The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-05-08
1.-THE MAN WITH
OUT COUNTRY"
Second and Last Insteallment
of Edward Everett Hale's
Famous Story
APPEAL TO PATRIOTISM
OF ALL AMERICANS
Tells of the Terrible Punish
ment Of Man Who Re-
nounces His Country

THE second installment of Edwar
Everett Hale's "'rhe Man Without
Country" the first of which appeared i
The Times of May 7, is here given.l
All that was near so years ago. If No
Ian was 30 then, he must have been nea
so when he died. He looked 60 when h
was 40. But he never seemed to me t.
change hair afterward As ] imagin
his life, from what have seen and hear
of it, he must have been in every sea
and yet almost never on land. He mus
have known in formal way more Off
GERS in our service than any man living
knows. He told me once, with grav
smile, that no man in the world live
SO lnethodical life rs he "You know
the boys say / am the iron mask, ant
you know how busy he was" He said i
did not do for anyone to try to reaC
all the time, more than to do anything
else all the time; but that he read JUS
five hours a day. Chen he said, g
keep up my notebooks, writing in then
at such and such hours from what | hay,
been reading; and | include in them my
scrapbooks." These were very curious
indeed. He had six or eight, of different
subjects. There was one of history, one
of natural science, one which he called
"0dds and Ends" BUT they were not
merely books or extracts from news
papers. They had bits of plants and
ribbons, shells tied on, and carved scrap:
OF bone and wood, which he had taught
the men to cut for him, and they were
beautifully illustrated. He drew admir-,
ably. He had some of the funniest draw.
ic, that have ever seen in my life.
wonder who will have Nolan's scrap.
books.
Well, he said his reading and his notes
were his profession, and that they took
Eve hours and two hours respectively of
each day. "Then," said he, every man
should have diversion as well as a pro-
fession." My natural history is my d.
version. That took two hours a day
more. The men used to bring him birds
and fish, but on long cruise he had To
satisfy himself with centipedes and cock
reaches and such small game. He was
the only naturalist I ever met who knew
anything about the habits of the house
fly and the mosquito. All those people
can tell you whether they are Lepidop-
terra 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. Till he grew very
old, he went aloft a great deal. He
always kept up his exercise and | never
heard that he was ill., If any other man
was i'll, he was the kindest nurse in the
world; and he knew more than half the
surgeons 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 remarked
that he read beautifully.
NY own acquaintance with Philip No
Ian began six or eight years after the
war, on my first voyage after was APP
pointed 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 sometimes done that way.
We were in the south Atlantic on that
business. From the time ! joined, | be-
lieve | thought Nolan was sort of lay
chaplain with blue coat /
never asked about him. Everything in
the ship was strange to me. / knew it
was green to ask questions, and | sup
pose | thought there was "Plain But
tons" on every ship. We had him to
dine in our mess once week, and the
caution was given that on that day moth
ing was to be said about home. But If
they had told us not to say anything
a bout the planet Mars or the book of
Deuteronomy, | should not have asked
why; there were great many things
which seemed to me to have as little rea
son. / first came to understand any
thing about 'the man without a coun
try" one day when we overhauled a dirty
little schooner which had slaves on board.
An officer was sent TO take charge of her,
and after a 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 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 captain 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 Ian
gusge. The captain thanked him, fitted
Dut another boat with him, and in this
boat it was my luck to 60.
When we got there, it was such
scene as you seldom see, and never want
TO. Nastincss beyond account, and chaos
run loose in the midst OF the nastiness. |
There were not great many of the me-
yroes; but by way of making what there
we're understand that they were free. |
Vaughan had had their handouts and |
lnkleeuffs knocked of, and, for convent |
nee sake, was putting them upon the
ascals of the schooner's crew. The ne |
,roes were, most of them, out Of the |
lold, and swarming all round the dirty /
Ieck. with a central throng surrounding /
5aughsn and addressing him in every |
Iialect and patois of dialect, from the
zulu click up TO the Partisan of Beledel- /
creed.
As we came on deck, Vaughan looked
Iown from a hogshesd. on which he had
mounted in desperation. and said:
For Gods sake, is there anybody who
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