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Show THE BULLETIN The Answen 1. Yes. 2. There are more Indians In America today than there were in 1876, the year of the battle. New Book on Franklin Restores Him to His 'Grand Dimensions' I 3. According to genealogists the first Roosevelt to come to this e Biography of the country was Claes Martenzen van In Hit Roosevelt, in 1640. January 17, Carl Van Doren 4. Anyone married legally the second time. Claimed Him as One of Them" 5. The land mile is 5,280 feet; I the nautical mile is 6,080 feet, or 800 feet longer. WATSON SCOTT ELMO By 6. The Merchandise Mart contains 4,000,000 square feet. year's celebration 7. The vibrations set up In the the anniversary of air by whistles have been known Franklin ' s to do it. birth should have a greater 8. In the days of Salome and to his Cleopatra, women stained their significance than ever before. nails with henna. Under the social regime of the Chinese empire, Especially is this true if they fingernails worn several inches have read a biography of him long and covered with gold cases were a symbol of the aristocracy published recently. who did not have to work with Perhaps it would be more their hands. fitting to refer to it as THE 9. There is one at Murphrees-borA great many Ark. There are diamonds biography. been written have books elsewhere in the country, but dehim. about every covering of the territories has velopment not been considered worthwhile. period in his long and remark 10. Many of the bones of birds able career and dealing with are hollow, thus reducing their every phase of this "most weight and aiding them in their versatile American." But for flight. three-qu800-Pag- Famous American, Whose Birthday We Celebrate on "Rescues Him from the Dry, Prim People Wha Have and Tells What He Really "Did, Said, Thought and Felt." Western Newspaper Union. .. must ge 1704. The general outlines of Franklife story is a familiar one lin's ' Afflictions and Grace to most Americans. They know Extraordinary afflictions are of his in Boston, his work sometimes the trial of extraordi- as an boyhood apprentice printer in the nary grace. shop of his brother, James, and his start as a publisher, at the age of 17, when James incurred AT LAST! the displeasure of the authorities and young Ben 'had the task of THE TRUTH ABOUT getting out the New England for Coughs or Chest Colds Cou-ran- t. L0SIJ6FAT NEW YORIL N. Y. In a test by a N. Y. physician and nationally prominent known newspaper woman 25 women loat a total of 286 lbi. in 40 days. YOU. too, can follow this SAME. SENSIBLE plan right at home and hire it it: Pint of all go light on fatty meata and sweets. Eat plentifully of lean meata, fiah, fowl, fresh fruits and vegetables. And for functioning by removal of iccumu-te- a J roper wastes take a half teaspoon ful of Krusehen in hot water every morning. Kruachen DONT MISS A MORNING. ia made right here in U. S. A. from famous English formula. And this is Important! Kraschen la NOT harmful. It Is net last ano salt aa aeaae people If narantly believe. Balhsr It's a bland of active minerals, which when dissolved In water make a health-fmineral drink similar to highly eftee-tiSpa waters where wealthy women have gena far years. A Jar of Krnsehsn seats only a few eenta and laata weeks. So, fat ladies get some gumption MAKE TJP YOUR MIND YOU'LL STICK to the above Plan for 28 days and Just aea if yon don't lose fat and fed healthier and younger. Yon can get Krusehen at drug-gisi They are familiar with the story of his quarrel with his brother, his going to Philadelphia, there to walk down the street with a huge roll of bread under his 'arm and to be laughed at by pretty Deborah Read who later became his wife. Familiar, too, are the tales of his becoming foreman in the printing office of Samuel Keimer, his partnership with Hugh Meredith in publishing FBAN'KLIN IN LONDON From a portrait painted by David Martin ia London In owned by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. also interested in politics and public affairs that he served as clerk of the Pennsylvania assembly and afterwards as a member of it; that he established the postal system in this country; that he first planted the idea of a union of the colonies with his famous "Join or Die" snake cartoon; that he was indispensable to General Braddock in securing the waggoners necessary for hauling that leader's supplies on his disastrous expedition; that he went to England to represent the colonies in the dispute over the Stamp Act and thus started upon the career as a diplomat which was to bring him his greatest fame. And these are only a few of the activities of the "many-side-d Franklin" which have been made al va 1 ts everywhere. 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In the meantime his career as a philosopher had begun in his Richard's Almanac," "Poor which spread his fame throughout the colonies, and in his formation of the Junto, a club in which he and his fellows discussed all manner of philosophical questions. Science next attracted him and most familiar of all the stories about him is that which tells of his interest in Leyden jars. For that led to the famous incident of the kite, the silk handkerchief, the rainstorm and the charge of electricity which ran down the twine to the key tied on the end of it. Of course, Benjamin Franklin didn't "discover" electricity, but he dramatized it, and when he wrote monographs on his experiments Europe began to take notice of this American colonial. Americans know that he was familiar to his fellow-America- 1783 ns mainly through his "Autobiography," which he began writing in 1771. But according to Carl Van Doren, just because Franklin is best known from his "Autobiography," he is too little known. For, says this biographer, ". . .In that masterpiece of memory and honesty he dealt with his years as a rising tradesman and did not reach his more memorable years as imperial statesrevolutionary prophet, man, cosmopolitan diplomatist, scientist, wit, moralist, sage. He never found time to carry out the history of himself as he intended. But the materials which he would have used still exist, scattered in journals, letters; and miscellaneous writings through his manuscripts and his collected and uncollected works." So Mr. Van Doren set himself to the task of drawing these materials together and arranging them "in something like the order he might have given them. Nor are they mere raw notes for 1761 and now a book. He seldom wrote a line without some characteristic touch of wit and grace. Most of these materials need no rewriting to make them match the unfinished story they continue." Although the biographer thus makes his task sound simple, the fact is that it was a monumental one. More than 10 years have elapsed between the time he started this biography and its completion. The very abundance of the new material which his research unearthed added to his difficulties, since it led to the temptation to let his book run beyond a readable length. However, the completed biography of more than 800 pages, "full as it is, is a biography cut with hard labour to the bone." Not the least of the interest and value of the book is the new material which the biographer mentions. Concerning it, he says in the preface: "Here first in any Franklin biography appear (in part) his 'elegy,' recently discovered and apparently his earliest writing that has survived; information about James Franklin's New England Courant based on the file kept, almost certainly, by Benjamin Franklin; an analysis of the hundreds of sayings of Poor Richard which Franklin left out of 'The Way to Wealth,' thereby much narrowing his reputation as a maker and sharpener of adages; various details of his business, 'domestic life, and personal expenditures taken from manuscript account books and advertisements in the Pennsylvania Gazette; a more exact discussion than has thitherto been printed of his surreptitious writings and of his 'Reflections on Courtship and Marriage'; a critical examg ination of the episode; the narrative of Franklin's first diplomatic mission, to the chiefs of the Ohio Indians at Carlisle; the lifelong story of his affectionate friendship with Catherine Ray, with unpublished letters from her; his campaign as a soldier, known in full only to readers of a single monograph; his record in Pennsylvania politics as shown in the executive and legislative journals of the province; the insurance company's description of his house in Philadelphia; an unpublished manuscript in which he outlined his programme of opposition to the Stamp Act; a note on his meet- -' ing with Baron Munchausen and Raspe his chronicler; a circumstantial account of the Grand Ohio company from which Franklin hoped to make a fortune in land speculation; his acquaintance with James Eos well; two fables by Franklin published in 1770 but lost sight of Until 1936; a comparison of two versions of Wedderburn's attack on Franklin, one as printed by the British government and one as remembered by Franklin's friends; the neglected record of his activities as chairman of the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety; an unpublished letter to General Schuyler written during the mission to Canada; an accurate report of the conference with General Howe given directly from the minutes; the amazing melodrama of the British spies who surrounded Franklin in Paris; new translations of three of his Passy bagatelles, written by him, so far as is known, only in French." kite-flyin- r fed like meal hut fed to bnnr eslvea 11 like milk. In six weeks milk feedine period. Security Calf Food will coat yon just 5 as much as whole milk. Save your whole milk or cream, and veal or raise all of your carves with Security Calf Food. Soidendiveonwiended by cotidrnsrxics,Gieeiu erase, cheese factories and dealers everywheoe. Write for testimonials. , Turtle Coast Most of the giant turtles that go into American turtle soup come from the east coast of Nicaragua. ..." d full-leng- th CREOMULSIOH his ability as a "maker and sharpener of adages," such as those which he put in his "Poor Richard's Almanac," the fact is that his writing career started with a poem! It was an "Elegy on My Sister Franklin" which, Van Doren says, was "only recently discovered and is now first mentioned in a Franklin biography. The precise date of the elegy is still uncertain, as is the name of the sister-in-lawhose death called it forth The text of the elegy, as given in Van Doren's book, follows: Flow from the worthiest of the female Race . . . Slater I O my My dear my much-loveFriend We in this World on nothing may depend: For soon as we esteem ourselves put seat Of every needful Thine to make us blest Some Friend's Demise (like hers we now lament) Casual Mischance, or tragical Event Like an Intrudent Guest will intervene Frustrate our liopes and mar our blissful Scene. How weak I how vain I bow void all mundane Joys A Medley fraught with Nonsense. Shew and Noise O what is Life which we so high esteem A Bubble, Vapous, Shadow. Fleeting Dream From sordid Dust wo sprang A surely ar YOOLTO0, SHOULD TRY best De-cea- o. 800-pa- is Warm from my Breast surcharged with Grief ft Woe These melancholy Strains spontaneous flow Flow from fav'rite Sister'i sad ns the first time in ters of a century a biographer has undertaken to bring the whole of his life, with all the necessary details, into a single narrative long enough to do it justice. The biographer who has done this is Carl Van Doren and his volume, published recently by the Viking Press of New York, is undoubtedly the "last word,", the final portrait of the man who was born 235 years ago on January 17, Franklin w THIS fellow-America- Although AROUND known for his prose writings, for Or soon or late return to native Dust What mortal Man even in his best Eatatc AU Vanity. Pride. Folly and Deceit Crowns have their Thorns and Opulence its Bane And all our Pleasures their Alloy of Pain All the Vicissitudes of Life declare Uncertainty alone is certain here . . . No sublunary Blessings long endure And from Death's Clutches nought can us ensure Who o'er ail Flesh maintains a sovereign Sway And Millions fall his Victims every Day Nor Worth. Wit. Beauty. Wealth or Power can free From rigid Fate's immutable Decree . . . Else might this worthy Saint whose way ward Fate We now deplore have claimed longer Date Of circling Years her Kin to serve and bless Enjoy her Friends and Life's good Things do And tho humbly trust our Friend deceas'd Is wafted to the Saints eternal Rest Yet her sad Exit maugre my Resolves In Woe's profound Abyss my soul involves With Sighs A Groans my lab'ring Bosom swells And down my cheeks Griefs mournful Stream Impels May Heaven forgive me if I ought offend Whilst thus I mourn my dear departed :aTnr 4 xrr.TTcr Fringed Celery. Celery looks much more attractive on the table when fringed. To fringe,, cut celery into two inch lengths. Fringe each stalk within a quarter of an inch from the center. Put into ice water to which a slice of lemon has been added and let stand until ends are curled. Baking Potatoes. Potatoes will bake more quickly if, after peeling, they are wiped dry and smeared over with dripping before being put in the oven. Cleaning Tapestry. 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After reading young Ben's first literary effort (it was probably written when he was 17 or 18 years old), one can't help being grateful that he decided in favor of prose I e e In explaining why he has gone into such detail in this biography, Mr. Van Doren says it is because "Franklin led a detailed life which in a general narrative loses colour and savour. But the chief aim of the book has been to restore to Franklin, so often remembered piecemeal in this or that of his diverse aspects, his magnificent central unity as a great and wise man moving through great and troubling events. No effort has been made to cut his nature to fit any simple scheme of what a good man ought to be. "Here, as truly as it has been possible to find out, is what Franklin did, said, thought, and felt. Perhaps these things may help to rescue him from the dry, prim people who have claimed him as one of them. They praise his thrift. But he himself admitted that he could never learn frugality, and he practiced it no longer than his poverty forced him to. They praise his prudence. But at seventy he became a leader of a revolution and throughout his life he ran bold risks. They praise him for being a plain man. Hardly another man of affairs has ever been more devoted than Franklin to the pleasant graces. "The dry, prim people seem to regard him as a treasure shut up in a savings bank to which they have the lawful key. I herewith give him back, in his grand dimensions, to his nation and the world." ds MILK OF MAGNESIA PHILLIPS' IN LIQUID 01 TAILET FORM Natural Friendship "There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love." Hazlitt. rellevea COLDS ley. first Headaches LIQUID. TABLETS SALVE, NOSE DROPS try "KaMfy-TiaaV-- a and Fever tee U CeMa aalnataa. Weaderfnl LUlateaf la SS Dont Neglect Then I Nature designed the kidneys to do marraioua Job. 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