The age-herald., 1899-03-17
KIPLING'S FIGHT
 FOR HIS LIFE
From the New York Sun.

Rudyard klpiing Is now recovering. It Is probable that the fact that he is alive today is due to the exact sequence of train of circumstances. all of which were in them selves trivial. As it was. he Lay in critical condition for many hours. MT kipling took dinner with several acquaintances on Mon- day, February 20 One of the guests had an engagement with him for noon the next day. and when MT. Kipling did not keep it he went around to the Hotel Grenoble to see what was the matter. Mrs. Kipling met him with a white face.
 "Ruds got pneumonia" she said, and that told the whole story.
 
 MT. Kipling had reached the hotel at Il 80 the night before. There was waiting for him an autograph collector who had asked him for his signature before and had met With a refusal. This time the man had his collection with him, and he was very proud of it. All his autographs were written in albums in his own presence. When MT. Klpling came in he recognized the collector.
 Well, you have me fairly cornered now" he said, and think you deserve what you want"
 Then he picked up pen from tho hotel office desk and signed his name on one of the blank leaves of the autograph collec- tors album.
 It was not long after this that he felt tho first pain of the inflammation which had started in his right lung. Dr. Theodore Dunham, whose wife is Mrs. Kfpling's sis ter, was called in, and advised a consulta- tion with pr. Janeway. Pneumonia was the diagnosis from the first, but the fact was not made public until the next day. Mir Kipling arrived here before the big February storm and found fault with the weather continually.
 ''It is enough to kill horse," he said to one of his friends only the day before he was taken i'll, "and to give the whole city pneumonia"
 The three Kiplfng children had been ill sinco their arrival. They had coughs and colds and bronchitis. The day after MT. kipling was taken ill the eldest child, Jo- sephine, became worse, and 1t was decided to send her to Miss De Forests house, where she died afterward. Her father lift ed her off the floor on the morning she left the hotel and kissed her he lay in the bed. Father and daughter both felt the parting, as they were close companions; 1t was thought best to separate them because 1t was known that each would fret to see the other unless their meeting was render ed impossible.
 7 The first news of MT. Kipling's illness was given to the newspapers on Wednes- day, two days after the attack. The bull letins from then were short and un- satisfactory to the really curious, though they contained all the positive information that inc dopfors pould f11rDiSh MrS Kin ling herself knew no more than was pub lished in the bulletins The bulletins, how ever, gave no idea of the intense anxiety of the sick room, and they were, more- over, from several hours to a day late in their references to the different phases of the disease The doctors would not make prognoss at any stages of the attack, and the development of a symptom was not mentioned in bulletin until fully verified.
 In the first days of the disease, when only the lower part of the right lung was af- fected, there was some hope that the at- tack might prove a light one, but the sub- sequent spread of the inflammation to the left lung and to the upper parts of both lungs dispelled it. In the early days MT. Kipling forced himself to lie quietly in his bed, and kept up an interest in the daily news. He asked about the arrival of over due steamers, and was interested in the weather. Then his periods of interest in external things lapsed into spells of restless dozing. and his hours of sleep became de- lirious. He had only slight acquaintance with Dr. Durham and pr. Janeway, and the professional nurses were of course complete strangers to him. He continually imagined himself in the hands of enemies, and sought to hide himself and to escape alternately.
 Between the seventh and tenth days of his illness the disease was at it's worst. The only hope for his life was the fact that the inflammation in the lower lobes, espe- cially of the right lung, was partially re- solved. Pure oxygen could not have pene- trated the inflamed tissues of the upper lobes, but there was a chance that enough to sustain life might reach the blood be- low. The oxygenate air was breathed in the short, quick little breaths of almost complete exhaustion, while the sluggish blood, but partially purified, was pumped into the arteries with laboring heart beats, although the resulting pulse showed little power at the wrist
 During three nights at this period pr. Janeway remained in the hotel with his pa- tient, and those who knew his habits recog- nized in this indication of the gravity of the crisis. Dr. Janeway has been spoken of by one of his fellow practitioners as the physician of the times best able to use the- oretic and scientific principles in emt- nently practical manner for the relief of disease. On these three nights he simply waited, powerless to aid by one more effort ctr Einltpp dpat To be sure, he had in the previous eight days accomplished much, and the fact that at the critical time medicine was without further resource does not detract from the credit due to doctors and nurses for MT. Kipling's recovery.
 It was during Il e nlcht of Tuesday, Feb ruary 2S, that the first favorable symptom was noted. The last bulletin had stated that MT. Kipling had not gained during the day, and that was about as alarming a statement as could have been made short