| Show uncle tom cakin apropos of the coming of the cook twin sisters uncle toma cabin mrs greatest work a short history of the original cabin may bo of inte reit the people about la have long insisted that robert mcalpin wab the original simon legree hit house and plantation were th only ones fitting the description in the book on or near the red river and he the only man in the state who filled the bill he waa intemperate and merciless and died before tho war leaving a memory for brutality to his slaves that is even now mentioned with horror on his placa lived a faithful old negro cold from kentucky who buffered everything but actual torture to death and air S chopin the present wealthy owner of the estate has preserved the cabin with great care in the time it would become an object of natural curiosity the cabin ia boards and sound aa when built bamo bomo forty years ago it ia presumed that mrs stowe used the novelists privilege of combining the experience of several negroes in one but simply as a relic of the old slave times the cabin will present great interest at the opera house tonight the company presenting the play is an exceptionally good one and the presentation such a one as has never been surpassed |
