The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-07-19
The Late Benjamin Franklin.
BY MARE TWAIN.

| BY MARE TWAIN.
| Mover put off till tomorrow what vor .an =, T..
aiter tomorrow just as ueu-B FL .
This party was one of those whom they cal
pniLosoPners. he was twins, being born stimuli
taneously in two different houses in the city
OF Boston. These houses remain unto this
oay, and have signs upon them worded in ac.
;dos cG5aanGe S With the facts. The signs are con.
sidered well enough to have, though not neces.
sary, because the inhabitants point ont the two
birthplaces to the stranger anyhow and some.
times as often as several times in the same
I;Sy;. uay. me 5; sunJect OF the memoir was of q
VICIOUS disposition, and early prostituted his
| talents to the invention of maxims and apbor-
isms calculated to inflict suffering upon the
rising generations of all subsequent ages. The
| 10 thelr being held up for the emulation of
boys iorever-boys who otherwise might have
pee been mn happy: 1t was in this spirit he became
other son on ts"n"9oler and probably for
ooys who tried to be auything might be looked
upon with suspicion unless they were the sons
Oh soap. boilers. With malevolence which is
day and then sit up at ights and let on to be
studying algebra by the light of o smouideripe
.h, nhre, 30 that all other boys might have to do
thrown up to them. Not satisfied with tbasa
proceedings, he had q fashion of living wholly
on bread and water and studying astronomy
aSaotion ear umeSMn Sta; thing which has brought
fathers had read Frankln's pernicjons b;o1-
raghy. O-'s
Hi His %axims ma were full of animosity towards
single natural instinct without tumbling over
some OF those everlasting aphorisms. and hear
ing Il, from Franklin on the spot. II be buys two
GEMS ,e worth OF peanuts his father says, " Re-
memoer what Franklin has said my SON A
groat day ls-a penny year," and the com.
tort Is ali gone out of those peanuts. If he
IVA fath 10 Spin ms top when he is done work,
OF time" If he does a virtuous action he |
never gets anything for it, because " Virtue ia |
us 1a.oh own reward And that boy is bounded to
Reath ana ;, robbed OF his natural rest, because
lights of malignity-
Early to bed and early to rise,
Makes man healthy. wealthy and wise
As II 1T were any object to boy to be healthy,
sorrow that maxim has cost me through INV
parents experimenting on me with il. fonons
'Stpes toll The Legitimate result is my pres
mental alteration. My parents used to have
ne up before nine O'Clock in the mornino
,ea tai when was boy. If they had let
ne. me oHne . NY natural rest, where would have
peoted by all. N'u0'' ""u re-
AND what an adIoit old adventurer the sub
cot e OF TINS tn s. memoir was! In order to get
ang key on the string and let on to be- fish.
ng for lightning. And q guiieIess pubIio
nd nome chipping about the
anybody caught him playing "mum bie-neon
y himself, after the age of sixty, he wouid
~ appear to be ciphering out how I
iS SraSS II 1t was any Of his business
rankin was always fxed-always ready. IF r
ny body, during his old age happened on him =
'an;p @ when he was catching flies, or
DOR, he would Immediately look wise. and rim y
ne . maxim, and walk off with his nose in the a
= ran ana n MS cap turned wrong side before, and n
He VS. So SYpear ~ absent minded and eccentric.
RED Philadelphia for the frat time yith \,
'Sinng ia tee world but two shillings in his ~
~ ra,n Snu 1Snr rolls OF bread under his arm. 10 10
aiy' u was nothing. Anybody could nave s.
To the subject of this memoir beloDgs the " "
bows and arrows in plnoe of 6avonsts 81 =,
nskets. He observed, with his onstonarv ~ Il.
rSe' rec Jnat the bayonet was very well under -, a'
nnSI m0 SEIrSSumstanceS gu but he doubted whether 81
Sou!u S 10 used with accuracy at long range. %!
DenIsmln franklin did great many notable NJ
ingS Ter the country, and made her yorno fr
me- me TO 90 honored in many lands as the CO
% memoir to ignore that or cover il mn M. A,
simple idea of it is to snub those rreten'' -;
US maxlms OF his, which he worked up with ".
reSG snow OF originality out of truisms that n, =
become wearisome pfatitudes as enr,S' ~ MI
dispersion from Babel; and also to s1nb Eli
inspirations, his unseemly endeayor th'
make himself conspicuous when he entered lat
ladeiphia, and his flying his kite and fool an
AZ hcy o.H, ntS Enle IN SH sorts of such ways CIR
or constructing candles. merely desire so,
oo away with somewhat of the pTeyaIsnt Hii rrs,i
UNIQUE ideas among heads of families chat ~ ~
nknh KIM acquired his great genius by yyorlinC ten
nothing, studying by mooniIehf. and Sats spr
up In q, the night instead of waiting tiIl spe
nns ng Lea hEs Christian; and that this pro- Sta
~ s1.rI 90 lnhletSds win make Frank of
A'' AOoi' 40 is time these gen. cliD