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Show It Kudyard Kipling a Cart? New York World. A young and presumably English writer; Rudyard Kipling by name, embellished em-bellished several columns of the Sunday Herald with his opinions of the American Amer-ican people. He came from India to Sail Fraucisco, and after a self confessed con-fessed social intercourse with a drayman, dray-man, a bunko-steerer, a clerk in the Palace hotel, a barkeeper in a dive where he found and enjoyed free lunch, several light heelad streetwalkers on Kearny street after dark, and miscellaneous miscella-neous other social magnates of the same caste, he was enabledin ten days to formulate for-mulate powerful impressions of tho republic, its manners, customs aud relative value in the scale of civilization. civiliza-tion. It appears that Mr. Kipling's conditions con-ditions were severely lacerated on all sides by the roughness, impertinence, ignorance and coarse vulgarity of the loathsome people he encountered, and his situation seems to have been made unnecessarily harrowing by the Bohemian Bohe-mian club and by several un-named hut insufferable persons whom he geuerally terms "millionaires," who, perhaps gutlty of supposing him to possess qualities qual-ities common to most men of presumed intelligence, freely tendered him their revolting hospitality. |