The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-12-22
BLAINE WORSE.
The Great American Again
Suffers a Relapse.
THE PATIENT UNCONSCIOUS.
His Entire Family Surrounds the Sick Bed,
Fully Realizing the End Is Near.

1t Is Feared He May Not Survive the Day.
Great Alarm Felt Yostorday--His Heart
Almost stopped-Later In the Day
There Was Rally and the Final Hour
Was Postponed.
w AsHINeToN, Dec. l9.-All day long
the life of James G.. Blaine has hung
trembling in the balance. For more
than an hour in the forenoon hope was
abandoned and the end was momenta-
rily expected by physicians, family and
friends. All stimulation was thrown
aside in the apparent imminent presence
of death and the suppressed facts of his
illness-the long denied but now admit
ted Brights disease, the occasional inter-
walls Of delirium, the long hours when he
has lain incapable of speech or motion
las il Is now said was the case when
Cardinal Gibbons paid him his recent
friendly CALI these and other distressing
features of his illness all incidental to
the one overpowering organic trouble,
"Bright's disease" aggravated as this
has been of late by cold contracted
while imprudently venturing out driv-
ing two weeks ago and by malarial fever
and confronted by constitution inn
paired by nearly two years continuous
sickness. All these facts are now tacitly
admitted.
Thought Death Had Come.
The physicians assert that there have
not been any hemorrhages as has been
asserted, but this is almost the only
alarming symptom which is now denied.
The first crisis was reached between 10
and II o'clock yesterday morning when
a sinking spell set in from which the
worst was feared. His family were
called round the bedside and his physi.
clan sent messenger after messenger to
the nearest drugstore with prescriptions
requiring hasty attention.
The distinguished patient lay uncon-
scious and to all appearances dying
until shortly before o'clock,
when a slight rally set in. His pulse,
which had almost ceased to beat, be.
came again perceptible and partial con.
seriousness was restored
At 2 o'clock his physicians, Drs
Johnston and Hyatt considered him
so much improved as to render their
constant presence at the bedside un.
necessary. while there had been no
marked improvement, and no change in
mate recovery could be based, but the
immediate crisis had passed.
From an intimate friend of the family
it is learned that it was only when Mr..
Blaine was suddenly seized with the
sinking spell yesterday which threat
ened for some minutes to terminate in
heart failure that his family fully real.
lied how near he was to death, For
few seconds he seemed to be in extremis
and the watchers bent closely over him.
The emaciated face of the dying states.
man was white as marble and his feat.
ures sadly drawn. At times he scarcely
seemed to breathe and at others gasped
for breath. The physicians who had
been hastily summoned were in the
meantime not idle. They piled him
with stimulative cordials, the trained
nurses chafed his eXtremities and it was
only after working over the patient for
upwards of thirty minutes and the ap.
plication Of every art known to the
medical profession that Mr.. Blaine
slowly revived. But the battle with
death found him extremely weak,
weaker than at any time when suffering
relapse. He was too weak even to
whisper and lay with no sign of recog.
milton in his half-closed eyes. The fam
lily gathered around the bedside were all
in tears except Mrs, Blaine. She main.
tained outward Composure throughout
the trying scene and calmly gave such
directions to the attendants as were
necessary. Her will power, when in
fact her heart was breaking is described
as something pathetic and mar velous
Mrs. Blaine's Remarkable Fortitude.
Whatever,may have been Mrs. Blaine's
suspicious or knowledge of her hus,
bands condition through all of the in.
tervening months of his illness she has
given no outward sign that would indi.
cate that she did not believe in his future
recovery. II has been her cheerfulness
under most distressing circumstances
that has soothed her husbands despond.
ency. Of late Mr., Blaines physical
condition has been such that he has at
times given way to dependency, While
manifesting no fear Of death, Mr.. Blaine
has often said he did not want to die.
I'm fact, " says an intimate friend of the
family, Mr.. Blaine has fought death
with sublime heroism. The world
knows how ambitious he was and also
knows how much he accomplished in
the pursuit of his ambition. And yet
he dies disappointed and, was about
to say, heart-broken man, But that
would, perhaps, be putting it too strong.
] once heard him say that after all am.
bition was an ignis fatuis and that all
the world was hollow outside of ones
family. Then he would quote these
lines by N. P. Willis;
What is ambition1
"Tis glorious cheat, The angels of light
Walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls o;
heaven.
"Mr Blaine has lived about sixty-two
years, but when you appreciate what
be has passed through he has lived far
beyond three score and ten. He has
been compared In his public life with
Mr. Clay, There Is a close resemblance
between Mr. Blaine and that great trib.
ute of the people. Clay was magnetic,
so is Blainei each were powerful before
the people and possessed a genial fellow.
chip that bound men to them with hooks
of steel, Both had an ambition to be
president and failed. | am inclined to
believe, however, that Mr.. Blaine's pub.
| lie career will stand higher in the esteem
of future generations than that of Mr..
Clay, Both were remarkable men and
have left their lasting impress upon the
times In which they lived"
--------------
A Blue Law Invoked.
KITTANNING, Pa, Dec 10.-The only