The Holbrook news., 1911-07-07

 attack on his own paper, and his sis ter found him one day making bull lets in the kitchen. She asked what he was making them for.
 "To kill men with," he answered grimly, and Mrs Stowe. telling her son about 1t years later. said. T never saw Henry look so terrible. l did not like 1t, for I feared he was growing bloodthirsty'
 Professor Stowe helped at times the underground railroad. He 1t was who took the original of Eliza and Little Harry" to the house of the old Quaker when the master was pursuing the fugitives It was not long after this that she wrote she felt keenly the need of an intermediate party which would oppose slavery without the vio- lence of abolitionists. But, she said, if no such party was formed many people would be forced to join the abolitionists fin spite of their ex- cesses."
 In 1850 the Stoves left Cincinnati for Brunswick, Me. It was there that her great resolve was taken that she would use her pen to fight slavery. Already she was a successful author and deeply interested in the cause of the slave. Her brother wrote and put the proposition to her squarely: why did she not write about the subject nearest her heart and make people understand? It was in the little parlor of her Brunswick home. She read the letter aloud. As she finished the appeal she rose from her chair, crush ing the letter in her hand and said: God helping me. I will write"
 The material for Uncle Toms Cabin came from various sources. but she verified them all. The Ken lucky plantation she already knew. The slaves whom she had known in Cincinnati had talked freely. giving the light as well as the tragedy of their lot.
 Uncle Tom seems to have been drawn from Joshua Hoosen. a black man of great sweetness and piety, who told her appalling stories of life as he had seen 1t.
 The book, then. was published, with many misgivings, but none among them was that the south would fail to understand the friendliness of her spirit. Then she found herself the most famous and the most abused woman in the world
 Mrs. Stowe had that exaltation of character which lifts a soul above praise or blame. In the midst of the tumult she wrote poetry and planned
 k1 fr the cause. It is typical of her in- genuousness that she was much sur prised to find herself welcomed and feted on the other side of the ocean. Where she had expected to rest and see nobody, she discovered she was the talk of the country.
 When the war broke out Mrs. Stowe's son was among the first to go She wrote atterward: Tt was the will of God that the slave mothers whose tears nobody regarded should have with them a great company of weepers, north and south-Rachels ing to be comforted."
 After the war Mrs. Stowe went south and lived for time in Florida. The scheme was to raise cotton with free labor, but it failed disastrously. In other ways the stay in the south was a success, and everywhere Mrs. Stowe appears to have been treated with consideration. The era of abuse was over.
 After cotton they tried to raise oranges, but frost spoiled that plan Mrs. Stowe lost $34.o00 in this way, and then she founded the Christian Union with her brother, Henry Ward Beecher, and lost most of the rest of her money. She kept writing. not be- cause her fame tempted her. but be- cause the money was needed. Uncle Toms. Cabin." which made so many fortunes, never yielded her more than a few hundred dollars.