Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — Sweet Slumber. [ARTICLE]

Sweet Slumber.

Fowler Leader. Alex Green lives- at Swanington. He was in town Wednesday. It is presumed that he sipped of the lotus —the nectar of sod corn, which made to him the rocky right of way of the Big Four a downy bed of sweet repose. and with the butt end of a tie for a pillow he went to sleep. His head was within a foot of the rails but all on the outside. The Big Four passenger train passed along, whistled an alarm, but did not awaken him. It was just rocking the cradle for Alex. If he had raised his head during the passagr of the train, he doubtless would have been hurled in co eternity.