The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-10-13
DR.. CONAN DOYLE TO LECTURE
The Author of Sherlock Holmes In This
Country,

h Author of Sherlock Holmes In h
Country.
New York, Oct. S.-Conan Doyle ar
rived in this country on Tuesday.on his
maiden visit, and it is his intention to
deliver u series of forty lectures on the
western circuit, travelling as far west
as the Golden Gate, and returning leis-
>rely by way of the principal interme-
n.atc cities. He has already negotiated
dates in st. Louis for the latter part
of this month.
The Doctor. as the creator of Sher-
lock Holmes is called by his intiinates,
is equally ut hume on the platform aud
in his study.
Like Edison, Hiram Maxim, DR.. Bell
and all the other great men of earth,
a. Conan Doyle started ont in life to
do u certain thing, and unconsciously
drlfted INTO something entirely differ
ent. He began as a physician in Lon
don, but either because the profession
whs o~vercrowded Or disease delinquent,
his practice was not sufficiently large
to engage his time and talents.
he took TO reading newspapers, and
became greatly interested in a murder
mystery, which was the sensation of
the III The stupidity of the English
detectives nettled him, and he went to
work quietly on the case himself. 1t is
not definitely known that he ran the
murderer to earth, but at any rate DIR.
Doyle, having once engaged in detect
i've work, turned his attention to the
study of criminal lore, and speedily
evolved the character of Sherlock
Holmes. His detective stories made
him famous, and in 1887 he gave up the
practice of medicine for the more lu-
crutive profession of literature.
He has written many books since
then besides the sherlock Holmes"
stories, and is now practically indie
pendent of the world. Not the least
important part of mis- mission to this
country is that of finding a suitable
health resort for his wife, with whom
he expects to revisit the United States
next year for a more protrnctcd stay.
The AdironGacks have caught his fancy
temporarily because of the dry, clear
atmosphere, but stranger things have
happened than that DR.. Doyle, after
viewing Utah, should decide t o settle
IN tho Garden of the Gods" whose
genesis he has so picturesquely de-
scrloed i'll IA Study in Scarlet" i,
Besides being 4 novel writer A. Co
nan Doyle has just made his bow in
England us Il ~dramatist, likewise, &C.
cording to the London papers. with
success. The day before he sailed
Henry Irving appeared in his initial
effort, "a Story of Waterloo u one
act curtain raiser, which will form part
of the actors repertoire in this country.
English critics pronounce the hero of
this little play, u Waterloo veteran -
Corporal Gregory Brewster by name
one Of the most eXquisitely pathetic
pictures which Irving has ever attemp-
ted. There is practically but one char
acter in the play-the veteran. The
curtain rises with the old warrior
seated midst the relics of the battle
field in the interior of his cottage at
Woolwich, bent with nge and In his
second childhood, under the care of his
niece, Nora. His first words-and they
give the Gus to the monologue-nre:
Yes. | am IL guardslnan, 4 am.
Served in the Third guards-the same
they call the Scots guards. Lordy!
Sergeant! but they have all marched
away-from Colonel Dying right
down to the drummer boys; and here
| ana straggler. That's what l. call
myself-a straggler. But it amt my
fault, neither, for I've never had my
cal, and | can't leave my post with
out it."
Then the old man, lighting his pipe
to digest n pill, and toying with the
gun he used on hat occasion, begins a
graphic description of tho battle of
Waterloo, relating, incidentally, how
the Iron Duke presented him with a
medal for bravery.