'f 4 5 tj.i—J' "\4 ,f FSSi"*: INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS losion to lti. He bad almost an the the surgeon's people were carrying off foreign pa pens that came into the ship In hie -"t-, s* j,?Ty bodies there appeared Nolan .0? F. C. ROGERS sooner or later, only somebody must, in his shirt sleeves, with the rammer go over them first and cut out any ad' if band. aud. just as he had been the vertisenient or stray paragraph that officer, told tbem off witb authority Sj»i J'. alluded to America. Phillips told me who should go to the cockpit with the story of something which happened at Tv& wounded men. who should stay with the Cape of Good Hope on Nolan's first PRACTICAL FURRIER him. perfertly cheery and with that voyage, aud it is the only thing 1 evei way which makes men feel sure all is No. I. knew' of „that voyage. Phillips bad Fort Frances, Ontario tight and is going to l»e right: And hf borrowed a lot of English hooks from finished-loading the gun with his owi an officer, which in those days, as indeed bands, aimed it and hade the men tire in these, was quite a windfall. THE AN WITHOUT A COUNTRY And there he stayed, captain of that. THE OLDEST EXCLUSiVE FUR HOUSE Among them, as the devil would order, ?un, keeping ihose fellows in spirits/ was tbe "La.v of the Last Minstrel," till the enemy struck. The captain which the.v bud all of them heard of. IN THE WORLD walked forward by way or em-ourag but whjk'b most of them had never By Edward Everett Bale ing the men. and Nolan touched ok seen. 1 think it could not have been hat anil said* published long. Well, nobody thought It "1 am showing them how we do thlt there could be any risk of anything national in the artillery, sir Twenty-four famous authors were in that, so Nolan was permit "And this is a part of the storv where ted to join the circle one afternooD asked recently to name the beat all the legends agree-.,thai the comino when a lot of them sat on deck smok short story in the English lan|uaf& do re sairt: ing and reading aloud. Nolan took tbe "1 see you ilt». and I tliaiii you. sir The choice of Mary Roberta Rinehart book and read to tbe others, and be and 1 shall never forget this day. sir read very well, as 1 know. Nobody ir and Owen Johnson was "The aud you never shall, sir." the circle knew a line of the |oeiii Man Without a Country," by Edward And after the whole thing was ore* only it was all magic and border cbiv aud he had tiie Knsjiishuian's sword it Everett Hale His works are airy and was years ago. Foot 10.000 the midst of the state and cereuiouy ot Nolan read steadily through tbe fiftt published by Little^ Brown ft Co. tbe quarterdeck he said: NARY ROBERTS IIBWAIB EVERETT canto, stopped a minute and dranksomething "Where is Mr. Nolan? Ask Mr. No R3IEIART UK and then began, without a Ian to come here.'' thought of what was coming: E and the .whole room was hushed dead And when Nolan came the captair PART I. "Breathes there the man with soul' as nlghfrfor a minute. Even Nolan loat said: dead HUJP NOLAN was as fine a his swagger In a moment Then Morgan "Mr. Nolan, we are all very gratefu Who never to himself bath said. young officer as there was in added: "Mr. Marshal, take the to you today. You are one of us £oday 'This is my own. my native land?' the "Legion of the West," as prlaoner to Orleans in an armed boat Then tbey all saw something was tc You will" be named in the dispatches/' the western division of out and deliver hlxn to the naval commander And then tbe old man took off bif pay, but he expected to get through. I army was then called. When Aaron own sword of ceremony and gave It ti there" suppose, turned a little pale, but Burr made his first dashing expedition The gave hia orders, and plunged on: Nolan aud made him put it on. The EXPORTER AND IMPORTER OF down to N?w Orleans in 1805 at Fort the prisoner was taken out of court man tbld me tbis who saw it. Nolai or somewhere above on the "Whose heart hath ne'er within htm burnec Haaaae "Mr. Marshal," continued old Morgan, cried like a ha by. and well he might Asliome his footsteps he hath turned river lie met, as the devil would have "see thU no one mentions the From wandering on a foreign strand? He had not worn a sword since that it, this gay, dashing, bright young fellow If such there breathe, go. mark him well." United States to the prlaoner. Mr. infernal day at Fort Adams. at some dinner party, I think. By tbis time tne men were all beside Marshal, make my respects to lieutenant Tiie captain did mention him in tbt Burr marked him, talked to him, walked themselves, wishing there was an dispatches. It was always said be Mitchell at Orleana and request with him, took him a day or two's wayxto make him turn over two pages asked that he might be pardoned. Bt htm to orde? that no one ahall mention voyage in Ida flatboat and. In short, but be bad not quite preseuce of mine wrote a special letter to the secretary the United States to the prisoner fascinated him. For the next year for that. He gagged a little, colored of war. But nothing ever came of It Highest Cash Prices Paid on while he la on board ship. Yon will barrack life was very tame to poor crimson and staggered on: As I said, that was about the firm receive your written orders from the Ifolan. He occasionally availed of the Raw Furs when tbey began to ignore the whoU officer on duty here thla evening. The "For him no minstrel raptures swell. permission the great man had given High though his tilles. proud his name. transaction at Washington. court is adjourned without day." him to write to him. The other boys S- Boundless his wealth as wish can claim. I have alwaya supposed that Colonel He will pay the duty and war tax on all furs from the United in the garrison sneered at him because Despite these titles, power and pelf. Morgan h»Tn«if took the proceedings The wretch, concentrated all in self"— He sacrificed in this unrequited affection HART II. States and pay as high a price for them as any And here tbe poor fellow choked, could of the court to Washington city and for a politician the time which must have been in everj OLAN not go on. but started up, swung tbe I explained them to Mr. Jefferson. Certain sea and yet almost#'never oi they devoted to monongahela, sledge house in the United States. book into the sea. vanished into bl» it la that the president approved and high-low-jack. Bourbon, euchre land. He told nie on-e. with stateroom. "and. by Jove." said Phil them—certain, that is, if I may believe and poker were still unknown. Bin grave smile, that no man in tht lips, "we did not see him for twi the men who say they have seen one day Nolan had his revenge. This wbrld lived so methodical a life as he BE SURE AND SEE ME BEFORE YOU SELL OR BUY months again. And had to make uj his signature. Before the Nautilus got time Burr came down the river not as "Yon know the boys say 1 am the I rot some beggarly story to that English an attorney seeking a place for hia office, round from New Orleans to the northern Mask, and .voti know how husy ht F. C. ROGERS surgeon why 1 did not return his VVal Atlantic coast with the prisoner on bat as a disguised conqueror. It was." Be said it ilid not do tor au\ ter Scott to bipi." board the sentence had been approved, one to try to read all tbe tiaie niort was rumored that he had an army behind Thht story shows about the tiint him and an empire before him. and he waa a man without a country. than to do anything else all tbe time wben Nolan's braggadocio must bav^ It was a great day—his arrival—to poor When I was second officer of the but that be read just five hours a day broken dowu. At tirst-tbey said ht Nolan. Burr had not been at the fort Intrepid some thirty yeara after I saw "Then," be said. "1 keep up ray note took a very high tone, considered bis an hour before he sent for him. That the original paper of instructions: books, writing in tbem at sucb anc imprisonment a mere farce, affected to evening he asked Nolan to take him such hours from what 1 have beet Washington (with the date, which must enjoy tbe voyage, and all that, but out in his skiff to show him a canebrake reading, and 1 include in tbem uij have been late In 1807). Phillips said that after be came out of or a cottonwood tree, as he said Sir—Tou will receive from Lt. Neale the scrapbooks." These were very curious his stateroom be never .was the same person of Philip Nolan, late a.lieutenant —really to seduce him—and by the time indeed. He bad six or eight, of differ in the United States ariny. man again. He never read aloud Stationery Store the sail was over Nolan was enlisted ent subjects. There was one of history, This person on his trial by court martial again unless It was tbe Bible or Shakespeare, body and soul. From that time, one of natural science, one wbicb expressed with an oath the wish that or something else- he was sure he might never hear of the United States though he did not yet know It, he lived he called "odds and ends." But they again. of. He was alwaya .shy afterward as "a man without a country." were not merely books of extracts The court sentenced him to have his when I knew him—very seldom spoke from newspapers. Tbey bad bits oi What Burr meant to do I know no wish fulfilled. unless he was spoken except a to, to plants and ribbons, shells tied on and more than you, dear reader. It is none For the present the execution of the order very few friends. He lighted up occasionally, is Intrusted by the president to this carved scraps of bone and wood, which of our business just now. Only when department. but generally he had the nervous, GEORGE P. WATSON, Proprietor he had taught the men to cut for him, the grand catastrophe came some of Tou will take the prisoner on board youi tired look of a heart wounded and. they were beautifully illustrated. the lesser fry in that distant Mississippi ship and keep him there with such precautions man. as shall prevent his escape. TU1 he grew very old, be always went valley to while away the monotony Nolan's transfer at sea to the Warren Tou will provide him with such quarters, aloft a great deal. Be always kept u( of the summer at Fort Adams rations and clothing as would be proper was the first of some twenty such got up for spectacles a string of court his exercise* and I never heard that he for an officer of his late rank if he were transfers, brought him sooner Which was 11L If any other man was ill he martials on the officers there. One a passenger. on your vessel on the business or later Into half our best vessels, but This is the beat place to trade for of his government was the kindest nurse in the world and another of the colonels and majors which kept him all hia life at least The gentlemen on board will make any and he knew more than half the 8urgeons tried, and, to fill out the list, little [Were arrangements agreeable to themselves regarding SCHOOL, OFFICE AND HOME some hundred miles from the country do. Then if anybody was sick ot Nolan, against whom, heaven knowa,, is his society. He to be exposed he had hoped he mlghb never hear of died, or if the captain wanted him tc there was evidence enough—that he to no indignity of any kind, nor is he ever again. STATIONERY SUPPLIES is a unnecessarily to be reminded that he on any other occasion, he waa always was sick of the service, had been willing It may have been on that second prisoner. ready to read prayers. I have remarked to be false to it and wonld have But under no circumstances Is he ever cruise—it was once when he was up that he read beautifully. obeyed any order to march anywhithei to hear of his country or to see any information the Mediterranean—that Mrs. Graff, My own acquaintance with Phillt regarding it, and you will especially with any one who would follow him the celebrated southern beauty of tho^e caution all the officers under your Nolan began six or eight years aftei had the been signed. "By vrder only command to take care that, In the various days, danced with him. They had the war. on my first voyage after 1 command His Exc. A. Burr." .The of indulgences which may be granted, this been along time in the biay of Naples, Pens was appointed a midshipman. It was courts big dies escaped—rightly rule, in which his punishment is involved, dragged on. The and the officera were very intimate in the first days after our slave trade ail 1 know. Nolan shall not be broken. for Pencils in the English fleet, and there had been It is the intention of the government treaty, while the reigning bouse, wbicb was as 1 say, yet proved guilty enougn that he shall neVer again see the country great festivities, and our men thought was still the bouse of Virginia, bad yon and 1 would have heard of Tablets never which he has disowned. Before the end they must give a great ball on board still a sort of sentimentalism about the when the president, of your cruise you will receive orders him. reader, but that, the ship. They Wanted to use Nolan's Rubbers which will give effect to this intention. suppression of the "horrors of the Middle court asked at the of the hior stateroom for something, and they hated Resp'y yours, W. SOUTHARD, Passage, and something was sometimes close be wished to say anything Mucilage whether For the Secretary of the Navy. to do it without asking him to the to had always been done that way. I first came to show that be I suppose the commander of the Levant ball, so the captain said they might Letter Files understand anything about "the mas faithful to the United cried States be has it today as bis authority for ask him If they would be responsible without a country" one day when we out In a fit of frenzy: Carbon Paper keeping this man in his mild custody. that he did not talk with tbe wrong Overhauled a dirty little schoonei "D— the United States! 1 wish 1 The rule adopted on board the ships people, "who would give him intei igence." Library Paste which had slaves on board. An officer may never bear of the United States on which I have met "The Man Without For ladies they had the family was Sent to take charge of her, and again!" a Country",was, I think, transmitted Fancy Stationery of the American consul, one or two after a few minutes be sent back his I suppose he did not know bow the from the beginning. No mess liked travelers who had ventured so far and boat to ask that some one might be Typewriter. Ribbons words shocked old Colonel Morgan. to have him permanently, because his* a nice bevy of English girls and matrons, sent him who could speak Portuguese was holding the court. Nolan Who presence cut off all talk of home or of perhaps Lady Hamilton herself. We were all looking over tbe rail when had grown up in th$, west of those the prospect of return, of politics or As the' dancing «went on, Nolan and the message came, and we all wished days in^the midst of "Spanish plot," letters, of peace or of war—cut off our fellows all got at' ease, as I said— we could interpret when tbe captain "Orleans plot" and all the rest He more than half the talk' men like to so much so that it seemed quite natural asked who spoke Portuguese. But none had been educated on a plantation have at sea. But it was always thought for him to bow to that splendid of the officers did, and just as the cap-, where the finest company was a Spanish too hard that be should never meet the Mrs. Graff and say: WRITING PAPER CHEAP tain was sending forward to ask if any officer or a French merchant from rest of us, except to touch hats, and "I hope you have not forgotten me. of the people could, Nolan stepped out Orleans. His education, such as it We have large amount of the best a we finally sank into one system. He Miss Rutledge. Shall. I have the hon•r and said he should be glad to interpret was, bad been perfected, in commercial grade bond paper in white ^and various was not permitted to talk with the of dancing?' if the captain wished, as he understood expeditions to „Vera Cruz and I think men unless an officer was by. With colors, in tablet form but without He did lt so quickly that Shubrlck, the language., The captain thanked he told me his father once hired an officers he had unrestrained intercourse, covers, that we are selling out him, fitted out another boat with him, who was by him, could not binder Englishman to be a private tutor for a as far as they and he chose. at 5 cents each—a third of a pound dim. She laughed and said: and In this boat it was my luck to go. t- (winter on the plantation. He had spent But he grew shy, though he had favorites. of good paper in each one. Also a "I am not Miss Rutledge any longer, When we got there it wa8 such a half his youth with an older brother I was one. Then the captain always scene as you seldom see and nevei Mr. Nolan, but I .will dance all the large number of scratch pads at ,5 hunting horses in Texas, and, in a word, asked him to dinner -on Monday. want to. vNastiness beyond account same," just nodded to Shubrlck aa if for 5 cents and 2 for 5 cents. to him "United States" was scarcely Every mess in succession took up the and chaos run loose in tbe midst of the ?$£ to say he must leave Mr. Nolan to her a reality. Yet he had been fed by invitation in ita turn. According to the nastlness. The negroes were, most oi ind led him off. to the place where the "United States" for all the years since size of the ship, you had tfim at your them, out of the hold and swarming all lance waa forming. lie had been in the army. He had mess more or less often at dinner. His round the dirty deck, with a centra] Nolan thought he had got hia chance. awe non hi8 faith as a Christian to be breakfast he ate in bis own stateroom throng' surrounding Vaughan and addressing Be had known her at Philadelphia. true to "United States." It was "United —he alwaya- had a stateroom—which him in every dialect and patois Subscribe for THE PRESS--The Popular Home Weekly »nd at other places had met her and States" which gave him the uniform was where a sentinel or somebody on of a dialect, from the Zulu click up ibis was a godsend. He said boldly— be wore and the sword by bis side. 1 the Watch could see the door. And to the Parisian of Beledeljereed. little pale, she said, as she told me do not excuse Nolan. I only explain to whatever else be ate or drank be ate ONLY $1.50 As we came,on deck Vaughan looked PER YEAR, Jffi 'the reader why he damned his'country ,:he story years after: or drank alone. Sometimes, when the down frbm a hogshead on which he "And what* do you hear from hornet land wished he might never hear h«r marines or sailorshatl any special jollification, had mounted in desperation rfnd said: fname again. Mrs. Graff?" they were permitted to invite "For God's love, is there anybody And that splendid creature looked He never did hear her' name but "Plain Buttons," as they called him. Pavements From Straw. who can make these wretches under Jbnce again. From that moment, Sept Jurough him. Jove! hoft she must They called hinj "Plain Buttons" because^ A pavement that is claimed to be stand something?" aave looked through biml "Home!! 23, 1807, till the day he died. May 11, while be alwaya chose to wear a resilient, dustless, sanitary, waterproof Nolan said he could speak Portuguese }#*^:a863, he never heard her name again. Mr. Nolan!!! I thought yoU were the regulation army uniform, he was not and one or two fine looking and not liable to become slippery, is Cor* Seventh Stmt and HmiMpin Avanu* £For that halt century and more he waa permitted ,tO wear the army button, man who'never wanted to hear of made from fibrous materials in the Kroomen wepe dragged out,- who, as MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA a man without a country. for the reason that It bore either the lorne again!" And she Walked directup it had been found already, had worked process patented by J. E. Clark of ra IHN, V-.: Old Morgan, as 1 said, was terribly Initials or the Insignia of the country the deck to her husband and left THE ONLY MODERN for the Portuguese at Fernando Po. Toronto. Substances like straw, corn POPULAR PRICED HOT&L hocked. He called the court Into his be had disowned. poor Nolan alone, as h^ alwaya waa. stalks, sugar cane and wood chips— "Tell them they are free," aald private room and returned In fifteen Within one Mock of ten theatre* and I remember soon after I joined the He did not dance again. principal Vaughan, "and tell them that these but not including woodpul^ or sawdustr-afe i/SF department stores. 7 minutes with a face like a sheet, to navy. Some one told the system'which A happier story thanelther of these 49 ROOMS 48 ROOMS witb rascals are to be hanged as soon aa we boiled with water, pressed say: was adopted from the. first about his I have told Js of. the war. In one of At Bath .can get rope enough." between rollers-to remove the excess "Prisoner, bear the sentence of the books and other readiug. Aa be was the great frigate duels with the English, of water and then immersed in asphalt, Nolan explained it in 8ncli Portuguese 75c "-S1.I0 $1.25—$1.50 court The court decides, subject tc almost never permitted to go on shore, in which the navy was really baptized as tbe Kroomen could under bitumen or other binding material, Hot sad Cold Running Water, Local and the approval of the president, that you even though the vessel lay in port for It happened that a round shot Long Diatanee Phonee in Eiwry Room. heated from 20 degrees to 400 stand and they in turn to such the never hear the name of the United months, his time at the best hung from the enemy entered-one of our negroes aa could understand them. .degrees Fahi*enheit. Removed from WAY BOYD Stess States again." Managed by heavy, and everybody was permitted ports square and took right dowp the Then there was such a yell to delight, this bath by suitable mechanical ^^ForsjcrfyOMcf^Otajk^eBdome^otel^^:, to lend him boOfcs if tbpy were not Nolan laughed. But nobody else officer of the gun himself and almost clinching of fists, leaping and dancing *n^ns, the proclnct is eomprossed an3 Our Ratoa aro Ahrajr* AS ADVERTISED every man of the:gun's crew., As the. kissing ot Nolan's feet kxui a genera) BSfiWSl -V