The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-05-31
PART l..

- fHILIP NOLAN was as fine
- Young officer as there was In
Il the Legion of the West as
- the western division Of our
army was then called. When Aaron
Burr made his first daslins expedition
down 10 New orleans la 1905 at Fort
MaSsac or somewhere above on the.
river he met as the dew would have
II. tits gay. dashing. bright young fell
low at some dinner party. ! think.
Burr marked him. talked to him. walk
ed with him. took hi:n Il day or two's
voyage in his 1athuat and. in short.
fascinated him. For the next year
harraek life WIS very tame to poor
Nolan IL occasionally awaited of the
permission the great man had given
him t. Wf.te 10 him. The other boys
in the garrison sueered at him because
ne sacrificed in this unrequited affee-
ton for Il politician the time which
they devoted ~ mouongahela, sledgt-
anl hI-h-IuW jack. Bourbon. euchre
and poker were still unknown. But
one. day Nolan had his revenge. This
time Burr came down the river not as
an attorney seeking place for his Of
flee. llit as II disguised couqueror. 1t
WIS fumored that be had an army be
hind him and in empire before him.
1t was great day-his arrival-to poor
Nolan. Burr had not been at the fort
an hour before he sent for hin. That
evening he asked Nolan to take him
out In his skiff to show him cane
brake or a cottonwood tree. as be said
-really to Seduce him-and by the time
the sail was over Nolan WIS enlisted
body and soul From that time,
though he did not yet know il, he lived
as IA man without a country
What Burr meant to do ! know ne
more than You. dear reader. 1t * none
of our business just now. Only when
the grand catastrophe came some 81
the lesser fry in that distant Missis-
sippi valley to while away the mono
tony of the summer at Fort Admins
got mp for spectaries string OF conri
martialS on the officers there. One
and another of the colonies and ma las
were tried. and. to fill out the list. little
Nolan, against whom, heaven knows.
there was evidence enough that G@
was sick of the service had been will
ing to be false to it ana would have
obeved any order 10 march anywhither
with any one who would follow hin
had the order only been signed. BY
command of His Exc. \. Burr The
courts dragged on. The big flies es-
caped-rightly for all | know. Nolan
was proved guilty enough as say. yet
YOU and ! would never have heard OF
him. reader, but that, when the pres.
dent of the court asked him at liz"
close whether he wished to say any
thing to show that he had always heci
faithful to the United States he clie'
out in a fit of frenzy:
d the United States, | wish
may never hear of the United State
again.
| suppose he ala not know how tn
words shocked old Colonel Morgan
who was holding the court. Nola
had grown up in the west Of tho
DAYS in the midst of spanish plot
Orleans plot and ali the rest. Il
had been educated on pantHtio
. where the uIitfNt NbtillldiiA Nt@ Il 'l'''A'
ish officer or a FreLch merchant frou
Orleans. His education. such as IL
was. had been perfected in commercial
EXPEDITIONS to Vera Cruz and ] thsE'
he told me his father once hired az
Englishman to be II private tutor Tor %
winter on the Tlanta ton. He had Spen'
half his y1ull with an older brothe
hunting horses in Texas. and. in word
10 him "Cnited states" WAS scarce
ly reality Yet he had been fed b.
limited States" for all the years sine
he had been in the army. He hat
sworn on his faith as II Christian to h,
true TO United States" 1t was nil
ed States which gave him the auiforE,
he wore and the sword by bis side
do not excuse Nolan. only explHin L.
the reader why he damned his cOuntr,
and wished he might never hear hel
name again.
He never did hear her name bu
once again. From that moment. Sept
-. 1907. till the day he died. May II.
1868. he never heard her name again
For that half century and more he was
man without a country.
Old Morgan. as | said. was terribly
shocked. He called the court into hi
private room and returned in fifteen
minutes with a face like sheet, tt
say:
prisoner. hear the sentence of tn
court The court decides. subject t
the approval of the president, that yor
never hear the name of the United
States again
Nolan laughed But nobody els
laughed. Old Morgan was too solemn