Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-13

The SsPEsKYy MIR KIPLING

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of the press are on hand to see that his
Immortal name % daunted In the head
lines before the blinking eyes Of the
peace-loying public. Recently Mr. Kip
ling has had space IN two departments
of the papers-in the court-news column
ard II the foreign items. But be he never
So bristling and never SO peevish, Rud-
yard is perenniallys Interesting: His strou7z
b1es and adventures ara always worthS
narrattng. Mr.. Kipling does things. He
never bores. He keeps the bali ling.
AS an ar1dcer of news-t1lat Is. Of stuff
for other people oSwrite about7he IS q
.rip-roarer, jim-hummer,::aw hirligig, a
perpetual-mo ton apparatus.
TO exempIify: First We hear that this
same Rudyard is responsible for the
alleged fall from imperial favor ot
DR. Won Holleben, the German Ans
sbassador at Washington, about whom
the diplomats are now gossiping. Of
course. that is har to be taken
seriously. but nevertheless. there is
"a Kiplingesqnes side to the reports which
is quite breezy. When the novelist and.
poet was so desperately i'll In New York.
in 1899. Kaiser William sent Mrs. -Kipling
the following message. which is. said to-
have been inspired by Dr.. Won Holleben:
..As an enthusiastic admfrer Of the in
comparable works Of your husband. !.
wait with. anxiety news OF his condi-
ton. God grant that he may be spared
to YOU and to all who are thankful to
him for the heart-moving manner in
which he has sung the deedssof our great.
common race = WILLIAM. T.. r -. go
Now there are euobS in this world
to the Kaiser for such message. But not
so the redoubtable Rudyard Since the
Venezuelan squabble Mr.. fSipling has
burst forth with another of. his patriotic
poems, whose detonations have been
heard on at least two continents. This
poem. 'The Rowers."' denounces the
Anglo-G erman alliance, and is, to say
the least, most offensive to the people
represented by the second section Of tne
hyphenation. Dig out the following ale
.gories picked at random from the verses.
and judge If you wouldn't be mad, pro-
.vided you were "Reinherr',:
There was never q shame IN christen-
die -,
They laid not to outdoor;
And ye say we must take the winter sea,
And sail with them once more!
1.-The dead they Knocked are scarcely cold;
Our wounds are bleeding yet:
And yes tell us now that our strength is
sold
TO help them press for debt!''
And here's pepper for the Teutons:
"Of evil times that men could choose
On evil fate to fall,
What brooding Judgment let We loose
To pick the worst Of all %
Whether DR.. Won Holleben inspired the
ELUSIVE telegram to Mrs. Kipling or not.
Emperor William Is said TO be mad. and
we do not doubt it. II he can stand all
this. and not get angry. and feel like
kicking himself then he IL the soul Of
amlability.
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suit against g. 2. Putnana's Sons, pub
fishers, wherein he prays-or rather de-
mands. for that is his way-s25,oo for In
fringement Of copyright and trademark.
The defendant concern bought from the
writer's authorized publishers number
Of unbound sheets of Kipling's writings
and bound them up together with
some uncopyrighted writings to form
the ''Brushwood' edition. Fifteen
sets have on the cover an ele-
plants head in a circle-a design dear
to Rudyard's heart, and which he con-
siders as his exclusive literary trade
mark. 1t is for this grievance that the
petu1ant Mr.. Ktp1ing has sued. Unfor-
tunately. alas. the United States Courts
have twice held that the Putnams have
a right to use the elephant head design
The decision Just handed down says that
Kipling' contention as, to an authors.
trademark at frst blush appears unique
and somewhat startling" But then the
judges add: 1T is certainly offensive to.
the aesthetic and poetic taste to place
such poems as the "Recessional' and
THE Last Chanty" In the same category
with pills and soap, to be dealt in as
so much merchandise. We do not intend
TO decide that such q trademark is sane
toned by the law, but even if it were.
lit is manifest that the mark uees not
lose its characteristics because used to
designate an unusual .varietysof goods. =
In other words. the author. assuming that.
he may have such protection. must COM
ply with the laW if be be would have valid
tradema RI. st.i
The foregoing incidents show Mr..
kipling's versatile pugnacity-tf we
may use the expression-and indi-
Gates that he is nothing il not
full OF fight. One could # almost adj
mire such tactics tt they were not so:
often repeated. But after all. 10 be orlgi-.
nal one must be disagreeable And when
it comes to good stories--why. we are the
people who Invariably hunt up the vols
umes with the encircled elephants head!
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