Life — June 2, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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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