Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1898 — A Kipling Anecdote. [ARTICLE]

A Kipling Anecdote.

Rndyard Kipling nnd General Booth of the Salvation Army sailed away from Southampton on the same day recently, which recalls the fact that some years ago, when jieople first liegan to talk about Kipling, the young author was a fellow passenger of the General on a steamship, and In a spirit of fun he offered to conduct to General Booth some reporters who boarded her. supposing that they bad come to Interview the General. “Oh, we’ve seen Booth liefore," said the reporters; “the man we want to see is Kipling.”