Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12

pleasure or displeasure. It took Mr.. Storrs
several days to discover just the right
depth of saturnine humor best adapted to
stir up the extreme New England mind.
Mr.. Storrs used to say that it was a tre-
mendous triumph for him to bring smile
upon their stern faces He observed, how
ever, that they seemed afterward to be in
pain, as if their facial muscles had under
gone unusual strain.
After the people got to understand him
he had very great success He was at Bar
Harbor one night when tho late Senator
Plumb, of Kansas, arrived for the purpose
of making report to Mr.. Blaine concerning
his view of the State. 1t was in September,
and the effect of the election in Maine was o
source of anxiety to the leaders of both par
ties Senator Plumb was q man who always
looked on the gloomiest side of things Mr..
Blaine sat with Mr.. Storrs on the porch OF
his cottage and listened to the report of the
Senator Mr.. Plumb said that he feared for
the result in the State.
"Why?" asked Mr.. Blaine.
1.-THE people are cold, dull and apathetic;
there is q lack of enthusiasm in every direc-
tion."
The irascible and impatient Storrs here
broke in with this question: ''Piumb, have
you seen anybody but your audience2'' and
that ended the Senator'S report on the con-
dition Of affairs and the State campaign.
Blaine Is Not Revengeful.
There is apparently no malice in Mr..
Bla1ne's disposition. He has high tenn
per and is good vigorous enemy when
his blood is warmed, but he never yet
has pursued q policy of revenge. He says
that it is one of the cruelest wastes of .
mans mental and spiritual force to devote
anv time or thought in following out q
policy of retaliation. Life is altogether too
short, said he once, for any kind Of revenge
So, this being his spirit, he was always
ready to make up the Conkling
quarrel which occurred when Mr.
Conkling and he were young MEM
bers Of the House Of Representatives.
He would have accepted 1T any time the ex.
have gone any time during the great New
Yorker's life half tho way to the point of
reconciliation. But Mr. Conkling never
would make one step. MI. Blaine always
regarded more of q bore than otherwise, the
fact that they were not on speaking terufk
One of the most delightful stories that
Nh. Blaine tells Is where he gives an ac-
count of dinner given by well-meaning
idiot in Washington, who thought he could
carve out q national reputation for himself
by being the means Of bringing these two
statesmen COSetncL. f1lS manner q doing
so was very original. He devised dinner
party as the meeting place for the proposed
reconciliation. He notified neither gentle
man Of his noble Intentions He first in
vited MIR. and Mrs Blaine to come to dinner
without indicating in his invitation who
they would be expected to meet. After he
had their acceptance, he sent out an invita-.
tion to Mr.. and Mrs. Conkling He made
the number of the invited very small SO that
of necessity they would be forced into close
neighberhood, and what the genial host
hoped would prove to be a meilowing At
mosphere. He carried his ingenuity and
originality to the farther extent of sending
Mrs. Blaine out to dinner on the arm of Mr..
Conkling and Mrs Conkling on the arm of
Mr.. Blaine. The two gentlemen were
placed opposite each other.
Reconciled TO Each Others Wives
During this lovely and charming dinner
Mr.. Blaine maintained IN animated conyer-
sation with Mira Conkling and MI. Conk-
ling talked freely and frankly with Mra
Blaine. The majestic New Yorker, how
ever, was coeroed in no way by the nesrncss
OF his enemy and never remotely aoknowl.
edged the fact Of Mr. Blaine's presence
And 20 the dinner dragged its weary length
along In ~ delightful and agreeable . fssh-