Life, 1898-06-02 · page 15 of 20
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This page covers American naval engagements in the War of 1812. The central engraving depicts the **Death of Lawrence**—Captain James Lawrence's fatal encounter with HMS Shannon in June 1813. Lawrence's dying words, "Don't give up the ship!" became an American rallying cry. The text documents subsequent naval actions: the Argus under Commander Allen (later captured by HMS Pelican) and the matched battle between the Enterprise and Boxer, where both commanders died. Below is satirical commentary on **Mrs. William Randolph Hearst**, a wealthy philanthropist who funded the recent Congress of Mothers in Washington. The author sarcastically credits her with "generosity" while backhanded-ly suggesting her son William's upbringing represents a parental failure she now attempts to compensate for through public charity. The small cartoon bottom-right appears unrelated social humor about matchmaking.
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The Chesapeake, untucky from the time sho was launebed, was the victim. Boston in} commander, decided to go out the English Shannon, Captain who was cruising around out- side, daring an American vessel to meet bim, On the Ist of June, and She was in and Captain Lawrence, her DEATH OF LAWRENCE, “DON'T GIVE UP THE sHIP!"" Lawrence sailed out in the Chesapeake with a raw crew and met his fate. Early in the fight he was wounded and carried below to die; but his last words, Don't give up ¢he ship!” aro a battle-ry e to this day. ne Shannon took the Chesapeake into Halifax harbor amid British rej and correspondent American desponde * e€ > HORTLY after this happened, the sloop- of-war Argus, under Licutenant-Com- mander Allen, sailed for British waters with the intention of repeating tho exploits of John Paul After twenty British mercbantmen, the Argus captured a ship loaded with wine, Alas! It was too much for the crew. With a comfortable toad on nearly all of them, tho Argus was taken by the English Pelican, Tones, destroying Ailen died the next day, and on August 21, 1813, he was buried at Plymouth, There was. a compensation for this loss, however, in the capture of the Boxer (Blyth) by the Enterprise (Burrows), on Sep- tember 4th, Both commanders were killed in this action, and their remains are in Portland, Me. These vessels were equally matched, and the American victory was a source of great mortification to British minds, (To be continued.) Not to Blame. I" that generous and philanthropic woman, Mrs. Hearst, who furnished the financial basis which made possible the recent Congress of Mothers in Wash- ington. Mrs. Hearst seems disposed to do her best to make up to the world for her error of judgment in raising her son William. She is not to blame for her misfortune which, doubtless, might have happened to any mother, \SWER to charade on page 462: Inn, comb, pat, tie, bill, lie, tea—incom- patibility. A MATCH-MAKe R. “1 TELL YOU, MY WIFE'S A WONDERFUL GHTERS WERE THREE DAYS comicbooks.com