Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1917 — Page 2

The Man Without A Country

by Edward Everett Hale

FIRST INSTALLMENT.

i {No document in actual Amer- 1 t lean history conveys a more } 1 powerful lesson of what citizen- 1 l ship in this republic means, none , £ delivers a more searching appeal i l to loyalty, than this fanciful re- , J cital of the Man Without a i l Country. The unhappy creature i £ whose living death it has graved ’ A upon the memory of mankind i i was but a figure bom of a writ- ’ k er's imagination. Yet, the ac- i t count of his passionate outburst ’ l and of his dreadful expiation i i stirs the dullest soul, and will ; 1 awaken emotion in the minds i i of readers of generations yet un- ’ J bom. There can be no more ar- : l resting lesson for the disloyal or , £ the heedless, no more inspiring ; i appeal to the spirit of true Amer- • J icanism, than this memorable ’ i work of literary art and high- • t oouied patriotism.]

I suppose that very few casual readers of the New York Herald of August 13th observed, in an obscure corner, among the “Deaths,” the announcement: “NOLAN. Died, on board U. S. Corvette Levant, Lat. 2° 11* S., Long. 131* W, on the 11th of May, Philip Nolan.” I happened to observe it, because I was stranded at the old Missionhouse in Mackinac, waiting for a Lake Superior steamer which did not choose to come, and I was devouring, to the very stubble, all the current literature I could get hold of, even down to the

deaths and marriages in the “Herald." My memory for names and people is good, and the-reader will see, as he goes on, that I bad reason enough to remember Philip Nolan. There are hundreds of readers who would have paused at that announcement, if the officer of the Levant who reported it had chosen to make it thus: “Died, May 11th, ‘The Man without a Country.’ " For it was as “The Man without a Country” that poor Philip Nolan had generally been known by the officers who had him in charge during some fifty years, as, indeed, by all the men who had sailed under them. I dare say there is many a man who has taken wine with him once a fortnight, in a three years’ cruise, who never knew that his name was “Nolan," or whether the poor wretch had any name at all. There can now be no possible harm in telling this poor creature’s story. Reason enough there has been till now, ever since Madison’s administration went out in 1817, for very strict secrecy, the secrecy of honor itself, among the gentlemen of the navy who have had Nolan in successive charge. And certainly it speaks well for the esprit de corps of the profession and the personal honor of its members, that to the press this man’s story has been wholly unknown, and, I think, to the country at large also. t I have reason to think, from some investigations I made in the naval archives, when I was attached to the bureau of construction, that every official report relating to him was burned when Ross burned the public buildings at Washington, One of the Tuckers, or possibly one of the Watsons, had Nolan in charge at the end of the war; and when, on returning from his cruise, he reported at Washington to one of the Crowninshields —who was in the navy department when he came home —he found that the department ignored the whole business. Whether they really knew nothing about it, or whether it was a non ml ricordo, determined on as a piece of policy, I do not know. But this I do know, that since 1817, and possibly before, no naval officer has mentioned Nolan in his report of a cruise. As I say, there is no need for secrecy any longer. And now the poor creature is dead, it seems to me worth while to tell a little of his story,, by way of showing young Americans of today what it is to be A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. Philip Nolan was as fine a young officer as there was in the “Legion of the West,” as the western division of Aaron Burr made his first "dashing expedition down to New Orleans in 1805, “ at Forf Massac, or somewhere above on the river, he met, as the devil would have it, this gay, dashing, bright young feUow, at some dinner party, I think. Burr marked him, talked to him, walked with him, took him a day or two’s voyage in his flatboat, and, tn short, fascinated him. For the next year barrack life was very tame to l poor Nolan. He occasionally availed a of the permission the great man had Swiven him to write to him. Long, hlghXorded, stilted letters the poor boy Wrote and re-wrote and copied. But a Une did he-have tn reply from twy* deceiver. The other boys in sneered at him, because be swificed in this unrequited affec♦|nn fX. a politician the time which they demoted to Monongahela, sledge, and hlgMow-jack. Bourbon, euchre,

and poker were still unknown. But one day Nolan had his revenge. This time Burr came down the river, not as an attorney seeking a place for his office, but as 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 bow many Weekly Arguses; and It was rumored that he had an army behind him and an empire before him. It was 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 sail 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 Jefferson and the House of Virginia of that day undertook to break on the wheel all the possible Clarences of 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 Puget 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 another of the colonels and majors were tried, and, to fill out the list, little Nolan, against whom, heaven knows, there was evidence enough, that he was sick of the service, had been willing to be false to it, and would have obeyed any order to march anywhither 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 escaped, rightly for all I know. 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

“I Wish I May Never Hear of the United States Again!”

close, whether he wished to say anything to show that he had always-been faithful to the United States, he cried out, in a fit of frenzy: “D n the United States! Iwish I may never hear of the United States again!” —- 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 his 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 perfected in commercial expedit ions to Vera Cruz, and I think he told mo his father once hired an Englishman to be a private tutor for a winter nn the plantation. He-had spent halfUTs an older brother;hunting horses in Texas; and, in a word, to him “United States” was scarcely a reality. Yet he had been fed by “United States” for all the years since he had been in the army. He had sworn on his faith as a Christian to be true to “United States.” It was “United States” which ggve him the uniform he wore, find the sword by his sl<fe. Nay, my poor Nolan, it was only because “United States” had picked you out first as one of her own confidential men of honor, that “A. Burr” cared for you a straw more than for the flatboat men who sailed his ark for him. Ido not excuse Nolan; I only explain to the reader why he damned his country, and wished he might never hear her name again. He never did hear her name but once again. From that moment, September 23, 1807, till the day he died. May

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11, 1863, her never heard her name again. For that half century and more he was a man without a country. Old Morgan, as I said, was terribly shocked. If Nolan had compared George Washington to Benedict Arnold, 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 say : “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 was hushed dead as night for a minute. Even Nolan lost his swagger in a moTnerrt. 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 his orders, and the prisoher was taken out of court. “Mr. Marshal,” continued old Morgan, “see that no one mentions the United States to the prisoner. Mr. Marshal, make my respects to Lieutenant Mitchell at Orleans, and request him to order that no one shall mention the United States to the prisoner 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. Certain 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 substantially the same which was necessarily 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 this story is traditional, as I have explained, I do not know certainly what his first cruise was. But the commander to whom he was intrusted —perhaps 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, I suppose, till Nolan died. When I was second officer of the Intrepid some thirty years after, I saw the original paper of instructions. I have been sorry ever since that I did not copy the whole of it. It ran, howOver, much in this way:

“Washington,” (with the date, which must have been late in 1807). “Sir —You will receive from Lieutenant Neale the person of Philip Nolan, late a lieutenant in the United States army. “This person on his trial by courtmartial expressed with an path 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 as shall prevent his escape. “You will provide him with such quarters, rations, and clothing as would be proper for an officer of his late rank, if he were a passenger on your vessel on the business of his government.

“The gentlemen on board will make any arrangements agreeable to themselves regarding his society. He is to be exposed to no indignity of any kind nor is he ever unnecessarily to be reminded that he is a prisoner. . “But 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 punishment is involved, shall not be broken. “It is the intention of the government that he shall never again see the country which he has disowned. Before the end of your cruise you will receive orders which will give effect to this intention. “Respectfully yours, “W. SOUTHARD, “for the Secretary of the Navy." (TOTBSi’CONTINUED.) •

Whales.

Whales are able to attain such an enormous size because their bodies are supported by the water in which they live. A bird is limited to the weight which its wings can bear up in the air. A land animal, if it becomes too large, cannot hold its body off the ground or readily move about, and is doomed to certain destruction. But a whale has to face none of these problems and can grow without restraint Because whales live in a supporting medium their young are of enormous size at birth, in some instances the Calf being almost half the length of its mother. I once took a 25-foot baby which weighed about eight tons from an 85-foot blue whale.—Exchange.

Stickin's.

When A boy asks his mother if It is wrong to play marbles for keeps, it is a safe bet that he has come home with more than be started out with.

HOLDS CHARM FOR RED-BLOODED MEN

Navy, With Its High Ideals and Splendid Record, Justifies Nation’s Pride. > —r— •- MEN NEEDED FOR SERVICE * - Uncle Sam Pays All Expenses and Monthly Wage Is All Velvet—- “ There Is Always Room at the Top,” True of Nav&_ By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington. —Sailors of the American navy, many of them young men who only a year ago were on the farm, at the bench, at the counter, or in school, today are In Uncle Sam’s destroyers sailing the waters of the northern seas, where they are engaged tn the heroic duty of, upholding the World principle of freedom for all peoples. The American people always have shown a kindly disposition toward the man-of-war and the man-o’-warsman. There has been an appeal about the sea which has drawn and held the interest of landsmen who never smelt salt water. Americans always have taken a pride in their navy. Today Uncle Sam needs men for his navy and he wishes to get them from the ranks of those who are charged with the volunteer spirit of service. Our great fleet is mobilized “somewhere on the coast” for possible deadly service with, the great fleet of the enemy. Today, for the navy has allowed the fact to become known, many of our smaller craft, the bulldog destroyers of the navy, are hunting the submarine sharks in the waters off Daunt’s Rock, close to the coast of Ireland and farther north, where even In summer the elements at times are almost as fierce as “man, the enemy.” Pay Is Doubled.

Recently the congress of the United States increased the pay of the sailor men so materially that the recruits’s pay is double what it was. In the navy the young men of the country, both In times of peace and in times of war, secure liberal educations. Their opportunities for travel and for sight-seeing are greater than those of men employed in almost any other calling in life. Moreover, the boys just entering manhood who enlist In the navy are given opportunities for instruction which, if they have the ambition and the mental qualifications, will enable them to enter the naval academy at Annapolis on the same terms as midshipmen who are nominated by members of congress, and at that institution to secure an education which fits them for the commissioned rank which the government of the United States will confer upon them. There are traditions In the American navy which keep high the spirit of endeavor in every man who walks the deck under the colors, from the admiral to the apprentice seaman. The boy learns all about John Paul Jones, and his deeds on the sea for his country ; all about Decatur, Bainbridge, Hull, Porter, Farragut and Dewey. As the secretary of the navy has said, In what is really an appeal to the youth of the country to enlist under the navy's colors, the standard is high.

Service of High Ideals.

"The navy has been throughout its entire 'existence a service of high ideals; and its unbroken record of great and worthy achievement, of duty well done, has been duo to the high standard set for officers and men in the beginning and which has been maintained ever since. This standard was never higher than it is today; and any voung American who thinks of going into the navy may feel sure that, on enlisting, he will enter a service In which he may, and should, always feel a justifiable pride and of which the uniform is a badge of honor." Young men between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five, who are not skilled In any naval trade, are enlisted as apprentice seamen. —lmmediately upon being sworn in at the recruiting stations they are sent at government expense to a naval training station. The apprentice seaman, because he is a green man and simply undergoing training has been paid in the past $17.60 a month. From this time on, however, under the recent act of congress his pay throughout the war and until six months after its ending is to be $32.60 a month. Now it must be remembered that the sailor, whether he be a recruit or a seasoned man-o’-warsman, is under no expense at all for his livelihood after he~bnce joins the navy. He is given clothing, food, shelter and medical attendance. Out of his pay all that he n 1 spend is such money as he desired to pay out for such luxuries and entertainments as he seems inclined to indulge in.

Increase Soon Comes. It must not be. supposed that an apprentice seaman continues long to draw simply the amount of his first pay. His first raise comes in the seaman branch, and if he is in the fireroom he gets an additional sum. The navy needs men who are trained or partly trained in the various trades. Men who are proficient along certain lines and who come within certain limits of are enlisted for speclfic purposes In the navy. They are given pay in accordance with standards set for the different lines of®'endeavor which they must follow. Full information concerning enlistments of this kind can be had at any recruiting office. The navy today is a world in

Itself. It needs men proficient In nearfy all lines of human working endeavor. Rate of Pay In Navy. The law Increasing the pay of the men In the navy has Jost been enacted and the pay tables under the neW dispensation have not yet been made out, but It Is a simple thing to determine the rate of pay of each seaman of whatever class by adding to the pay given In the accompanying table the amount of Increase in each case. The increased pay allotment has just gone, Into effect. Below is given the navy wage table, with the pay as It stdod prior to the recent act of congress. In drder to know what each man's pay now is, It Is only necessary to know that every man now drawing less than s2l a month will receive an Increase of sls a month; that every man drawing at present from $22 to $24 a month, inclusive, will receive sl2 a month additional ; that every man drawing more than $24 and less than $45, will receive $8 a month additional, and that every man drawing at present $45 or more a month will receive $6 a month additional pay. It should be borne in mind that the apprentice seaman, the ordinary boy recruit, who ordinarily gets $17.60 a month, will be receiving at the time that this is read sls additional, making his pay $32.60. Here is the pay table as it stands today regardless of the increases which congress has ordained: Chief Petty Officers. Monthly Pay. Chief masters at arms 171.50 Chief boatswains' mates... 65.00 Chief gunners’ mates ...55.00 Chief turret captains 66.00Chief quartermasters 55.00 Chief machinists’ mates ... TIM Chief electricians 66.00 Chief carpenters’ mates ; 55.00 Chief water tenders 56-00 Chief printers 66.00 Chief storekeepers 55.00 Chief veomen •••••• 66.00 Chief pharmacists’ mates 66.00 Bandmasters 57.20 All chief petty officers with a permanent appointment , receive $77 a month and allowances. Petty Officers, First Class. Masters at arms, first class 144.00 Boatswains’ mates, first class.;-.. 44.00 Gunners’ mates, first class 44.00 Turret captains, first class 55.00 QuartermastersT first class 44.00 Baller makers ............ 71.50 Machinists’ mates, first class 60.50 Coppersmiths ; • •••• 60.50 Shipfitters, first class 60.50 Electricians, first class 55.00 Blacksmiths , ...... 55.00 Plumbers and Fitters 49.50 Sailmakers' mates ...44.00 Carpenters’ mates, first class 44.00 Water tenders 44.00 Painters, first class 44.00 Printers, first class 44.00 Storekeepers, first class 44.00 Yeomen, first class 44.00 First musicians 39.60 Pharmacists' mates, first class 44.00

MARINES ARE ALWAYS FIRST IN FIGHT

They Go Everywhere by Land or Sea in Defense of the American Flag. MORO: "ALWAYS FAITHFUL” The Recruit Entering-Service Today Is Paid S3O a Month and the Opportunities for Advancement Are Numerous. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington —’First in the Fight” is the war-time slogan of the United States marines, while “Semper Eldelis,” “Always Faithful,” Is their motto in peace and war. So it would seem that If good works, coupled with, faith, secure a man’s salvation, there must be some reason as well as rhyme in the last four Unes of the Marine corps hymn: If the Army and the Navy Ever look on Heaven's scenes, They will find the streets are guarded by The United States Marines.

Recently Uncle Sam has ordered an Increase in the number of his marines to a war strength of 30,000 men, which numerically means 4,000 more men than there are in a division of troops of the United States army. There is room in the marines, therefore, for any stalwart young American between the ages of eighteen arid thirty-five who wishes to be a soldier and a sailor in one, to be first in the fight, and to be able to prove that he is always faithful to the ideals of humanity and the Ideals of his country. In the present war the American beiief is that' the two are one. When congress recently lncreased the pay of the army it also Increased the pay of the navy and of the Marine -eorps. The recruit today, who enters the Marine corps will receive S3O a month pay, an increase of sls over the pay in the more or less piping times of peace. More thari this, if he goes to which unquestionably will be his lot, he will receive 20 per cent additional, and it is generally accounted that In this war time the 20 per cent Increase will be continued while the marine Is on land in a foreign country holding up his end for the United States. What is the marine? This is one of the questions in a little catechism Issued by the ofllcials of the corps. The answer is that the marine is a soldier of the sea. The marine Is a soldier and a sailor, and yet he Is neither. He Is a sort of a two-fisted fighting rover. He goes everywhere by land or by sea to the last outpost of civilization and beyond

Masters at arms, second eiass.... MB* Boatswains' mates, second class w« Gunners’ mates. clms... wS Quartermasters, second c1a55......... Machinists’ mates, second class M W Electricians, second class m w Shipfitters, second class Oilers ••............. w Carpenters' mates, second class « w Painters, second class 35 ■' Storekeepers, second class Yeomen, second class ............ » w Pharmacists’ mates, second class.... 33W Petty Officer*, Third Class. Rasters at arms, thild class Coxswains “’i"", Gunners’ mates, third class 33. Quartermasters, third c1a55...,.,. 33.00 Electricians, 3d class. Carpenters’ mates, (third class 33 00 Painters, third class. « w Storekeepers, third c1a55...... “ W Yeomen, third c1a55.......... Pharmacists' mates, third class 33.00 Rating With Seamen, teamen gunners Be*men Firemen, first class Musicians, first class Hospital apprentices, first class 26.40 Rating With Seamen, Second Class. Seamen, second class. »0.90 Firemen, second class "W Shipwrights ••••••••• Musicians, second class « w Buglers I ", "22 ” " X Hospital apprentices, second class -v-w Rating With Seamen, Third Class. Apprentice seamen Firemen, third class " Landsmen *'- w

Commissary Branch. Chief commissary stewards >77.00 Commissary stewartls 66.00 Ship’s cooks, first class 60.50 Ship’s cooks, second class 44.00 Ship’s cooks, third class •• 33W Ship’s cooks, fourth class 27.50 Bakers, first class 49.50 Bakers, second class »w Landsmen ....'. "r; - ; -Inn Stewards to commander In chief 66 W Cooks to commanders In chief 55.00 Stewards to commandants.... 66.00 Cooks to commandants .. w.w Cabin stewards Cabin cooks .. - 7... --«• V Wardroom stewards Wardroom cooks *’ Steerage stewards " w Steerage cooks ■ • " ™ Warrant officers’ stewards « w Warrant officers’ cooks « w Mess attendants, first class*.. 33-w Mess attendants, second class*. Mess attendants, third class* 22 W •If Americans citizens. All stewards and cooks of the messman branch, who are American citizens, and hold certificates of qualification, receive $5.50 a month in addition to the above rates of pay. Navy Needs Men. The United States today is at war. The government officials are looking to the young men of the country to come to the help of that democracy which means liberty. There are rear admirals and captains in the United States navy today who rose to their high rank of command from tho position of naval apprentice. Rear Admiral William H. H. Southerland once was a naval apprentice. Capt. John Emil Roller was a naval apprentice. “There Is always room at the top" is a saying that Is credited originally to the sea service. Uncle Sam needs recruits to help sustain the honor of his flag. The sea and its service have a holding charm for men of red blood.

if it is necessary for the service of protection of the American flag and of the upholding of the rights of American people. The Marine corps is curious in a way in its formation. It has more men in its ranks than an army division, and yet in a way its organization is that of a regiment, although it has a major general commandant and several brigadier generals. Then, like the army, it has its colonels. Its lieutenant colonels. Its majors, and its captains. The Marine corps, big as it is, with its 30,000 men in war time, keeps a peculiar organization, because its fighters necessarily are divided into comparatively small detachments. Under the command of Colonel Doyen of the Marine corps 2,000 soldiers of the sea soon will be In the trenches In France. These men. It has been announced, were added to the preliminary force which It is Intended to send into France because the government recognized the right of marines to live up to the meaning of their wartime slogan, “First in the Fight.”

Men Needed for Marines. The United States government wants men for Its Marine corps. It hopes that it will not be necessary to draw from the ranks of the selective service army the men needed to complete the complement of the soldier-sailor organization. It wants volunteers. The attractions of service in the marines are many. There are chances, and good ones, for the enlisted men to be recommended. for a student course at Annapolis, there to be educated and trained and upon graduation to receive a commission either in the Marine corps or in the navy. The law also provides for the promotion of noncommissioned officers to'" Warrant rank in the grades of marine gunners and quartenriaster’s clerk. Such officers "receive l frorif $1,125 i ~to $2,500 a year, and entitled to the same privileges of retirement as warrant officers in the navy. There is a chance for marines to make money In addition to their pay. Mess stewards, mess sergeants, mess men, clerks, and men assigned to aviation duty receive amounts varying from $7.50 to sls per month in addition to their base pay. There are provisions for increased pay for men who qualify as expert riflemen, as marksmen and as sharpshooters. The Marine corps is the oldest army service of the United States, having been organized before the army and the navy.. Every man who enters it 19 given his food, his clothing, his lodging, and his medical attendance. The country needs volunteer marines for a service that is First at the Front and Always Faithful.