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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEEKLY 1 T Jto. J‘Pi MACON. GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 12. 181H. J WrpUlT,*i.o°.Ve«r. I 1 Siii^lx «.up* t FL.C.ul^r AT THE PLAY. Amid a multitude we «At alone. Br friendly half-lights screened from wonder* ing g*z«: Hand clasped in band we watched the stage ablaze Tfitb rainbow Br?a—saw Richard to hia throne Etrlde through his kinsmen's blood, to lose at T i-r ^ life i eyed oul. What traglo forces This world in connterflet! Yet undismayed. Half in a dream we saw the scenes shift past; And when the curtain fell upon the striie Wc turned and smiled into each other’s eyes With uuchecked love—as uuder broader skies, W hen this strange pageantry which we call life Har fitted by, somewhere we two shall sit Together, smiling at the close of it. lone Kent, in Boston Transcript. IS IT A MAN? BY J. M. BAKkIP: “Hhe is, r ’ I agreed. “Hal’’ he exclaimed. “You too, were struck by it? But she impresses every one in the same way. The management pay her a princely salary, but ahe ie gotten the night l neara n years ago, | worth it. Did you hear how that man in had flung it away, so to speak, with the 1 the pit laughed over her lines about hand bills be gave me at the same time, uJ —• 1 but the wording on the tombstone I came upon his grave quite accident ally a few weeks ago while taking a short cut through the cemetery of an unlovely His name I had for- years ago, provincial town. His name I gotten the night I heard it y« bread and cheese and kissea? 1 wonder who be is?" “What salary doee she get?" I asked, with the curiosity of a theatre goer. "They say," he replied, looking at me sharply, “tht»t she gets £80 a week.” Hem!" 1 said. He coughed. "What a carriage she has?" he exclaimed and then waited for callsd his story to mas* vividly as if it wsi a long-lost friend whom 1 had sud denly struck against. I laughed at the story when he told it to me, hut when I rend it on the tombstone 1 wondered why 1 bad UugU»d. Wo only met once, and it waa in Lon- 1 don at the theatre. His stall adjoined me to agree. mine. When his lips were at rest he “Wonderful!” I said, for I never «u s melancholy looking little man, but | trediot a man who is in love, frequently he spoke to himself and then . “You think she has a wonderful ill character went out of his face. For j ring#?” he asked, as if I had put the idea s time he paid no attention to the acting, into his head. “Yes, you are quite sad I thought bis melancholy wae but right, I shall toll her you remarked on the shadow that lies on the face of the it." fairly intelligent who are compelled to > “You know her personally?" •re the same modern play twice. It ij . “I have that honor," he replied with heavy on those who sit in the orchestra dignity. “Candidly, now, is not her elo- cr sell programmes, and the dramatic t cution superb?” critics bring it with them into the bous* “It is," I said, Presently, however, 1 had to change my j “1 agree with you," he answered, “and cind about iny little neighbor. I you have used the one word that prop- lie sat up excitedly in his seat, rubbed . erly describee it, Superb! Yes, that is his bands nervously on his iroticers, and j the very word. I shall tell her yoa said leaning in my direction peered, not at the j superb. I see you know acting, sir, etsge, but at the wings. I heard him ; when you see it. Not that I would call mutter: “Hercue in a moment, and I it acting. Would you call it acting?" don’t see her!" 11a looked around the "Certainly not,” I answered recklessly, house as If to signal to everybody that hut hoping he would not ask me to give something was about to buppen, and it a name then I noticed his feet begin to beat the j "No." he said, “it is not acting. It is doors instiuctively, andhisono palm run j simply genius." to tho other. Next moment the heavy I "Genius,” I said from memory, “is a father whispered to tho old and there- ; the talents in a nutshell." fore comic spinster: "But not a word of , “Hal" he cried, “that is how yo this to my daughter; here she comes." would describe her? All the talents in Tho heroine of the piece sailed on io nutshell! Wbat a capital lino for the ad- the stage with tears for her father and vrrtisemento. All the talents in a nut ■miles ti* tut audience, end, -• I thought. • she!!! I shall tell her you said that one quick glance for my neighbor. His ' her." feet pattered softly on the Hoot, aa a j He lowered his voice. 'Tress/' b< sign for the audience to cheer, hut th*y . asked with some awe. 1 shook my reluctant, and after she had given 1 *■* * them sn imploring glance she began to ■peak slowly, as one saying to herself batwtto hsr spoken words: “1 arn still qaito willing to stop if you will applaud me.” And she was applauded, for my csighbor’s feet at last set others agoing, sad then she curtseyed and watted for more, and then we all beeame energetic. The little man had been breathing quick In his excitement, but now he heaved a greet sigh of relief and whispered to me in exultation, "What a reception the C'Relllv has got, sir, and quite spontan eous ’ The same thing occurs every “Got friends on the press?" he next in quired. “Yes,” I said, remembering that a pressman owed me £3. “Critics?" “I shouldn’t wonder. "Then,” he ssld oagerly^ “put them up to that line. *Aii tne laionta in snui- shell.' Or stop—would you mind giving me their private address?" “Uufortunslely, I cannot" “That is a pity, beesuso if you could nee your way to a par, 1 think 1 might bo . . _ able t'» introduce you to the O'KaUly, night, svery night, every night Ilush! Jtut she is very particular?" you will see acting now. i “You are an enthusiast ab lie had sdsacod me when I was about I remarked, to aik bins if he was here every night. 1 i “Who could helo It." ho answered. “I rut baa down as an ardout admirer of • have watched hsr career since she was— Miss O'Reilly, and had further evidence ou my soul, sir, since she wae nobody In during the Hrst act that one man may particular. There was a time when th it lead the applause, as a conductor leads woman was no more famous *>>an you the orchestra. When Mine llelmsley en- are. You were speaking of her genius a tersd and some pitites began to cheer my minute ago, hut would you believe it, neighbor cried: “Sh— sh,’’ so fiercely that she rose from tho ranks, positively rose the demonstration stopped abruptly, and from the ranks?" MUe llelmsley withdrew her curtsey. If I had swooned at this his • hands When tha heavy father paused in the 1 would have been ready to catch me, but i..: Idle of hia lung speech toi ^ “hind" I kept my senses. ‘The first time 1 ever set eyes on her,” , he began, “was M Dublin, where we had both been engaged for pantomime. “Yes, that woman once played in panto mime, and what is more, she was only second girl. That is a strange thing to think of. I was the first villain. l)eep- dyeo, and the Shamrock said of my crea tion: 'Another part admirably rendered is the Deepdyeo of Mr. James Thorpe, better known to fame as Jolly Little Jim. Mr. Thorpe, who was received »ith «n nvstinn. 1 ’’ ‘But vou were to tell me of Mis* O'Reilly,” I reminded him. “Ah,’’ he said, "I shall never forget that first meeting. It took plaee st re hearsal, and when I left the theatre that afternoon 1 was a changed man." You fell in love with her at first ight?” “Not absolutely at first sight. You s, I was introduced to hor before the rehearsal began, and there was r.o oppor tunity of falling in love with her then.” “Still she had*irnpressed you?” "How could she impress mo before 1 had seen her do anything? What is it a woman that one falls in love with?" “Wi o can tell?" 1 asked ‘‘Anybody oan tell,” he nnswered, put ting me down for a bachelor. “It is the genius in her, or, rathsr, what wo con» eider genius, for many men make a mis take about that." “So you loved her genius?” ''Whit firat struck me wae her exit. I suppose I may say that I fell in love ith it at onca Thon she sang, only (■ verse, but it was enough. I.ster eh« danced, and that, sir, was a revelation. 1 knew the woman wsa a genius. By the time the pantomime was in fu!l ving she was the only womin in the orld for me.” “And she had fallen in love with your genius, too?" I could not be certain. You nee, we were not on speaking teems. She was so jealous." “But that," I said, "is recognized as sign of love. No doubt she wanted you entirely to hersolf. Who was the lady?” What lady ?” he asked in surprise. 'The lady Miss O'Reilly was jealous of," 1 said. “I never said she waa jealous of a lady, though of courae she would be jealous of the principal girl. I spoke of my- •elf." “But how,” I questioned, “could she be jealous unless she thought you wore paying attention to some other woman ?’ f "Oh, he said, with slow enlightenment, “I see what you mesa, but you don't SM jealous. Of rather of toy song. You may not l>o aware that in pantomime we are allowed to choose our own songs. Weil, it so happened that she and I both wanted to aing the same song. It waa an exquisite thing, called 'Do You Think When You Wink ?' and, as 1 had applied for permission to sing It first, she was told to select something else. That waa why •be did not speak.” “But, if you loved her,” I said, speak ing. it is true, on a subject oi knew little, “you would surely havo consented to waive your rights to the song. Love, it is said, delights in aelf- •acriflce." “No doubt," ha admitted, “but you know the lines, '! could not love you. dear, so much, loved I not honor more.* Weii, my nonor was at staks, for I had promised my admirers at Dublin, and they were legion (see the Shamrock for January 13, 1883), to sing that song. And u»j fame wits ei stake &i Well an ®J honor, for I crested quite a furor with'l>o "ou Think When You Wink?" "Still," 1 iuslaied, "love is all power ful" 1 admit it," he nnswered, "and what ia more, 1 proved it, for after I had sung the song a week 1 transferred it to her." Did she sing It as wall aa you had to Londi sold toy for then: “And sumed?" “No, l i. 1 pawned my watch and ur coat, end shared what 1 got with her?” bo the engagement was re- ); that was merely c friendly act, and it was accepted as such. The engagement was not tesiimed unul I got a ‘par’ about her into a Sunday paper. But that is the bell again. 1 shall tell you the rest after her death scene.” 1IL Miss O'Reilly disd as slowly as the management would allow her, aud when b« had gasped her last gasp, with her mir dojvn, Jolly Little Jun that was led he tears and the cheer*, scried out: 'Superb, by Jove! that woman has all he talents in a nutshell," and strutted from the stalls in a manner inviting to the rest of the audience to follow. But everybody, save Mr. Thorpe and myself, remained io see the comic man produce the mining will, an l so my littlu friend and I got tho smoking room to ureelves. “The next time we were on lour to gether," bo continued, after I had given the death scene a testimonial, "was in ‘Letters of Fire,* with a real stuaui cn gine. I was Hill KoJy, the returned convict, and the Roche-ter Age said: “ *Mr. Thorpe, whoa* Jolly Little Jim, made such a ” “The engagement was resumed by this time?" I asked. “I told you the ‘par’ had done that. Uoivaver, we had another tiff during rehearsals, because I got th> epilogue to spoak. 1 dare any that would have led to a runture had not '* “Had not she loved you so deeply ?” I suggested. “She loved me fondly," he replied, “but she lottd fame more. Every trm , No, the raa on sh* did nt i mo then was that 1 wa« ‘on* in her great scene in the fourth act. You see. a- chief comedian, l had a right to a iiftio comic byplay in fl at scene, and if I bad exercised that right, I should huve drawn away attention from hei. Thus 1 had tbi* whip hand of her. I am inclined to think that had I pressed the point I could hnve married her during the run of that “The play will end in a minute,”1 said, "llow did you win her?" “1 offered," ho replied, with emotion, “to give up my profession and devote myself to furthering her fame,” “And to live on her'?’ 1 said, aghast. “You who do not understand art may put it that way," he replied, “but she realized the sacrifice I was making for her sake and doubted my love no longer. Was it nothiug, sir, to give up ay fame, to give up the name I wae known by all over England (as the Torquay Chat saidl, amt sick to tne level ot tnoee who nave never beer, mentioned by the papers? Why, you yourself had forgotten the famous Jolly Little Jim." “llis voice was inexpressibly mourn ful, and 1 felt that 1 really had been iLiening to a love romance. The last three huurs, too, had shown me that Mr. Thorpe was leaponsible for some of the fame of bis wife, “The management allowed me to re tire without the usual fortnight's notice, and so the marriage took place on the day we had previously arranged it for.” “Had you a pleasant honeymoon?” I asked. “In one sense,” he replied, “we had no honeytaoon, for she played that night as usual. But in another sense it hsa been ONEOK WAR’S WORST FKUDS REIGN OF TRAGEDY FOLLOWING THE CONSCRIPTION ACTS. The VI nr* pi. tl augli of Tr ee Inspired “Bill** Parker l« Terrible Heveu^e- % Score • I Vlurders, a ho , for v > the interest in her,” I ventured to y, "was very natural, but it rau*t have time?” Except during business hours, of course?" “From the time I rise until midnight.” “Thro you have no profession/' “That is my profession?” “Whr.t/’ “The interest I take in hsr," “And did you never.Io anything else?" I asked, beginning to envy the little i his fathsr. At once the melancholy look of which I have spoken cams back to his face. “1 used to be in the profession myself, * he said, sighing. “1 am Jolly Littl Jim.” lie did not look it at that moment. “You have forgotten me, I see," he said, dolefully. “Think a moment. Jolly Little Jim was the name." “I sin afraid I never heard It.” I had to admit. “Nonsense!” he answered testily. “Everybody knew that name once. I got no other, though my real name is Jamas Thorne. Why, I advertised as Jolly Little Jim. You must have heard to help him on bis way ho would have got it but for the "sh—eh” of the little ^ J man. When the conu-dian nudged the taken up a good deal of y • , !*riy spinster in the ribs, which is bo» “All my time." he said. Ministers are made love to on the stage, some ladies gigglad, but u»y neigh bor looked at them with a faoe that •aid: “There is nothing funny in that,” and they restrained their mirth. But when Miss O’Keiliy snatched the •mokiog cap from Leonard aud put it co her own fiaxen bead he chuckled till tbs whole audience admitted the (uu of It. and when Mms O'Reilly told Lord John to stand bark and 1st hsr pass my neighbor brought down the house, and when the curiam fell on the first act h-» ihouted “O’Reiliy” until we wore all in fected. Not not uutil he had her be fore tbs curtain would he retire, and then it was to speak about her to m* The exchange of a veeta introduced us to each other. “You have seen the piece before/' I •iked, with tho good nature that is born of a cigarette, 1 had already sufiiclent interest in him to wonder who be waa "The piece/’ he ecnoed indifferently. “Oh, yee,” I have seen the greater part of it frequently,” “llow does it end?” He shrugged his shoulders, "Perhaps I have,” I replied, pitying “I don’t know," he answered con- his distress, temptuously. 1 always walk out of the • ..jf T0U would care to read my press house just before the last tableau. ; notices." ha hr-gan, putting his hand into “Is Miss O'Reilly not on the stage in ^ih | M >cket, “I can ” that tableau /* I ssksd. “Not tonight." I interposed hurriedly. “■''he ia not," he answered, rapping out j »»i ,. ftn repeat most of them," he said an oath or two and trembling with rage, brightly. “Did you ever hear of anything so mon- “(father tell ms why you gave up a txous? She is leadi ng lady, the idol of profession.” I said, “which you doubtless the town, and yet she is not on at the horned.” end. Excuse ms, sir, 1 am always taken “Thank vou” ha answered again, this way when 1 think of iL” pressing m'v hand. “Well, sir, the He bit his cigarette in two and asked O’Reilly haathe responsibility for that." fer soother v*eta. Then ha explained: “You gave up acting because it inter- "bhe diee, you know, in the middle of, fere ,j w j t h your interest in her/’ the set.” “You tmy put it in that way. I gave “Ah, that accounts for it,” l said. up everything for hsr. If that w. “Not at all,” he retorted, “she ought ,,j r> had asked me to choose between her not to die until tha takleau. And if she an d my press notices 1 believe I should hsl to die then that should have been have burned them.” the tableau. What do people come to ; “How has she rewarded you?" I asked, 10 ***'' i l bat he was of a communicative The play,* I suggssted. nature. I ooh, tho play!" he sneered. “There “She married me.” he answered, draw er* twenty plays to be seen nightly at , ng himself up to his full height “Yes, Jast End thsstres.bul only one O’Reilly. I am hor husband!” They come to «ee the O’Reilly, sir. and it j t was 1 who shook his hand this time, 1* defrauding the publio to let hsr die a | CO uld think of nothing else to do. He moment before the and." ■ was beginning his story, when the bell "htlll," I mid, “ih* author—" I tinkled, warning us to return to our '“•haw!” he broke in. "Who thinks 1 i#a t*. of the author? He could easily have j “She is on immediately," he said, “eo brought^ down the ourtam on the we mu ,t co back and give her a recep- ' Reilly’s death, and I am confident he j t j 00t ri| meet you here again after the meant to do it. But Helmelev u the j ^ood act.” ttanr.gement’s mace and insisted on be- i — log the only lady in lb* tableau. You i H. toticed that llelmsley was a complete “Duriug the second act Mr. Thorpe be- frost? I distinctly heard soma one bias* haved as previously, drinking in Miss »ng her.” O'Reilly's every word, cheering her c “Ho did I," I said smiling, for the some ings and goings, and yawning tand even •••had been himself. ! reading a newspaper) when he should “You heard it, too/’ he cried auda* have been listening to Mus llelmsley. c ou ly. “Thank you, sir,” he said, and once I saw him make a note on his pro- ’ *°ok ms warmly by the hand. gramme and felt sure it was 'All the tab "The O'Reilly herself," lie added, "had *uU ia a nauhal!.’ I started him on his r.o*uhtobsoo lu the tableau, but she , story aa soon as he joined me in the knew the public would expect It. bho is ( smoking room. He had remained in hia womaa, that, auf i aaet to shout; *0 RaiUy!’ don Thi was a mighty struggle within Leforo he could reply, hut when he did speak he was magnificent. “She sang it far belter than I," he said firmly, and then winced. "It wsa a great saciiucayou made,” I said gently, “hut doubtless it had Us re ward. Did she give you hsr hand in ex change for the song?" “No,” he answered, “we were not mar ried until a year after that. She wsa grateful to me, but soon we quarreled again. Tiic fact it that I took a call which she insisted was meant for her. She felt that disappointment terribly—indeed, she has not got over it yet. She csnuoi speak about it without crying.” “You mean,” I said, “that you vears ago deprived her of the piivilege of curt- eeying io an audience? Surely ab* would not let that prey on her mind?" “You don’t understand." he replied, that fame is food and drink to an artist. It waa months before the forgave that, though she is uaturally the it tender hearted creature. Our baggage man stole £50 front her, ind she woulc not prosecute him because she knew hii ter. But you see it wai not money 1 deprived her of, it was fame." "And you did win your way tiack into hsr frvor,” I asked, “by letting|her hive a ’call’ thab waa meant for you ?” “No,” hs said. “Several times I deter- mined to do so, but when the moment came I could not make the sacrifice. I •pant about half my salary in presents to har, but though she took them she refused to listen to any propovai of mar riage. By thi* time 1 had confessed my love for her. Well, we parted and soon afterward I got an engagement as chief comedian in the ’i'owder Monkey* Com pany, which was then on tour. She was playing chambermaid in it. Fancy that woman Hinging herself away on cham bermaids ! I made a bi,; hit in my part. The Lincoln Observer said: “Mr. James Thorpe, the celebrated Jolly Little Jim, “But about Miss O'Reilly/’ I asked. 4 We got on swimmingly at first, ’ he sau. “She had decided to forgive you?" “No, she was stiff the first day, but I put her up to a piece' of business that used to be encored nightl}, end then she accepted my offer of marriage. But a week after I had givan her the engage ment ring »)& returned it to nta. 1 oon’t blame her." "You admit that she had jnat cause of complaint against you?" "Yea, no woman who was sn artist could have stood it. Ths fact is that one night 1 took the ‘up’ side of her in our comic love scene That ia to say. I had my face to the audience, and so she was forced to torn her back to them. I had no right to do it, but a eert of mad ness came over ms and I yielded to the impales. As soon as «« had made our exits she Hung the ring in ray—ah ahe gave me back the ring, and for the renctinder of the tour shs was not civil to ms. The tour ended abruptly, indeed, the manager decamped owing piece.’ “By threatening, i* she del artel the wedding, to indroduce comic businosi into her great aceuo/' "Yes, but 1 did not, aud you are no doubt wondering why. The fact is, I thought my self-denial would softri her heart and so bring about tho results 1 wav pining for, Perhapa it would have done so, but unfortunately ‘Letters of Fire* did not draw (thougu a great sue - cess artistically) and hs had to put 'Lon don Slums' on in its nlsre. In that place the leading juveniie'piayed U p to her so well that che began to neglect me. 1 was in detpair, and so not quite accountable for my actions. Nevertheless you will think the revengo I look as cold-blooded as it seemed toiler. You must under stand that, though our pieces were sol6tididly billed, tho O’Reilly had fifty chroinos of bervelf done at her own expense and all trained. These she got our agent in advance to exhibit in doubtedly they added to her fame. They preceded us by ■ week, and so she wa.v ell known Iwfore we opened anywhere, Well, sir, I got fifty chronics of myself framed, and ten days before w« were due at hhetfudd I had ihem pul into fifty barber shop* (here.” •‘Why harbor shop*/' 1 iuierposed. “Because (her are most seen and die iwed there,” tie explained. “!t coniCi natural ton man when tie it being shave talk about what is on at the theatr* *. tan't say why that is no, but so it ia Perhaps ore renson is that harlwrs are arly always enthusiastic on rn'itters of L Well, if there is it goo-' chromo in tho shop, of course it conies in for its •bare of disctnaion, and the barber tells what parts yon have played before,and so great help. However, the O'Reilly no sooner heard wnat I had dons than she told me all was over be tween us." Still," I said, “the t arhers would have had room for her picture a* well an for t same interest, the seme joys, the same sorrows." "That is to say, you have both only her fame to think of now? May I ask, did she for whom you made such a sacrL tics make any sacrifice for you?" "She did indeed." he answered. “For four weeks she let her nsme he printed in lbs bills thus: Miss O'Koilly (Mrs. James Tnorpe), though to have it known by the public that she u married is against act rest" “And you are happy in your new oc patlon?” ■'V ery happy,” he answered cheerfully, end very proud." Then with a heavy sigh he added: “But I wish people would reruomtwr Jolly Little Jim.” There was really something pathetic about the man, but before l could tell a lie and say that I now rttnembeied Jolly Little Jim perfectly, the audience hegac. to applaud, and Mr. Thorpe, thrusting some bills into my hands, hurried back to the stalls to shout “O’Keiliy !" As I have said, I never met him again or thought of him until 1 found myself nt his grave. Thu is the inscription on the tombstone: family. 1 h» yoiin K m.i„ 'tlm " | L, i h/ ?<?<> k would never rest until lie hud ki Vd ten man £hll.?n’.k “ So “ ,h,rn of ill. lending Colon men of ih„ ‘ | h " b , 6r3r 'V 16 ,n ref.notion for the murder of hi. friend I lennej^. SoTo" ? mlu furi.. ”whh Ill. u.*irtt“r IhrbtoSd'Sf outof e "xiB,enc« bou ?? tlol<1 ' -w#re "‘P*} Lie employer's political f.i. 0 ',?' | ?£'ShuT STSST"- purnc ory of THE KAMti tr.lLLY, Poor Mr. Thorpe! There was some thing lovable about him. The O'Reilly might have put on bis tombstone: “Better known as Jolly Little Jim." It would have gratified him. a qtaiH *pook. A Mtranis Kiysrln “1 got the best places,” he answered, hero is this, too, io consider: the more chromos there are to look at the less nt-' teulion doors any particular une get, end •he held that if 1 loved her truly 1 would not have stopped in, as it were, Ixdweon her and the public. She 'did noi got a reception that opening night at Sheffield, and of course she gave mo the Idutite. It seriously af.’eclsd her health.” “Hut you made that quarrel up?” “Not for three week* Then she gave in. Instead of my going to her, she rami to me ami offered to renew me engage tuent if I would withdraw niy chr»mo«." "Which you did gla By, of course?” “I took a night to think of it. You who are not sn artist cunnot conceive how I loved my chromos. Did I toll you what 1 had printed beneath them, 'Yours very sincerely, Jolly Little Jim/ How ever, I did yield to her wishes, and we wtro to be married at Newcastle, when a terrible thing happened. At Newcastle, air, I made my last ap|>e,iranco on the sioge.” Mr. Thorpe tu* >d his face from me until he recovered command of it. Then • •fa Promt weal ■law. From the Athena Ledger. On a dark stu'inv night during the fifties, Dr. Henry Tootmiz, city physi cian nt Ctiarlesion, was making hia wav on horseback to the side of s friend’s wife, who was vary sick, and he hod to travsl fourteen mdse up lb* old George town mad. After erosting Oody Pond, he gave ;.s«Nctalstssd Use Haas, ea he wae now r-llinhing a round hill, and waa soon h>at in a deep study. Suddenly bis horse shitd, and on looking up hn found laid tnown os ''Wapetom burial ground,” and where his family had been buried since 1042. large live* oaks com pletely hid out the moonlight, and the lonely > arohna uioas trailed from tho oak limbs waving iti the gentle biee/», mak ing the place e grand and fitting place for tho burial of the noble tuen and women of this grand old slate. Imagine Dr. Toomer’s surprise in look ing up to see a large * hite object stand ing ou the fiat toint) of his mother (low ing to him. As lue lightning would flash across the number of while tombs and the distant thunder would echo through the dense forest and ths ram come |M>uruig down for a few momenta Of all the bloody episodes in the history of the Southern Omfederary none is mere replete with tragedies tbnu the history of "Bill” Parker, ih«* T« nuesn a outlaw. Tho story has its U guming in the conscription acts of the Confederate government. T he world will never know mil the horrors that grew out oi ihe en forcement of these acta m reg.ons wh* re the popular element whs stionglj in ta- vor of the Union, i s was the cam in the mountain counties of i ;.-t I'em issue. In the civil war, l nion men, arrested and forced against their own principles and contrary to their protests into the ranks of a dsspised cause, did not blame the Confederate congress to much as they did the local home officer, instrumental in ths enforcement of the publ especially when that local h<*me officer was the neighbor and kinsman of the men to be arrested. In East Tennessee, where the public sentiment was so vio lently opposed to sese-aion, the individ ual life of the conscript ht nters in many instance*, soon or late, atoned for the enforcement of public decree. The acts of revsnge did not always et.d with a single tragedy. One conepicuoue chapter in thoee annals of blood an I revengo relates to the outlawry of a young man named Parker. A Caf.t. Waugh was an officer in the “enrolling bureau” of the Confederacy. In the discharge of his official duties it frequently liecame necessary for him to cause the arrest and imprisonment, or the sending to the 'ront for soldier duty, of men who were his old personal friends and neighbors, bitterly opposed to the war and more bitterly opposed to the Confederacy, Among other arrants man* by men acting unu^r bis authority in 1803 or 1803 was that of an old friend and comrade, Lafayette Jones, a young gen tleman of many excellent parts, lie was a newspaper mis of talent, genial, clever and engaging in manner. He and Waugh were intimate friends, and were members of the same set ret shirty. When Jones was arrested,or captured, within the Confederate lines in Tennessee he had on his person some greenback currency, an army pistol and a number of letters and other papers showing that he was not only a sympathizer with ths Federal government, if not in its secret service, but that he was carrying into (be Confederacy contraband mat er. In short, he wax found t<> he engaged in arts considered by th»* Confederate authori ties "treasonable. ” Jon* a asserted be was s Federal officer, or in the Fed eral service openly, and that he should be treated as s prisoner of war at worn’. He wsstheralore sent t*» Richmond, Vs., made no secret of hit the threat sp days after the tragedy B eve Union sympathies in the country ..-.w found dead, shot down in tho highway, Bill Parker could find them. Murder after murder followed, Parker leaving information in the various neighbor hoods, through which he swifily went, that it was now Parker’s time for killing. No one knew when or where ho was go ing. and he had his secret biding places where he could not Le trapped or caught One of his victims was a blood cousin of ('apt. Waugh’s widow, an innocent man, shot down as ho lied from t ho as sassin in his fields. But ho was i ntrong Union man, and that was enough for Parker to know. Re bunted for Union men. Ho had given notice, wh-n ho I render, could do so with impunity, that ho wh ; going to have hii ten mon, hut that hi ioutdpick thorn as it suited his purpone nd that ho would tnko his own u *rk. Ho defied ,„„ ■ i . . ; - region, kill, nim Among other victims oi Parker’s wrath A few wero the father and grown son in an- of | other household near Capt. Waugh’s the a ling. ; Hi. plied: same time lusting; go on he ruust, yet was impossible to make the steed budge one inch, it was mip..»*ible to turn o on either side, as tliu graveyard fen> prevailed; to turn back never one* ei tered his mind, and all the time he urged hi« aleed forward with the spurs and words. Becoming desperat. the delay, knowing time was of the ut most importance in such a case of sirk< r.ess, he drew hit pistol and as th** light- tu%wm wt ning once more showed him the eirauge | Suddenly'Th Tbuodor. When Jones was the contraband ar it might reuin “Ida gi ••id he had ear vn iwneem. * ( apt, Waugh that if he |>ersisi Ing the ni ney »‘.e woul ' h- Id •red an fn.ffvtdual robbery, ;u that if he ever scoured hi* Jib vou id travel ■ thousand in lg <lis(to seesed of he lieggidtll.'t back*,' «Ire - , h sent w ord to his friends that h would have to meet his own fate but that he would not be stopped in his 1 1- career by either friend or foe until the J ten men he had selected had fallen. No one save Idmseif know whom he had con- | deni tied. No one, sa\o a few of hia own 1 mother's household, l.new where ha made Ins hiding places. Armed squads of men I could not find him. No oue man could be induced to seek for him. Tho Southern people hid become alarme !, Thu as*n»Mii seemed endowed with wings—ao swiftly and *o unexpect edly ho went from place f<* place. Ho was here today, and tomorrow, while ho was being hunted by armed bodies of men, he would kill another victim twenty miles away. Public feeling at last roso to such a pitch that it was determined that Parker lould bo hunted down and killed, co t hat it might lie was outlawed. A thousand vows were regLtoroU that “Bill" Parker must be found aud put out of existence. After a long and fruitless search an pediPon In pursuit of the outlaw came upon him somewhat unexpectedly. He saw that he was outnumbered, and would be overpowered, and he tied. He had not yet killed the tenth man though, lacking by one or two of the number. He was on horseback. It w« more than p race for one fife, for death stared tn the face both pursued and pursuer. Mile niter mile iu the open highway the fight was kept un, Parker, doubtless, intent on saving his fire for close quarters. The pursuers discharged their guns an heat they could. Finally some of the party got within goo I range and tired. The outlaw's horse fell, but the rider was seen to enter a thicket near by. Examinations of the surroundings showed that tftc outlaw himself mut I have heon bit a* well ns bin horse, for there was a plain bloody trail that le 1 directly from the horse into the woods into which the man had been seen to run. This trail was followed by the armed men away into a high and nigged mountain range nesr by—* wildertt* mbmMmh fag more than tan miles tu ot direction and for about tour to tl other across the range. Hexf-h waa cos'.day after dn with the utmost caution, but Park. Nor were these all the tragedies result ing from the Jones and Parker murders. 3 he friends of the men assassinated by Parker visited swift retaliation upon the family of tho outlaw—every male mem ber who did not flee tho state being hanged or shot in revenge. The killing of Capt. Waugh led to the violent taking nw„y 0 f iifteou or twenty others. Union or .Southern in sentiment,of both parties. It has boen stated that more than forty- live men lost their lives in mur ders and assassinations in that ono county (Johnson) in East ler.nosxee in the course of the war and aliatiou Immediately after the sur- r. The nuc'he.-n were about lly divided between the Mcenoioa <* I and union sympathizers. S I Long after the war closed, one of ths 1 men engng-d in the robbery of ( apt. Be j Waugh's widow and fainilv and of the he leaders in the a^asnination, and a blood relative of Mr. Waugh, was killed by s u n companion in a drunken revelry. Nearly every action in th# tragedy has passed away, the end coming with vio lence or in insanity. KIDD’* TRKASl'RB. A Sunken CJsIlros Discovered Near Cioat Island, Newport. t> A Newport, R. I., dispatch to the nicg Journal says: A w*s< ago the ng claaa attached to the Tor(>edo Motion stumbled by chance on an old hich lies in about five fathoms est side of Gent Inland. Hines that time a diver has been constantly at work upon it, and the conditions and atale of the sunken ship nhow that it has lain there at least 175 years, close on to two centurios. During the week several ancient relies havo been brought to the surface, and there is lug expectation that the mystery will bo a great historical discovery. Two long curronades. both completelv carbonized, have been picked *%«;, and with delicato handling Professor Mrmroe has deciphered the following character, on them: On the first \ Waugh disp« ih. C'.| oner that th his personal claimed a special Exemption at the ban of file old friend. Exiling to secure tl favor, which it was not ; power of that friend tn purling throat waa that he intended to escape from confinement, and that h»* would never reel until he had returned to JeuticKhee and killed Wauglu ( apt. Waugh ei* a fearless mm, and he paid little or no attent'on to any threats made against him. It was quite an every day inath-r for some one to thresteu hia life, and human life seemed very cheap and trivial then to many l bo fu mud a h aud Uloi filings of thor ful «ppe ta* tola The > tho lull in the sto light be only Urn i that lbs man was I Ins wounds aud hs fill thf nded and a year pa ed. bi »tiding; while object bowing t One night, some weeks after Lafayette Jones hau boon sent to Richmond, ('apt. Waugh was nt horns in the act of retir ing, when a noise was heard on the out side. Mrs. Waugh remarked that she relieved “the robbers” were coming, for the who!* country woe infested with rov ing bands of outlaws who made it a bus- of plundering friend and foe alike. . . . , wruuueuly the sound of s gun. fired .'a_*ithrough an opening of the bed chamber, •tunned tha inmates of thi bleat.of a goat: advancing h — .... w found . Ur,, whits K0»tlh»t h.l nuit.n , Vv,“""h ii'.uiltTr‘f.lf’forw»rt. "i "moi opoa hi. moih.r’* tomb to r..ch th. ku ,. d> .. h . „ 1(t , h. „„ ,i..d In .n hanging mots, and gave tut impression o bowing, tiuch ended j erience. Ns n Pearls from Wisconsin. Then thev stole body ot the sis widow and d i L‘" “Two «lays before the marriage was to take place, a Newcastle parer slated her and praised tne. It said: *Miaa O’Reillv ought to take a page out of Mr. Thorpe's book. She sh ould learn from that the action should suit the word, not precede tc Sho should note the facial expression, which ia corn* dy in picture, anti control her own lendrncy to let her face look after itself. She should take note of his clear pronunciatim model her somewhat snappy deiiv iu’ Sir, I read Jhat notice with feeling*. As an artist, 1 could not [ hut <lelight in the complimentary , references to myself, but as a lover 1 .... dreaded ita effect on tLa O’Reilly. After p e-r j, were tne Alums to become ■ m K J rexkfast 1 went to call on her at her' numerous again. There is no means of n » utl lodgings, and happening to pass a num- | climating the value of the pearls taken cer or news soups ou me way i count n«i ; from >ugsr and iVcalomea rivers while resist the temptation to buy at each a j ,»,• excitement lasted, though it would paper with the notice. I conceal# I the j undoubtedly run fur up into the thous- papers about my person, and a* I ap ' ahiia w , ,i 0 | lar ,. ivarls were sold in the preached her door I tried to look dowc. i lllir tr,t here for a!le'>rt*of prices from a CMt. llutllium, iupwMi|r,«..||.. w .hiliti.,. >i|> to ’ u.-.rir hspe she saw ate from her wi' dow ) fi.UOU. due firm in Milwaukee sold three to a New York dealer for fl,tkM), while hundreds *■( others brought prices ranging from $50 to ; instant, with a bullet in hie The next moment the door was burst open and Lafayette Jones, at the head ot tweuty or thirty men, soma of them in blue army clothing, entered the room uttering thouta and curses. Jones rushed to the bedside, saw that his vi< - tim was already dead, an J, as he stood over him. endeavoring to drown the cries of anguish from the stricken wife, to yelled triumphantly old him 1 would kill hii The pearl-fishing craze in Wisconsin, which was at its height in numerous rivers a year ago, seem* to have ended as speeJi)y aa it came. l’earls were found in the clams in many rivers hut none ot any particular value was found, j except iu bugar and Pccatonica riveru, in I b* ve J*° n * ,l - southern Wisconsin. Not only hu ! , l “ P '£ 7 T V®!, b f ihe stock of pearls beeu exhsuAed, hut T* 1 ot Mr \ , “ UkI '' J n , " D the clams have been practically eater- ' ™ey proceed urinated. No good pejris have been riou-o *oa Mt. found for several months. It is the opin ion of dealer- tt at profitable pearling in Wisconsin rivtra is practically ended for 1 ' several generations at least, ss there are in Ih. river, which (r produce pearls, and it will rtquire many , w ‘ l h‘ n yeirs for tho clam, to multiply aufli-1 J «* c . h of " orently. Besides, there is no knowing how 1 iue murdH many years are required to prod •nd I )t tho ouiU hiding place o tt unf.tthuai.ib! tain had bo> lied in vain for b fer liis dead body. hung about his fate. Urie day ,r 1-tiT a party of liuntrrn were going through a little skirt of woods bor- plant on the second 21.36 The ship’s bell was also found and ••’ up. In hoisting to the surface it was no- red to be quite bright under water, but hen i: struck the air it instantly turned black. The piece where the ship’s nsme waa is broken off. Part of har stern, which ia very high, ehowing ahe was an ancient galleon, baa been also icaurrecUd. On Wednesday the divar hod worked hi* way down to the magazine aatern. Here he fouuu a box of ammunition, iwo-iocb ball*, all one solid mass, car bonized. Singular to relate, tha land sheathing of the magazine ia la aa par- fee* cotillon -• the dsy U woe put os. A treasure cfceet has hv«*« brought n*,»L but this is in iioaeesaion of Commando* * Jt’ard. and not • whisper of iu contaiiU :• allowed to eecape. I he discovery of two bars of solid v«r, a sample of which your correa* pondent saw, caused great excitement, esjwoally when the diver found a tux f half < orooni/ed barrels, the contenta f which may be of great value. In all seriousness, it docs eeoru aa If ome old treasure xhip had been foabd of rhfidi history knows nothing. Tbe'tnat- .•r u being kept very quiet, yet every mm the diver coiues to the surfuce a dozen watchful pair of government ayes :an aud search his perron. L it the lost treasure of the fatnoua irato Cupt. Kidd or some other bucca- •■«r. or can it tell a tale ef the OldStona l the greatest mjateriei Of tbie been killed. The) a pile ot human b clothing near by. the skeleton was it bags. aidenly Lying by th F*ot arm lined two p which t In the settlement directly across the where Barker's horse hud me upon to bide of f saddle- istols and instunlh The high skull bone had tho unerring maiks of the famous young outlaw*. There remained yet the evidence of the fatal abet that had been fired at the fugitive years bel a bone of one of his leg* had been by it. In that condition, carryi effects with him, the mao had cra-w a distance of four rniiea. over one of Ihe most rugged mountains In the state. Within sight, and within calling dis tance of the skeleton was the residence of one of the most prominent Southern 4uen in the wh.le county a tu*u who had once been a good friend of Barker. that the outlaw had i that frie Mill, on contiuci A TUi It I ML K H'BItli Later Derails of Use Ureal Western ■earthquake. Yuma, A. T., Aug. U.—Reports con tinue to corns in from tho earthquake re gions at the head of the Gulf of Cali fornia. Two Cocopahs of the tribe that live near there got here yesterday. They tell a thrilling stoty. Early Thursday morning hundreds of nnid volcanoes thirty miles off burst into violent operation. The air got denes aud many infants ware suffocated. At last u violeut thunder storm cleared the air, only to show a tidal wave coming with' frightful rapidity. The waters arose, swaHuwlng up cattle and horses in tho grain fields and driving them for their lives to ihe top of the mesas, s hundred feet high above the river. The earthquake shocks then began. The fourth threw every one down, • enously injuring many. The du.t darkened the sir. The rumble of the earthquake, the sharp explosions of the distant volcanos, the hollowing of the crazed cattle, nude an Unbearable up roar an i the frightened Indiana broke and adjacent store ould U. federal In I fled w , ceeJe. Tin i along th* route. Two only ichiug here who tell the others dropped exhausted I the top of i , caped. The fully 100 f. Al all events, her JandJtdr informed that Mtse O’Reilly declined to sea r ‘Here is something 1 was told tog you,’ said the woman, handing m-* a ? il. box- It contains 1 the ring. 1 compelled York dsalei*. it is said, for as h ths O’ReiBy to listen to cie that i M $>^000 eacn. lhsrs is yet great night at the theatre, and she allowed that ! mkn d f cr Wisconsin p. arl*. and thei I was not to blame for tha notice. Bui ! Kllcu , u u will tend gre vtli she pointed out that there could be r - lo increase their value. It i- • pity tbs chance of happmees for a husband and j .. lh , „ hictk i.id the golden egg. wife wbove interests were opposed. sn«. I or ihe clams which produced lh< saw tbst it was true. I walked about the ■ afiouU Lave been eo rulbloeal sir sets of Newcastle all that night, sue i .xurnunsted- was my misery, such the struggle in my J breast between love and fame. Well. I The Kmpra— of Asziris's la 1 sir, love conquered, ss it navsi could { climbing mountsics aud Iran have conquered her, for she was • great i She also hunts for palaces artist and I only a small one. though ths I pli they knew tha to retails poo Waugh wa* Hia wife in Ten ne sling J the •silk v fainilv Of ths be kilim- of CapL Wa ittle man from l-enda, netted the scene from to winch they hod ea- srt tho tidal wave was gb. and also a river of ... t which was flowing to the ( olorado, near the gulf, undouMedtv from a sulphur i which was set on firs by tha f burning maiciiol thrown out Much rr peity has been destroyed. -!• th- «a?n*LU build- » on the rsnche of Charles Townsend, breeder of hue cattle, wore leveled by JotV/by pie—more gh 1 P* n > 11 **- ed !r< trouble with the Jones party would lend the removal of the body. 7hcdea:b oft apt. Wnuzh was beginning of a Ion- histoi s of as-as-. tioas in tnat countrr. There bad L several murders of citizens in that » lion, Citizens of all ages, amt repreu ing both Union aud i onfed«*ral«- •••! j menu, but no death had Leer, sit* n « are mitli circa ms toncea of iu> h cold-t loo- reek. { atrocity. It was followed by a moil i (note | rihle trail of tragedle*. will Living with Capt. Waugh at the ‘.i i the CHIMIXAL COIET, Lacking 'Sow le « i of Atlanta, just es- of the legislature, a within ths next All that is locking He u\ to be sppo.nled fortnight's salary, and we were slrscded Badn^toke Magpie aaidof me, * The Irra- he at Corfu, where she has discovered a j of the murder was a young man ne in Bootle without money to pey for our eietibly droll Mr, Thorpe, better known • v..v spacious te--sU>ry habitation, built 1 barker. He was so employe in s lodgings, aol lo speak oi out tickets bock ' as-—’ * and furnished after a i’oiapcuan model. 1 bujineee capacity, and he waa n ; ;i;u* • • , lion ■I A ‘ two applicants Lr the place ara Kjper Alexander and CoL T. I*, oreland. ihe governor left tb# in the hand* of the Atlanta bnr, i appointment n still in doubt as divided the The r nds of both men are bope- Upjes of the city court sn order formally iraoafer- ;u»l esn* Ob hii dutbel 19 ' Aucthel bfOlUi ol bccoimoi drt-

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The weekly telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1885-1899, August 12, 1891, Image 1