The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-06-15

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peetsd partly. bseansp - ~ Lever
beea permitted - lana % that lore,
though IL slalps wsrs thess - uuch.
Ana ths nea.' aaid ~, lauehfne,
Drought a . good deal bo.ades flra'
3hen ~ went bAck-heaveos. how
fAr@to 90 ahput ths Chesnpenke. md
what was doe 70 HaErua II slrren-
dss1ng ~ TO H. Leopard. and wheth.
q Burr ever tined sonln. and he ground
his tesla With he caly paauien he
GA0wed. Bat In q DOonent tat vas
oves. and he said. God fdrxive me
for ! am sure I forgive Aim.' 1her
~ asked about he cid war-folc
me tie true story q his serving the
gun the day we took the Java-asked
about dear old David Porter, a. he
called him. Thea he settied down
more quietly. and very happily, to hear
me tell In an hour the history Of fifty
yearn.
How I wished II had been some
body who knew somethingi But
did ~ well as could. I told him o.
the English war. told him about Full
ton and the steamboat beginning. !
told him about old Scott and jackson
told him all I could think about tn,
Mississippi. and New Orleans, ant
Texas, and his own old Kentucky
And do you know he asked who wa:
In command Of the Legion of tn,
Westf I told him IL was very gal
liant oficer named Grant. and that b,
our last news. he was about to estab
lish his. headquarters at vicksburg
Then, Where was vicksburgr
worked that out on the map; 1t wa,
about a hundred miles, more or less
above his old Fort Adams; and
thought Fort Adams must be a ruiz
now. Tt must be at old Vick's plan
tation,' said he; well. that is
changed
II tell you. Ingham. 1t was q hard
thing to condense the history Of hall
"a century into that talk with a sick
man. And do not know what told
him-of emigration, and the means of
it-of steamboats, and railroads and
telegraphs-of inventions and books
and literature-of the colleges and
West Point and the Naval school
but with the queerest interruptions
that ever you heard. You see 1t was
Robinson Crusoe asking all the accu.
INFLATED questions Of 6fty-six years.
II remember he asked. all Of a sud
den. who was president now; and
when I told him. he asked II Old Abe
was Gen. Benjamin Lincoln's son. He
said he met old General Lincoln when
he was quite boy himself, at some
Indian treaty. said no. that Old Abe
was a Kentuckian like himself, but
could not tell him of what family; he
had worked up from the ranks. Good
for himi' cried Nolan; I am glad Of
that. As I have brooded and won
dered. have thought our danger was
In keeping up those regular success
sions In the first families Then !
got talking about my visit to WASH
ington. I told him Of meeting the Ore
gon congressman, Harding; told him
about Smithsonian and the exploring
expedition; told him about. the capt.
tol-and the statues for the pediment
and Crawford's Liberty = and
Greenough's Washington: Ingham, I
told him everything could think Of
that would show the grandeur of his
country and its prosperity.
"And he drank 1t in, and enjoyed It
a. cannot tell you. He grew more
and more silent, yet I never thought
he was tired or faint. gave him q
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 sasti. with a smile, that It
would open at the right place-and so
It did. There was his double red
mark down the page; knelt down
and read, and he repeated with me,
For ourselves and our country, o gra-
cious God, we thank thee, that, not
withstanding our manifold transgres.
sions of thy holy laws, thou hast con-
tinued to us thy marvellous Kindness
and, so to the end of that thanksgiv-
ing. Then he turned to the end Of
the same book, and I read the words
more familiar to me: Most heartily
we beseech thee with thy favor to be-
hold and bless thy servant, the presi-
dent Of the United States, and all
others In authority'-and the rest Of
the Episcopal collect. 'Danforth,'
said he. I have repeated those prayers
night and morning, It is now fifty-five
years. And then he said he would
go to sleep. He bent me down over
him and kissed me; and he said;
Look in my Bible. Danforth. when
am gone And / went away.
"But I had no thought it was the
end. thought he was tired and
would sleep. I knew he was happy.
and wanted him to be alone.
"But in an hour, when the doctor
went In gently, he found Nolan had
breathed his life away with. smile.
He had something pressed close to
his lips. 1t was his fathers badge of
the Order Of Cincinnati.
Eve looked in his Bible. and there
was q slip Of paper at the nlacA