Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-03

kIPLING ON GOLD DAY,
 tered by long hall that runs the en- tire length of the building on the west side. Looking at the house from the highway. one wonders if Kipling, in his dread of the interviewer and the cu- rious public, has built house without @ door, for no means of entering the strange looking residence are to be seen. There is door, however, but it is at the rear of the house we'll concealed from view. At the southern end of the house is double porch, from which may be obtained magnificent view of the New Hampshire hills and the Con- necticut valley. Kipling's study is To- cated at this end of the house.
 Kipling has caused deal of local gossip since he located near Brattleboro, and the stories describing his eecentrici- ties would fill volume. He has very pronounced views on great many sub jects, but he reserves bis strongest lam guage for newspaper men. It is said that it is about as difficult to interview the Anglo Indian novelist as it is to get President Cleveland to talk to a reporter for publication. If Q reporter accosts him on the highway, he terms the incl dent an outrageous assault and takes to his heels. If eccentricity makes genius, Kipling is a genius of the first magni- tude. For many years seeker of fame and public attention, he now assumes the attitude of shy and shrinking lit eraTy recluse whose motto is, ''The pub lie be something or othered" His aversion to reporters seems rather strange, too, when it is remembered that in India he was Q newspaper man himself.
 About the first thing Kipling did in literary way after he arrived in Brat tleboro was to write a story in which a town suspiciously like Brattieboro in certain respects was held up to ridicule. This did not make the people love him, but it made them talk. and Kipling en- joys making people talk, provided they do not talk to him. One of the sights of the town is to see him strolling along the streets, with his English pipe clutch | ed between his teeth and m expression | of unconquerable determination written upon every feature. He is anything but dandy. He is fond of old clothes and affects 0 rusty sombrero that has seen better days and many of them. On cold days he goes abroad in a big fur coat and looks more like a Russian nj l hilist than an Indian novelist.
 Like most Englishmen of means, how ever, Kipling usually dresses for dinner and appears at the table clad in the con- ventional dress suit of polite society. When he first made Brattleboro his home. he rather snubbed the society that sought him, but he has since be- come less exclusive, and he has a nun Der of friends outside of the Balestiel family, who picture him as g most com panionable man and an entertaining. hospitable host. "Begad and damn are two of his favorite words and auS one who offends him is usually referrec to as ''that driveling idiot. He is very fond of children, and his baby, which is now about years old, is monarch O! all she surveys He likes Vermont anC declares that there is nothing like Yer mont air for babies.
 In his relations with the humble mem bers of society Kipling is inclined to bC very democratic. He scrapes an acquaint ance with numerous odd characters ht meets, and it is said he created some what of a sensation in Brattleboro ont day by stopping a Chinaman on th' street and conversing with him in Chi nese for half an hour.
 4 stuffed Emperor.
 One of the most remarkable stuffed | skins on record was that of Valerian, em peror of Rome. who was taken prisoner and afterward kept in chains by Sapor king of Persia. Ho was either killed in ( tumult or by order of his conqueror, who was perhaps fearful of losing his valuable trophy, in tho year 269. The body of tho dead emperor was treated with no mOrS delicacy than when it had held the sparL of living one. It was skinned. Tn, hide, after being tanned, was stuffed painted red and suspended in the ohiei temple of the capital It remained therS for many years and was the popular spec tacle for holiday makers and visitors from the country. But 1t was put to moro i'm portant ends than this-it was made | diplomatic engine of much significance and efficiency. In after times 1t often hap pened that the Roman onvoys at the Per sian court had misunderstanding mor' or less serious with tho government tC which they were temporarily accredited When these ambassadors from Romc grew arrogant in their demands. it was thG custom to conduct them into the presence of the stuffed skin of the old ex-emperoI of Rome, where they wero asked if humil lty did not become thom at sight of suCt . spectacle.
 English and American Novels
 We have not yet caught up with Ens land in literary activity. With her 10, 900, 900 of people she produces 1000 novels [ year against 500 written in the Cnittt States with her es. 900. 900.