Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-14
STORIES Of rMe DAY.
How Rudyari kipIins once capituIatsd 10
His Americas Double.

ling makes the literary world anxious.
1t is impossible to conceive what may
be the full fruition OF such marvellous
genius as his, already at the age of "a.
the magnetic pole of modern letters.
Here is an anecdote of his early life.
When the fame Of the East Indian
story teller was just spreading abroad,
people generally thought that Rudyard
Kipling was only a pen name, and one
coterie of New England journalists in
particular went still further in sad
ding the authorship of the plain
Tales from the Hills" on a young
newspaper man Of their circle, who
had been to India just after leaving
college. This youth became well
known in New England as the autho"
of the stories. and the fame thrust
upon him suggested to him an inter-
view with his double-the real Rud-
yard Kipling-as a tempting news
paper exploit.
But the real II. X. not only did not
want to be interviewed, but conceived
a violent aversion to the opportunities
OF his American self, and in his pub
llsher's room spent much energy in
calling down the wraths of the gods
and the protection of his agents. He
had scarcely finished resembling
harangue in their London office one
day when the false Rudyard Kipling
actually did track him to his lair, and
presented the journalistic opportunity
for interviewing his double" in a way
that appealed so strongly TO Kiplings
sense of the dramatic that the invader
came away unframed and Juggling
with him about all the books his victim
had ever written, with autographs on
the fly leaves
SEEING THE PRESIDENT.
At a recent banquet ex-President
Harrison said:
Judge Martindale has recalled the
time when | was the very youngest
and very smallest elder. which re.
minds me Of an occurrence at WASH
ington. when number of very
anomalous bills for public improve
mcnts were introduced, containing
provisions similar to those to which
Judge Martindale has referred in the
indianapolis postoffice bill. / decided
to veto some of them. l remember
that there was a New York represent
tative who had interest in an appro-
priation of $780, 600 for a public build
ing on the Hudson.
"A friend learned from him that il
had been vetoed. See the President
suggested his friend. The representa-
tive responded that that was his in
tention. and next day went to the
White House. where he was informed
by the secretary that the President
could not be seen. Good Lord eX-
claimed the representative. has he got
as small as that -
THE CZAR'S ALLEGORY.
That is capital story of the Car
which our Berlin correspondent sends
this morning. says the London Times
The Baroness Ven Suttner, on behalf
of some friends of peace. asked His
Majesty to accept as tribute of
homage an allegorical picture repre-
senting the Idea of Peace. The Car
declined the present. A picture repre-
senting so sublime an idea would be
better hung. he said, lin a large gall
lery in city like Paris, where thou
sands would see it, than in my remote
apartments in st. Petersburg" Which
reply was itself, perhaps. an allegory.
There is no need to preach-on canvas
or otherwise-to the converted. In
these days the pictures of peace want
to be hung, not in the cabinets of en-
perors so much as in the public gall
leries of the populace-'in city like
Paris
MIR. GLADSTONES PROMPTER.
A fellow of an Oxford college tells an |
anecdote about Mr.. Gladstone's visit |
n fha pn1laOo in vx.1a t,a
staying in oxford for the last time in |
1892. He had been dining in hall, and |
afterward attending common room,
which was just over. most of the COM
pany having dispersed. The distin-
guished guest was standing with his |
back to the fire narrating some remin-
niscence of his university days. Yes.
sir" he was saying. II set eyes on him
then for the first and last time, and that
must have been-let me see-fully 60
years ago"
AT this point the young man, who
was sitting at the corner of the fire.
place and was afflicted with a cold,
happened TO cough slightly. Instantly
MIR. Gladstone wheeled about. and.
him "a courteous bow. said.
with his usual emphasis: Thank you,
sir; thank you. l am Obliged to you
for that correction. 1 did exaggerate
the lapse of time. have no doubt (, |
should have said so years or 50 at the
outside" The confusion of the young
man who had not the honor of the
great mans acquaintance, and from
whose mind nothing was further than
to interrupt his "Reminiscences by word
or sisn may be imagined. s, -.
FOR THE OMNISCIENT. i
Sometimes a sentence in prayer
seems humorously out of place. This
was the case when theschaplain of the
national House of Representatives de- Il
livered a prayer appropriate to the 1
holiday. He recited the names of a
number of great men. concluding with
the illustriOus Washington. whom"
he said I'VE cali the Father of His
Country. q