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‘ UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
t The Reverentialil’osltlon Mrs‘. Stow Held
Toward Her Famous Work.
Late in life, when Mrs. Stowe was
nearing her end, she was accosted one
evening while walking in her garden
by a retired sea. captain. “When I
was younger,” said he, holding his hat
in his hand, “I read ‘Uncle Tom’s
Cabin.’ The story impressed me, and
I am happy to shake" hands with you,
Mrs. Stowe, who wrote it.” ‘
“I did not write it,” answered the
White-haired old lady, shaking the
captain’s hand.
“You didn’t!” exclaimed the old
man. “Why, who did, then?"
.“Go’d wrote it,” she replied; “I
merely wrote as he dictated.”
“Amen!" responded the captain,
walking reverently away.
This anecdote, quoted in Mrs. Field's
“Life and Letters of Mrs. Stowe,” i1-
lustrates the mental and- spiritual posi’-'
tion toward her great work which the
gifted- author always maintained. '
Years before she told a friend, while
they were disrobing for the night, that
she did not write the book.
“What!” exclaimed the amazed
friend. “You did not write ‘Uncle
Tom ?’ "
“No; I merely put down.- what I
saw,” answered Mrs. Stowe. .
“But youhave never been at
South, "have you?” asked the lady.
“No; but it all came before me in
visions, one after another, and I put
them down in words.”
“But,” insisted the skeptical friend,
“you must have arranged the even .”
“No; your daughter reproached me
for letting Eva die. Why, I could not
help it! I felt as badly as any one
could! It was like a death in my own
family, and it affected me so- deeply
that I could‘ not write a word for two
weeks after her .death."
“And did you know,” asked the
friend, “that Uncle Tom would die?”
“Oh, yes; I knew he must die from
the first, but I did not know how,"
said Mrs. Stowe. “When I .got to
that part of the story I saw no more
for some time. I was physically ex-
hausted, too. One day, after dinner,”
she continued, “Mr. Stowe and I went
to our room to rest. He threw him-
self upon the bed. _ I was to use the
lounge. Suddenly there arose before
me the death of Uncle Tom, with what
led to it. I sat down at the table and
wrote nine pages of foolscap paper
without pausing. '
“Just as I had finished Mr. Stowe
awoke. ‘Wife,’ said he, ‘have you not
the
_ lain down yet?’
“ ‘No,’ I answered, ‘I have. been writ-
ing, and I wish you would listen to
this and see if it will do.’ . '
“I read it aloud to him, with the
tears flowing fast. He wept, too, and
before I had finished his sobs shook the
bed upon which he was lying. He
sprang up, saying: ‘Do! I should
sheets, he directed and sen-t them to
the publisher. I have often thought
if anything-happened to that package
in going it .would not have been possi-
ble for me to have reproduced it."
Long after this conversation Mrs.
Stowe, in a preface to a. new edition
of “Uncle Tom," said that many years
before she thought of writing the book
she had written a sketch of the death
of an old slave, and read it to her
children, who were much affected by
it. This, in part, was the original
idea of “Uncle Tom.” ‘
The next time 4511.? friend before
mentioned saw Mrs. Stewe she remind-
ed her of the former conversation, and
inconsistent"with each other. “No,"
said Mrs. Stowe, “both are true.’ I
had forgotten that I had written that
sketch, and I suppose I unconsciously
' wove it in with the other."——Yout'h's
Companion.
THE COLUMBUS OF THE SKIES
Lacaille. the Great Astronomer of the
18th Century.
true Columbus of the southern skies,
says Pro-f. T. J. J. See, in the Atlantic.
Born near R'heims in 1713, and left
destitute at an early age, he was edu-
cated at the expense of the Duke of
Bourbon; having acquired proficiency
in theology, like Laplace he abandoned
that profession for the study of sci.
ence, and by the raver of Cassini be-
came one of the surveyors of the coast
from Nantes to Bayonne, and in 1739
to'ok part in the remeasurement of the
French are of the meridian. The per-
fection with which this work was done
secured him admission to the Academy
of Sciences, and a professorship at the
College Mazarin, where he worked en-
ergetically in a small observatory fit-
ted up for determining the places of
the fixed stars. ,. While occupied with
this work ‘he became impressed "with
the need of good observations of the
stars of the southern hemisphere. Ac-
cordingly, he proposed an expedition
to the Cape of Good Hope, which was
officially sanctioned and carried out
with marvelous rapidity and‘success.
Landing in April, 1751, at the Cape,
which was then a mere signal station
for Indian vessels, he secured a loca-
tion in the wild country near the great
Table Mountain, and in . fourteen
months had‘observed the positions of
nearly ten thousand, stars with ade-
gree of precision never before attempt-
ed in that region of the heavens. The
great catalogue which he formed from
these observations , was published in
1763, and reprinted in 1847 by the Brit-
ish Association for the Advancement of
ty years was the chief source of our
knowledge of the southern hemisphere.
Another Definition.
Bobby—Papa, what's a pessimist?
Papa—A pessimist is a person who
can’t enjoy his dinner to-day because
he is ai'iiald the coffee. maybe muddy
’:-':-zncrrow.—‘—New ‘fmk World. '
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think it would do!’ and, folding the i
suggested that the two accounts were I
Lacaille has been justly called the'
Science, and until within the last twen-'
' Free Press._
' HAWAII’S‘QUEER. FLAG.
The Design Tibia“ from the American and
British Banners. ’
All histories that are printed of the
Hawaiian Republic faillto tell of the
interesting story connected with the
adoption of the flag of country. The
and shows in a way the ingenuity of
the natives. The adoption of the em-
blem dates back about twenty-five
years, when the cciuntry was still a
monarchy and King Kamehameha II
was on the throne. The country was
continually visited by the warships of
ithe different nations of the world and
{the rule-r of the Hawaiians had a diffi—
cult time to keep his little land from
being seized by some foreign power.
The story is handed down by poster-
ity. The exact date of the occurrence
is not known, though it was in the
year 1873. The King of the “key to
the Pacific” awake one morning to find
a. French warship anchored safely in
the harbor of Honolulu.
alarmed at the prospect of a conquest,
and sent at once for his Prime Minis-
ter. He‘was advised by him to run
'the country belonged to someone and
was not a “no man’s'land,” to be pill-
aged at will by the first foreigners who
came along. The King, heeding the
advice, cast about for a piece of bunt-
ing to represent his nation, and fell
upon an old British flag. This he
had run up to the top of his highest
flagpole.
The bunting had hardly had time to
unfurl itself to' the breeze when one
of the chief advisers of the King came
irunning to him and told him that he
'would have to take that flag down,
- as the first thing he knew if he did not
an English man-of-war that was ex—
pected at the island would arrive, and,
:he commander finding his nation’s
‘3olors flying over Honolulu, would take
possession in the name of the Queen.
l‘his frightened Kamehameha, and he
started another hunt for a flag. This
’ iime the searchers unearthed an Amer-
ican emblem.
Taking the. two flags, the ruler had
them made into one. The jack in the
:orner of the English emblem was left,
I while the stripes of the American ~fiag
were added to it. Thus the Hawaiian
,dag at first had thirteen stripes and a
iack the same as the English. The
King, when he had disposed of his
.Frcnch visitors, ‘had' time to think
over the matter. It was decided that
it would be better to have only eight
stripes, representing the eight islands
)f the nation. The extra pieces were
; mi; 08, leaving the eight stripes, with
a. white one on top. The jack still
learrles the St. George’s cross, the St.
:Andrew's crosswand the St. Patrick’s
3ross, the same as the English.
Soon after the adoption of this flag
,zhe whites, who had begun to settle
'an the island, came 'more and more
into power each year until, as a result,
:he monarchy was finally overthrown
and the republic placed on a firm basis,
I with white men at the head of the gov‘
l arnment. The natives, who are super-
lstitious, believe the change in power
from the copper-colored people to- the
iwhites is directly due to the fact that
who white stripe isdirectly over the
'red in the flag. They say that had
the red been first the whites would
icever have gained foothold on the is-
land sufficient to warrant their taking
the reins of the government in their
hands.
As a result of this superstition the
Legislature of Hawaii scarcely ever
to
'zhange the position of the stripes on
the flag is brought up. The wisest of
the men among the natives are kept
aonstantly at work on the drawing up
of such measures, and their members
‘ln the congress are every busy trying
to put the bills through.
is that as soon as the order .of the
stripes is changed, the red having the
preference, the copper-colored natives
Iinsets but what some new bill
have full sway in- the government.—
Chicago Chronicle.
Some Smart Sayings of Mark Twain.
When in doubt tell the truth. Noise
proves not-hing; often a hen who has
merely laid an egg cackles as if she
had laid an asteroid. History is bet-
ter than prophecy; in fact history is
prophecy, and history says that, where
a weak and ignorant peopleapossess a.
thing which a strong and enlightened
peaceably. Honesty is the best policy,
but sometimes the appearance of it is
worth six of it. We can secure other
people's approval if we do right and
try hard, but our own is worth a hun-
dred of'it, and no way has been found
out to secure that. Truth is stronger
than fiction, but it is because fiction is
obliged to stick to possibilities; truth
is not. Man is the only animal that
[blushes—or that needs to. The man
lwith 'a new idea is a crank until the
\
idea succeeds. Let us be thankful for
[the fools; but for themhthe rest of us
:ould not succeed. When peeple do
yet deep down in his private heart no
man respects himself. There are
several good protections against temp-
tation, but the surest is cowardice.
Hunger is the handmaid of genius.
Grief can take care of itself, but to
get the full value of joy you must have
somebody to divide it with.
Youthful Reasoning.
Tommy does a great deal of thinking
on his own responsibility, and he
broke out the other day with: “Papa, I
guess old Father Time's kind of a back
number, hain’t be?"
“What makes you think so, 'l‘om-
my?” . ¢ .
" ’Cause if he was right up to date
he’d have a mowin’ mer‘sheen ’stead of
that scythe .119. carries L’rou‘ndr—Dszruli
‘..q_..
' - "a.
incident bears‘not a little romance
He became ‘
up a flag and show the visitors that
The belief .
will again ascend to. the power and
people want, it must be yielded up“
not respect us we are sharply offendedy
' THE EVENIN G GAZETTE
,1 ' If ABYSSINIAN CURRENCY. ‘I
Sell: Bars the Medium of Trade with the
People.
For small change they use the‘ amole.
or bar of salt. This is a block of hard
crystallized salt, about ten inches long
and 21-4 inches in breadth and thick-
ness, slightly tapered toward the end;
five go to the dollar at the capital, but
its value varies according'to the dis.
tance it has to be brought from Lake
Arral, a. salt lake near the entrance to
the Red Sea. People are very particu-
lar abOut this, too; if it doesmot ring
like met“ when flicked with the finger
nail, or if it is cracked or chipped, they
won’t take it. It is a token of affection,
also, when friends meet, to give each
other a. lick of their respective amoles,
and in this way the material value of
the bar is also decreased.
For still smaller change cartridges are
used, of which three go to the salt. .It
does not matter what sort 'they are.
Whether “scatter—gun” or ride car-
tridges, nor, in the latter case, does it
matter whether they are Berdan, Gras,
Remington, or any other ammunition.
Some sharpers use their cartridges in
the ordinary way, and then put in Some
dust and a dummy bullet 'to make up
the difference, or else they 'take out the
powder and put the bullet in again, So
that possibly in the next action the
unhappy soldier will find that he has
nothing but miss-fires in his belt; but
this is. such a common fraud that no
one takes notice of it; and a. bad car-
tridge seems to serve as readily as a
good one.—_E. Gleichen, in “With the
Mission to Menclek.”
0n the Education of Lions.
When lions were still numerous and
easily observed in Southern Africa'they
were sometimes seen instructing on can-
other in voluntary gymnastics and prac-
ticing their'leap‘s, making a. bush play
the part of the absent game. Moffat
tells the story of a. lion which had
missed a zebra by miscalculating the
distance, repeating the jump several
times for his own instruction; two of
his comrades coming uponhim while
he was engaged in the exercise, he led
them around the rock to show them
how matters stood, and then, return-
ing-«to the starting point, completed the
lesson by making a final leap. The ani-
mals kept roaring during the whole of
the curious scene, .f‘talklng together,"
as the native .who watched them said.
By the aid of individual training of this
kind industrious animals become apter
as they grow. older; old birds,‘ for in-
stance, constructing more artistic nests
.than young ones, and little mammals
like mice becoming more .adroit with
age. Yet, however ancient in the life of
the species lthese acquisitions may be,
they have not the solidity of primor-
dial instincts, and are lost rapidly if not-
used.—Appleton's Monthly.
A Rare Exception.
Senator Vest has a favorite story
which he has told on the occasion of
many a political speech, but, so far as
known, never on the floor of the United
States Senate.
“A temperance lecturer was strug-
gling against odds in Kentucky,” says
the Senator. “He was talking to anot
very large audience that ,had been
drawn to the hall by curiosity. ‘The ef-
fect of alcohol is to shorten life,’ said
the lecturer.
I "‘An old man at the rear of the hall
rose at that juncture and said, ‘You’re
a liar.’ ,
“ ‘W‘hy?’ inquired the advocate of
Adam’s ale.
“Because, sir, I’ve been drinking for
seventy-five years, and I’m 90 and am
likely to live to be 100. I am strong
enough to lick you if you’ll. step out-
side.’ . ,
“ ‘Oh, no doubt, sir. You’re an ex-
ception, sir- If you keep on drinking-4
the lecturer paused.
“ ‘What?’ asked the impatient old. to-
per. ,
“ ‘If you keep on drinking you’ll have
to be shot on judgment day.’ ”—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Fred Douglass', Compliment to Lincoln.
Fred Douglass told Ithe writer when
he came to speak with all his experi-
ence he never could entirely rid himself
of stage fright. “During the first fifteen‘
minutes when I front an audience,” he
said, “my knees will knock, together."
But when he got fairly going this not
uncommon nervousness, which ‘ all
speakers have sometimes felt, would
pass away. .I-Ie, put his-points wellin
any argument, and his eloquence was
of a high order. His tribute, in one
sentence, to Abraham Lincoln, is an
unsurpassed compliment. “Mr. Lin-
coln,” he said, “is the only white man
into whose presence I was ever ushered
who did not make me feel that I was a
negro."-—l—Iarper’s Magazine. .
ARMY hem: H, ,3 ‘ j
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Prompt Action Armed For From
Senate and Eousc.
COST or 'ONB YEAR’S WAR-
Mr. Butler of North Carolina Addrel’én
the Senate arid Makes an Attack on
. the Republicans—Chairman Cannon
Reports an Urgent Deficiency Bill to
the House—A Bill Extending Franklng
I
Privileges to Officers and Soldiers.
Washington, June 2.—-In the Senate
this morning the House bill to organize
the hospital corps of the navy, define
its duties and regulate its pay, was re-
ported with amendments from the
committee on naval affairs, and was
placed on the calendar.
A bill author-12mg the appointment of
two matrons to Serve with each regi-
ment of volunteers during the war was
introduced by Mr. Faulkner (Dem., .
Va.) and referred to the committee on
military affairs. .
A bill extending the (ranking privi-
lege to officers and soldiers of the army
was introduced by Mr. Harris (Dem.,
Kan.) and was referred to the post-
oflice committee.
The war revenue bill was taken up
and Mr. Butler (Pop., N. C.) addressed
the Senate. He expressed his regret
that such. a. bill as could have had
unanimous support in the Senate had
not been brought forward. The respone
sibility for the delay in passing this
bill rested on the shoulders of those
who had seen fit to insert in it provls~
ions which had no proper place in it,
and who thus forced discussion . d
protest on the part of those who Ii3»
posed the financial views sought to be
carried out in this bill. , ‘
Arraign- Republicans.
A remark by Mr. Butler to the’effect
that Republican senators were unduly
influenced in their support of the
bond propositions provoked Mr. Gal-
linger to demand more specific alle-
gations. The denunciation, :he ’de-
clared, was very interesting,~ if true.
If the senator had any specific char—
ges to make against a. senator it would
be interesting to .the senate and the
country to have it made.
Mr. Butler’s reply was that in e
last presidential campaign immeu e
sums were contributed to the Republi-
can party by “the trusts, the monopo-
lists, the bondholders and moneylen-
ders;” that now these interests de--
mended legislation favorable to them,
and that a. refusal of such legislatlo
would be a. breach of contract on the
.part-Iof Republican senators and rep-
resentativza’s.’ :,-. , ,
The pending bill, be asserted, was
in the interest of the very rich people
of the country. He_ calculated that,
.for every_-.$2.000»"of:‘taxes that would
fall upon the 69,000,000 people who
owned half of the property of this
country, not more than 81 would fall
upon the 40,000 who owned the other
half. .
In the course of further discussion,
"Mr. Kyle of South Dakota, until re-
cently classified as a Populist, asked
Mr. Butler what foundation he had
for the charge of undue influence
made by him against Republicans.
Mr. Butler made a derisive comment
upon Mr. Kyle’s appearance as a de~
fender of the Republican party.
After further colloquy Mr. Butler
continued his argument that the bond
section of the bill was inserted at the
demand of the moneved classes who
had contributed to the Republican
campaign fund, and that it was not
in the public interest.
. “The chief purpose of this bill,” be
said, “is not to raise revenue to carry
on the war. That is an easy matter.
Its chief purpose is to use this oc-
casion to commit the country to ,a. pol-
icy _of bondpissues and bank paper,
and ,I submit that those who strive
to put through such offensive legisla-‘
tion under the whip and spur of a war
measure ought to be the last people
in the world to challenge the,_patriot-
ism of others. It is an attack upon
the masses of the people.”
Work in the House.
Chairman Cannon of the committee
on appropriations reported an urgent
deficiency bill for the maintenance of
the naval and military establishments,
carrying the following amounts; Con-
tingencies, Philippine expedition, $100,-
000; Cuban expedition, construction of
roads, $25,000; construction‘and equip-
ment of railroads, $225,000; intrench-
.JQ
ing tools. etc., $50,000; contingencies,
$50,000; signal service, $195,000; sub- .
sistence department, $5,000,000; medi-
cal department, $50,000; 'torpedo' de-,
fence, Manila harbor, $150,000; navy
department emergency fund, $10,000,-
000; bureau of supplies and accounts,
$1,000,000; clothing and small stores
fund, $1,000,000; total, $17,845,000.
Mr. Cannon made a statement to in-
form the House of the probabilities, as
to expenditures, on account of the
war. The committee on appropria-
tions expected to report a general de-
ficiency bill near the close of the ses—
sion that would carry about $220,000,-
000. Owing to the urgent necessity for
action on the items carried in the pen-
ding bill, the committee had-determ-
ined to report it now. It covered. ex-
penditures contemplated to be made
within the next thirty or sixty days.
It was the opinion of the committee
that, including the amounts already
appropriated, it would require at least
$350,000,000 to carry on the .war until
December 31 next.
Mr. Dingley—Then if the war should
last a year the cost would be in ex-
cess of $600,000,000?
Mr. Cannon--Yes, if ‘it should con-
.tinue that long.
The bill was passed and the House
adjourned. ‘ .
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Thirty Transport Ships :Secured.“
Washington, June 3.—The war 41e-
partment has secured three additional
transports. , ,
,This swells the total number of
available vessels to over thirty, with.
carrying capacity of nearly 30,000imen.‘
Theships secured, yesterday are: The
Commanche of theClyde line, now-at
New. York; the Louisiana" and _Knick- ’
ei-bocker of: the CremWell line, one of
at New Orleans 600 each
‘ which is'fifflNewfl’ ork,,and the other
. .
Norwalk Chronicler