New-York tribune., 1911-04-04
THE TALK or THE DAY.

I'm the account Of How Mrs. Stowe
Wrote J'ncc Toms Cabin. by her son.
Charles Edward stowe. and her grandson.
LYMAN Beecher Stowe. in "Mctlures'
there is the following story of Mrs. st""c
modest attitude toward her book: Neither
Mrs. Stove nor her husband had the re-
hottest idea OF the unique power ana inter-
est of the story thar was being written
Nor. indeed, did II dawn upon either oi
them Until after the publication ot 'he
first edition in hook form. professor
stowe was very emotional man. ana was
accustomed 10 water lis wifc's literary ei-
forts quite literally with lis tears; 50 the
fact that ne had wept over the bits OF
brown paper had for them no unusual por-
tent As 10 pecuniary gain. he often ex-
messed The hope that Size would make
money enough by the story 10 buy no"
eul, droes" Three hundred thousand
copies OF the book were sold within year
Of its publication.
Nothing IS so bad that it couldn't he
worse" quoted the Wise Guy.
Yes" agreed the Simple Mug, we can
suffer from insomnia and nightmare at the
same time. e."-Philadelphia Record.
Roosevelt encountered while on his hunt
ing trip in Africa Is emphasized by a cor
respondent of THE London Daily Mail,
who quotes an ivory hunter in Uganda as
saving: 1T is an awful country, with the
,hickest elephant grass full of hieS mos
cuitos and ticks. The average range for
shooting tho elephants Is five yards. We
creep up and shoot pointblank. Two Of
them 7 shot ] could touch with my rife and
they fell only six feet off. one monster
heard me and rushed AZ mo ard knocked
me down. but managed 10 swing my rife
quickly and fire into MS jaw. His blood
poured over my shirt. He then rushed off.
but had he fallen he would have crushed
me fiat"
Kind Looking old Gentl"man-D Don't YOU
know what becomes Of little boys who
swear?
Small Boy-Oh, yes: they become golfers
when they grow up.-Woman's Home Com
panion.
Unless some new and unexpected. source
of supply ia soon found. Holsters will
he beyond tho purse OF anybody but mill
ionairos. The Kennebec Journal" an au-
thority on the Maine crustaceans reports
that a day Nor two ago "A wholesaler tried
Ia buy fcw boilers and bro.lers from a
.Ionesport dealer. TOO late" replied the
Jcnesport man. y only had ?6. and sold
tho lc' TO New York parties at 81 apiece"
Twenty years ago" SAYS THE Journal"
when lopsters could be picked M on the
fats. and were almost too cheap To quote.
:; man would have heen thought crazy 10
oven prophosy that 95 Holsters would bring
nearly slcc'
De man dat puts in TOO much time
learnin 10 wait patiently said I'nclo
Eben, lis iahlc 20 git ont n practice foh
coin anything else. Washington Star
While deprecating and rdiculinc tho war
talk that the sending Of the American army
20 Texas has occasioned. "Thc Japanese-
American Commercial Weekly" presents
the latest statistics furnished by the Toxic
Naval Office Of tho present naval strength
Of Japan. This list divides the different
types Of Japanese warshps and their ton
mage as follows: BatilcshIps. L.: tonnage,
2a2"e0. First class cruisers, 10. tonnage,
1875 is, Other warships 81; destroyers ~:
tonnage 22.Ai. Torpedo boats. 20: tonnage.
sos. Total ships. Is9: total tonnage. 56l .O73
Jack London has Joined the Mexican
revolution in order TO get something to
write about.
"A story by London with no blooished in
II will be an oddity."-liouston Post