Blaine's Generosity

A good story of James G. Blaine is told by a writer in the St. Louis GlobeDeniocrat. The incident related was a magnanirnous and clever act of the Maine statesman, when, as speaker of the house, he got through a resolution appropriating $12,000 to the needy widowed daughter of President Zachary ïaylor. This lady got as far as Washington on her way to Paris to see a sick daughter, and, being destitute of money, apjjealed to her only friend at the capital, Gen. Sherman. His purse was al way s open to the distressed, but he had no funds at all adequate to relieve her necessities. In this emergency he thought of Blaine. The man from Maine entered into the spirit of the occasion as soon as he heard Gen. Sherman's statement. He called another to the chair, made a five-minutes' speech that fairly electrified the house, which passed the resolution which Blaine had penned only a moment before. He took the resolution in person to the senate, where t was alsoninmediately passed, had tlie president to sign it the next day, and on the following da3' the beneficiary got the money. Gen. Sherman always insisted that Blaine would have made the grandest actor that ever lived, and in adapting his career to politics, he robbed the stage of a born star.