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??gsggBEF^^?? ? The R/lar A. G ?= By EDWARD E JKJOW, when the fire of Am 1 v from the rocky hvad'ofuh of California, is the time of A merican patriotism." As a story it holds the in country it has thrilled the Amt ' nrt? nniu thnnh Clrtfi. hitf f who "wish they niav never hcai This famous story, which America's appeals to palrioti: for its own suite and for the i l ?Trii n- V PART I. f/^-v II11.IP N ( I. A N wiis ns fine a yJ yiutiiu nllloer as tw .ts in the "I.i\ci'>ii of the We t." as' ?J the western division of ml: rrnty was then called. Win n Anion i Purr made his first dashinc e.\|>eilUi.>n down to New Orleans in l^o.", at | ml ! Massac or somewhere nhove on tin ( river lie met. as the devil would |i; e 1 it. tliis Kay. linsliinu. I?riu111 younu fel low at. some dinner o rty, I think. Purr marked him. talked t<> him. w Ik ed with him. tool; him : day or twos voyage ill liis (hitIm<;it . i d. in short, fascinated him. I'm- the ne\t yetir barrack life was very tame to po ?r Nolan. He occasionally a> tiled of i!n> permission the yreat limn li: I iven j iiitn to write to liini. The oilier |.oy* iu the rtarrison sneet d a I li .n .iaiNej ho suerltleed in lii > ni:i,i'i;r;li 1 ::fVolion fur it p<>:ilifi;ui the lit > %v11 ? 11 they devoted In iiioiiniii;,,,.--ln. sled Mul hiuhlow-jnck. 1 :< iiri.nu. eurhtv Mill poller wi re still link . u u. 11 1! OHO (1.1.V Nnlllll 111' I his I'rVi !,_ . Tilis time lhirr ? :?in?- down H r.>. r nn| us sin attorney se<',.iir: u i ' : r !iis of lice. I ill t us :i ii l i: i"! !!<! r. it V.'IIS riilllnrod t i I: I I l:o 11: t I Ml limy ''O lliul lii ill and :i!i or; I i> I tore i.ini It was a jrront <!? v !r . vri . ' pom >-"nl:iii. |i irr laid n*?t I i f< n mi hour t f<ir<- ho so. t for iiim. 'flint eveiiiiiK lie asked No a |. ?n. < him out in his skiff in -io... ii ;i i iiio brake or n out ui\v. J i .- |. . t. ] ? really to soiluoo liim >ml 1 i tllo s;i i | v -IS 11 Vol' .\'- ! I. v. I. I'll tinily ;tin] soul ! '! t I le. tiioimh ho ill.! ii- t yoi 1 . !. 1. I ?s "a man u ill;., it What Hurr i: ;i t !.? I know i:o lnoro than .vott. if r .. u i . n uio of our iiii.v 11ii t no i u w in ii the ?mml i it i 11oplio i s ! o i,t tho lessor fry in that : .is Alis-dsslppi valley to u aua.v th "iotony of t!io sum in i *!' .it Fort \i1mius jr??t Up fur sp"i ,:ioiI? n strn ' of e..art inartlnls on tho otlioo: tluro. one nun inioini r i i.i i i ' 11 ; 11; i ma|ois Were tried. and. to ii i mi ?11? i - . * it tie KoI.mii. amiinsi whom, Ii < n knows. there was eviihnee I'll' ll -that Ill' v:is si' k of tlio "i vicc, Ini'i In en willline to In- fills,, lo it Mini would have oheVed any order to n; f li any wIi!!!ht villi any on,' who u , . I follow him had iho order onlv in i i'.'ii" !. "Iiy f'Ol.nlilMIIll "f lii> I.Xf. A. IliliV." Tho courts <!t ".".joi! "ii. Th" Ii : thi s es Ciipoil rightly linil I i. -w. Nolan v. ms proved U'till .v etiot _t? a s i s , v, >Vi?t you Mint I wo" d in'", of havo I loan' >f liitu. roMil, r. Ion th.'t. wlnn tlio pivsldem of tlio i inn :is|<i tl 1.::11 at the close wlnlliof In- wi.-ln 1 to say anything to show that lie had nr.* ;iy; hoon faithful to tho t'nitiil States lie cried out in a lit of from.;. : '!> - tho t'ni ii s'' .tos! I wish I may never Inar of the t'nited Slates in. tin!" I aippo o lie d! I i.e| I now how tho vs . rds slinel'oi! mil ( iiiohel Morgan, vim was In.dim. t'.o art. .Moiuii had grown up :n tlio s\es( of those days in tho i list of Spanish plot," "Orleans plot and all tlio rest. lie had hoon oiluoalod on a plantation vvheiv I ho line.-! i ' liipany was a SpanIs a oilieer or a I"i h inorehani from Orleans. His e l .entinii, sneli as It v : . had hoon perfeetod in commercial expeditions to \ era i'iuz and I think In- told mo ids i.i t her oiiee hiivd an Engiislimiiii to he a private tutor for a winter on the plantation, lie had spent half his youth with an older brother limiting horses in 'l e\as. ai d, in a Word, to him "ITiltiil Slates" was seareo Jy a reality. Net he had hecii fed hy "i hi ! m;u? - ; r .ui i in- years since Jie 11:i<I been in (lie army. lie lliiil KWOIII "II his fililli ;> ; i < "Iil'i-t i: 111 l> lie trilo I" I' 111 * ei I : 11?It Was "I'nited Stntes" wliicli pave lii'n tin- mill < 111 I he were ami the sword liv Ins side. I <1" li"t excuse .\"!.ni I "ii'y expiniti t" tile render will lie ai:i..111?- 1 lil.s cu IIItry <lI: 1 wislieil lie inialil never hear liel" liiirii" :iKiiiiii He never a! < 1 henr her iiiinie hut OIKO IIKiiili. ITolil lint noma-nl. S? |>t. 2.*:. JSOT. till the (III V lie a|. i|. Ml. 11. lie na'ver la nl It r nunc nyiin, For iliiit hiiir cent hi \ nnd more he wits n ninn wit hunt a country. Old .Moi'Kltli. ns I saial, wis terribly shocked. Me eitlleil the c<nirt into his private room ami relnrneil in t.i't - i minutes with a face lika sheet, to aay: "Prisoner, heitr the sc li'iin' of fin court. The court (!? ! -. sub t to th" approval of tin- pre thai you never henr the mime <?! the l'nite?l States again '* Nolan l.ni'/he'l Hut ii"b"d.v else laughed. Old Morgan was too solemn Uficatloii. Ill \ wI e "Plain Hutf'i; ." a< Hi >1 I m They called lliIII "PI: III 'bl " be Mlise, while he tin a < In 'to . i - a reKUlatloii army a.i i!' nhe wa.- not permilteal to wear I lie army button for the reason that it hove either Heinitials or the in igiiin of the country be had disowned. I remember soon after I oined the nary. Some one lohl the system which wns ndopted from the lirst about his books and other rending As lie was Almost never permitted to ko on shore, even though the vessel lay in port for months, his time nt the best hung heavy, and everybody was permitted ^ to loud hiui books it, they were not made do al ? Vv~\y > - " - " t - ' V I i ^Vithout ^iintry 1VERETT MALE i \ ricon patriotism flares again r.f Maine to the golden beaches i to read anew this "prose epic J i 'erest; as a lesson in love of ' {can heart for half a century, civ Philip Nolans among us, men r of the iJnited States again! " it'ill rank forever first among ;rn, should be read and reread .icntr/vlt^n # /** ?#?? .... T-J-: v 1, yja | and the whole room was hushed dead, .is night for a minute. Even Nolan lost tiis swagger in a moment. Tlien Morgan added: "Mr. Marshal, take the prisoner to Orleans in an armed boat and deliver him to the naval commander there." The marshal gave his orders, and the prisoner was taken out of court. "Mr. Marshal," continued old Morgan. "see thai no one mentions the I'uited States to the prisoner. Mr. Marshal, make mv respects to Lieutenant Mitehell at Orleans and request him to order that no one shall mention tiie I'nlted States to the prisoner while he Is on hoard ship. You will receive your written orders from the t tlh er on duty here this evening. The court is adjourned without day." 1 have always supposed that Colonel Morgan himself took the proceedings of ihe court to Washington city and explained tlieiu to Mr. .lefferson. Certain it is that the president approved them certain, that is, if I may believe tin- men who say tlie.v have seen his signature. Itefore the Nautilus got round from New- iirleans to the north < rn Atlantic coast with the prisoner on hoard the sentence had been approved, and lie was a man without a country. Win ii I w as second ollieer of the Intro; i?l some thirty years after 1 saw the original paper of Instnietions: Washington (willi 11 >? date. whieh must have hecn Into in 180, Sir- Yn'i will i?-'"ivo from 1.1. Neahi the I > ? son of Philip Nolan, late a lieutenant in :'io t *11it??I Slates at toy. person on Ids trial l>y ootiil martial expressed witli an oath the wish that !.< output Hover lieai of the I initial Stales a L a il I. T conrt em- n-eil hint to have Iiih ith fulfilled. Fur the present the exeoiltion of the order is i .trusted hy the president to this l.artinent. i 'in wl'.l take the prisoner on hoard your hip and loop hint there with sueh pree i'ttionr as shall prevent llis eHCtipe. Y-- : v ill provide him with such quarters, n 11s nd elothitiK as would he proper for an ollieer i f his late rank if he were a p. m * n;,? r on your vessel on the Intsliiisn of his L-ovei ti mi-tit. The pi ntle'i.eii ?n hoard will make any nrranreii.entx aareeahle to tlieinselves reI'ardini; his Mii'i. l; . lie is to lie exposed no ind: 1111y of any kind, nor is he ever . la e, . .ii ily to he reminded that lie is a p- isojier. Hut under no eireuinslatiees is lie ever o heat of his eountry or to see any Infi rmat on n ri rdinp it. and you w ill esI .a ills eautiot, all the ofllei-rs under your I ' i t ike rare that, in the various lulper , which may he y.ranted, this !e. in w ich hi punisliment is involved, iill n ,t he liroki n. it t.ie i: ei.lion of the soverntnent '..it he shall never avaiii see the country >vlr h lie lias ill owned. Itefore tiui end i in eiuu,. y,,.| will iieeive orders il . v t. . offed to this intention, i 'y , II \\ . Hor'i'l IA I !l >. I'"r tin- Secretary of the Navy. I suppose the eolnlil.'i lulel' of tilt* Lent lias it loil,ay as liis autlmrity for *'11 i11tf this man in his luittl i-ustotly. i lie rule adopted oh lioaul the ships i! which 1 have met I he Man With i;f a Country" was, I think, transmiti I from tin- Iit-pinning. No mess likeil have 11i111 permanently, because his pre , ||| ,,n all talk of lioine or of he prospect of return, <>f polities or h Iters, of peace or of wttr?cut off mere than half the talk men like lo has f al sea. I bit it was always thought ' > hard that ht> should never meet tlie 'at of us, except to touch hats, and we filially sank into one system. He is not permitted to talk with the ie11 unless mi ollicer was by. With ers lie had unrestrained inter J./urso, as far as they and lie eliose. l;<:t lie grew shy, though lie had favor cs I was one. Then tlie captain always asked hiia to dinner on Monday. I . ry n.ess in succession took up the imitation in its turn. According to the i/.e of the ship, you had him tit your j. ss mole or less often at dinner. Mis I rcakfast he ate in Ids own stateroom lie always had a stateroom?which w is where a sentinel or somebody on the watch could see tla1 door. And whatever else he ate or drank ho ate or drank alone. Sometimes, when the a vines or sailors litt*1 any special Jollusion to it. He had almost nil the foreign papers that en me into the ship sorer or later, only somebody must go over them lirst and cut out any advertisement or stray paragraph that ai od"d to America. Phillips told me :i siory of *omething wiileli happened at the <'ape of (lood Hope on Nolan's lirst opiiu'e, and it is the only thing I ever K11* w of tlmt voyage. Phillips had i hi will a lot <>f Kuylish hooks from mi oflh'i*r, which in those days, as in- I ili'i-d in these, was <|tlili- a windfall. ' Antony tliein, as the devil would order, was the "Pay of the Past Minstrel," which they had all of tliein heard of. Iii.t. which most of tliein had never se n. | think it could not have hocn I 11hiIsh' il long. Well, nohody thought tie-re couid he any risk of anything n i | tional in that, so Nolan was permit I ted to Join the circle one afternoon ' when a lot of them sat on deck smok lay and readiny aloud. Nolan took the hook and read to the others, and lie read very well, as 1 know. N'ohodv in the circle knew a line of the poem, only it was all muyic and border chivalry and was lo.ouo years ayo. Poor Nolan rend steadily throiiyh the fifth canto, stopped a minute and drank something and then began, without a thought of what was coming: "Urcatlies there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself tpith said. ""Jhi* is my own, my native land?'" 'then they all saw >mctliiuy was to C _\<m W lW W"Ii f" .'J " '^"-v.yyf suppose, turned a little pale, but plunged on: "Whoreheart hath no'er within him burned As home Ills footsteps he hath turned From wanderliiK on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well." By this time the men were all beside themselves, wishing there was any way to uiake him turn over two pages, but he had not quite presence of mind for that. He gagged a little, colored crimson and staggered on: "For him no minstrel ruptures swell, lligh though his titles, proud his name, ltou ml less his wealth as wish can claim. Despite these titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentrated all in self"? And here the poor fellow choked, could n>?t go on. hut started up, swung the book into the sea, vanished into his stateroom, "ami. by Jove," said Phillips, "we did not see hint for two months again. And 1 had to make up some beggarly story to that Knglish surgeon why I did not return Ills Waller Scott to him." That story shows about the time when Nolan's braggadocio must have broken down. At tirst they said he took a very high tone, considered his imprisonment a mere farce, affected to enjoy the voyage, and all that, but PhlllS,,.. unl.l I1...1 1 ? his stateroom he never was the same innn again. lie never read aloud again unless it was the ltible or Shakespeare or something else he was sure of. He was always shy afterward when I knew him very seldom spoke unless lie was spoken to, except to a very few friends. lie lighted up occasionally, hut generally he had the nervous, tired look of a heart wounded man. Nolan's transfer at sen to the War-* ren was the first of some twenty such transfers, which brought him sooner or later Into half our best vessels, hut which kept him all his life at least some hundred miles from the country he had hoped he might never hear of again. It may have been on that second < ruJ.se it was once when he was up the .Mediterranean?that Mrs. (iratT, the celebrated southern beauty of those days, danced with him. They had been a long time in the bay of Naples, and the ollieers were very intimate in the English Heel, and there had been great festivities, and our men thought the.v must give a great hall on hoard tin* ship. They wanted to use Nolan's stateroom for something, and they hated to do it without asking him to the ball, so the captain said they might ask him it" they would he responsible that lie did not talk with the wrong people, "who would give him intelligence." For ladies they had the family of tile American consul, oue or two travelers who had ventured so far and a nice bevy of English girls and matrons, perhaps Iauly Hamilton herself. As the dancing went on. Nolan and , our follows :i 11 got at oust', as 1 said? ' so much so that it seemed quite natural for liim (o how to that splendid Mrs. draff and say: "1 laqas you have not forgotten me, Miss Itullcdge. Shall I have tlie honor of dancing'.'" lie diil il so quickly that Shuhrlck, who was by him, could not hinder ti'in. She laughed and said: q am not .Miss itutledge any longer, Mr. Nolan, but 1 will dance all the same," just nodded to Shuhrlck as if to say he must leave Mr. Nolan to her and led him off to the place where the dance was forming. Nolan thought lie had got Ids chance. He had known her at Philadelphia, an 1 at other places had met her and this was a godsend. He sniil holdly? a little pale, she said, as she told me the story years after: "And what do you hear from home. Mrs. draft"/" And that splendid creature looked through him. Jove! how she must have looked through him! "Home!! Mr. Nolan!!! I thought you were tho man who never wanted to hear of home again!" And she walked directly up the deck to her husband and left poor Nolan alone, as he always was. Fie did not dance again. A happier story than either of these I have told is of the war. In one of the great frigate duels with the English. in which the navy was really baptized, it happened that a round shot from the enemy entered one of our ports square and took right down the officer of the gun himself and almost every man of the gun's crew. As the mrgeon's people were carrying off the fiDdx-H there appeared Nolan in his Miirt sleeves, wltli the rn minor In his tin ml, si ml. Just us if ho had lioon the ollieer, total thoin <>IT with iiuihority who should go to the cne<;pit with tho 1 wouiidod nioii. who shoir'd stay with hint. porfeetly clu'ory and with Hint way which inn Ices men feel sure till Is right and is going to lie fi^rlit. And ho i tin! died loading the gun with Ills own hands, aimed It and hndc the men flif. And there he stayed, captain of that Kiin, keeping those follows in spirits . till tho enemy struck. The captain walked forward by way of eio oursg itiK the inoii, and Nolan touched his hat and said: "I am showing them how we do this , In the artillery. sir." And this is a part of the story whore | all tho loKonds name that the commodore said. "I see you do, and I thank you. sir. and I shall never forget this day, sir. and von never shall, sir." And after the whole tiling was over and he had tho luiglisliuuiirs sword Iii the midst of the state iiml ceremony of the rpiartordoek lie said: i "Where is Mr. Nolan? Ask Mr. No. Ian to come here." And when Nolan came the enntnin enid: "Mr. Nolan. wo ;ir?> nil very Krntefui to you today. You are imc of ns today. You will !>?? named in the dispatches." And tlion ttic* old man took oft hi* own swonl of ceremony and jtuve It to Nolan and made him put It on. The man told no* this who saw it. Nolan ?ri?d lik*? a hahy. and well ln? might. Ho had not worn a sword since that infernal day at Fort Adams. The captain did mention him in the dispatches. It was always said he asked that he might la* pardoned, lie wrote a special letter to the secretary of war. Mut nothing ever came of It. As I said. Mint was about the time when they hcgiln to ignore the whole transaction at Washington. I 1 * I I MB PART II. i U ylOLiAN must have been In every ' I V aea and yet almost never on ^ land, lie told uie once, with a ! i_J crave smile, that no man in tbc 1 world lived so methodical a life as he. I ' "You know the boys say I am the Iron ' Mask, and you know how busy be 1 was." lie said it did not do for any ' one to try to read all the time more ' than to do anything else ail the time, I ; but that he read Just Ave hours a day. I "Then," lie said, "I keep up my note- ' I books, writing in them at such and such hours from what I have been reading, and 1 include in them my i scrapbooks." These were very cuvlous I indeed. He had six or eight, of different subjects. There was one of his- i tory, one of natural science, one which in* eniieu onus una onus." But they were not merely books of extracts from newspapers. They had hits of plants and ribbons, shells tied on and carved scraps of bone and wood, which lie had taught the men to cut for him, and they were beautifully illustrated. Till he grew very old. healwnys went aloft a great deal. He always kept up his exercise, and 1 never heard that he was ill. If any other man wns ill he was the kindest nurse in the world, and he knew more than half the surpcnns do. Tlietf If anybody was sick or ; died, or if the cuptaiu wanted him to ! on any other occasion, he wus always ! ready to read prayers. I have remarked that he read beautifully. My own acipiaiiitance with l'hlllp Nolan began six or eight years after the war. on my tirst voyage after I ' was appointed a midshipman. It was in the tirst days after our slave trade treaty, while the reigning house, which was still the house of Virginia, had still a sort of seiitimentallsm about the suppression of the horrors of the Mid IN* Passage, and something was some times done that way. 1 tirst came to understand anything about "the man I without a fountry" one day whou we , overhauled a dirty little schooiiei | whieli liatl slaves on hoard. An oMee'? was sent to take charge ??f her. and | after a few minutes he sent haek Ids ( hoat to ask that some one might lie sent him who eould speak Portuguese We were all looking over the rail when lie message canie, rod \re all wished \ we <0111(1 interpret when tla> eaptain asked who spoke Portuguese. Hut none ^ of the otlieers did. and just us the eup ( tain was sending forward to ask if any ( <?f the people eould. Nolan stepped oil and said he should he glad to Interpret if the captain wished, us he understood the language. The captain thanked him. titled out another hoat with him <nd in this hoat it was my luek to no. When we got there it was such a scene as yon seldom see and never want to. Nastiness heyond account, nut < linos run loose in the midst of the mistiness. The negroes were, most of iliein. out of the land and swarming all round the dirty deck, with a central thrmig surrounding Vaushan and ad dressing hitti in every dialect and pa lois of a dialect, from I he Zulu click up *>i lhe Pari, iaii of Itolodcljerevtl. As w.i en mo on deck Vaughun looked down from a hogshead on which he had mounted in desperation and snid: "for i J oil's love, is there anybody I who can make these wretches under stand soiuetliing?" Nolan said he eould speak Portuguese and one or two line looking 'Kromueu ui'iv dragged out. who, as it hail Ihm'ii roiital already, had worked foi flu- I 'oil ugue.se at Fernando I'o. "Tell I hem lliey are free," said Vaughun. "and tell thein that these raseals are to lie hanged as soon as we ean get rope enough." Nolan explained it in such I'ortu , gttese as the Krooinen eould under| stand and they in turn to such of the negroes .as could understand thein. I Then there was such a yell of delight, ' c'iiichitig of tisjs. leaping and dancing. k'svijitf of Vol"..- 'iixt not a genor.ll r us it made to the hogshead by way of spontaneous worship of Vaugiiau as the dens ex inuehiiia of the occasion. '1TII theui," said Vanghan, well pleased, "that I will take thein all to Cape l'alinua." II.is did not answer so well. Cape l'almas was practically as far from the homes of most of them as New Orients or Itio Janeiro was that is. they w o 11:11 be eternally separated from home (here. Ami their interpreters, as we eould understand, instantly said, "Ah. nun l'almas,'* and began to propose inlinite other expedients iu most voluble language. Vanghan was nitln r disappointed at this result of Ills liberality and asked Nolan eagerly what they said. The drops stood on poor Nolan's white forehead as he hushed the men down, and said: "lie says 'Not I'aluias.' He says. Take us home, take us to our own country, take us to our own house. lake us to our own piekauinuies and our own wouuMi.' Anil this one Hays," elioked out Nolan, "that he has not heard a word from his home in six mouths, while he has heen locked lip in mi infernal hurra coon." Yaiighaii always said he grew pray himself while Nolan struggled through this interpretation. I, who did not understand anything of the passion in volved in it. saw that the very elements were melting with fervent lient and that something was to pay somewhere. Kven the negroes themselves stopped howling as they saw Nolan's agony and Vaughan's almost equal agony of sympathy. As quick as he could get words, lie said: "Tell them yes, yes. Tell them they shall go to the Mountains of the Moon if they will. If l sail the schooner through the ("treat White desert they shall go home!" And after Home fashion Nolan said mo. And they all fell to kissing him and wanted to ruh his nose witfi theirs, (hit he could not stand it long, and, ' getting Vaughan to say he might go hack, he beckoned me down into our | boat As we lay hack In the stern sheets and the men gave way, he sahl to me: "Youngster, let that show you what It Ik to lie without a family, ( without a home and without a conn- I I try. And if you are ever tempted to i say a word or to do a thing that shnll ' put a bar between you and your family. your home and your country, pray (tod in his mercy to take you that instant home to his own heaven. Stick by your family, boy. Forget you have a self, while you do everything for i theui. Think of your home. boy. Write [ and semi and talk ubout it. Let it be \ nearer Hud nearer to your thought the rush hack to it when jou are tree, a* that poor black slave Is doing now. Aud for your country, boy," and the words rattled In his throat, "and for that (lag." and he pointed to the ship, 'never dream a dream but of serving her us she bids you, though the service carry you through a thousand hells. No matter what happens to you, no matter who flutters you or who abuses you, never look ut another Aug. never let a night pass hut you pray Uod to bless thut ting. Remember, boy, that behind all those men you have to do with, behind ollloers uud government and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and that you belong to her as you belong to j'our own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother If those levils there hnd got hold of her today!" I was frightened to denth by his calm, hard passion, hut 1 blundered Jilt that I would, by all that was holy. inu uiat i nail never thought or doing inything else. lie hurilly seemed to hear me, hut he did, almost in a whisper; say, "Oh, If anybody had said so to lue when I was of you age!" I think it was this half confidence of tils, which I never abused, for 1 never told this story till now. which afterward made us great friends. He was very kind to me. When we parted from him In St. Thomas harbor at the sad of our cruise 1 was more sorry than I cun tell. 1 was very glad to iieet him again in 19.10. and later in life, when 1 thought I had some influence in Washington. I moved heaven and narth to have him discharged. Hut It was like getting a ghost out of prison rhey pretended there was no such man ind never was such a man. (They will lay so at the department now! There Is a story that Nolan met Burr nice on one of our vessels, when a party of Americans came on hoard in the Mediterranean. Hut this I believe to he a lie; or. rather. It Is a myth, well round, involving a tr? mendous blowing up with which he sunk Hurr?asking him how he liked to be "without a country." After that cruise I never saw Nolan igaiu. I wrote to him at least twice a year.for ill that voyage we became even confidentially Intimate; but he never wrote to me. The other men tell me [ii.ii in inose nrtccn years He aged very fast. And now It seems tbe dear old fellow is dead. He lias found a home it last, and a country. Since writing tills I have received from Danforth. who Is 011 board tho Levant, a letter which gives an account of Nolan's Inst hours. It removes all my doubts about telling tills story. To understand the tlrst words of tile letter the nonprofessional reader should remember that after 1817 the position of every officer who had Nolan in charge was one of the greatest delicacy. The government bnd failed to renew the order of 1807 regarding him. What was a innn to do? Should he let hitn go? What. then. If he were called to account by the department for violating the order of 1807? Should he keep him? What, then, if Nolan should tie liberated some day mid should bring an action for false Imprisonment or kidnaping against every man who had had him I11 charge? The secretary always said, as they so often do at Washington, that there were no special orders to give and that we must act on our owu judgment. Ilere is the letter: Levant. 2' 2" B. @ 131* W. I'car Fred-I try to Ibid heart and life So 1 ell you that it Is all over with dear old N? I.tn. The doctor had been watching hbii very iweftillv and yesterday morning came to me and told ine that Nolan was not so well and bad not left his stateroom, a tiling 1 never remembered before. 11c ho.I let the doctor crniin <ii.il hoc hiin nc lm luv there, the tirft time ttie doctor hud In-ill In the stateroom, and lie said he should like to see me. oil, deur, do you rei ember the mysteries we hoys used to i11\ ?tit uhout his room in the old Intrepid dii\s? Well I went in. iindVlicre, to be sine, the poor fellow lay in his berth, siu.iing pleat mtl> us he nave me his iiai d, lint looking very frail. I could not hei i a glance lo'Jtiil, winch showed me w i at a little shrilie he had made of the li'.\ lie was lying In. The stars and stripes We. > triced up above and around a picture of Vnshiiuttoii, an I lie h. d painted a mau i ie eagle. with lightnings blazing front In. Iieak and iiis foot just clasping the wti .ie globe which his w Iiiks overshadowed The dear old boy saw my glance and said, with a sad smile, "Here, you see. 1 have u country." And he pointed to the foot of Ins lied, where I had not seen before n great map of the t'nlted States as ho had drawn it from memory and which he had there to look upon as lie lay. Quaint, queer old names were on it In large letters. "Oh. Danforth," he said. "1 know 1 am dying. 1 cannot get home. Surely you will tell nie something now? stop, stop! Do not speak till i say what 1 tun sure you know?that there Is not In this ship, that there is not in America? God bless her!? a more loyal man than I. Theie cannot he a mnn who loves the old Hag as I do or praj s for It as 1 do or hopes for It as I d->. There are thirty-four stars in it now, Danforth. 1 thank God for that, though I do not know what their riuMii-s are. There has never been one taken away. 1 thank God for that. I know by that that there has never been any successful lturr. Oh, Danforth. Danforth,'" lie sighed out. "tell me-tell me something?tell me everything Danforth before I die!" Ingham, I swear to you that I felt like a monster that I had not told him everything before. Danger or no danger, delIcaey or no delicacy, who wus 1 that I should have been acting the tyrant all this time over this dear, sainted old man who had years ago expiated in his whole manhood's life the madness of u boy's treason? "Mr. Nolan," said I, "I will tell you everything you ask about, only where shrill 1 begin?" Oh. the blessed smile that crept over hit white face! And he pressed my hand and said: "God bless you! Tell me theli names," he said, and he pointed to the stars ori the (lag. Well, I told him the numes In as good order as I could, and he bade me take dov\n his beautiful map and draw them In as I best could with my pencil. He was wild with delight about Texas; told rno how his brother died there. He had marked a gold Cross where he supposed his brother's grave was, and he had guessed at Texas. Then he was delighted as he saw California and Oregon. That, he said, lie had suspected partly becaus? he had never been permitted to land on that shore, though the ships were thort so much "And the men," suid be, laugh Ing, "brought off a good deal beside* furs." Then he went buck?heavens, how far!?to ask about the Chesapeake and what was done to Barron for surrendering her to the 1-eopard, and whether Hurt ever tried again, and be ground his teetl; with ths only passion he showed. But It a moment that was over, and he said "God forgive me, for I am sure I forgivt him." Then he asked about the old wai and settled down more quietly and verj happily to hear me tell In an hour tht history of flfty years. How I wished It had been somebodj who knew something! I tell you, Ingham It was a hard thing to condense the his tory of half a century Into'that talk wltl a sick man. And 1 do not now knoe what I told hint of emigration and th< means of IV of steamboats and railroadi tifammnmmmmssBmsnBB ad telegraphs, of Inventions and book a and literature, of the oolleges and West Point and the naval school, but with the queerest Interruptions that ever you heard, oi You see. It was Koblnson Crusoe asking y, all the accumulated questions of fifty-six years. I remember he asked all of a sudden 0 who was president now, and when I told him he asked If Old Abe was General Benjamin Lincoln's son. He said he met w old General Lincoln when he was quite a , boy himself at some Indian treaty. J said no; that Old Abe was a Kentucklan, like Si ! himself, but 1 could not tell him of what ; family. He had worked up from the p j ranks. "Good for btm!" cried Nolan. "1 f am glad of that. A4' 1 have brooded and it wondered I have thought our danger was In keeping up those regular successions In the first families." I told him every- ! thing i could think of that would show n the grandeur of his country and Its prosperity. w And he drank it in and enjoyed It as 1 cannot tell you. He grew more ahd more silent, yet 1 never thought he was tired or faint. I gave him a glass of water, but he Just wet his lips and told me not ^ to go away. Then he asked me to bring the Presbyterian Book of Public Prayer, Which lay there, and Bald, with a smile. It that It would open at the right place. sj and so it did. There was his double red mark down the page, and I knelt down and read, and he repeated with me, I] "For ourselves and our country, O graclous God. we thank thee, that, notwithstanding our manifold transgressions of M thy holy laws, thou hast continued to us J thy marvelous kindness." and so to the end of that thanksgiving. Then he turned to the end of the same hook, and I read IV the words more familiar to me, "Most u heartily we beseech thee with thy favor to behold and bless thy servant, the pres- y Ident of the United Htates. and all others n In authority," and the rest of the Episcopal collect. "Danforth." said be, "I have repeated those prayers night and morn- it ing?it is now fifty-five years." And then g he said he would go to sleep, tie bent me down ovi^ hint and kissed me, and he said, "l.ook In my Bible. Danforth, a when 1 ant gone." And I went away. But I hud no thought It was the end. 1 thought be was tired and would sleep. I knew be was happy, and I wanted him to q be alone. But in an hour when the doctor went In t< gently he found Nolan had breathed his life away with a smile. He had something pressed close to his lips. It was his father's badge of the Order of Cincinnati. , We looked In his Bible, and there was " a slip of paper at the place where he had p marked the text: . "They desire a country, even a heavenly: wherefore God Is not ashamed to be S called their God: for he hath prepared for. r them n city." On this slip of paper he had written: P "Bury mo In the sea. It has been my home, and I love It. But will not some p one set up a stone for my memory at Fort Adams or at Orleans, that my dls- " Kruce muy not nc more man X ought to t bear? Say on It: ^ "In memory of PHILIP NOLAN. V Lieutenant In tho army of t the United State*. "He loved his country as no other man has loved her, hut no man deserved leas at her hnnds." t t TAX EXECUTIONS b Under and by virtue of nuthority b contained in certain tax executions b issued by W. A. Douglass, county treasurer, and directed to me, I have j; levied upon and will sell for cash to r the highest bidder before the court house door in Chesterfield on the (] first Monday in June, next, the fol- ? lowing estates to wit: 10 acres in Mt. Croghan Township, known as Joseph Miles land. \ One house and lot in town of Ches- j Lerfield known as Randall Hammond v property. One house and lot in the town of Cheraw, known as R. J. Brewer lot. 2 lots and buildings in the town of ( McBee, known as Mrs. M. E. Rd, .fcrs' lots. < D. P. DOUGLASS, Sheriff. j 1 MASTER'S SALE f STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD. | Pursuant to a decree heretofore grunted in the case of J. W. Atkinson, plaintiff, against I. P. Manguni, Clerk of Court, as administrator of 1 estate of H. T. Taylor, I will offer for sale before the court house door In Chesterfield, S. C., on the first 1 Monday in June, (same being the Ith), to the highest bidder for cash, within the legal hours of sale, the 1 following real estate, to wit: all thai i >iece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in the County of Chesterfield, Suite of South Carolina, bounded as follows: On the North by . hurch lands; East by lands of T. 1 Lancaster public road, and West by W. Laney; South by Chesterfield nnd VV. M. Taylor, same containing twen' ty-lhree ('23) acres. P. A. MURRAY, Jr. i Master for Chesterfield County, ilanna & Hunley, attys for pf. ! STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD. Pursuant to a Decree heretofore granted in tho case of Mary R. Wat 1 I son, et nls, against John W. Hurst, I , will olTVr for sale before the Court | 1 House door in Chesterfield, S. C., on , ! the fiirst Monday in June, (same being the 4th), within the legal hours , | of sale, to the highest bidder for . eash, the following real estate, to ' wit: , ! First, that tract of land in the i above State and County, contain ' 1 ing one hunded (100) acres, more or | less, bounded North by lands of Wil- J > liam Burr, and Neil Smith, East by J | lands of J. W. Hurst, and P. T. 1 I Hurst, South by lands of J. D. Smith I and West by lands of W. A. Burr I | and Minnie L. Pate; 1 * Second, that tract of land in the > ' above State and County, containing t t forty-seven (47) acres, more or less, I | bounded North and West by E. I). < ' Goodale, East and South by lands I i of T. C. Melton; i 1 Third, all that tract of land in the I i above State and County, containing t r twenty-six and one-half (26V4) < , acres, more or less, bounded North by lands of J. H. Odom and others, 1 ' | East and South by estate lands of < 1 Mrs. Rebecca Evans and West by 1 | lands of A. L. White. _ \ ; P. A. MURRAY.jglB .Maatf^^^jtatertoid jflBH ' ? ^m SNOW HILL Farmers are taking a great deal f interest in their gardens this We welcome Mr. and Mrs. Brooks J f Anson county to our community. i Masters Henry and Robert Davis | -ere in Wadesboro Sunday. 1 Mrs. J. W. Gulledge has been quite i ick for the past week. 1 The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. ^ en Brock died last Saturday mornig and was buried Sunday. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. K. Pittman, of about two miles H orth of here, died Saturday and 4VW as buried Sunday morning. 3 BETHEL i Mr. Robert Boone is quite sick but | re hope for him a speedy recovery. | TUn ~1 1 - A- D a 1 1 m. uv oviiv/ui tiusuu (it uuy fl ist Friday after a successful term of (| ix months. 1 Miss Verdie Davis and Miss Bertie >ouglass deserve the gratitude of the '> ntire community for the efficient tjfl 'ork they have accomplished here uring the past session. There was an ice cream supper at jjfl Ir. and Mrs. John CampbcHjtaSat- .1 rday evening, where manjaMf the oung folks enjoyed themselves imtensely. Mr. Will Campbell and family viewed relatives Saturday night and " 4 unday. Mr. Sidney Smith, of Ruby, visited t the home of Mr. J. A. Davis SunMr. and Mrs. Duncan, Miss Lizzie , lampbell and Lonnie Sellers motored 9 McBce Sunday. -AM [ . Y. j<jJ PALMETTO Mr. Clinton Cassidy, of Middens^^^^fl orf, died at his home on May 4th, enumonia. He left seven daughter* nd one son, five brothers and three isters to mourn his death. The beeaved family have the deepest symathy of the community. Messrs. Guss Clanton and Hobson mirymple and Miss Mamie Watworth nd sister and Miss Alma Dease moorcd to Sugar Loaf Mountain Sun- ' ay. They spent Sunday evening *! villi Mr. Clanton's parents. Messrs. Duncan and Charlie Clanon were the quests of Mips Estelle nd Crete Sims Sunday evening. Mr. Will Brown, of Mktdendorf, aHB ook the examination for admission jpj o the navy and passed successfully, >ut was turned dojvn on account of lis youth. We arc glad to have him tack with us again. Mr. Jessie Sellers, of Rockingham, s spending a few days with his paents. Mr. E. 0. Sellers and wife were the linner guests of Mr. Seller's parents Sunday. Sunday school is progressing nicely it Palmetto. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. We nvite everybody to come and join vith us. PATRICK Mr. T. S. Buie visited relatives in !Tieraw Friday. Mr. I). S. Brower and fnmily left Saturday for Liberty, N. C., where hey will spend several days. Mr. J. I. Fisher, of Mt. Holly, N. C., is reieving Mr. Brower as agent for the ieabord. Mr. C. S. Drippers left Saturday 'or treatment at the Hamlet hospital. 3r. Earle accompanied him. Mr. C. B. Buie and sister, Miss Dlaru, spent Saturday with relatives n Patrick. Mr. B. Stutts, of Hamlet, is reliev- j ng Mr. Driggers on the railroad while I 10 is away at the hospital. Mr. T. S. Buie left Sunday f^.^ort Oglethorpe, Ga., where he will .ake the three months' officers' trainng course. >1 SH1LOH I Mr. W. E. Therrell has returned I tome after a treatment in John Hop- 1 <ins Hospital. 1 Misses Pearl and Bertie Therrell 1 ipent the latter part of last week in M iss Ella Johnson visited at the tome of Mr. John Hurst Sunday_ af;ernoon. ? Children's Day here Sunduy prove</^MH|j luite a success. There was a large ongregation present. ^ We are glad to know that Mr. W. D. Therrell is on the way to recov- -'J* The people of this community are *< ittending the meetings at ChesterMr. and Mrs. L. S. Therrell visted at the home of Mr. Hampton l'urnage Saturday and Sunday. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J; E. L. Therrell has been very sick, but % Ij ve are glad to report is improving- "i Miss Pearl Therrell was jn town 3 Wednesday shopping. MASTER'S SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLI^L, BOUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD. ..i Pursuant to a decree heretofore (ranted in the case of W. T. Ball, aa issignee against B. F. Coward, J Eliza J. Coward and A. T. Boan, de- , p| fendants, 1 will offer for sale, before ne court House door in Chester- H ^ ield, S. C., on the first Monday in lune, (same being the 4th), between ' he legal hours of sale, to the highest Didder for cash, the following real J flH state, to wit: all that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, ly- vS| ng and being in the County of Ches.erfield, and the State aforesaid, conaining seventy-five (75) acres, move ;!jg >r less, and bounded as follows: flB On the North by lands of Jas. and >.88 3. C. Huntley; on the East by lands >f R. B. Laney; on the South by 11 ands of B. F. Coward, and on the fU West by lands of I. B. Merriman. M P. A. MURRAY, Jr.