The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-02
CANNOT SLEEP ron THE su.Excr
That is the Way Perfect StiIlne.. a.
fects Those Used to Noise
From the Chlcago Recor

From the Chicago Record
Late one evening a South Side mo-
alighted from suburban train and sts~,
ed toward his home, which was seva-.,
blocks to the west. He had been 1vor,-
ing hard all day and into the hours ..
darkness. Although he tried to disr,,--
from his mind the problems that belong-
eo IN MS office they were still with bir,
Inc man was rather worried and exbs,,..
ed because he had been under a ner,on,
strain 1t is only when a man fnisbo.
nard run that he begins to realiza ~
weak and winded he is. The runner me-.
lie down and rest, but the one who 10.
oVertaxed his brain finds himself vvbi,r,o,
on to further exertions in spite of III,
sen. rms man was, therefore, painfrii,,
the needless industry in his tbrob6,to
mead. When man Is in this conditioSs
the sudden noise of a slammed door
Irlghtens him, and then he is angrv, a. ~
own fright. The streets We're very C,,is
as the belated South Slider walked b66TIse
ward. He reached Cottage Grove avenus
ne stopped suddenly, seized with q faei
ing that he had lost his wav. or t9a-
this street which he had crossed ana 70
crossed for several years was not tba
same. 1t was kind of dumb terror s ,rlS
ne hastened to tell himself there was no
cause cause Ior It. Was he losing his senses?
faa1
that danger. was impending? Somethine
unusual had happened to him, ana he
could not tell what it was no
This is nervous COLLAPSE" ba mkt.
pered to himself, and he hurried 10 H.
drug store and allowed himself to col
lapse on one of the stools, overcome nv
a vague fear he could not understand
AS he sat there the proprietor wakes
py MN, opened the front door, and after
listening! a moment said: well, that ca
bic hasn't started up yet"
The cablei That was it. and The rea1tza
ton came to him in a flash OF the hIIT
dreds of times that he had crossed Cot
beneath him the roll and click of The
moving cable. Whether by day or bv
night, 1t had always been the same. until
this noise had become firmly associated in
his mind with the crossing of Cottega
Grove avenue. On this night it was the
absence of the noise that gave a shock
He had been terrorized by an ominous
silence striking him at a time and piacs
wherein his instinct had told him there
should be the clatter of the Sliding Ca
BILE. In view of the explanation, he
story had a tinge of humor, but the man
who had the experience did not grasp
the humor at the time.
when the druggist spoke of the cal,la
being stopped" said he, land Il all came
to me, drew a full breath of relief and
realized that hadn't gone entirely
This story. told by the sufferer him
self, suggested several others One of the
listeners said he had been affected in
the same way, but not to such an ex-
tent.
Il came to my room late one night
and began TO read" said he "but 1 was
feeling. The silence caused me TO be un-
easy. Then 1 looked up and saw that
the clock had STOPPED; started II again.
had a companion. The ticking of a
clock Is something that you never hear
until 1t stops"
'That reminds me of a friend of mine
who is an electrician" said another. He
has room in an electric light power
house As long as the machinery is
pounding he can sleep like a top, but
when the machinery stops he is waken-
ed in an instant"
In the main office OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company there are fifty or
more telegraph instruments clicking all
the time. To the unframed ear the noise
is distracting. 1t would seem impossible
to hear one sounder and turn a deaf ear
to the remainder. That is what the oper-
ator does, however. He takes the message
from the-to have noises all around you
and not hear the dots and dashes that are
being clicked off on other saunders all
around him. The amazed stranger hears
only loud and angry buzz. This is
part of the town education-to have
noises all around you and not hear them.
When the trains began running on the
Alley elevated road, between State street
and Wabash avenue, carriage manufac-
turer who had a number of workmen en-
ployed at tables next to the alley win
dows decided to have them move to some
place where they would not be disturbed.
He supposed that when the trains began
rushing by the windows and only few
feet from the building the men would con-
stantly have their attention drawn from
their work. For few days after the
trains began running 1t seemed that he
was right. The men would stop work and
watch the train until it had passed. But
in one short week the novelty wore off.
The roar of the passing train became ia
milar and was almost unnoticed. In less
than month the workmen said the train
did not annoy them at ALL AS one of them
said: I'VE forget there are any trains
passing unless some one speaks of it.
Any hotel clerk will tell you of the trib-
downtown houses. They cannot sleep I'M
til the cable cars have ceased their rum
bling and bell-ringing, and then they are
aroused before daybreak by the market
wagons and early cable cars. Often
enough they cannot sleep at ALL The rat
tie of a hanson cab in the streets below
will arouse them to full wakefulness, and
the sound of some one passing through
the hallway outside will cause them to
open their eyes and listen intently Tor
fifteen minutes Then there is the dread
of fires, which is never conducive to slum-
Der. But there is another side to this
story. A Chicago man who has lived at
a downtown hotel for years said he never
awoke before 8 o'clock except when he
was in Chicago.
When he was in town he could sleep for
three hours with cable cars, wagons ana
HeWSDOyS HldhluS ali kluuS OI uOlSeS -
der his window, but when he was in the
he was awakened by the first crow
of a rooster He could sleep through the
noises to which he had been accustomed,
but a new kind of noise aroused him IN
a moment. The farmers cannot hear the
frogs sing, but to the city man the chorus
has the volume of Thomas concert. The
city man, with an Office overlooking La
Sale street never hears anything in the
street below, unless it be the music OF
brass band or a manhole explosion. HIS
cousin, however, will be dazed
by that continuous humble and rumble
His head will ache from listening 70 the
city's incessant growl, and to him It VIII
seem the growl of a savage beast, without
sympathy or pity. He will be back on tne
farm for three days before the noise gets
out of his ears.
Captains wives at Disadvantages
From the New York Tribune
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