New-York tribune., 1905-07-02
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.

According to present plans Thursday is the
day set for conveying the body of the dead cap
tain from Paris to Cherbourg-and Saturday the
date when the squadron will sail. The reburial
at Annapolis will take place about ten days
later the body being placed at that time in a
temporary vault, as the crypt in the chapel
which will be its final resting place will not be
completed for half a year The month of July
is especially appropriate for bringing Captain
Joness body home, as he was born and died IN
July.
In the belated funeral OF this early warrior
there is a grandeur a bigness, that is peculiarly
appropriate. There was a grandeur, bgness,
about the man himself. II was this very large
ness of soul which led him to break with his
mother country and take up arms against it.
AS one writer put it: Jones was an oak planted
IN a flower pot. If he had not burst its walls
and sent out his roots abroad he would have
died" BY birth he was a Britisher he was
born in the little town of Arbigland. Kirkcud-
bright Scotland some thirty miles from the
English border He was the of Il gardener,
and his father wished him 10 pursue that same
neaceful calling But the boy was too big for
such a life He yearned for greater sphere OF
action, and instinctivey he turned to the sea.
At the age of twelve he became sailor. For
years he roved about the ocean but even then
his lot was not large enough for him. He was
content 10 be an ordinary JACK Tar, SklIeo
in handling Ship but Ignorant of everything
that wasn't wet" as he one time said He
studied every odd moment he had.
Many a fiogging he got when cabin boy for
becoming so deeply interested in a book that he
would not hear the captains orders. One time
when a heavy storm had overtaken the ship, and
some of the older sailors were just on the point
of breaking down and praying, young Paul was
discovered reading in corner of the forecastle.
He was routed out of his seclusion with a smart
box on the ear.
What der you mean by skukn away with a
book times like these?" demanded of the
crew.
II wasn't skulkin'." replied the boy boldly.
II was reading Shakespeares Tempest be-
cause 1 thought L could understand it better now
than i'm calm"
Had John Paul Jones been Of a less expansive
nature he might have been satisfied later to set
lie down on an estate bequeathed him by his
brother William, near Fredericksburg, Va,
where he took the name of Jones and spend the
rest of his life in retirement. Yet when war
broke out the little limits of his farm seemed
a prison. He eager to join the conflict, and
fight not for but against his mother country.
1t was cause not name. that he wanted to
champion, and, as he himself expressed 1t later
in a letter to the Countess of Selkirk
Though have drawn my sword in the present
generous struggle for the right of men. yet am
not in arms as an American / profess myself a
citizen of the world. totally unfettered by the
little mean distinctions which diminish the
benevoIence Of the heart and set bounds to
philanthropy
In another letter to the French Minister Of
Marine he wrote
Il have drawn my sword only from motives
OF philanthropy and in support of the dignity of
human nature"