The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-07-13
EIsAINES HEALTH.
4 New York Herald Correspondent
Visits Bar Harbor to Find Out
What He Can About IT.
His Disease Purely One OF the Nerves.
No Bright's Disease, No Paralysis,
No Indigestion.
No Drugs or Medicines Needed-His
Physicians Think He will Get
Well Blaine Thinks SO Too.

WeIl-Blaine Thinks So Too.
NEW YORK, July 13.-The Herald
prints the following from its special cor
respondent ut Bar Harbor:
It is still an open question among
those who think themselves in posi-
lion to know whether James u. Blaine
will return to his duties at Washington
in the fall or whether he has come to
Bar Harbor to die.
/ think am safe in making these two
statements:
First-That Mr.. Blaine Is by no means
the man he was year ago, and the
habitants of Bar Harbor are shocked at
the change.
Second That if Mr.. Blaine Is really
dying from whatever cause, he is dying
very gamely, and Is making such a fight
against the grim monster as only man
Of his iron viii can make.
To SUM UP the Situation,
then, Mr.. Blaine may be wreck on
priori ground, but he may be one of that
particular kind of wrecks which laugh
scientific deductions in the face and re-
fuse TO sink. What can you expect of q
~dying man. who, rain or shine, insists
on driving his twenty miles day? /
had good look at the secretary during
the afternoon at his Bar Harbor home.
He was in brown study, walking with
!. slow stride up and down q favorite
piazza, which looked down ON French
mans bay. He wore soft hat, pulled
~ Il "a
with long tails tapped about his legs.
He was dressed for comfort and nothing
else. But dress Is trivial detail. What
struck me was the expression Of his face
---pallid white, in q frame of silver hair
and beard. His eyes shone bright as of
yore, but they shone with a feverish
unhealthy lustre, and there was In their
look something Of mental disquiet. A
kind of
Mute Pleading with Destiny
whoEe shadowy form he seemed to see
far away where his glance touched the
horison. "A wise man indeed would he
be who could read Blaine's thoughts at
such q moment, bnt q fool could say
they were, unhappy. People who have
known Mr.. Blaine for years are inn
pressed in q similar way by the differ
ence in his manner and expression.
You cannot indicate precisely In lines
and adjectivcs what that difference is.
You cannot indicate the difference be-
tween sunrise and sunset, but You know
that the difference is there. You feel it.
Mrs. Blaine and her daughter Mrs.
Damrosch are (and this have on the
best authority) almost worried to death
about the condition of him who is so
dear to them and whose condition they
are able to appreciate by q loving intui-
tion far better than the doctors with
their learned formulas.
Not Case for Drugs or Medicines.
AS one Of the physicians told me,
there are no drugs or medicines which
can do the great statesman any good.
Who knows the great recipe for calm
ing nerve centers or the overworked
brain? No one. The patient win either
pull through or he won't, and that Is all
there is to 1t.
What is the trouble with Mr..
Blaine?n
His nerves, nothing but his nerves,
answered DIR. j. M. Taylor, the Phila-
delphia nerve specialist. who is In con-
slant attendance.
rThen he has not Brights disease, Al
Emphatically not; his kidneys are al
sound as any mans.
And he is not suffering from par.
alysiss"
rNo, indeed. Do you think mar
who had paralysis could drive about al
he does:"
"But isn't his stomach all gone t6
pieces? They say he can take no nour.
ishment except milk.
.Nosense. Mr.. Blaine eats and enjoys
three square meals a day, composed ol
pretty much the same dishes that yor
or eat.
~Then you think he will get well?r
rUnquestionably. During the fiv,
weeks he has been here he has mad.
steady improvements and will 60 bacl
to Washington all ready for the load O
work before him.
Such is the physicians statement
which some persons accept as gospe
truth, while others shake their head
and refuse to be convinced.
RIaiue Ex uectG En- Get Well.