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Show BLAINE HIMSELF AGAIN. The l our Months Rest has Done the Secretary Secre-tary a World of Good. Boston, Oct. 22. Secretary Blaine was met this morning at Young's hotel aud in the course of conversation remarked that he had enjoyed more than four months of absolute abso-lute rest, something he had not had for many a long year. He said it was nearly a month after reaching Bar Harbor before he begau to realize the improvement in his health, but that from then on the gain had been greater than he could have hoped for. "However," he added, "I suppose some of the worthy correspondents will keep the old story of exhausted nature and shattered constitution. My appetite is vigorous, almost al-most inconveniently so. So there is nothing noth-ing so exhaustive to the average man as travel. "Well, I have done a great deal, of that in my time and this summer I did none and found that the rest from that alone was highly beneficial." Blaine spoke of the political situation In New York, Massachusetts and Ohio, and seemed confident that in all these states the republicans would win. Blaine met a delegation dele-gation trom the Merchants' association, and talked with them quite freely and fully on the reciprocity question. He made a conditional con-ditional promise to speak thereon in Boston some time during the coming winter, qualifying his promise with . the statement that he did not wish to be over sanguine about his physicial restoration res-toration and that he could not meet the requisite test upon his strength until after the resumption of his Washington work. During all the time Blaine remained in his rooms he received and dispatched numerous messages. Miss Dodge (Gail Hamilton) joined the Blaines at lunch. Blaine left the hotel with Mrs. Blaine in season to take the 1 o'clock Share line train for New' York,. |