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Show A Blishied Hope. Dr. FranUin w;w the greatest philosopher philoso-pher America has produced and one of the wisest men in practical matters, yet he made as bad a break as man coul l well make in disposing of his property b trill. Among other things he left a fund of $3,000 for young mechanics of tho city of Boston. It should" bo managed In a way directed by the doctor himself, and after its accumulations had reached a sufficient sum it was to be available for the benefit of j'oung apprentices who had faithfully served their time. But when the money reached by increase such a sum that it would do what Franklin Frank-lin calculated on, behold, the apprentice system was done away with almost altogether. alto-gether. Men worked in factories instead in-stead of serving apprenticeships, and machinery ma-chinery did what the human hand had done in tho days of Benjamin Franklin. The original $5,030 has increased to $3GS,741.12. Not knowing what to do wiih it the authorities &f Boston sought to make use of it to improve Franklin j park. The descendants of Franklin have, however, enjoined them from this, and claim the money for themselves on the ground that it has not been used according accord-ing to intent of the will Now the lawyers law-yers will gt most of it, and it will nol do anybody any good. The moral is that which Benjamin Franklin himself enforced 60 often: When you want a thing done, do it yourself. |
