THE PROVO HERALD THE BRAVERrDEJQHffBRDWtt ' Body of Slavery Fiercest Foe Lies Burled In -- Undeco rated -- 7 , Grave it EtbaT" Although many anecdotes' and tradi tions of John Brown's boyhood days are still freah In the minds of the present generation,-comparativel- y few per sons know that this unique character began his Interesting career near ttobwg--atfrA memory will remain unhonored this month--, his big anniversary. Nebraska and Kansas, which owe much to this American patriot, wilt also pass over : i his memory.; . ' r; v -a, ' His noted victory' at Osawatomie is tiHslrinTheminds of many of the older living residents of this country. His fame as the real liberator of the -- slaves, like his military achievements. will probably live" forever. - although fce .died by others' hands, a martyr to : -- the cause" Tor "which - , fought. he so "earnestly ' Although boro in Connecticut, John Brown was considered a native, of Summit county, Ohio.. There, he con. celvetf. he principles for which he -- fought and died a'miserable death. direct , Hi f Jtoltanlc-descent-the - Mayflower of variety. He was ambitious to have .' John become a minister. Poor eyesight compelled the son to abandon , Ills studies. - Instead, he became" a I., farmer, with a knowledge of tanning, following the occupation of the elder I Brown. . 8U1I later he : developed- - a .liking for surveying. ; Early in life Brown became a great I "lover ipLrcattle'ahd sheep. He was yeonsidered the best judge of wool be--in I the United States. At one time I ...fore he got into the limelight Brown was engaged with his father in the cattle business at Richmond, Pa., Still I . later he became the owner of the fa mous Adirondacks in Essex rounty, New-YorkFor five jears he made a of life outsida tie reach, of thousands of poor people. So plain VJIm? Patten went to New Mexico rfor a a est," he said, "and to set away from you infernal reporters." Tbe. Hionarh of h thipf stayed. lnjS'ewMexieo for a long tlm.e saia ne wanted rest andio all Appearances he got It, for he returned to the strife in Chiaazo with a bronied eye, and with the .Patten smile which Is the market Index .on' the Chicago board of trade. He wu cheerful to his associates, but tothe reporters no. He seemed to have taken a dislike to them? despite ""the - - erpu1n-"rf- -- t-- -or T soimm,,, ?- - -- t.K -a - mi-j----- - --- - akin-.clea- Xf -- " of the last year's crop there were In the ear. Allowprevious ing 5.0ou.000 . bushels .for the extra Increase in consumption, there al' grain . world, like' frightened sheep, follows its leader until tired out" 1 Figures compiled .bynUUitlclans. show; the" wtiftd'j wheat crop as follows: For l$01i there werei 3,062,120,000 bushels raised; for' 1906. 3,414,400,000 bushels; for J905r a,249,7Mr' 3,134,120,000 bushels. Of these 000; : amounts the United States grew the following: 1907. - 634.600,000 ; bushels; -- 1 906. 736.009.00t ; rvthan -- f are still ' .45.000,000 for-190- 4.: bushels unaccounted for. The question la . , ' rs it .- 1 T 7. living there. It was in 1854. acording to a pet--; sonal friend,- that John- - Brown started on the fbad to fame Jind ignominious ! I death. Then Senator A ' --Douglas of IllinoiB, with Stephen inordinate i pros dontlal aspirations. Introduced a - ibill for opening to settlement all ter north of Texas and west of the trttory I' HMissourtrriyer under thername of Ne-:, braska. hard-rube-This the ' race began ;1 wm tween slavery and freedom, and John t Brown was found In the thickest oi 5 1 it Mai" ' A I I . ' ... K n .. i. ... : . :..: I A6TRM WWA HARVCCT iSQJTtfZ 4,' asked t where is this ous ; amount of grain? Mr. Patten declares JL exist The consumer shakes' his head and says: "Another 'corner' in wheat." , . ..... 552 1905r693.000,00 bushels;-190- 000,000 bushels. ,lm Pfttten ioesnt care for money.' He" tikes to make it, but he sheds no tears when hm loses.' That's one reason why he wears a $25 suit. and tells funny stories.- - ' It is not so' many years ago that he was plowing on the old home farm at Sandwich, III.;- That's what makes him such a forceful figure In the pit; he knows the game Intimate-capita- l ly from the growing of the crops to the anlB-o- f plng, marketing and manipulation. Later "tended store" and then made a quick grab at an education, studying at Northwestern Dak verslty in Evanston, the classic Chicago suburb which is now hi8home.. He didn't stay long, plunging after a year or so into the . hurly-burlof the - board ( " . J trade-Up and down, in his meteoric career, and falling, he has always bobbed n . wltBRhe hearty laugh and merry Joke. "God didn't make man 4or tears," is Ua motto. "If you're sad it's your own fault Riches are only a toy. If you lose themJtodL. wnHif-rmtf-TT- io B JJfe g fa nnTygnn . "happy." Riding now' on"the top wave of success b ,s hailed in Chicago as the legitimate suceea-- a norov-bushels;- daes-JiQt-- ' I A Millers bad bid $1.40 perbushel for wheat. Not since war days, a half century ago. was - wheat higher In - the city. The majority the dealers had no recol of the price ever be- ing any higher and .declare that,, $1.40 was the record . There was a scarcity price. - j , milling grain, but the $1.40 pf offering failed to bring out much-whea- t Farmers who had not sold stood pat asking $1.50 for a part of eir It. was . a curious .ioldlngs however, that coincidence, - since wheat reached Its high - point there was comparative- .Utla In hf ftad, BhLA jni.t .phasized the "corner" point." There have been a' few "corners" In wheat. In 1905 Hutch-PartridGates.-Armoge, crowd of Chicago ' Leiter the other .giants" of the pit --who and with Joseph' Letter at the" 1 uiose iremenaous aeais mat in years I li e&d,cOMefed the - supply wonder of the world. , for a time and ran the price Kne Dy wer -- The characteristics of In in to $1.24 Patten, therefore, are February. up now. noted the Bame detail. Other that year, being Jn great August, tne Chicago pit was in a frenzy. cents. -- In 1904 the hlgh-;d- sy Well, they dont know the conditions. , My coiv low price was 77 A wild,' shrieking mass' of men surged over respondents throughout the country are trained price was $1.22 during the months of Septem- men who get right down to earth when they of the long quadrangle. ber, October and December. In January of the every-lnc- h Tbe dhf seek information. Postmasters and a farmer" "same year IihOow3riOeached,wax-811- 4 as the Jangled: chorus rose up from the mob hers and therecomprlse thenrtafTof Secretary ". ceida.:-.,r- .r ' struggling for foothold, echoed far down La Wilson's forecasters. . The high price of wheat 1: in cor- a Salle made street. To the packed- galleries of bulls of crowd another iggs had little' effect on bread rates. Bread would spectators thej8cenewaaJike-Jtn-immenso-'gridirner an(i ran the price up to l&o in -the month nve oeen nign anyway,pecausejr-waen't-f- Marrln-OceobeTr- of where a hundred football teams were rtharsame-tyearthe Increase simultaneously trying to buck-t- he iow Cotapfthat price: center." . . . TT dealers' pockets anyhow wynt-nt- r ur me on aiwrnour recorded ever the panaemonium Increased., The highest price But onc,, for ,et me tell you, nQ living man "G,Te for wheat," a bellow could to , - Chicago board of trade was in 1869, when the '. heard can corner wheat." , above the nnroar hut TOlcrTirraBeTlmnd come in answer. Only JWhen the careful housewife was nguringjipto.0efflbw bill &fid"IBe"pointed out 76 cents. The next highest price was $2.20, more din. to her husband during their discussion of ."Give 1.26 for 1.000.000 bushels." The hoarse paid In July, 1868. The cheapest wheat that household economics the item, d cry only fed the flame of frenzy, and succesbag was $1.04, and there was no corner. year of flour, 90 centsVhe said: sive bids of 1.26, 1JJ7 and 1.28 seemed-- but ; In September, 1888, the high price was $2 has gone "up!" .. to Increase the fur of every broker on th ;imatfXour and the low prioe 71 cents In the month of floor in the - "Teslhat! what the effort to buy.- "despairing Patten grocer said; on the April, TherJowest-price-ever-reac- hed jOa&Illlogaril the rlwsinn hum, as urn inr- rgg-boar- d suptnn yss ,g0 - iety of the "shorts' grew greater, a broker "raised himself up out of the flirhtlnr During the corners engineered by .Lelter, . ;..,.r. , , r.... waving-hl- a .niob.aad, clenched fist yelled; JLQJd speculators, twenty-nine.- " There was stillness for !LPrpbabljio r"bulge"i ln wheat tvef affected prices never held at the high points but a "One the' one Jnstant it took the clamoring aeekers all classes; of people more than the one said short time and the corners usually fell of their ot graih to realize hat that meant: then in to be engineered by James A. Patten, the Chi. own corner tPatten speculative weigh- The greater volume ascended the roar as from onu cago Speculator, : f v;;-- -;; Mr. Patten and his foUowers say the situa- 7tllBtlie' came the orus: nerye,jjiilUi-iamions.ehiIiiB7-wu stamp TSfaesra! brf tSe assertion has alwava stemmed thA t!1 of th onmlflni -- Brown's .Cottage", I at AkranpOZT It Kansas was the. race course. Sons soon became Involved There were plenty of them, for John Brown was twice married, and was the father often children. It was a hard, uphill fight they waged against great . odds, . at Its "height While1 the battle-was' border ruffians destroyed the crops of John Brown, as well, as his farm a rt buildings. One of Ills nvunber was ruth-f Issly murdered, while ; another went ; Insane, a prisoner In the hands of the ! enemy. Immediately - Brown aban ' doned his Essex county home." hurry tug1 to thtmseqe iBrais flock. By him i forces were routed many But It was, at Osawatomie that John Brown one August many years age . scored his greatest Victory. There been, a game fight which will al "ways Uve la history. " For' four years the struggle continued. At its con - elusion a free state constitution was .and - sons-in-la- ;r s rae-ceedi- " UtttiE f I1 II pro-slave- tNA. Alt of January.- 1861,.:;:?:iiiL-- lion - c ManyjdtieajanditownaJn10hIoI rT sons-iu-Iaw- - their fact that hitherto he bad exhibited a fondness for newspaper men. ; ".Then May wheat dropped. But with the of Mr. ; Patten, the July- - edition of the and gralnbegan.-oar-- r out that the corner was on in that month's grain. the May delivery having been effected frJjC-fetfTl-liP- and day.-wh- lle Jim Patten did and before iw8nanr rPTwirt. rs became too pernicious in their activities agionaliy-kbeurA- to-f- ac t- -. ne seemed to like to talk. But when the great deaths at Harpers Ferry. T07 the i Jeff ersonc4 ; countyZaitTaT olty dailies began to Jump' upon Win editorCharleston Brown and his surviving ially, and. when Secretary of Agriculture Wilwere- taken. - Afterward son" declared that there was no reason "why wheat should sell at $1.30 per bushel, be- - they were indicted for treason and In v citing an - insurrection- - Murder convictions (allowed. Brown's' execution ke:tarked--b- ut purr.edjpjFjtMaireremher ar l&5H ?nl la atoposyllables. " " In lfie iittie "ill awajr .Before adopting the sphinx- attitudeh4 gave cemetery at North Elba, after a fitting Jbeen"lohgrln"terviewfthe gist of which" bWen-dell 9ulogy-hpronounced Is as as the day he gave It out timely at were, displayed Flags Phillipsm .i in Ohio on the day of It follows: - Brown's execution. Places of business '"I'm only a farmer rube. I don't know any. were closed and church; bell jwere thlno bur Aeat,"ut!manlIl.tlt-voutolted.rEeu special Bervlces were wfiiatTf rom the start Corner the market 1 Neheirmvtrr3SniWe-w held in many of the cities of wheat: 1 tell you it Is an Imoossibilitv. The V ern BtsXe3.;jr-xSE;::" That was a long time" ago, John idea that my movement In grain sent prices " Pro wnV stood: deeds Ma victories" and up is sbiord. Ths price of grain, i In everyas 1 do is his execution have almdst been; for- thing ele you know it to of arid ds- law the sccording gauged this supply the And month month, bs gotten. won hla greatest fiht, his gravere-maln- mand. The reason whest went higher than ' ever before because the country Is undecorated. He,. sleeps unknown". In the little short on wheat. The United States bureau of f cemetery t Ellmi - -- . TatteoTwrS body-wa4- aid - the-wr- ltr & to-da- y :t; ii;--iff- half-ma- 4 tke.-nortn- 't I -- - on n,m,m finn1. 'y supported Thexsel; jgjygglliiyf butts--..Wot'01d : nt - s " -- re-tu- rn bank each the Patten" lrrrTTntoIIhe was closing out Its May wheat That is what tributed their share to help ffe0"Kansas, Nebraska and the contiguous ritory from the curse of slavery. It cost the lives of 13 of Brown's eons - ..tllU ' bad delegate adopted for rNebraskat convention. The state was 'not admit ted to the union,' however, until, the "withdrawal of the southernjenatort to engage In the slaveholders' rebel- CV. i -'.'- - - ill y ' , " .it prlce-waaJZlce- 5 "24-poun- t VnZL. -- r"tfi" flfahw 1 Jiutch-aiul.ther-Chica- " go r "TtTT Pi HLJMl-JS-C- say that the: real wheat Is scarce that the .world; is. short millions of bushels, compared with normal; that it has been short for prac- - on the market with such an abandon that the timid bears were forced, JtOitOver. and fall in line with the bulls.1 CBut it heaf' utilely against the gray Vails. The market in wheat" was apparently . "cornered.". !jr , Outside in the rotunda a heavy-se- t twinkling-eye- d man: sat s in a chair," tilted back" against a, columh beside the fruit stand of "Appl Mary," calmlyand Joyously sucking an orange. ; grteuture2iayt-Jherei1spIentyof-whe- at "o" ; - ueiore iney Devrin onprftTinna Arto nnA In the United States,' huge speculative ball to rolling starting One authority says thai thefeLwereJirtually -- v.vvv.vvw uiwe. ousnew wneai ai ine croso one has money and - nerve enough, for the ti tl., - - s. - as-we- s T MA. " Curious ones fronj filtered down to gaze at him from a distance, while excited s . brokers prices.1 rusho4-out-to-te- ' 'Itwas the ' "hinromie'sbarte ' ' ; r new.MKing of the PILM J ; - j ' --