The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-23
BLAINE HOLDS HIS OWN.
HOPES THAT EIS FAMILY MAY 5H
ABLE TO MOVE HIM.

Hs Passed a Comfortable Night and
is Bright and Cheerful-The I'M
provement in His Condition During
the Whole Week in Reality Only
Very slight-A Flood OF Nostrums.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-Dr. W. W.
Johnston, ex-Secretary Blaine's physician,
says his table is flooded each day with letters
from different sections of the country ads
vising him how to treat Mr.. Blaiues disease.
Some of them intimate that the Doctor has
not diagnosed the case properly, while patent
medicine people are filing up a good sized
store room with their goods, which they are
sending daily to the doctor by express aud
urging him to test them on bis patient.
There is really nothing new 60 say about
Mr.. blaine's case this morning. said DIR.
Johnston after he had paid his usual early
morning visit. "Mr. Blaine passed CONS
Portable night, be is as well as he was yes@
terday evening, and is quite bright and
cheerful this morning"
HOPE REVIVED.
The hope that Mr.. Blaine will recover
| sufficiently to be removed TO a more genial
climate Ia spreading from his family TO his
friends Ii seems strange that those who
are not blinded by affection should think he
may come up from deaths door where he
grasp OF an apparently fatal disease, bub
the encouraging reports OF the physicians.
careful though they are not to predict q
continuance OF the Improvement in his
condition, has stimulated even hard-headed
men in abe Senate and House to believe
that he may get better, IL not we'll. They
realize that while he does sleep
and eat and take stimulating medi-
cines that he does all these things
as sick man and very
sick man, but they base their hopes on the
expectation that IL he continues so to do he
Will slowly regain the strength which will
enable him TO get on his feet again. The
longer the dreaded return of the heart fail
ure, which almost ended his life on Sunday
morning, oRn be postponed the better the
prospects that he will survive 1t.
LOOKING FOR SURPRISE.
It Is curious to notice In what Is now be=
ing said, the feeling which is expressed in
one way or another, that MIR. Blaine, hav-
Ing been man OF surprises all bis life, may
| yet surprise the country in the most aston
ishIng way by getting well. Mr.. Blaine
himself is up and down In his feelings, as
he always has been. His weakness, which
makes IL difficult for him TO hold up his
head, serves, too, TO depress his spirits, yes
he has at times expressed a hope that he
would get we'll It must be remembered
that while all the changes In Mr.. Blaine's
condition since last Sunday morning have
been favorable, they have been so slight
that. taken altogether, they have nou
served TO bring him where he was on Sat-
urday. Mr.. Blaine has been free from pain
since the attack OF Sunday night and his
mind has been bright at all times. His fani-
lily are positively happy In the thought that
he will certainly spend another Christmas
with them and may even live TO see other
| Christmases.
40 midnight tonight bright light dis
tinguishable In Mr.. Blaine's bedroom an
hour previous had disappeared, and the en-
tire house was In semi-darkness. indicative
that the family expect a quiet night. In
| quiry at DR.. Jobnstons residence at Ii 80
o'clock also disclosed that he had retired for
the night