The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-01-21

ON which nave met Inc Wan WIN
out a Country" was. | think, transmit
ted from the beginning. No mess liked
90 have him permanently. because his
presence cut oil all talk ~ home or ~
the prospect ~ return, ~ politics or
letters. of peace or ~ ar-cut M
more than half the talk men like to
have at aca. Hut II was always Thought
! too hard that he should never meet the
rest OF Us, except 10 touch hats, aud
we finally sank into Que system lie
was not permitted Ia talk with the
men unless an officer was by With
officers be- had unrestraincd inter
course. ~ far as they and he chose
Hut he grew shy though he had favor
ties was one Then the captain al
ways asked him Ia dinner on Monday
Every mess Ia succession took M the
invitation In its turn. According Ia the
size II the ship you had him Al your
mess more OF less often at dinner His
breakfast he ate Ia his own stateroom
he always had a statcroom which
was where "A sentinel or somel-,dy on
the watch could see TN. dOr. Aud
whatever else he ate Or dmnk he ate
or drank alone Sometimes. when thu
marines % sailors had any sIs--ial iol
lihcation. they were permitted 10 invite
"plain buttons" as they called him
They called him plain buttons he
cause. whils he always chose TO wear a
regulation army uniform. he was not
/ permitted 10 Wear the army button
Tor the reason that Il bore either the
initials OF the insignia ~ the country
hc had disowned
remember soon after | Joined the
navy Some one told the system which
was adopted from the hrst about his
t.'oks and other reading A. he was
almost never permitted 10 go on shore.
even though the vessel lay In port Tor
months. his time az the best hung
heavy and everybody was permitted
60 lend him books n they we're not
published In America aud made no al
fusion 70 a. lie had almost all the
foreign papers that came into the ship
sooner or later. only somebody must
90 over them inst aud eat out any ad.
yertisement or stray paragraph that
llluded 10 America Phillips told me q
story Of something which happened at
The Cape Of Coed Hope nu N0lans hrst
voyage asd IL Is the ouly thing ever
knew 0f that voyage Phillips had
borrowed n bot ~ English books from
an oficr. which Ia those DAYS. a. Ia.
deed In these was quite wiudfnli
Among them. a. the dc,il would order.
was the Lay II the Last Minstrel p
which they had all II them hcurd ~.
but which most ~ them had never
seen think Il could not have hocn
published long. Well. nobody thought
there could H. any risk ~ anything na
honal IA that so Nolan was permit
ted 10 Join the circle one afternoon
when a lot ~ them sat on desk smok
Ing aud reading aloud Nolan took the
book and read to the uthcrs aud he
read very we'll. NJ know. Nobp,iy In
the circle knew line u the pocm.
only II was ali magic aud boricr chiv
airy and was 1000 years ago Poor
Nolan read steadily through the afth
canto. stopped minute aud drank
something and then began. without u
thought u what was coming
''Breathss there tho man with soul 80
dead
Who never TO himself hath said
This Is my own. my native landf'"
Then they all saw something WIS to
pay. but he expected Ia get through. |
suppose turned little pale. but
plunged on
Who's heart hath no'srwithin him burned
a. home his footHisps be- hath turned
PROM wandering ga foreign stfaud7
u such there breathe. 80. mark him sell
By this time the men were an beside
themselves. wishing there was any
way 10 make him turn over two pages.
but he had not quite presence ~ mind
for that lie gagged little. coiored
crimson and staggered on
For him no minstrel rapturos swell
liigh though his titles. proud his name
honndlcss hia wealth aa wish can claim
Despite thess titles power aud pslf
The wretch, concentrated an in SELF
And here the iioor fellow chokcd. could
not "a on. but started up. swung the
book into the sea- vanished into hls
stnteruom and. 10y IOve.' said PIN
lips, I'VE did not sec him for two
months again Aud had Ia make up
sonic bcggnrly story Ia that English
surgeon why did not return his Wal.
ter Scott 10 him
That story shows about the time
when Nolans braggadOcio must have
broken down. At nrst they said he
took very high tone. considered his
imprisonment a mere farce. affected 10
enjoy the voyage aud all that. but
Phillips said that after he came out NJ
his stateroom he never was the same
man again lie never read aloud
again unless IL was the Bible or shake
-penre or something else he was sure
o. He was always shy nfterwnrd
when ! knew him very seldom spoke
unless he was spoken TO- except 20
very few friends lie lighted M occa.
sionally. but generally he had the ncrv-
aus. tired look IT u heart wounded
man