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UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.
Tho Reverentinl Position Mra. 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.
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?”
”God 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,” il-
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
friend. “You did not write
Tom ‘." "
“No; I merely put down. what I
saw,” answered Mrs. Stowe.
“But you have never been at the
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 events.”
“No; your daughter reproached me
for letting Eva die; Why, I cduld 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
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!
think it would do!’ and, folding the
sheets, he directed and sent them to
the publisher. I have often thought
amazed
‘Uncle
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
mentioned saw Mrs. Stowe she remind-
ed her of the former conVersation, and
suggested that the two accounts were
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."—Youth’s
Companion. '
THE COLUMBUS OF THE SKIES
Lacaille, the Great Astronomer of the
18th Century.
Lacaille has been justly called the
true Columbus of the southern skies,
says Prof. 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 favor of Cassini be-
came one of the surveyors of the coast
from Nantes to Bayonne, and in 1739
took 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-
officially
which was then a mere signal station
Table Mountain, and in fourteen
months had observed the positions of
nearly ten thousand stars with a de-
grw of precision never before attempt-
ed in that region of the heavens. The
great catalogue which he formed from
these observations was published in
Science, and until within the last twen-
knowiedge of the southern hemisphere.
Another Definition.
Bobby—Papa, what’s a pessimist?
can’t enjoy his dinner to-day because
“When I-
I should '
if anything happened to that package
the friend before
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! F ABYSSINIAN CURRENCY.
Salt 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'Laka
Arral, a salt lake near the entrance to
the Red Sea. People are very particu-
lar about this, too; if it does not ring
: like met|1 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 rifle car-
tridges. nor, in the latter case, does it
matter whether they aré’ Berdan, Gras,
Remington, or any other ammunition.
Some sharpers use their cartridgesin
the ordinary way, an'l 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 Menelek.”
On the Education of Lions.
W'hen lions were still numerous and
easily observed in Southern Africa they
were sometimes seen instructing on can-s
other in voluntary gymnastics and prac-
ticing their leaps, 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 upon him 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, “talking together,”
as the native who watched them said.
By the aid of individual training of this
kind industrious animals become apter
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 'these 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 floorof the United
States Senate.
“A temperance lecturer was strug-
gling against odds in Kentucky,” says
the Senator. “He was talking to a. not
very large audience that had been
drawn to the hall by curiosity. ‘The ef-
fect of alcohol is to shorten life,’ said
the lecturer.
“An old man at the rear of the hall
rose at that juncture and said, ‘You’re
a liar.’ .
“ ‘Why?’ inquired the advocate of
Adam’s ale.
“Because, sir, I’ve beén 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’——
the lecturer paused. ,-
“ ‘What?’ asked the impatient old to-
per. _
“ ‘If you keep 0n,drinkingj you’ll have
to be shot on judgment day.’ ”—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
lr-‘red Douglass’ Compliment to Lincoln.
Fred Douglass told bhe 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. He put his points well in
anyargument, 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 ushereo
who did not make me feel that I was a
negro.”—Harper’s Magazine.
cordingiy, he proposed an expedition *
to the Cape of Good Hope, which was
sanctioned and carried out:
with marvelous rapidity and success. ‘
Landing in April, 1751, at the Cape, '
for Indian vessels, he secured a loca- _
tion in the wild country near the great
1763, and reprinted in 1847 by the Brit- ,
ish Association for the Advancement of -
ty- years wasthe chief source of our '
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Wealth of the Klondike
Shrcwd Investors Arc fiurc Winners. . '
Tbejoseph Ladue Gold llflning and DeveIopment Company.
of Yukon, finding opportunity for the entremely profitable use of addi-I
tional Working capital in connection With its transportation busmess, the
Company now offer for investment a limited amount of its new SIX per
cemt. preferred stock.
PRO RATA DlViSION OF ALL SURPLUS EARNINGS.
Joseph Ladue was the pioneer of the Klondike.
“ “ was the founder of Dawson City. _
. obtained a monopoly of the adJagent timber lands. .
purchased the original quartz discovery in the Klondike
thought to be the “ Mother Lode." . _ .
established the onlyr saw-mill in the Klondike district.
controls the Canadian patent on Dawson City. _
this basic wealth and interested the most conservative .;
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Quttrtz, property on Gold Bottom Creek, saw-mill plant, timber rights, and some .of
the best lots in Dawson City have been turned over to the above company.
The above company has since purchased the
Fine Passenger S.S. “ MORGAN CITY,”
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5.352 rate be-cgveen San Francisco or Seattle and Skaguay up to about the 1st of gripe,
“'11 en She will be put in commission t}? Sth. LliiChiiels in connection With four river oats
and four or more freight scows on t e u on iver.
' All the valuable assets of the company are behind this stock and investors are
ass [1er of. ample protection.
Price of preferred stock $10.00 per share, payable '50 per cent oz:
balance on allotment of shares. (Right reserved to Withdraw stool:
Subscriptions for the stock should be sent ‘ ‘ 9
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