The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-05-26

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III il the intention OF the government
that he shall never again see the eoun,
Try which he has disowned Before
the eud Of your cruise YOU viii receive
orders which will give effect TO this
intention,
Respectfully yours,
w s0uTHARD,
fer the Secretary Of the Navy
II | had only preserved the whole of
this paper there would b. 30 break In
the beginning 'of my sketch OF this
story For Captain shaw II II was he,
handed II to his Successor In the charge
and he 10 his
The rule adopted on board the ships
on which have met The Man without
Country" was, ! thiRk, transmitted
from the beginning. No mess liked 20
have him permanently, because his
presence cut OF aIl talk OF home or of
the prospects Of return of politics or
letters. at peace or OF war cut of
more than half the talk men like 10
have at sea, BAT IL waa always thought
| too hard that he should never meet the
rest Of us. except TO touch hats. and
ne finally sank into one system lie
Was not permitted TO talk with the men
unless an officer vas by With officers
he had Hnrestraned intercourse as far
as they and he chose But he grew shy.
though he had fayorites | was one
Then the captain always asked him TO
dinner on Monday Every mess In sue.
cesson took up the invitation In its
turn According to the size Of the ship,
you had him al your mess more or less
often al dinner. His breakfast he ate
| Ia his own stateroom he always had a
stateroom, which was where a sentinel.
or somebody on the watch, could see
| the door And whatever else he ate or
drank he ate or drank alone Some
times, when the marines or sailors had
any special IolIihcation they were per.
mitted to invite "ptatn Buttons, as
| they called him Then Nolan was sent
with some officer, and the men were
forbidden 10 speak Of home while he
was there. They called him PLAIN.
Buttons" because, while he always
chose 10 wear regulation army uni
form. he was not permitted to wear
the army button. for the reason that
II bore either the Initials or the insignia
OF the country he had disowned
~ remember. soon after joined the
navy was on shore with some OF the
older officers from our ship and from
the HFandywine, which We had met at
Alexandria We had leave TO make a
party and so Hp 10 Cairo aud the
Pyramids As we logged along some
OF the gentlemen fell to talking about
Nolan, and some eRe told the system
which VAS adopted from the flrst about
his books and other reading As he
was almost never permitted TO go on
shore, even though the vessel lay In
port for months. his time. at the best
hung heavy; and everybody was per
mitted TO lend him books. If they were
not published In America and made no
allasion TO II These were common
enough in the old days, when people
In the ether hemisphere talked Of the
United States as little as We do OF
Paraguay He had almost all the for.
elgn papers that came into the ship,
sooner OF later: only somebody must
60 over them FIRST. and cut out any
advertisement or stray paragraph that
aIInded TO America Right In the midst
of one Of Napoleon's battles. or one OF
Channing's speeches. poor Nolan would
find great hole. because on the back
.os the page Of that paper there had
been al advertisement OF packet for