The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-03
A BACKWARD GLANCE.
Some of the Celebrities That Have
Arisen In Fifteen Years.
New York telegram

New York Telegraph.)
Fifteen years ago. There are many
people who are now prominent. whose
names are on many tongues i'll many
lands, and were then unheard of out
side of their own little circles. Rudyard
Kipling, for instance. was, in the early
sos, an assistant editor on the Indian
Pioneer His pay was then many less
rupees per month than he now earns
dollars in single day. In his spare
moments he was writing his Depart.
ment Ditties." Some day he hoped, and
this thought was the height of mis- am
bltlon at that time, to induce the world
TO read them in book form. In the time
that has elapsed since then he has made
many thousands of dollars, is midway
in remarkable career, and has created
fame that will live while the world
lasts.
About the same time Rider Haggard
had written one book. "Cetewayo and
His White Neighbors," and was utterly
loss of $3.50. He was then IN the
verge of publishing another novel,
Dawn" which never attained any
great fame. and which netted him Just
$50, the result of years hard work
Today everybody is talking of Lord
CurZon, the present viceroy of India.
In 1884 he was reading for his bache Icr
ing forward to an apprenticeship in pol
itics. He began the following year in
the humble position of assistant sec~e-
tary to Lord Salisbury. The fifteen
years that have elapsed have placed
him in position second to none in
wide sphere of action and power.
A decade and half ago Conan Doyle
was laboriously working up a medical
practice at Southsea, England BE
ed last fn I;o
try doctor. His pen was as yet untried,
and that he had within him the novel
istic spirit which has gained him dol
lars and fame was unthought of. Not
until 1888 did he try his hand at writ
ing. The reading public who have en-
joyed his Sherlock Holmes and othe~
stories know with what success he met
so do his bankers.
Ian MacLaren" won popularity fiji
teen years ago as minister of the Seton
Park church in Liverpool, England.
But for dozen years after that his
pen was engaged in transcribing his
thoughts into sermons before it turned
to the beauty and pathos of the "Bonuy
Brier Bush" AS writer and as min
lister he now has a reputation which is
worldwide.
Anthony Hope was a scholar at Bal
liol fifteen years ago. and his only am
bition then was TO follow in the loot
steps of his uncle, Sir Henry Hawkins
Not until 1890 did he begin to write and
find out for himself as we'll as show
others that he had ability in quite an
other direction.
Nine. Sarah Grand was rambling all
over the world with her soldier-d )ctor
husband fifteen years ago, and only
vaguely mapping out novel which the
world now knows as "Ideala.' Far
away in the solitude of the African
veldt at the same time was Olive
Schreiner, dreaming dreams. "The
Story of an African Farm" with its
weirdness, and its philosophy, and :ts
religion, was gradually asserting itself
in her brain. Mrs. Humphry Ward was
busy with domestic cares fifteen years
ago-too busy to recognize the genius
that was working within her.
Nobody knew Hall Game fifteen years
ago. but now everybody knows of him,
and it is certainty that before ne dies.
unless the end comes quickly, he will
earn his weight in gold. After spend
ing a number of years in Liverpoo., a
journalist of no very marked ability,
and working for a stipend rather than
for a salary, he went to Lon9on and
became Dante Rossetti's private secre-
tary. There he found scope ami in
spiration for the gifts that were in him.
Change of environment appeared to
work a miracle. for in 1886 mis- story,
1.-The Shadow of a Crime" introduced
new aspirant to world of readers.