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Show BEBBJBBBBIBBaaBaBrar'y-w'raaa """1 X5q Marv Witkout A Country & Edward Everett Hale him, very xctriom spnrce, unless he WHS spoken to. except to n very few friends, lie lighted up occasionally, 1 remember late in his life hearing lit tn fniriy chmuent on something which had been suggested to him by one of riechler's sermons, but gener- nlly he had the nervous, tlreii look of a heart-wounded man. When Captain Rhaw was coming hone if. ns 1 say, it was Bhaw rather rath-er to the surprise of everybody they made one of the Windward Islands, and lay off ami on for nearly a week. The boys said the Officers "ere sick of salt junk, and mean! to have turtle tur-tle soup before they entile home. Hut after several days the Warren came to the same rendezvous; they exchanged signals; she sent to I'hinips and these homeward-bound men letters and papers, pa-pers, and told them she was outward hound, perhaps to the Mediterranean. mid took poor Nolan ami his traps on the boat back to try his s mil cruise. lie looked very blank when he was told to net ready o Join her. lie had known enough of the sitfns of the sky J I J ffl ft ; es V 1 V lA " Turned a Little Pale but Plunged On. to know that till that moment he was going "home." Bul this was a dls Unci evidence of something he had not thought of, perhaps, that there was no going home for I1I111, even to u prison. And this was the lir-t of Some twenty such transfers, which brought him .sooner or later Into hail' our best vessels, ves-sels, but which kepi him all his Ufa tit least some hundred miles from the country he had hoped he miht never hear of again. It may have been on that second CrulSG it Was nine when he was up 1 Ik- Mediterranean that .Mrs. Qraff, the celebrated Southern beauty of those days, danced with him. They I.:. 'I been l'llli II UlUg tilllt' ill tile I'.a.v of Naples, and the officers were very intimate In the Bugllsh Beet, and there had been greul festlvlUes, and our men thouKht they must give a great ball on board the ship. How they ever did it on board the Warren I am Huro I do not know. Perhaps it was not the Warn 11, or perhaps ladies did not take up so iiiu.li room as they (In now. They wanted to use Nolan's stateroom for something, and they hated to do it without unking him to the ball; so the captain auld tiny ti i.iiit ask linn. If they would be re-aponslble re-aponslble thul he did not talk with the wroug people, "who would give him Intelligence," So the dance went on, the liuesi party thai hud ever been known, I date sn ; for I never heard of a man-of-war hull thai was not. For ludlea they had the family of the American conxul, one or two travelers who had adveutured so far, and a nice bevy of English girls and matrons, perhaps per-haps LuU) i I Illllll t 1 HI ll.'I'self. Well, dlfferi 'it officers relieved ol 1 1 1 i- in Btllll lltlg and tulklng Wit li Nolan No-lan in a friendly way, no as to be sure t 1 1: . t nobody else -poke to him. The dancing went on with spirit, and after a while oven the fellows who took this honorary guurd of Nolan ceused to feur any contretemps, Only when some ISngllsh lady Lady Hamilton, us I iii'l. perhaps, 1 ailed for a set of "American dancers," Dn "'Id thing happened hap-pened ICver.vhody then danced con-tredances. con-tredances. The black bund, nothing loath, couforred as to what "American llnnces" were, and started off with "Virginia Reel," which thoy followed with "Mone) Musk." which, in its turn iu those days, should have been followed fol-lowed by 'The Old Thirteen." But i'l-t as pick, the leader, tapped for his tiddlers to begin, and bent forward, about to say. in true negro state, " The Old Thirteen.' gentlemen and ladies:" as he '"id said, " 'Vlrglnny Kee,' If you pleuse ! Monej Musk,' If you pleas,:" the eaptuln'i hoy tapped nlm on the shoulder, whlapered to him, and in- did not announce the name of the dunce; he merely bowed, began on the air, and they all fell to, the officer offi-cer t' aching the 1 111 h girls the figure, bul not telling them why it had no name. Bul thai is not the story l started to tell. As the date inn went on. No-hill No-hill and our fellows all got at ease, as I said. So much so thai it one nod quite natural for him to how to that splendid Mrs. Qraff, and Ray : "i hop.' you hare not forgotten me, Miss Butledge. shall I have the honor hon-or of duuctngT" tie del it so quickly that Bhubrlck, who was by him, could not hindor him. she laughed ami said: "I am not Miss Rutledge any longer, Mr. Nolan: but I will dance all the same." Just nodded to Shubrick. us If to suy he must leave Mr. Nolan to iter, and led him off to the place where ths dance as forming. Nolan thought he bad got his chance, lie had known her at riiiladclphiu, and at other places had met her ami thU was a godsend. You could not talk In contrcdances, as you do In cotillions, nr even in the pnusen of wattling; bul there were chances for tongues and sounds, as well as for eyes ami Mushes, lie began with her travels, and Knrope, and Vesuvius, and the French; and then, when they had worked down, and had that long talking talk-ing time at tic bottom of the set. he siihl boldly, 11 little pale, she said. Bl she told me the story, years after: "And what do you hear from lnuiie, Mrs. QraffT" And that splendid creature looked through him. Jove I how she must have looked through him I "Home! I Mr. Nolan!:! I thought you were the man who never wanted to hear of home again I" and she walked directly Up the deck to her husband, and left poor Nolan alone, as he always was. lie did not dance iikiiiu. I cannot j;ie any history of him In order; nobody can now; and. Indeed, T . .-..1 ... re... .1. ..... 11 iu 111 11 1 1 j 11 ik 01. 1 lli'-r 11 1 e 1 lie I lll- dltlons, which 1 sort out, as I believe them, from the myths which have been told about this man for forty years. The fellows used to say he was thtl "Inm Mask ;" and poor George Pons went to his grave In the belief that this was the author of ".luuius." who was being punished for his celebrated libel on Thomas Jefferson. Pons was not very strong In the historical line. ! A happier story than either of these I 1 have told is of the war. That came along soon after, t have heard this I affair told In three or four ways, and, Indeed, it may have happened nioro than once, ftut which ship It was ou I cannol tell, However, in one, ut least, of the great frigate duels with the Rngllxh, in which the navy was really Imp tired, it happened thai a round shot from the enemy entered one of our ports square, and took right i down the officer of the jjun himself, and almost every man of the nun's. crew. Now you may soy what you , choose about coiirune, but that Is not ! a line tiling to see. Hut as the men who Were not killed pleked IheinselveH up. and the surgeon's people wet ar- : ryltlg off the bodies, there appealed Nolan, iu his shirt sleeves, with thu I rammer in his hand, and. .just as if U had I n 1 he officer, told them off with i authority who should go to the cock pit with the wounded men. who should tuy With him, perfectly cheery, and Willi that way which makes men feel sure i.ll Is rlghl and is going to be right. And he Dulshed loading the gun with his own hands, aimed It, ami hade the men tire. And there he stayed, captain of that gun, keeping those fellows in spirits, till the enemy struck, sitting on the carriage while the Liin was cooling, though lie was exposed all the time, showing them easier ways to handle heavy shot, making mak-ing 111" raw hands laugh at their own blunders, and when the gut led again, getting II loaded and tiled twiie as often as any other gun on the ihlp, TI tptiilu walked forward, by way of encouraging the men, and Nolan touched hi hal and said : "I am Knowing them how we do thli in the uri lllery, lr." Ami this is u pari of the story where all the legends agree; that the comtuo- d -aid : i eo you do, and I thank you, sir; iiiel I ahll II ie 11 forgcl tin-' day, sir, inn! you nei er shall, .- Ir." And after the whole thing was over, ami lie had the Englishman's iword, In the inldnt of the itute and ceremony of the quarterdeck, he said 1 "Where is Mr. Nolan? Ask Mr. Nolan No-lan tO Collie llele." And when Nolan came, the csptulg .said : ' Mr. Nolan, we are all very grateful to you todtt) I you ale one of us today; you will be named in the dispatches." And ill. ti the old man took off his own sword of ceremony, and gave It to Nolan, and made him put it on. The man told me this who saw it. Nolan cried like a huliy, and well he might, He had not won) a sword since that Infernal da) at l'ort Adams, Bul always al-ways afterward, on occasion of ceremony, cere-mony, he wore thai qualm old French sword of ti ommodore's, i'h" captuln did mention hint In the diiiputches, it was always utd he asked that he nilghl be pardoned 11 wrote a cpeclaJ btier 10 ti cretary of war. Ilul nothing ever came of it. As l said, that was about the tunc - ikii the) began to Ignore the whole transaction at HVaehlngton, and when Nolan's imprisonment began to cany i'olf on because there was nobody to stoji t without any new orders from' b I have heard It said that he was with Poller when he took pOSSeSKlOU of the Ntlknhlwa Islands, .,t this porter, you know. Iml old Porter, his fattier, I . Porter, thai is the old Bsnei Potter not this BsavX. As an artillery artil-lery officer, who had seen serhv In the West, Nolan knew more about for tltications, embrasures, ravellnes, stockades, and all that, than any of them did: and tie worked with a rinht gOOd will iu tlxini,' that battery all I have always thought it was a pity Porter did not leave him lu Command there with Iambic. That would have settled all the question about his punishment, We nhould have kept the Islands, and at this mo tnent We should have one Mation In the I'netflc ocean. Our French friends, too, when they wanted this little Watering Wa-tering place would hae found It Wgl pre-occupled. Hut Madison and the Virginians, of course, flung all that n way. All that was near fifty .Mils ago If Nolan wits thirty then, he lUUSt bBVe been near eighty when he died. He looked sixty when he was forty. Hut he never ncenied to me to change II hair afterward. As I Imagine his life, from what I have seen and heard of it. be must have been in every sea, ami yel almost never on land, lie mil' 1 have known in a formal way, more officers in our service than any man living knows. He told me once, with a grave smile, thai no man in the world lived so methodical 11 life as he. "Vou know the boys say I am the Iron Mask, and you know how busy he was." He said It did not do for anyone to try to nail ail the time, more than to do anything else all the time; hut that he read Just live hours a day. "Then," he said. "I keep up m.v notebooks, note-books, writing in them at rock and such hours from what I have been rending; ami 1 Include in them my scrapbooks." These were very curious iml I. He had six or einht, of different differ-ent Subjects. There was one of hls-lorv, hls-lorv, one of natural science, one which he called "Odds and Kims." Hut they were not merely books of extracts from new papers. They had blls of plants ami ribbons, shells tied on. ami carved scraps of bone and wood, which jeS?v "W M&i . There Appeared Nolan in His Shirt Sleeves. Iii hud taught lite, men to cut for him, ami tiny wire beautifully Illustrated. lie drew admirably, He had some of the funniest drawings there, and mum ill till most pathetic, that I have ever seen iii my life. I wonder who will I have Nolan's Hcrapbooks, Well, in- said his reading and his tioies were his profession, and that tiny look live hours and two hours respectively of each day. "Then," said lie, "every man should have a di-version di-version as well as a profession. My natural history is my diversion." That took two hours a day more. The men used to bring lilm birds and ii -h but on a long cruise be had to satisfy him-self him-self with centipedes and cockroaches and such small game, lie was the only naturalist 1 ever nut who knew an) thing llhoul the habits of the house fly and the mosquito, All those people! can till vou whether they are l.epl-dopicra l.epl-dopicra or Si-piiipoiei a ; but uh for telling how vou can get rid of tbem, or how they gel away from you when you strike them why, Linnaeus knew as little of thai as Johu Foy, the Idiot, did Tin . nine hours made Nolan's regular dally "occupation." The ru 1 of the time ho talked or wnlki d. nil u v cry old, he w out ulofl a gretl ' deal. lie Ulw a.' I lpl Up his e' II 13 and 1 in vef n aid thai he was HI. If any oilier man WUS ill, he WBM the kind cm nurse In the w oi id : and he I i more than half the -ill;,. . ins do, 'i III II if unybod) was sick or died, or if the Cttptuln wanted him to on any other occasion, he was always ready to ir: i prayers. I have remarked that nad beuutlfully. i own acquaintance with I Nolan begun sin oi eight yi the war. on my first voyt I 1 m us appointed u luidshlpn n h us In the ilrst d.,v ufter nui n trade treaty, w bile thu i Imuse, w inch w ns still the I 'o Vi had st. ! a - I I I tlllistll III. out the SUppri i .: ' of t lie middle p. - . id so li'le . il el Iml w 11 . We Were ill tl ! i H believe I though! Nolan was a sort of H plain a chaplain with a blue H coat. I never asked about him. Kv- H cry thing in the ship was stranu'e to H me. I knew It was greeB to ask QUM H lions, and I HtlppOSO I thought there M was a "Plain Tuitions" on every ship. M We li .1 hint to dine in our mess OttCS M a vv i ek, and the eautloti wn- given that M mi that day nothing was to be said M about home. Tail if they bad told us M not to say anything about tin- planet H Mai- the book of Deuteronomy, I M should not have asked Why : there were M a great many things which seemed to M iik lo have as little reason I tlrst sH came to understand anything about M "the man Wtthoirl a couatrv" ore day M when we overhauled a dirty little M schooner Which hid slaves on board. M Aii officer w.i- sent to take charge of M In r. and after a lew minutes be sent M back his boat to ask that someone M mlghl he nenl him who could -peak H Portuguese We were nil looking over M the rail when the message came, and M we all wished we could interpret, when M the inpt.iiii asked who spoke I'or- H tugueao. But none of the officers did; aH and lust as the captain was sending U forward to ask If any of the people bH COUld, N.'lan stepped out and said he OH should he glad to Interpret. If the cap- M 'i wished, iis he understood the tan- gggV gunge. The captuln (hanked him, (It- 1 ted out another boat with him, and iu this boat it was my lurk to go, When we got there, It was sitell a M Cene as vou Seldom and never b in. m to. Nusttness beyond accouut, M ami chaos run loOM in the midst of the U Hastiness, There were not a great maiiv of (he neeroes; hut by way M ' of making what there were understand M that l hey were free, Van, i had had M their I lean's ami ankle. mi's knocked M olT. ami. for convenience' sake, was H putting them upon the rascals of tho iH schooner's crew. The negroes wen', H most of lluiii, out of the hold, gad M Wanning all KUnd the dirty deck, B with a central throni; surrouuilint; H Vaughan and addtmalng him in every H dialect and patois of a dialect, from H the Zulu click up to the Parisian of M Iteledeljereed. H As we came on deck. Valghan H looked down from a hogshead, on H which he had mounted In desperation, H "i'or (iod's love, Is there anybody H who can make these wretches under- H stand something) The men gave them H rum, ami that did not ipilot tlieui. 1 knocked that big fellow down ivviee, H ami that did not soothe him. And then B I talked Choctaw to all of them to- BHJ gether; ami PU he hanged if they tin- deratood that as well as they under- stood the ISngllsh." Nolan said he could speak I'or- HHl tUgUOSe, and one or two line-looking K i a ii limn were dragged out, who, as It LVfll had been found already, had worked flj for the I'ollumiese ou the coast, ut HJ A "Tell thetU they are free," -Mid SBb Vaughan; "and tall them that these BBb rascals are to he handed us soon us we can get rope enough." HH Nolan explained it In such Portu- JH (.'lies,, ns- the Kioiiiiien could under- HHfl stand, and tiny in turn to such of tho negroes as could understand them. HJJ Then there wis such a yell of delight, clinching of lists, leaping am: dancing, HflVJ kissing of Nolan's feet, and a general HBm rush made to the hogshead by way of HH spontt us worship of Vaughau us the dens ex uiai hilia of the Occasion. "Tell tin in." said Vaughan, well flBV pleased, "that I will take them all to H i This did not answer so well. Cape H I'allnas was prttCtlcull) as far from lie hollies of most of them us New Or- H leans or Hlo Janeiro was; thai is, they . mild be eternally separated from home there, And their Interpreters, as we could understand, Instantly said, "Ah. inm Talmas," and began to pro- pose inlinite other expedl'llts in most H voluble innguuge. Vaughan was ruth er disappointed at tins result of hi anH liberality, and asked Nolan eagerly H what they said. The drops stood oil aH poor Nolan's white forehead as ho Laaal hushed the men down, ami said: H 'Hi' says, 'Not I'alinas.' lie says, H 'Take us home, take us to our couu- HH try, take ti- to our own house, take H us to our own pickaninnies and our H own women.' He luyi he has an old H father and mother, who will die. If H they do not see him. And this one aH says he left his pie all -i.lv a. id H puddled down to come ami help them. H and that these devils caught him H the buy ju-t :-hi of home, and fl l,i he has anvl.. ..li ft H homo since then. And tin- one uy H choked out Nolan, "that lias H heard a word from his home H tliollths, while la' li' H an infernul buniicism." gggfl Vaughan eald he HH himself while Nolan gkifl this interpret at Ion, I, who did not iiiO H solved in I'. the BH in. with 1 1 aLfl and that Bomctll Bj . . jD -lopped howling as they -a a Nol H agon; "f sympathy. As qeilck as be H lie gggggl "Tell them yes, tell them they Lafl shall go i" the Mountains ul the Moon. pH will, If I sail th" schooner HH White Desert, thoj fgLa And after mime fushlon Nolun mid 11 Ami Hi. i. they till fell to aH nnil , d to rub his i !- jR,H with tie H Bul he could nol itand it long; and 8S3 getting v to nay be might , Su back, li" beckoned me down Int ir tWM boat. A- we lav buck In the stel I VOT sleets and the mi o ave way, he said , '., to me: "Youngster let that show vou -.; what t is to in- without a family, with- mt n home, and without n country. v in .i are e., r tempted to suy u u ontinued on pgga .-i. I THE WAN WITHOUT I --A COUNTRY- H Word r to '1" I thing fna1 shall put H a Imr between yon and jronr Family, 1 ymir home, and font praj H in iiN mercy to lake ftn that In- H itnnt home to hU own henven. Itteh H b) H ii - i r . while do everything for R tin in Think of yonr home, bo writs B and send, and talk about Let K H I,,- nearer and nearer to your thought, fl ii.,. farther roa have lo travel from it; H and rnsh to it. when you free, as R thai paw bla alave i- doing now. IRlH And t'r your eountry, boy," and tin H worda rattled in Ma throat, "and for 0 thai tin tr." and he pointed to the ship. H "never dream dream bul of tervfhg H her ns ahe hlda though the eerv H ice carry you through a thousand hells. b .. mattef whal bapnena to jrou, no h matter who flatten you or who abtuwa B von. nwiT look lit aimtlier flag, never 0 lei nlghl pn - bul von pray Qod to H bteaa thai flag. Kememoer, hoy, that H behind nil theae men you have to in H with, behind ontcera, and government, B mill people even, there is the country H heraelf, your country, and that you H belong to her aa you belong to yoni H own mother Btand ly her, boy, aa B you would Bland by your mother, If H ttiixi- devlta there had Kt hold of het H I was 1 1 !h'm. nod to deutb by !' , calm, hard paaalon; but i blundered H out that I would, by nil thai VII holy, H atul that I hud never though! of doing H uuythiiiK else, lie hnrilly i 'ined to H henr me; hut he did. almost in a B whisper, sny: "Oh. If nnyhody had H Maid so to ine when I was nf your agel" H I think II wns this Imlf eonfldeni e of B Ills, which I never abused, for I never H told this story till Bjowd, Which after- H ward niuile us great friends, lie was H very kind to me. Often he sat up, or H even got up. at nlghl t walk the deck H with me when it was my wnteh. lie H explained to me a great deal of my H inaihematle.s. lent me hooks, and B helped me about my reading, lie uev- M alluded so directly to ids story H again ; hut from one and another oil! H ear i have learned, in thirty veins. H what I am telling. When we parted H from him in St. Thomas hnrhor. at the H end of our cruise, I was more sorry H than I can tell. I was very glad tO B meet him again in 1830; and later In H life, when I thought I had some In- H linen' e in Vfaahtngton, I moved henv H en and earth to have him discharged, H Hut It wiis like getting a ghost out u H prison. Tiny pretended flu le was no H mu-li man. and never Waa fUCh a man. H They will sny so at the department H now! Perhaps they do not know, it M will not he i he Aral thing In the Berv- H lee of which tin- department appear! H nothing! M There Is a story that Nolan met H Burr once on one of our vessels, when m a party of Americana on board M In the .Mediterranean. Itm this I he ggggfl Ueve to lie a lie; or rather, it Is n M 1 1 1 ill, hen trovaro, Involving I tre B tueiiilous blowlng-Up with which he M sank I'll rr. asking him how he liked H to he "Wtthoul a country." But It is H clear, from Burr'a lite, that nothing H of the son COUld have happened; and B I mention this only as an Illustration M of the stories which get agoing where B there is the least nnMcr) at bottom, H So Philip Nolan had his Wtefa I til tilled, poor fellow, he uepented of Ids M folly, and then, like a man. submitted HB to the fate he had asked lor. lie nev- H er Intentionally added to the difficulty m or delicacy of the charge of those who H had him In hold. Accidents would M happen; hut they never happened from M in- in nit Lieutenant Truxton told M that when Texas was annexed, there HB was a careful tllsi usslon among the M officers, whether they should gel hold H of Nolan's liiilldsome sel oi' maps, and M cut Tea i- out of It, from the map M of the world and the map irf Mexico, H The I'lliled Stales had licen i lit out H when the atlM was bOUglll for him. H llui ii waa voted rightly enough thai M to do this would he virtually t reveul BB to him ii I happened, M Harry Cole said, to make him think H old Hurr So BB troln li, faull of S'olntl'S that a great B hutch hapi in ! .'i nw Ian. for ii horl t Ime, I w n in command "f tbe Oeorue w a-hln."oii corvette, on the (tout It American station. rVe were lung in th I. a Plata, and Some Of the officers, who had been on shore, and bad lust lolned again, were entertain lug us with accounts of their misadventure misad-venture in riding the halt-wild horses of Buenos Aires. Nolan was at table, and Was in an unusually height ami Yt. t VlC J a Hushed the Men Down. talkative mood. Some story of a turn-hie turn-hie reminded him of an adventure of his own, when he wus catching wild horses in Texna with his brother Stephen, Steph-en, at a lime when he must have been quite (i hoy. He told the story with a good deal of spirit so much so, that the silence which often follows a good m ry hung over the table for an In-slant, In-slant, to he broken hy Nolan himself. For he aaked, perfectly unconsciously, "l'my, what has become of Texas'; After the Mexicans got their Indcpenil ence, i thought that province f Texas would coiiie forward very fast. II Is really one of the hheai regions on earth; it is the Italy of this continent. Bul I have not seen or heard n word of Texas for near twenty years." There were two Texan officers at the table, The reason le had never heard of Texas was tlltll Texas ami her affairs af-fairs had been painfully out of his i newspapers since Austin began Ids settlements; so that, while he read of Honduras ami T aulipas. and, till quite lately, of California, this virgin province, in which his brother had i traveled so fur and. l believe, had died, I had ceiiscd to be with him. Walters ami Williams the two Texas men. i looked grimly nl each other, and tried . i mil h, l:i i M-1 1 Kilwnrd Morris hail ids attention attracted hy the third link in the chain of the captain's chaa ' deller Wulroiis was stiz,'d with a C0.V vulslon of Bneealng, Nolan himself saw the something was to pay, lie did , rot know whal. And I, as master of Ihe feast, had to Boy : "Texas s out of the map. Mr. Nolan. No-lan. Have you Been Captain Back's curious account of sir Thomas Roe's Welcome';'' After thai cruise I never saw Nolan No-lan again. I wrote to him at leasl twice a J car, for in that voyage wo became even confidentially Intimate i but lie never wrole to me, 'The other men tell mo that in those fifteen years he aged very fast, as veil he might indeed, bul that be was stMl the i-'nmc gentle, uncomplaining, sllenl sufferer that be ever was, bearing as beat ha j could his -..-ir appointed punishment, rather leas social, perhaps, with new u whom he did not know, hut more anxious, apparent!) than ever to serve and befriend and tench the hoy-, -..me of whom fairly seemed to worship him, And now it seems the dear old fellow Is dead Hi- has found a home at last, ami a country. Since writing thN and while con- slderini w hi ther or no I n mild prlnl II, as a warning lo the young oT today of what It Is to throw away a country. I have roc. Ived from Iianforth, who Is on hoard the Levant, I Idler which gives an account of Nolan's last hours. It ret loves tall my doubts about telling Ihis story. To understand the first words of the letter. the nonprofessional readei should remember that after i si7 the position of every officer who had Nolan No-lan in charge was one of the grentesl delicucj The government had failed to renew the order of 1sn7 regarding him. What w as a man to do? Should he lot him go? What, then, If he were railed to account fly the depart meiit for violating the order of isot? Should he keep him? What, then, If Nolan should he liberated some day and should bring an action for fnlae Imprisonment or kidnaping against i'v ery run ii who had had him In charge! I urged ami pressed this upon South ard, ami I have reason to think that other officers did the same thing. Hut tin- secretary always said, as they so often QO nl Washington, that there wire no special orders to give, and that we must act on our own Judgment, Judg-ment, 'That means. "If you succeed. you wi'i he sustained; if you fail, you will be disavowed." Well, as Hanforth vs. all thai Is over now, though I do not know hut I expose myself to n criminal prosecution on the evidence , of the very revelation l am malting, Hero is the letter: Levant, V 2" S 0 181 V. "I (ear i 'red I try to Hud heart and f! lo tell you Ihat it Is all over With I i dear old Nolan. I have been with him a i : vnynffe more than I ever was. , and l can understand wholly now the v . f in whh h you used lo -peak of the ; dear old fellow. I could see thai he wi not strong, bul I had no Idea that the end w as so near. 'The doctor had I hwn watching him very carefully, and j yesterday morning came to i nui told aie ihat Nolan was not so well ; and had riot left his stateroom a i 'hug I never remember before. He hi i' let the doctor coma and see him as he lay there, the Hist time the doctor had been in the stateroom, and he said le nil Ulll like lo soe inc. Oh. d"tir! do you remember the mysteries we !.., u-iii in invent iihoiit his room, in the Old Intrepid days? Well, 1 went III, and tlufc. to be sure, the poor fellow fel-low lay In his berth, smiling pleasant- I) as he gave me his hand, hut looking look-ing very frail. I could not help a kIi in e round, which showed me what a little shrine he had made of the hn lie wus lying In. The at rs and stripes were triced up above anil around a picture of Washington, and he had painted majestic eagle, with light- ii hl's biasing I roin his beak and Ins foot Just clasping the whole globe, which his wing-, overshadowed. The dear old boy saw my glance, and said, with a sad smile, 'Here, yon Bee, l have :i country!' And then he pointed to the font of his bed, where I h.ol iut seen before u great map of the United i Sia'tes. as he had drawn it from memory, mem-ory, and which he had there to look upon as he lay. Quaint, queer old names were On it. In large letters: Indiana Territory .' 'Mississippi Territory,' Ter-ritory,' and 'Louisiana,' as I supposed our fathers learned such things; hut the old fellow had patched in Texas, too; he had curried his western boundary boun-dary I'll the way to the Pacific, hut on ' thai shore he had defined nothing. "oh. l lariforth,' be said. 'I know l , Mill llIC- I llllllllll hi I lion,,-. ,-mo-- ly you will tell me something nowl Stop! stop! I'o ml speak till I say what I am sure you know, that there Is not in tills ship, that there i- no- in America God blesa her!- a more loyal man than I. 'There cannot be a man who loves the old Hag as I do, or prays for it 08 I do, or hopes for It as I do. 'There are thirty four stars in It now, Danforth. I thank Qod for that, though I do not know what their Dames are. There has never been one luken away; i thank O'd for that. I know by that, thai there has never been any successful Burr. oh. Danforth, Dan-forth, Danforth,' he sighed out, 'how like a wretched night's dream a hoy's Idea Of personal fame or Of separate iveretgnty seems, when one lm.Ns hack on it after such a life as mine: Hut tell i tell me something tell me everything, Danforth, boforu I die!' "Ingham, I Bwen to you thul I fell i monster that 1 had not told lilra everything before., Hanger or no danger, dan-ger, delicacy or no delicacy, who was I that I should have been acting the tyrant all this time over tins dear, miinted old man, who bud years ago ev,iato,l. in his whole manhood's life. the madness of a boy's treason? 'Mr. Nolan ' suld I 'I will tell you everything von ii sk about, Only, where shall I i ill, (he bleaaed smile that crept iVOr his while trice' and he pressed njj iond and dd, "God bleas youl Tell me their names,' he said, and he point ed to the stars on the Hag. The lust I know i . i Mil ' My father lived ill Kentucky, But l hove guessed Mich- . ii n I In linn and Mississippi that w as v here I nit Adams i- they make twenty. Bul where arc your other fourteen? Vou h ive not cut up any of the old ones, ) hope? ell. ih.it wil - lint ii had text, and I told him the numos, In as good order or-der as i could, and he bade me take down bis beautiful map and diaw them in as I I.e. t could With my pencil. He was wild with delight aboul Texna, told me how lu brother died there; he had marked a gold cross where ha supposed his brother's grave was; and he had gUCSSed at TeXBB. 'Then he was delighted as he saw California and Oregon IhBt, he said, he had BUS peeled partly, lieeailse lie had never been permitted to land on that shore, though the ships were there so much. 'And the men,' -aid he, laughing, brought off a good deal hesides furs' Then he went hack heavens, how I far to ask about the Chesapeake, and what n done to BfllTon for sum n-derlng n-derlng her to the I pud. and wheth- , i Burr ever tried again, and he ground his teeth with the only passion he showed. Hut lO a moment that was Over, and he said. "Ood forgive me, for I am sure I forgive him.' 'Then he aaked about the old war -told me the true rtory r ins serving the - i ' ' "Tell Me Their Names," He Said. nun the day we tool; ihe Java asked about dear old David Porter, as he called him. 'Then he settled down more quietly, and very happily, to hear me tell in an hour the history of fifty yearn. "How I wished it had heen some- j -hoily who knew something; But I j did as well as I could. I told him of ; the English war. I told bin aboul I'ui-, I'ui-, ton ami the steamboat beginning, I ! told him aboul old Bcott and Jsckson) i told him all I COUld think about the Mississippi, and New Orleans, and Texss, and his nw u old Kentucky. : And do you know he aaked who was in command of the 'Legion of the WesiV t..ld him It was a very gallant gal-lant officer named Orant, ami that by , our last news, he was about tO estah- lish his headquarters at Vlcksburg, Then. 'Where was Vickshurg?' I i worked that out on the map; It was aboul a hundred miles, more or less. above his old Fori Adams; and 1 thought lort Adams must be ruin now 'It must he at old Nick's plantation,' plan-tation,' .said he; 'well, that Is a hangs !' "I tell vou. Ingham, it was a hard thing to Condense the history of half a century Into that talk with a sick man. And I do not know what I told him of emigration, and the means of it of steamboats and railroads and telegraphs of inventions and hooks and literature of the colleges and West Point and the Naval school but with the queerest Interruptions that ever you heard. You see It was Robinson Crusoe aakfbg all the accumulated accu-mulated questions Of fifty-Six years. "I remember he aaked, all of a sudden, sud-den, who was president now; and when I told him, he asked if old Ahe was lien. I'.en.iainin Lincoln's son. He said he met old General Lincoln, when he was quite a hoy himself, at BOOM Indian treaty. I said no, that old Ahe was a Kentucklan like himself, hut I could not tell him of what family; he had worked up from the ranks. 'Hood for him !' cried Nolan ; T am glad of that. As I have brooded and wondered. won-dered. I have thought our da nger was In keeping Up those regular successions succes-sions in the tirst families,' i ben 1 got talking aboul mj visit to Washington. Wash-ington. I told him of meeting the Oregon Ore-gon congressman, Harding; I told him aboul itnlthaonlan and the exploring expedition; I told him aboul the caui inl find the statues for the pediment and Crawford! "Liberty' and Oreenough'i Washington: Ingham, I told him everything I could think of i that would show the grandeur of his COUntl y and Its prosperit v . 'And he drank It In. and enjoyed It as I cannot tell you. He grew more . and more silent, yet I never thought he was tired or faint. I gave him S glass of water, hut he just wet his lips, and told me not to go away. 'Then he asked me to bring the Presbyterian p.dok of Public Prayer,1 which lay there, and said, with a smile, that It would open at the right place- and so It did. There wis his douhle red mark down the page; I knelt down and read, and he repeat isl with DM, 'For ourselves and our country, 0 gracious gra-cious Qod, we thank thee, that, notwithstanding not-withstanding our manifold transgressions transgres-sions ol thy holy laws, thou hast eon-tinned eon-tinned to us thy marvelous kindness' and so to the end of that thatiksgiv-llijr. thatiksgiv-llijr. Tlun lie turned to the vud of flic same honk, nnd I rend the words more familiar to me: Tstosl heartily we beseech thee with thy favor to ho-hold ho-hold and Mesa thy servant, the prest-li prest-li m of the United States, ami all tie ra iii authority' and the rest of the KpiMiipal collect, 'Hanforth,' said he, 'I have rejieated those .prayers (Continued on pace seven i A MAN WITHOUT I A luiniRY H (Continued from page nix.) HH night ami morning, it is now hftj tive Hffl And lion lie he would H go to sleep. e lient DM clown OVT H liim mill klmed me; lie snld, t 'Look in my Bible, Dnnfortb. when I urn gone' Anil I went H "Hut 1 hail no thought It was the ,6H 1 thought lie was tired and H would sleep. 1 knew lie was happy, mid i wanted him to be "But In nn hour, when the doctor fH went in gently, he- round Nolan had LiaH breathed ins ure away with r emtta, 6HH lie had something pressed t lose to H his iip. it was his fathers badge of H (he Order or Cine lH "We looked In his Bible, and there LfH slip ,,r paper, al the place where he had marked the "'They desire a een a H heavenly; wherefore Qod not H ash, lined to be called their (ioil: for PH he hath prepared for them a city "On this slip or paper he had writ- H ten fppB "'Bury me In I he sen; It has lieen H my home, and I love It. But will not H Someone set BP a stone for my mem- fB 017 ' I'ort Adams or at Orleans, that -iH my disgrace not be more than I ought to Say on In Memory 6B PHILIP NOLAN H in the Army of fH6H the United States. ,?AV6J "'He loved bis country as no other H mini has loved her; but no man de- H served less bands,"1 iLH |