Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — UNCLE TOM’S CABIN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.

The Historic Relic Will Be Kxhibited at the World’s Fair. It is proposed to bring to Chicago for exhibition at the World’s Fair the log cabin which is believed to have been the home of Uncle Tom, one of the characters in Mrs. Stowe's “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” It is not a matter of certainty that the log hut is the identical cabin of Uncle Tom, but many Who have examined into

its history vlaini it to Ijave been the abode of the now historic Uncle Tom. Thq cabin stands in the midst of a cotton field in a plantation on the Bed River, in Louisiana. It is- 1,6x1 §. feet, nine logs high, with a ‘pitih roof. The whole structure ls< cypress, and the roof is covered with rough-sawn cypress boards fastened on with nails made at the plantation blacksmith shop. All of the material is yet sound, and the whole cabin is intact except the flooring of the loft, which has been removed, although the beams still remain. It lias not been used for any purpose for twentyfive years.

“UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.”