The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-05-18
The Late Ieniamin franklin.
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This. party vas one: of ehoso persons
whom they call philosophers He was
born twins. being born simultaneously in
two different houses in eicity of Bos-
ton. These. houses remain unto this
day, and have signs upon them worded
in accordance with the facts. The signs
are considered we'll enough to have,
though not necessary, because the in
habitan.s point out the two birthplaces
to tho stranger anyhow, and sometimes
as often as several times ia the same
day The subject of this memoir was OF
a vicious disposition, and carly prostitu-
ted his talents to the invention of max.
inns and nphorisms calculated to inf1iot
suffering upon the rising generation of
all subsequent ages. His simplest acts.
also, were contrived with sview to their
being held up for the emEistion of boys
foreverAboys who might otherwise have
been happy. It was in this spirit
that he became the son Of soap-boiler,
and, probably, for no other reason than
that :he efforts of all future boys who
tried to be anything might be looked
upon with suspicion unless they were
the sons of soap boilers. With a malev-
olence which is without parallel in his
tory. he would work all day, and then
sit up nights, and let on to be studying
algebra by the light of a smouldcring fire
so that all the boys might have to do
that also, or else have Benjamin Frank
lin thrown upon them. Not satisfied
with these proceedings, he had fashion
OF living wholly on bread and wactr,
and studying astronomy at meal. time-a
thing which has brought affliction to
millions Of boys since, whose fathers had
read Franklin's pernieions biography.
His maxims were iull OF animosity
toward boys Nowadays boy canuo'
follow out single patur.isS ,s,stinct with
out tumliins over some SI those s,5ver-.
lasting aphorisms, and hearing from
Franklin on the spot. If he buys two
cents worth of pee-uuts his father says,
Remember what Franklin has said, my
son-'A grout day is penny year."
and the comfort is all gone out Of those
peanuts. 1t lie wants to spin his top
when hr is done work, his iuthcr quotes.
"procrastination is the chief of time"
Ii he docs virtuous action, lie never
gets anything for il, because virtue is
its own reward" And that boy is
bounded to death, and robbed of his
natural rest, because Franklin said once
in one Of his inspired flights If malig-
nifty
Early to bed and carly to rise,
Make man healthy, wealthy and wise"
AS it it were any object to boy to be
healthy. and wealthy, and wise, on such
terms The sorrow that that maxim has
cost Inc, through my parents experiment
ing me with it, tongue can not tell. The
Legitimate result is my present state OF
general debility, indigence, and mental
alteration. My parents used to have
me up before nine o'clock in the morn
ing, sometimes, when was boy. If
they had let me take my natural rest
where would have been now? Keen.
ing store, no doubt, and respected by
all
And What All adroit old advcnturer
the subject of this memoir was In Or
der to get chance to fly his kite on
sunday; lie uscu TO hang key on the
string, ard let on to be fishing by light
Mig, md a guilelcss public would go
home chirping about the wisdom" and
the "gclius" of the hoary Sabbath.
breaker. He invented stove that
would smoke your head off in five hours
by the clock. X He was ulwn,s
proud of telling how ne entered PhiIa
delphia for the first time with nothing
in the world but two shillings in his
pocket aud four rolls of bread under his
arm. But really, when you come to
examine it critically, it was nothing.
Any body could have done it.
Bemjamiu Frauklm did g at many
notable things for his country, and made
her yopng name to be houored in many
lands az the mother of such sou. 1t
is not the idea Of this memoir to iguore
that OF cover it up. No; the simple
idea of it is to snub those prcteutious
hiazino oi ms, which he worked up