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things got particularly hot for him in
some other quarter of the South seas
he would make for Levuka and put In
there for a stay until things quieted
down again.
Many of the older residents of Le-
vuka remember we'll the buccaneer. He
was about six feet tall. and his body
strong and perfectly proportioned. He
always wore a long brown beard. that
was kept well trimmed and combed He
exercised the greatest care and taste
In his dress, his clothes being made by
the most fashionable tailors in San
Francisco. Shanghai. Manila. Melbourne
or whatever port he happened to be in
when he wanted a new supply Of wear
Ing apparel Even when committing
the oloodiest crime or inwardly aging,
what little could be seen of his face
wore bland smile. Nothing seemed
to ever disturb his equanimity.
Copyright, 1914. BY Walter G. HornadsyJ :
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deep accumulation of dead leaves, went
the Rambler and his friends. On the
hilltop you stand before a big house
with rock walls overlaid with. plaster.
part. is Of frame Behind 1t is another
house of the same style of architecture
and construction, but with SECTION of
the front wall fallen out. Nearby are
a meathouSe, a smokehouse, an icehouse
and a stone structure that was a bath
house, into which water was pumped.
Around. and occupying quite an area,
are barns. stables and other buildings
of a period later than that of the stone
structures
This place is Sharon. 1t was long the
home Of an officer of the old navy,
Commodore Thomas Ap. Catesby Jones.
1t was his home for nearly half GEN.
tury and he died there in 1858. His
William Maffitt of Salona. died there.
Their son. Lieut.. Commander NJ. Pat
terson Jones. United States Navy. died
there in 1866. A brother. Maj; Gen.
Roger Jones. who died in Washington
in 1852, owned the fields on the side
of the pike opposite Sharon. The place
has had a number of owners and ten
ants since the time of Commodore
Jones and is now in possession of F.
G. Carper.
Mr.. Carper was not at home, but Mrs.
Carper told the Rambler that two col
ored people who had been slaves Of
Commodore Jones and his family were
living on the place in the stone house
with the broken front wall at the back
Of the main house. She went with the
Rambler to talk to these interesting
old people. Their names are Aunt
Rachel and Uncle Peter. Perhaps they
have other names, but Aunt Rachel and
Uncle Peter are known by those names
to everybody throughout a wide sec
tion of Fairfax county.
Aunt Rachel says she is seventy-nine,
and she is a vigorous woman. but tho
days of long ago are still the days she
lives in. Half a century ago Is her
yesterday. She will tell you moro
things about Commodore Jones and
his family than you can cram Into
your note book. She remembers the
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the homes that he made desolate in
order that he might reap the profit
which the planters were willing to
pay him for the delivery to them of
his unwilling human cargoes.
1t is related that when Hayes set
out to obtain a shiplead of natives to
be sold into slavery upon some other
island. or in Australia. perhaps. two
the scene of his kidnapping opera tions,
he would equip himself with ar en-
ticing device in the way of a small
cannon or two. When he came 70 an
in male and female population of
working age he would put his brig
in close to shore and soon get big
crowd of natives together on the beach
by means of a concert by his well
trained ships crew. In the pretense
of having various trinkets to trade
for their products, he would often be
able to get lot of them aboard the
vessel and perhaps into the hold.
At his command the crew would
quickly batten down the matches and
out of the cove or harbor the brig
would proceed. taking its human
freight to the far-off land where the
planters stood ready to receive and
pay literally for the laborers In
many known instances. according to
the stories that are told, Bully
Hayes would fire a few cannon SHOTS
into the crowds upon the beach II he
failed in his efforts to entice the de-
sired number of natives aboard his
vessel. In the excitement of this un-
expected attack the crew would can
ture and bind as many of the blacks
as possible and dump them into the
dark. foul-smelling depths of the ship
in helpless condition.
IT was from the lips of several of the
older white residents of the FIJI Islands
that the writer obtained the details OF
several of Hayes most daring exploits.
This pirate of the Pacific was well known
in Melbourne. and 1t was not dif1lcui1 10
find here ample corroborative proof OF
many stories heard about the man In
travels among the islands Of the South
seas.
Hayes is said to have made his first
voyage out of San Francisco in 1858. He
landed at Honolulu. He stayed in the
Hawaiian Islands for several months and
esta tablished friendly relations with many
of the natives and white men of wealth
and influence. He then returned to San
Francisco and in some manner which
the chronicler of the story, as 1t was
told, did not remember, Hayes obtained
control Of a brig and sailed back to
Honolulu. He next put in appearance in
the port of one of the islands for the
purpose Of taking on a load of cattle
He was arrested by the officer of the
port ON the charge Of violating some law
Of the island.
of his ship and invited his captor to
come on board and take dinner with him.
The officer did so and was taken prisoner.
When the ship was clear Of the harbor
the man was placed in boat and left
to make his way back to shore as best
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Bully Hayes is alleged to have COM
mitted many horrible crimes. He and
his pirate crew pillaged many native
villages, often carrying off men and
women and selling them into slavery
to the white planters of other islands.
The word of Hayes was law on land
and on sea. Human life had no value
in his ewes. Story after story is told
Of the terrible cruelty that he prac-
ticed upon men and women: When
suited his fancy in his wanderings
he often resorted to KIDNAPPING in or
der to obtain possession of her.
One of Hayes most daring exploits
was his theft of the brig Leonora at
Upolu. The Leonara was commanded
by Capt. Ben Pease. who was famous
as a navigator. He permitted Hayes
to come on board of the ship while 1t
was in the harbor and the next thing
Capt. Pease knew the vessel was
putting out to sea through the chan.
mel. Hayes bullied the crew into SUBJ
mission and made Pease prisoner.
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Mans Trouble.

<<W7EST vIRGINIA'S drynsss hit man
harder than 1t hit woman" said
Mayor Kirk Of Wheeling. Woman II
more temperate than man. She never
has any trouble through drink"
Mr. Kirk smiled and added:
Woman is the weaker vessel, but
it's man who must oftenest be bsiled
out"
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hayes up q CndFBe against
Pease and the latter was placed in
prison. The buccaneer outfitted the
captured vessel for another voyage and
took a run down the China coast, levy
ing tribute upon many villages.
4
4, II pirating on the high seas and upon
the coast villages was not good 1t was
the practice Of Hayes to take on car
goes of rice or other valuable products
in ports where his true character was
unknown, and to divert the shipments
to his own use. He did largo nefari-
Gus business Of this character in many
of the smaller ports of China, Australia.
Japan and India.
In the early seventies Hayes had be-
come such a menace to legitimate ship
ping in the South seas that special
expedition was sent out by the United
States government to search for him
and take him captive, II possible. Capt.
Meade of the United States navy, In
command Of the Narragansett. was In
charge of this man-hunting expedition
Hayes was found and arrested at upolu
where he was living lite OF ease ana
pleasure after a long period of daring
adventure.
The pirate chief was taken aboard the
man-of-War, but his winsone ways. ms
apparent sincerity when he told Capt
Meade Of the many abuses tnat ne Al a..
legged. had been inflicted upon him by
unprincipled traders and others. and his
denial Of all the charges that were
made against him caused him to be re-
leased from custody after he had been
held prisoner three days. Capt. Meade
felt certain that Hayes was not the bad
character that he had been pictured. and
that he was not guilty OF the onenses
with which he was charged. He per-
mitted his sympathy for the buccaneer
to go as far as to give him aid in out
fitting. vessel at Upolu to which
Hayes held no title.
Not long after this Hayes took pas
sage on the schooner Giovanni Aptani,
which belonged to Frenchman. One
day. as they were sailing through a
group of small islands in the equatorial
region, Hayes knocked the Frenchman
down, securely bound him and sent him
ashore in a small boat Hayes then
took charge of the boat and sold her
and the cargo for good price In one
BY this time Hayes was known and
feared as a pirate in many of the seas.
He found his business falling on, and in
order to recoup his losses he assumed
a novel role He led the missionaries of
the Fiji and other islands to believe that
he had been converted to Christianity.
This enabled him to take on board his
ships large cargoes Of valuable products
of the missionaries and the natives and
to make way with the proceeds of the
consignments. He went to the Island Of
Guam in a schooner that he had stolen.
He was arrested there. but he bam-
boozled the Spanish authorities into be-
lieving that the charge against him was
trumped up. and he was released.
He was next heard Of in Manila and
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teresting and to give it distinction, and
you must especially note the fine and
hoary cedars which border a driveway
leading from the main road up the hill
to the portico Of this house. No doubt
a good deal of history hangs about that
place. but the road is long, the October
days are short, miles are miles. and you
jot down in your notebook that the rural
bears the name William Shaffer
You pass a number Of other places
which look as though they might tell
an interesting story, and on the right. on
a knoll heavily tirnbered, is big brick
house called Hickory Hill because of the
kind Of trees growing there. 1t is place
of which the Rambler has previously
written. A few more steps and you enter
the Leesburg and Georgetown pike at
Langley and turn to the west. On the
and among old trees. is one of the hand
some homes of Virginia. Living there
is Miss Fannie Mackall, and the Ram
bier hopes at another time to tell the
story of this place.
Following the pike at this time of
year 1t is quite natural to stop now and
then to cut strikingly fine branch Of
dogwood with wine-crimson leaves and
thick clustered berries of the 1iveliest red.
or to break a branch Of persimmons to
show to friends at home or to gather a
cluster of red maple leaves, or to do
other things which city people, are prone
to when they are exploring in the Country.
You have not covered a very long
stretch of road when off to thsrlsft, on
a hill behind a screen of ttees, you
make out a villagelike group of
buildings. most Of them white. From
the pike a lane leads to the houses on
the hill, Several hundred yards along
that lane and at the base of the hill
stands a. springhollse of great age.
Its outer walls are of rough blue-stone.
but it's interior"has lately, been lined
with cement. Water flows through it.
All! the rich. pure milk. the cream and
the butter that have been. kent. sweet
and cool in that house of many years!
: Perhaps great wide crooks Of c1abber
have been stored. there. ready to be
.sprinkled with brown sugar. and to- the
accompaniment of corn bread lovingly
devoufed by children who grew up and
passed away generations before many
of the readers of these lines were born.
A weeping willow droops over the
= springhouse, and a giant maple stands
guard there.
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lev and something over four miles west
of Chain Bridge The old buildings.
which, viewed from the road. show
patches of their white walls through
the branches of big trees that grow
around them, stand on a hilltop, and,
besides looking down upon the sur
rounding country in all directions. look
down upon the old pike which before
the steam engine was a dream and for
a good while after it came true was
one of the arteries for freight and
passenger traffic in this region.
Parts of this ancient wav have been
modernized and support a good volume
of that character of traffic which
passes over roads today. but "a long
stretch of it has not been improved
and is too rough to satisfactorily per-
form the functions Of a public way.
From the south end of Chain bridge
this road climbs out Of the gorge Of
Pimmitt run, and. mounting. to me
high land, where in weedy, scrub
grown heaps lie the ruins OF Fort
Marcy. passes on. by the Waggaman,
Langley Ia that little settlement the
principal buildings are two frame
dwellings. one flush with the roadsides
the other set back in a grove OF hfcR-
erns when a. century or. sos ago stage
coaches run1bled and trains of freight
wagons numbered between east and
west over this historic pike. That sec
ton Of the road has been made over.
It's grades have been reduced, and. Its
surface made. so firm and smooth that
autos whirl along It
X x
From Langley on to Dranesville the
old road, like most of the folk who
travel over it. has its good and bad
parts, but the Rambler hopes that those
who journey there have good parts in
has been improved. or perhaps 1t would
be more discreet to say, 1t has been
somewhat benefited in places.
From Dranesville to Leesburg the
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Erected by his afrectionate wid-

years. Erected by his afrectionate Wild
ow." =
There is no other headstone in tho
Mafitt lot. but CLOSE by Is pathetic
little obelisk of marble SO incrusted
with lichen that, the. only part of the
inscription decipheraele Is Our Ed
win" 1t is the grave of a loved child.
The Rambler sat down on the mat of
honeysuckle and periwinkle which
grows over the churchyard and read
the inscriptions above the graves OF
many of those who in. life were neigh
bors Of Commodore Jones and In their
that weeping willow is a marble tomb.
stone inscribed: .Tabbie, Beloved
daughter of Sarah and Henry Jenkins.
Born March 10, 1854 Died May g:
on the top. of the stone, is written
There is a light in the valley for me-"
Under 1t is this: Harry. Beloved and
Only Son of Annie C. and Henry Jen-
kins. Born March 2S, 1864. Died Au-
gust ~. 1877. Jesus Took Him"
Within a radius of a score of yards
the Rambler read these neighborhood'
names on old stones: Samuel Linn
Simpson, Charles Binns and. his wife,,
Mary Eleanor Binns: William J.. Read-'
shaw and his wife, Matilda w. Read
shaw; Noyes P. Denison. John P. Skim
ner, James Mccarthy. Euphemia Mo-
Garity, Ellery c. Walker. James w.
Green, Fidelia s. Green. Thomas J.
Green. Virginia G. Hogeland and; Jona-
than mccarthy. Almost under the shade
of the Jones willow Is q monument 20
Mary L. Beans and Edward H. Beans
There also is a monument which
caused the Rambler to ponder. It's in-
scription is this: "Ex-Confederate.
Aaron T. Beans: Born February II,
1899; Died February l. 1896: Aged So
Years, / Month and 10 Days" On top
of the monument are two books cut In
stone, one imposed upon the other. and
cut in the cover Of the uppermost Of
these stone books is life Of r. n
Lee" Here was told the chief life In.
terest and life work Of the man who
slept below. and the Rambler intends
on his first leisure evening. to read
Beans Life Of r. e. Lee"
And here the Rambler IL going to ten
an incident in this pilgrimage. Ik
seemed to him a very simple thing, for
similar things seem always to be 70.
curing. When he visited Sharon he
did not know that there was any int1.
mate connection between that place
and Salona, where he had loitered with
his camera q few weeks before. Yet
from old Aunt Rachel he learned that
the mistress of Sharon was the daugh.
ter OF Parson Mafitt, master. of .Salona.,
Then. going to the grave Of Comno.
dore Jones. he read: Born at Hickory
HILL Westmorelahd County, Virginia"
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THE MANSION OF SHARON.

road, passing through a less difficult
country than between Langley and
Dranesville. has been made over and
automobiles and farm wagons are
by road between Washington and Lees
burg omit the stretcn from Langley to
Dranesvil1e by turning to the left at
Langley, following good dirt road to
Lewinsyille or Tysons crossroads and
then turning to the right and following
a dirt road which enters the pike at
Dranesville. The detour costs several
additional miles of travel, but it is
worth the difference.
The pike does not become depraved
Immediately west of Langley, but is a
travelable road about as far as the
hills that drop. down into and climb
out Of the valley through which SCOTS
run flows. 1t is between these points
Langley and SCOTS run-that the
venerable white buildings look down
upon the pike,
The correct way of rambling to these
houses would, of course, be to walk
the Rambler, to his shame. because Of
dismal weather and a blistered foot,
sought and found shorter and hap
pier way He took an electric car to
Mclean, which is a station on the Vir-
gin1a side between Washington and
Great Falls. and with several members
of the Rambler Club started eastwardly
along the road which leads from Lang
10y slAlON stIi Lew lnSNllle ana Tyson Dy
way of Freedom Hill to Vienna and
Fairfax Courthouse. That road con-
meets three of the most Interesting Of
the old American pixies. the George
town and. Leesburg the Alexandria
ana Leesburg and the Little River
Directly after leaving Mclean, which
is new and prosperous village. you see,
half mile ahead and; far. to the right,
a red brick house with white trimmings
and two tail chimneys: Wide fields sur
round It. but dfrecf1y around the house
is grove. 1t is 'Salona, house which
the Rambler visited and wrote of last
summer and a house which is connected
with the story which the Rambler is
about to tell. 1t was the home of Rev.
William Mafftt, and 1t was this good
man and his wife who opened Salona to
Dolly Madison when she fed from, WASH
ington, and a little later to President
Madison and certain members Of his cab
met, who after the disaster at Bladens-
burg and the entrance of the English
into Washington. left the capital and
found asylum in Virginia. 1t was from
Salona that the President and various
high officers of the government watched
the flames feeding on the national build
ings in Washington the night of August
25, 1914.
You pass Salona and note on the left
fine house with enough Of the flavor
Of moss and ivy about it to make it in
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OMEWHERE in
the depth of the
broad expanse of
ocean that sur
rounds the group
of islands in the
South seas lie the
whitened bones Of
Capt. "B u ! l y"
Hayes, one Of the
III o st notorious
buccaneers that
ever trod the deck
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worth's mon. The buildings on his
farm above Scott's run were burned
soon after. These ruins are a part of
that early civil war tragedy. The
jackson farm was in possession of
children of jackson until about three
or four years ago. There Is new
frame house on the place. From TINS
point a road leads through woods and
car line, and the Rambler boarded
car at the little station which Is call
ed jackson.
Soon after this walk the Rambler
again went out to Mclean and walked
to Lewinsville. 1t is a crossroads set
tlement, with a store, blacksmith SHOP
dwelling and church at the Junction:
but with a number Of well kept ana
properous-looking farmhouses close by.
The church, a plain frame building on
a rough rock foundation, apparently
much older than the superstructure.
stands in a large close in the north
east angle Of the roads.
Wire fencing in extension of the front
line Of the church divides the close into
two parts, that in front Of the church
being grounds sheltered with a grove
of trees, in which spruoes and arbor
vitae are conspicuous. The other sec
ton of the close on three sides of the
church IS dedicated to graves. The
Rambler strolled over to a big weeping
willow. Close to It. with a big box tree
growing so as to reveal only the in
scribed front, was a plain old-fashion-
ed headstone Of marble. On 1t was
chiseled this:
Commodore Ap. Catesby Jones,
United States Navy. Born at Hickory
Hill. westmoreland county. Virginia.
April rs, 1890. Died at Sharon. Fairfax
county. Virginia, May 80. 1858.
Precious in the sight Of the Lord ID
the death Of His saints"
The marble footstone bears the ini-
tials 'T. A. C. J."
a few feet south Of this tomb IL an
other marble headstone thus inscribed:
Lieutenant Commander NJ. Patterson
Jones, United States Navy. Born at
Sharon, Fairfax county, Virginia, Au-
gust rs. 1924. Died April II, 1856.
20 Lord Of Hosts, blessed Is the man
that trusteth in Thee"
The Rambler believes that In that lot
rest the ashes Of the commodore's wife,
who was Miss Maffltt, but there is no
monument.
A few yards away is dark granite
tombstone. apparently not old enough
for it's polished surface to be roughen-
ed. and which Is inscribed:
REV. William Maffitt. Died at Salona,
Fairfax county. March 2. 1928. Age 50
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At the springhouse the lane bends to
the left to ascend the hill by an easier
grade, but straight up the hill from
the springhouse to the mansion runs
wide avenue between elms and naples
an avenue that is not used now and
seems not to have been used for years.
Up that way, crushing through the
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CLU S T z r o 1

- ~ " . Il H " 1
b u j I d l n 6 8 old
enough to invite
attention and hav-
ing associat i o n s
that make them
interesting stands
south of the Lees
burg and George
town tur n pike,
perhaps a mile and
a half west of the
hamlet of Lang
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of a pirate brig. Stories Of his daring
and bloody exploits are told in every
beach settlement all the way from San
Francisco to Melbourne and from Ba-
tavia to Hongkong. Around him were
woven many of the thrilling stories
that have been put into works of fic-
ton by the writers of thrilling ro-
nance of the western Pacific ocean.
II there ever was sea wolf" Bully"
Hayes was one.
Beyond the fact that this suave,
handsome and low-spoken lord Of the
high seas was a native of Cleveland,
Ohio. and that he first made his ap-
pearance among the islands that lie
between Melbourne and San Fran
cisco in 1858. when he was little more
than a STRIPPING youth. nothing is
known here of his boyhood life.
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When the brig arrived at Shanghai.
Hayes trumped up a charge against
Pease and the latter was placed In
prison. The buccaneer QUILTED the
captured vessel for another voyage and
took run down the China coast, levy
ing tribute upon many villages.
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special Correspondence Of The Star.
MELBOURNE, Australia, October 8.
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Although it is more than thirty-five
years since this remarkable mans ca
reer came to an end. the mentioning
of his name still strikes terror to
the hearts of the aged natives Of many
of the islands where he was wont to
visit and put into practice his high
handed proceedings Of capturing and
carrying off the ignortant people into
virtual captivity. Black birding" 1t
was called. Hayes was an adept at
this nefarious work and many were
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Copyright, 1914, BY Walter G. Hornadsy.,
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-04-17

dolman. Georgette's genius has man
aged TO make 1t fairly shapely, and al
together it is about the most attrac-
tive of the many taffeta wraps to
which we will have to become accus-
toned.
1t is cut in the voluminous style
which the mode demands and trimmed
with narrow knife-p -plaitings of taffeta
and an applied design of covered cord.
A soft cable cord is used for maxi
ing il, and the taffeta is cut in narrow
bias strips and sewed over the cord.
One thing is demonstrated by styles
like that shown here, and that is that
women stick to the utterly feminine
in the construction OF their apparel
no matter what excursions they may
make into the worlds of business and
politics. Therefore we shall see
them trooping to the polls to vote in
the most impractical and unbusiness-
like of clothes. 1t is the eternal fem
mime again.