Mai WiiKout
(ffl Edmard
hi INo document In actual AmeN
lean history conveys a mora !
powerful Itaaon of what citizen
hip In thla Mpubllo mesne, none
dellvere a mora Marching appaal
ta loyalty, than thla fanciful re
oltal of tho Man Without
Country. Tha unhappy creature
whose living death It haa graved
upon tha memory of mankind
waa but a figure born of a writ.
era Imagination. Yet, the. ac
count of hla paaelonata outburet
ana" of hla dreadful expiation
atlra tha dullest aoul, and will
awaken amotion In tho mlnda
of readera ef genaratlona yet un
born. There can be no mora ar
resting lesson for tho disloyal or
tha heedless, no more Inspiring
appeal to tho spirit of true Amor
Icanlem, than thla memorabl
work of literary art and high
aouled patriotism.
;a I suppose that very few casual
i ,-, readers of the New York Herald of
j J August 13th observed, ta an obscure
'ipcorner, among tha "Deaths," the an
gnouncement:
"WOLAN. Med, on board U. S. Cor-
DW, on the 11th of Hay. Phlllo Nolan."
1 I happened to observe It, becanae
I waa stranded at the old Mission-
ILjhouse In Mackinac; waiting for a Lake
ASuperlor steamer which did not choose
; fjto come, and I waa devouring, to the
Utery stubble, all tha current literature
li I could set hold of. even down to tha
I iTdeaths and marrlaeea In tha "Herald"
.rffMy memory for names and people la
trwwl an.1 (ha h.Ju m.III W .
Ugoes on, that I had reason enough to
iMremcmhur PhlUn Nnlnn. Thura urn
'huodrcUs of readera who would have
tJgpansed at that announcement, If the
officer of the Levant who reported It
i'Q'had chosen to make It thus: "Died,
(Hay 11th. 'The Man without a Couu-
itrjV- For It was as "The Man with-
Ant ft Pntintr ttiut rmkf Phil In Knlnn
HHhad generally been known by the oftl
ytcers who had him In charge during
some Arty years, as. Indeed, by all
the men who bad sailed under them.
I dare say there la many a man who
i una wkhu wine wun puu ouce b ion
nlght, In a three years' cruise, who
.never knew that his name was "No-
Ian," or whether the poor wretch had
jany name at all.
There can now be no possible harm
In telling this 'poor creature's story.
Reason enough there has been till
5now, ever since Madison's odmlulstra'
. .Won went out la 1817, for very strict
'secrecy, the secrecy of honor Itself,
'among the gentlemen of tha navy who
ihave'hod Nulnn In successive charge.
(And certainly It speaks well for the es-
f f prlt de corps of the profession and the
t P personal honor of Its members, that to
- Jthe press this man's story has beeu
T wholly unknown, and, I think, to the
'country at large also.
I I have reason to think, from some
Investigations I made in the naval
archives when I was attached to the
iiureau of construction, that every of
Belol report relating to him waa burned
(then Ross burned the public buildings
at Washington. One of the Tuckers,
possibly one of the Watsons, had
Solan In charge at the end of the war;
ind when, on returning from hla cruise.
Ei reported at Washington to one of
a Crownlnshlelds who waa In the
ivy department when be enrae home
V he found that the department Ig
Tiored tho whole business. Whether
.they really knew nothing about It, or
Whether It was a non ml ricordo, de
termined on as a piece of policy, I do
sot .know. But thla I do know, that
"since 1817, and possibly before.
naval officer haa mentioned Nolan In
- ... i
r
As I say, there la no need for se
crecy any longer. And now, the poor
creature la dead, It seems to me' worth
while to tell a Uttle of hla story, by
way of showing young Americana of
today what It la to be
A MAN WITHOtJT A, 'COUNTRY.
Philip Nolan waa as line a young
offlcer.as there waa In the "Legion of
.tha West," aa the western division of
'pur army waa then called. When
lAawm Burr made hla first dashing ex
padltlon down to New Orleans in 1805,
at Fort Massac, or aomewhera above
0 tfc liver, ha met, aa the devil
! would nave It, thhvgny, dashing, bright
young fellow, at aome dinner party,
X think. Burr marked, htm, talked to
Msb, walked with him,' took Km a day
or two'a voyage in, his flatboat, and,
a short, fascinated Win. For the next
year barrack Ufa waa very tame to
poor Nolan.
of the permission the great man bad
given him to write to him. Hong, high
worded, atllted letters theipoor boy
wrote and re-wrote and copied. But
xter a Una did. be have In reply from
'.he gay deceiver, The othpr boys In
:ha garrison sneered at hla), because
l' sacrificed In thla unrequited affoe--Jon
for a polltlcfan tha Dime which
y devoted to Monongabola, sledge,
nd hlsb-low-jack. Dourbljn, euchre,
ad poker were atUl naknowtu Bui
-se day Nolan had lis rrenga Tkli
jm Burt cm down tbaj river, apt ft;
Eoorett Hak I
an attorney seeking a place for his
office, but aa a disguised conqueror.
He had defeated I know not how many
district attorneys; he had dined at I
know not how many public dinners; he
had been heralded In I know not how
many Weekly Arguses; and It waa ru
mored that he had an army behind him
and an empire before him. It waa a
great day his arrival to poor Nolan.
Burr had not been at the fort an hour
before he sent for him. That evening
he asked Nolan to take him out In his
skiff, to show him a cane-brake or a
cottonwood tree, as he said, really to
seduce him; and by the time the anil
was over, Nolan was enlisted body and
soul. From that time, though he did
not yet know It, he lived as "A Man
without a Country." '
What Burr meant to do I know no
more than you, dear reader. It Is none
of our business Just now. Only, when
the grand catastrophe came, and Jef
ferson and the House of Virginia of
that day undertook to break on the
wheel all the possible Clarences f the
then House of York, by the great
treason trial at Richmond, some of the
lesser fry in that distant Mississippi
valley, which was farther from us than
Paget Sound Is today, Introduced the
like novelty on their provincial stage.
and, to while away the monotony of
the summer at Fort Adams, got up, for
spectacles, a string of court-martials
on the officers there. One and anoth
er of the colonels and majors were
tried, and, to fill out the list, Uttle No
lan, against whom, heaven knows.
there was evidence enough, that he
was sick of the service, had been will
ing to be false to It, and would have
obeyed any order to march anywhlther
with anyone who would follow him,
had the order only been signed, "By
command of His Exc. A. Burr." The
courts dragged on. The big flies es
caped, rightly for all I knpw. Nolan
was proved guilty enough, as I say;
yet you and I would never have heard
of him, reader, - but that, when the
president of the court asked him at the
close, whether he wished to say any
thing to show that he had always been
faithful to the United States, be cried
out, In a fit of frenzy:
"D n the United States I 1 wish
I may never hear of the United States
agulnl"'
I suppose he did not know how the
words shocked old Colonel Morgan,
who was holding the court Half the
officers who sat In It had served
through the Revolution, and their
lives, not to say their necks, had been
risked for the very Idea which he so
cavalierly cursed in hts madness. He,
on his part, had grown up In the West
of, those days, In the midst of "Spanish
plot," Orleans plot," and all the rest
His education, such as It was, had
been peffected In commercial expedi
tions to Vera Crus, and I think he told
me hla father once hired an English
man to be a private tutor for a winter
on the plantation. He had spent half
his youtn with an oner brother, bunt
ing horses In Texas ; and, in a word, to
"I With I May Never Hear ef the
United tatea Agalnl"
him "United States" was scarcely
reality. Yet he had been fed by "Unit
ed States" for all the yeara since he
had been in the army. He had sworn
on bis faith as a Christian to be true to
"United States." It waa "United
States" which gave him the uniform he
I wore, and the sword by hla side. Nay,
my poor Nolan, It waa only because
"United States" bad picked you out
first aa one of her own confidential
men of honor, that "A. Burr" cared
for you-a straw more than for the flat-
boat men who Bailed hla ark for him.
I do not excuse Nolan ; I only explain
, to the reader why he damned his coun-
J try, and fished he might never' hear
, uer uaiue agiuu.
' He never vdld hear her name but once
again. From that moment, Septem
ber 28, 1007, till the day he, died. May
11, 1803, he never heard her name
again. . For that half century, and
more lie waa a man without a coun
try. ,
Old Morgan, aa I said, waa terribly'
shocked. If Nolan had compared
George Washington to Benedict Ar
nold, or had cried, "God save King
George," Morgan would not have felt
worse. He called the court Into his
private room, .and returned in fifteen
minutes, with a face like a sheet, to
ay:
'Prisoner, hear the sentence of the
court The court decides, subject to
the approval of the president, that you
never hear the name of the United
States again."
Nolan laughed. But nobody else
laughed. Old Morgan , was too
solemn, and the whole room waa
hushed dead as night for a minute.
Even Nolan lost his swagger In a mo
ment Then Morgan 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 that no one mentions the
United States to the prisoner. Mr.
Marshal, make my respects to Lieu
tenant Mitchell at Orleans, and re
quest him to order that no one shall
mention the United States to the pris
oner while he Is on board ship. You
will receive your written orders from
the officer on duty here this evening.
The court Is adjourned without day."
I have always supposed that Colonel
Morgan himself took the proceedings
of the court to Washington City, and
explained them to Mr. Jefferson. Cer
tain It Is that the president approved
them, certain, that is, If I may believe
the men who say they have seen his
signature.
The plan then adopted was sub
stantially the same which was 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
was very much out of favor; and as
almost all of thla 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
trustedperhaps It was TIngey 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 J suppose, till NvAan died.
When I wns Becond officer of the In
trepid some thirty years after, I saw
the original paper of Instructions.
have been sorry ever since that I did
not copy the whole of It It ran, bow
ever, much In this way:
Washington," (with thedate, which
must have been lute In 1807). .
Sir You will receive from Lien-
tenant Neale the person of Philip No-
Inn, late a 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 aa shall prevent his
escape.
"You will provide him with such
quarters, rations, and clothing as
would bo proper for an. officer of his
late rank, If be were a passenger on
youv vessel on the business of his gov
ernment
"The gentlemen on board will make
any arrangements agreeable to them
selves regarding hts society. He is to
be exposed to no Indignity of any kind
nor Is he ever unnecessarily to be re
minded that ho la a prisoner.
"Rut under no circumstances Is he
ever to hear of his country or to see
any Information regarding It ; and you
will especially caution all the officers
under your command to 'take care that
In the various Indulgences which may
be granted, this rule, In which his pun
Ishment Is Involved, shall not be
broken.
"It H the Intention of the govern
ment that he shall never again see
the country which he baa disowned.
Refore the end of your cruise you will
receive orders which will give effect
to this Intention.
"Respectfully yours,
"W. 80UTHARD,
"for the Secretary of the Navy."
If I had only preserved the whole
of this paper, there would be no break
In the beginning of my aketch of this
story. For Captain Shaw, If it wu he,
banded it to his successor in the
charge, and he to hla.
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 mesa liked to
have him permanently, because hla
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 waa always
thought too hard that he should never
meet the rest of us, except to touch
hats, and we finally aank Into one sys
tem. He waa not permitted to talk
with the men unless an officer waa by,
With officera he had unrestrained In
tercourse, aa far aa they and he chose.
But he grew shy, though he had favor
ites: I was one. Then the captain
always asked him to dinner on Mon
day. Bvery mess in succession tool
up the invitation In Its turn. Accord
ing to the else of the shift you had htm
Continued next week.
North Carol! oa, Watatifn county,
rJydi.ey Phillips and wife Em urn
Phillips, NellaTaylorand husband
L. L. I'aylor, Josie Cole and uu
baud Andrew Cole, Kiddie (ireer
and husband Frank Greer, Mollie
Norrisaod husband WillNorris, vs
Martha N orris and husband Milt
Norris, Clerinda Hayes, Bertha
Waddell and Waddell.
By virtue of an order of tbe Superior
court lu the above entitled action, I
will on the 5th day of Nuveniler 1017
at the court house door in Boone, N.
at 1 o'clock p. in, sell to tbe hub
est bidder for cash, the following de
enribed real estate to wit: Beginning
on n Spanish oak, L'luws jn s corner
aud runs west 3U polej to a rlpauish
oak and chestnut, then 8 with Claw
sous 82 poles to a Spanish oak; theu
west lis miles to a chestnut oak, theu
N 10 W 110 poles to a white oak; then
E 3 poles to a chestnut in h In old line,
then 8 20 E with said line 64 poles t
Spanish oak, then K with said line
to the ooruer; then to the beiciuotug,
cuntalnlog30 acre inor or lew. This
21 day of September 1017.
WILL NORRIS, Commissioner.
$100 REM. 1100.
The readers of this paper will
be pleused to leuru that there in
at least one dreadful disease that
science has been able to cure in
all its stages and thatiscatarrh.
t'atanh bt'ing greatly influenced
by constitutional conditions re
quires constitutional treatment:
Haifa Catarrh Medicine w taken
internally and acts through tht.
blood on the muscular surface
of the system t hereby destroy inr;
the foundation of the dineaw.
giving the patient strength by
mi i Id i oer up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its
work. Ibe proprietors have so
much fnitn m the curative pow
ers of liaii B latarrn itemed?
that they offer One Hundred Dol
lars for any case that it fails to
cure. 6end for testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO..
loiedo, Uuio. Sold by all uru ;
giats, 7ic. . . .
Grinding Days at Cheto a
Mill. : .
Beginning Sept. 12, grinding
lays nt t'betola Mill, Blowing
Rock, N. V., willbeevery Wedncs-
ay and Saturday. Particular
itteniion will be given to ma
king tirnt c1hs8 rye and buck-
wneatnour.
WILL-KNIGHT, Miller.
Life
Was a
Misery
Mrs. F. M. Jones, of
Palmer, Okla., writesi HI
"From (lie time 1 en- D
urea into womannooa
. . . I looked with dread
from one month to the
next. I suffered with my
back and bearing-down
pain, until life to me was
l mUery. I would think
. 1 could not endure the
pain any longer, and 1 It
gradually jot worse. . H;
nouung aecmca m nap
me until, one day, . .
I decJdedto
- TAKE
"t took four botfles,"
Mrs. Jones goes on to
tar, "aw) wu not only
greatly relieved, but can
truthfully t7 that I have
ttoUpalaV . .
" It has now been two
years since I took Ctrdul,
and 1 am still in good
health. ; V I would ad
ttse any woman or girl
to use Cardul who Is a
sufferer from any female
trouble." , v-'
' If you suffer pain caused
; from womanly trouble, or
U you fed the need of a
good strengthening tonic
to butld up yourrun-dowa
system, lake the advice
of Mis. Jones. TryCar
duL It helped her. We
believe HwU help yon.;
0
I
Ths VcHsn's Tonic
Children Cry
EMM
Vh-nn"' n.ii in ii n .
;lhe Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has beea
'. In use for over over, 30 years, has. home' the signature of
'-Jiff r (Ad has been made under his per ,
7 sjtAftf-f-t1". sonal supervision since its Infancy.
U'CUcAWi ' Aiiow no one to deceive yon In thla.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and 14 Just-as-good M are but
Experiments that trifle -with and endanger the ..health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What io CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute lor Castor OH, Paregoric, :
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It i pleasant It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. , It'
age is' its guarantee. For more, than thirty-years it has ' ,
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, -Wind
Colic, and, Diarrhoea; rllaying Feveriahnesr arising
. therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep, .
The Children'! Panacea The Mother' Friend.
GEXJUiric CASTORIA always
ars the
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
'2 rM CKNTAUWOOMPANV. N W VP WK MTV,
Virginia-Carolina
TIME TABLE, NO .68
'in Effect 12:01 A. M Monday, Sept, 11, 1I14J
. For Government of Employee Only.
STATIONS
Eastern Standard
3
Time
5
1st
Class
TfoTT
A.M.
7:201
Iff. Ablmdon (W.C.).....:....Ar.
0.6
see
Lr. Yard
7:32
I 7:46
Lv. Watauga
Lt. Barron
12
13
14
Lr. Cedarville (W)
...
...
Lr. Drowning- Ford
Lr. Vails Mill
Pass.
No. 13
1:121
8:20
II
18
23
27
Lr. Damascus fW) (T)
LrLaureldale (G.C.)
8:3
Lr. Taylor'a Valley (W)
8:64
Ar. Creek Junction
Lv. Callahan Crossing
1:4a
e
11
Lr. Qrean Cove (W)
Meet
No. 141
s I:l2f
34
4
Lr. White Top Gap
Lr. NaUa
10:27
44
48
48
60
63
66
Lr. Tackerdale (W).'.
10:33
Lr. Lansing
10:38
Lr. Berlin
Lr. Warren villa
Lr. Smethport
10:46
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11:05
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66
68
61
65
71
'71
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Lr. Hamilton, N. C...........Ar.
11:24
Lr. Donation .
11:39
Lr. Bowie (W) .'.
Lr. Riverside
11:14
13:061
Ar. Elkland, N. C. (WCT)...Lr
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KONNAROCK BRANCH
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1:13
"8:38
Lr. Creek Junction
Lr. Grassy Ridge
1:10
A.M.
Ar. Kohnarock (WTO)
P.M.
Stop on Signal, a Regular Stop. O. C Orada Crossing. W? Water,
C. Coal O. Scales. T Turntable. T. Wye. (:) Jot. W. T. Br.
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Sold- tvetry where f)
' Btomac'i And Liver Troubles,
i No end of misery and actual
eufferinp; is ceused by disorders
of. tbe stomach and liver, and
may be avoided by the use of
Chamberlain's tablets, (jive them
a trial. They ouly cost a jqaar;
for Flotsfccrt
Signature of
Railway Company'
1
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4:18
4:11
8:15
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4001
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376
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Lr. SlOi
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(W-T.)....Lr. 190
.....Lr. 200
1:50
2:21
Meat
No. 13
Lr.1 480
1:11
2:10
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....Lr. . 196
Lr. 390
Lr. 461
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PUT
8:41
1:21
P.M.
" Cbiooic Constipation. .
It la by no means an easy mat
ter to cure this disease, bur it
can be done in most instance by
takiok Chamberlain's Tablets
and rom plying with tbe plain
printed directions that accom
paur each package.
"- ' ' ' 1 ' ki, Ta.inU!t, Xaoa. .
ui r... .ivs: -i tvoueht I
' :ni i!k ; of meCialno, bn4
i. KkIioj t ..;s have proven aaoaS
rtJ"'-iiil iu ty !'a."
. y... Cy: A. '.. yet, ICjU Point,
C, -rues: "ii.y ..'.u-.ty trouble was
ruo st rlill era I Ind to gtt up
om (tve to (--.Ttu Vtatt, Now t d"
. t r t i.p . riKht, and teH:
.)irr mywif Jn a Ir-ily norniU en,
iltl-.w, which 1 uttrlhute to foly Kid
ney Pint, r3 I have takeju netSiasr
)lt?.v -i. i '
l , .f?rt.1es. RoWnsen. 'lfem?
&j: 1 tiiercil tt, om kidney all
(,ir. S.TH. r wntsneed
laklns Kol'v K'dr.ty PIUs Uo raeatha
fKo, hii thevtrh T r.m ci years of aae.'
. frcl Ul:-. i 1.y,or.Md ClrU
Fol-y Kiny ruts are toaJe.'
'atrpnethening- and up-bnlldlns, anf
reolore normal aotlon to the fidnfra
and io a Aiaordored and patnfnl Maju
fltr. They act quickly and eeatalaV
danseroua or huriAXOt drags, t
4 '
rs.