Arizona republican., 1894-11-22

are travelling on Shanks' mare they drop along the roadside and fall fast asleep. No matter how wide awake they may be, they are powerless to re- sist the drowsiness when they enter either of these counties.
 The same thing prevails in that part of the D. & H. railroad which cuts through Schoharie and Otsego coun- ties. Conductor Jim Thomas, and all the train hands for that matter, have to use drugs to keep from falling asleep while they are in this torpescent region. All the passengers sleep like dormice. There they sit, pipe ir mouth, at card tables and paper in hand, as if suddenly struck dead. But their snores proclaim that they are only benumbed by sleep.
 One might think that these slumber- ing passengers would be ''soft marks" for a train robber, but ex-Assembly- man o. F. Lane, of Otsego, tells story which proves exactly the reverse. A thief did clean out the pockets of some twenty passengers. But when, after passing outside the counties, the pas sengers came to, they found the luck less thief, loaded with booty, stretched snoring in corner. He had got with in a step of the door when the sleep fever hit him and he fell snoring in his tracks
 With all the trouble Conductor Thomas has prodding slumbering way passengers into partial wakefulness, his friends wonder that every hair in his head hasn't turned white. Still, at this season these counties are an Acadia to which flock many persons suffering with insomnia.
 It cures, but the cure is even worse than the disease. At least that is what W. II. Bum, appraiser of the port of Oswego, thinks. Hard work aggra- vated by too many warm bottles and cold birds, left Mir. Bum a martyr to insomnia. Urged by friends, he sought relief in Cobleskill, Schoharie county Even before he got settled there he be- came dead to all surroundings. No one, not even himself, knows how long he slept. Some say forty-nine hours right off the reel. Anyway, after a week of it he went home cured. But he became such a sleepyhead that he is said to be seeking something that will bring on mild form of insomnia.
 EX-Congressman Pendar tells story of a stump speaker in Schenevus, Ot- sego county, who fell dead asleep right in the middle of his oration. He was struck with one hand aloft like a pump handle. In that preposterous attitude and still snoozing he was carried to the nearest tavern. The political cam paign was over before he became wide awake.
 Every one, scientific or otherwise, who has investigated the matter agrees that the drowsiness which becomes epidemic in this region every fall is caused by the intoxicating aroma from the hos. fields, which, with the almost impalpable yellow dust blown from the hops, gluts the atmosphere. Hop pill lows have long been recognized as a sovereign cure for sleeplessness. Yet if the stuffng of million hop bolsters were scattered to the winds they could not as richly impregnate the air as do the living vines themselves. Even in a gentle breeze the drowsy pungency of the hops can be scented fifty miles from the nearest hop field. So there is no call to wonder why strangers lose themselves in sleep as soon as they enter the hop producing counties of this state.