The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-06-14

he had taught the men to cut for him,
and they were beautifully Illustrated.
He drew admirably. He had some Of
the funniest drawings there, and some
of the most pathetic, that / have ever
seen In my life. wonder who will
have Nolan's scrapbooks. ~ ../
Well, he said his reading and his
notes were his profession, and that
they took five hours and two hours
respectively of each day. "Then,"
said he, "every man should have d.
version as well as a profession. My
natural history is my diversion" That
used to bring him birds and fish, but
on long cruise he had to satisfy him
self with centipedes and cockroaches
and such small game. He was the only
naturalist l ever met who knew any
thing about the habits of the house, fly
and the mosquito. All those people
can tell you whether they are Lepi-
fdOpterah or Steptopotera; but as for
, telling how you can get rid Of them,
or how they get away from you when
you strike them, why, Linnaeus knew
as little of that as John Foy, the idiot,
did. These nine hours made ~Nolan's
regular daily Occupation" The rest
of the time he talked or walked. TIL
he grew very old, he went aloft a great
deal. He always kept up his exercise
and I never heard that he was i'll. If
any other man was i'll, he was the kind
est nurse in the, world; and he knew
more than half the surgeons do. Then,
II anybody was sick or died, or II the
captain wanted him to on any other
occasion, Inc was always ready to read
prayers. have remarked that he
read beautifully.
My own acquaintance with Philip
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 sort of sentimentalism
about the suppression, Of the horrors
Of the, middle passage, and something
was sometimesi done that way. We
l were in, the South Atlantic on that
business. From the time I Joined,
believe thought Nolan was "a sort of
lay chaplain-a chaplain withsa blue,
coat. never asked about him. Ey-
lefythIng In the ship was strange to
me. knew 1t was green to ask ques-'
tions, md 4 SUPPOSE u Thought there
2 was as''Plaih, Buttons on every ship.
We had him, to dine lip our mess once
a week, and the cauiiohfwds given that
ON that day nothing was Ito be. said
aboutl home. But ii they had told ns
not tor say, anything about the planet
Mars Dr. the Book tof Deuteronomy l
should not have asked why; there were
4 eieaait many things which seemed to
me to, have as little, reason. first
! came to understand anything about
"the man without a country" one day;
when weOoyerhauled a. dirty little.
schooner Which had slaves on board.'
An officer was sent to take charge of
her, and aftera few minutes he sent
back his boat to- ask that someone
might be sent him who could speak
Portuguese. We were all looking over
the raif when the message came, and
we allwished we could interpret. when
4 the captain asked who spoke Por-
tuguese.- But none of-the officers did,.
and just as the captain was sending
Sfof2ardl to hsk- AZ 9eIy Of the people
could, Nolan stepped out and said he
should be glad to interpret, II the cap
tain wished. as he understood the Ian.