Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-12-05
HAMRICK DYING.
The Most Famous Man in the
State is Passing Away.

His Secret of Embalming which has
Made Him famous will die with Him.
He lives near Phillppi in Barbour
County-Wonderful Effects of the
Mysterious Fluid which he uses-Old
Age claims him as its Victim and He
has but Short Time to Live.
PHILIPPI, W. Va, Dec. Sold
Man Hamrick,," who resides three
miles from here, in a little story and
halt house of the poorest type, is
lying at deaths door, and cannot
possibly live great length of time.
The old man has become famou s
by his great knowledge of the en-
calming methods known only to the
Egyptians. The old house is a
CHASTITY appearing place to visitors.
Everywhere about the place are to
be seen mummies of all kinds, hui
man beings, animals and reptiles,
but with all this the home is void of
any odor other than that usually
noticed by visitors to the country
where wood is used as fuel
With the old man will probably
die his wonderful method of pre-
serving flesh. He has said that he
gained his knowledge from the BIZ
BILE, and he therefore considers it no
secret to those who wish to know
the methods, but contends they must
acquire the knowledge Of the art as
he did.
His wife, who is also quite feeble,
lives with him, and scattered about
over the State are several Of his
children by his first wife, none hay-
ing been born to him by the second
union
The only secret of the wonderful
embalming method of the old man
is that his liquid, a portion of which
is made of herbs gathered by him in
the mountains, is that it kills the
germs of decomposition in the flesh,
or what ever it is applied to
The women mummies in the
house, which were secured from the
insane asylum IA CHS State by the
old man ten years ago, and put
throughs his wonderful process, al
though little shriveled, are still in
a perfect state of preservation and
are to be seen at the nome in glass
case, besides the negro's head which
he secured from a Cincinnati medi-
cal college in 1896, and which is
also in glass case, the beard and
flesh being as soft and pliable as if
that of a living person.
About the house, on twigs ex-
tending from the wall and limbs Of
trees, are to be seen squirrels, birds
and all manner of animals, here and
and there a huge snake coiled as il
ready to attack, and hundreds OF
other curiosities.
In an old cigar box, Hamrick' S
wife, who takes great pleasure in ex-
planning to visitors the different OBJ
jects of curiosity, showed the cor
respondent some reddish colored
pieces of something which much re-
sembled piece of sole-leather after
the shoemaker had placed it in the
water before putting on the sole, in
order to make it pliable. The old
woman said: "Do you know what
this is? This is the blood of a hui
man being prepared by father years
ago, and which has remained in this
condition ever since"
What is most wonderful about the
process is that little of it put in
milk before being churned, will pre-
serve the butter from the churn for
an indefinite period, but the people
especially the women Of the Ham
rick settlement, will not venture the
the use of it.
The old man is now suffering
from diseases incident to old age
and is as mum as ever as regards
his secret, although he has received
fattering offers to make them known
from medical men and scientists.