Telegram-herald., 1890-07-29
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Three miles ever the aaountaips from
Phlllppi s. Va. Is TIE house e a. ~.
h4nrlck. Says ths Cincinnati Eaauirer.
- = = nye-noon leg-kouse, the exterior
he2tAeE-bczrdeS. bat nct painted YET
II Vas fcll q mRnnies, e9t1 81 oFates
Ai-d human hoiEgs Here ARE Hummles
nat oatFiyal say EgyPt ever kne~.
lee Egyptian embalIners removed
esAins and blood and viscera. and
wrapped the clay she'll that was left In
o@nd1glng, saturated wiEh els and ONT
ments
Ia this house lie the bodies of two
sa1lts, natural almost as in life. every
particle ot ska exposed 70 the ar.
blood, brains ai-d yiscera remaining.
Ia the veins ard arteries the blue and
black blood stalds out IS clear and
natural As when these people lived and
/ walked and knew the passions and emo
lions Of boias.
The finger and toe nails show the pink
flesh Of life, and on the cheek Of one
Who died Of consumption the scarlet
marx OF that disease remains clear
and distinct. KcF two years, exposed 70
the air, without decay or odor. these
bodies have lain in this mans house Just
above his bedroom. His process is dis
eovery of his own, bat il is so simple, he
says, that boy Of fifteen. after single
lesson, can do the work as efectually as
the inventor himself.
The rooms Of Mr.. Hamrick are minia-
ture museums. Ia the door that leads
- his bedroom largo white cat sits on
guard, It's tongue, undeeayed, lolling
up as If IL were about 20 lap milk. For
four years that cat has been the sole
guard Of that lonesome door. On man
tel. in attitude OF listening, is young
deer.
Rabbits, pigs squirrels, chickens and
even calf are 10 be seen, all as natural
as in life, and all preserved by this won
derful secret. Mr.. Hasnrick claims that
in an hour he can prepare body with
out making any incision Of any sort or
removing any part OF the body, SO that
1T may be taken around the world with
out ice or arsenicaT fluids. These two
bodies which lie in modest state in his
humble house have turned parchment
color with the hurrying of time, and the
eyes have become much sunken.
There was no odor, no putting up OF
the flesh. The CHASTITY look is wanting
and one almost feels that il is not tho
solidified clay of some loved one, but a
wonderful likeness caused by divine
sculptor from some rare wood. Think
of sleeping with these dead and petri-
fed bodies.
But this is not all that this old won
der-worker of the mountain does. he
can stop decay at any point. Cures
ulcers of long standing by an external
application of this discovery. BY the
same process he keeps fresh, without ice.
salt or brine, all his meat, butter and
eggs, and does the same thing for his
neighbors. Fruit of all sorts, vege-
tables, etc, are kept just as easily with
out decay, and watermelons, strawber-
ries and peaches and cream are now as
sured for the Christmas dinner.
Mr.. Hamrick has made little or no
effort to put forth his process, which
such learned men as Drs. Cillcy and
Freeman, of this city; White, OF Wash
ington; Doremus, of New York. and
'Hordesley, of Wheeling, w. Va, pro-
nounce one of the greatest discoveries of
the age, far ahead of what the Egyp-
tians knew. Indeed, Hamrick seems to
regard il rather as q curious experiment
than otherwise.