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Dr. W. N. M
Dr . H E. Beer..
A F o u rth of July Sketch by
Robert Donnell J * Copyright.
1903. by C. N. Lurie.
H is to ric Rouse W h ere Part of
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F tho shrines to which Ameri
can» go lu patriotic reverence
noue 1» more sacred than the
house which wns the home of
Francis Scott Key, author of “Tho
Physicians
S tar tfpanglcd Ihtuucr.” For some
Ice cold drinks and loe cream In sea
year» funds bayerheeii accumulating lu
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Surgeons
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son. Soda water, bottled and fountain,
the hugds of (Mlbials of a memorial as
always on band.
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OREGON sociation the punxMM of which la to
restore the old ‘‘Key mansion’’ and
preservo It to posterity as ono of tho
Calls Prom ptly Attended
oatlou'a shrines. The old dwelling
D ay or Night.
stands close to the Potomac river In
Washington in that part of the na
tional capital which was called
G R A S S VALLEY, ORE.
Georgetown until Its consolidation
with the greater city.
Francis Scott Key lived inftrry years
In thia quaint Old bouse. It la quite
D e n t is i
probable f|mt within Its walls or In
the little annex adjoining, which he
occupied as a law olhce, he wrote a
OREGON p art of hla fsmous song. For many
MORO
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years tho popular supposition has.been
th a t the poem was w ritten while Key
All Work W arranted.
was aboard a British vessel of war In
Cbesupeakc bay. The statem ent that
Conducted on Best Principles
O
Vinton H o te l
J. R. Morgan
New Entirely.
Convientto Business
other articles of trade not commonly
regarded as poetic. In the lower front
room a cobbler’s shop has been In
stalled.
The outer walls are two feet thick.
Even the Inside partitions carry a
width of eighteen Inches of brick. In
the days when that old house was
really n mansion In comparison with
the average dwelling of the |>eriod
families of means built houses to stay
built. 'I t Is said that there Is enough
brick In the big chimneys and fire
places of the Key mansion to construct
the walls of an ordlnnry brick house
of the present day. There Is still an
aspect of old time elegance in the old
boustkdee pi to Its outward shabblnees.
W ashington antiquarians will point
out to the vlaltlng pilgrim tho lower
window at the front of the bouse, to
the right, through which young Frnncli
8cott Key, Jr., son of tho songster,
cl I nitx*d with his fair girl cousin when
the devoted pair ran AWay to be m ar
ried.
Tho eloping pair hud a large family
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W. H. Ragsdale
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Office Ground Floor Ginn
OX T give up tho
Lawrence droids his ship ahead under
full sa.il )gtrnlgtit for the waiting end
Every A m o r- eager enemy.
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lean who has.at- 1 Shortly before 6 o’clock In the even-
tended a public tug the two ships came together about
school or read eighteen miles out át sen. "As the
tho merest skcl- , bow of the Chesapeake began to dou-
e fo ft of Amur- ble on the Shannon’s quarter,” In the
lean history is words of n.npvnl historian, "the latter
aw are that those | opened tire.” ’ The Shaunou’a broadside
h e r o i c " ’fils <tiÁ terrlile executlQn ou the Chesa-
uttered by penkP- Captain Lawrence fell, severely
JAKES LAWRBM'B. C wero
aptain James wounded In ono leg, but propped him
Lawrence, commander -of tho Chesa self up and remained in command.
peake, as he was carried below to dlo A fter securing a more favorable posi
after receiving a mortal wound In his tion the Chesapeake returned the
engagement with the British frigate broadside eoiuplItueuL Lawrerice soon
Shannon.,
received n mortal wound and was car
Renewed Interest In the Cites ipeake- ried below, protesting.
Shauuon "tight vVas aroused not lorjg
“ Keep the guns going! F ight her till
ago when the capture«) battleflag of tl»«> she strikes or sin k s!’ he cried. Being
American frigate was pulled out of Informed th a t tho enemy had boarded
oblivion by the auctioneer's arm and him on the spur deck. Captain Law
sold torWllIliun Waldorf Avtor. who pre renco cried: >,Tlien the officers of tha
sented the uld llah .lu-the. .Urlthh-1 hoy.nl dock-, h a v e n 't. toed tho m arkl Tha
Vuhed Service museum.
Shannon wm# whipped when I left tha
Early In the year 1st:! M aster Com deck.”
m andant Jam es Lawrence of the sloi’fp •A little later he called out those Im
Hornet had engaged altd sunk the mortal ^worda. ‘‘Don’t give up the
sloop Peacock o f r tho enemy. Law ship!” **—
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rence was lu his thirty second year,
Naval fights# In those days were brief
with a record of sixteen years In the and bloody. Tho firing between t)io
navy and only six weeks' leave of ab Shannon anil the Chesapeake lasted
sence. lit“ was I.m \e mul able and In Ju^t eleven m inute , and four minute«
tensely patriotic After his return later the British had boarded the
from the Hornet victory he wns pro American vessel and taken possession.
moted to a captaincy and was as A fifteen minute fight made Imperial*
signed to command th© .frigate Chesa able history!
peake, then lying In Boston hatbor for
Captain Broke, after bonrdlng tha
repairs. ’Lawrenco disliked this as Chesapeake, was struck down by a
■lgnihent and wrote Severn! letters to saber and almost killed. He never
the secretary of th6’ nnvy protesting fflHy «w sw unl, though ho lived nntll
against It, for the Cb©ttai>©uke .was 1811. I hi> Shannon lost twenty four
ship!”
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Depwty Stack Impactor
he was a prisoner of war at the time
has l>een publlsluxl far nnd wide. Both
these Impressions are erroneous. The
wording of the poem Itself proves that
the latter part of It was written at
least some mouths, after the event
which evoked the glorious uutlonal
lyric. Furthermore, the third stanzn
contains conclusive Internal evidence
that a good lawyer, such as Mr. Key
Is reputed to have l>een, dhl npt write
that part of th«« poetn, at any rate,
while he wits In the eiem y's custody.
During the conflict known In our his
tory as the war of 1S12, the year In
which It begfcn, the British ascended
the Potomac, occupied the city of
Washington, burned the nntlongl cnpl-
tol, destroyed most wantonly many of
our priceless documents and public
treasures and then retreated down to
salt water That was In the summer
of 1814. <»n their way back to their
ships the enemy captured and carried
away Dr William Benns, a prominent
cltleen of the town of Marlboro, Md.
Dr. Benns wns held a prisoner on
board one of the English, vessels In
Chesapeake bay.
Near the end of August a cltlxen of
Upper Marlboro. William West, called
at the office of Lawyer Key and en
gaged tho attorney to use his efforts
for the release of Dr. Beans. Key was
a young man of thirty-five, with n lu
crative practice and some little local
reputation as a w riter of verses. It
waa proposed that Key obtain the sanc
tion'of the American government to go
out aboard the flagship of the British
commander under a flag 0/ truee and
Intercede for the imprisoned doctor.
The lawyer obtained the necessary au
thority and started on Ills mission. Ho
got aboard the ship nt n critical time.
The British were preparing to bom
bard Fort McHenry. Key succeeded
In securing the release of D r. Ilenns,
but both he and the doctor were held
aboard ooe of the vessels until the
bombardment was over lest they re
veal the British plans.
Key watched the bombardment from
this highly Interesting vantage point—
A nd the rocket's red glare, tho bomb«
bu rsting In air,
proof through the night th a t fh«
flug waa ■tut there.
of children, whose descendants live in
Washington and other cities. Francis
Scott Key Smith, a grandson, is secre
tary of the Memorial association which
Is to restore tho “mansion.” ,
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The Fourth of July
For the World Republic.
B y J. A . E D G E R TO N .
V O IC E from the fu
ture Is calling
The world to dlvlnsr
estates.
A lig h t en the present
Is fa llin g
F ro m
tom »
fu lle r
s p le n d o r
th e »
w a lls —
lig h t like the glory
supernal
O 'er God's golden
s ta irw a y
th a t
stream ed
W h e n Jsoob. w ith
glimpses eternal.
In B ethlehem dreamed.
A promise Is heard In the nations,
A prophecy th rills through the earth,
Th at freedom brings new generations
O f equals and helpers to b irth ;
That each in the service of others,
Ily science mid wisdom's Increase,
Shall learn w h a t It means to be brothers
Th rough age» of peace.
On
a ll shall a new
day be risen.
W ith J u s t ic e the
sunshine thereof,
A nd m an shall go
fo rth
fro m
his
prison.
M ade free by the
angel o f Love.
The glow fro m these
dawns unbehold-
en
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O f happier eras to
he
F alla most w ith Its
refloence golden.
M y c o u n t r y , on
thee.
Then the poet-lawyer returned to the
home which nearly a century later
patriotic Americana propose to* rescue
from the low estate into which It has
fallen with the advance of the Capital
City. The little low office annei has
been used as an Italian fruit mid pea-
oat vender's stand. While the en«l walla
ef the residence Iteelf have been pro
faned with large, lurid and ludicrous
Utters sdrsrUsing cheap grocer!«« and
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U B B B T Y ’S
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à RAVE,
TRINITY
considered an unlucky craft an well
as a dishonored ono. *
Captain Philip B. V. Broke, a moat
gallant British officer, hud commanded
Shannon for nearly seven years.
M o s t o f his officers a n d m en had
uirrn.
xvxbt
biia c k lk is
BBOKKN.
B y thee Freedom 's word was first spoken.
T h y hand w rote the gospel o f m a x
U n til every shackle Is broken
T h y place shall be yet In the vain
Oo on till In union are blended
A ll nations and Isles of the sea.
T h y m is s io n shell
never be ended .
TU I a ll men a re free.
Oeva
LAWRENCE’S
The day of th y glad
Jubilations,
O f thins and of
L ib e rty 's birth,
■hall yet be observed
by the nations.
T ill h e a v e n shall
«corns on tha earth,
TUI a ll men w ith
luminous faose
Shall send up th e
reverent ory,
'Tie L ib e r ty 's day
for ell muse
The Fewthad Juki
aboard with him through tho greater
part of that -period. lie hud brought
hla ship to a tiptop condition for ef
fective sertlco and had drilled his sea
men and guuners so th at they were as
fine and fit as auy men who ever trod
deck timbers. On th© other hand, Cup-
tain lAwrence searesly knew ono of
hla own senmen by sig h t A number
of them were foreigners, and others
were American riffraff of humanity.
Captain Broke had been blockading
Boston harlxir with the Hhannon and
other vessels. In May, 1813, he deter
mined to bring alxHit a single ship
combat with tho Americans and prove
to hla country that British sailors still
knew how to fight. Tho Shannon her
self gnvo challenge to combat by standi
lng In the offing across tho bsy when
the sun rose bright and glorious on
the morning of the 1st day of June.
Bostonians
Lawrence's
has-
DOglUlllUlin witnessing
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tv Drenarntlons hustled themselv.'s into
W r 1
a __>
private boats to sull out and watch the
sea fight. The Ch«enpo*kw set soil at
noou and stood down tho bay. followed
at a cautious distance by tho pleasure
craft. Some of lAwreiice's sailors cele
brated the occasion of tho sailing by
getting drunk. Despite mutiny on tho
part of a porttoo of hto crew the herole
CHURCHYARD,
NEW
YORK.
men killed nnd fifty nine wounded,
while the Chesapeake’s loss was forty-
seven killed nnd ninety-nine wounded.
Fourteen of tho Chesapeake's wound
ed xuccumhetl
VU
nut LlllUlNBI n
«* little
IHWV later.
i C apialn la iw rc u c e s remark concern-
Htng the officers of tho deck would
ha\ e
made bad ho known that all
tho officers wero killetl or wounded.
When the British boarded the Cbeaa-
peako the only
officer l e f t on
deck was Third
L ieutenant Au
gustus CJ. Lud
low, - a y o u t h
scarcely twenty-
one years of age.
who was serving
as executive offi
cer and who took
command whoa
TUB CHESXrKAKC'e L a w ren co feU.
L u d l o w V »I
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twice w o u n d ed
by grape and musket balls and
hs
a fainting condition when the enemy
boarded. He died from his wound*.
Tho
Hhnnnon
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captivo Into Halifax harbor, end
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m w Lieu
txxliee of Captain Ixiwrence and
tenant Ludlow were burled In that
city. Later pennauent Interment wU«
mndo In Trinity churchyard. New
York, very close to Broadway, ad that
today Ute I nee rip t Iona 00 the tomb« ed
Lawrence and Ludlow may ho rep^kffi
tho Million« passing along th<K >«U 1
not
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