The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-21
A Strange Hallucination.

DR.. lyman Santee, a resident of Luz
verne county, Pa, has had, perhaps, the
most remarkable experience or record.
The doctor is a man of medium size,
about thirty years of age, of great intel
llgence and %undoubted veracity.
Though there is nothing in his manner
to suggest anything unnatural, yet the
world in which he moves could not be
to him more unlike our own if he lived
on another planet.
When Dr.Santee was ten years young
er he one day took a stroll, ascending
an eminence of considerable height at
some distance from his fathers house.
The view from this point was delightful
In the extreme, extending away for
miles toward the north and west. Far
below the admiring youth swept along
the broad river; beyond it were the roll.
ing hills, which farther on swelled into
the rugged mountains, where range be-
yond range rose higher and higher till
the last hazy SUBMITS mingled with the
wonderful blue of the summer sky. 1t
was late in the day, and the great red
sun hung in the golden west.
lyman Santee, who in early life was
somewhat given to idle ~fancies, on the
mountain betook himself to the strange
task of contrasting the size of his frame
him; and it seemed to him that he was
only a manikin clinging to the cliff above
the plain. While INDUCING in this and
similar thoughts he became bewildered,
and the size of everything around him
suddenly diminished to one-tenth its
former dimensions. The great pine at
his side became o little sapling, the huge
mountain on which he stood but a little
mound, the river below appeared only
a silver thread, and the setting sun butt
blazing star in the sky. The great earth
itself, from horizon to horizon, seemed
only a few acres in extent, while the sky
appeared to have fallen toward the
earth.
Alarmed at this strange occurrence,
the doctor left the mountain and hur-
ried home. The road seemed no wider
than a cowpath, and the fence on each
to a horse and carriage standing by the
roadside. The horse looked as small as
a poodle, aud the buggy by no means as
large as a baby crrriage, Farther on he
met a man, and was struck with amaze
ment. He was surely no more than six
inches in height. He gazed on his own
frame and saw that he was of tthe same
insignificant stature.
When he entered his fathers house
everything was painfully small. The
house itself was apparently only about
two feet and a half high.
His little mother, smaller then HIM
self was moving around like an animated
doll, preparing the evening meal. Then
his father came in, a miserable little
dwarf, like himself. Their we're the ia
BILE, and the tiny dishes containing food,
the little chairs, etc., all no larger then
toys.
The next morning when Mr.. Santee
awoke, he wa gratifed to find the OBJ
jects had recovered their proper dimen-
sions. In 1870, while engaged in teach
ing, DR.. Santee again suddenly found
himself transferred to miniature world.
He has since dwelt there surrounded
by a pygmy existence He seldom al
ludes to his strange experience, and
then only to his most inmate friends.
He has become accustomed to the re-
markable state of things around him, il
not actually reconciled to his lot, and
scarcely hopes to revisit the old world
he so well remembers, but which he is
permitted to see only in his dreams.