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were secrets known only to Sawyer
and the hypnotist who rendered his
services. Ga the night of May 80,
1887, West sent for the latter, and was
put to sleep as usual. The hypnotist
had previously informed his patron
that he was intending to leave the city
permanently the same evening, and re-
ferred him to other practitioners. That
night the house of Julian West took
fire and was wholly destroyed. Re-
mains identified as those Of Sawyer
were found and, as no vestige of West
course had also persisted.
Slept Over a Century.
One hundred and thirteen years
later, in September, A. d. 1000, DR..
Leete, a physician of Boston, on the
retired list, was conducting excava-
tons in his garden for the foundations
Of Il private laboratory, when the
workers came on a mass of masonry
covered with ashes and charcoal. On
opening it, a vault, luXuriOusly fitted
up in style Of a nineteenth-century
hed-chamber, was found, and on the
bed the body of Il strong young nan
looking as if he had just lain down to
sleep. Although great trees had been
growing above the vault, the unac-
cOuntable preservation of the youths
body tempted DR.. Leete to attempt re-
suscitatiOn and to his own astonish-
ment his efforts proved successful.
The sleeper returned to life, and after
a short time to the full vigor of. youth
which his appearance had indicated.
His shock on learning what had be-
fallen him was so great as to have
endangered his sanity but for the med
zeal skill of DR.. Leete, and the no
less sympathetic ministrations Of the
other members of the household, the
doctors wife, and Edith the beautiful
daughter. Presently, however, the
young a forgot to wonder 1t what
had happened to himself in his aston
ishment on learning Of the social
transformation through which the,
world had passed while he lay sleep
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child, his hosts explained to him, who
had known no other way of living ex-
cept the struggle for existence, what
were the simple principles of national
cooperation for the promotion of the
general welfare on which the new civ
ilization rested. He learned that there
were no longer any who We're or could
be richer d. poorer than Others, but
that all were economic equals. He
learned that no one any longer worked
for another, either by compulsion or
for hire, but that all alike were in the
service of the nation working for the
common fund, which all equally
shared, and that even necessary per-
sonal attendance, as Of the physician,
was rendered as to the state like that
Of the military surgeon. All these
wonders, it was explained, had very
simply come about as the result Of re-
placing private capitalism by public
capitalism, and organizing the ma
chinery of production and distribution.
like the political government, as bu,.-
ness of general concern to be carried
on for the public benefit instead Of
private gain.
Money Abolished.
In the new social body the producers
of the nation were organized together
in one vast Industrial army which cor
responded in many aspects to the huge
military machines Of the Nineteenth
century. Almost perfect co-ordinatiou
was achieved, an end was put to war
forever, and money, as It was under
stood ~ the age Of Special Privilege
and Imperialism. had long since beep