Show e ILNCLK TOM LIVES i HERD OF MRS STOWES NOVCL IS AMONG THE LIVING IIl < licit sum II tool IIMe Clark u1 tie vrai for Many tear a lare I 01 tit Ornedys of lIIu Urge ra fret I lIlImT Beecher fJ Hlowe U n c I 0 Uncle j with the sentence fA In tile quiet little Y 1r r 2lon of Is i means fJ nh r Point Lick lit fii rrgf1 Ularrard countyly Uncle Tom CabIn Cab-In nut appeared fortyfive > cars nona no-na n serial In the National lira of Washington tits I Blown MV fit then to call faint Lick n quiet little town It In today and only the illghtwl change hue been made In It since the tory was written Lewis I George Clark the prototype of George Harris the most prominent promi-nent figure In the iioiel was owned l by Oen Thorn Kennedy l flarrard county first representative In the general gen-eral assembly of Kentucky lie tint Mongol lo John Ilanton who was a party lo the famous Ilanton counter felling plot llnntoni detection led to the Kilo of young Clark to den Kennedy l then the vvrnlthlcst min In the lllue Iran sec tlon uf Kentucky and a large dealer In race horse and slaves When Oen Kennedy died he bequeathed slavl lo hit ion Thomas Kennedy Jr Among them was Clark A house boy Nor luan Kennedy Mat given to Hubert I Argo and hi itlll lives I to tell of George llarrli Undo Tom and other character In Uncle Tons Cabin A correspondent visited the old Kentucky Ken-tucky homestead yet a comfortable r XMldcnce and found old Norman workIng work-Ing In the garden at the Argo place Which lie has never left though freed more than a wore and a half of years agoNorman Norman Ii i midget < 110 Ii 05 years old only 3 feel and 9 Inches tall and weigh IM I than sixty pound Whin len Kennedy hall a liable of running hornet Nnrmin was brought to ride for him but Ills leg were to short ho louldnt stay In the saddle and fell off In more than one race Tin old man remembers Clark well for he had slept and worked with him When young Clark was i weaver knitter and lower and cooked well Il cauio of these accomplishments he WAS not tent to work In the field during dur-ing Gen Kenned a life and Norman J Kennedy being home boy got Intimately Inti-mately acquainted with Ibo hero of Unclo Toms Cabin Young Tom Kennedy did not long mirvho hit father and Clark was again about to be put up at auction with the other negroes when ha determined to gain his liberty whatever the COlt Informing In-forming Norman that ho could noon bleach hlm clt from tho mulatto that lie was to n fairly while man Ho began be-gan to wear gloves and a big hat to work In order to aold sunburn and In a few month ho escaped by stealIng steal-Ing a mule He went north Ills wife Maggie the Ullia of the novel was left behind but loon ran off tn Louisville Mm Stowoi ile Dcrlpllon of Tlliat or haggles M capo across the drifting tea of tho Ohio titer from Kentucky to Ohio and freedom free-dom Is cry dramatic but old Uncle Norman Kennedy says Maggie really secreted herself In tho Palli City until Clarks return from Ohio when Ibo joined him and the two went peacefully peace-fully and unptiriued up the Ohio iron ir-on a steamboat to Cincinnati iilta was an octoroon won by Gen Kennedy Ken-nedy on a homo race In Indian Territory Terri-tory Clark found work In Cincinnati And remained there until ho went north end later to Cambridge MOBIl where lie wa given employment by Mr A 11 SafTord n daughter of Imoll Ileech or father of Mn Htowc Although airs Rlowo then Mils Ileecher was teaching nt lane Seminary In Cincinnati Cincin-nati while Clark was In the city she never met or heard of him there ni U the popular belief It was at Mr Is i I LUWIB a CLAIIK SAfTordi homo In Cambridge that Mrs Htnwo first law Clark She became In forestall inkls narrative of file experiences exper-iences and from him got the story of the characters In Uncle Tom Cabin Old Norman denies the allegation that len Kennedy was cruel to his slaves The Little iva ot the boo etlll liven She Ii now a grandmother and her soninlaw Is ono of the leading lead-ing democrats of Kentucky |