Uy JAMES 6. BLAINE Ris Public Career From Man. hood to Old Age. —————— TRIUMPHS AND REVERSES. His Early Life as a School Teacher and a Journalist, Beginning ot His Political Career Speaker, Senator, Secretary of State, Presidential Candidate and Historian—His Bereavements and I1-Fated House in Washington— The Blaine Houschold, bs PES bi) v JAMES G. BLAINE~FROM HIS LAST TAKEN IN 1580) PHOTO- GRAPH, born on the 4), at West Brownsville James Gillespie Blaine was 81st of January, 18 Penn., in a houss built by his great.-grand. father before the War of the Revolution, which still stands, The Gillespi were people of standing befora tion, Colonel Blaine, who w general of Northera Vashington's army during the Revolution, was James GG. Blaine's great-grandfather, When eleven years old, he went to live with uncle, Thomas Ewing, in Ohio, where hi mother’s father, Neal G llespie, an accom- plished scholar, directed his studies. Later be attended Washington College, at Wash ington, Penn., graduating at the age of sev- enteen, After leaving college he taught school at Blue Lick Springs, Ky. It was as a profes sor in the military school there that he made the acquaintance the lady-—a school teacher from Maine—who afterward became his wife, Later he went to Philadelphia, where he taught school and studied law, + and Blaines the Revola - as commissary - Dapartment of the of But after two years he abandoned law stud. | jes, went to Maine, and became pr oprietor and editor of the Kennebec Journal. At the birth of the Republican Party he | was a delegate to the Philadelphia Conven - tion in which nominated Fremont. After serving as Speaker of the Maine Leg- isiature, he was sent to Congress and began bis National career in 1562, with the out break of the war. During the Worty-first Forty-sccond and Forty-third Congresses hn was Speaker of the House, Mr, Blaine’s administration of the Speak. | ership is commonly regarded as one of the | most brilliant and successful in the annals the House. He had rare aptitude and equip ment for the duties of presiding officer, and his complete mastery of Parliamentary law bis dexterity and physical endurance, | rapid dispatch of business, and his firm and impartial spirit were recoguizad on all side It was during his occupancy of the Spea er’s chair in 1574 that be took the floor ani succeeded in defeating the passage of the original “Force bill.” The political revulsion of 1574 placed the Democrats in control of the House, and Mr, Blaine became the leader of the minority. The session precading the Presidential con- test of 1576 was a period of stormy and vee | bement contention. Oa the 21 of May a resolution was adopted in the House to in - vestigate an alleged purchase by the Union Pacific Railrond Company of certain bonds of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Company. It soon became evident that the investigation was aimed at Mr, Blaine. An extended business correspondence on his | part with Warren Fisher, of Boston, run ning through years and relating to various transactions, bad fallen into the hands of a clerk named Mulligan, and it was alleged | that the production of this correspondence would confirm the imputation against Mr. Blaine, When Mulligan was summoned to vy 1856, MR, BLAINE'S BIRTHPLACE Washington Mr. Blaloe possessed bimeell of the letters, together with memorandum that contained a full index and abstract, On the 5th of June, 1874, he rose to a personal explanation, and after denying the power of the House to compel the production of his private papers, ani his willingness to to any extremity in defense of his rights, £ declared that he propose | to reserve noth- ing, Holding up the letters he exclaimed; ank God, I am not ashamed to show them. There is the vert orignal package, And with some sense of humiliation, with a mortification 1do not attempt to conceal, ‘with a sense of outrage which I think any “man in my position would feel, I invite the ‘confidence of 40,000,000 of my countrymen él I road these letters from | with | Harrison's Cabinet | ton transaction, was traveling in Europe and both sides were seeking to communicate with him, After finishing the reading of the letters Mr, Blaine turned to the Chair man of the Committee and demanded to know whether he had received any dispatch from Mr. Caldwell, Receiving an evasive answer Mr, Blaine asserted, as within his own knowledge, that the Chairman had re. ceived such a dispatch ‘completely and ab. solutely exonerating me from this charge and you have suppressed it.” About the beginning of his administration | he purchased his Inte home, which is on the opposite side of Lafavette square, and is known as the Seward House, The old place had been unoccupied for some years and was in a dilapidated condition, It was considered notoriously unlucky, two tragedies having occurred within its portals. Daring Buchanan's administration it was occupied as a clubhouse, One day Philip Barton Key, the voung and handsoms Dis trict Attorney of the District of Columbia, —— ~~ b, anni MALL purl titling | BEIAR ALL AIT LL IS IIIT irr y E'S RESIDEN pointed to the ausel by and t YANG Was al re. 18 next er was elected by the Legisiature to the seeding term. His was both brilliant and had been in the House, He was the Senate to enter President Garfield's Cabinet as Secretary of State, It was while passing through the railroad depot on Mr. Blaine's arm and pleasantly him about his comin Garfield received the assassin The death of Mr. Garfield led to Mr retirement from the Cabinet, in December, 1882. From that date until he eunterad Mr Secretary ol State, he was in private life except during 1} campaign for the Presidency in 1554 During his retirement Mr, Blaine wr his “Twenty Years in Congress,” a work o great historical value, It was in accordance with his original suggestion and due to bis earnest efforts that provision was made in the McKinley bill for the reciprocity trea ties which formed such prominent features of National policy. Tue Samoan difficu! ties, the complications arising out of the lynching ~f [talians at New Orleans and the or in the Senate as if liad from Inguis sed, loaning aatling that as ue TAMER GO. DLAINE, Kuling of American seamen atl were also disposed of while Mr, Blaine was at the head of the State Department. The events precading and attending the recent Minneapolis Coavention are too recent a most to need recounting, Mr. Blaine was induced to permit his name to be used as a candidate, and resigned his piace in the Cabinet. Whether iu public position or in private life, he always remained a central Valparaiso figure in National affairs, PLAINES For nearly thirty years Mr. Blaine has been a resident of Washington While he never gave up his home and home life in Maine, where he had a town residence in Augustaand a summer residence at Bar Harbor, yet he also had a hbom® in Washiag Is was only a few years after going there as a Member of Congress that he bought the residence, #1 Fifteanth street LIFE IN WASHINGTON, NEAR WASHINGTON, PENN, where he lived so many years, This was about the year 1880 when he was slectel Speaker of the House for the first time. The housh he bought was one of a row which had jast been built and was re garded at that time as ons of the chief architectural features of the city, He made bis home at 521 Fifteenth street for over ten years, and then having built the fine residence fronting on Dupoat Circle he sold the old house and took J oakaston of the new one, The death of Garfield ant Mr Binine's retirement from public ile caused a change in his plans and he leassd bis Dupont Circle house to Mr, Initer, He wns absent from the city for syvaral Jars, al though he spent a portion of ons or twe winters there and occupied the house on La fayette iquare adjoining General Beale's », which is owned by the daughter of the late Representative Scott, of Peuusyl- vania, Mrs. Scott [ywansad, EIN Thad just at {A third | the death of the eldest daughter, Allon, { John J, | the son, James OG, WASHING ciubhon 0 was mgresman Sick] if New was earriel back to » which Koy dio 's wife shot down Ly Mr, the had was I'wo years after thi which was for a time uno 1 Baoretary of Stats, and he moved into it irrencs the house, unied, was taken William H with his fam WY the the Ssward, BLAINE S AUGUSTA RESIPENCR. fly. On the night of April 14, Seward lay sick in bed ia one of the upper rooms, & big, oak complexionsd, broad hotlderad man rang the door bil and told the servant who admitted him that e had a package of medicine which the Sec. etary's physician had ordered to be delly- ered to him personally The servant re used to allow him to go upstairs anil the ecretary’s son, Frederick & Seward, also pposed him: but the stranger, making a sint of departure, suddenly sorang at rederick and felled him to the floor with ¢ hutt of a revolver, almost on the same tant slashing the servant with a knife. is then darted forward and reached the ck chamber where Secretary Seward was tting up in bed, The knife gleamed again i Mr. Seward, weak and helpless. was tabbed in the face and neck, but the band. that swathed his neck saved him yn a mortal wound, As the murderous trader retreated be was again intercepted, is time t Major Augustus H. Seward and an atteadant, but be shook them off and running down stairs, leaped on his horse and rode off Hoe was captured a few days later, and being fully identified as lewis Payne one of the men President Lincoln's implicates] in condemned and ex 1865, while Mr ’y jenth, WAR tried cuted with his fellowconspirators Secretary of War Belknap was the next tenant of tae house of misfortune, and for a the sober old edifice became gay with » [life of the Grant regime. Before a twelve. month its evil genius bad again asserted it. wif and Mrs, Belknap lay dead under its roof after a brief illness, Then, after the Belknaps vacated, it again did duty, as in the earlier days, as a boarding-house, but Washington had somehow got the impres- ion that the place was uncanny and that ite tenants were dogged by an evil fate For a time the Commissary General's staff held possession, then when they had moved to the War Department's new bulld- ing it was again tenan ties It was about this time that Mr. Blaine, shortly after his appointment as Secretary of State by Presi. jent Harrison, astonished his friends by renting the Hllomened house for ten years $3000 a year He decorated and reno vated it throughout, tearing down the walls of the room in which the attempt on Mr. Soward's life took place, and by generous expenditures transformed the dingy old wide -roomed house into a magnificent mod. urn residence, Yet all the changes failed to wad jcate the ~haracteristic attributed to the mangion by the superstitious Washington ans, Becoming its tenant, Mr. Blaine has neountered the greatest reverses to his an sitions, and experienced the keensst sorrows of his Lime fe MR, BLAINE'S HOUSEHOLD Of Mr, Blaine's six children, throes --two ons and a daughter — wore suddenly stricken own by death after reaching maturity, His sidont son, Walker, a young man of fine parts, who bad given evidence f rare abilities and was apparently | destined to a brilliant fature, died two years | ago | business man, his second won, a bright in manner and character lomely resembling his father, also died sud lenly in the heyday of youth and prosperity. and crushing bereavement was Fmmons, IAenteonant Colonel It followed closely brother, Walker whose funeral she was at when soisel by the fatal li. Of the three surviving children, made an unfortunate of which em of his father's married to Coppinger. death of her who was on the nine, tending ae marriage, the results bitterad the latter years ‘ite. One of the daughters, Miss Margaret, I marred to Mr, Walter mr osch, fa mous New York musioal director, and the other, Miss Harriet, ts unmarried. Mrs, PLAINES COTTAGE AT BAR MARROR, Blaine i= still an active and brilliant indy. Hhe has been a devoted wife to the great statesman, whom she married forsy. ben both were school trict with but Taste In Animals, Many experiments have been made in order to find out what and where the organ of taste 1s in the lower creation; but it is easier to say where it is not, Crayfish and worms seem to have very decided preferences in the matter of food, though no special taste organ has yet been found, Lobsters like decaying food; the crab is more dainty in its diet, Snails and slugs show a decided prefer ence for certain kinds of food, as garden lovers know to their cost; peas and cab. bages, dahlias and sunflowers are great favorites; but they will not touch the white mustard, Some prefer animal food, especially if rather high, Spiders have only a of taste; flies sonked in parafline seem quite palatable slight sense to them; though one species, the dia dema, is somewhat more particular, and refuses to touch alcohol in any form whatever, The anten: i not appear { { of taste, for + into ) nian ly took their tf UN HEeREARD food, (hh to make the a restaur cuiar ta with cake fifteen cer cess of « ready for Catarrh Can't Be Cured CHENEY & INK a v : ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Byrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts fantly yet promptly on the Kidneys, iver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head. aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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