Show AN EVENTFUL LIFE mrs harriet beecher beether stowe still bangs on to the tattered thread of life at the extreme age of 81 she is not yet as old by ten years as were the german emperor and his great lieutenant when they gave up lifes fitful fever not so old as to is count de lesseps Lie and many other distinguished people but are all in the full possession of their faculties while her mental power expired some time ago that meant the end of her career altogether the newspapers which speak of her are as a rule prone to wishing her continued long life and this is meant kindly if not affectionately in many cases corn com ing from the south as well as the north and from people of all shades of political opinion thirty years have wrought a wondrous change in this the hearts the mental poise and tile the physical bearing of the people of this thia land and in the case of no one Is 19 this fact more vividly presented that than in that of mrs stowe at a time when the two great dl di visions of the republic began to te be sundered in the sentiment which grew and became so bitter that it could only be extinguished in blood mrs stowe wrote a little book entitled toms cabin and it was immediately put into circulation upon its merits merito alone it dealt with th the peculiar institution oi 01 the booth slavery and while aiming to be fair in its treatment of the people as a IL class clase exposed the horrors and of that condition so go forcefully and yet dramatically the book made tier her famous at a bound it spread like wildfire not alone in the cne united states but in europe wherever the people were waft enlightened her name was at once a househ houseold ld word and her work was big ahr baled ds as that of an evangelist uncle tom marked the beginning of the end the finishing touch of the fiery debates the angry and bitter recriminations which had made the halls balls of Congio iR ring for folt years was wag found within the covers of that modest looking volume the culmination was now but a matter of time aud and not much time at that the war came for four dark and dreary years its fortunes oscillated first to one side then to the other he southerners Bouther Souther neis fought harder and with more ability than was waa oz ex and finally as a heroic measure it was R announced to them that W what hat the book sought to bring about should take place unless hostilities ceaud within a short time but they did not atoll sto I 1 they became if possible fiercer and bloodier bloodser blo odier than ver ever then the ereal president dent of the united states pro claimed the slaves thenceforward and forever after free ane work was wa done the womans comans lifework life work had been beegi accomplished the fame gained th rouga the labor of her pen had been sealed with the stamp of immortality it is not wonderful that many who once looked upon this great wa woman as ae all but bat a fiend bond incarnate now speak of her in friendly and congiu oon con grata gru batory terms because they have ad danced with the current of event ft the evolution which swept the our of human bondage from the land a and ai i made of the nation one country on soil and one people carried those mea ma with it too and they simply lift in the present rather in the past their judgment fl as to what constitutes high intellectual qualities is no longer biased by alisa or warped by selfishness they see with better eyes and hear with bet att ter ears they are brave enough 10 fc acknowledge defeat after fighting lun ilia spartans spartano Spar tans for four years to avert it j ua oat enough to admit the wrongfulness wrongful nesa C the system they sought to perpetu perpetuate perpetual at and wise enough to profit by the error erron of bbb past we repeat it is not la wonderful that such men so constituted should accord a meed of praise to ft harriet beecher stowe but there is a wonder connected with the subject where in the section of the laud land to whose opinions she gave definite form and fitting substance to la all the honor and g glory iora and exaltation that once frere re bars they bear that she has ba lot her reason without so BO much as a murmur they know she very very feeble and that the krim grim mes me benger cannot be far off and yet it boaks a as though she would be given into hie bin cold embrace without the predence pre nence fience of one sorrowing friend without eliciting 80 0 o much as one heartfelt ex n ol of sorrow florrow or causing a single tear to fall hom from one of those eyes which have looked upon her bar with d admiration mi ration if not with actual love I 1 the wonder is on this thib side of the old line not on the ther other the NEWS joins most cordially in uch friendly expressions as are made vr f r the once great and influential woman but when to such expressions la Is added the usual wish for continued life we most be excuse i if we ask why this should hould be what wore more has she to live jor even if she were permitted to the triumph which crowns her career to te know what the real regard of and the indifference of the one olaaf other mean as aa figured out in the events A afla lifetime these are all a sealed uok book to her now DOW she is dead to the world even as much of it is dead to ber and the an Oun cement of her i departure to the untried field of a new we should not it would seem be a subject object for hope to the contrary or the expression 01 of ill it |