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mtfalr told In three or four ways, and;
Indeed, It may have happened more
than once. But which ship it was on
I cnnnot tell. However, In one, at
least, of the great frigate' duels with
the English, In which the navy waa
really baptized, it happened that a
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 gun's
/crew. Now you may say whut yon
choose about courage, but that Is not
a nice thing to see. But ns the men
who were not killed picked themselves
< up, and. the surgeon's people were car
rying off the bodies, there appeared
Nolun, In his shirt sleeves, with the
rammer In his hand, and, Just as if he
had been the officer, told them off with
authority, who should go to the c, "k-
plt with the wounded men,’ who should
stay with him, perfectly cheery, 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 awn hands, aimed It, and
bade the men fire. And there he
stayed, captain of that gun, keeping
those fellows lu spirits, tin the enemy
struck, sitting on the carriage while
-the gun was cooling, though he was
exposed all the time, showing them
easier ways to handle heavy shot, mak
ing the raw hands laugh at their own
blunders, and when the gun cooled
again, getting it loaded and fired twice
as often as any other gun oh the ship.
The captain walked forward, by way
of encouraging the men, and Nolun
touched his hat and said:
“I nm showing them how we do this
In the. nrtlUcry, sir."
And this is a part of the story where
nil the legends agree; that the commo
dore said:
“I see you do, and I thank you, sir;
and I shall never forget this day, sir,
and you never shall, sir.”
And after the whole thing wns over,
and he had the Englishman's sword,
in the midst of the state and eercmWiy
of the quarterdeck, he said:
"'Where Is Mr. Nolan? Ask Mr. No
lan to come here."
And when Nolan came, the captula
said:
OUNTY SENTINEL, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA.
There Appeared Nolan in Hie 8hlrt
Sleeves.
the funniest drawings there, and some
of the most pathetic, that I have ever
seen In my life. I wonder who will
have Nolan’s scrapbooks.
Well, he said his reading and his
notes were his profession, and that
they took 'five hours and {wo hours
respectively of each day. “Then,”
said he, “every man should have a di
version as well as n profession. My
natural history Is my ^diversion.” That
took two hours a day more. Tho men
used to. bring, him birds and fish, but
on a long cruise he had to satisfy him
self with centipedes and cockroaches
and such small game. He was the only
naturalist I ever met who knew any
thing abput the habits of the house fly
and the mosquito. All those people
can tell you whether they are Lepi-
doptora or Steptopotem; but as for
Vo War Tax on Cotton
Once more an attempt by rep-
esentutTves in congress from
other section ' ti lay a special
ux on the. southern cotton plant-
ha i been thwarted by the
watchful vigilance of southern
ongressmen backed by strenu-
eus brotests Lorn their constitu
ents, and thuB the proposal to
put in the war revenue bill a tax
ot' $2.50 a bale on cotton was ef
fectually rendered “hors du
jumhat ”
When it was proposed in Geor
gia, in the general excitement of
tne spring of{1915, following the
outbreak of the Eupropean war,
to limit the production of cotton
by legislative inaetment pre
scribing the number of acres
each farmer should plant in cot
ton to the plow, John M, Slaton,
then governor, opposet the sug
gestion with the utmost vigor,
and it was soon abandoned.
Aireadv, as Atlanta cotton
men have pointed our, the gov
ernment is indirectly taxing the
southern cotton planter by the
taxon oleomargarins, which is
made from base of cotton seed
oil.
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“Mr. Nolan, wo ore all very grateful j or how they get away from you wfiea
to you today; you are one of us today;: you strike then), why, Llnuneus ,lqiew
you will be named In the dispatches.” as little of that ns John l-’oy, the Idiot,
And then the old man took off hisI did. These nine hours made Nolnn’i
own sword of ceremony, and gave it to regular dally “occupation." The rest
Nolan, ami made him put It on. The of the time he tulked or walked. Till
man told me this who saw It; Nolan he grew very old, he went aloft n greal
MUSCLE SORENESS RELIEVED
Unusual work, bending and lifting
>r strenuous exercise is a strain on
the muscles, >hey become sore and stiff,
you are clippled and in pair,, Sloan’s
Liniment brings you quiqk relief, easy
to apply, it penetrates witfieutrubbing
rnd drives out the soreness. A clear
liquid, cleaner than mussy piasters'^
ointments, it does not stain the skin
or cleg the pores. Always have a bot
tle handy for the pains, aches of rheu
matism, gout, lumbago, grippe,
brumes, stiffness, bnckacee and all ex
ternal pain. At your druggist, 26c.
No Service Too Exacting
deal.
cried like a baby, and well he might.
lie had not worn a sword since that j ai+d * ***cvt?r heard that he
infernal day at Fort. Adams. But ni- | auy other man was 111, he w
Ho al)vv.y«* VevA up his exercls*
as ill. It
the kind*
ways utterwar'd, on occasions of cere- est nurse In tho world? and he knew
many, lie wore that qnnlnt old French ! more than halt the surgeons do. Then
sword of tile commodore’s. if anybody was sick or died, or If tile
The captain did mention him in the ™P t,l!n '™ ntcl3 hl , m t0 ou otho *’
dispatches. It was always said ho I £” B "'"’"vs rendv to read
asked that he might be pardoned. .He
wrote a special letter to the secretary
of war. But nothing ever come of It.
As I said, that was about the time
when they begun to ignore the whole
transaction at Washington, and when
Nolnn’s Imprisonment began to carry
Itself on because there was nobody to
stop It without any new orders from
home.
I have heard It said that he was with
Porter when ha took possession-of the
Nukahlwa Islands. Not this Porter,
you know, hut old Porter, his father,
Essex Porter, that Is, the old Essex
Porter, not this Essex. As an artil
lery officer, who had seen service in
the West, Nolan knew more about for
tifications, embrasures, raveliaes,
stockades, and nil that, than any of
them did; and he worked with a right
good will In fixing that buttery all
right. I have always thought It was
a pity Porter did not leave him In
command there with Gamble. That
would have settled all the question
about his punishment We should
hnve kept the islands, and at this mo
ment we should have one stntlon In
the Pacific ocean. Our FrencV. friends,
too, when they wanted this little wa
tering place, would have found It was
pre-occupled. But Madison and the
Virginians, of course, flung all that
away.
All that was near fifty years ago.
If Nolan was thirty then, he must
have been near eighty when he died.
He looked sixty when he was forty,
But he never seemed to me to ehunge
a hair afterward. As I imagine his
■ life, from what I have seen and heard
of it, he must have been In every sea,
and yet almost never on land,
mast have known In a formal way,
more officers in our service than any
man living knows. He told me once,-
with a grave smile, that no man In the
world lived so methodical a life as he,
"You know the Boys say I am the
Iron Mask, and you know how busy
he was." He said It did not do for
anyone to try to read all the time, more
than to do anything else all the time;
bnt that lie read just five hours a day,
“Then,” he said, "I keep up my note
books, writing In them at such and
such hours from what I have been
» ‘reading; and I Include in them my
i scrapbooks." These were very curious
/indeed. He had six or eight*,of dtffep.
ent subjects., There was one of his
tory; one of natural science, one which
he called “Odds and Ends.” But they
were not merely lg>ol
from newspaper^ Tig# hfcd'bl
plants and rlbtiSnij,
jjparved scrap^aA-Sbi
htthe men^to ctd for^Ji m
ulwnys ready to read
prayers. I -have remarked that he
read beautifully.
Sly own acquaintance with Philip
Nolan began six or eight years after
the war, on my first voyago after 1
was appointed a midshipman. It wns
in tho first days after our slave trade
treaty, while the reigning house,
which was still the house, of Virginia,
had still a sort of sentimentalism
about the suppression of the horrors
of the middle passage, and something
wns sometimes done that way. We
were in the South Atlantic on that
business. From the time I joined, I
believe I thought Nolan was a sort of
lay chaplain—a chaplain with a blue
coat. I never asked about him. Ev
erything In the Ship was strange to
me. I knew It was green to nsk ques
tions, and I suppose I thought there
was n “Plain-Buttons” on every ship.
Wo lmd htin to dine in our mess once
a week, and the caution was given that
on that duy nothing was to be said
about home. But if they had told us
not to say anything about the planet
Mars or the book of Deuteronomy, I
should not have asked why; there were
a great many things which seemed to
me to have ns little reason. I first
came to understand anything about
“the man without a country" one day
when we overhauled a dirty little
schooner which had slaves on board.
An officer was sent to take charge rl
her, unil after a few minutes he sent
back- his boat to ask that someone
might be sent lilin who could speak
Portuguese. We were all looking over
the rail when the message came, and
we nil wished we could Interpret, when
tho captain asked who spoke Por
tuguese. But none of the officers did;
and Just as the captain Was sending
forward to nsk If any of the people
could, Nolan stepped out and said he
should be glad to Interpret, If the cap
tain wished, as he understood the lan
guage. The captain thanked him, fit
ted out another boat with him, and in
this boat It wus my luck to go.
When we got there, It was such a
scene as you seldom see, and never
want .to. Nastiness beyond account,
and chaos run loose In the midst of the
nastiness. There were not a great
many of tin? negroes; but by way
of making what there were understand ],
that they were free, .Vauttom 1 had. had,-
thelr handcuffs aid nnklecuffs Knocked
p(fj and, tpr, ^nveqlepce’ sake, ..wag,
putting tfi|m ijppii Jth6,faS<»lS t oi tW
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prices down, and that we are to-day selling dry-
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less than we can buy them at wholesale.
Satisfied Customers Make This
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W E conduct a merchandising-not a speculating
business. When we realized that prices must
advance,we
Took Advantage of the Market
so:we might share that advantage with our custom
ers.
Small profits, courteous treatment,, jqp&lity of
goods, volume of business and satisfied customers
are the combined elements that make this store
schooner's ' creW. 'the' negrbes were;
most of them, bnt of the hold, and
round the dirty deck.
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