The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-15
SCATTERING. Shot.

| potN CiDt III luC WI ubt WV WV
hasn't grown old
| Scattering Shot
Rudyard Kipling can get even with
his quarrelsome brothcr-i law by
making him the subject Of poem
Boston Traveller.
Kipling gets large write.up. One
| of the things reported with some au.
thorty is that he has bought an es-
tate in Wiltshire, Eng. and is propos
ing to make hislhome: there. Another
is that he had nearly completed book
on American life, the scene being
principally laid about Gloucester and
dealing with real live characters. -
Boston Record
Just how this story will reach the
public is not yet known. 1t is possible
that it will come ont simultaneously in
American and European magazines, or
1t may be given to a syndicate and APP
pear in several newspapers. Anyhow,
it is surely coming and, it is needless
Republican Correspondence
Let's hope that Brotheri in Law Bal
lester will be put under bopds to keep
the peace and that he won't forfeit
his bond. The world could spare IA
great many of its inhabitants better
than Rudyard Kipling. Boston Her
aid
1t is better that difficulty should
be adjusted in court than in the hol-
low between three hills with fists, for
the effect of judicial settlement is
better. Yet, nevertheless, there is a
certain element Of dramatic weakness
in the creator of Otheris, Learoyd and
Mulyaney. soldiers three, rushing
TO Justice of the peace for protection
against brotherin law. Boston
Transcript.
Col Hooker philosophers ''If we
could only have this attraction
well advertised at our valley fair we
could draw $4,000 people here at 81 Il
head"
The presiding Justice. William New
ton, is venerable man with a Daniel
Webster countenancc, and no one can
be found in the county who would say
IN unkind word of him. But rs a pre-
siding justice at au important hearing
he lawyers have "A way of playing with
him, and it is charged that long ago he
rule of invariably fincing
Tor the prosecution. Boston Globe Cor I
Justice Newton in Il mournful voice
frankly remarks on seeing his supposed /
picture in the newspaper. "Oh, its Il I
iisgracc, a terrible disgrace"
Nobody wanted the creator OF the +
JINGLE stories to be killed. A man who /
AN give Us a Bagheera Baloo, a kaa
| Mowgli and 4 manpack is not the
tutf for a target. And if Mr. Coward /
>ipling. as Joel Chandler Harris calls
lin. were not so manifcstly unfricndly
oward the public and to the reporters
Who represent that public, the public
would not wax happy over his uncasi-
less. II we are nothing but 'blawstcd
ankecs, you know" we wonder if we
re good enough 10 buy Mr.. kiplngS
looks. Mr. kipiing's victory in the court
hould pat him into a morc mellow
mood We wish he could be moved to
clieve that reporter is not the adj
ance agent of the devil, but that lie
nay be a cultivated. conscientious and
ourteous gentleman. Boston Journal.
Vermont has seen nothing half SO ex-
iting as that since the state conven- {
ion. kipling. doubtless. is free trader,
nd should expect trouble in the Green +,
state Boston Journal. +;
Rudyard Kipling has always seemed j
Ike Il good deal of an eXotcas planted c
1 rural Vermont. His lack of congenial- c
Y was not expected to appear in the
)rm in which it has broken out there. /
he form is too much brothcr-in-law. ( j
ithout undertaking to give an opinion 4
pom the merits of the family quarrel a
with which. indeed. the public has
tile concern. il strikes us that Mr..
ipling appears we'll a. he is brought
efore the public. He occupies the atti-
dc of u gentleman, and of one who re-
,ects the laws of the country in which
. is soiourning. i Boston Herald. :,
Beatty Balestcr is under 500 bonds to
,ep the peace: and kipling can stride
,out the Vermont hills. or ride behind
; dandy chestnuts driven by his blue
'eried coachman, in peace. A great
rob of relief runs fropl Brattleboro to
m Francisco Boston Record. =
At last'Rudyard has gathered material, q
hich after the natural soreness of the .
uatioH has gone, he can work up into
magnificent chapter in some of his
oks.
Hit, who has the lrwyer-liic faculty
absorbing his clients. cause to a re-
lrkable degree. declares that he will =
Ike his professional reputation on the h
ophecy that the grand Jury will find
70 bill'' and this will be the last of i;
r Balesticr.
The affair has been almost Worldwide
the attention it has drawn. Mr.. Kip :,
g got cablegram of anxious inquiry
IN England Tuesday. and never. not al
IN at the Fisk funeral have so many &
wspapers had their reporters here. IL