The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-06-26

And II you are ever tempted 20 say a
word or to do a thing that shall put
a bar between you and your family,
your home, and your country, pray
God in his mercy to take you that is
slant home to his own heaven. Stick
by your family, boy; forget you have
q self, while you do everything for
them. Think Of your home, boy; write
and send, and talk about 1t. Let 1t
be nearer and nearer to your thought,
the farther you have to travel from 1t
and rush to IL. when you are free, as
that poor black slave Is doing now.
And for your country, boy" and the
words ratified In his throat, "and for
that flag" and he pointed to the ship,
"never dream a dream but of serving
her as she bids you, though the serv-
Ice carry you through a thousand hells.
No matter what happens to you, no
matter who fiatters you or who abuses
you, never look at another flag,
let a night pass but you pray God to
bless that flag. Remember, boy. that
behind all these men you have to do
with, behind officers, and government,
and people even, there Is the country
herself, your country. and that you
belong to her as you belong to your
own mother. Stand by her, boy, as
you would stand by your mother. II
those devils there had got hold of her
today"
. ~eqs frightened to death by his
calm. hard passion; but I blundered
out that | would, by all that vas holy,
and that l had never thought of doing
anything else. He hardly seemed to
bear me: but he did, almost In a
whisper. say: "Oh, II anybody had
said 30 to me when l was of your agel"
l think II a this half-confidence of
bis. which 1 never abused, for / never
told this story till now, which after
ward made US great friends. He was
very kind to me. Often he sat up, or
even got up, at night to walk the deck
with me when 1t was my watch. he
explained to me q great deal of my
mathematics. He lent me books, and
helped me about my reading. He lev
er alluded SO directly to his story
again bnt from one and another Off
Ger / have learned, In thirty years,
what l am telling. When we parted
from him In st. Thomas harbor, at the
end of our cruise, / was more sorry
than l can tell. / was very glad to
meet him again In 1890; and later In
life. when / thought / had some In
iuence In Washington, l moved heav-
en- and earth to have him discharged.
But 1t was like getting a ghost out of
prison. They pretended there was no
such man, and never was such a a
They will say so at the department
nowi Perhaps they do not know. 1t
will not be the first thing in the serv-
ice of which the department appears
TO know nothing!
There is a story hat Nolan met
Burr once on M Of our vessels, when
a party Of Americans came on board
in the Mediterranean. But this l be-
lieve to be a lie; or rather, 1T is a
myth, ben troyato, involving a ire
mendous blowing-up with which he
sank Burr, asking him how he liked
to be without a country" But 1t Is
clear, from Burr's life, that nothing
of the sort could have happened; and
l mention this only as an illustration
of the stories which get a-going where
there is the least mystery at bottom.
Ito Be Continued)
The subscribers to the German war
loans are being told that they will be
paid back out of the indemnities the
government expects to collect at the
end of the war. This sounds like one
of those bets that is to be paid when
Mr.. Bryan is elected president.-Kan-
sas City Times.