Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-04-08

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Lahore, writing letters for publication.
The offer was accepted
When he returned to Lahore, he en-
| tered the Office of The Pioneer and took
8 subordinate position. in order to learn
everything in the publishing line. The
! work was not congenial to him, and he
J was anxious to turn his attention to
something else 1t happened that the
Duke of Connaught, then military com
| mander of the northwestern district Of
India, would occasionally pay visit to
the Kiplings and spend an evening at
their house. When he met RudyaEd, he
became greatly interested in him and,
in the course of conversation, remarked,
"What are you going to do, Mr.. Kip
ling, now that you are in India again 2
"Well, sir, | have an ambition be-
yond the. drudgery of working in the
Office of The Pioneer. !"
"What would you like. to do, then,
Mr.. Kipling?"
81 would like, sir, to live with the
army for time and go to the frontier
to write up Tommy Atkins. - The duke
considered the matter and finally gave
him carte blanche to do whatever he
liked, go to any military station in his
command and, if he wished, go to the
frontier and live with officers or men,
and if at any time he required an escort
he could have one Rudyard availed
himself Of the dukes offer and went off
to make acquaintance with Tommy.
Atkins. At the same time he became a
great student of nature and the life and
character of the people.
Thus began"a career in literature
which has given Mr.. Kipling wide and
enduring fame
Mr.. Kipling was married Jan. 10,
1899, in London, to Miss Balestier, sister
of the young American novelist, WolcOtt
Balestier, who died in Dresden in 1891,
and with whom Kipling collaborated
in the story called "The .Naulahka. "
1t was through this brother that she be-
came acquainted with Mr.. Kipling
Her father, Joseph Navarro. Balestier,
was a very gUcct9sfu1 real estate man
and lawyer Of New York city. He
bought very extensively property in and
around .Brattle6oro IT. and today the
Balestier estate there includes many
hundreds of acres.
It was thus that Mr.. Kipling settled
in Brattleboro shortly after his mar
riage He and Mrs. Kipling lived in
the town until their new home was fin
ished just outside the BrattIeb0ro line.
Il is fashioned after the plan of an In
dian bungalow, in which one long cor
ridor: from end to end Of the building
divides all the apartments, as in no
tel, and is built on the side of a hill. 1t
is a long, curious looking structure,
without an entrance on the side that
faces the roadway and with but one
door in the house, that on the hillside
The property slopes down from the
hillside to the roadway, and at the base
of the hill, although there are no fences
or distinctions, are scattered signs
reading, l'Trespassing on These Premises
Is Forbidden.
Here Mr.. and Mrs. Kipling lived for
some time the year round, and many
stories are told in Brattleboro of his
life there. Strangers who saw him for
the first time thought a cowboy had
come to town, and his boots, his
greatcoat and his sombrero, whenever
the weather permitted him to go with
out thick cap, were familiar to all the
town folk s'.:.:;:~-..' ~ -
There are few personalities more in
teresting than that of Rudyard Kip
ling, and there is no man of letters
about whom there has been so much in
quiry, yet he is very little known. He
has what is sometimes called the British |
lnsular prejudice against inquiry into
his private life and habits.
A good many hundreds Of people who
have come in contact with him have
called him all the names that one may
use in polite society. The explanation
thereof is simple enough. Mr.. Kipling
lid not care to know them and resented
heir attempts to know him. To these
Kipling is inclined to be exceedingly
short, not to say rude. He believes that
le gives the best he has to the public
ii his writings and that it has no right
% bother about his private life
To those to whom he gives his friend
;hip he is as genial, as kindly, as warm
hearted, as any one could ask. He is the
most delightful Of companions.
Personally Kipling is as complex and
as his writings. His affec-
ion for his wife and children amounts
10 worship.
Everything in connection with his
ife in this country shows how DESTROYS
s the young man to avoid people who
bother him. He absolutely refuses to be
ionized, and the thought of seeing in
Print what he ate for dinner draws
rom him language as picturesque and
Is vivid as his poems. but not so print
.ble
While Kipling has steadfastly refused
o tell the reporters much about him
elf, his personality is quite fully re-
vealed in his works He may have had
5cudery's idea, Il know better than
my other writer how to tell anecdotes
bout myself " AS newspaper man
zipling is described by himself. In his
story Of ''The Man Who