The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-02-27


& your mess ,ory, 81 less vi ~ n
dinner. His brea m e M 80 II hisss.
own staternnm.s ha' .alwava had s .tats.
RON. wtic, "a. whera : laant,neI ~
omei,ndv a IA 90 ch rnnld "a thAss
door. "a VIA tever 5elae, "a ~, s
drank he ate s. drank alone. some.
1 dimes. when the marines 81. a nora had
INV special iollif ica Hon. thew were ner-
s1mftted to invite .Plain. Rntt IONS. n !
they called him. Then Nolan was sent
With some officer. and the men were
forbidden Is speak 81 home while he
was there. They called him ..Plain.:
. Buttons," because. while he always
chose to wear regulation army uni.
form. he was not permitted to wear
the army button. Tor the reason that
IL bore either the initials or, the In
sigma Of the country he had disowned.
remember. som after / ioined the
navy. waa IN ahora WITH .onoa e tho
older officers from onr shin and from
the Bran,ldvvwUine which we had met 4
Alexandria. Wa had leave ia make
nartv and 20 mn ia Cairo and tho pvrn.
mida. An VA logged along Soma AZ
the gentlemen fell to talking ahout No.
Ian. and someone told the system
which was : donted from tho f1rs+ ahont
his hooks ana other reading q he
was almost never narm,ttad "a % an
shore even Though the vessel Law IN nort
for months h,e Tine a. tho hae+
hing heavy: and evervhodv was ner.
noi++od - ,ond hin, hooSs - +,,on ,u,o,e
not nnhl;shad IN Am.r,ca and nada M
al,nston to # Thasa wera common
eno,,oh IN tho old davs whom noonIa
In tho other hom,snhora +olkod ~ the.
T1n;tod sta+o. 90 1,++1a aa we a. ~
paraonav H. bod olno.+ al, Tho for.
sion nonore +ho+ como ;n+o no .h;n
sooner ~ 1o+or. on1v sonoahodv must
On ovar +hon f,rs+ .nd cn+ o,,+ .nv
edvor+;sornor+ ~. s+rov no ro cronh +ho+
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ono ~ conn,na,s snaoohas no.. Nn,sn
mo,,,d 49, 100. 49, hona,.s v. ~ -
wv ~. - ~" s ~ 80 a VI -, -
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- res a1e4 -, 1eeae soy ,ne "as
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49," 49, 60 "".u e ~. @
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.en ~ oeeause pooi u44ps' ~no
""9 ~ .He po1 ~ 80 soo" 90 NV 10y.
eIo1 w 4Sauns was Anaue' tolo s'UIS
y. eolue'tnns WHICH, ndPpsneu a. tue
oape u 0oou nope VI ro.an nis'
soSase' anu ~ ~ 'ne oniy 'n.ns eve,
hnew VI tnat voyage. 1hey nau
toucneo at tue Cape' anu nau uone Tue
eaV.l tnlng WIN !ne nngiisn ao.nlral
anu inc heet' ana men, leaving ior u
long cruise up tue Anoian ocean' fnl,'
ups nao BORROWER 1ot VI "nells"
ooohs IRON I'LL olhcer' WHICH, III tnose
oays' az lnueeu III tnese' was quIte
"1nt1an. Among tnen' az Tue De'li
wou1o ofoer, was the LAY OF the Last
Mlnstrei, which they hau al VI tnein
never seen. I think it could not have
been nuh]ished long. Well. nohodv
49, t .,,a"a $500 g. Ill., ~ oSs
thing national in that, though Phillips
swore old Shaw had cut out the
'Tempest" from Shakespeare. before
he let Nolan have 1t, because he said,
1.-THE Bermudas ought to be ours and,
ny 'ove' snou'u oe ono u"y' .oo No'
one afternoon when q lot of them sat
on deck smoking and reading aloud.
People do not do such things SO often
now. but when I was young we got
nv " saeat u ..4 ~ r n,n 80. 1, ~sn'
so 1t happened that In MS turn Nolan
took the book and read to the others:
and ho reod verv we'll ~ know M.
-
poem, only it was all magic and bor-
der chivalry, and was ten thousand
years ago. Poor Nolan read steadily
through the fifth canto, stopped min
ute and drank something, and then be-
gan, without a thought Of what was