Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — Kipling Talks. [ARTICLE]

Kipling Talks.

New York Tribune. In his pleasant little speech at th« banquet lately given, partly in his honor, by the Authors’ Club in Lon, don, Mr. Rudyard Kippling told his hosts that they had done him a very great honor indeed, and he did not know in what words he could thank them, for they were all men of his own business and trade, and they! knew how very much a man valuec the opinion of his fellow professionals. But they also knew that v those things that brought a mar luck, the little things that carriec his work forward, came frog the outside. Man could take nt credit for his best work; it carat from without, and he could not say how he did it. At the same dinner Mr. H. H Johnston, the African explorer, in voked a Kipling for Africa, on th« ground that she presented sue! unique opportunities for a writer with her high contrasts between ut ter savagery and civilization. “Yot sometimes found,” he said, * ; a stock ade decorated with newly stfuck u human heads not half a mile from ; mission station with crochet arUi mtjpassars,” ’