The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-08-25

paid little attention to her dress and toilet. Her hair was curly, in fact kinky, like negro's. I we'll remem- Der humorous remark she made in this connection. Some of she ladies of our party were teasing her about her love for the black race, when suddenly running her fingers up through her frizzly locks, she remarked: And why not1 Why should l not have a fellow feeling for the colored race?'"
 "How was Mrs. Stowe liked so- ciallyf"
 "On the whole, quite we'll, I think. To be sure, she would have at times an abetracted manner. probably when soaring in cloudland, and would ap- pear even somewhat disagreeable; but we were charitable enough to charge it to the literary sinking fund. In other words, we did not deem it in- tentional. She was really, at heart, an amiable, estimable woman"
 Miss Cushing stated that years after, when Mrs. Stowe's name had become a household word in two hemispheres, Prof. Stowe was heard to remark :: "My wife has made more money out of her Actions than l have received from all my theological and other works put together" Whether these words were inspired by adulations of his wife's genius, or was a shaft of irony aimed at the popular taste for the sensational in literature, his aud- itors were unable to determine.
 One fact, however, was known by Mrs. Stowe's Brunswick friends which is worthy of mention, namely, that the first silk dress she ever owned was bought with money earned by writing "Uncle Toms Cabin"
 The inspiration of genius which gave to the world this graphic and masterly picture of human slavery is all the more wonderful when we con- slider that Mrs. Stowe knew little of the systems from personal experience and observations. She spent many years Tn Cincinnati, just across the Ohio river from Kentucky. Her father, Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, was president of the theological seminary at Walnut Hill, near Cincinnati, and with him she "traveled and visited somewhat extensively in Kentucky, and there became acquainted with those excellent shareholders delineated in Uncle Toms Cabin.'" She further says: "I saw many counterparts of the .Shcl5ys-p people humane, con- scientious, just and generous, who re- garded slavery as an evil and were anxiously considering their duties to the slave. But it was not till I had finally left the west and my husband was settled as professor in Bowdoin college, Brunswick, Me-, that the pas sage ot the fugitive slave law and the distresses that followed it drew this from me-"
 The great novel completed, was pub lished as serial, from June, 1851, to April, 1852, in a Washington anti slavery paper, the National Era but drew little attention from the public at large. Several publishers were interviewed with view to its issue in book form, but all to no purpose. 1t might have merit, but they were afraid to handle it.
 John P. Jewett, senior member of a small publishing house in Washing ton street, Boston, went 90 far as to take the book home for his wife to read, her verdict to settle the question of his publishing it.
 "Well, what do you think of it, my dear?" he asked, when he came home one evening and found she had finished reading the work.
 "It is live book-it will sell 1" was her prophetic response.
 So Mr. Jewett proceeded to publish "Uncle Toms Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly." What followed, the world knows full well.-Detroi Free Press.