The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-08-28
LORD SALISBURY
PASSES AWAY
Last Hours Of the Brilliant En-
gl'sh Statesman Apparently
Without Pain.

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DISTINGUISHED DIPLOMAT
The Long, Useful Life Of Distin-
suished Service, Of Loyalty and of
Political lmportance-Notes
of His Career.
London. Aug. 25.-Lord Salisbury
died Sunday. The end of the dis
tinguished statesman was a peaceful
one, without the slightest evidence of
pam. her death became imminent
the attending physicians summoned
the waiting members Of the family,
VINO gathered at the bedside and took
farewell of the dying a who. how
ever, was unconscious of their pres
ence.
Within a few mute after the
oeath a brief announcement vas hand
ed TO the newspaper men. and simult-
aheously the tolling of the death knell
from the tower of the church Of which
the Rev. Lord William Cecil, a nephew
OF Lord Salisbury, is pastor told the
people OF the little village of Hatfield
that the long struggle vas over.
The village Of Hatfield, which still
retains many features of the feudal
period, was filled with anxious resi-
dents awaiting the news of his Lord
ships demise.
The great Hatfield house, hidden be-
hind the screen of pine trees, was
lighted at every window, and gave no
sign of the approaching fatality.
Groups of watchers clustered under
the Elizabethian riches Of the lodge
est passer from Hatfield house.
Finally the news came when a hat
less servant dashed down the gravelcd
roadway, saying, as he passed: He
has gone" and then disappeared in
the church. Soon thereafter the bell
from the tower above tolled slowly,
and the villagers at the street corners
passing Of their neighbor nj friend,
England's greatest statesman.
Viscount C~ranborne, who now as
sulnes the. title of marquis of Salisbury,
Immediately notified King Edward and
Queen Alexandra, the prince and prin-
cess Of Wales n others, including
Lord Edward Cecil. the soldier son Of
and who was the only child of the mar
quir absent from the deathbed.
Soon messages of condolences began
to arrive, and the telegraph Office at
Hatfield was swamped with unprece-
denied business. The death of Lord
Salisbury occurred on the f1ftieth ami
versary of his entry into public life
as a member Of h house of commons
for Stamford. The elevation Of Lord
a vacancy In the Rochester district, and
probably will entail the selection of a
new undersecretary of foreign affairs.
The ex-premier, though retired from
political life, was an important figure
in many ways He was a warden Of
the Cirque ports, high steward Of
Westminster and chancellor Of Oxford
university. His death places an order
of Knight Of the Garter at the dis
posal of King Edward.
A few months ago Lord Salisbury
swayed the destines Of the British EN-
pire. OF late he has been practically
forgotten, even by the people of his
own country.
Lord Salisbury always Stunned noto-
riety. and when he retired from politics
he was more than ever reticent about
his private life. Few people knew how
he spent the evening Of his life de-
voted to the service of his monarch and
his country.
In politics the late premier was re-
garded as a bitter tongued cynic-t'the
master OF the art OF jeers and fouts
and sneers," Disraeli called him. In So
ciety he vas the aristocrat par excel
lence, haughtily scorniag the new
rich and the smart set" Many of
his supporters IN the house Of lords and
the house Of m were bitterly in
censed because he failed to recognize
them in the street or the club, although
they had been introduced to him and
spoken to him frequently. Not only
was Lord Salisbury near-sighted and
absent-minded. but he had a bad mem
DRY for faces-a rare defect in a public
man. It is said that he once asked MI.
Balfour, when visiting the house of
commons, who Is that man who
spoke so irtelligently Just now" That
mar was Walter Long, the minister
for agriculture, a member of Lord SAL
isbury's own cabinet.
Lord Salisbury's favorite residences
were Hatfield house. his ancestral pal
ace, which he had fitted up in the most
modern way, and his Beaulieu villa,
in the French Riviera. 1t was here, be-
tween the mountains and the sea, in
one Of the quiet pleasure spots of the
world, that he loved to spend his va
cations. Walking was his exercise.
AND the men who We're on duty, day
after day, repairing the roads, became
his best friends.
Salisbury was not overload of Amer
lea. His address in the year Of the
Spanish-American war was a note of
warning against young n vigorous
nations and an expression that govern
ments, growing old and feeble after
years Of power, must De succeeded by
their stronger and more youthful
rivals.
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