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him "United States" was scarcely a
reality. Yet he had been fed by unit.
ed States" for all the years since he
had been in the army. He had sworn
on his faith as Christian to be true to-
"United States" 1t was "United
States which gave him the uniform he
wore, and the sword by his side. Nay,
my poor Nolan. 1t was only because
UNITED States had picked you out
first as one of her own confidential
men of honor, that "A. Burr" cared
for you a straw more than for the fat
boat men who sailed his ark for him,
l do not excuse Nolan; only explain
to the reader why he damned his cOun-
try, and wished he might never hear
her name again.
He never did hear her name but once
again. From that moment, Septem-
Der %, 1907, till the day he died, May
II, 1853, he never heard her name
again. For that half century and
more he was a man without cOun-
try.
Old Morgan, as said, was terribly
shocked. If Nolan had compared
George Washington to Benedict Ar
mold, or had cried, God save King
George" Morgan would not have felt
worse. He called the court into his
private room, and returned In fifteen
minutes, with a face like a sheet, to
say:
"Prisoner, hear the sentence Of the
court. The court decides, subject to
the approval Of the president, that you
never hear the name of the United
States again."
Nolan laughed. But nobody else
laughed. Old Morgan was too
solemn, and the whole room was
hushed dead as night for a minute.
Even Nolan lost his swagger In a mo-
ment. Then Morgan added: "Mr.
Marshal, take the prisoner to Orleans
In an armed boat, and deliver him to
the naval commander there"
The marshal gave his orders, and
tho prisoner was taken out of court
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the ball; so the captain said they
might ask him, II they would be, re-
sponsible that he did not talk with
the wrong people, "who would give him
intelligence" So the dance went on,
the finest party that had ever been
known, I dare say; for I never heard
Of q man-Of-war ball that was not. For
ladies they had the family Of the
American consul, one or two travellers
who had adventured SO far, and nice
bevy of English girls and matrons, per-
haps Lady Hamilton herself.
Well, different officers relieved each
other in standing and talking with No
Ian in friendly way, so as to be sure
that nobody else spoke to him. The
dancing went on with spirit, and after
a while even the fellows who took this
honorary guard of Nolan ceased to fear
any cOntretemps. Only when some
English lady-Lady Hamilton, as
said, perhaps, called for set of
american dancers" an odd thing hap.
pened. Everybody then danced con-
tredances. The black band, nothing
loath, conferred as to what American
Dances were, and started off with
"Virginia Reel" which they followed
with Money Musk" which, in its turn
in those days, should have been fol-
lowed by 1.-THE Old Thirteen" But
just as Dick, the leader, tapped for his
fiddlers to begin. and bent forward,
about to say, in true negro state, 1.-THE
Old Thirteen gentlemen and ladies !"
as he had said, "'Virglnny Reel If you
pleased" "'Money- Musk II you
pleased" the captains boy tapped him
on the shoulder, whispered to him, and
he did not announce the name Of the
dance; he merely bowed, began on
the air. and they all fell to, the off,
GERS teaching the English girls the
figure. but not telling them why 1t
had no name.
But that is not the story started
to tell. AS the dancing went on, No
Ian and our fellows all got at ease, as
said, SO much so that 1t seemed quite
natural for him to bow to that splendid
Mrs. Graft, and say:
II hope you have not forgotten me,
Miss Rutledge. Shall have the hon.
or of dancing?
He did it So quickly that Shubrick,
who was by him, could not hinder
him. She laughed and said:
II am not Miss Rutledge any longer,
Mr.. Nolan; but l will dance all the
same" just nodded to Shubrick, as II
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-06-07
Importance Of Baudad.

The importance of Bagdad lies In
the fact that it is the key to what IL
potentially perhaps the richest terri
tory in the world, from an agricultural
standpoint. Just as the Nile waters
the sands of Egypt and makes them
wonderfully productive, so the Tigris
and the Euphrates scatter their al
luvial deposits over Mesopotamia and
fertilize the now almost uninhabited
plain. 1t was here that Babylonia at
tanned comparatively high degree of
civilization fully 1000 years ago, long
before Greece and Rome were even
dreamed of. The fertilizing waters
were controlled by innumerable canals
and irrfgating bitches and were re-
sponsible for crops that supported
population of millions. All this civil.
zation disappeared under successive
Assyrian, Persian and Turkish inva.
sions, but these did not diminish the
great possibilities Of the soil under
proper cultivation. 1t is only neces.
sary that the floods of the Tigris and
the Euphrates shall be properly con-
trolled by dams and canals and the
land will again blossom like rose.
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to say he must leave Mr.. Nolan to her.
and led him Off to the place where the
dance was forming.
Nolan thought he had got his chance.
He had known her at Philadelphia,
and at other places had met her. and
this was a godsend. You could not
talk in contredances, as you do In
cOtillions, or even in the pauses OF
waltzing; but there were chances for
tongues and sounds, as well as for
eyes and bushes. He began with her
travels. and Europe and Vesuvius, and
the French; and then, when they had
worked down, and had that long talk
ing time at the bottom Of the set, he
said boldly, little pale, she said, az
she told me the story, years after:
"And what do you hear from home.
Mrs. Graff?"
And that splendid creature looked
through him. Jove! how she must
have looked through him! "Home I
Mr.. Nolan!!! thought you were tho
man who never wanted to hear Of
home again !" and she walked directly
up the deck to her husband, and left
poor Nolan alone, as he always was.
He did not dance again.
cannot give any history Of him In
order; nobody can now; and, indeed,
am not trying to. These are the ira
ditiOns, which sort out, rs / believe
them, from the myths which have been
told about this man for forty years.
The fellows used to say he was the
Iron Mask" and poor George POns
went to his grave in the belief that
this was the author of "Junius," who
was being punished for his celebrated
libel on Thomas Jefferson. POns was
not very strong in the historical line.
A happier story than either of these !
have told Is Of the war. That came
along soon after. I have heard this
affair told in three or four ways, and,
indeed, 1t may have happened more
than once. But which ship 1t was on
I cannot tell. However, in one, at
least, of the great frigate duels with
the English, In which the navy was
really baptized, 1t happened that
round shot from the enemy entered
one of our ports square, and took right
down the officer Of the gun himself.
and almost every man of the guns
crew. Now you may say what you
choose about courage, but that Is not
a nice thing to see. But as the men
who were not killed picked themselves
up, and the surgeons people were car
rying Off the bodies, there appeared
Nolan, in his shirt sleeves, with the
hammer In his hand and. just as If he
had been the officer, told them off with
authority, who should 60 to the cock.
pit with the wounded men, who should
stay with him, perfectly CHEEKY, and
with that way which makes men feel
sure all Is right and Is going to be
right. And he finished loading the
gun with his own hands, aimed 1t, and
babe the men FIRE. And thars ha
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-06-07
ON VALUE OF SAVING MONEY
Words of Number Of Famous Men
Regarding the Habit of Thrift
Are Recalled.

In days Of prosperity, when there
Is plenty of money in circulation, it is
well to consider the words of some ia
nous men regarding the value of saw
ing money, says an exchange:
Here is what they say on saving
money:
mo man can succeed in life if he
spends all he makes. Frugality is q
neeessity."-Lord Strathcona.
1.-THE man who has to shake the ba-
by's bank for carfare will never evolve
into Russell Sage."-George Horace
Lorimer.
"Save, young man, and become re-
spectacle and respected. "-Franklin.
"If you want to be anything in life
or in your community save your money
and begin to do 1t right away
Mark Hanna.
IF you would be sure that you are
beginning right, begin to save."-The-
Odore Roosevelt.
"A boy who is taught to save meney
will rarely be bad man or failure
Gladstone.
First and last, keep out of debt.
Begin by saving money, and once be-
gun, never stop."-Marshall Field.
Save your money. Keep an account
book and enter therein every farthing
of your receipts and expenditures
George Washington.
"The most valuable book in the
world is your bank boOk."-Mark
Twain.
"Nearly all of success is found in
the simple principle Of saving money"
stephen Glrard
"The seed of success is not in you
If you can't save money."-James j.
Hill.
"The man who cannot and does not
save money cannot and will not do any.
thing else worth hile."-Andrew Car.
negie.
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% Man Without
g A Country q
81 Fd,word Everett Hale

was over, Nolan was enlisted body and
soul. From that time, though he did
not yet know 1t, he lived as "A Man
without a Country"
What Burr meant to do I know no
more than you, dear reader. 1t Is none
of our business just now. Only, when
the grand catastrophe came, and JET,
ferson and the House Of Virginia Of
that day undertook to break on the
wheel all the possible Clarences Of the
then House of York, by the great
treason trial at Richmond. some of the
lesser fry in that distant Mississippi
valley, which was farther from us than
Puget Sound Is today, introduced the
like novelty on their provincial stage,
and, to while away the monOtony OF
the summer at Fort Adams, got up, for
spectacles, q string Of cOurt-martials
on the officers there. One and anoth-
er Of the colonies and majors were,
tried, and, to fill out the list, little No
Ian, against whom, heaven knows,
there was evidence enough, that he
was sick Of the service, had been will
Ing to be false to it, and would have
obeyed any order to march anywhither
with anyone who would follow him,
had the order only been signed, by
command of His Exc. A. Burr" The
courts dragged on. The big flies es-
capped, rightly for all l know. Nolan
was proved guilty enough, as l say;
yet you and I would never have heard
of him, reader, but that, when the
president of the court asked him at the
close, whether he wished to say any,
thing to show that he had always been
faithful to the United States, he cried
out, In fit Of frenzy:
"D-n the United States! I wish
may never hear Of the United States
again!"
l suppose he did not know how the
words shocked old Colonel Morgan,
who was holding the court. Half the
officers who sat in 1t had served
through the Revolution, and their
lives. not to say their necks, had been,
risked for the very idea which he so
cavalierly cursed in his madness. He,
on his part. had grown up in the West,
Of those days, in the midst Of Spanish,
plot" "Orleans plot" and all the rest.
His education, such as 1t was, had
been perfected In commercial expedi''
lions to Vera Cruz, and think he told
me his father once hired an English
man to be a private tutor for winter
on the plantation. He had spent half
his youth with an older brother, hunt
ing horses In Texas; and, in word, to-
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-06-07
DRAGONS Bones Found in China.

The earth, under the probes of ex-
plOrers, Is still yielding up prehistoric
secrets and strange revelations of past
ages.
In China, the bones Of what 1t Is
thought to have been a species Of
dragon" have been unearthed. One
large specimen measured 60 feet, and
near 1t were the fossiliZed remains Of
a number Of smaller ones. Interest in
this discovery was very widespread
and keen, as all true Cinnamon like to
say that they have "seen a dragon"
even II only fossil.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-06-07
mo document In actual Amer.
lean history CONVEYS q moro

No document In actual Amer.
lean history conveys a more
powerful lesson Of what citizen
ship In this republic means, mono
delivers q more searching appeal
to loyalty, than this fanciful re.
eitaI of the Man Without .
Country. Tho unhappy creature
whose living death 1t has graved
upon the memory Of mankind
was but a figure born Of a writ
er's Imagination. Yet, the &C.
count Of his passionate outburst
and Of his dreadful expiation
stirs the dullest soul, and will
awaken emotion In the minds
Of readers Of generations yet I'M
born. There can be no more ar
resting lesson for the disloyal or
the needless, no more inspiring
appeal to tho spirit Of true Amer
icanism, than this memorable
work Of literary art and high
souIed patrIotisn.]
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Stronq Hint.

"Have you an extensive plant in
your town to interest an enterprising
stranger?'
eyes, we have. There's the town
cemetery"
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GETTING the News.

"Why do you encourage that inces-
SAINT talker, Mrs. Gaddy, to come
here?
"Well, I save that much on subscrip-
ton to daily newspaper"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02
# Mrs. Edith wharton, and other

of Mrs. Edith Wharton, and other
! Americans.
Completing French sanatorium.
We are completing, for the
| French, an unfinished tuberculosis
! sanatOrium near Paris, and are add
! ing to the barracks erected by the
! city of Paris. This means adding L.
| 900 beds TO those now available.
I'VE are organizing cOmpre-
| hensive health center in one of the
| departments of France.
I'VE are making arrangements on
a large scale TO help refugee families
| through the winter with clothing,
beds and shelter and for this work
the entire devastated district of
France has been divided into six dis
! tricts with a resident Red Cross dele
gate in each, and four warehouses
have been established for food, cloth
| ing, bedding, beds, household utensils
and agricultural implements.
I'VE are carrying on repair work
in four villages to enable returned
families to stay throughout the Win
ter.
Supply Portable Houses.
1--WE are cooperating with French
agencies in relief work in the pTinci-
pal agricultural centers in the deVa-
stated region, and are supplying
portable houses for families which
have returned.
we are providing barracks to as
sist in training disabled soldiers. and
we expect TO establish for them
experimental agricultural stations.
I'VE are organizing extensive work
for relief of Belgians, and in this
connection we are establishing ware
houses near the Belgian front that
we may he ready to assist Belgians
who may be liberated by a change in
the fighting line.
I'VE are aiding the queen of Bel
gium i'm her work for the children,
and are assisting in the support of
hospitals and other relief of bcigian
soldiers.
In addition we are bringing chill
dren from occupied Belgium into
France, where they may be cared
for.
ITO enable us to carry on our work
we have established large central
warehouses in Paris, and distribution
warehouses from the sea TO the Swiss
border. Here will be stored hospital
supplies, food, soldiers comforts,
tobacco, blankets and household
goods. kitchen utensils. clothing, beds
and other articles for relief.
1.-TWO hundred tons of supplies are
arriving in Paris daily, and l25 tons
are being reshipped to various branch
warehouses.
our total warehouse capacity is
| 100. 900 tons, and 125 men are en-
ployed, many of whom are volun-
teers.
our transportation department
with a personnel of about 400,
handles our supplies and furnishes
automobiles. 1t has an organized
force at every port in France, and
can handle about $50 tons of supplies
daily.
I'VE use 400 motor vehicles, $50 of
which are trucks of various sizes.
I'm addition we are preparing to
operate a motor bus line through
Switzerland from Germany to the
French border to aid in transporta-
ton of the repatries and exchanged
prisoners.
I'VE operate seven garages and
make all repairs on our own cars.
Our transportation work is direct
cd bv men experienced in transporta-
ton work in America"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02

I'VE are operating at the front line,
In cooperation with the French Red
Cross, 10 canteens and are preparing
to establish 20 more.
I'VE are operating six canteens for
use Of French soldiers at important
railway centers, where we serve
about 10000 soldiers a day, and are
planning many more.
Canteens Operated in Paris.
I'm Paris canteens. operated by us
with the French. we are serving
enormous numbers of soldiers.
I'VE soon expect to have ready IL
rest stations for our own troops at
important railway centers. also re-
operating camps for many of our
soldiers.
I'VE are providing an artificial
limb factory near Paris and special
plants for the manufacture of splints
and nitrous oxide gas.
we have contracted for n movable
hospital in four units, accommodate
ing 900 men.
"A recreation service. with hos
pitfalls and diet kitchens.
"A casualty service for gathering
Information in regard to wounded
ana ullsSlIlB, ana n uiGulCdl ItSSdICLs
bureau.
Our work with the civil popula-
ton covers mainly children, refugees
and tuberculosis.
Chiidren's Refuge Opened.
1--WE have opened a children's ref
uge and hospital in the war zone
where several hundred children are
protected from gas and shellfre.
AT another point among the
wrecked villages we have established
medical center and travelling dis
pensary to accommodate 1900 chill
dren.
I'VE have undertaken extensive
medical work for the repatrie children
at Evian, about 500 of whom are
daily returned from the German
lines.
I'VE also have opened a hospital
and cOnvalescent home for these chill
dren at Evian, where we are also
operating an ambulance service for
the returning repatries.
I'VE are about to establish infant
welfare stations in connection with
each dispensary in the nationwide
system planned by the Rockefeller
foundation.
I'VE have taken over an extensive
work formerly in charge
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02
REPORT SHOWS
VIDE RANGE OF
RED CROSS WORK
Chairman of War Council
;saFells How Society Aids
ALI Glasses
GREAT REFUGEE
-, PLACES RAISED
ForASf Relief Made Pos
siblN By The American
Reorganization

"a Dc He'd report of just what the
hmerikHI Red Cross is doing and has
pne 1THraRCe and Belgium was re-
LIVED Ht the North Dakota headquar-
rs kflfhe Red Cross today. The re-
Eprt TWAS made in response to a re-
te5tIISf Henry p. Dawson, chair
Sar1 Ibf the Red Cross war council.
'YlAi Nave just completed a gift of
,qb1HqQ to needy sick and wounded
Kffl1Fh soldiers and needy families of
s1FlEfa" says the report.
HIVE have established twenty dis
InSaFies in the American army zone
ii dare for resident civilians and to
! IMPROVE health conditions in that
intion before arrival of our troops.
Dental Ambulance Provided.
I'VE are providing dental ambu-
lance at French port for the use Of
our soldiers and sailors, and have
Organized a nurses service for Am
drican army.
f'Our hospital distributing service
nds supplies to 1923 French mill
10y hospitals and is laying in large
5fnck for future needs; our surgical
dessings service supplies 1000
Efench hospitals and Is preparing
hknense supplies for our own army.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02
NAVY OFFICE STILL
HAS TWO In CHARGE
No Changes Announced as Result of
Stationing Chief Quartermaster
Benjamin of Minot, Here.

The Fargo sub-station of the Unit
ed States navy recruiting office still
has two men in charge, no further
word being received from the Mime
apolis office since II. NJ. Benjamin,
chief quartermaster, was ordered to
close the MinOt office and proceed at
once to take charge of the Fargo
office.
Recruiting officer w. E. Alden has
been in charge for about two months.
Chief Quartermaster Benjamin re-
ported for duty Tuesday morning
of this week.
Two men were enlisted in the radio
branch of the navy Thursday, being
Byron II. Rogers and Henry q.
BIaisdell, both of Minot. They were
sent to Minneapolis Thursday night,
and after a brief period of training,
will be sent to the government school
at Harvard.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02
Veteran Devils
Lake Engineer
Predicts End

Devils Lake, N. D. Nov. a.
Boys. this Is my last trip as
engineer for the Chautauqua
road.
Little did the railroad boys
think anything Of this prophecy
made by Gus Iverson shortly
after placing the engine away
after the final run for 1917 sea
son, until his death was reported.
Returning from his barn after
looking over his stock for the
night, Iverson went to his favor
lite chair and sat down. A short
time afterwards he cougned and
dropped dead.
Funeral services were held
Thursday afternoon.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02
GOES INSANE.

Richard Forrest, Former Resident of
Grand Forks, In Canadian Hospital.
Grand Forks. N. D., Nov. 2.-Rich-
ard Forrest, who claims to be an
intimate friend of President Wilson
and to have enjoyed wide and nm
usual popularity among the emperors
and kings of Europe, has beene pIac-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02
TOWNLEY SPEAKS. BUT
UNDER LOYALTY PLEDGE
Nonpartisan League Head Required
to Agree to Thoroughly Loyal
Attitude.

st. Peter, Mimi, Nov. with the
specific promise that the meeting
which A. c. Townley, president of
the National Nonpartisan league ad-
dressed here yesterday, would be a
loyalty meeting, pure and simple,
members of the Nicollet County Pub
lie Safety committee and the county
sheriff attended to assure themselves
that the promises were not violated.
A. L. Samuelson of Lafayette, a
member of the state executive body
of the league, made the plans for the
meeting
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02
THEATER BUSINESS BEST
NOW since WAR STARTED


Business in the theatres of winni-
peg and our houses in western Canada
is much better than any time since
the war started" declared c. p. Walk
er, head of the Walker Theatre circuit
with offices in Winnipeg, who arrived
in Fargo Wednesday night and will
remain until Saturday.
Mr.. Walker stated that his visit to
Fargo was purely of a pleasure ma
ture to see his son, r. p. Walker, who
will leave for California soon. He de-
MED that his trip was in any way
connected with stories current Of late
that new theatre was to be built
in Fargo.
For Quick Results Use The Forum
Want Ads.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02
THREE LADS ESCAPE
FROM REFORM SCHOOL
simultaneously With Their Break
For Liberty Black Horse pisap-
pears al Melarvia Place.

Mandan, N. d.. Nov. 2.-While
James Melarvia was telling several
men about the loss Of black horse
taken from his barn north OF town,
news reached him that three boys
made their getaway from the state
reform school and are thought 20 be
covering some portion Of the state
west Of the Missouri. Ths supposi-
ton is that the horse was taken By
one Of the boys in order to make
time
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02

Cattle Shipments From North Dakota
Will BE Resumed Monday.
(By Associated Pregs.l

st. Paul, Nov. Cattle shipments
from North Dakota will be resumed
Monday when the embargo placed by
the Great Northern railway against
this class Of freight will be raised,
according to an announcement today
by w. p. Kenney, vice president.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-02
BELK IS SERGEANT.
Former Jamestown Civil Engineer
Gets Office at Camp Dodge.

jamestown, n. D., Nov. Mayor
H. c. Flint is in receipt OF letter
from Lorenzo Belk, former civil
engineer here. stating he is now a
sergeant at the cantonment camp at
Camp Dodge. Mr.. Belk was in
charge of the men who left here in
the first contingent.