Show blaino aa as a hand shaker blame blaine says a washington correspondent of the cleveland leader is one of the best beat hand liand shakers in public life he seizes your band hand ives ita it a heart hearty yske shake and holds it kinly firmly and rather confidentially while he ia is talking here af at bel lairo ho he was shaking hands from tho the be beginning aning to the end of his visit and 06 r us gathered around the depot 0 t 1 anxious to give him a 9 pa parting arting look ro b k or shake before the train left he ire was sitting in the car by the window and shaking the hands of those brithe platform outside when among others a very pretty vir i ginia girl came cam up blaine laine seized her hand with his hearty grip almost instinctively and at av almost the same vio moment ment an old friend of his engaged him in conversa con conversation veria tion he ile begun began to talk holding to td the girls hand band and not noticing I 1 suppose that it ic was not the hand odthe of tho man to whom he was speaking after about a minute the affair began to attract attention the girl attempted to pull her hand away gently but Blaine who was eng engaged aired in an animated con conversation only lightened liis his grip and talked fasten faster at this the young girls lover who with hot face iad ad been sf standing anding back in the crowd browd cama cam up and cwi iwi twitching telling blaine Bla inos s sleeve pointed out to bim what he was doing he ile let ga the girls hand at once with a it word of apology and the blushing maiden was lei led away anto into i the crowd |