The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-05-31

lNtI sea and yet almost never or
vi land He told me once. with
grave smile, that no man in the
world lived so methudical a life as he.
you know the boys say | am the Iron
Mask. and you know how busy be
was" He said it did not do for any
one TO try to read all the time more
than to do anything else all the time.
but that he read just i've hours day
Then" he said. Il 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 had 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
We're not merely books of extracts
from newspapers. They hal 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. be always went
aloft great deal. He always kept up
his exercise. and never heard that he
was i'll. If any other man was Ill he
was the kindest nurse in the world.
and he knew more than half the sur
geons do. Then If anybody was sick or
died. or If the captain wanted him to
on any other occasion he was always
ready to read prayers | have remark
I'D that he read beautifully.
IL xt.ffh DhfI4fA
Nolan began six or eight years after
the war. on my first voyage after |
was appointed a 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 a 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 the man
without a 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 a few minutes be sent back his
boat to 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 rs the cap
tain was sending forward TO ask if any
OF the people could, Nolan stepped out
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 ii was such a
scene ne you seldom see and never
want to. Nastiness beyond account
and chaos run loose in the midst of the
nastiness The negroes We're. most Of
them. out of the hold and swarming 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 BeIedeljereed.
As we came on deck Vaughan looked
down from a hogshead on which he
had mounted In desperation and said:
For Gods love, is there anybody
I
stand something's"
Nolan said he could speak Portu-
guese and one or two fine looking
Kronmen were dragged out. who. as
ii had been found already, had worked
for the Portuguese at Fernando Po.
TEL them they are free. said
Vaughan. land tell them that these
rascals ire TO be hanged as soon Is We
can get rope enough"
Nolan explained it in such Portu-
guese ms the Kroomen could under
stand aud they in turn to snch OF the
negroes as could understand them.
Then there was such a yell OF delight,
c!inehing OF fists. leaping and dancing.
kissing of NolHn's feet and general
ruSb made 70 the hogshcad by way OF
spontaneous worship of Vaughan as
the deus Ell mHchina Of the occasion.
Tell them" said Vaughan, well