Show r ort Ioa Ignorance has represented John n g hut 1 Jones in the guise of a Scots ea i rIelt las who turned traitor for gain rlcatj inrl Irtereas he was an American colonist I sar that t 1 I lib fought for his country says an English writer He was no more of table h traitor than Washington or the MM IfcJf Intel farmers of Lexington albeit It Etfj fell to him to invade tho coasts of I Britain and harass our shipping at + roi IIi pUrsttad of fighting on land In New lot England Kmersons hymn sung at rD Ilms the unveiling of the Concord monument mbe monu-ment to the embattled farmers who In i 1775 fired round irnedl tho shot heard fnril the world settled the problem for outfit tit ill vlHj nJfl e r k ItbH b1 eA eat ° tier an Isl rdlc t UU d4 Y 5 M N k n 1 18 arhtr 23 Ish I t k tee N AS µ liF S ton uw irtAofac9 of John Pai fend of tho correct attitude on both f idea toward tho actors in that old drama of liberation f3 Alike The rw illig xlncu In MllPiici slept UK cumimior Hlleiit sleeps b look John Paul for It wns only later he e h eat the namo Jones was the young tkBii child ° r the humble gardener to 51 lion It Oralk of Arblgland In the titi i parish N Ihlre of Klrkbean Kirkcudbright j Scotland Born there on July de 1 tIed 7n In a very small cottage situ to this tW cho miles distant from Dum the toward Galloway In the west In Shelter o paces ot a wood > and hut n few from tho rocks that throw a I CoM and gray frInge upon Solwuys fleet the long wdrawing tides ho was 1l ° l tn youngest lmlrn In a family of soy ctp7r ° r whom In tho of f hauls appear too story Vlrt88udes Tho gardener rl tad i bore Ygralp1 thither from Iclth ri his father hall kept a market carden i wIth an Inn iiMachcd jiy tra HOME OF JOHN PAUL JONES 4Ati I t J r4 1 SAF r 11 q 16 V yL 4 s M1 f a ° k6a culr ° Pm J fathi5r y s y i b + LI o d flv k mFfA d i r w it Jones in ffrafatic ditlou Scottish gardeners are noted for Intelligence and this John Iaur I hest His artistry in was one of tho landscape gardening and arboriculture is still In evidence at Arblgland John Paul the youruer was Just leaving school In 1709 when a blast o Janwor win blow hansel In on nobln In Paul Jones as In Burns weremix the Colt and the Lowhrder wro Burns father was of Highland ed the mother of descent but It was Paul Jones who gave him his pug his astounding In naclty and pride I repldltv his unquenchable fire of endurance I durance Ills father bad married one daughter of a farmer Macduff Jean neigh Jrom settled In tho from Argyllshire boring parish of New Abbey was naval hero FIt cradle for this solltudo hlxu romantic Arblglnnda rlunt In vegetation swept byways the Sol with the Crlffel range breezes ways Saddle or hills behind and Skiddaw buck In clear weather even Helvellyn seen across thirty miles of variable sea tho limits of St Bees Head ands Whltehnvcn marking the opposite line of coast and alluring the Imaginative iniulslvc daring boy out upon a wider world Around his birthplace now other memories of genius linger Burns was a visitor at Aiblgland where no met Mrs Basil Montague When at the chisel thereabouts Allan Cunningham discovered his Lass of Preston Mill Carlyle who was familiar with the picturesque pic-turesque Solway shore and had perfect per-fect Insight of Pauls environment In childhood describes with characteristic characteris-tic pathos tho Imputed backward look of he hero during his embittered last years In Paris Not now poor Paul thou lookust wistful over tho Solway brine b > the foot of native Crlffel Into the blue mountainous Cumber land Into the blue Infinitude environed environ-ed with thrift with humble friendliness friendli-ness thyself oung fool longing to bo aloft from It or oven away from It rue cottage where tho Paul family lived Is at present occupied by George Faulkner gamekeeper Near by Is tho grave of the heros father which bears tho following Inscription I In Memory of John Paul Senior who died nt Arblgland the 24 of October 1767 Unlversenly I Esteemed Erected by John Paul Juneor t |