Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-10
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Imagine a man born in Bombay, VI
narants in whose veins runs the oioou
81 more than one people, born and pass
ing the first 1--WE years OF his me ~ SraS
strange, warm land; then taken pach "
the parental roof-tree in old hhglauu
that he might know something OF tne
sweet childhood and healthy boyhoou
neculiar to this sheltered island anu
again at the age Of sixteen returning VI
his own free will to the tropical country
which gave him birth, and for seven
four wears doing the hardest kind OF
journalistic woodworking from dawn
to eve, year in and year out, with tue
thermometer frequently way up IN the
hundreds, no substitute even OF the
poorest possible in territory where
journalists are not to be Obtained Oh
short notice for either love or money
with fever looking him grimly N ene
eve, cholera Staying those nearest ana
dearest to him, and in his own heart al
WAYS that tumult of aspiration and de-
spair which is ever the lot OF the nlghly
gifted--the only genuine consolation
| lying in tho hard labor which later on
was destined to bear ripe fruit, but
which at the moment in that deadly
climate strained the vitality to It's
last possible limit. Imagine man
who has led this kind OF
life, having but little society for
nearly decade beyond the rough-and-
ready representatives of the army and
the natives. with whom he has SUM
bered and fought, sorrowed and made
merry, watched and broken bread, until
they are to him as brothers-imagine all
this and see if you can not understand
why it is thatat this moment the writings
of Rudyard Kipling arc astonishing two
worlds. Without previous knowledge
Of the soil whence has sprung all these
marvellous blossoms of human intel
lect, 1t is quite natural that the firstques
ton should be whether this precocity
but presages an ultimate fiasco, or work
stronger than any this century has yet
! known. Lionized as young man can be
only in society which constantly Graves
new sensation for its dulled appetite,
courted with persistency which must
prove more fiattering than wholesome
at the age of twenty-four, it will not be
at all surprising if Mr.. KipIing has
startled the world this year only to fall
by the way in the end.
But may the gods be kind and avert
such a catastrophe! and, indeed, as
contemplated the modest menage near
the Thames, with the desk and chair
and the pen, which evidently saw long
and daily service, felt that after all,
genius would rise superior to society. A
charming little study that is with the
green of Victoria Embankment directly
beneath the windows, the glistening
waters of the ship-burdened river but a
stones throw away, and such coziness
and cheer within. Walls hung with
army pictures reproduced by Detaille.
dozen well-used pipes Of varying
sorts and sizes occupying case
just above a mostinviting sleepy hollow
chair, couch covered with tiger-slsin,
which even in death is not free from
menace and alarm, great black cat,
thoroughly alive and happy and much
petted by her fond master; the little
ea-table, from which an ascetic repast
is snatched when inspirati comes thick
and fast-ah, it was all very fascinating
And the lord of this little realm, how
shall describe him-it is so natural tc
describe woman, SO difficult to repro
duce the personality of man; woman
lends herself with ease to any kind Of
portraiture, while it always seems tt
me that man instinctively rebels against
it. Yet would | could convey to yor
some impression of that small, 1.-THE
graceful figure; Of countenance which
even at the age of twenty-four is begin
ming to tell the tale of persistent anC
severe labor, and climate which mus
eat the very heart out of man, a CHR
cleft in twain, but strong and promi
mont, telling of many battle Tough
and conquered, and many battle We
to come; nostrils which expand with
every emotion like those OF bloode(
horses quivering for the race; a com
plexion pale from study and also from
the great heat borne unremittingly fol-
so many years, and fine gray eyes, whose
widely dilating pupils behind the con
stantly-worn eyeglasses fill one with a
vague alarm, as of some misfortune
lying in wait for their future sight
Helen Bartlett Bridgman, in Brooklyn
Record Union.