The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-20

and brothers to marry rich man. Brown
would not do-he was too poor But the
girl wife loved him and offered to desert
her husband for him. Brown would not
let her do that. Years after Brown learn
ed from her husbands slave that at first
the ''missus was mis- BILE, but when she
learned how to manage her husband she
made him missile.
Brown needed a wife. He married a
good girl who helped him and gave him
a fine bunch of sons and daughters After
she died he married another good woman
who bore him more children. His two
wives had 20 children in all. and they
stood by him in his warfare for freedom.
1t was the kind of family President
Roosevelt approves OF.
The wives of John Brown were plain.
hard working. sensible women, who did
ali the ork of the home, enduring.
denying, encouraging. ministering. They
weren't romantic or emotional or senti-
mental like Browns first love. Possibly
they didn't belong to reading clubs, art
clubs or the Federated clubs. And they
didn't miss much on that account. They
proba bly, lacked the club culture. don t
you know, but in the larger and grander
they did His work without Sinking,
without excuse. Their days were taken
up with babies sewing cooking. caring
for the sick-no trained nurses then and
the home was the hospital. They planned
to make 81 do the work of s. And well
folks had to be encouraged when dis
couraged.
IL, Of firrn
o'clock in the morning and tOiled busiy
until night. They never had an operation
by surgeon-they had no physician to
sympathize with them at so much a visit.
They had no pastor to worship and no
CHURCH to live for. They laid their all
on the altar of home and that masterful
man. John Brown. did the praying fer
the Brown household
In such lives the lack of so-called social
advantages must be the sesame which
opens the door of heaven.
Because John Brown said slavery was
wrong he was tried by the church found
guilty of no one knows what. and was
turned out. The church offered to keep
him in if he would recant; but like Mar
tin Luther, John Brown said: Il will
never recant
Slavery is inhuman and from this
hour I'll devote my life to ending it,
Injustice makes martyrs.
But, oh. the stony paths and long
weary way to the final victory Of death.
The church people said Brown was
bad. Yes. Whatever the church people
say is so until proven false.
Everybody. christian or pagan. rather
likes to see successful man undone.
When he is tied they scourage HIM and
spit upon him.
But John Brown could not be crushed.
His granite strength towers over the one
who reads his story.
Emerson heard him speak and wrote
OF him: Il deem Brown. Of Kansas. the
manifest man l ever saw
His sorrows. his patience. his courage.
his virtues, were so splendid that they
must cause even the casual reader to cry
with the woman who deserted him for
silver oh my brave John Brown.
N losing her he won his first victoryr
over self. lie lost himself ITO love and
have an Observation-Disclosures happier fate
can come TO a man than this. And
happiness was denied John Brown He
tried TO be contented and faithful He
became first citizen OF his town IN Ohio
respected. prosperous. lie was true 10
his home ties: but he buried selhshness
in that lost love. He lived 20 do only
that he deemed duty But the world
can only be reformed BY restless. miser-
a e people. And John Brown became
restless and miserable
His iron wil-his fearless defense
planted freedom in kansas in America
lie was always ready for a fight or for
death He saw the end be hoped for
could be had by striking a blow at the
government OF the United States-his
country
The attack on the L. :. arsenal at Har-
per's Ferry was planned and carried out
Ii failed 70 direct success by its treachery
OF ignorance. Brown had hoped 10 cap
ture all the citizen prisoners he could.
escape TO the mountains. ind then free
the citizens in exchange for free slaves
He hoped so gsin The attention Of Ameri-
ca by this action. The price he paid and
fully. expected 20 pay vas his life but as
z Kansas man. Eugene Ware. has T.
in losing he Won. He lost his life.
He said very little IN his defense when
questioned lie asserted his sanity and
responsibility. making il plain that the
slave owners were criminals and that n
fought them with crime for the cause OF
freedom
And when they led the Old Kansas
Hero TO the death gallaWs. BE said 4
am ready
Oh. grave where IS thy victory. where
is thy stirge
John Brown, q God-lilSe man. vas going
home 70 live IN every Free mans heart
for all eternity What Is better zfter ali
than Just 20 60 homer