The Iola register., 1891-07-31
ELAINE STILL m IT.
some Interesting Points - The Premier
Gaining strength Daily:


New YORK, July g.-The import
ance Of the life and health Of Mr.. Blaine
is understood throughout the country,
and indeed IN all civilized countries, and
that which relates to him is OF exhaust
less interest. Three of the New York
journals Of this date have feature arti-
cles about him, two Of them profusely
illustrated. The general result is that
Mr.. Blainss friends feel reassured.
One solid fact came to light few days
ago that comforted many. 1t is that
Mr.. Blaine weighs 1S3 pounds. The
story is probably true that Mr.. Blaine
was for some days Respondent about
himself, but the merciless wickedness
Of some Of the tales about him aroused
his anger, and that was q help. The
Herald correspondent says he was told
by q close friend OF the family an Incl.
dent from which dates the rapid conva.
lescence OF the statesman:
" We were sitting out he said, 'ou
the lovely broad piazza which over.
looks Frenchman's bay, and Mr.. Blaine,
reclining in steamer chair, had been
reading great pile of newspapers just
arrived. This was about q week ago.
For an hour or so the secretary had
scarcely spoke word, and as 1 glanced
at him from time to time saw from the
frowns and nervous movements that he
was violently agitated. Suddenly he
raised himself abruptly and dashed the
paper he was reading to the ground.
" This is dangerous, Infamous he
exclaimed, and began striding up and
down the piazza, forgetting Of his
shawl, and planting his feet with q
vigor he had not shown for weeks.
There was slight flush on his usually
pallid cheeks. It's enough to make q
man ashamed OF his country he con.
tinued bitterly and in anger. 4 can
stand being attacked by my enemies;
I've got used to that long ago, but here
is paper pointing to the rumpled
sheet, which have befriended, play.
ing the role of Judas and printing
columns about me which it knows to be
malicious lies designed to get me out OF
the way, and there are other traitors
OF the same kind in the pile there
false friends who would stab me In the
back. Oh, know them; I'll remember,
and | swear to God won't die now Just
to spite them
"And as he spoke Mr.. Blsine brought
down his right fist with q bang upon
the palm OF his left. Mrs. Blaine and
other ladies listened aghast to this out.
burst, the like of which they had not
heard for months"
1t Is not necessary to believe that
this is a verbatim report, but there is
a chance that it is not wholly imaginary
and this about the correspondents reads
as II it were so:
"Would not it be a joke on those fel.
lows If l would really die day or two
after they had got back to their posts:
What capital joke that would be-
You don't see any way Of springing il
on them, doctor, do you? and Blaine's
eyes twinkled.n
"a personal opinion. especially when
the writer is frank enough to confess
that he has no authority whatever for
il. has little value; but if l am asked
about the republican contest for 1892,
and Mr.. Blaine's relations Herewith,
[ shall answer: He will be in it,"
In his walks recently. Mr.. Blaine has
been taking with the farmers, and a
correspondent OF the Press, hearing OF
this, hunted up "a big, curly headed
farmer by the name of Mayo" and got
his report Of what Blaine said. as fol
lows:
"I was busy, you see,' said Mr..
Mayo, when Mr.. Blaine came along,
and did not know he wanted to talk,
or I'd a. asked him up to the house.
Blaine. he sot down ther on that rock,
and | stood here looking at him, and
grinning like jessie cat. He asked
how the crops was, and II l made
good living at farming. Itold him that
all l did was farm. and I lived, so l
lived at farming
But how much money do you get a
year? said he.
mot much,' sed 1: money is source.
We folksdon't have money! Then he
asked me agin where I got my money
md | told him 1t was from lambs and
Early potatoes and butter and beef.
How do you like the Mckinley
oill?' said he. 4 told him that no Irish
nan by that name had any bill against
ne or anybody that knew, and il he
vas one of them tin peddlers he'd bet
er keep away, for we had enough of
hem last year. Then he laughed real
lard and picked few strawberries,
which he was welcome to, I'm sure,
hOugh they wasn't on my land. Can
Tou live and bring UP family of five
IN $3.50 a year.? he asked pretty soon. |
told him No stree, sir. and no man
ant do it here nor nowhere else in a
,lace that is civilized, I don't care how |
,esky mean he is.'
E-EIa lilp't 4. I~;&
'icked strawberries and rubbed his |
oot 'sif 1t ached. He asked me q lot |
nore questions. Here's one: How |
much could afford to raise bushel of |
'otatoes for?' l asked him il he meant |
ust only one bushel. and he said, Yes,
ne or twenty-five-just few I told |
i'm it was worth dollar a bushel to |
aise potatoes here any year, and last
ear was a good year, because we could |
et BIS bushel for every one we had
o sell.
But couldn't you grow a hundred
r 500 bushels cheaper?' said he. /
old him l could, but what was the use?
he blue noses sent all their bad wa
erv potatoes here and filled the mar
ct, so II we sold ten bushels a year
rom every farm we were doing well.
'ou see the blue noses put in their
rops early In the spring, and come
own here and hire out and take our
obs away from us while the women and
hildren stay at home and do the hoe.
1g and take care of the crops. When
comes fall they go back home and
AXE their money with them, and live
IL winter on salt cod fish and small Do
atoes, while they send the big potatoes
own here and make the price 80 cheap
nat we can't get good living no how.
Suppose you had a good Market
lid Mr.. Blaine, and could sell all the
otatoes you could raise right here at
our door. for how much q hllshel could