| Show UNCLE TOMS CABIN among many inquiries set on foot through the collection of historic objects for exhibition at the worlds fair not ot the least interesting la 18 the recent attempt to verify the original uncle toms cabin for removal to chicago that the title of mrs famous story was waa not taken from an imaginary hovel and that the real roof rooftree tree of the original slave was an actuality and to ie still in existence will revive it terest interest in that pregnant narration and in the aged and beloved author who to is living out the re bainder of her days daya in unconscious serenity at hartford connecticut most of the southern papers and at least one influential northern journal the new york sun have come to the conclusion that the cabin of uncle tom is ifs standing today on the chopin plantation on cane river a tributary of red bed river and ten miles from the red river landing the sun quotes the legends of the surrounding surround log country which have always given this name to the particular cabin referred to and adds that the father of the owner the clauta tion from robert mcalpin who in the neighborhood has bag always been recognize das the Legree of novel nove A writer in the new orleans times democrat has baa recently gone over the place book in hand baud the architecture of the house bouse corresponds to that of the home of legree as described by mrs stowe the flight of casale and emmeline through the swamps to is traced with exactness in the peculiar topography of the place this veri verification flotation floa tion is confirmed in McAlpi Mc Alpina ns reputation the story of his cruelties cruel ties easily practiced in the isolation of the of his death by delirium tr cremens tremens tre emens which evera ince as believed by the ignorant negroes neg roee has left his big ghost to haunt the place the personal description of legree differs from that of mcalpin but it is said that his bis property after his bla death went to heirs in new england mrs stowe makes legree a new england man the exactness of all descriptions other wise discloses an accurate knowledge and a more mere corollary to this is the assertion once made to a neighbor that a lady from the north once paid mcalpin a visit but as she was a yankee no one oared cared to make her acquaintance 11 II I on the publication of uncle tomps cabin the neigh neighbors boris came to the conclusion that this visitor was the author from conviction that mcalpin was legree mr chopin it appears in clearing away the old quarters left the cabin always called ui cle tom tomis toma Is cabin and it is this that is to be transferred to the fair |
