Show FOR cunn OF INSOMNIA I > hr llliIMn > lurlua Dilfe for Irmlue INC a lUlnunlhellnif Rrrl I My old friend Hiram Olilblo form of Starkitllle Center Vt but city Iterknle now ot New York city Mid Col Calliper was born and ralsxl on a farm but he i j came later lo the city went Into trade got rich and retired After n lifetime of work lie thought he would try the i pleasure of Idleness quotes the New York Hun Hut somehow U ilhlnt work the first thing he knew he was oubled with Insomnia ho I coiildnt ship nights He trial counting 1000 0 i backward thinking about pleasant slings soul nil thai but It was no use he couliln deep Then he tliounht of metlilnu He remembered as I boy letiMil to sleep under the roof where he could bear Ibo ruin HA remembered remem-bered well how the time and after n day of hard work he had gone to his Intl 1 In the anus dry garret and had alien delightfully asleep listening to he rain upon the roof Well Mr Old hlo had cm liz up over his boil In his city house a sheetIron tank not > < ry deep In thin top of which there was fitted a shallow sheetIron pan with a ttr Cat erforatfd bottom something like n grout nutmeg grater Mr < IMblos lileii was tn run water Into thin upper pan whence through many perforation It I was tn fall musically Into the tank below be-low like raindrops reproducing tho soothing sleepy pattering of the raindrops rain-drops on tho roof Well It worked beautifully the nIl night so far as putting put-ting him to sleep won concerned but some lime In the night ho kicked loose the conductor that carried off the rnln water from tho tank and I before ho could get limo pipe buck Into place tho room was flooded nnd ho was wet and tlr1 hlmtctf Ho tried thin rain inn chlno I for awhile I but It never did I htm I I oe tlnV any good after that and ho hail It I taken out Ho tried other things and finally ho tried going back to work gnln and In his work ho found as many another man has found relict front many Ills Ho slept again nights well nnd restfully and was grateful |