The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-20
A Strange Hallucination.

DR.. lyman Santee, resident of Lu.
verne county, Pa, has had, perhaps, the
most remarkable experience on record.
The doctor is d man Of medium size,
about thirty years of age, Of great intel:
ligence 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. r.Santee was ten years young
er he one day took stroll, ascending
an eminence of considerable height ut
some distance from his fathers house.
The view from this point was delightful
In the extreme, extending away for
miles toward the north q nd west. Far
below the admiring you h swept along
the broad river; beyond it we're the roll:
ing hills, which farther on swelled into
the rugged mountains, where range be-;
the last hazy SUBMITS mingled with the
wonderful 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
mountain betook himself to the strange
task of contrasting the size of his frame
with the magnitude of the scene before
him; and it seemed to him that he was
only manikin clinging to the cliff above
the plain. While indulging in this aud
similar thoughts he became bewildered,
and the size of everything around him
su u1denly diminished to one-tenth its
former dimensions. The great pine at
his side became little sapling, the huge
mountain on which he stood but a little;
mound, the river below appeared only
silver thread, and the setting sun but a
blazing star in the sky. The great earth
itself, from horizon to horizon, seemed
only 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 cowpath,. and the fence on each
side only few inches high. He came
to horse and carriage standing by the
roadside. The horse looked as small as
large as baby crrriage. Farther on he
met 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 sthe same
insignificant stature.
When he entered his fathers house
everything was painfully small. The
house iteClf was apparently only about
two feet and 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, miserable little
dwarf, like himself. Their were the ta-
bic, and the tiny dishes containing food,
the little chairs, ETC., all no larger then
toys.
The next morning, when Mr.. .Santee
awoke, he was gratified 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 pygmy existence He seldom al
ludes to his strange experience, and
then only to his most! inmate friends.
He las become accustomed to the re-
markable state of things around him, if
not actually reconciled to his lot, and
scarcely hopes to revisit the old world
he 30 we'll remembers, but which he is
permitted to see only in his dreams.