The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-06-14
THIRD INsTALLMENT.

And this is part OF the SCOEv "HeA0
all the legends agree; that the commo-
dore said:
GI see you do, and thank you, sir;
and I shall never forget this day, SIR
and you never shall, SIR
And after the whole thing was over
and he had the Englishman's sword
i'm the midst of the state and ceremony
of the quarterback, he said:
"Where is Mr.. Nolan? Ask Mr.. No
Ian to come here"
And when Nolan came, the captain
said:
ssMr, Nolan, we are all very grateful
to you today; you are one of us today;
YOU will be named in the dispatches.
And then the old man took off his |
own sword of ceremony, and gave 1t 10 |
Nolan, and made him put it on. Inc
man told me this who saw it. Nolan
cried like a baby, and we'll he might. |
He had not worn a sword since that
Internal day at Fort Adams. But al
WAYS afterward, on occasions of cere-
mony, he wore that quaint old Frencn
sword of the commOdOre's.
The captain did mention him in the
dispatches. It was always said ne
asked that he might be pardoned. lie
wrote a special letter to the secretary
of war. But nothing ever came OF It.
AS I said, that was about the time
when they began to ignore the whole
transaction at Washington, and Wnen
N0lan's Imprisonment began to carry
itself on because there was NOBODY TO
stoD it without any new orders from
home.
have heard it said that he was with
Porter when he took possession OF the
Nukahiva islands. Not this Porter,
Won know, but old Porter, his father,
Essex Porter, that is, the old Essex
Porter. not this Essex. AS an artll-
1ery officer, who had seen service IN
the West, Nolan knew more about for
tifications, embrasures, raVellnes,
stockades, and all that, than any of
them did: and he worked with right
GOOD will in fixing that battery all
right. I have always thought it was
a Dftv Porter did not leave him in
command there with Gamble. That
would have settled all the question
about his punishment. We should
have kept the islands, and at this mo-
the Pacific ocean. Our French friends,
too, when they wanted this little wa
tering place, would have found 1t was
pre-occupied. But Madison and the
Yirginians, of course. flung all that
away.
All that was near fifty years ago.
II Nolan was thirty then, he must
have been near eighty when he died.
He looked sixty when he was forty.
But he never seemed to me to change
hair afterward AS I imagine his
life, from what have seen and hear0
of it, he must have been in every sea,
and yet almost never on land. lie
must have known in a formal way
more officers in our service than any
man living knows. He told me once
with q grave smile, that no man IN the
world lived so methodical life as ne
'8You know the boys say l am the
Iron Mask, and you know now DusS
he was" He said it did not do FOL
anyone to try to read all the time, more
than to do anything else all the time
but that he read just five hours day
~Then," he said, 81 keep up my note
books, writing in them at such AM
reading: and I include in them m
sUapbooks." These were very curlou
indeed. He had six or eight, of differ
ent subjects. There was one or MS
tory, one of natural science, one Wnlc
he called "Odds and Ends" But the
were not merely books of extract
from newspapers. They had DTS 9
plants and ribbons, shells tied on, an
carved scraps of bone and wood, wh1c
he had taught the men to cut for hin
and they were beautifully ILLUSTRATED
He drew admirably. He had some
the funniest drawings there, and SON
OF the most pathetic, that have eve
seen in my life. I wonder who WI
have Nolan's scrapbooks.
Well, he said his reading and h
notes were his profession, and tn
they took five hours and two hou
respectively of each day. "Then
said he, "every man should have c
version as well as a profession. N
natural history is my diversion" III
took two hours day more. The m'
used to bring him birds and fish, b
On long cruise he had to satisfy hill
self with centipedes and cOckrOach
and such small game. He was the on
naturalist I ever met who knew an
thing about the habits of the house
and the mosquito. All those peoI
can tell you whether they are Lee
doptera or Steptopotera but as
telling how you can get rid of the
or how they get away from you VIII
you strike them, why, Linnaeus KIN
as little of that as John FOy, the idi
did. These nine hours made Nola
regular daily Occupation" The r
of the time he talked or walked.
he grow Uprv old he went 01Oft or