Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1899 — POET KIPLING BETTER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POET KIPLING BETTER.

Distinguished Author Is Recovering from His Attack of Pneumonia. Rudyard Kipling, who has been lying at the point of death with pneumonia, was reported Saturday as being out of danger and on the rapid road to recovery. Kipling, accompanied by his wife and three children, came to New York from England about three weeks before his illness began. He accepted many invitations to social functions, and it was upon returning to his hotel from one of thess that he complained of cold and fever. This developed into inflammation of the lungs and little hope was entertained of his recovery. The distinguished patient was delirious much of the time. He was very weak. He breathed in gasps. Tanks of oxygen were carried to his room so that he would not have to breathe the ordinary air. His physicians were tireless in their attention.

Indomitable wjjl that has helped so much to make Kipling, although so young a man, the most famous author of his time, aided him in his gallant struggle, and this quality, his physicians and friends feel, carried him past the crisis and made him victor in the stubborn contest. Rudyard Kipling, considered the most popular English writer living, was born in Bombay, India, Dec. 20, 1865. He is the son of John Lockwood Kipling, an Anglo-Indian of considerable reputation both as an artist and an author. Kipling was sent to England to be educated and was placed in the United Service College at Northam, Devon. In his nineteenth year he returned to India and took up newspaper work in an office at Labere. His first book was entitled “Departmental Ditties,” published in 1886. The young author went to England in 1889 to find himself famous and one of the most popular writers before the English public. Early in 1892 Mr. Kipling married an American woman and for some time made his home in Brattleboro, VL In 1896 he returned to England and has since lived there.

RUDYARD KIPLING.