The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-02-10
BURIED ALIVE.
A Crop Of Barley TO Ripen
Above his Coffin.
THRILLING WITH THE CRAVE

rlpened and reaped from his
grave!
And then to be dug up and be
brought back to consciousness.
Sounds soimpossible as to seem
silly doesn't it9
And yet that is precisely the
experience which an Illinois man
proposes to go through. says
the Utica Globe of this week.
This man is no other than Prof.
Andrew j. Seymore, who is now
filling an engagement at the MI
see Theatre in this city. His re-
markable mind reading feat in
finding the watch the other day
told in the Register, excited CON
siderable interest. The Globe
goes on to say; Everybody has
read of those remarkable men
known as the Fakirs of India.
Some enterprising gentleman.
of a speculative tendency have
determined to bring from India
one or more of these Fakirs and
have them perform their won.
drous feats at the Worlds Fair.
r
Andrew j. Seytnore, the famous
"mlnd reader, : has concluded 70
demonstrate that he has suchsa
control over his mind and mex
vous system that he can perform
the feat himself.
Mr.. Seymore is a native OF
Somerville. Butler county, Ohio,
and is Az years old.
The feat which he propose to
accomplish next summer will.
however, cast into the shade any
thing he has far accomplished.
He admits that there is an ele-
ment of danger in it, but is conf
dent thathe will come through
the ordeal all right.
Mr.. Seymore has most of his
arrangements made. On the 21st
of June he will be at a place al
ready selected, near his home. and
only few miles from Rockford,
and at that time he will place
himself in theca of a committee
of citizens who will see that he
does precisely what he promises,
preventing !. the possibility of
fraud or collision. He will then
throw himself into a state of in
sensibility, purely by force of
will power. So completely will
be this suspension of animation
that even the most able medical
man will be unable to say that
any life exists, without, of course.
applying the most rigid tests.
This condition reached, his
tongue will be drawn out to its
utmost limit, and then turned
and folded back into his throat
in such a manner as to prevent
the faintest particle of air from
reaching the lungs by the way of
the mouth. His nose and ears
will be sealed with wax. Hisap-
| parently lifeless body will then
be placed in a sack, so oiled and
sealed as to render it positively
air tight. Then he will be put
into a grave several feetdeep and
the grave filed in the usual way.
During the entire operation he
will be watched by the committee,
who will be able to show the pub
lie that there is no optical de-
fusion or other deception about
the operation. The ground over
the grave, in common with the
rest of the field. will then be
plowed up and sowed with barley.
After the seed springs up and ri
pens and is harvested. the grave
being meantime watched night
and day, Mr.. Seymore will be
disenterred, the wax taken from
his ears and nostrils. his tongue
replaced in its natural position,
and he will return to life, as well
as ever except for the temporary
efforts Of lying in one position
for so long a time.
This remarkable feat has never
been performed in any country