The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-18
g By EDWARD EVERETT HALE

"He says NGt FGiias. ~ lie says. Take US home take us to our own country, take us to our own house, take us to our own pickaninnies and our own women And this one says" choked out Nolan, that he has not heard a word from his home in six months, while he has been locked up in an internal barracOon.
 Vaughan always said he grew gray himself while Nolan struggled through this interpretation. l. who did not un- derstand anything of the passion in- yolved in it, saw that the very ele- ments were melting with fervent heat and that something was to pay some where. Even the negroes themselves stopped bowling as they saw Nolan's agony and Vaughan's almost equal agony of sympathy. As quick as he could get words, he said:
 Tell them yes, yes. Tell them they shall go to the Mountains of the Moon if they will. If l sail the schooner through the Great White desert they shall go homer
 And after some fashion Nolan said so. And they all fell to kissing him and wanted to rub his nose with theirs.
 But he could not stand 1t long, and, getting Vaughan to say he might go back, he beckoned me down into our boat As we lay back in the stern sheets and the men gave way, he said to me: "Youngster, let that show you what 1t is to be without a family, without q home and without coun- try. And if you are ever tempted to say a word or to do thing that shall put a bar between you and your fam fly, your home and your country, pray God in his mercy to take you that in- stant home to his own heaven. Stick by your family. boy. Forget you have a self, while you do everything for them. Think of your home. boy. Write and send and talk about it. Let 1t be nearer and nearer to your thought the farther you have to travel from it. and rush back to it when you are free, as that poor black slave Is doing now. And for your country, boy" and the
 words rattled 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 service carry you through a thousand hells. No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you. never look at another flag, never 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 be- long to her as you belong to your own
 mother. Stand by hc", boy, as you
 would stand by your mother if those devils there had got hold of her to-
 dayr'
 I was frightened to death by his | calm, hard passion. but l blundered out that would, by all that was holy, and that I had never thought of doing anything else He hardly seemed to hear me, but he did, almost in a whis- per, say, "Oh, if anybody had said so to me when l was of you age."
 1 think 1t was this half confidence of his, which never abused. for 1 never told this story till now, which after ward made us great friends. He was
 very kind to me. When we parted | from him ia St. Thomas harbOr at the end of our cruise l was more sorry | than I can tell. I was very glad to meet him again in 1880, and later in life, when l thought l had some influence in Washington, moved heaven and earth to have him discharged. But 1t was like getting a ghost out of prison They pretanded there was no such man and never was such a man. They will say so at the department now!
 There Is a story that Nolan met Burr once on one of our vessels, when
 party of Americans came on board in the Mediterranean. But this I believe to be a lie; or. rather, 1t Is a myth, well found, involving a tremendous blowing
 up with which he sunk Burr-asking
 him how he liked to be without 1 country"
 l (Continued tomorroW)