The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-10

er, how he closed in and dashed the
Richard to the Scraps, how the Alli-
ance came to his aid, how the 'crazy"
Dandais sent a broadside into the I'M
protected side of Jones' ship and how.
in the midst of the shambles around
him with the Richard sinking under
him, Jones could still hurl back his
defiant Il have not yet begun to
fight"
So he won his battle and the Briton
struck his colors. AS for Jones' colOrs,
the Stars and Stripes, they played a
glorious part in the battle. For the
new flag was flying at the masthead
of the Richard when it closed with the
Scraps. Once it was shot down, but
it was Immediately rescued and raised
again, and there it stayed to the end,
for the Bonhomme Richard was SO
shattered in the fight that there was
no hope of saving it. So Jones trans
ferred himself and his men to the
captured Scraps. AS matter Of
pride and sentiment he would not al
low the flag of the Richard to be low
cred, but left it flying as the vessel
sank with the bodies of her dead.
Jones next sailed into the Texel in
Holland, with the Serapis the Coun-
tess and his prizes. But on December
p Holland asked him to leave. Out
side a British blockading fleet was
awaiting him, but in broad daylight
he took the Alliance boldly out of
port, outran the British vessels, sailed
down the English channel and arrived
safely in France. 1t was to be another
$50 years before an American was to
receive as wild welcome in France
as did Jones. And that was when the
Lone Eagle" completed his success
full flight across the Atlantic. The
king of France gave Jones a gold
sword and made him a chevalier of
France.
Jones did not return to receive the
acclaim of his own countrymen until
early in 1881. He reached Philadel-
phia February 1S Of that year, where
congress gave him vote of thanks
and the command of the America, a
new 74-gun ship then nearing compile
ton. But the Revolution ended be-
fore he could again put to sea. With
no more fighting to be done Jones
could not content himself to go back
to Virginia or to settle down to the
quiet of commerce on the seas. His
restless spirit led him to seek naval
service with Russia.
He became a rear-admiral and in
1888 continued his brilliant exploits on
the water by defeating the Turkish
navy at the battle of Liman. He re-
turned to Russia to reap his reward
but he did not stay long. He returned
to Paris and there he died July is,
1892.
ton of the old saying about how "a
republic forgets" For more than a
hundred years the republic which he
had helped establish forgot John Paul
Jones. at least so far as paying any
honor to his ashes was concerned. In
1905 Ambassador Horace Porter, after
a long search, found Jones' grave In
the old st. Louis cemetery for foreign
Professionals. Under instructions from
President Roosevelt his remains were
exhumed and brought to the United
States by an American naval squadron
sent especially for that purpose. They
were taken to the United States naval
academy and then as final ironical
touch to the way in which ''the richest
and stingiest government in the worIr
rewards its heroes (for neither his
salary, the money he had advanced to
the United States government, nor his
prize money was paid until genera
ton after his DEATH the casket con-
tanning his body was left behind a
staircase resting on couple of rough
carpenter-horses in one of the build
ings at Annapolis for seven years.
Then, when the scandal of this threat
ened to be aired in congress, he was
buried with the honors due him.
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