Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-08
RICH SUNDAY MEALS
And Rainy Weather Proved Too Much
for Hotel Guests Yesterday.
PLANTS ABOUT PENNSY TRAINS.
Congressman Mills Will Smash the Tariff
if Elected Speaker.
THE CUSTOM OF TREATING DYING OUT

| the guests at tne notelS indoors. 1t de-
pressed their spirits also and, if not Sleeping
or dreaming, the boys had vacant stare
that forboded little news or brilliancy in
ideas. Nobody had a story to tell and few
wanted to be bothered. The American Gus
tom of eating heavy Sunday dinner is bad,
but then Yankee methods and habits need
to be reformed generally if the gibes of
foreigners can be taken as truth and
not low form of Jealousy. Most
| everybody, however, will agree that a rich
dinner on wet day is not conducive to good
| digestion or agreeable tempers. 1t is not
surprising, therefore, that dyspepsia ruled
in the hotels yesterday. A bright and OBJ
servant doctor at the Anderson soon dis
covered the fact, and he boldly declared
that the water from the heavens was wrong
fully held responsible for many of the ills
of human life.
Necessity Of Breathing Fresh Air.
ttNow look at these drummers," he said,
pointing his finger to crowd in the lobby.
''They have eaten too much, and what they
need most is run in the parks or sharp
walk, but they shrug their shoulders, look
at the leaden skies, and remark to them
selves that it is too disagreeable to take an
airing. One of the healthiest persons I ever
met was man who spent SO many hours
daily in the open air, rain or sunshine. He
seldom had cold or felt an ache, and al
| ways prepared for the weather. If it was
wet he was careful to keep his feet dry and
body warm. He enjoyed a snow storm
and got music out Of the pelting of the
rain. This man had the right idea. God
never meant that people should be housed
up on rainy days, and the sleepy, tired feel
ing is natures protest. If you would live,
get out and enjoy the air. 1 knew another
gentleman who had the consumption.
Doctors said he couldn't live few months.
That was 20 years ago, and he is still alive.
He reasoned that consumption was nothing
more than O lack of oxygen, and he
changed his habits of life so that he
spent the greater part of the time
with the skies for the roof of his home. He
would sleep in tent during the summer,
and that man has been a useful citizen and
an example to others afflicted with the dread
disease. He will die some day, of course,
but he has started in to prolong life, and
has been successful"
Discrimination Against Pittsburg.
The new trains on the Pennsylvania road
between New York and Chicago are of great
importance to travellers. Pittsburg, how
ever, should apologize to the trunk line
for living, and the ghostly hours at
which these flyers reach this city
shows that the gas town was not counted on
in making up the schedules. "Pity you
people haven't another good line East and
West" remarked New York business
man at the Duquesne yesterday. ga COM
petitor would bring the Pennsylvania peo-
no extra charge should have been furnished
long ago, and it is the New York Central
that is compelling the Pennsylvania road to
make the improvement About three
months ago the Central put on
the Southwestern limited to Chicago,
and as a result they have been carrying
most of the through business between the
two cities Outside of the limited the
passenger accommodations out of Pittsburg
to Chicago are miserable. The new trains
will leave here at 1:20 and 4:45 in the morn
ing, but nobody cares to have sleep broken
in this fashion. Going east the trains are
all right You have no idea how the travel
ing men complain about the Western trains. !
They leave at bad hours and are snail-like
in their movements. If the Baltimore and
Ohio would brace up and establish its new
through line to Chicago, change for the
better would certainly come"
Drinking No More Compulsory.
Several railroad men high up in the pas
senger departments of Western lines were
ENJOYING smoke in the corridor of the
Monongahela House-passenger agents as 1
rule are convival men; they have to be
from the nature of their business Some
one suggested drink for the crowd, from
force Of habit, but as it was Sunday the de-
sire was not gratiied. One of
them remarked that he had quit
drinking and he was glad to note
the great change that had come over
people. A few years ago man would be
offended if you refused to accept his invita-
tion, and it was also the custom to ridicule
person who wouldn't drink. Many weak
people were thus induced TO imbibe who |
didn't want it. Now if one declines to ac-
cept glass nothing is thought about it and
the mean remarks about fellow being tied
to his mothers apron strings or living in
mortal fear of his wife are never heard. The
practice of "setting them up," also, when
tickets are sold, is on the wane. The time
was when people expected it, and the agent |
was in duty bound to supply the liquor.
Happily this custom is on the decline and
great deal of useless drinking is avoided.
The Hard Lines of Railroad Life
The talk turned to ehard lines of rail- |
road life. 81 would rather walk ten miles |
any time," said one of the agents, ethan |
ride, and yet people who take short jour
neys now and then envy u.s. They think |
how delightful it is to spin through the |
country, but they forget the aches and |
pains that accompany the riding. Men who |
travel much on trains are sure to contract |
kidney diseases. Many time have left |
a car after a long trip with such sore back |
that could scarcely straighten my body. |
The heavy jolting, doctors tell me, is re-
sponsible for the result. This is one reason |
why railroad men should leave alcoholic |
stimulants alone. In their irritated condi- |
ton beer will soon make the kidneys as |
tough as leather For that matter, am |
informed that tanbark is often used in max |
ing the foaming beverage, and the tannic |
acid would soon convert the stomach into
hide"
1t appears that newspapers at large made |
much ado about the blunder of two local |
detectives in mistaking Cleveland million
aire for counterfeiter at the Duquesne |
Hotel The detectives made the claim that
two bills bore the same number. William
Witherow was laughing yesterday about this
display of ignorance on the part of officers
He was 4r five years in the United |
States depository here, and has had consid- /
cradle experience in handling money. The
number was to designate the series, and
gested that counterfeit detectives should /
post themselves better about their business.
Little Faith in Legislator.
W. A. Smith, editor of the Punxsutawney |
Spirit, with no other baggage than an old