Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-06

How He Is to be Buried Alive Next June
in Illinois.

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To be buried aIivel
To have a crop Of barley sown,
ripened and reaped from his grave!
And then to be dug up and brought
back to consciousness
Sounds so impossible as to seem silly,
doesn't 1t?
And yet this Is precisely the expert
ence which an Illinois man proposes to
go through, says the Utica Globe Of this
week. This man Is none other than
Prof Andrew j. Seymour, who is now
filling an engagement at the Mnsee
Theatre in this city. His remarkable
mind reading feat In finding the watch
the other day, told In the REGISTER, ex-
cited considerable interest. The Globe
goes on to say: Everybody has read OF
those remarkable men known as the
Fakirs of India.
Some enterprising gentlemen OF a
speculative tendency having determined
to bring from India one or more OF
these Fakirs and have them perform
their wondrous feat at the Worlds Fair,
Andrew J. Seymour, the famous mind
reader" has concluded to demonstrate
that he has such control over his mind
and nervous system that he can perform
the feat himself.
Mr.. Seymour is native OF Somer-
Vile, Butler county, Ohio, and Is A
years old. His home is at Pecatonica,
Winnebago county, and he has been
before the public as an entertainer for
about 81 years. his power Of control
over his mind has constantly grown.
He is able to control his own pulse,
sending it up or down at will, and can
suspend all apparent animation for long
periods.
The feat which he proposes to accom-
plish next summer will, however, cast
into the shade anything he has so far
accomplished. He admits that there is
an element of danger in it, but Is con-
fident that he will come through the
ordeal all right.
Mr.. Seymour now has most OF his ar
engagements made. On the 21st Of June
he will be at place already selected,
near his home, and only few miles
from Rockford, and at that time
he will place himself In the care
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 insensibility,
purely by the force of will power. So
complete will be this suspension OF anil
nation 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 par
ticle of air reaching the lungs by way
of the mouth. His nose and ears will
be sealed with wax. His apparently
lifeless body will then be placed in
sack, so oiled and sealed as to render 1t
positively air tight. Then he will be
put into grave several feet deep and
the grave filled in the regular way.
During the entire operation he Will
be closely watched by the committee,
who will be able to assure the public
that there is no optical deluson or 9TH
er 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
this seed springs up, ripens and is har-
vested, the grave being meantime
watched night and day, Mr.. Seymour
will be disinterred. the wax taken from
his ears and nostrils, his tongue replaced
In its natural position, and he will re-
turn to life, as we'll as ever except for
tba fapopororu afforfo M living In one
position for so long time.
This remarkable feat has never been
performed in any county with the ex-
ception of India, but that it has been
repeatedly accomplished there is beyond
question. If Mr.. Seymour performs
the feat he is to receive 100000, and II
he comes out dead, SIS, 900 is to be paid
his relatives.