The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-06-16
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ZANE EYRE"
BY CHARLOTTE BRoNTE


the Vest told him II was a
very gallant officer named Grant.
and that, by our last news. he was
abou, 10 establish his heAdquartefs
at Vickaburg Then. Where was
VickrhurET | worked that out on
the map. II was about hundred
miles. more or less. above his old
Fort Adams. and thought Fort
Adams must be a ruin now. IT
must be AT old Weeks plantation.
at Walnut Hills. said he: well.
that 10 a change
II tell you. Inghsm. II was q
hard thing TO condense the history
OF half century into that talk
with a Hiek man. And do no,
now know what told hmm 5000 OF
emigration. and tho means OF it
OF steamboats, and railroads and
teicgraphH of inventions and of
books and literature - OF the col
lsgcs and West Point and the
Naval schooi-but with the queer.
est Interruptions that ever you
hoard You see IL was Robinson
1tIr shhiitE hAA AA' RAALhA "
questions of fifty-six years.
Il remember he asked. all OF a
sudden. who was President now !.
and when ! told him. he asked II
Old Abe was Benjamin Lincoln's
son. He said he met old General
Lincoln. when he was quito a boy
himself. at some Indian treaty. !
said no. that Old Abe was n Ken
tuckian like himself. but could
not tell him OF what family: he had
worked up from the ranks. Good
for him. cried Nolan: I am glad
OF that As | have brooded and
wondered. have thought our dan
ger was in keeping up those regu-
lhr SUGGESTIONS in the first fam.
lies
Then got talking about my
visit to Washington. / told him OF
meeting the Oregon Congressman.
Harding. told him about the
Smithsonian and the exploring CT.
pedltion. told him about the
capitol. and the statues for the
pediment. and Crawford's Library.
and Greenough's Washington; Ing.
ham. told him everything | could
think of that would show the
grandeur OF his country and its
prosperity: but could not make
UP my mouth TO tell him word
about this Internal rebellion.
And he drank IL in. and en-.
ioyed II as cannot tell you. He
grew more and more silent. yet |
never thought he was tired or
faint, gave him a glass OF water,
but he Just wet his lips and told me
lot to go away Then he asked me
TO bring the Presbyterian Book of
Public Prayer which lay there.
and said with a smile that IL would
open at the right place-and so It
did
There was his double red mark
down the page: and knelt down
and read. and he repeated with me.
For ourselves and our country. O
gracious God. We thank Thee. that.
Notwithstanding our man ( o d
transgressions OF Thy holy laws.
Thou hast continued to us
Thy marvellous kindness'-and go
to the end OF that thanksgiving.
Then he turned 10 the end of
the same book. and | read the
words more familiar to me: Most
heartily we beseech Thee with Thy
favor TO behold and bless Thy serv.
ant. the President of the United
States and all others in authority
and the rest of the Episcopal
collect. 'Danforth.' said he. 1 have
repeated these prayers night and
morning. II is now fifty-five years.
And then he said he would 20 to
sleep. He bent me down over him
and kissed me, and he said. Look
in my Bible. Danforth. when | am
gone And went away.
But | had no thought IL was the
end. thought he was tired and
would sleep. knew he was happy.
and | wanted him to be alone.
But in an hour, when the doctor
went in gently, he found Nolan had
breathed his life away with a smile.
He had something pressed close to
his lips. II was his fathers badge
of the order of the Cincinnati.
I'VE looked in his Bible and
there was a slip of paper at the
place where he had marked the
text:
They desire a country. even a
heavenly: wherefore God is not
ashamed TO be called their God;
for He hath prepared for them a
city
ION this slip of paper he had
written:
BURY me In the sea; IL has
been my home. and love II. But
will not some one set UP stone
for my memory at Fort Adams or
at Orleans. that my disgrace may
not be more than | ought to bear?
Say on 1t:
In Memory Of
philip Nolan,
Lieutenant In the Army of the
United States.
"He loved his country as no other
man has loved her. but no man
deserves less at her hands,"
(THE ENp.)