The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-20
A GREAT sTORY-TELLER PASSES

great story teller IS dead kpllrg, the man whose and has stirred and entertained the world has to the end of the trail but his works live How few have been able to accomplish that goal Rudyard Kipngs artistry, his genius for setting off characters in sharp contrast yet in harmonious relation each other and the skill with which he linned his colorfu types, born in him. Devotion to art heritage
 Born in Bombay in 1865 Kipling's literary career began at Lahore 1882 the Civil and Military Ga zette grim and dyspeptc managing editor called him clever pup" and found space in the paper for gay signed R K" written in off hours and which, week by week took the place of stereotyped filler in the blank spaces of scanty columns Readers liked them, suggested they be put in book form.
 regular volume beyond the young mans means So he employed of the papers native printers of hours got the in galley proofs and bound them in an oblong, wire-sttched docket made in imitation of an official government brown paper envelope the address ito all heads of departments and government officials The whole was tied with piece of red tape and the collection was titled Departmental Ditties"
 Reply postcards containing announcement of the book on one section and an order blank the other were mailed up and down British Asia from Alden to Singapore and from Quetta to Colombo. It case of leash with the order" and the edition sold out in few weeks the rupees that poured in by mail went direct into the pocket of the author. Recalling the profits after years Kipng said that recollection of them "has since prevented from njurng my health by sympathizing with publishers who talk of their risks and the cost of their advertisements
 Departmental Ditties" in revised edition soon came out in regular book form.
 Five years passed thus and then Kiplng transferred to the Allahabad Pioneer He kept up his combination of newspaper work and authorship producing in quick succession Plain Tales From The Hills" Soldiers Three" "The Gadsbys" Tn Black and White" Under The Deodars" "The Phantom Rickshaw" and Wee Willie Wrinkle"
 In 189O restive after years the Pioneer" he sold the copyright to of his stories for S1250 and with boundess enthusiasm shipped for England via Yokohama and San Francisco.
 The New World It danced before his eyes it had danced before the eyes of god-hungry the days of 49 But swift disillusionment greeted him. He already famous in India but San Francisco had heard of him Legend tells that when he tried to get job reporter the old San Francisco Call, the editor took look at the shy, stumbling, near sighted youth and sent him in headlong flight.
 Dark months followed His shining enthusiasm dimmed under the buffetngs of book publishers and newspaper editors from San Francisco to New York The Light That Failed" he told of those bitter days
 Utterly disheartened he went to England in 1891 toied in garre until he sold three stories for 
 persuaded MacMilan and Company to publish an edition of Plain Tales"
 Overnight he became sensation and with trunk buging with dog -eared manuscripts ready feed the avid presses he rapidly became the most widely known writer in England.
 An unsolved enigma of Kiplng's long was why he named poet laureate of England. It embodied a strange legend which some saw as tragedy tinged but if it had that effect upon the thor, word to that effect from him.
 For two score years, commentators ascrbed Kip lngs failure to achieve the highest honor that may be awarded an English bard to his having "insulted' Queen Victoria in of his "Barrack Room Ballads
 The reputedy ill-fated poem describes "the Widow at Windsor as sending her soldiers to "barbarous wars" and buying alf O creation with English blood, It ran, in part:
 ~Then eres to the Widow at Windsor
 And eres to the stores an the guns
 The men an the orses what makes up the forces
 O Missis Victoriers sonsl
 (Poor beggars! Vctoriers SonsD
 Walk wide the Widow at Windsor
 For 'af O Creation she owns
 We ave bought 'er the with the sword an the
 flame
 An we've salted it down with our bones
 ePoor beggars-its blue with bonesD"
 And as decade after decade passed, with poet laureate after another dying and chosen but not Kipling--the legend grew that even though the original target of offense Queen Victoria. had died in 1901 yet court rrevocably closed to him.
 Kipling never liked fame He shy oi Yorkshire descent the dialect of that region plains the origin of his peculiar name-"kip meaning a pointed hill and Hing" torrent or waterfall.
 But the @hil torrent" fled the citified glamor oi