The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-01
Great STORY
rms PRESENT CRISIS
Philip. Nolan's History One
Which Should Be Read
by Everyone.
sCARRlES A LESSON
Man Who Damned United
States Regretted His
Thoughts and Words.
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Intercourse, as far as they and he
asehcse. But he grew shy, though he had
favorftes; was one. Then the cap
tain always asked him to dinner on
s1sonday. Every mess in succession
look up the Invitation in its turn. Ac-
cording to the size Of the ship. You
had him at your mess more or less
often at dinner. His breakfast he ate
in his own stateroom.--he always had
stateroom. was where a sen.
tinel or somebody on watch could see
the door. And whatever else he nte or
drank he ate or drank alone. Some
times, when the marines or sailors had
any special Qualification. they were per
mitted to invite plain Buttons" so
they called him. Then Nolan was sent
with some officer. and the men were
forbidden to speak of home while he
that the sight of his punishment did
them good. They called him "Plain-
Buttons" because, while he always
chose to wear a regulation army uni
form, he was not permitted to wear
the army banton for the reason that it
bore either the initials or the insignia
OF the country he had dsowned.
His Reading Selected.
! remember soon after I Joined the
navy was on shore with some OF the
older officers from our ship and from
the "Brandywine." which we had met
at Alexandria. We had leave to make
a party and so up to Cairo and the
pyramids As we logged along tyou
went on donkeys them, some Of the
gentlemen eve boys called them
"Dons." but the phrase was long since
changedlt fell to talking about Nolan,
and someone told the system which
was adopted from Tho first about his
books and other reading. AS he was
almost never permitted TO so on shore,
even though the vessel lay in port for
months, his time at the best hung
heavy; and everybody was permitted
to lend him books, if they were not
published in America, and made no al
fusion to it. These We're common
enough in the old days, when people in
the other hemisphere talked of the
United States as little as we do OF
Paraguay He had almost all the for
cign papers that came into the ship
sooner or later: only somebody must
go over them first, and cut out any
advertisement or stray paragraph tina
alluded 10 America. This was a it'll,
cruel sometimes, when the back 0
what was cut out might be as limo
cent as Hesiod. Right in the midst o
one Of Napoleon's battles, or one o
Cannings speeches. POOR Nolan woul'
find great hole. because on the bacl
of the page of that paper there Ia
been an advertisement of packet 70
New York, or a scrap from the presi
dents message. 7 say this was III
first time I ever heard of the plar
which afterward I had enough an
more than enough TO do with. ! re
member it because poor Phillips. VIII
was of the party, as soon as the allu
sion to reading was made told stor
of something which happened at III
Cape Of Good Hope on Nolan's frs
voyage; and it is the only thing eve
knew Of that voyage. They ha
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civil thing with the English admire
and the fleet; and then, leaving for
long cruise up the Indian ocean, Phil
lips had borrowed n lot of Englis
books from an officer, which in thos
days, as indeed in these, was quite
windfall. Among them, as the dew
would order, was the Lay Of the Las
Minstrel" which they had all of then
heard of, but which most Of them ha
never seen. I think it could not hav
been published long. Well, nobod,
thought there could be any risk 0
anything national in that, though Phil
lips swore Old Shaw had cut tn
"Tempest' from Shakespeare before h
let Nolan have it, because he said 9TH
Bermudas ought to be ours, and, b
Jove, should be one day. SO Nola
was permitted TO join the circle on
afternoon when a lot of them sat o
deck smoking and reading aloud. PEG
pie do not do such things so ofte
now: but when ] was young we &c
rid of a great deal of time SO. Wei
so 1t happened that in his turn Nola
took the book and read to the others
and he read very well as I know. No
body in the circle knew n line of tn
poem, only 1t was all magic and horde
chiyalry, and was ten thousand year
ago. Poor Nolan read steadily throug
the fifth canto, stopped a minute an
drank something, and then bega1
without thought of what was CON
ing.
s.Breathes there the man, with soul s
dead.
Who never to himself hath said"
It seems impossible to us that any
body ever heard this for the first tins
but all these fellows did then. and POT
Nolan himself went on, still uncoI
sciousiy or mechanically