Life — May 25, 1905 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Throwing Stones" - Life Magazine Page 601 This page satirizes **Admiral John Paul Jones**, the Revolutionary War figure. The *Mail and Empire* (a Toronto newspaper) had praised Jones as a "common sea adventurer" while disparaging **Henry Morgan** (the famous pirate/privateer) as inferior. Life's satire mocks this comparison, noting that Morgan's exploits—attacking Panama and Porto Bello—actually exceeded Jones's achievements. The joke is that Jones is celebrated as a "gentleman of refined instincts" in England while Morgan is condemned, despite Morgan's greater daring. Life criticizes this double standard: why lionize one adventurer while scorning another? The accompanying photograph and cartoon labeled "A Portrait" and "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" appear unrelated to the main article's argument about historical reputation and bias.