Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-08
| SHORT STORIES OF The DAY
Promoter NoGarvie Has a Photograph of
Congressman Roberts with History.
"PoLLY"' PARROT GIVES AN ALARM OF FRI
German Bandmnster Breaks Up n
Tragedy by Playing "Pop Goes
the wcnsel"-Narious ways of
Beating Restaurant.

tne NcnscI'-NurtOus ways ol
Beating Restaurant.
II. +, McGarvie spent several years in
Salt Lake, Utah. and in that time gathered
together many interesting relics of the pio-
neer days of that city. Among the inter-
ostng things IN his possession is a photo
graph Of Congressman b. H. Roberts, con-
| cernirg whom so much fuss has been made
the past year on account of his pOlygamous
tendencies. This photo does not show the
| man in statesmanlike attire by any means,
and anyone looking at it would be more
likely to take it to be the picture OF some
| border ruffian.
The picture, however, has a story of a
| romantic nature attached to 1t. In 1884 two
Mormon elders-W. S. Berry and ]. II. Gibbs
went from Salt Lake to Tennessee for
the purpose of proselyting. They settled
near Condor's farm with the intention Of
| converting the people in that vicinity to
the belief that more than one wife is requi-
site in order to get through the golden
| portals.
They had not been there very long, how
| ever, until the natives began to murmur
| against their presence, and after a while
threats were made Of punishment IL they
/
their work, paying no attention to the
threats, treating them as idle and puerile
attempts to frighteu them from what they
| considered their duty
Their work progressed slowly, now and
| then new convert being added, but with
| the increase in numbers the wrath of some
| of the people increased until finally the
| srnouldering flames of Indignation burst into
! bright blaze, and one night Berry and
! Gibbs were shot down in cold blood by
persons who kept their identity profound
secret. The men were buried by some
of the Tennesseeans, and though the Nor
mons begged for their bodies 50 that they
might be taken back to Salt Lake, the
| request was refused.
The people of the home city were not
going TO be robbed of the ashes of their
martyrs, however, and call was made for
a volunteer to go down into Tennessee after
the remains Of the two men. The UNDER
taking was difficult one, fraught with great
danger, for if the people down there thought
that the Mormons were to try to take the
bodies back they were willing to go to the
| greatest extremes in order to prevent 1t.
| When the call for volunteers was sent
out there was not any great rush of men
for the place-in fact. it was some time
Roberts offered his services. He said he
would disguise himself as blacksmith, go
to Tennessee and bring back the dead bodies
of Berry and Gibbs He was successful in
outwitting the watchers near Condors farm,
and sent the bodies back to Utah, where they
| were buried with great pomp and ceremony
as beftting martyrs.
The photo of Roberts in Mr.. McGarvie's
possession was taken at that time, showing
Mr.. Roberts in his disguise. At the same
time picture was made OF the two men
who were killed and the whole was made
into memorial card for the dead Mormons.
i A want advertisement in The Bee led to
the recovery Of a lost parrot belonging to
Mrs. Addie Parrish Of 1914 Farnam street.
The parrot, after having been a fugitive
from home for several days. alighted yester-
day on the head of a baby playing in a
yard on Capitol avenue. The father OF the
child had read Mrs. Parrish's advertisement
in The Bee and sent the truant bird home.
Like nearly all other parrots, this one is
named Polly, but better name is deserved.
When Mrs. Parrish first took charge of
Polly she taught her to cry fire" One
night the parrot cried fire 80 vigorously that
Mrs. Parrish, who had gone to bed, was
| duuOyeu' laeIe was d SudIp
But still Polly kept on screaming. At last
Mrs. Parrish got up to rebuke the bird still
further and as soon as she opened the door
into the room where Polly was perched,
she was almost blinded by smoke. 1t was a
correct alarm.
A few minutes longer and the whole house
would have been ablaze. Ever since then
Polly has been a heroine in the Parrish
household. She was gone from home four
days on this lark. Once she was found in
a tree and Mrs. Parrish went after her, but
Polly wouldn't come down. In reply to all
entreaties she would scream, fire" and
"go chase yourself"
While Mrs. Parrish was looking about for
somebody who could climb tree Polly
sneaked away and was heard OF no more
until she made her descent upon the Capitol
avenue baby
zone time in Cincinnati" so remarked e
travelling man the other night, Booth was
| playing in Richard ILL., 1t will be remem-
bered that in this play the drum and trumpet
are used very frequently and those two In
struments are taken from the orchestra to
the stage. Two marches are used during
the evening, one being called the Richard
march, which is used when the lame king
Is in the ascendant, and the other the
Richmond when his enemy Is to the front.
1t happened that on this night an old Ger
man was to attend to the music. He was
the trumpet player and was accompanied by
his drummer. He played the iourishes and
the calls in good shape and played the Rich
ard march all right at the proper time, but
when 1t came to the Richmond march he
was nonplussed, for he had lost the music
and did not know it by memory.
1.-THE time came for the triumph of Rich
mond and consequently for the starting OF
his march, and the old German was flying
about like hen with her head cut off, un-
able to find his music GO on and play,
hissed the stage manager between his teeth
But vat shall ich play?' asked the German
, 4 dond ken dat Richmond" march vat you
call i'd Well, play something was the
) fierce rejoindcr of the stage manager as an
r awkward wait seemed imminent.
4" But ich kannicht spell de piece again
) whimpered the German Itch weise nicbt
, vas ich soil dune. Ich ken das piece nicht.
"Well, play anything then; any old
o march, exctedly exclaimed the manager
: Play Pop Goes the Weasel" If you cam