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NTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA THE IAN R' IH A COUK1RY (Continued From f ur r hod been la the arm*. He hud on his faith ns a Christian tojbe'tra “United States.” It was “Un ^.States" which gave him the uniform ■ 'wore, and the sword by his side. JJa'j, tny poor Nolan, It was only been ■>. “United States" had nicked you i first as cno of her own confidential men of honor, that “A. Burr” eared, for you a straw more than for the flat- boat men who sailed his ark for him. I do not excuse Nolan; I only explain to the reader why he damned his coun try. and wished he might never hear her name again. He never did heur her name but once . , again. From that moment, Septem ber 23, 1S07, till the duy he died, May S 11, 1883, he never heard her name , ; again. For tmit half century ud ■-*' more he was a man without a coun- v try. Old Morgan, ns I said, was terribly ' shocked. If Noinn had compared * George Washington to Benedict Ar nold, or lmd cried, “God save King i George,” Morgan would not have felt 5 worse. He called the court Into his s private room, and returned in fifteen minutes, with a face like a sheet, to say: t “Prisoner, hear the sentence of the ; court. The court decides, subject to a the approval of the president, that you never hear the name of the United s States again.” — Nolan laughed. But nobody else laughed.. Old Morgan * was too solemn, and the whole room was hushed dead ns night for a minute. Even Nolnn lost his swagger In a mo ment. Then Morgnn added: “Mr. Marshal, take the prisoner to Orleans In an armed boat, and deliver him to the naval commander there.” The marshal gave Ills orders^and the prisoner was taken out of court. "Mr. Marshal,” continued old Mor gan, “see thpt no one mentions the United Stntes to the prisoner. Mr. Marshal, make my respects to Lieu tenant Mitchell at Orlenns, and re quest him to order that no one shull mention the United Stntes to the pris oner while he Is on board ship. You will receive your written orders from j the officer on duty hero this evening. The court Is adjourned without day." I have always supposed that Colonel Morgnn himself took the proceedings of the court to Washington City, and explained them to Mr. .Tetferson.. Cer tain it Is tliut the president approved them, certain, that is, If I may believe the men who say they have seen Ills signature. The plan then adopted wns sub stantially the same which wns neces sarily followed ever after. Perhaps It was. suggested by the necessity of sending him by water from Fort Adams and Orleans. The secretary of the navy was requested to put Nolan on board a government vessel bound on a long cruise, and to direct that he should be only so far confined there as to make It certain that he never saw or heard of the country. We had few long cruises then, and the navy wns very much out of favor; and as almost all of Gils story Is traditional, as I have explained, I do not know cer tainly what his first cruise was. But the commander to whom he was In trusted—perhaps It was Tlngey or Shaw, though I think It was one of the younger men—we are all old enough now—regulated the etiquette and the precautions of the affair, and according to his scheme they were carried out, I suppose, till Nolan died. When I was second officer of the In trepid some thirty years after, I saw the original paper of instructions. I have been sorry ever since that I did hot copy the whole of it. It ran, how ever, much in this way: “Washington,” (with the date, which must have been late in 1807). “Sir—You will receive from Lieu tenant Neale the person of Fhlllp No lan, late n lieutenant In the United States army. “This person on his trial by court- ; martial 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 order Is intrusted by the president of this department. “You will take the prisoner on board your ship, and keep him there with such precautions as shall prevent his escape. “You will provide him with such quarters, rations, and clothing ns would be proper for nn officer of his late rank, If he were a passenger on your vessel on the business of his gov ernment. “The gentlemen on board will make any arrangements agreeable to them selves regarding his society. He Is to be exposed to no Indignity of any kind nor Is he ever unnecessarily to be re minded that he Is a prisoner. 1-4;; “Bui under no circumstances Is he .ever to hear of his country or to see Bji any Information regarding It; and you < will especially caution all the officers i under your command to take care that, * in the various indulgences which may be granted, this rale, In which his pun ishment Is Involved, shall not be topken. ... .. “it is, the intention of the govern ment that he shall never again see the country which he has disowned. Before the end of your cruise you will receive orders which will give effect to this Intention. “Respectfully yours, “W. SOUTHARD, “for the Secretary of the Navy.” If I had only preserved the whole of this pkper, there would be no break In the beginning of my sketch of this story. For Captain Shaw, If It was he, handed It to his successor In the Charge, and he to his. The rule adopted on board the ships on which I-have met “The Man without a Country” was, I think, transmitted from the beginning. No mess liked to have him permanently, because his presence cut oft dll talk of home or of the prospect of return, of politics or letters, of peace or of War—cut off more than half the talk men like to have at sea. But It was always thought too hard that he should never meet the rest of us, except to touch hnts, and we finally sank Into one sys tem. He wag not permitted to talk with the men unless nn officer wns by. With officers he hnd unrestrained in tercourse, as fur ns they and ho chose. But he grew shy, though he had favor ites: I wns one. Then the captain always asked hint to dinner on Mon day. Every mess In succession took up the Invitntion In Its turn. Accord ing to the slse-of the ship, you hnd him at your mess more or less often at dinner. His brenkfust he ate in his own stateroom, he always had a state room, which was where n 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 jollification, they were per mitted to Invite “Plain-Buttons," us they called him. Then Nolnn was sent with some officer, and the men were forbidden to speak of homb while he was there. They called him “Plain- Buttons,” because, while he always chose to .wear a regulation army uni form, he was not permitted to wear the army button, for the reason that It bore either the Initials or the !n- slgnlu of the country he had disowned. I remember, soon after I joined the navy, I was on shore with some of the older officers from our ship and from the Brandywine, which we had met at Alexandria. We had leave to make a party and go up to Cairo and the Pyra mids. . As wo jogged along some of the gentlemen fell to talking about No lnn, and someone told the system which was adopted from the first ubout his books und other reading. As he wns 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 allusion to it. These were common enough In tho old days, when people In the other, hemisphere talked of the United States ns little ns we do of Paraguay. He had almost all the for eign papers that came into the ship, sooner or later; only somebody must go over them first, and cut out any advertisement or stray paragraph that alluded to America. Right In the .midst of one of Napoleon’s battles, or one of Canning’s speeches, poor Nolan would find a great hole, because on the back of the page of that paper there had been an advertisement of a packet for New York, or a scrap from the president’s message. I say this was the first time I ever heard of this plan, which afterwards I hnd enough, and Big A Mr. and.Mrs Floyd Wedding- on of near Douglasville, at- ended the Smith funeral and Dent a part of the week with .datives. L. M. Lambert and family spent the week end near Liberty. Wesley Moore made a flying rip to Atlanta Friday but came back not so fast, on a mule. Mr. and Mrs. Will Grey spent 'unday with Mr. and Mrs. W. 13. Hudson. Mr. and Mrs. Lone Butler at tended pleaching at Bearear Sunday. Mrs. E. J. Williams and daugh ter, Miss Siidie, spent Sunday with Mrs. Rilla Lambert. Oren Williams of Bill Arp, spentSunday with Kinney Smith. Mrs. Mary Lou Creel is spend ing some time with her mother, Mrs. Jake Weddington, of Doug- lasvilU. John Dorsett spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Roam M. Smith and babies spent Sunday with Mr. and 'Mrs. R. C. Williams of Bill Arp. . J B. A. Hudson lost a nice youifg cow Sunday. She fell in an eight-foot gulley. Olin Bearden also lost a cow. She drowned in a branch not over six or[eight inches deep. L, K. W. Too Much. “Thpre Is such a thing as carrying mo’s love for poetry too far,” stated j Grout P. Smith. “Yesterday while my ! wife was attempting to hang up a por- j trait of the poet Goethe—I reckon lio was a poet, or something—she fell off . .rom the atepladder on to the cat, . -vrcnching her back and also that of ; 'he cat."—Kansas City Star. STOCK FEED OF ALL KINDS We handle sweet feed, hay, Red Gravy, Velvet Bean meal, bran, shorts, oats, beet pulp, cotton seed meal and flaked hulls. We buy in car load lots and can save you money. We sell foFcash oniy. W. 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They had touched at the Cape, and had done the civil thing with the English admiral and the fleet, and then, leaving for a long cruise up the Indian ocean, Phil lips had borrowed a lot of English books from an officer, which, !n those days, as Indeed In these, was quite a windfall. Among them, as the Devil would order, 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 it could not have been published long. Well, nobody thought there could be any risk of any thing national in that, though Phillips swore old Shaw had cut out the “Tempest” from Shakespeare before he let Nolan have it, because he said, “The Bermudas ought to be ours and, by Jove, should be one day.” So No lan was permitted to join the circle one afternoon when a 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 rid of a great deal of time so. Well, so it happened that in his turn Nolan took the book and read to the others; and he read very well, as I know. No body In the circle knew a line of the poem, only It was all magic and bor der chivalry, and was ten thousand years ago. Poor Nolan read steadily through the fifth caqto, stopped a min ute and drank something, and then be gan, without a thought of what was coming— Breath os there the man, with soul dead, Who never to himself hath said— (To < ■ - CvUluAuetl) SPRING DRESS GOODS T HE flowers of spring are no more appealing to the senses in their chaste coloring and tonal effect than our magnificent display of Spring Dress Goods are here. For those early spring dresses let us show you Silks, Ponges, Sport Goods, Voils, plain and fancy Linens, Beach Cloths, Laces, Embroidery, Ribbons etc. We'searched the markets over for their most tempting offerings and we have them. 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