Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1917-05-10

land. He told me once, with a
IL grave smile, that no man in the
world lived so methodical life as he.
'You know the boys say am the Iron
Mask, and You know how busy he
was" He said 1t did not do for any
one to try to read all the time more
than to do anything else all the time.
but that be read just five hours a day
Then" he said, II keep up my note
books. writing In them at such and
such hours from what | have been
reading, and include In them my
scrapbOoks." These were very curious
indeed He bad six or eight. of differ
ent subjects. There was one Of his
tory. one of natural science, one which
be called odds and ends" But they
were not merely books Of extracts
from newspapers. They had bits Of
plants and ribbons. shells tied on and
carved scraps OF bone and wood. which
he had taught the men to cut for him.
and they were BEAUTIFULLY illustrated.
Till he grew very old. he always went
aloft great deal. He always kept up
his exercise. and ! never heard that he
was III. II any other man was III he
was the kindest nurse in the world.
and he knew more than half the sur
geons do Then II anybody was sick or
died, or II the captain wanted him to
on any other occasion. he was always
ready to read prayers have remark
oh that no road haatlfffulI
Ny own acquaintance With Philip
Nolan began six or eight years after
the war. ON my first voyage after |
was appointed midshipman. 1t was
In the first days after our slave trade
treaty, while the reigning house, which
was still the house of Virginia, had
still sort OF sentimentalism about the
suppression of the horrors Of the Mid
die Passage. and something was some
times done that way. | first came to
understand anything about 1.-The man
without country" one day when we
overhauled dirty little schooner
which had slaves on board. An officer
was sent to take charge of her, and
after few minutes he sent back his
boat 10 ask that some one might be
sent him who could speak Portuguese
We were all looking over the rail when
the message came. and we all wished
we could interpret when the captain
asked who spoke Portuguese. But none
OF the officers did, and just as the cap
tain was sending forward TO ask II any
- thn t..AnpI.a rnntd Nnlap afonnod f,nf
and said he should be glad to interpret
if the captain wished. as he understood
the language. The captain thanked
him. fitted out another boat with him.
and In this boat II was my luck TO 20.
When we got there 1t was such
scene as you seldom see and never
want to- Nastiness beyond account.
and chaos run loose In the midst OF the
nastiness. The negroes were. most Of
them, out of the hold and swarmlng all
round the dirty deck. with a central
throng surrounding Vaughan and ad
dressing him in every dialect and pa
tots of dialect. from the Zulu click up
to the Partisan OF Beledeliereed
As we came on deck Vaughan looked
down from hogshead on which he
had mounted in despera don and said:
For Gods love. is there anybody
who can make these wretches under
stand something's"
Nolan said be could speak POrtu
guese and one or two fine looking
Kroomen were dragged out. who. as
1t had been found already. had worked
for the Portuguese at Fernando Po.
TELL them they are free" said
Vaughan. ~and tell them that these
rascals are TO be hanged as soon as we
can get rope enOugh-"
Nolan explained il In such Portu-
guese as the Kroomeu could under
stand and they In turn TO such OF the
negroes as could understand them
Then there was such yell OF delight.
clInching Of Asts. leapsng and dancing.
kissing Of SoiaR's feet and q general