The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26

There Is published in Boston monthly entitled National Magazine, and the July number has printed on its cover ..Boston Welcomes Americas Teach CTS" and an article with that leading appears in its pages in which 1t is an- nounced that 25.0O0 teachers are expect ed in the city where free public educa- ton was born.
 In the same number is an article en- titled "An Adirondack Pilgrimage" in which the authoress tells of a visit to the tomb of John Brown. and, as if the word pilgrimage did not sufficiently in- dicate a visit to the romD of saint or some person whose life had done hu- manity a service, the concluding words of the article conclusively show the mental attitude of the writer, who says;
 Long we stood in perfect silence, let ting the spell of the place sink deep into our hearts We were no longer idlers' tourists. pleasure seekers; we were citl- gems of the United States, patriots; yes, fl you will devotees, for this is, indeed, . shrine and we were-pilgrims to mar tyr's tombr'
 The facts concerning the life of the ..,,or rtN,r,, are very briefly and some times incorrectly stated. The narrative Is conspicuous by its absence or taee and as many of the 25,ooo teachers are too young to have known the truth, ana ,nanv others have obtained their infor- nation from histories written py parti- sans and worshipers at the shrine of the ..nartvr." 1t may be well to give the facts for the benefit of those who crave historical truth
 John Brown was born in the year 1900, in the state of Vermont, and lived Tor nfty-hve years without any sort or nrominence He was never successful In farming. sheep raising, grape culture wine making, and his orher ventures lie was regarded at a period not long peIore his death as an inhdel, though after wards he declared himself to be be- lever.
 It is said that he assisted runaway slaves in escaping to Canada. In 1855 he became prominent in Kansas as leader of an armed band of free soilers Learning of the destruction by mob of nro-slavery men at Lawrence and the death at their hands Of five northern men. he resolved on revenge. He sum moned a party consisting of four sons' A son-in-law, and two others to go with him, and they went to the valley of Pot- tavatornie creek where some peaceful settlers were living, whose only crime was that they were born in the south.
 On the night of May 24. 1S56 they com nelied Doyle and his two sons to leave their house. The next morning, the father and one son were found dead in the road-the former shot in the head and stabbed, the latter with his head cut open and a hole in his jaw. The other son was found dead away from the road, his fingers cut off, and hole In his breast Next they went to Wilkin- sons; his wife was sick and helpless, and begged that her husband be left, but next day he was found dead-a gash In his head and side. Next William Sher- man was found--his skull split open in two places a large hole in his breast and his left hand nearly cut off, only piece of skin holding it to the arm. The cutlasses used in this work were fur nished by John Brown. He, whilst in Kansas, began to plan for an outbreak in Virginia.
 In May, 1858, Brown held convention in Chatham, Canada, in a negro church, with a negro preacher for president and adopted a constitution, commencing, eve, the people of the United States" The convention consisted of about six whites and as many negroes, and pro- vided for a commander-in-chief, for capturing property and the killing of nearly everybody who did not join the organization or free their slaves. He rented farm near Harper's Ferry, and there collected arms and ammunition. On