>. oe Man Without A Country Edward Everett Hale SECOND INSTALLMENT. If T had only preserved the whole of this paper, 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 off all 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 hats, and we finally sank into one sys- tem. He was not permitted to talk with the men unless an officer was by. With officers he had unrestrained in- tercourse, as far as they and he chose. But he grew shy, though he had favor- ftes: I was one. Then the captain always asked him to dinner on Mon- day. Every mess in succession took up the invitation In its turn. Accord- ing to the size of the ship, you had him at your mess more or less often at dinner. His breakfast he ate in his own stateroom, he always had a state- room, which was where a 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,” as they called him. Then Nolan was sent with some officer, and the men were forbidden to speak of home 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 in- signia 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 we jogged along some of the gentlemen fell to talking about No- lan, and someone told the system which was adopted from the first about his books and other reading. As he was 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 the old days, when people in the other hemisphere talked of the United States as little as 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, er 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 had enough, and more than enough, to do with. I re- member it, because poor Phillips, who was of the party, as soon as the allu- sion to reading was made, told a story of something which happened at the Cape of Good Hope on Nolan's first voyage; and it is the only thing I ever knew of that voyage. 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 dad borrowed a lot of English books from an officer, which, in 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 sald, “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 canto, stopped a min- ute and drank something, and then be- gan, without a thought of what was comiry— ried’) Brea 24 there the man, with soul so ead, ‘Who never to himself hath sald— It seems impossible to us that any- body ever heard this for the first time; but all these fellows did then, and poor Nolan himself went on, still un- consciously or mechanically— This is my own, my native land! Then they all saw something was to pay; but he expected to get through, I suppose, turned a little pale, but plunged on— Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ?7— If such there breathe, go, mark him well. By this tine the men were all be- side themselves, wishing there was amy but he had not quite presence of mind for that; crimson, and staggered on: For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite these titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self,— and here the poor fellow choked, could not go on, but started up, swung the vanished into his sald Phil- book into the sea, stateroom, “and by Jove,” lips, “we did not see months again. some beggarly story to that English surgeon why I did not return his Wal- ter Scott to him.” That story shows about the time when Nolan's braggadocio must have broken down. At first, they said, he took a very high tone, considered his imprisonment a mere farce, affected to enjoy the voyage, and all that; but Phillips said that after he came out of his stateroom he never was the same man again. He never read aloud again, unless it was the Bible or Shakespeare, or something else he was sure of. But it was not that merely. He never en- tered in with the other young men ex- actly as a companion again. always shy afterward, when I knew him, very seldom spoke, unless he he gagged a little, colored him for two And I had to make up He was | was spoken to, except to a very few | friends. I remember late him fairly eloquent on in his life hearing He lighted up occasionally, | something | which had been suggested to him by | one of Flechier’'s sermons, but gener- ally he had the nervous, tired look of a heart-wounded man. When Captain Shaw home—Iif, as I say, it was Shaw—rath- er to the surprise of everybody they made one of the Windward islands, was coming | and lay off and on for nearly a week. | The boys sald the officers were sick | of salt junk, and meant to have tur- tle soup before they came home. But | after several days the Warren came to | the same rendezvous; they exchanged signals; she sent to Phillips and these | homeward-bound men letters and pa- | pers, and told them she was outward | bound, perhaps to the Mediterranean, and took poor Nolan and his traps on the boat back to try his second cruise. He looked very blank when he was told to get ready to join her. He had known enough of the signs of the sky to know that till that moment he was going “home.” But this was a dis- tinct evidence of something he had not thought of, perhaps, that there was no going home for him, even to a prison. And this was the first of some twenty such transfers, which brought him sooner or later into half our best ves- sels, but which kept him all his life at least some hundred miles from the country he had hoped he might never hear of again. It may have been on that second cruise—it was once when he was up the Mediterranean—that Mrs. Graff, the celebrated Southern beauty of those days, danced with him. They had been lying a long time in the Bay of Naples, and the officers were very intimate in the English fleet, and there had been great festivities, and our men thought they must give a great ball on board the ship. How they ever did it on board the Warren I am sure I do not know. Perhaps it was not the Warren, or perhaps ladies did not take up so much room as they do now. They wanted to use Nolan's stateroom for something, and they hated to do it without asking him to the ball; so the captain said they might ask him, if they would be re- sponsible that he did not talk with the wrong people, “who would give him intelligence.” So the dance went on, the finest party that had ever been known, I dare say; for I never heard Turned a Little Pale but Plunged On. of a man-of-war ball that was not. For ladies they had the family of the American consul, one or two travelers who had adventured so far, and a nice bevy of English girls and matrons, per- haps Lady Hamilton herself. Well, different officers relieved each other In standing and talking with No- lan in a friendly way, so as to be sure that nobody else spoke to him. The dancing went on with spirit, and after a while even the fellows who took this honorary guard of Nolan ceased to fear any contretemps. Only when some English lady—ZXLady Hamilton, as I said, perhaps, called for a set of “American dancers,” an odd thing hap- pened. Everybody then danced con- tredances. The black band, nothing loath, conferred as to what “American | about to say, THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, PA. dances” were, and started oft with “Virginia Reel.” which they followed with “Money-Musk,” which, in its turn in those days, should have been fol- lowed by “The Old Thirteen” But just as Dick, the leader, tapped for his fiddlers to begin, and bent forward, in true negro state, ** ‘The Old Thirteen,” gentlemen and ladies!” | as he had said, “ ‘Virginny Reel,’ if you please!” * ‘Money-Musk,” {f you please!” the captain's boy tapped him on the shoulder, whispered to him, and | he did not announce the name of the | dance; | the alr, and they all fell to, the offi- | cers teaching | figure, way to make him turn over two pages; | he merely bowed, began. on the English girls the but not telling them why {t had no name. But that is not the story I started to tell. As the dancing went on, No- lan and our fellows all got at ease, as I sald, so much so that it seemed quite natural for him to bow to that splendid Mrs. Graff, and say: “I hope you have not forgotten me, Miss Rutledge. Shall I have the hon- or of dancing?” He did it so quickly that Shubrick, who was by him, could not hinder him. She laughed and said: “I am not Miss Rutledge any longer, Mr. Nolan; but I will dance all the same,” just nodded to Shubrick, as if to say he must leave Mr. Nolan to her, and led him off to the place where the dance was forming. Nolan thought he had got his chance. He had known her at Philadelphia, and at other places had met her, and this was a godsend. You could not talk in contredances, as you do In cotillions, or even in the pauses of waltzing; but there were chances for tongues and sounds, as well as for eyes and blushes. He began with her travels, and Europe, and Vesuvius, and | mittee of Nolan In His Shirt Sleeves. There Appeared the French; and then, when they had worked down, and had that long talk- ing time at the bottom of the set, he sald boldly, a little pale, she said, as she told me the story, fears after: “And what do you hear from home, Mrs. Graff?” And that splendid creature looked through him. Jove! how she must have looked through him! *“Elome!! Mr. Nolan!!! I thought you were the | man who never wanted to hear of home again!” and she walked directly up the deck to her husband, and left poor Nolan alone, as he always was. —He did not dance again. I cannot give any history of order; nobody ean now; and, I am not trying to. These are the tra- ditions, which I sort out, as I believe them, from the myths which have been told about this man for forty years. The fellows used to say he was the “Iron Mask;"” and poor George Pons went to his grave in the belief that this was the author of “Junius,” who was being punished for his celebrated libel on Thomas Jefferson. Pons wag not very strong in the historical line, A happier story than either of these] have told is of the war, That came along soon after. I have heard this affair told in three or four ways, and, indeed, it may have happened more than once. But which ship it was on I cannot tell. However, in one, at least, of the great frigate duels with the English, in which the navy was 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 gtin's | crew. Now you may say what you choose about courage, but that is not a nice thing to see. But as the men who were not killed picked themselves up, and the surgeon's people were car- rying of the bodies, there appeared | Nolan, 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 cock- | pit with the wounded men, whe should stay with him, perfectly cheery, and with that way which makes men feel sure all is right and is going to be him in indeed, right. And he finished loading the gun with his own hands, aimed it, and | bade the men fire. And there he stayed, captain of that gun, keeping those fellows in spirits, till 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 on the ship The captain walked forward, by way of encouraging the men, and Nolan touched his hat and said: (TO BE CONTINUED.) Which Was Which? Jimmy's mother had told him to stay near the window and watch for the bride and groom and come and tell her when he saw them coming. After waiting for some time his patience | was rewarded, but he forgot to run and tell his mother. When they were quite near he suddenly remembered and called out lustily: “Mamma, here comes the bribe and the gloom.”— Christian Herald. A pneumatic hammer for tamping paving stones has been invented. A MILLION UNDER CONSCRIFT LAW Public Safety Committes Pian- ning Best Use of $2,000, 000 War Fund GETTING LABOR AND TEAMS and to Teachers in Public, Parochial Private Schools Have Begun Enroll for Farm Work—Vol- unteer to Secure Students. —Harrisburg. Under the terms of the conscription law as agreed upon by the joint com- the Senate and House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, provi- ded every man between the ages of 21 and 30 years is physically and mentally fit for service, could place an army of 1,036,948 in the field. These figures were submitted to the State Commit- ‘tee on Public Safety by the Depart- ment of Statistics at are based on the census of 1910. Providing half of these men, through physical defects or through provisions in the selective conscription act, are excused from service, there would still remain a formidable host of more than a half-million soldiers to bear the iState’s burden in defending national honor and national rights. What part the Public Safety Committee will play in conscripting the forces of the Com- monwealth has not yet been mined. It is understood, however, that this phase of the program is up for consideration at Harrisburg and that a decision on enforcing conscrip- tion will be made within a few days. In the meantime the committee is planning the best use of the $2,000,- 000 appropriated by the Legislature to be used in waging a two-year cam- paign on the agricultural, industrial and military needs of the State. With reference to this, George Wharton Pepper, chairman of the Public Safety Committee, made the following state- ment: The Committee of Public Safety has been waiting for some time for the passage of the bill introduced into the Legislature at its request. Its ap- proval by the Governor now places at the disposal of the committee, through the Commission named in the act, the | sum of $2,000,000 for use in carrying { on a two-year campaign for the agri- | cultural, | being of f plans which the committee has been industrial and military the Commonwealth. well- The formulating in anticipation of the appropriation will make a large de- mand upon the activities of the local committees throughout the State. The Agricultural Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce took up the task of co-operating with the State in the effort being put forth to provide teams and labor for farmers. Teach- ers in public, parochial and private schools began to enroll for farm work and volunteered their aid in marshal- ing students for the agricultural army. Slogan; No Empty Cans. “No empty tin slogan urged cans upon this year” is t : : every house- wile by the agricultural school at the Pennsylvania State College. A State- wide campaign to encourage preserv- ing of garden products, both by can- ning and rye. has been launched by the college authorities through the department of home economies. Meet- ings will be held in scores of com- munities unfil late in the summer. Demonstrations and lectures by the college experts will be given free to the women of Pennsylvania. A spe- cial series of lessons in preserving has been prepared for instruction by correspondence. The first gun of the canning cam- paign was fired, with the following announcment: The slogan in every home this year should be ‘no empty cans.’ This will be especially necessary if there should be a shortage of tin and glass as has been predicted. Every homemaker should at this time take inventory of her supply of jars. She should know how many jars she has available and secure now a sufficient supply of rubbers. Odd sizes of jars and wide-mouth bottles may be used. Furthermore, every homemaker should estimate at once the number of jars she will use for fruit and for vegetables, and determine what fruits and vegetables shall be canned or dried. She should remember to plan for the foods that have the proper food value and which meet the body needs in food requirements. A minimum amount of pickles should be preserved and crocks or similar vessels should be utilized for V cans, the purpose. The food value of pickles is not high, and they are rather indigestible. Only enough should be “put up” to provide for a little variety and an occasional relish. Bills Approved. The Governor approved and signed the following bills: The Eyre Senate bill counties, townships or boroughs to contribute part of the purchase price for acquisition by the State of a toll road or turnpike, and permitting a county to pay for condemnation any toll road on a State highway. Making a deficiency appropr $12,000 to Fairview institut Authorizing municipalities school districts to require bonds of ion. to Harrisburg and | deter- | | risburg c authorizing | of | iation and | protect material and laborge® Public | buil Zz comstruction contracts. Establishing a code for construction | and maintenance of booths for mg picture machines. Amending Philadelphia Corrt law provisions for appeals “un- mov- | | hold der law now existing or which may | bereafter be adopted.” Amending borough code so as to provide for erection of new boroughs from Allowing cities to contribute annu- parts of consolidated boroughs. | ally for support of National Guard | batteries and regimental sanitary | troops. Validating tax liens under act of 1910 and supplements. | [5 | | | | free distribution from State nurseries Municipal bo 5 TEER Rn PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS AULT HELE HTT HE TT TH Ts To relieve labor, one big industrial Pottstown brings men in mobile every morning from extent of rural territory, and them home in the evening. Adjutant General Stewart announ- ced the appointment of Wilbur F Leitzell, Scottdale, as first lieutenant of the Machine Gun Troop of the First Cavalry. Frank E. Powers was named as first lieutenant and Peter J. Pugh as second lieutenant of Com pany CC, Engineers, Pottsville. Kept home from school to aid her mother, who was recovering from an operation, Dorothy Gibb, aged 9, was | drowned at Carlisle when she attemp- ted to recover her ball from a cistern and broke through the covering. The mother’s condition is critical. In a letter received at Harrisburg, from John A. McSparran, master of the Pennsylvania Grange, an appeal is made to the Granges in the State to grow more corn, buckwheat and other cereals as an aid to the impend ing food shortage. Charles Himes, Qo A the great scarcity plant in by auto- a wide takes of Lancaster, 61, brooding over the fact that he could not buy a property for his son, blew the top of his head off with a gun. The supply trees for of seedling has been exhausted. New Cumberland dog owners are up in arms following the poisoning of a score of valuable pets. Miners in the Hazelton region wil establish more co-operative stores to help them live on what they earn. Through Columbia county’s com- munity club’s five miles of beans will be planted in Columbia county on garden day. One of the principal features of the meeting of Carlisle Presbytery at Camp Hill was the raising of a maintenance fund of $2,000 for the upkeep of the Rocky Springs Pres: byterian Church. A movement has been started to organize a band at Sellersville. The increases in salary granted by the Doylestown School Board to teachers adds $350.10 to the annual salary roll. The Women’s Civic Club, of North Wales, will sell plants and vegetable seeds to residents of that community at wholesale prices. ¥Y. M. C. A. boys the “Boy’s Paper and have added a Lower Merion have reorganized Salvage Company” patent bailer to their assets. Students of Jenkintown High School have advised Supervising Principal LeRoy King of their will- ingness to work on farms during the | summer months. { J. B. Stevenson, special officer of | the Lehigh Valley Transit Company at Lansdale, has been granted a tract of five acres by the Company, and will put in potatoes. The Windsor Water Company, of Hamburg, has received 13,000 white pine saplings, to be planted on its large reservoir reservation. Carlisle voters will be asked to sanc- tion a $150,0000 loan for sewers. Free seed potatoes have been de- livered to 200 homes in Altoona for | their gardens. The Coleraine branch of the United Mine Workers has ordered a carload of flour to sell it at cost to 300 mem- bers. The Luzerne <County Industrial School for Boys, at Kis-lyn, has con- | tributed nine recruits to the army and navy. { Anthracite operators at Hazelton have notified miners that men whose payday sprees affect production will be recommended as “slackers’” for army service. i A class of 15 nurses soon to gradu ate was received into the State Hos- pital Alumni Association at Fountain | Springs to make them immediately available for enlistment in the Red Cross Society. A $48,000 post office building is to be erected at State College { Dickinson Seniors, Carlisle, have dropped class day, as 30 members have joined training camps. | Wormleysburg cannot find men to hold office being short a constable, councilman and member of the Health Board. Checks for $25 each have been sent | to Fame, Henderson and Brooklyn fire companies, Lewistown, by the citizens of Reedville, for recent services, and a $60 cheek to R. U. Jacobs, of Cali | fornia. | Hazleton’'s Y. M. C. A. has entered upon a campaign to last three weeks, to teach 200 boys how to swim, with- out charge. Each of the four pla Ee unds asso- ciations in Lebanon will receive $150 | a season from the Lebanon School district toward the payment of salar- ies of directors of the grounds. The Pe ylvania Federation of Labor, solutions ado 1 at Har- in re of the Stat Government dent had : ng the p The war of its burgess chief ex heavy Frei ley I vance 20 ce The pr ,000 war emer- the Gover “fund anc nor for his action. Hazleton merchants have decided to a big community out dering the summer to the Red Cross employees of Chapman raised on sent it gency Park the rec The quarries have joining the quarries a flag 10 by 15 feet, bought by their contributions. 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