The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
IDEAS CONE AT NIGHT.
So This Man Thought He'd Get
Photograph.

SO THIS WAN ne u wv -
Photograph.
"Fve got a new cure for insomnia
said a busy young surgeon--there are
a few-the other day. II haven't tried
ii myself, but friend of mine has and
he says it works like charm.
s'Like most great inventions, it was
discovered quite accidentally. In the
first place, generally keep pretty late
hours. One has to, you know, in my
profession. At any rate-well, never
mindi the hours are late. AS have just
intimated, | take a great interest IN
my profession and have written few
things along that line. Well, sir, when
/ get fairly into bed, with the lights
out and everything favorable for sleep
ing, what do you suppose my old brain
begins to do?
1T begins to scintillate. o. yes, 1T
does 1t gets right down TO work and
il turns out some of the best ideas along
the line of surgery that the medical pro-
fession has ever heard. But, you bet,
can't be hopping up at four a. m. and
lighting the gas in order TO put these
| things down on paper. Why, I'd never
get any sleep if ibid Sol try to fix the
idea in my mind and hammer 1t there
with about so ways of thinking of 1t IN
the morning, and then | turn over ana
go to sleep, or used to.
'Well, of course, you anticipate that
didn't remember the idea in the morn
ing. Not a bitof it, Gonel clean gone!
It was dreadful | tried all sorts OF
ways out of the difficulty, and finally
landed on the brink of insomnia. I'm
not dead sure that | wasn't over the
brink.
If | lay there in bed and tried to i'm
press the idea so firmly on my mlno
that | couldn't possibly forget it in the
morning | got myself so wide awake
that could fairly feel my eyes popping
Then tried another plan. would get
up, light the gas, write out my insplra-
ton, and then put the gas out and woo
sleep again. But it wasn't any use.
lay awake for hours.
"Finally brilliant idea struck me
Said l to myself;
"If | could just lie there in the dart
and think my thought and bedone VIII
it. I'd be all right! By George, III dt
: it! I'll get phonograph and thlni
out loud when I've any thoughts tina
are worth preserving.
Il didn't get around to the phono
graph, however 1t was last sprlns
, when thought of it, and during tn
summer | ran down in Jersey to spen'
Sunday with a literary chap | knoN
> down there. Well, sir, what DO yo
: think was the first thing | saw in tina
s fellows room, jammed up close 10 hl
g bed as if it was an animal ready !
+ swallow him? 0, of course, you guess
1t was phonograph.
"'Hello!' | said, that's good idea
n know what you have got that thei
= for. I'm going to do the same thln
;. myself. I've let fame and fortune g.
away from me because haven't had OF
h of those things handy
It ''Well, the fellow smiled and blew Il
dust off the cylinder
Eyes, he said, / know. That WI
) nv idea, too, when l bought this thin
Il I'd been doing that old trick long tin
Ie myself I've lost library full of ma
le terpieces by not remembering Il
things l thought of during the ngf
But I'll just tell you that the phon
RS graph won't make you famous that wa
10 Not by the whole ladder! But it's
~ good thing, just the same.
because a COW isn't canary bi
J. is no sign that it isn't an excellent co
TX This phonograph hasn't favored
et with any echoes of my night though
q but-hold on Do you want to heai
snore what is snore? regular
n tanic. 60-fathems-deep breath from
er ocean of oblivion!
II IF you'll believe me, the fellow
- out cylinder, put it in, and turned
ne the machine. Talk about circumst
ey tial evidence! If that man had P
he auced watchers who had sworn that
ev never closed his eyes in sleep, t
,,s phonograph would have convicted til
all of perjury
"O!" and the young surgeon clio
his eyes with sigh of envious rapt'
olo ''to sleep the way that man did W
)U0 that phonograph was taking its OBJ
p. vations! And he says he does it eS
en- night. He hasn't had asingle dead
= the-night idea to eonfide to that pho
VS. graph, and he vows it is sure cure
ine that form OF insomnia " T. sun