The Penn's Grove record., 1897-08-13
BENJAMIN F~nANKIry.
The Printer, Inventor, Statesman and
Patriot.

Inc regular monthly business meet
ing OF Emmanuel Chapter Epwortl
League met at Parker Locke's on Tues
day evening. After the regular bus
mess q literary treat was given by tbt
Literary Society which has been organ.
lied in the League with Miss AbDie L.
Kidd, President; Miss Lou Thompson,
Vice President; Mrs. Margaret Fish,
Secretary; Harlow Rogers, Treasurer
The object is TO formulate a course d
reading and make the result a literary
entertainment ut each business meet
ing. The course for the ensuing year
will be Eminent Americans.
The first chosen was Benjamin Frank.
lin. When the roll was called many
membsrs responded with proverbs from
Poor Richards Almanac, which wat
written and published BY Mr.. Franklin.
Interesting papers on Franklin, the
boy, the printer, the patriot, the patri-
OF, The inventor aud the Philadelphia
were read by Harlow Rogers, Eta
SPARKS, Lizzie Stanton, Lidie Edwards
and Hannah Thompson, from which
we CLEAN the following:
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
the youngest of a family of seventeen
children, was born in I706, in Boston.
lie learned to read when quite young
and only went To school two years. at
III years Of age he had to help his faith
er boil soap aud make tallow caudles,
tend shop and run efrands. AS he be-
came fond of reading and books he was
apprenticed TO his older brother James,
who was a printer.
As a printer he learned fast and be-
gan writing by putting anonymous art
icles under the printing Office door,
which bis brother Published. When
his brother James was imprisoned for
printing something that offended the
Government benjamin ran the paper.
The brothers quarreled, Ben left, and
ran away to Philadelphia where he land
ed with but adollar and soon got work
in a printing office.
The Governor sent him TO London TO
buy a printing outfit, promising tosend
money and letters of introduction, but
as they failed to arrive he had to work
at bis trade in order TO get back home.
On his return he started a newspaper.
Some people thought he spoke his opinf
ions too freely n when they called to
stop their paper he invited tlemrtY his
supper OF cora meal mush aid colq WA
ter which was called ''saw.dusg pud-
ding" aud YRS only eaten by tile very
poor. The guests could not eaS it, SO
after FrahAlm flushed his meaa he said
My Ifiehda, any u who cam live on
saw dus, pudding and cold water as 1
can, does not need much help from 9TH
ers." After that no one complained TO
him about his paper.
In 1870 he began publishing ttPoor
Richards Almanac" which was quite
as popular in Earope as America. lis
common sense proverbs are household
words to this day, Retiring from( bus
mess with ii fine fortune he devoted
himself to science.
Not only was he II great reader and q
literary man but a great invehtor. He
first discovered that electricity and
Lightning we're the same thing, fby The
means OF a-silk kite aud string with q
pointed wire 5EqrstiaaeSarss sssus Il
Thunder stoIll. the string va z 10
a posi- aad when he put his kisai3 to
a key Oh the string he sceiatlMz Ks.
lie invented Lightning rods even rst
was erected OH his house Sss e H22s eli
phia. He invented a small re-
place 10 save heat and fuel / *xhb
lislled the first public llDgaIA &,la-
delphia, the first in AND Il Il Il
high school which has de ~ hto
the University Of PennsY Be-
cause of his discoveries anj ons
in science the University An.
drews, The oldest college nd,
conferred the degree of ID hill
osophy OH him. ia
lie helped raiae troops ce pch
and LBdian war. When 4 amp
act vas passed by Partial was
in England and told tleI The
~colunis,s could not pay it 3fess le1e