St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
Walker
BIaine's
Kindness.

OF Walker Blaine, an
Blaine's interesting anecdote
can be told. During
Kindness. Mr.. Blaine'S services
as assistant secretary
of state, young New Yorker person.
ally applied to the department for in-
formation regarding an old claim which
had been there for many years,
He was referred to Walker
Blaine, who, through an en-.
tire stranger, greeted him most
cordially, listened to him patiently, and
then with the utmost courtesy sho wed
him into the file room, and there passed
two hours with him explaining the
status of the claim and examining the
papers. The action was done so natur-
ally, aGd was so different from the
treatment unknown strangers often re-
ceive in the departments at Washing
ton, that Walker Blaine made life
long friend of political opponent.
Private Life To see the emperor
to best advantage he
of the Gar. must be sought in the
bosom of his family.
Indeed. whatever he may think of his
divine mission. nature cut him out for
simple bourgeois. Both he and his
wife are never happier than when they
can leave all state cares behind them,
throw off the yoke of etiquette and live
for their children at GatschIna, at
PeterhOf, or, best of all, in Denmark,
in which country the ear unbendS
in manner never seen elsewhere
There is not so great a romp as he
among all his nephewS and nieces. He
is master of all the childish revels. To
these princes and prineesses the auto
crat of all the Russias is simply 'Uncle
SASHA" and cries of "Uncle Sashai
Uncle SashaP resoun0 all over the
place.
A favorite pastime of his is to stand
amidst the merry throng and challenge
them to pull him down. But they
never succeed. either separately or
strength of muscle. He can bend a
horseshoe or strangle bear by mere
force of hand. Once while in Denmark,
when conjurer was showing his skill,
the car offered to produce a specimen
of his own abilities. He took pack of
cards and tore them through with the
greatest ease. AT Gatschina he loves to
go fishing with harpoon by torchlight.
Like MIR. Gladstone. he is fond of fell
ing trees. but, unlike that gentleman.
he equally enjoys saving them into
lengths. The car has five children,
three sons and two daughters.
The empress has her daughters much
with her, and has not even so-calIed
goyerness for them. Her own personal
attendant and her lady of honor serve
also for them. In part, this springs
from the emperOr'S love for simplicity
of life, but in part also that they try to
surround themselves with as few peo-
pie as possible, SO that as little as may
be concerning their private life should
transpire to the outer world, of whom
they are, and not without good reason,
much afraid. The empress Superin-
tends in person the education of the
two little grand ducheSSeS. Xenia and
Olga, aged respectively fourteen and
six. The emperor in his leisure mo-
ments tries to do the same for his boys.
Especially he loves to give them music
and dancing lessons, for he thinks him
objection for the cOrnet-a-pistOn.
One day a minister, busy reading to
him an important docume MT, beheld the
car vanish suddenly to intOne in the
adjoining room rhapsody on his favor
lite instrument. Excuse me-" he said,
returning after half an hour, ''but had
SO lovely an Inspiration" He takes
care, however, that they should also
have better instruction than he can
give them, remembering how his own
education was neglected and how dis
astrous this has been for him.
When the negro demands To 10 To-
leased from his position as citizen of
the United States, and returned to the
land of his origin, then it will be time
to bring up laws to aid him in his de-
parture. Until that time. legislation
such as that proposed by Senator Butler
will be useless and mpertinent.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.