Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-01-14
The Nature Of Persons A:
Shown in Their Sleep.

A small knot Of travelling men were
discussing the vagaries and weak
.nesses of that noble animal, man, when
a 81. Louis man Joined the discussion.
Take, fer instance he said, "the
marked difference in the way different
persons sleep. Now, with me, my sleep
ls always sound, and an earthquake
wouldn't disturb me ordinarily, but if
anyone comes in my room and allows
the door to creak the least bit, i am
awake in an instant And, strange to
say, II any one pronounces my given
name ever so softly 1t serves to rouse
me at once
Il had a remarkable Illustration of
this about ten years ago, and it is one
of the strangest things / ever had hap
pen to me.
"Of course, all of us have our ups
and downs, and at the time l speak
of l was rather down on my luck and
on the careen generally. / had been
working in Kansas City, and after
losing out there l decided to go to
New Mexico. You see, was disgusted
with Missouri and wanted a change of
base.
Though wasn't exactly on the
hog, having few stray dollars in my
pockets, l wasn' what you'd call
wealthy, and to save every sou posi-
BILE l beat my way as far as possible.
While sklrmishing around in the San
ia Fe yards l ran across a car load of
dressed flooring, car with the end
doors open.
This was an easy mark and real
good thing for dressed lumber is
great stuff to sleep on when you are
tired cut. If | had known then what
l know now, money would not have
tempted me to sleep in that car, but
was ne VITO the hobo business then and
did not know the ltreacherous qualities
of car load of lumber How far the
car was billed | did not know, it being
too dark to see the card on it, but in
climbed and was sleeping with my usu-
al produndity when the engine coupled
up and pulled out of Kansas City.
Il can't say how long / slept, but
when | woke the sun was high and
was lying on my back in the open air
on scattered pile of flooring. Just
in front of me was the end of side
track, and up against the big butting
pest was the car | rode cut of Kansas
City in, the whole end CT it knocked
| out as clean as awhistle. How under
the shining sun I ever got there was a
puzzle. | wasn't hurt at all and didn't
remember anything about a wreck or
Jolt during my sleep.
while | was specializing and pound
ing my brains for an answer to the
puzzle a railroad man came up. For
minute he did nothing but cuss
swearing low and soft to himself, and
then catching sight of me he broke
into a laugh From this eloquent
gentleman of the rail I learned that |
was stranded at Olathe, Kan, but that
didn't explain hcw | got out on the
ground, together with a car load of
flooring When l asked the railroad
man for an explanation, he locked
down on me with a pitiful expression.
Why says he, chats an easy one.
You must be several kinds of a id
fool 10 kip in car of that tricky stuff
Why, man, that flooring will fairly
walk cut CT a car for the least little
thing in the way of a jolt, When
those chumps on No. kicked this car
in here last night they didn't set no
brakes, and she hit the buttin' post a
rattlin' jolt The car stopped, but the
flocring-well, it kept right on, just
like you see it,
THAT | didn't wake up ! can only
attribute to my peculiar soundness of
sleep, but how | ever got out of that
mess without bruise or a scratch is
mystery. Since then | have learned
that hobCs will never sleep or travel in
car Of dressed lumber on account Of
it's dirigible and automobile tenden-
cles. "-Memphis Scimitar.