The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-09-15
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 Dr. Lyman Santee, resident of Lu- zerne county, who at present is visiting some friends at this place. has had per haps the most remarkable experience on record. The doctor is a man of medium size, about thirty years of age of great intelligence and undoubted veracity. Though there is nothing in his manner to suggest anything unusual, 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 younger he one day took stroll, ascend at some distance from his fathers house. The view from this point was delightful in the extreme, extending away for miles towards the north and west. Far below the admiring youth swept along the broad river 1; beyond it were the rolling hills, which farther on swelled into the rugged mountains, where range beyond range rose higher and higher till the last hay summits mingled with the wonder ful blue of the summer sky. It 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 solitary mountain betook himself to .he strange task of contrasting the slxe of his frame with the magnitude of the scene before him and it seemed to him that he was only a manikin clinging to the cliff above the plain. While indulging in this and similar thoughts he became koxa ekA z( around him suddenly diminished to one tenth of its former dimensions. The great pine at his side became little sap ling, the huge mountain on which he stood but little mound, the river below appeared only silver thread, and the setting sun but blazing star in the sky. The great earth itself fro n horizon to horizon, seemed only few acres iG ex- tent, while the sky appeared to have fallen towards the earth.
 Alarmed at this strange occurrence the doctor remarked, in conve, sation the other day left the mountain and hurried homeward. The road seemed no wider than cowpath, and the fence on each side only few inches high. came to horse and carriage standing by the roadside. The horse looked as small as poodle, and the buggy by no means as large as baby-carrlage Farther on l met man-here l was struck with amazement. He was surely no more than six inches in height gazed on my own frame and saw that was of the same insignificant stature.
 |" In giving the dimensions of the diminutive objects with which l found myself surrounded the doctor explained "when use the denomination inch,' refer to an inch as 1t appears te you and as it had appeared to me all my life. Likewise in comparing the horse to
 poodle and the buggy to baby carriage refer to a poodle and
 baby-carriage as they appear to you or course, to me, these objects were now infinitely small.
 "l cannot describe my feelings Dr. Santee continued, when l entered my fathers house. Everything was so pain fully small. The house itself was only so high"
 AS he uttered the last sentence he held his hand about two feet and a half above the ground, then. after moment he went on:
 There was my lIt,le mother. smaller than myself, moving around like an animated doll, prep ,ring our evening meal. Then my father came in, miser- able dwarf like myself There was the table and the tiny dishes containing our plain feod, the little chairs. etc. all no larger than the toys had played with in my childhood"
 The next morning when Dr. Santee awoke he was grattied to ind tha, os- lec,s had recovered their proper dimen- sions. Soon after this he began the study of medicine and graduated Tn Philadelphia in 1875 He. however. pre- . terred lhe life of teacher to that of a phy sieiin, and from the start stood fore most in the ranks of successful in- structois.
 In 1879. while engaged in teaching. Dr. Santee again suddenly found himself transferred to a miniature world. He has since dwelt there, surrounded by d pygmy existence. He seldom alludes to his strange experience. and then only to his most intimate friends. lie continues to teach. and his work Is followed with its usual good results. He has become accustomed to the remarkable state of things around him. if not actually re- conciled to his lot, and scarcely hopes to revisit the old world he so well re- members, but which he IS permitted to see only in his dreams.