Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS OLD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS OLD.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Birthday Quietly Remembered. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe completed the eighty-third year of her age Friday. While there was no formal celebration of the event it was observed by her relatives and many of her friends throughout the world. She received numberless congratulatory telegrams and cable messages. The famous old lady keeps her physical vigor in a remarkable degree, and is now in better health than she has enjoyed for

many months. The copyright on “Uncle Tom” expired two years ago, so that Mrs. Stowe now has no claim on the receipts of her famous work. Through the courtesy of her publishers, however, she still receives a bonus from the sales, although, of course, not an equivalent of the royalties that were hers lawfully before the expiration of the copyright.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.