Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-11-07

he had taught the men to cut for him.
and they. were beautifully illustrated.
He drew admirably. He had some of
the funniest drawings there, and some
Of the most pathetic. that have ever
seen in my life. wonder who will
have NoIans scrapbooks.
Well. he said hla reading and his
notes were his profession, aud that
they took five hours aud two hours
respectively Of each day. Chen"
said he. every man should have di-
version rs well as a profession. Ny
tGral history is my diversion" That
took two hours a day more The men
used to bring him birds and fish, hut
on long cruise he had to satisfy him
self with centlpedes and cockroache
and such small game. lie was the only
naturalist | ever met who knew any
| thing about the habits of the house fly
and tie mosquito. All those people
| can tell you whether they are Lepi-
doptera or Stcptop0tera but as for
telling how you can get rid of then.
or how they get away from you when
you strike them. why Linnaeus knew
as little of that as John Foy. the idiot.
| did. These uine hours made Nolan's
regular daily Occupation" The rest
of the time he talked or walked Till
he grew very old, he went aloft a great
deal. He always kept up his exercise
IHnd / never heard that he was ill., Ii
lnny Other inan was ILL., he was the kind
est nurse In the world; and he knew
more than half the surgeons do. Then
| IL anybody was sick or died. or If the
captain wanted him to on any other
| pccns,on, he was always ready to read
prayers. | have remarked that he
re;,d beagiifully.
My own acquaintance with Philip
No,an began six or eight years after
the war on my first voyage after l
WIS appointed a midshipnan. 1t was
| in the FIRST days after our slave trade
treaty. while the rcisning house.
which was still the house Of Virginia.
bad still sort OF sentimentalism
about the suppression OF the horrors
of the tnlsldlp passage. and Soniethin.
was sometimes done tha, way. We
were in the South Atlantic on that
business. From the time I Joined,
believe | thought Nolan was sort Of
| ias chaplans~a chaplain with blue
| coat. never asked about him. Ev-
| efything IN the ship was strange to
me, knew 1t was green to ask ques-
! items. aad I suppose | thought there
was a "plain-Euttons" on every ship
We nnd him To dine In our mess once
| q week. and the caution was given that
on that day nothing was TO be said
about home. But IL they bad told us
| not to say anything about the planet
Mars ar the book Of Deuteronomy. |
| should not have asked why; there were
| great many things which seemed to
me to have MS little reason. ! tirst
| came TO understand anything abou,
| "ihe man withoui a country" one day
! when we overhaG!ed a dirty little
schooner which had slaves on board
An officer was sent to take charge OF
!. her, and after few minutes he sent
/ back his boat to ask that someone
| might he sent him who could speak
| Portuguese. We were all looking over
| the rail when the message came, and
we all wished We could Interpret. when
| the captain asked who spoke Por,
| tuguese. But none Of the officers did
| and just as the captain was sending
forward to ask II any of the people
could. Nolan stepped out and said be
| should be glad to interpret. IL the cap
| tain wished, n hs understood The Ia