Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-13

tied in his throat, and for that Dag"
and he pointed to the ship. never
dream dream but of serving her as
she bids you, though the service carry
YOU through a thousand hells- No mat
ter what happens to you. no matter
who hatters you or who abuses you,
never look at another flag. never let
night pass but you pray God to bless
that flag. Remember. boy, that be-
hind all these men you have to do with,
behind officers and government. and
people even, there is the Country Her
self. your Country, and that you be-
long to Her as you belong to your own
mother. Stand by Her. boy. as You
would stand by your mother, IL those
devils there had got hold of her today"
L was frightened to death by his calm.
hard passion: but / blundered out that
] would. by all that was holy. and that
had never thought of doing anything
else: He hardly seemed to hear me; but
he did. almost in a whisper. say: ''Oh,
IL anybody had said so TO me when I
was of your age-
! think it was this half-confidence of
his. which / never abused. for / never
told this story till now. which after
ward made us great friends He was
very kind to me. Often he sat up, or
even got up. at night, to walk the deck
with me. when it was my watch. He
explained to me a great deal of my
mathematics. He lent me books and
helped me about my reading. He never
alluded SO directly to his story again:
but from one and another officer have
learned. in thirty years. what I am
telling. When we parted from him in
st. Thomas harbor, at the end of our
cruise. was more sorry than i can tell.
i was very glad to meet him again In
1880: and later in life. when I thought
/ had some influence in Washington, I
moved heaven and earth to have him
discharged. But 1t was like getting a
ghost out of prison. They pretended
there was no such man and never was
a ms N haty will ha a
partment now! Perhaps they do not
know. 1t will not be the first thing in
the service of which the department
appears to know nothing,
There is a story that Nolan met Burr
once on one of our vessels, when n
party of Americans came on board in
the Mediterranean. But this / believe
to be lie: or. rather. it is a myth. ben
trovato, involving tremendous blow
ing-up with which he sunk Burr-ask-
ing him how he liked to be without
n country" But 1t is clear from Burr's
life that nothing of the sort could have
an illustration of the stories which
get a-going where there is the least
mystery at bottom.
SO poor Philip Nolan had his wish
dreadful: it is the fate reserved for
those men who shall have one day to
exile themselves from their country
because they have attempted her ruin,
see the prosperity and honor to which
she rises when she has rid herself of
them and their iniquities. The wish
or poor Nolan. as we all learned to
was too great, but because his re-.
pentance was so clear, was precisely
the wish of every Bragg and Beaure-
gard who broke a soldiers oath two
years ago. and Of every Maury and
Barron who broke a sailors. / do not
know how often they have repented.
do know that they have done all
that In them lay that they might have
no country-that all the honors, as
soefations. memories and hopes which
belong to country might be broken
up into little shreds and distributed
to the winds. 1 know, too. that their
punishment, as they vegetate through
what is left of life to them in wretched
Boulognes and Leicester squares. where
they are destined to upbraid each other
TN they die. will have all the agony
OF Nolan's, with the added pang that
every one whe-s1es them will see them
to despise and 70 execrate them. They
viii have their WISH like him. 4,
FOR him. poor fellow. he repented of
ms folly, and then. like a man. sub
mitted to the fate he had asked for
He never Intentionally added TO tlvs
dimculty or delicacy of the charge of
those who had him in hold Accidents
mouid happen. but they never hap
pen from his fault. Lieut. Truxton
tnere was careful discussion amonr
the officers whether they should get
mold OF Nolan's handsome set of maps
ana az cut Texas out of it-from the map
me United States was cut out when
the atlas was bought for him. INT
II was voted. rightly enough, that to
t tn h inns would be virtually to reveal
6 G,enry Cole said. to make him think
Oio Burr had succeeded So II Vas
from no fault of Nolan's that a great
eo.cn happened at my own table when,
OF the George Washington corvette on
me south American station. We are
lying In the La Plata. and soue or
me omcers. who had been on shore
PERTAINING us with accounts OF Their
mInsadventures in riding the haIf-wiid
horses OF Buenos Aires Nolan was at
and e ra ana was in an unusually bright
tumble reminded him of an aiven.
ture or his own. when he was catchfnr,
WHO horses in Texas with his adven1
s ba cousin at time when he must
story with a good deal of snirit 'ne
much SO that the silence which o,ts,,
!, good story hung over the
S Sa1ae LOT an instant. to be broken Nv
fectiy unconso; ; For he asked. per-
Fray. what has become Of re.a.,
ane er me Mexicans got their indepenS.
ence, thought that province OF Tsras
would come forward very fast 80
really one of the finest regions a.,
EARN 1t is the Italy of this continent
49, as nave not seen or heard a word Of
e T Tor near twenty years"
mere were two Texan officers ar the
~ Inc reason he had never heard
OF Iexas was that Texas and h..
anairs had been painfully cut Ont
Sa MS newspapers since Austin
began his settlements; so thai
while he read of Honduras and
ramaulipas. and, till quite lately of
CaiiIornla-this virgin province IN
when his brother had Travelled so fsr
ana. L believe. had died had ceased 70
De TO him. Waters and WilIfanos ~.
Two TeXas men, looked erinly ar eecb
,ther ana tried not to laugh Edward
MOTIFS mad his attention attrac ted h.,
lne third link in the chain of the can
am chandelier. Watrous was seized
with CONFUSION of sneezine Nolan
! linseif saw that something was to noy.
ne dld not know what. And /. as master
d the feast, had to say:
Texas is out of the man Mr. No,t
have You seen Capt Backs curious
account of Sir Thomas Roe's Welcomeo'
AFTER mat cruise l never saw Nolan
'gain | wrote to him at least twica
year. for in that voyage we became
sNen conhdentially intimate: but he
ieNer wrote to me. The other mon .aII
ne that in those fifteen Years he aeeJ
,ery fast, as well he might indeed bnt
nat he was still the same gentle mn
complaining. silent sufferer that he
'Ver was bearing as best he could his
Ell appointed punishment-rather less
-