The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-24


 suppose that very few casual readers of the New York Herald of August 18th observed. in an obscure l corner, among the Deaths the an- l nouneemeat
 NOLAN Died on board [. s. Cor vette Levaat. Lat 2a IF S.. Long. l31' ", ca the 1Ith of May, Philip Nolan
 I happened to observe t. because was stranded at the old Mission l house .a Mack mac. waiting for Lake Superior steamer which did not choose to come. and I was deFourtug to the very srubble, all the current literature I could get hold of. even down to the deaths and marriages in the Herald. My memory for names and people is good, and the reader will see. as he goes oa. that I had reason enough 10 remember Philip Nolan. There are hundreds of readers who would have paused at that anaouaeement. f the officer of the Levant who reported ir had chosen to make r thus. Died May fIth. The Man without q Coua-
  out Country that Poer Philip Nolan had generally been known by the ota= cers who had him ln charge during some fifty years. as. Indeed. by all the men who had sailed uadrr them. I dare say there Is many T man who has taken wine with hlm once a fort. night, h three years cruise. who I F. N.sZ Ian or whether the poor wretch had any name at all.
 There can now be Do possible harm in telling this poor creatures story Reason enough there has been til now, ever since MadIson's admluistra- ton went out in 1s17. for very strict secrecy, the secrecy of honor itself among the gentlemen of the navy who 1 have had Nolan in successive charge And certainly It speaks well for the es- l prit de co.ps of the profession and the personal honor of it's members that To the press this mans story has been wholly unknown. and, think, to the country at large also.
 l have reason to think. from some ! A archives when I was attached tu The bureau of construction, that every of Hcial report relating to him was burned when Ross burned the pubic buildings at Washington. one of the n arg~a pr possibly aae If thc Wat>aaS. hl4 Nolan ia charge IT tte ea! af fHa @ars and WAaa-# lu 2. sa.sl=s#-. srs..g a.- erz.5 ss..
 
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 As ,4E. ta .-. .s Ea nea. tae >e- cesey a.s l.a..r. Aal aow ths Ua9r creature ss t.r--5tl. if segu1- t9 nm worth Waie fa te.g B a,'.e ef h.s ~slrE bE way of @tH".ug gaaus Americans et today what # 4~ eo aa
 X MAN WITHOUT \ COUNTRY.
 Phaap Aaan MS as fine a young officer a- there vas in the Legion of the Vest. as the western division Of our army wBs theu canct. Whom Aaron Burr made his first aa>hns ex- petition down % New OrIeaa, n 1895, ut Fort Aussac. or somewhere above on the river. he met. as the devil would have 1T. this gay, flashing bright young fellow, at some dinner party. think. Burr marked him. talked to him. walked with him. took him day
 or two's voyage in hIs flatboat and
 in short. fascinated hln. For the next year harrack life was very tame to
 poor Nolan. He occasionally ayailed of the permission the great man had given him to write to him. Long high worded, stilted letters the poor boy wrote and re-Wrnte and copied. Bui never a line did he have in reply from the gay deceiyer. The other boys 1T the garrison sueered at him, becaus, he sacrificed In this unrequlted affec ton for a politician the time whici they devoted to Monongahela, sledge z and high-low-jack. Bourbon, euchre