Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1889 — HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. [ARTICLE]

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

The Writer ot “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Finally Becomes Demented, A Hartford (Conn.) dispatch says: Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is mildly Day by day she wanders around under the bare boughs of the autumn trees, gathering their leaves like a child. She is quite harmless. Only last week she wandered out on to the street alone, A shawl which hung from her shoulders dragged on the ground and her gray hair was in disorder. She smiled and talked to hen elf as she tottered weakly along, and finally a crowd of rough street-boys were following her. They laughed and jeered at the pitiful sight, not knowing who she was. A gentleman came along who had known her in happier years. He dispersed the boys and with some difficulty induced the aged woman to return home.