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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
HOLDING DOWN THE FLESH.
How Fat Girls Dream OF Happiness Was
Suddenly interrupted.


New York Press.]
There was society girl who was getting
stout and almost going out of her mind in
stopped drinking champagne, but the flesh
would not melt, it only increased. Finally,
In the privacy of her own apartments one
day, this unhappy creature took a solemn
oatn that she would not again let out the
strings of her corset.
Il believe" she said, "that if I do not
give way to the flesh the flesh will give
way to me-"
Satisfied that this was brilliant theory
the young lady had herself weighed and the
scales marked 145 pounds.
Ihat's my limit" she muttered. 81 will
not allow another pound to take up an
aoidlng place upon my body. The corset
Will save me if / never let it out"
Ihe girl at once purchased a wonderful
corset that was calculated to incase and re-
strain about all the rebellious developments
that might exist between the shoulders and
the knees. 1t was a terrible garment that
would have been greatly treasured by the
managers of the Spanish Inquisition, and the
young lady contemplated it with delighted
smile. The corset was religiously worn for
two months, during which time its strings
were not touched by its fair owner, and
as she did not feel herself crowded be-
yond endurance, and her friends, who
realized that she was sensitive concern
ing her stoutness, did not make any re-
marks about her personal appearance, she
grew complacent, and life was again a
serene joy to her. Atthe end of two months
she carefully went to the same scales upon
which she had before weighed herself.
Dropping in her nickel she waited happily
while the music played, and then she picked
up the small card which fell out of the aper-
ture of the scale. Then she grew stiff and
pale and awful. Anyone glancing over her
shoulder would have seen that the figures
registered upon the card which she held in
her trembling hand were 157. With
great gasp she started for home. Arriving
there she summoned her maid.
Have You dared to touch these new cor
sets of mine?" she cried, excitedly. "Have
you dared to meddle with the strings dur
ing the last few months?"
'tWhy-yes-" stammered the timid
maid; II have had to let them out repeat
edly, because each time I put them on you
found you had grown stouter''
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03

peoples and not with the States To see
one country oppressed by the rulers of
! another country is heartrending sight.
This is not question of cruel tyrants,
selfish oligarchies You are self-governed
people bv your votes determining the course
the imperial policy must follow. With
this power you must accept the duties and
responsibilities which belong to it. If Ire
land is oppressed hereafter it will be op-
pressed by you, people of England. The
spectacle of one people depressing another
is the saddest, most heartrending and
humbling that can be seen on the surface
of the earth. l can never believe that
great nation will place itself in such q po-
sition.
In truth, this question of friendship or
enmity has already been considered in some
degree. A decided declaration in favor of
friendship has been made in q most consti-
tutlonal manner by the results of the polls.
Our opponents now begin to admit it to be
something formidable. The elections hon.
estlv decided are safe indication of what
is to come as the verdict The constituent
cies have spoken not only the sober, the
Just and the true, but also the inevitable.
[Cheers. Upon these verdicts ireland
relies.
THE LIBERAL PLATFORM.
At the National Liberal Federation Con-
gress to-day resolutions were adopted as
follows: Condemning the registration laws
as excluding many voters; favoring shorter
sessions of Parliament and providing that
all elections shall take place on the same
day; recommending the principle of paying
members of the House of Commons; de-
ciaring that district and parish Councils,
elected by popular vote, should be estab-
lished, and that certain powers should be
conceded to local authorities, and other
measures taken necessary for the better
ment of the condition Of the rural popula-
tions
Sir Wilfred Lawson, NJ. P, President of
the Alliance for the Suppression of the
Liquor Traffic, moved the reaffirmation of
the Councils declarations in favor of mend
ing or ending the House of Lords; favoring
local option; reform of the land laws; re-
peal of the laws of primogeniture and en-
tail; enfranchisement of leaseholders, and
the disestablishment and disendowment of
the Church of Scotland. Sir Wilfred said
the period for mending the House of Lords
had passed away, and therefore he advised
its abolition.
Sir Wilfred's motion was adopted, and
the Congress adjourned until tomorrow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
A LIONS CONFIDENCE.
The Trainer Begins to Win 1t by Simply Sit.
ting in the Beasts Cage.

ting in the Beasts Cage.
New Zealand News.l
In training the animals the first thing 1
did was to go into their cage and sit there.
Nothing more than that, sit simply there
hour after hour. You may ask whether 1
wasn't afraid to do this. No, because as L
say, had for years been accustomed to be
with wild beasts 1 will not say it is a
pleasant experience to go into lions den,
but it is not so bad as you might think it
would be if you know the nature of the
animals you deal with. When L first went
into the cage the lions would growl; now
and then they would act as if they were 60
ing to bite me.
When they were kind and quiet 1 would
talk to them pleasantly, as you would talk
to vicious dog you were trying to train to
like YOU. 1 would call them 'good old fel-
lows" "fne old fellows" and SO on, and so
they would get used to kind tone of voice.
After awhile, some two or three months,
when they were in their quiet moods would
venture to touch them, finally to pat them
gently on the head, or to stroke them on
the back. When they were cross would
stand apart from them, but without show
ing any signs of fear. I used no force with
them. Such method might do in training
some kinds of animals, but it would not do
with lions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
AFTER RAUM'S SCALP.
Charges Against Him of Protecting
Guilty Pension Clerks.
DUDLEY ALSO IN THE SCANDAL.
A Grave Criminal Act in Connection With
a Re-Rating of His.
PAPERS STOLEN FROM BUREAU FILES
rrRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. !

rFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-It is rumored
| this evening that charges have been made
against Commissioner Raum, of the Pen
sion Bureau, that he has deliberately and
knowingly kept clerks in the pension office
who have been guilty of grave misconduct
in their clerical capacity.
One of these, it is asserted, has been
known to forge grants of pensions Another,
it is asserted, when in the field as a special
examiner, made it his business to pass
around the circular of Colonel w. w. Dud-
ley, ex-Commissioner, who now does large
business as pension claims attorney, and
that this was done with the knowledge of
Commissioner Raum. The clerks who have
been making these charges are still in office,
and it is inferred from this that they are
protected by Secretary Noble and President
Harrison.
RAUM'S CLAIM FOR BACK PAY.
Another report is that General Raum has
filed a claim for back pay as colonel of his
Illinois Regiment, in which one of the
statements is that he is impecunious and in
great need of the money, but officials of the
second Auditors Office would not admit the
truth of the story when the DISPATCH cor
IU-udy- Ouc
is certain, affairs are in very bad shape at
the Pension Bureau. The clerks seem to be
pretty generally antagonistic to Commits
sioner Raum.
Another and more sensational rumor than
any of those heretofore advanced with ref
erence to Commissioner Raum and the
workings of his bureau is out tonight 1t
appears that while Corporal Tanner was
Commissioner Colonel w. w. Dudley ap-
piled for a re-rating on account of the loss
of his leg below the knee joint, claiming
that the character of the wound rendered it
equivalent to the loss of leg above the
knee.
A SHADY TRANSACTION.
Tanner signed the order granting the re-rat-
ing, upon the recommendation of the proper
officers. When the committee appointed
by Secretary Noble to investigate all the
re-rating cases went through the files of the
Pension Bureau the name of Colonel Dud-
ley was not found. The papers had been
distracted from the files and were returned
after the investigation closed.
Who is guilty Of the grave criminal act
of abstracting the papers does not yet ap-
pear, but THE DISPATCH correspondent is
assured by an authority that can hardly be
doubted that this is the fact and that Dud-
ley afterward got his re-rating as though
he had lost leg above the knee. Should
the criminal be discovered it will be a
serious affair for him, and it can hardly fail
to be very damaging TO Colonel Dudley and
possibly to some of the highest officials of
the Interior Department.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
COL0RED STRIKERS SETTLE.
They Are Granted a Slight Advance and
Conclude to Return to Work

SAVANNAH, Oct. 2.-[Special. ] THE
mammoth colored laborers' strike, which
has affected the general business of the city
to such great extent during the past week,
is practically ended. The more thoughtful
and intelligent negroes of the community
appeared before the strikers at a
mass meeting tonight and recommended
an acceptance of the terms offered
by the railroads, which is an advance of21I
cents per hour on the old rates. The mass
of the strikers rebelled at first, but finally
agreed to go to work if the railroad would
still offer them the same scale of wages.
A committee was then appointed to wait
on Colonel McBee, General Superintendent
of the Richmond and Danville Railroad,
who informed them that the strikers could
go to work at once and be assured of the
2H cents advance. After receiving this as
surance the strikers quietly dispersed and
the majority of them will report for duty
on Monday morning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
RAISING MONUMENT MONEY.
Many Prominent Public Men Present at Z
Grant Association Concert

Many Prominent Public Men Present at a
Grant Association Concert.
NEW YORK, Oct. "A reproduction of
S. G.. Pratt's ''AlleEory of the War in
Song" was given this evening at Madison
Square Garden under the auspices of the
Grant Monument Association and for the
Grant Monument fund. Many choral So
cieties and church choirs participated.
The chorus numbered 200, the orchestra
100, and the latter was assisted by military
band. The garden was crowded. Roswell
P. Flower, candidate for Governor, was
spectator and was loudly cheered when he
entered the garden. Among others present
were: Senator Thomas C.. Platt, Senator L.
l. Stewart, General hi Cesnola, General o.
o. Howard, General Horace Porter, Daniel
S. Lamont, Judge Il. L. Cowing, and a host
of Others
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
AN UNsOLvED MYSTERY,
Lawyer Monaghan's Whereabouts Still a
Puzzling Conundrum.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-[Special. 1.-The dis
appearance of Robert Jones Monaghan from
the Gilsey House is as much of mystery
now as it was when he was first reported
missing, nearly week ago. His brother,
James Monaghan, is still at the Gilsey
Honse, and is very much worried at getting
no news "My brother has either met with
foul play or become suddenly demented, !"
he said. "He has been working very hard
of late, and has also been troubled with
insomnia. That might have turned his
head and led to his going off somewhere.
He did not, as a rule, carry much money,
and don't think that he had much when
he disappeared.
The Hon Joseph Hemphill, one of the
Judges of the Fifteenth Judicial district of
Pennsylvania, said: 'I have known Rob
ert Monaghan since 1869. He takes an
occasional drink, but never heard of his
taking too much at any time don't know
of man who lived a more quiet and steady
life"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
RAINS IN THE NORTHWEST,
They Will Delay Threshing and Possibly
Do Great Deal of Damage.

ST. PAUL, Oct. 2.-General and heavy
rains have fallen yesterday and to-day all
over the Northwest. Reports from North
Dakota are that the rain will delay thresh-
ing for possibly month.
As the great shortage in threshers and
threshing crews has prevented more than 25
per cent of the crop from being threshed up
to this time this further delay will work
great hardship and loss to the farmers Just
how much it will diminish the $50, ZOO, 900
value of the crop can't be estimated, but
the 5000, 1000, 900 increase in land values in
Minnesota and the Dakotas will rot be
lessened.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03

either will do both, and should have no
place in the peoples confidence.
Congressman Milliken's friends claim that
in announcing his intention to become a
total abstainer, as well as in his scathing
reference to ga certain candidate for Con
gressional honors," he has scored big
point on Governor Burleigh, who is the
candidate meant.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
DIED LIKE BOULANGER.
A Consumptive Truck Driver Admirer of
His Shoots Himself


New YORK, Oct 2.-[Special Thomas
Mccarthy, a consumptive truck driver,
tried to kill himself at High Bridge some
time ago. He hacked his throat with a
razor, but his courage gave out, and he
made his way down town to Bellevue get
ting there at 2 o'clock the
next morning. This afternoon he
made an end of himself in his rooms. 81
am tired of living" he said, and pulled ont
his pistol. He pointed it about the room
in various directions His wife thought he
was about to Kill her and ran out of the
room. She heard him lock the door and
then she heard shot. She ran screaming
into the street.
Three firemen and Policemen Peter Law
Ter went back with her. They found Nc
Carthy sitting bolt upright in a rocking
chair, dead. He had shot himself in the
right temple. He was an admirer of
Boulanger, and had said he would die like
the Frenchman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03

BEAVER FALLS, Oct. 2.-[Special This
morning the "gathering-in" boys at the Co
Operative Glass Works, to the number of
about 40, struck for higher wages. They
have been getting 40 cents a turn of four
and half hours, and they demand A. cents
and helper on heavy ware The strike
has crippled the works.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
MOUNTED POLICE NEEDED
To Prevent tn e Smuggling of Chinese Over
Our Nor thern Boundary

CHICAGO, Oct. Especial Treasury
Agent Stone has returned from the Cana
dian border, where he has been located since
last June watching Cinnamon who seek to
smuggle themselves into the State. Stone
says the present system for detecting and
sending back the intruders is almost total
failure.
Between Pembina, the extreme eastern
point of the Canadian line near Lake Su-
perior and Montana, there are not dozen
inspectors to patrol the vast stretch. Hun
dreds of Cinnamon succeed in getting across
the borders Bands of whites and Canadians
assist them in this at so much head What
is needed is force of mounted police.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
Reciprocity With Mexico,

WASHINGTON, Oct. egotiations look
ing to an agreement upon a reciprocity
treaty between the United States and Mex
leo are in active progress in the City of
Mexico between the special Commissioner
appointed by the Mexican Government
and United States Minister Ryan.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03

CONCORD, N. H. Oct. "A call for the
nineteenth annual meeting of the American
Public Health Association at Kansas City
October 20, 81, % and %, has been issued BY
Secretary Watson, NJ. D., of this city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03

BEAR HUNTING-A letter from the Pitts
burg nimrods now in Colorado published in
THE DISPATCH tomorrow. They have
killed "OId Longfoot," a grizzly weighing
900 pounds,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
A Claimant in the Searles Case.

SALEM, MASS. Oct. 2.-An appearance
has been filed in the Searles will case by
attorneys of Los Angeles, CAL, in behalf of
Maria E. Bressee, of that city, who claims
to be an heir-at-law of Mrs. Mary +.
Sear1es
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
ATTACKED BY A BULLDOG.
The Ferocious Brute Jumps on a Woman
and Bites Her Badly.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 2.-[SpeciaV Mrs.
Dora Glendenning is very low. as the result
of a desperate attack made upon her by a
bulldog. Last night Mrs. Glendenning
started to go to the yard of her neighbor,
where two girls were playing with large
bulldog. Without warning the dog sprang
upon her, fastening his teeth in her hip.
Before she could tear away from the mad
brute he bit her several times The shock
drove the poor woman into convulsions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03

EDUCATIONAL-Latest discoveries in ap-
piled science. electricity and medicine in
THE DISPATCH tomorrow: Complete
and able musical and theatrical reviews.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
Beautiful Sterling Silver.

Royal pieces in
Pierced silver work,
Repousse silver work,
Chased silver work,
Satin silver work,
In beautiful new shapes and styles at
HARDY & HAYES,
Jewellers, Silversmiths and Art Dealers,
529 Smithfeld street.
Three doors from city hall.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03

ARTISTs-A woman painter of New York
tells Charles T. Murray of the prejudice
| that exists against women in art. See his
| letter in THE DISPATCH tomorrow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03

WOMEN-Margaret III. Welch's practical
hints for practical women are feature of
THE DISPATCH every Sunday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
THE ENMITY OF IRELAND.

You have arrived at a point decisive in
your history. If it is for the future to say,
after the next general election, this enmity,
if it continue, viii be an enmity with the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
A STRONG DENUNCIATIoN.

If one instance can be shown where 1 have
caused q person to be appointed and have
even intimated that 1 should expect any
favor in return for it, L will never again be q
candidate for public place. Whatever of
public office 1 have had has come to me with
out bargain or a promise, and so it will be
in the future if continue to hold Office at
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03

u desire to pass lightly over the difficult
question of the House Of Lords Prolonged
cheers. Owing to the priority of the claims
ot otner subjects this question at present is
rather IN the shade. Well L should not be
sorry II II would remain in the shade still
longer provided the extra lease thus gained
were gained by its wisdom, forbearance and
moderation in dealing with public senti-
ment.
But If the question is remote, mode ex-
lists whereby itmay be made approximately
very near-indeed, burning question: that
Is, If IN an evil hour the peers be tempted
to listen to the counsel unsuspiciously given
by Lord Salisbury when he contemplated
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-28
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-28
IAN Modern ce.v.sIsDoc..-


"Did you say anything to the parties WIN
came TO rent the house before you moved
outri asked Brooklyn landlord Of an ex-
tenant whom he met on the street.
Nothing 70 injure the house." Wa Tia
reply.
"Well, it's very queer that none Of them
came back Did you speak q the hezsterf"
"Why, merely said that t~roof thu fam
fly froze To death last winter while wss
burning twenty-five tons Of coal"
And the roof"
at leaks in sixteen different places, but
/ didn't show EN- but Eve or AZ"
And the plumbingi"
"Oh, had rags ted around the pipes
where they leaked Nobody goa cato the
plumbing"
And the neighborhoodf"
Cracked n way up; didu't bappen % b
a row on either side willis anybody Wa
looking through"
Didn't anybody complain Of the dark
roomsp
Not one. All OF EN- happeoed 70 have
sore eyes and prsfeTred a sub1ned heat Z"
well, it's very, very queer. Here = n,
way long Ia May, and that bouss stands
empty yet. gness I'll have 20 ess new
agent 10 take eharge."-M Quad IN hev
York Evening World
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-28
The California Miner of 40.

The early miner has never been truly
painted. l protest against the lippant
STYLE and eccentric rhetoric of those writers
who have made him terror, or who, seiz-
ing upon a sporadic ease of extreme oddity,
some brawling wretch, have given a carl
cature to the world as the typical miner.
The so called literature that treats Of the
golden era is too extravagant in this direc-
ton. In all my personal experience in
mining camps from 1919 to 1854 there was
not a case of bloodshed, robbery, theft or
actual violence. / doubt if a more orderly
society was ever known. How could it be
otherwise? The pioneers were young, ar
dent, uncorrUpted, most of them well edu-
Gated and from the best families in the
east.
The early miner was ambitious, ener-
getic and enterprising. No undertaking
was too great to daunt him. The pluck
and resources exhibited by him in attempt
ing mighty projects with nothing but his
courage and his brawny arms TO carry them
out was phenomenal. His generosity was
profuse and his sympathy active, knowing
no distinction of race. His sentiment that
Justice is sacred was never dulled His
services were at command to settle differ
ences peaceably, or with pistol in hand TO
right grievous wrong to stranger. His
capacity for self government has never
been surpassed. OF a glorious epoch, he
was of a glorious race. G.. Waite in
Century
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-28

Propulsion of Trains Dy Compressed Air.
An ingenious method of utilizing gravity
in descending grades has been worked out
by an Italian engineer. The engine in
running down a grade congresses air,
which is utilized in propelling the train up
part of the next succeeding ascending
grade. The accumulators are constructed
for pressure of $50 pounds, and the
mechanism designed for the alternate COM
preston and utilization Of the air COM
prises three cylinders, two of which are Of
equal diameter and the third of smaller
size. These tire cylinders are connected
to one of the two coupled axles carrying
the load by mean of the usual crossroads
and connecting rods.
When ascending a grade these cylinders
work as compound motor, and during.
the descent the action is reversed, and they
compress the air into the accumulators ac-
cording to regulated pressure. The COM
mittee appointed to report on this system
are of opinion that its use is at present be-
set with certain limitations, dependent
mainly on local conditions, such as grades,
curves, extent of traffic, ETC.; they decide,
however, that the system would be found
most advantageous in the operation of
mountain railways, and in gradients
through long tunnels, where ventilation
is deficient, and where it is especially de-
sirable to avoid the presence of smoke and
gases. New York Commercial Adver-