher
and higher, at last suddenly vanished
from our sight. The elder man then called
out to the Invisible man to loose the
cord and come down, but voice from
the sky refused to do this, and finally
the man on the ground becoming en-
ragged, graspod huge Afghan knife
between his teeth, climbed the suspended
cord and vanished. Then apparently
ensued battle in md air; voices were
heard in fierce dispute, and then blood
drops descended in shower, and all was
still. Just as all the spectators were
gazing upward in horror stricken amaze
ment the leaden weight fell clashing on
the pavement, and the two performers
came from behind the audience smiling
and salaaming. Next four bearers
carried in a wooden trestle, on which
was q box about five feet in length;
then Surcoobah, Hindoo, appeared,
and opening the box showed that it was
perfectly empty, and replacing the lid
waved his hands over it and muttered
some words; suddenly the cry of an in.
FAINT was heard. Surcoobah removed
tha covering, aud there we plainly saw
an infant, apparently just born. The
box was closed again and the incanta.
ton resumed for some minutes, and
when tho Hindoo again opened the
chest Nautch girl in full gala dress
bounded forth and began to circle round
to the music of the tomtoms. Faster
and faster played the music, and in still
more rapid time whrled the dancing girl.
At length old Surcoobah seemed to
catch the infection, and, grasping the
girl, he, too, spun round in mad gyra-
tons, AS the pair, thus strangely as
sorted, circled round, a change seemed
to take place in the Hindoo; the
old man vanished and in his place ap-
peared a youth Just bordering on
manhood. Still with faster steps the
dancers flew round, but now the girl
seemed gradually to fade away and pre-
sently the youth clasped only skeleton
in his arms; on went the mad dance, b ut
suddenly both youth and skeleton had
vanished and old Surcoobah, stop.
ping In his mad career, salaamed to the
spectators and withdrew.
This Surcoobah was said to be yogee,
and possesses certain supernatural
powers; that evening he performed some
very strange things. He walked in the
air at a distance of three feet from the
surface of the ground; he took leaden
bullets and golden armlets, and when he
threw them upward they foated in the
air, and he sat cross-legged and smoked
his 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 any given time, and as many
OF the Sinks confirmed this statement, il
was determined to test his powers, and
this was what occurred: A place was
selected where the soil OF the plain was
dry and there an underground apart
ment was eXcavated; when this was fir-
ished aguard ofsoldiers wasplaced over it,
and on the appointed day Lord Dalhousie
and his suite, with a number of the Sikh
nobility, assembled there. Surtoobah
came with an attendant, or disciple. He
laid down on b carpet which was spread
on the ground. He then closed his
eyes, his attendant stuffed his ears and
nostrils with cotton, and turned his
tongue backwards until it closed the
openings of the windpipe and gullet.
surcoobah row lay perfectly motionless;
his body seemed losing its natural heat,
and the European surgeons could detect
no pulsation; he was dead to all appear
ance, and SO the carpet was carefully
lifted and the body deposited in the
place already prepared for its reception.
the aperture leading to it was closed
witha heavy trap door, the keys of which
were intrusted to European officers; and
over the keyholes were strips of parch-
ment secured with wax, impressed with
the seals of RunJeet and Lord
Dalhousie. Earth was then shoveled
over the trap door and leveled
down, so that tent could be
pitched there, In which was stationed
guard of twenty men, half of whom
were Europeans, and in charge of an
English officer. This Yves maintained
for thirty days, and then in the presence
of trusts officials and many spectators
the earth was renewed, the seals broken
and the trap door unlocked Surcoobah
was found still in the same lifeless con
d'tlon, and apparently quite unchanged,
and was at once carried up into the open
air; his attendant removed the stuffing
from his nostrils and ears, replaced his
tongue in Its natural position and
anointed his body with ghee Clarified
bbutter). The eyes, when the lids were
drawn back, seemed fixed and CLASSY,
no respiration was perceptible, no pulsa-
ton could 0e felt; but yet, after the at
tendant had rubbed the body for a few
moments, Surcoobah sighed, opened his
eyes, and a-ose apparently as we'll as
ever
How those feats were performed it is
difficult to imagine. but this power
which yogees are said to possess has