The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-02-05

ever to hear of his country orto see
any Information regarding it; and you
will specially caution NIL the officers
under your command to take care,
that in the various %indulgences which
may be granted, this rule, in which his
punishment is involved, shall not be
broken.
ut is the intention Of the Govern.
ment that he shall never again see the
country he has disowned.
Before the end OF your cruise you
will receive orders which will give eff.
feet to this intention.
Respectfully yours,
wv. SouTHARD, for Secretary OF the
Navy"
The author OF this sketch thinks
Captain Shaw was the commander OF
the ship, and that these instructions
passed from one commander to an
other, as from time to tins he was
changed from one ship to another,
each holdingthis paper as authority
for keeping Nolan in custody. If it
was Captain Shaw. he then regulated
the etiquette and the precautions OF
the affair, and accordingto his scheme
they We're carried out till Nolan died.
This now brings us to the day
some tim ..atein 1907 when Philip
Nolan touched his feet to mother
earth for the last time.
| will give a few touching anecdotes
OF his li:e on board OF ship for fifty
three years.
Mr.. Hale says: "No mess liked to
have him permanently, because his
presence cut off all talk OF home or OF
the prospects OF return, of politics or
letters OF peace or of war-cut off
than half the talk men like to havea ut
sea. The captain always asked him
to dine on Monday. Every mess in
succession took up the invitation in
Its turn. His breakfast he always ate
IN his state room, which was located
where a sentinel or somebody on watch
could see the door.
"He vas called Plain Buttons be-
cause while he always chose to wear a
regulation army uniform he was not
permitted to wear the army button,
for the reason that it bore either the
initials or the insignia of the country
he mad disowned.
He was allowed to read foreign
papers after somebody went over
them and cut out any advertisement
or stray paragraph that alluded to
America.
Nolan was permitted to join the
circle one afternoon, when a lot of of
tieers sat on deck smoking and reading
aloud. They We're reading the Lay OF
the Last Minstrel Nolan's turn
to read came. Nobody in the circle
knew u line OF the poem. Poor Nolan
read steadily through the fifth canto,
stopped a moment and drank some
thing and then began without a
thought OF what was coming:
"Breathes there the man, with soul so
dead, I"
Who never to himself hath said
at seems impossible to us that any
body aver heard this for the first time;
but all those fellows did then; and
poor Nolan himself went on, still un-
consciously or mechanically
This is my own my native lind!
Then they all saw something was to
pay; but he expected to get through, l
suppose. turned "a little pale, but
plunged on
Whose heart hath ne'cr within him
burned,
AS home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on n foreign strand2
II such there breathe, go, mark him well.
He gagged q little, colored crimson,
and staggered on
For him no minstrel raptures swell:
High though his titles, proud his name.
Boundless his wealth rs wish can claim,
Despite these titles, power and pelf,
The wretch, concentered all j self.
"And here the poor fellow choked,
could not 90 on; but s%tartedup swung
the book into the sea; vanished into
his state-room, and we did not see
him for two months again"
On one occasion the vessel on which
Nolan was confined overhauled a dir
ty little schooner in theSouth Atlant-
ic which had slaves aboard. Thecap-
tain took Nolan-who could speak
tolerable Portuguese--and proceeded
to take charge OF the schooner. Re.
turning from his vessel to their own, a
MILDLY, who was aboard the same
dinliey with him, relates the follow
ing pathetic and pitifulstory:
Nolan began abruptly
"Yonngster," said he, slet that show
you what it is to be without afamily,
without n home. and without q coun-
try. And if you are ever tempted to
say a word or do a thing that shall
put q bar between you and yourfami-
ly, your home and your country, pray
God in His merty, to take you that; IN
slant home to His own heaven. Stick
by your family, boy; forget you have
q sell, while you do everything for
them. Think of your home, boy;
write and send and talk about it. Let
it benearer and nearer to your thought
the further you have to traveifromit;
and rush back to it when you are free
as that poor black slave isdoingnow.
And for your country, boy"-and the
words ratified in his throat-"and for
that fag-and he pointed to theship
-"llever dream q dream but OF serv-
ing her as she bids you, though the
service carry you through a thousand
hells. No matter what happens to
you, no matter who flatters you or
abuses you, never look at another
flag, V let a night pass but you
pray God to bless that flag. Remem-
Der, boy that behind all these men you
have TODD with behind officers and gov
ernment and people even there is h
country herself, your country, and
that you belong to her as you belong
to your mother. Stand by her, boy,
as you would stand by your mother,
if those devils there had got hold of
her today" And in q whisper he
said, 90, if anybody had said SO to
me when | was OF your age"
Here the writer says that in 1880.
he moved ''heaven and EARTH" at
Washington to get poor Nolan dis
charged without. success. Mr.. Hale