The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-17
(Continued from yesterday

When 1 was second officer of the Intrepid some thirty years after saw the original paper of instructions;
 Washington Cwith the date. which must
 have been late In lS0D.
 Sir-You will receive from It. NeRle the person of Philip Nolan. late lieutenant n the United States army.
 This person on his trial by court mar tial expressed with an oath the wish that he might never hear of the United States again.
 The court sentenced him to have his wish fulfilled
 For the present the execution of the or der is intrusted by the president to tAiS department
 You will take the prisoner on board your shin and keep him there with such pre- cautions as shall prevent his escape
 You will provide him with such quarters ratiuDs and clothing as would be proper for an officer of his late rank If he were ] a messenger on your vessel on the ousi- ness of his government
 The gentlemen on board will make any | arrangements agreeable to themselves TO- l gardIug hls society. He Is to be exposed to no indignity Of any kind, nor Is he ever | unnecessarily to be reminded that he Is l prisoner.
 But under TO circumstances Is he ever 1 to hear of Eis country or to see any m- | formation regarding it. and you VIII es- | nrcigllv caution all the officers under your | command Co take care that, In the various 1 iudulgcnces which may be granted, this l rule, in which his punishment is involved. | shall not be broken.
 II is inc intention of the government that he shall never again see the country | which he has disowned. Before the end of vour cruise you will receive orders 1 which will give effect to this intention. Resp'y yours, w. SOUIttARD'
 For the Secretary of the Navy.
 I suppose the commander of the Le- want has it today as his authority for keeping this man in his mild custody.
 The rule adopted on board the ships on which l have met "The Man With out u Country" was, l think, transmit ted from the beginning. No mess liked to have him permanently, because bis presence cut of all talk of home or Of the prospect of return, of politics or letters. of peace or of war-Cut or more than half the talk men like to have at seq. But it was always thought too hard that he should never meet the rest of us. except to touch hats, and We finally sank Into one system. He was not permitted to talk with the men unless an officer was by. With officers he had unrcstrRined inter course. as far as they and be chose. But he grew shy, though he had favor ties was one Then the captain al ways asked him to dinner on Monday. Every mess in succession took up the invitation in its turn According to the size of the ship you had him at your mess more or less often at dinner. Ills breakfast he ate in 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 be ate or drank be ate or drank alone. Sometimes, when the marines or sailors had any special toi- ufcation, they were permitted to invite "Plain Buttons" as they called him. They called him "PlaiR Buttons" be- cause. while be always chose to wear regulation army uniform, he was not permitted to wear the army button. for the reason that 1t bore either the initials or the insignia of the country he had disowned.
 l remember soon after l joined the navy. Some one told the system which was adopted from the first 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 permitted to lend him books if they were not published in America and made no al- fusion to 1t. He had almost all tho foreign papers that came into the ship sooner or later, only somebody must go over them first and cut out any ad- vcrtisement or stray paragraph that nUuded to America. Phillips told me a story of something which happened at the Cape of Good Hope on Nolan's first voyage. and it is the only thing ever knew of that voyage. Phillips had borrowed a lot of English books from an officer. which In those days, as h. deed in these, was quite wlndfall. Among them, Rs the devil would oroer, was the Lay of the Last Minstrel" which they had all of them heard of, but which most of them had never seen. I think 1t could not have been published long. Well. nobody thought there could be any risk of anything na- ,tionai in that, so Nolan was permit ted to join the circle one afternoon when a lot of them sat on deck smok- ing and reading aloud. Nolan took the book and read to the others, and he read very well, as know. Nobody in the circle knew a line of the poem, only 1t was all magic and border chiv- airy and was 10000 years ago. Poor Nolan read steadily through the fifth canto, stopped minute and drank something and then began, without a lA fbought of what was coming: