The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-09-22

OenerAlly speaking, $50 Oiu DiA
MisRivens, "a man who shores is con-
sidered . nuisance. lOf course he
can't help it, but he gets no sympathy
on that account. II he is in sleep
ing car the other passengers blame
him for keeping them awake and
wish to sec him get choked. II he
| sleeps with his windows open at home
the neighbors have it in for him and
talk among themselves about it and
say there ought to be law against
| snoring. You know there are lot OF
people in this country who, whenever
there is something that don't suit
them, begin to insist that there ought
to be law against it. One of the
worst snorers ever saw was Lige
Smithers. Lige weighed more than
$50 pounds and his vocal organs were
considerably clogged. When Ligel
got sound asleep, especially when he
had been working pretty hard, a
stranger in the neighborhood would
be sure that there was q thunder
storm coming up. One of his near
neighbors told me that for six months
after he moved into Lige's neighbor-
hood he used to get up in his pajamas
and go down stairs and put down the
windows to keep out the rain. Then
he would go out on the front porch
and look up into the sky and there
wouldn't be blamed cloud in sight.
Said he couldn't understand it at all
until finally he got wise to the fact
that it was Lige snoring. After that
he said it was quite while before he
could get over the notion that Lige
was going to die. There would be a
continuous roll like thunder and then
suddenly Lige would stop dead still.
When that happened this neighbor !
would wake up his wife and tell her
that he was going over to Smithers
place as Lige had just passed away.
Passed away nothing his wife would
say impatiently; that man has no
more passed away than | have. He
just rolled over on his side. He will
be going again worse than ever in
minute Lige's snoring worried
Mrs. Smithers a great deal, bb;u;.. she .
was genius. She got to studying
now she could either prevent it or
Else make it pleasant sound instead /
If nuisance. She worked on that t
or six months and finally invented 9
musical instrument shaped like flute :
With cQntraption that she could fit '
,ver Lige's mouth and nose. 1t OPP t
rated, however, like one of those pi-
no players and when Lige snored in
o it the device made the most delight J.
ul music anybody ever listened 20.
he had nice collection of old melo- =
les, such as When You and | Were q
'oung, Maggie, Annie Laurie Sill 9
er Threads Among the Gold My U
I'D Kentucky Home, and the like. 1t
OF so popular finally that the neigh
ors for two or three blocks would
ather around the house when Lige .,
ent to sleep. Mrs. Smithers didn't ir
III Lige what she had done and he 81
id not get onto it until one night RI
hen he had rendered with beautiful "
'emolo effect Silver Threads Among ts
he Gold and the neighbors who fill Oh
l the yand and took up half the
rect in front of the house, broke
1t into storm of applause. That !.
oke Lige up just as his wife was re- s,
owing the instrument and he asked m
hat was the excitement He insist ca
on an explanation which Mrs. " ..
nithers had to give him. At first n
, was disposed to be hostile concern
e it, but when he found out how
S neighbors enjoyed it he began to ha
t a trifie ehesty about his ability iii
musician, although as a matter In
fact he didn't know one tune from ne
other. There was only one thing 81
at would sometimes mar the harmo- ="
of the entertainment, Lige would -
metimes dam up as it were and stop
sht in tie middle of a note, as for
ample, he might be rendering in Is
,st moving way When You and | Va
ere Young, Maggie and get as far
They te-' and stop right there
, maybe half a minute and then
FAX out again with II we're aged on
d gray, Maggie. Finally it hap "a "a
ned that the women of the Ladies' bn,
4 to which Mrs. Smithers belonged ber
uld insist on her giving Lige sleep VIII
nowders RIGHT in tho n,id5lo - ~ is
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