, 1923-01-25

mucu o b public. Con-
WINGED that he knew how to write.
the boy told his brother of the little
deception. hoping to be made a reg
ulaf contributor. The brother, how
ever, was . crusty sort Of q chan
and manifested disgust instead of
appreciation. Some time later when
James was imprisoned on account of
printing indiscreet articles in his pa
per. ne was glad enough to let Ben
write anything he pleased and to as
sumo the proprietorship so that he
could be released. The jail door was
opened only upon condition that he
! would no longer print the New Eng
land Courant.
1t o developed that Jim and
Ben could not agree. Every now and
then Ben received a sound trouncine
at the hands of his big brother, I'm
willing to stand such treatment he
went to New York and sought work.
Finding none. he took passage on
a sailboat to Amboy. N. j., and walk
ed from there to Burlington, N. j..
and then by boat down the Della
ware River to Philadelphia, where
he arrived on Sunday morning, dusty
and weary, with a Dutch collar and
q shillfng's worth of copper in his
jeans. He bought some rolls and ate
them ~ he slowly strolled up the
street past the residence of a girl
named Deborah Read. who laughed
at his ungainliness, and dining in
the street. Some years later he
got even by marrying her. The bow
was dog tired and entered a Quaker
meeting house to get a little rest, and
hear the word Of God. Within a few
minutes he was snoring beautifully.
Brother Jim Still Sore
He got a Job with a printer named
keimer, n secured a room at the ,
nome Of Mr.. Read, father of the girl
VINO had laughed at him. He made a
hit as a printer right from the word
go, attracting the attention Sir Will
liam Keith, governor of Pennsyl-
vania who urged him to enter BUSH
ness on his own hook, Offering the
public printing in case he should do
This sounded mighty good to
the runaway boy. After an absence ,
OF seven months he returned home
to seek funds in setting up a press in
Brother Jim was still
sore and failed to extend the glad
hand OF welcome. The father gave
him a kindly welcome, but NO coin,
gently arguing that a boy of 18 was
tit to manage a business. He
made no objection to the boy re-
to Philadelphia, and indi-
Gated hat aid might be forthcoming
in case he behaved industriously and
frugally until he was 81.
Upon returning to Philadelphia
Governor Keith told Franklin to 70
to London and buy a press and type.
Fully confident hat the ships mail
letters Of introduction and
q letter Of credit, the boy sailed for
the great city of London. On reach
ing England he found that Keith
had. to use plain English, lied to
him. He was dead broke and very
in love. Before sailing he had
prevailed upon the fair Miss Read to
accompany him to the altar when he
returned. He went to work Al a
1ourneyman printer. and wrote the
girl about his troubles, saying It
would be . long time before he could
get back to the city Of brotherly
love. His work. and the wonderful
sights and doings of London, kept
him 30 busy and took up so much Of
his time that he failed to write to his
girl after the first letter. Thinking
that he had forgotten her she drown
ed her sorrow by marrying q worth
less. chap. who treated her pretty
rough. and then ran away to the
West Indies where. to his credit, he
had the decency to shuttle off.
Franklin succeeded in getting back
to Philadelphia in 1926. After
three years OF ups and downs he be-
came firmly established in the print
ing business. and became editor and
proprietor OF the Pennsylvania Gax-
cite. His clever articles soon made
II popular and brought him in a con-
siderable income.
His Marrying to Deborah
There was little difficulty in re-