The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-11
MR.. BLAINE,s A L
The Secretary Is Improving Rapidly, But Il
Following q strict Regimen.

IN Secretery U q Improving hapfoiy, Dut ~
Following = Strict Regimen.
Bar Hafbor special to New York Press.
1t is about q month since Mr.. and Mrs.
Blaine went to live at Stanwood cottage.
Bar Harbor. Mr.. Blaine looked pale. and
jaded. and very sick when he arrived st
Stan His face was deadly white and
his lips were of the deepest dull blue. If
left 20 himself for a short time when found
he would be busy studying some book. or his
tory. or biography. or else scribbling notes
on scraps of waste papers. So badly did he
want to go to work that the fact that he
was denied the privilege vexed him more
than work would have done.
Mrs. Blame knew her patient from the
start, and resolved upon q vigorous course
of treatment. She began il, in fact. the
moment she left Senator Hale's house.
They were intending to 60 from Els
worth to Bar Harbor by the morning
Pullman. and the Sorrento, the Hon. Frank
Jones's private car. was side-trscked in
Ellsworth ready to take the party. Mira
Blaine feigned q headache, and the early
train was missed in order to accommodate
her. As soon rs the train had gone that
bad headache grew better. and she insisted
on going TO Bar Harbor at once. Senator
Hales span was in readiness at once. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine would have gone to
Bar Harbor by carriage had not q smart
shower put q stop TO the plan. As it was,
Mrs. Blaine found that q baggage train vas
going down about noon. So she had an odd
passenger car attached to the rear end of .
lot OF box and platform cars. and IN this
way. jolted and jostled by the slow move
ments of the train. the journey vas made.
And every day since that Mr.. Blaine's
Rar aThnr life hoa hAnn <nll @f sn.~ --,A
surprises Ii he expected TO take q stroll
on the beach he went to drive; if he planned
to be alone the house was filled with com-
pany; If he made ready TO write letters
Mrs. Blaine and the baby came in
and beguiled him away from himself until
1T was too late to think OF anything of the
kind. All of tins has been SO adroitly
planned and deity carried out by that
arch plotter, Mrs. James q. Blaine, thas
even the Secretary was several weeks in
discovering the imposition.
1t has been Just this way ever since. Mr..
Blaine has not been allowed q moment in
which TO- think or brood over his official
duties. When all other sources and sub
terfuges for keeping Mr.. Blaine from work
fail Senator Hale drives down from Els
worth. and the old times when Hale was o
young lawyer and Blaine q young editor are
talked over.
Every day, cold or warm. wet or dry. he
takes long drives. and some member of his
family or one of his bosom friends is al
ways with aim. Being In the carriage six
or seven times every day he has no time to
think, or brood. or worry. Nearly every day
President Harrison sends kindly inquiring
telegrams. full of warmest REGARDS for the
Bar Harbor cottage. and all these Mr..
Blaine keeps by him and reads them when
ever he feels uneasy.
He has improved wonderfully since COM
ing here. That lame foot still troubles
him. making locomotion painful. but other
wise he is a well man in every way. Bar
Harbor always agreed with Mr.. Blaine.
and now ne feels rs if he must agree with
Bar Harbor. With Mrs. Blaine and James
e.. jr., for company, and the C~oppinger
children to fill tho house with laughter
and noise, and with all that love and care
can do to make life pleasant, Mr.. Blaine is
mending fast; his shoulders are thrown
farther back. his carriage is now erect and
that old magnetic" smile again hovers
about his mouth and plays over his face.
Mr. Blaine 10 good for years Of life yet. and
all predict he will go back to Washington
In October q well man.
His Condition Said to he Alarming.
Bar HARDER Special to New York World.
A DISTINGUISHED Republican residing in O
distant State, who arrived here last week,
having been for years I'm ardent supporter
of Mr.. Blaine, sought those best informed
on the subject IS to the best authenticated
facts relating 20 Mr.. Blsine's condition.
His investigation convinced him that not
only will Mr. Blaine not figure in Next
years presidential calculations. but his re-
turn to his duties ~ Secretary of State is
extremely problematicel. He found this
feeling prevailing among Mr.. Blaine's
closest friends in the State and other de-
psrtments. Speaking on the subject to the
correspondent. this man said:
"Mr. Blalne's bic is described to me
A. halnO An aRUravafo0 attach nffparunns.
ness, which has always seized him in times
OF illness. My information is that the
country at large does not yet appreciate just
how close Mr.. Blaine was to death for fully
forty-eight hours after being stricken. He
all but gave MP entirely. It was only
with the greatest difficulty that his
family could revive in him pluck
enough to assist the efforts of the physicians
and easily alarmed temperament goes
naturally with the esgerness and warmth
that pertain TO Mr.. Blaine's nature. A
sluggish and collected person is much more
easily managed on a sick bed."
But is 1t true" was asked" that Mr..
Blame is physically in great distressfr
"Oh, there can be no doubt on that point.
Not only is he in great physical distress,
but the fact that it is continuing so long 10
an alarming sign He las been down be-
fore. but never for so great . length Of time
and never under circumstances making it
40 difficult fol- his family to relieve his
mind of anxiety. L understand that Sena-
tor Hale. approaching the situation
thoroughly. has abandoned his first plans
for the summer. which would have taken
him away from home. and will remain close
at hand so as TO be of service TO Mr.. Blaine
whenever needed. The relations between
those two men are very close. The mere
presence of Mr.. Hale will have q good effect
on Mr.. Blaine"
Sensational Statements Denied.
BAR HARBoR. Me-. July 10.-A friend Of
the Blaine family says: The report that
Secretary Blaine Is sinking and that the
doctors have no hope is utterly false and
without any foundation whatever. Mr..
Blaine 10 steadily improving. as everyone
who sees him riding and walking about the
streets of Bar Harbor knows, and there 10
every prospect that he will be q well man
by the end of the summer"
The Sockless One m Apt Scholar.
Philadelphia Press
Jerry Simpsons recent visit to Wall
street is now bearing fruit While in New
York he found out all about those hereto
fore my steri0us corners" He observed
how they were hatched and nodded. and
ties. The whole process was a complete
revelation to the Sockless One. Could he
believe his eyesf Millions Of dollars made
in one week with this cornering-machine,
The sub-treasury scheme and Brother Pef-
fer's greenback theories were thence
forth things of the past. So thought
the Medicine Lodge oracle. Back
went he TO Kansas. laden with his Dor
tentous secret. Never did Grover