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FROM CATTLEMAN
TO PREMIER.
Sa1isbury's Life Identified with Many
Great Events.

Julian Ralph, In the Century Maya
zine for this month, sketches the life
of the Marquis of Salisbury. He writes
in part as follows:
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne
Cecil, the subject of this sketch, is
not only scion of an ancient house,
but of a patrician stock which has
long been commanding, given to the
ruling of men and the mastery of great
affairs. 1t is a far step of Mary in her
reign between that of Edward VI and
Elizabeth
The present Marquis was born in
Hatfield Feb. g. 1880, and was called
Lord Robert Cecil, as the second son
of that marquis, who was Lord Privy
Seal in Derby's first term as Premier.
and later, was Lord President of the
Council under Derby. The young Lord
Robert got his earliest schooling at
Elton, and between his seventeenth
and nineteenth years was student
at Christ Church College, Oxford.
Thence onward, in 1S49, 1850, 1851 and
1852 he led a life as strange for
prospective Premier of England as 1t
must have been advantageous to him
as a man, as a leader of men and as
the executive of an empire embracing
many crude civilizations. He first
made the grand tour of Europe, and
then went to New Zealand. AS
Younger son of a somewhat penurious
father. his way was left for him to
make. and we know that he lived for
a short time the life of the cattlemen
in New Zealand.
Were he anything other than an
Englishman and had he not risen 10
the post of Premier of England we
should know much about the part ne
PLAYED there, whether as COWBOY, COON
at the cattle station, superintendent
clerk or what not; but such Is the
English attitude toward one OIL ms
birth. his always exemplary conduct
and his final towering success, that
the national respect for indlvidual
nrivacy becomes exaggerated IN sucn
a case to almost absolute silence.
From New Zealand LORD Ropert
went on to Australia, swept thlther IN
the rush to the goldfields. Here ne
was a miner, working claim ana
living in the rudest sort of snack
Australians are met who have known
his felIow-miners and have heard that
Englands future Premier was tlei
called Long Bob Cecil.
Lord Robert returned 10 E1s iailo -
1s59 He was elected to parliament
frono Stamford, whose electors retained
him as their member from his twenty
bird to his thirty-eighth year. Lore
Robert. then newly elected, telloW OF
All Souls College, Oxford, mace nls
how to the nation in protest asdliS
a nroposed measure for refornlnS the
great university. This effort attrdc.eo
much attention even from the leaulIis
statesmen, and from that DAY onwa III
| although he bore a modest part IN Int
| Commons during thS first years OF ms
| membership, he was seen to be ever
| ready and active in debate and notice
| for his ultra aristocratic views ana eN-
| treme Tory principles. Already he be
| gan to evince an interest in sclentlnt
discoveries and pursuits and 10 sno"
marked scholarly and literary ieanings
Married Against Fathers Wish
while in the Commons he fell in love
with Georgiana Anderson. the eldest
daughter of the judge and baron OF
! that name. She was neither r1cn nor q
great beauty, yet she was maiden VI
6ne appearance, comely, witty ana
forming society of the leading men on
the bench. at the bar, and in htera-
ture The young lord, whose fatner
appears to have been an ungraclous
Darent severe in the exercise OF MS
authority and close in the sharing OF
his means with this son at least, op-
nosed this love match. But Lord Rop-
ert persisted in the courtsnlp' ana d. o.
27 wears of age married the lady OF
his choice. 100
This marriage led to another extra
ordinary phase of the budding Prem
ier,s career. When thrown upon MS
own resources as q youth he had tray
eled far and sought his fortune III
rough fields; now refused assistance by
The father, who insisted that ne snould
have married an heiress, ne set MIN
self up in modest chambers near inc
newspaper offices and worked as
journalist. He chose the nelds OF an es-
savist and leader writer and con-
tr,buted to the then brilliant Saturday
Review, the Quarterly and the Morn
ing Chronicle, as well as, to consid-
erable extent, to the editorial page OF
the Times. From his marriage in 1881
until the death of his elder brother
when he became Lord Cranborne, ne
made his living as a writer for the
press.
Enter The CaDlhets
It was in 1865 that he became Lord
Cranborne and heir to the great estates
and wealth of the head of the Ceclls.
In 1866. apparently as reward for his
vigorous opposition to the reform Dill
of the previous year, he was invited to
become a member of the new Tory
government-Lord Derby's- as Secre-
tary of State for India. In the next
year he retired from the government
because ho found it impossible to fol-
low his party in its surrender to the
tendencies it had been opposing by
presenting a bill to extend widely the
suffrage Thus he confirmed the belief
of those critics who declared him I'M
reliable, but remained true to his only