The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-31

his lordship has done for the people
herea bouts. If a girl gets married she
Is always sure of a wedding present
from his lordship; and the old people
know that he won't let them end their
days in the work house if he can help
II: he is rich man, but the amount
of money he gives away in charity here
must make big hole even in an in
come like his
But that's not the only way he helps
the people. If he sees a man doing a
job clumsily, he will stop and show
him how to do it properly. He's a rare
mandy man with tools. I've seen him
patch up fence as we'll as 1 could do
1t myself, and I'm a carpenter by
trade"
This character given to Lord Sails
bury as a handy man" was corrobo-
rated by visit to Hatfield House
Every room in the mansion bears evil
dence to the old nobleman's fondness
for pottering about with tools and his
remarkable ingenuity in using them.
Hatfield House differs widely from the
average English country seat in being
as we'll equipped with modern convent
enqes as a good American hotel.
Lord Salisbury is a Conservative in
politics, and still more conservative
in social matters, but he is thoroughly
progressive and up-to-date in his pri-
yate life. He has designed and fitted
up several dumb walters" and cleo
trical conVeniences to lessen the work
of his servants.
He was the first nobleman in Eng
land to use electric lights at his coun-
try house. He installed the plant him
self, taking advantage of a stream that
| runs through his park to get water
power. The best electrical engineer
| in England could not have done the
work better than this aged statesman,
! who stands in the front rank of scien-
lists in the domain of experimental
| physics
His Great Sorrow.
Lord Salisbury has never recovered
from the loss he suffered in 1899 by
| the death of his wife.
Like most Englishmen he is reticent
| about the feelings of his heart He
makes no parade of emotion. But
\ once. at a church meeting at Hatfield
| held to pay honor to a local philan-
thropist who had died, he spoke of
the sorrow which had come into his
| own life.
when a man has done his work,
and those whom he loves pass one
| by one behind the VEIL said the aged
| statesman, there is nothing better for
/ him than to die as our friend has died,
| full of years and leaving behind him
a memory fragrant with good deeds.
| He should be able to say in the words
of an obscure but beautiful modern
| poet:
When my last hour grows dark for
shall not fear
Deaths dreaded face to see,
Deaths voice to hear.
81 shall not fear the night
When day is done;
| My life was loyal to the light,
And served the sun
His Care of His wife's Pensioners.
The people of Hatfield say that it was
| a beautiful sight to see Lord and Lady
| Salisbury together, the wife so proud
of her distinguished husband, the hus-
/ band so tender and courteous to his
still beautiful wife. They were lovers
to the end.
| 1t was Lady Salisbury who taught
| her husband to take an interest in the
people of the village and help them in
| all their small affairs. After her death,
/ he ceased for time to do this. He
gave money as before. but he was not
to be seen in the village talking with
the old people and patting the chill
\ dren on the head. Such time as he
| could spare from the affairs of state
was spent in his laboratory, studying
| experimental physics. But since his re-
| tirement from politics, he has return
ed to all his old philanthropic work.
He takes sad pleasure in looking aft
| er the welfare of bis dead wife's pen
sioners. There is a blind girl at Hat
| field to whom she used to be kind.
Lord Salisbury has made her indie
pendent for life, and pays her a visit
nearly every day when he is staying
at Hatfield. So IL Is with many others
The grief-stricken statesman passes
his days doing good; he finds that the
best consolation for his loss is to do
the kindly, charitable work which his
wife loved so much.
His Horror of Cruelty 10 Animals.
One Of the best traits in Lord Sails
bury's character is his detestation of
cruelty 10 children or animals In Hat
field they still tell a tale of his horse
whipping a burly farm laborer in the
days when he was Lord Cranborne
He caught the man beating a child
and thrashed him 80 severely that he
was ~ In bed for a fortnight
No man IL employed on the Cecil
estates unless he Is known BY Lord
Salisbury 10 be a good husband and
father. The old aristocrat Is inquisl-
torial, but Nith the best motives. He
has 10 use for any man who ~ treats
an animal even slightly Not long ago
he dismissed one Of HE ErOonss for
whipping a dog.