The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-08

10 Be MADE A PEER
This Is What Fortune Has in
Store for kipIing.
CONTINUES To IMPROVE
How His Illness Is Turned to
Political Account.

New York, March 7.-Rudyard Kipling.
it is reported, will be elevated TO the peer
age on January /, 1900. DR.. Neil Mac
Platter, OF Edinburg. Scotland. who is
staying at the Windsor hotel, says he has
received the news from Sir Walter Besant.
He adds that the report is common gossip
in the literary circles o fLondon.
Mr.. Kiplings condition continues TO i'm
prove. F. n. Doubleday. who has been
with the author almost constantly since he
was Frustrated, said today that the night
had been a restful one for Mr.. kipling.
The patient, however, is as Closely
watched as ever, 10 guard against a pos
sible relapse, 10 which he vii lbe liable for
a fortnight or more. Elsie, Mr.. Kipling' 5
3-year-old daughter, is reported as pro-
crossing very favorably, having slept well
last night.
Mr.. Doubleday, in Difference to the
wishes Of Mrs. Kipling, refused 10 give
any information regarding the arrange
ments for the funeral of josephine Kip
ling. 1t is the mothers wish that the
funeral be private. She fears that. owing
-
church in which the service for the dead
is to be held would, were the announce
ment made in advance, be crowded with
the curious. The child. Mrs. Kipling says.
in no sense belonged to the public, and
she wishes to avoid having the funeral
take on the character of spectacle.
Mrs. Kipling, accompanied by her sister,
Mrs DR.. Durham, and DR.. CJnlani of
Brattleboro VT, early today left the hotel
where the author lies. Shortly after 2
o'clock they returned with flowers i'll their
hands. It was presumed that they had
been to the funeral of Mr.. KipIing's
daughter, Josephine.
Mr.. Doubleday tonight reported both
Rudyard Kipling and his little daughter
Elsie to be slowly but surely convalescing
Mr.. Kipling has not yet been informed of
the death of his child and he will mot be
told about it until he is practically well
She was his favorite and the physicians
dread the possibility Of relapse should he
earn of her death in any manner Some
OF the more important cablegrams and
messages are daily read to Mr. Kipling.
and occasionally he is allowed to read
them himself. Every such message is
carefully censored, however, to prevent
the father from reading even an alluson
to his loss. Great quantities of flowers
continue to be sent to Grenoble hotel by
friends of the Kiphngs. AT 10 o'clock to-
night Mr. Doubleday said that Mr.. Kip
ling had done splendidly during the day
and had made more progress toward re-
covery than on any preceding day.
Berlin, March 7.-Emperor Williams
message of sympathy to Mrs. Rudyard
kipling, occasioned by her husbands Sc
rious illness, is commented upon by the
press here today. The Vossiche Zeitung
says: The manifestation of the emper-
or's, and the recent ones by German min
listers, form pleasant contrast to the
erroneous statements that Germany is
about to declare tariff war on the Unit
ed States. The German nation, on the
contrary. is strongly DESTROYS Of living in
peace with America. economically as well;
but hopes for full reciprocity and that the
legitimate interests of Germany will be
considered"
Inc above remarks and Emperor Will
Jams action are apparently based on thu
theory Of his majesty that Mrs. Rudyard
Kpling's residence in the United States.
the fact that his wife Is an American. and
his sympathy for this country, make him
an American in spirit If not by birth. as
the distinguished author was born in Bonn
bay on December 80, 1865
The Post says: '@The great cordially
with which our monarch honors Mr.. Kin
ling ought to be calculated 10 remind
Americans. after a period of artificial es-
tranRement. which we trust is past. that
they will nowhere find reader and more
joyful recognition Of the brilliant future
Of their country than from this country.
and first, from our imperial leaders"