| Show f Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Franklin lif The Most Eminent Bostonian Known to His i ANY clUNI In the tho lilted States are now engaged 1 In making preparations for tho I celebration on Jan C G 1906 1006 of the two hun hUll hundredth M anniversary of oC tei the birth of ot an Ameri Amerl American can call who figured moio prominently In III 4 fW tho building of o the republic than any other othel man nave iYe Washington Dr Hen Ben Franklin born In lonton Jon 6 i The t and t brilliant biography ever written of him contain contained ed d only live Iho Latin words coslo cIullo ulm n l Ho the lightning from the ill and Inti the from tyrun t Is about tho best lIest that can be done for tor It in lIsh No 0 loftier or more com tribute has hus been accorded any man and no one has hOIl over ever risen to I controvert lt truthfulness ha every reason to bo he gmt ful to Ur and to hold his mime In perpetual veneration He 0 en In enlarged larKed the tha Hoope of or human knowledge by h revealing of or nature never before und by hr applying tho results to II the tho o ot man That alono one Would him to lo eternal fame allie Hut wae wa only ono manifestation of o othis this many man genius nil all this and Infinitely more thrill than this thili ho stands second only to Washington In I I that heroic list of or those who stood tood for COI those thoo fundamental principles of oC liberty which culminated In the foundation of the tha American republic Franklin wan wo born a n subject In the year cur I famous by b tho winning of or the Inane of o by b tho Duke Duko of or u 11 time limo when every eT Now Nol was proud of being I ruled by b Queen Anne Kven at that tender r nod and Irresponsible ago he must t have excited the Iho admiration of those who like President were not Ilot convert to the theory ha h wan the child two moro following him The father of or thello seventeen young ung colonists was n 11 of or who had come to 10 tho new world with the tho expectation of ot working at lit bl trade of dyer but wax no opportunity In III Huston then a ll village of or Inhabitants he hI adopted the Iho of or tallow chandler and soap holler Franklin could not remember when ho he hud hilt learned to read r but bul ho never lIever forgot that ho he hall had attended the thu Boston Doston Grammar school chool two years and that ho he bud never gone to school elsewhere ol Ho appreciative was Willi he of those brief two years yar of II school chool lire life that ho he willed tho sum of ot GOO to provide diver medals for Co I distribution to deserving pupils of ot tho Boston public schools Tho Those Franklin medals aro 1110 still a II feature of ot the free e schools and It Is re regarded ns OK a U uncial stroke of or good for fortune tune to be bl given glnn one How lIow did this lad lut without a 11 moment of or tuition after orter he was Willi ten years of are ago come to be he the most famous Ameri Amerl American can of or Ids day Ila It II was by the marvelous combination of or force Intel Intellect lect character self discipline Indus Industry try tt and mother wit ever eer assembled In n single Individual His HI of ot common amounted to II positive genius Ho a II pound In n sound body hOlt and ho was Ins apparently tireless All this must have been tho lads equipment when at nt tho age of ot often ottell ten tell Ids his father bade him put his book and see what ho could do at minding tho soap wal and cutting wicks This he did uncomplainingly for years and then revolted At the tho ago of thirteen ho was waK apprenticed to his brother who was a printer and pub I of the Nel J Courant ono of or the tho earliest papers on the American continent U 11 was thus that the print printIng printIng Ing became bin school chool anti and his hll university It probably did II rt for him In days ItaH than Harvard or even n Oxford could have han done Ho 10 hud bad u 1 1 Si r STATUE IN FRONT OF POST Xi W ww Gi OF FRANKLIN FRANKLINS BIRTHPLACE PHILADELPHIA 1 I BOSTON cou and Insatiate thirst for knowledge which could have hlll been pro propitiated In no other manner than by a n study of oC men as well 1 1108 na hooks books Ho He Horend rend every oVer hoot book that ho could obtain nIl and WaS willing to listen to 10 any ono who had any Information to Impart He Ie roon toon learned the art of oC printing na It was WIlS known In III those l began hegan to try liT his hi bund nt ot writing At t the ago ngo of or sixteen ho W I furnishing for tho Iho Courant his brother being under nn Interdict for or criticising the authorities ties tle His brother was an nn person for tor an II soon as he free rree ho banished from tho thi editorial sanctum Ind resumed Ids his own blunder blunderIng Ing pen Young Franklin revolted again This time be he shook hoole tho tIO dust of Eng land from Crom hili feet and landed In Phila Philadelphia delphia with a 3 dollar In his pocket t He Ie was used med to and did not worry over OCI It Ho Ile soon oon found good em nt and worked diligently until the governor of or tho province ent him to Ix on n 1 matter of ot business which turned out to be b an utter ullI failure Work wa easy to obtain In Englund and bo hI at al It eighteen months then I falling desperately III On hili re recovery reco covery co v C ho he returned to the Quaker City I and for fOI twenty t years followed the printing business s with diligence In a n raw few years bo h became n 1 person of Importance not only In Philadelphia hut but throughout the thirteen colonies Two 1110 literary ventures In which he III had engaged extended fW his reputation wry widely Ho lit purchased tho Pennsyl yI vania when It II was on the vergo of or bankruptcy and und r his t It tho best ho t paper In n IIla III Poor 1001 Richard he ho started when ho ht was twentysix 11 continued to tn publish until li va IH a t gave him an nil International r pu und tho source of oC profit Ily II the time he ho life he was Willi the Iho best hest known und in t Important man In th s sAt At this time lime Franklin It nt 1 use S Sh ly h loyal Hr II bad i na excellent for rol the th horn UI rl ment and he h wan Willi well anti and 1 ty known In England l In the Ihn war VI ui I l st t tho French and Indians he huU I 1 very ery oct IC and hull had been ho 1 I n I h the doctorate by b both huth Oxford ami UI 1 L i burgh Ho 10 visited Great Oreal ui feted and lionized by V cf C note He remained abroad sv ral rj and had serious thought of I P liU Ing III tho remainder rf of or his lire life la 11 Hla Is scientific discoveries mud 1 1 him more prominent hi III It I than Ihm he ho had ever been In t which hal had not 1101 yet learned hov ho to 10 1 predate him His III fellow Inow rs WT quite lullu ready to admit his b LUSH l ui J political sagacity but they Ih w 1 i rt Ic not so certain of or his bin preside When tho stamp act Bt was urt sug Franklin was 1111 sent to to nip 1111 It In the hud bud He III did dl very thing he could to prevent Ir n lit It II even CWI evenIng g gIng Ing before a committee of or the hew of commons to combat It This him bad hn friends with the th vho ho manifested his displeasure by hgr hI a n sudden unbelief In the electric discoveries This was IS Franklins vulnerable point und un 1 it II cut him to the quick Still he hI bore bol It In 11 silence and In London as tho Iho advocate of oC the tho cans of o the until the rupture was Inevitable Then Theil he hI resolved to cast ea t In his lot Int Hh h countrymen and landed I at two wok I after afler tho battle of oC Lexing Lexington ton THUMAN L J ErTY |
