The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-09
BLIND LEADING
the BLIND
Why He Lost His Job Of Waking
Up the Snorer.

II guess the oldest job | ever had"
said man who In the course of his
life thus far has had many curious EN-.
was waking up snorer.
"The man had this job with was a
man with good deal more than com
Portable means, and Just about as nice
a man as ever lived but he certainly
was a snorer This didn't bother him
any on his own account, but 1t did
worry him because it disturbed other
people, and he tried all manner of
means to stop it.
He tied up his head when he went
to bed so that he couldn't open his
mouth, and he tried sleeping on his
right side and on his left and on his
back, and lying straight and lying
crooked and every way. But nothing
doing. He would get to snoring, and
finally he thought up the idea himself
of having somebody to sit in his room
nights and wake him up the minute
his trombone started, and | was the
man he got. He hired me through his
physician. I'd done some little work
at one time and another for this doc
tor, and he recommended me.
"And that looked like a good job to
me at the start lie was jolly, nice
man, and he fixed me up very comfort
ably In a sort of alcove there was in
his room, with big easy chair along
side a table with a lot of books and
magazines on 1t, and with a high
screen between the chair and table
and his bed to shut OF the light from
him.
"'Now, there you are,' he says, the
first night / sat in with him. books
and papers and an easy chair, and you
Just make yourself comfortable, only
don't rustic the leaves any more than
you can help, and whatever else you
do don't upset this screen when you're
hurrying to wake me up, because that
would startle the folks more than my
snoring. And then he goes to bed.
And he hadn't much more than got
there before he began to snore, but
was on the job, standing at his side
and waking him In a minute, and
he was little bit surprised that first
| time l walked him, but he remembered
In minute and said: All right, son,
and smiled and went to sleep again.
II had TO wake him like that two
or three or four times a night, irreg-
ular, sometimes more, sometimes less,
but we got along all right He sure
was an able snOrer, and sometimes
he'd start right off full blast right
from the jump but usually | was able
to get him before he'd begun TO make
the house tremble, and things went
along that way, everything all right
for about seven weeks Just as nice as
could be, the scheme working as slick
as you could imagine; and the boss
was pleased, and | certainly was.
1T was night work, / know, but
didn't mind that; the pay was good
and the work easy, and | thought
was fixed and settled in about as nice
and easy a job as man could have
And then all Of a sudden one nigh
this job went up the spout In a min
ute.
THAT night or along about 3:15 II
the morning It was, while was sitting
there in the big arm chair for the boss
to turn up, | felt somebody shaking
my shoulders, and shaking hare
enough, pretty near, to shake my heaC
off and then / wake up and sees the
boss standing over me.
Governor says, what's the mat
ter?' though | knew what was tn,
matter well enough.
Natter he says, matter? VIII!
II | snore one-twenty-fifty as loud a.
you do | wonder they didn't put IN,
out of the house long ago.
'And that was all there was to 1t
the governor mad been little quiete
than usual that night and not bein
called so often | had fallen asleep ~
my post and gone to snoring M
self, and | suppose the boss wa
right about how loud was snorin
because, as matter of fact, | an
something of snorer; II could rel
on my snoring regular and even,
could have made fortune long az
hiring out as a foghorn anywhere o