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portant pending questions. At the
time of his departure he was looking
forward to period of rest and recre-
alton at his summer home, and fully
expected to return to Washington in
the fall fully recuperated in health
and strength. Although he appeared
considerably better than when he left
Washington for Europe, just following
his severe illness OF last spring, yet it
was evident to his family and friends
that he was far from being we'll man.
The Dead Diplomat.
John Hay was born in Salem, Ind,
Oct. 8, 1888, of an old Scotch family.
He was graduated from Brown uni
versity in 1853, and studied law at
Springfield, ILL.,, with Abraham Lin
coin, who Was then neighbor, and
was admitted to the Illinois bar in
1861. He went to Washington with
President Lincoln as his assistant Sec
retary. Mr.. Hay was intensely loyal
to President Lincoln, and entered hear
tily into all the duties that the mar
tyred chief magistrate assigned to
him. In 1854 President Lincoln gave
him commission in the army, and he
was made major and adjutant gen.
eral, serving at Hilton Head, and later
in Florida, under Mr.. Lincoln's per.
sonal direction. When he was mus
tered out of the military service, April
%, 1867, he had won the brevet of
ieutenant-colonel and colonel "for
faithful and meritorious services dur
ing the war;
Having an ambition for a diplomatic
career, Mr.. Lincoln decided to send
him to Paris, but before he had depart
ed the president was assassinated.
Mr.. Hays service under the diplomatic
branch of the government continued
for several years. He went to Paris,
as President Lincoln had planned he
should, as secretary of legation, learn
ing to speak the French language flu
emily before he resigned March 28,
1867, to become secretary of the lega-
ton at Vienna under Minister Motley.
In June of 1869 he accompanied Min
lister Sickles to Madrid, where he re-
NAMED till the autumn of 1870.
Soon after his return to this country
Mr.. Hay, who had already written
sufficiently to attract attention as a
litterateur, embarked on a journalistic
career, and on the invitation of Horace
Greeley he became an editorial writer
on the New York Tribune, then a
power in republican politics.
From 1876 to 1900 he took an active
part in presidential campaigns. When
Mr.. Mckinley was elected president
he sent Mr.. Hay as ambassador to
England, and especially during the
Spanish-American war he gave evi-
dence at that eventful time of his con-
ception of the fundamentals of Amer
lean policy in international affairs.
Although Mr.. Hay secured the abro-
grafton of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty,
brought about the reference of the
most far-reaching question in the re-
cent Venezuela dispute priority in
payment for a belligerent claimant
to the international court of The
Hague, and arranged for the peaceable
adjustment of the Alaska boundary
question, he is known throughout the
world principally for the breadth and
foresight Of his policy in Asia. Mr..
Hay came to the state department in
September, 1898, at the close of the
Spanish war
Roosevelt in Grief.
Oyster Bay, L. l., July 3.President
Roosevelt sent the following message
to Mrs. Hay: Mrs. John Hay, Lake
5unapee: l cannot believe the dread
tul news. Pray accept our deepest
sympathy in your terrible bereave-
ment. do not know what to say ts
express my sorrow.
'@Thandnre Rnnsaualt .