The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-11-16
EST: DEER LODGE, MONTANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1885,


Of the house.
"Wha-what is thatg'
"Oh, nothing I said, ssbut the train. W
have o railway crossing " the estate, ant
a station within q quarter Of a mile from tn
house. This was an out train, and the engi
neer always salutcs me-"
"Railway! train!" "
The servants were listening, and I changed
tho subject by finding fault with IN egt
which was overdone. When we had finished
took Uncle John into the library, got hin
an easy chair, and handed him one of thu
New York morning papers. He looked at il
In Amusement, and repeated its title.
sWhy, I never heard Of it BEFORE" he said
land the type is SO small that I can't read it
Oh, l see! White hair, wrinkles, thin legs
weakness, poor teeth, and SO failing sight i,
in keeping. I wonder I am not deaf"
I took grandfather's spectacles from q
drawer.
He put them on, but shook his head.
"Perhaps you were near sighted when you
were young,"I said. Il
WAS! I am near sighted" ~.
"Try these, then, y and I handed him a pair
used by my father.
AL! L160o w AAGcAys .A<9 Au0 So! July
10, 1884. That's funny. by telegraph, Lon
can minister at Balmoral, to which he had
Queen of England, I suppose. But why not
the king? Balmoral! where is that?'
SIT is Queen Victoria's seat in tho High
lands"
"And who the-1b beg your pardon, but who
is Queen Victorian
''She is the present reigning sovereign, and
succeeded William ~ forty-seven years
since"
"Oh, she did, did she? md who was Will
lam IV?'
"Hc was Prince William Henry"
"What, that midshipman who got trounced
in Boston? But where was the Prince of
Walesg'
"Ho succeeded his father, you know, as
George " and died without issue"
"No, I don't know. But by telegraph
What does that mean, and bow do you get
news from London in a day! An l expected
to believe that? The dream grows queerer
and queerer."
Icxplained tho action of the electric tele-
graph, but he did not seem to comprehend it.
"Tho fantasies are wilder and wilder. Tho
lightning is made a courier; by and by it will
be bottled up for lamps, and the sun will
paint our portraits"
"Al that has been done long since" I re-
piled. "But the intrain is nearly due, and
with this field glass you can see it from the
balcony. There-1 hear IL iu the distance.
You needn't rise, I'll wheel your chair to the
open window-so."
The train soon came In sight, dashed on.
turned a curve, and we could hear it slow
down as it approached the station. Uncle
Johns hands shook, partly with weakness,
partly with excitement, but he seemed to
have had a good sight of the engine and cars.
He sat there rejecting.
How was I to impress him with the fact of
his real condition? It would have to be done,
ONE time or other. But would it overturn
his reason? I unused over it.
"Well, Nephew Guy, as you call yourself,
what are you thinking on?'
"Pray," I returned, 'do you remember NJ.
Delille!"
eyes; where is he? He tried to put mo
asleep, but failed"
"Uncle John, he did not fail. He sue
ceeded."
HE did, you say. That is q little hard to
believe, even in q dream"
"You have been asleep ever since, and were
SO until I awakened you.n
And for how many hours, prayg'
"Eighty-four years. You fell into an hyp-
motto slumber in 1900, and this is 1884"
Uncle John broke into a fit of laughter:
but seeing my serious face, paused, and then
deliberately bit his finger.
II shall be awake presently, )" he said, look
ing at his finger. "And yet this pain-teu
me all about it."
I told him all, rs I have written it, but
with more detail. Then I added: "Look at
yourself in yonder glass. You have crown
old during your artificial slumber. Action
has been suspended, but not the processes o,
life. Read the journal you nave thrown
down, and you will see that the world has
and you have not. Clasp my hand
there, is that not flesh and blood-real and
not ~visionary?"
"And Tom Jefferson has not been just
elected, and the country ruined?'
MI. jefferson, after serving two terms,
died many years since; and the country,
after going through two foreign and one
domestic war, is now at peace and prosper
Gus, with its territory extending from the
Atlantic to the Pacific"
"And brother Guy?'
I took dow the family record and showed
him the record from Guy V, born April 8,
ITO, to Guy VIII, born Mry !, 1856.
The truth seemed to possess the old mans
mind. He looked at his hands and feet, felt
his beard, and his countenance assumed a
look of extreme terror. Would he 20 mad!
Suddenly he burst into O food of tears. and
I felt relieved.
"This-this is cruel" he said, at length,
with a sob.
"We did all we could, Uncle John,n I
Eyes, I know-I know. But to keep me in
) living grave, to wake old, decrepit-it was
Better to have let mt die while I was uncon-
;cious. I am weak-I would like to lie
D SO, Uncle John; you will be better by
Inner time"
I assisted him to his chamber, where he
ay down on O lounge, and I left him to his
epose.
Just before dinner I sent Peter to his room
o bid him prepare for the meal. The SER
'ant came back. 1.-THE old gentleman seems
little out OF his head, sir. He told ne to
nut a finder box on the mantel shelf.n
l hurried to the chamber, where I found
ne old man muttering to himself. / spoke
o him, saying that dinner would soon be
eady.
"You are there" he said; land you come
0 tell me this is no dream, and I am a hun
red and twelve years old"
Then he stared vacantly, and worked his
myers in a %convulsive way.
l sent at once for DR.. Quitman, our family
MUSICIAN, while I managed to persuade the
Id man to get to bed. When the physician
anne, and before he saw his patient, though
gave him none Of the previous facts, l stated
hat this was my great-great-granduncle, and
he was liz years old. DR.. Quitman
'oked surprised at the relationship, and the
lean in his eye showed that he doubted the
&c given. He went with me to the chamber !
nd made the customary examination-Uncle
ohm answering his questions in monosylla-
not always as though he perfectly un-
"Well, doctorF' I inquired, when he had
ome out.
Il is certainly very DID," replied the
hysician; ''he may be close upon 100. There
no disease-the powers of life are simply !
wing way. By careful administration of
should recommend Huxhamss
by %judicious nourishment, YOU
ay prolong life a little; but he will prob
by peaceably fade out in q very few days"
And he did. On the third day, growing
and apparently without any feeling
pain, he passed away. I had my finger on
IS pulse. It was very weak and slow. ASH
God there he muttered, and I stopped to
stem. He murmured:
Guy, it was as real-you can have no
ea'-