The Exile Of Kipling

If Iudyard Klpling had not been so awfully English and his nelghbors h,i not been eo awfully Yankee, ne would probably have staid in this country and inade some more boo&s and fíeen to U3 a spuríe of pride. We could even point at him. Bu't he was wbrrled out of hia home at Brattletwro by the rustic and the lawyers, and has gone to India, where people are not devoüred by such a plcáyune euriosity to know about the oolor of one's wall paper and the turner of the dinner dishes. Kipling shut hlmself up ia hls heuee and sa# no one except on business.He lived b & country gentleman may live in Englapd, but not here. The Vermonteré Wed to get into hik place and see what he ate and fiud who made nis snoet, and it worried him. At last he had trouble with a worthless drunkard In ifiQ neighborhood and had him arrestad. Immediately the lawyers converted him into the defeodant in the action and made him gratify their own atd the nejghbors' curioeity by asklng all eorts of questions . ' out himself, hls family, hia friends, : clothes and hls business. A judge o : roper ing up would have stopped these impertinent fellows, but the Brattleboro Judge was probably ai eager to know about the private affaire of Mr. Kipling as any one, so he let them prattle on and made no objection to tho most impudent and irrelovant question. In the end the villagc loafer was let off on bail, but Mr. Kipling had been eapped of most of the informaüon he could give and was properly disgustad with Brattleboro. It is not likely tljat he Wlll ever come back. Human beings are interesting to their fellow creatuifcs, but there iá a way of exhibiting that interest that entitles the subject Oí it to lay around him with a