The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1894-12-07
THE LAND OF SLEEP.
Somnolsnt Enects Of Northern
New York Hop Fieada
wayf.rers and Natives suecumh - tAa
rroEsy influence Tall stosiss
Told About This Pssnl-
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In the mellow, misty days Of autumn
wayfaring strangers in either otsego
or Schoharie county are certain " Be-
overcome by a surprising strowsiness
which commonly makes them think
that they have been drugged In SONS
unaccountable fashion. But whea
these dozing travellers observe that this
apparently uncomfortable desire to
slumber weights the lids Of natives ~
well as their own. the ramhlcrs ~
tribute their somnolence TO some nm
known soporific quality in the prevail
ing haze. That, says writer In New
York exchange, is about Us far rs thay
ever penetrate the phenomena II
surneying on horseback or In wagons
tscy are soon snoring, while Il they
~ travelling on Shanks' marc thsy
crop along the readable and fall fAss
sleep. No matter how wide awake
'sey may be, they are powerleD tn rs-
III the drowsiness when they entrr
.iIher Of these counties.
The same thing prevails in TINT para
Of the d. & II. railroad which cuts
through SchohArie and 0tsego noun
lies. Conductor Jim Thomas, and all
the train hands for that matter, have
$ use drugs to keep from falling
rsleep while they are in this torpescsnt
region. All the passengers sleap Like
sSrmice. There they sit, Pipe N
Iiossh. at card tables and paper IL
hand, as II suddenly struck dead. But
their snures proclaim that they are
only benumbed by sleep.
One might think TINT these slumber-
ing passengers would be .'soft nxrs1sn
for train robber, but ex-Asssmhly-
mnnsO. F. Lane, Of Otsego, tells story
which proves exactly the reversa- A
thief did clean out the pockets of soms
twenty passengers. But when. after
passing outside the counties, the pas
senpers came to, they found the luck
less thief, loaded with booty. stretched
snoring in corner. He had got with
n step Of the door when the slesp
ssyer hit him and be fell snoring in his
tracks.
With all the trouble Conductor
Thomas has prodding slumbering way
lassengers into partial wakafnlnea,
ais friends wonder that every hair in
his head hasn't turned white. Still, 81
ihis season these counties are IN
Acadia to which flock many persous
suffering with insomnia.
II cures. but the cure is even worse
than the disease. At least that il what
". Il. Bum, appraiser Of the port OF
glswego, thinks. Hard work agRra-
rated by too many warm bottles and
cold birds, left Mr.. Bum martyr ts
insomnia. Urged by friends, he sought
relief in CobleskiIl, Schoharie county
Eyen before he got settled there he be-
came dead TO all surroundings Ne
one. not even himself. KNOWS how
long he slept. Some say forty-nins
hours right off the real Anyway,
after q weak of it he went home cured.
But he became such slsepyhesd thai
be is ssid TO be seehing something TINS
win bring On mild form Of insomnia.
Ex-Congressman Pendnr tells story
Of q stump speaker in Schensvus, o..
nego county, who fell dead asleep right
81 the middle Of his oration. He waa
struck with one hand aloft liks pump
handle. In that preposterous attituia
End still snoozing he was carried to tbs