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The great wrought-iron gateways of the Salisbury estate face the railway station. Hatfield House itself- is but five minutes’ walk from the railway platform. Lord' Salisbury has long been dcâ€"' sir'ous of leading a life of retire- ment. Eight years ago he became so absorbed in his private chemical experiments and the study of elec- tricity at Hatfield House that he re- fused to go to London, except on the most urgent parliamentary business. Since the death of his wife, three years ago, Lord Salisbury has be- come more self-centred than ever. He has dropped from his visiting list many of his most intimate friends, and Hatfield House has be- come _a solemn cloistcr. Lord Salisbury’s study on the sec- 0nd floor of the great, rambling house has been turned into a chemi- cal laboratory. Here the cxâ€"Prime Minister spends many hours each day, going over chemical reactions, and working with testâ€"tube and re- tort. Glassware of every descrip- tion litters up the room, and he is never more at peace with himself and the rest of the world than when working out a chemical problem. The only real recreation now takâ€" en by Lord Salisbury is an early morning spin on his tricycle. He seldom leaves the grounds surround- ing Hatfield House, however, and, since Lady Salisbury’s death, has never cycled through the streets of Hatfield town. _ ‘ HE IS VERY EXCLUSIVE. The only chance the friends of Salâ€" isbury will now have of seeing him will be at the occasional “garden parties” which will be given at Hat- field House. Here ' the retired statesman will appear for a few mo- ments. The immediate family of Lord Sal- isburyâ€"~that of Lord Cranborne, his eldest sonâ€"takes great care the reâ€" tired statesman is not left too much alone or with strangers. For some years it has been noted that the mind of the great Minister has, been failing, and recently he has ' made so many mistakes, from lapses of memory, that he has to be pretâ€" ty carefully looked after. When the question 0f Lord Salis- bury’s retirement was first seriously mooted many speculations were in‘ dulged in as to the manner in which he would spend his time. Some suggested that, as he had been inâ€" terested in literature as a young man, he would doubtless devote himâ€" self to writing and political specu- lation. Nothing could be further from his purposes. It will be remembered that when Lord Salisbury began his career he had to make his own living by the pen in London. The struggle was a very hard one. Being a younger son, his father had left all the imâ€" mense possessions of the house of Cecil, together with the title, to the present marquis’ eldest brother. It Was only through the death of this brother that the late Prime Minisâ€" ter came into this fortune. ONCE A LITERARY MAN. Having had to make his living by writing, Lord Salisbury holds liter- ature to be a most distasteful purâ€" suit. Outside of chemistry and the study of physics, Lord Salisbury cares little for mental work. The burdens of state have weighed heavâ€"l ily upon him, and he assumed them only at the earnest solicitation of the late Queen Victoria. No one can blame Lord Salisbury for wishing to retire from public life to such a place as Hatfield. The history of this famous family seat is closely woven with that of Eng- land itself. In the Doomsday Book survey, dated 1086, Hatfield is men- tioned as containing enough land for 40 hich, meaning from 3,000 to 5.â€" 000 acres, and “pennage for 2,000 hogs.” So, even at this early date, the estate was a very considerable one. King Henry VIII. coveted Hatfieldl House, which was really a palatial residence, and ~when Thomas Good- rich became Bishop of Ely, Henry, in characteristic fashion, insisted on the bishop exchanging Hatfield for some tracts of land in the North of England. Thus did Hatfield become crown land. Here Princess Eliza- beth Was educated, studying under Roger Ascham. Elizabeth lived at Hatfield in close seclusion- until the death of her sister, Mary. Tl-IE FAMOUS OAK TREE. Elizabeth was standing under the old oak tree toâ€"day shown near Hatâ€" field House when the announcement was made to her that she was Queen of England. The tree is much venerated in England and is called “Elizabeth’s oak.” At Hat- field House to-day one may see un- der a glass case the garden hat which Queen Elizabeth wore on this occasion. Hatfield House came into the posâ€" session of the Cecils in_ this manner: When James I. was en route from Scotland to London he stopped atl the country estate of Sir Robert Cecil at. Theobalds. He admired the estate so much that he offered to exchange Hatfield (crown land) for the Cecil estate at Theobalds. The bargain was made, and from that day to this the great Hatfield estate has been in the Cecil family. Sir Robert Cecil, the first Lord Salisbury, the second son of the great Lord Burleigh, built the pre- sent Hatfield House. He was his own architect and spent $355,000 on the mansion. The house was comâ€" pleted in 1611, though since that time the place has been practically buiit over. The palace formerly oc- cupied by the bishops and Queen Elizabeth is now used for stables. When Queen Elizabeth was living at Hatfield she caused her family tree to be prepared. It is shown to- day at Hatfield on a long scroll of parchment. which has. two handles for unrelling. In this strange pediâ€" gree Elizabeth traces her descent di- rectly from Adam and Eve, Helen of Troy, mythical King Arthur and other weird characters. In a room on the second floor of Hatfield House one may see the 'cradle in which Queen Elizabeth was rocked when a baby. The cradle has on it the initials “A. R.,” which stand for Anne, Regina.” This Queen was Anne Boleyn, one of Henry VIII.’s unfortunate Wives. THE SPLENDID ARMORY. One of the most interesting fea- tures of Hatfield House is its splen- did armory. This is on the ground floor, entered from the southern side. A great hall 30 feet wide by some 200 feet long extends the en- tire length of the southern exposure. Here one may see many coats of mail and the famous colors of great knights. The hall is walled in by a. trellis work of small windows, which ex- tends from the ground to the sec- ond, storey, making a great “sun parlor” for the children to play in. On a balcony over the musician’s stand, in the great banqueting hall, one may see'the colors which Na- poleon had prepared for his own troops, but which were taken from Paris by the Duke of Wellington'in 1815. Almost all the famous kings and queens of England have at times stopped at Hatfield House. There are 1many rooms in the famous dwelling inamed after distinguished guests. For instance, there are King James’ room, the walls hung in crimson damask; the "Queen and Prince Con- sort” room. after the late Queen, who visited Hatfield with the Prince Consort in 1845; the Queen Anne room, the Cromwell room, the Wel- lington room. and the rooms of Queen Charlotte, George III., and others. The Shah of Persia and the German Emperor have been the guests of the House of Cecil, though no rooms are named after the-111., Besides the rooms occupied by royalty, there are apartments which have been occupied at one time or another by the famous statesmen who have been at the head of the Government for hundreds of years. APPEARANCE OF THE HOUSE. .Hatfield House is not very strikâ€" ing from the exterior. It stands on the crest of a high hill, and looks a great deal like a. large factory. It is built of red brick. and its archiâ€" tectural design is not imposing. Great flower beds and terraces sur- round the house on all sides, and were it not for the skill of the landâ€" scape gardener, its appearance would be more or less depressing. It is Ionly when: one enters the building ithat the great antiquity and wealth of historic interest simply over- iwhclm the beholder. l The walls are hung with magnifiâ€" cent tapestries and paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Vandyke, Zuc- chero and other famous artists. One remarkable picture is that of Qficcn ,Elizabeth by the last‘named artist. {The dress of Elizabeth has ears and eyes painted all over it, showing that the wily Queen knew all that was going on, and the sleeves have serpents drawn on them. Another picture of Elizabeth represents her as Diana the Huntress. A white rat is painted crawling up the arm â€"-â€" a rather queer idea for a classic paintâ€" ling. Hatfield abounds in rare manu~ scripts and curios of every descripâ€" tion. A long poem in Walter Raâ€" leigh’s own handâ€"writing is shown in the museum collection; also a pair of silk stockings, the first imported into England. They were worn by Queen Elizabeth, as a present from [one of her courticrs. ' The present Lord Salisbury has done much to improve Hatfield House. Many of the great, rambâ€" ling rooms have been strictly modâ€" ernized. Lord Salisbury was one of Ithe first persons in England to :adopt electric lighting. Twenty years ago he installed his own elec- 'tric light system, planning out the connections and fitting them up him- self, unassisted. The whole of Hatâ€" field House is r.ow electrically light- led, Lord Salisbury personally putâ€" |ting in the installation. One room fitted up by him at great expense is very striking. It is .on the second floor just above the Earmory. The ceiling of this room has been entirely overlaid with gold leaf, the $8,000. Salisbury was born at Hatfield 74 He is passionately at- tached to ‘the place, and has spent vast sums of money on improve- ments in recent years. Lord Salisbury is devotedly atâ€" tached to his little grandchildren, who reside at Hatfield House. Since the death of Lady Salisbury, three years ago, the society of his daugh- ters and grandchildren has absorbed all of Salisbury’s family affection. His sons, all' of whom occupy im- portant Government positions, have little time to spend at the country seat of the Cecil family, but Lord Salisrbury’s daughters look after the aged exâ€"Premier with tender soliciâ€" tude- _ beef is certainly richly remunerative Here is the manner in which the to. those who grow it on correct retired statesman spends a typical lines. While meat making also is a STICK TO DAIRYING. Those who have work of dairying know very well that it confines them very closely. The cows have to be milked twice a day, come what will. During re- cent years those who have gone through the hum-drum of dairying have found- a rich reward in the splendid returns that have been reached. So large relatively have been these returns that some of them have been inclined to conclude that they were ‘in the swim’ as compar- ed with the growers of beef. How- ever, in this respect, the times have changed. Seven cents a pound for years ago. engaged in the day: He arises early. Shortly be“ very confining business, it is not so fore 7 o’clock. After a light bl'aik- to the same extent as dairying. fast his secretary acquaints him True, during the finishing season, with the important news of the. day. About 8.30 he mounts his tricycle and takes a leisurely spin around Hatfield Park, part of the grounds cattle must be fed at least twice a day, and otherwise cared for ; but in the summer the animals require little attention relatively, when of his estate. Returning to the.comp-ared with those kept in the house after an hour’s ride, he reâ€"|dairy. The temptation, therefore, is ceives important visitors or messen- very strong because of this, in some gers from' the King, Balfour, Cham- quarters at leasn, to swing over berlain or others, though he is tak- from ing no active interest in affairs he partakes‘ of a 1ghtWith reference to the wisdom of doâ€" l state. At noon . d. . breakfast. The hours of the early mg 50’ or marlly at least our an' swer is ready. It is this : Dairymen don’t think of making such a change unless you can give the best of rea- so doing. Your business has already been mastered by you. You have made it a success. Then let other business alone, as the out- look for the future of dairying is also bright. If you take up beef growing you will probably have to take up a comparatively new line of work, so that nowyou will have to practice at it some time before you are completely successful. No one ran be assured that a few years hence the price of beef will rule any- thing as high on an average as they are at the present time. We have for a long time held to the idea that afternoon are spent in chemical and physical research, especially electriâ€" cal studies. After 4o’clock Lord Salisbury may be seen walking about the grounds or sitting on one of the terraces of Hatfield House, in company with the children of Lord Cranborne, or his own daughters. Lord Salisbury retires quite early, seldom sitting up after 10 o’clock. ._..____.+._.__..- YOUTH AND CRABBED OLD AGE ~â€" sons for Cases Where Young Men Outwit- ted the Older Ones Our respect for age dwells in us side by side with enthusiasm for youth. Nothing gives one more of a 1310‘" than When a young man ' de‘ the trend of prices on the whole is servedly beats a man of an older upward rather than downWard’ not__ generation. It IS that glow .WhIChiwjthstanding great depression may 11‘35 made & filmlllm‘ QVUOta-tlon 0f be in store for us in many lines heâ€" Pitt’s famous retort to Walpole, that fore many years go by. When dc. crushing sentence beginning: "The-pression comes, beef growers are on atrocious Cl‘lme 0f bemg a younglthe whole likely to suffer more than man. ' the producers of milk, since milk is A judge named Robinson was notâ€" ed for his peevish, sneering manner. Home, the Irish lawyer, was once arguing in a case before him. The judge was unusually stern, and fin- ally roused the young barristcr by an article of daily use, which every farmer must have more or less of. Again, we say therefore, dairymen make no change in your line of work, unless you are absolutely sat- isfied that the reasons are sufficient accusing him of intending to bring which would lead to the change_ the King’s commission into con- tempt. “No, my lord,” said Hoare; "I ABOUT ODORS' have read in a book that when a, The power of absorbing odors is peasant, during the troubles ofione possessed in a marked degree by Charles I., found the crown in a milk. If, f.'.r_ instance, we leave a bush, he' showed it all reverence. In bowl of milk in the neighborhood of like manner I shall respect the an uncorked bottle of sewage water, King’s commission, though 'I find it’we should find in a, very few hours on a bramble.” that the milk Was considerably afâ€" Robinson was reported to have fccted thereby. Tests have been carâ€" risen to his rank by the publication ried ‘ out in which milk has been of some slavish and scurrilous pamâ€" placed near various strong-scented phlets. Once in the days when Cur- substances, and at the end of eight ran was poor and unknown, strug- hours the odors could, more or less, gling against great adversity, he be distinguished in the milk. The appeared before Robinson. The odors of turpentine, onions, tobacco judge tried to extinguish him. When smoke and rotten fish were strong- Curran declared that he had conâ€" 1y absorbed ; those of musk and sulted all his~.law~books, and could camphor only to a slight extent. not find a case that did not support This shows how important it is his position, Robinson answered : ithat milk should be kept among "I suspect your law library isiclcan and fresh Surroundings, and rather contracted." this point should be kept. in mind This brutal and unnecessary reâ€" by both producers and consumers. mark stung Curran’s pride and rous- Milk should never be kept in the ed him at once. bedrooms of sick persons, and milk "It is true, my lord,” he said, should never be drunk which has after a moment’s contemptuous sil- been near anyone suffering from inâ€" ence, “that I am poor, and the cirâ€" fectious disease. It is a well known cumstancc has curtailed my library. fact that the food consumed by the My books are not numerous, but cows has an influence not only upon they are select, and I hope I have the composition of the milk, but peruse-d them well. I have prepared upon its taste and odors. It ap- myself for this high profession rathâ€" pears, moreover, that the milk in or by the study of a few good books ‘ the udder can never be affected if than by the composition of a great the cows breathe an atmosphere many bad ones.” Icharged with odorous particles of ' UNNECESSARY. “If you wish to tajke a bath,” observed the hotel clerk to Uncle Hi, who was on his first visit to the seaside, “you may procure a bathing 1)}11‘O.Sllit at the bath oflico.” leaf alone costmg' The CiCCtl‘iC lights Of this in the (wick yisf’udfly evening_” “Thank ye,” said Uncle l-li, “but I guess I don‘t need one. I wasth milk either raw or cooked will have a most disagreeable flavor. In short we must supply milking stock with plenty of food. and pure fresh air, and be careful that the houses and surroundings are kept perfectly clean. . CLOVER AS AN EGG PRODUCER. Experience has demonstrated the value of ~ clover for eggâ€"producing time and again. Clover has just the material in it to form eggshell, and hence it becomes an essential part of every ration fed to the chickens. It may not be generally understood that there are nearly thirty pounds of lime contained in each 1,000 pounds of clover. The chickens fed daily with clover will consequently prove better egg-layers than those denied it. The clover hay should be given to chickens in the winter in quantities sufficient to satisfy them, and to make them eat more it is desirable sometimes to prepare it in various ways. Cook and chop it up, and mix it wit-h meal or. other arti- cles. This will sometimes induce the hens to consume a great amount of clover every day. Cut up into short lengths and mixed with warm mash and then fed only as fast as the chickens will clean it up each day, is probably the most eCOnomical way to feed the clover. Some cut the second crop of clover and place it in the poultry yard for the chick- ens to eat and scratch over at pleasure. This of itself is all right, but it is rather wasteful. VMora than half of the clover will be lost. and the chickens do not actually eat much more than the leaves. The stalks contain most of the lime, and these should be prepared so the chickens will consume them. Of all foods that can he raised on a farm for poultry clover is not only the best, but probably the cheapest, and a field of it is as essential to success as a pasture field is necessary to the success of dail‘ying. W. ONE OF LATURE'S TRAGEDIES Terrible Battle Between a King‘- Fish and Pickerel. Little is known by the average man of the tragedies which are con- stantly occurring in wild life. One wellâ€"knoWn naturalist, indeed, goe: so far as to say that no wild ani- "natural" death. No“ mal dies a and then an instance comes to light, like the following which shows how the life of a wild creature is sudden- ‘ ly snufi‘ed out. The narrator Was in a canoe watching a kingfish that had alighted on the dead branch of a tree on the edge of the pond. Suddenly the bird rose and drop- doivn into the watei like a stone, and disappeared be heath the surface. It reappeared al most immediately with a fish in it: long, spearâ€"like bill, but it had scarcely regained the surface whet it disappeared again with a sudden ness that led me to think that some thing had seized it from below. If did not come up again, and after a time I rowed to the spot where if had gone down to find an explana- tion of its extraordinary disappear ance. A dead pickerel about eight inchel Was floating on the surfaci near the shore. It was doubtless th: one the kingfish had caught. S001 after vard I saw on oddâ€"looking ob On examinatim am ped straight long ject floating near. it proved to be a big pickerel the kingfish, both dead. One of the bird’s legs was betweei the pickercl’s jaiVs, the long teeth 0 which fivent through the flesh. Th: kingfisher’s spearâ€"like bill ran cleai through the pickerel’s body, iron slide to side. a few inches below thx gills. No doubt the pickerel had seize« the kingfisher by the leg as the lJll‘f was rising from the water with tlu and had pulled it bad] into the water, expecting to dim upon the kingfisher. The bird hat turned in selfâ€"defence and driven in sharp beak through the pickerel, in- flicting a morfal wound. The pick era], with bulldog tenacity, hat kept its hold on the bird’s leg, an; the two had (lied together. FROM TREES 'I'O NEWSPAPEIS A trial was recently made in Aus- tria to decide in how short a spam of time living trces could be convert ed into newspapers. At l‘llsuinthul at 7.35 in the morning, time trees were sa“'n down : at 9.34 the wood. having been stripped of bark, cuf up, converted into pulp, became pa- per, and passed from the factory t( the press, whence the first printec and folded copy was issued at tex o’clock. So that in 145 minutes tlu trees had become newspapers. 4» small fish, Till". ALLIAN ‘E. A result of the Angloâ€"Japanesf alliance is an extraordinary keen ness on the part of the Eastcrners t( learn English. Only the other day 1: British bluejackcf, belonging to Lift battleship Goliath. was arrested if: a house at Kano. ' vmmu-hi (.11 His charge of oven. glue; :is: ll-;I_\f ashore. It air-gran"; rho: lu- 11sz been given :1 inc l:‘)«-,’Ell!L" hf: 132.: Sn!‘ of a.\'illa;‘;c liaudnniv. who we: anxious to improve his convcrsation a1 English. AFTER q l l l .3 i i Z