The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-04
Saving Hickory.

stopped at the Baidell House. When
informed that he must occupy a room
with a rsd whi-kered fellow with whlskeY-
streaked eyes be demurred, but seeing no
chance o. lettering his condition he finally
consented. Mr.. eteveall has the annoy
ing misfortune Of snoring. Other men
have been known TO snore pretty we'll.
but no person who has ever heard MI
Steveall will attempt TO turn over his
memory IN search of any one who can
suore a higher or deeper triumph. Mr..
Steveall and the red-whiskered man with
the whiskey-.treaked eyes went to bed
about the same time, fortunately, or un-
fortunately, as the case may be, occupy
ing differ ent cou,hes We say couches
in mockery.
Mr.. Steveall soon dropped of to sleep,
and at once began TO saw hickory timber.
Say" called the red whiskered man.
"Nell?"
"You are snoring
THAT SOP replied Mr.. Steveall, .ar
| ca~stically. | am As years old, aDd you
snoring"
He soon dropped to sleep again. for it
seems that snoring men never lie awake.
"Sayl'
"Well 2"
"You are snoring again"
''You must excuse me-, sir. | am IS
years old, and l don't think that any one
ever accused me before of snoring"
Again he slept, and again he put on a
large hickory log. He had stabbed off
one side and had Just struck a knot, when
the red whiskered man called
Say, over there
"Well?"
Snoring again
This is indeed singular. | am Is
years old, and you are the first person TO
discover that | snore.'
He dozed again and found a blackjack
log that needed saving, SO he rolled it up
on the trucks and began work. He rip
ped off one slab ana started to split the
middle when the saw struck a shattered
place.
Saw"
"Well7'
You are again snoring
"Well, | declare; this is singular. |
am 45 years old, aud you are the first
person to make such an accusation
Look here, my friend, that is getting
to be a trlfle too a~ttenuated.'
What's that?"
''Why, that forty-fve year-old story"
"Then you don't believe | have told
you the truth 2"
Il know you have not. Bet anything
you have been a snorer all your lif,. Bet
you kept your mother awake when you
we're a boy. Will you do me a favor? n
"Ies."
well, if | drop to sleep and you stop
snoring, will you wake me up and tel
me?'
Yes"
"All right. l will remember you as
the browning favor of a lifetime"
After a while the red whiskered man
sank to sleep. Mr.. Steveall arose, took
a slat from his bed, approached the sleep
ing man, gently turned down the covers,
"hauled Off with the slat and struck
him a blow that he will never forget.
Great Lord! What are you doiDg?"
4 am not snoring" replied Mr.. Steve
all, striking his victim again. you
wanted me to inform you when [ stop
ped,' and ''whack" he took him again.
81 am not snoring now, you annoying
rascal. Lay down there, and if | hear
another word out o you tonight I'll wear
you out"
And Dir. Steveall lay down, and soon
began to saw an elm log.
CHAINED TO A Rock TO DIE. Wheel
ing, ". "a, Nay 26.-West Virginia
seems to have an epidemic of sensational
cases. The latest comes from Webster
county. John Adams, a prominent and
wealthy farmer and Sheriff of the county,
became infatuated with q dicSoIuta char
acter. To free himself from its wife
Adams brought suit for divorce on the
ground of unfaithfulness and secured wit
nes>es to sustain the charge. After the
granting of the divorce Mrs. Adams dis
appeared from the neighborhood, and it
was supposed that she had left the coun-
ty. Saturday evening one of her child
rem, aged 10, who was visiting a few
miles from home, in climbing Mount
Hero, a mountain thickly wooded, came
across a rail pen. Looking in, he saw a
woman. He ran to the nearest house
for friends. Returning they found the
mother Of the child nearly dead from ex-
posture, chained to a rock in the pen. On
being revived she said her husband had
had her taken to a cave and kept there
till almost dead from starvation. Two
days before he brought her to the pen
and fastened her by the chain. The place
where she was found is lonely, and is not
visited once in a year. 1t is supposed
that the husband meant to let her die,
then remove the chains and make it APP
pear a case of suicide. The county is
TERRIBLY reused. and the guilty man and
his dissolute friend will be lynched if
caught. Mrs. Adams will die.