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r _ 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. STOCK FEED OF ALL KINDS We handle sweet feed, hay, Red Gravy, Velvet Bean meal, bran, shorts, oats, beet pulp, cotton seed meal and We buy in car load lots and can save you We sell for'eash oniy. W C. ABERCROMBIE flaked hulls, money Eat. With Us No better medium priced cafe in the city. Stop and try a meal and you’ll come again. We serve only the best of everything. ~ 55 W. Mitchell St. Albion Cafe £ Atlanta tolling How you can get rlil of them, “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 —*- •lx’r—aW- % town- to demand our closest attention. Your wants are studied, your needs considered and the resulting glasses are the best, most com fortably servicable possible. Price- Our low rent enables us to of fer you a material saving'. Silvius Optical Co. 19 So. Broad St. Nea-r- Alabama. Walk a block and save a dollar. Atlanta. YOU WILL BE GLAD TO|KNOW that by buying early, we are holding- prices down, and that we are to-day selling dry- goods, shoes,^clothing etc., in many instances, for less than we can buy them at wholesale. Satisfied Customers Make This Store a Success 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. 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