The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-28
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channel. / have Il double task now.
1 must secure the happiness Of Amer
ica and Of Jack Irons"
He read the DISPATCHES and then the
doctor and the young man set out In
a coach for the palace of Vergennes,
the prime minister. Colonel Irons
was filed with establishment at the
tokens OF veneratiOn gOr the white
haired man which he witnessed in he
streets Of Paris.
"The person Of the king could not
have attracted more respectful ntten-
tfOn." he writes. "A crowd gathered
about the coach when we were leaving
It and every man stood with uncOy-
cred head as we passed on OuF way t0
the palace door. In the crowd there
was much whispered praise OF lie
( grand savant.' I did not understand
this until / met, In the once OF the
| Compile de Yergennes, the eloquent
Senator Gabriel HenOre RfQuetti de
Mlrabeau. What an impressive nRmei
Yet I think he deserves Il. He has the
eye Of Mars and the hair Of Samson
and the tongue OF an angel, I am told.
In our talk, I assured him that in
Philadelphia Franklin came and went
and was less observed than the town
crier.
"BUt yonr people seem to adore
him. l said.
GAS il he were q gOd,' MiFaheRu q
swered. Yes, it is true and it Is right.
Has he not, like Jeye, hurled the
lightning OF Heaven in his right hand?
IS he not an unpublished P~FOmetheus7
Is he o breaking the scepter Of a
tyrantY
"GOlng back TO his home where in
the kindness of his heart he had asked
me to live, he %endeavOred. mOdestly,
to explain the evidences Of high regard
which were being shOwered upon him.
eft happens that my understanding
and small control Of a mysterious and
violent force Of nature has appealed
to the ~imaginatiOns Of these people,
he said. 4 am the only man who has
used ~thunderbOlts for his playthings.
Then, too. 1 am speaking for u new
world to an old one. Just at present
I am the voice of Human Liberty. I
represent the hunger of the spirit OF
man. It Is vary strong here. You have
not travelled so far in France without
seeing thousands Of beggars. They are
{ everywhere. But you do not know that
when a child comes IN a poor family,
d the father and mother go to prison
pour mOis de nOurrice. It is n pity
II that the poor cannot keep their chill
J. dren at home. This old kingdom Is a
muttering vesuvius, growing hotter
y year by year, with discomfort. You
> will presently hear its voices"
There was il dinner that evening at
\ FTanklin's house. at which the Marquis
de Mirabeau, NJ. Turgot, the Madame
de Brillon, the Able Raynal. and the
Compile and COmptesse d. HaudetOt,
Colonel Irons and three other Ameri-
- can gentlemen were present. The
Madame tie BrillOn was first to ar
49, rive. She entered with a careless,
jaunty air and ran to meet Franklin
81 and caught his hand and gave him
70 double kiss On each cheek and n on
his forehead and called him papa"
A table she sat between me anC
Doctor Franklin" Jack writes. "ShC
frequently locked her hand in the doc
tors and smiled sweetly as she looked
into his eyes. l wonder what the poor
simple, Woodworking Deborah Frank
lin would have thought of these IA
miliaritieS. Yet here, / am told, n
one thinks i'll OF that kind OF thing
The best women Of France seem t
treat their favOrites with like token
- $500 ~. II 49, - 49,
her arms across the backs Of on
CHAIRS. as il she would have US fee
that her affection was wide enOugl
for both.
"She assured me that all the wOme,
Of France were In love with le gran
savant.
Franklin. hearing the compliment
remarked: Tt * because they pit
my age and inirmities. First we pit!
then embrace, as the great Mr.. Pop
has written
1--WE think 1t a compliment ths
the greatest intellect in the world
willing to allow itself to be, In a wa,
captured by the charms Of womeI
q Madame BrillOn declared.
"AS the dinner proceeded the Abb
Raynal asked the doctor if it was trU
that there were signs Of degeneraC
in the average male American.
"'Let the facts before us be my a
swer,' said Franklin. There are
this table four Frenchmen and FOL
Americans. Let these gentlemen stan
up
tel "The Frenchmen were undersize
hat the Abbe himself being 4 mere shrin
n Of Il man. The Americans, Carmichau
Wild Hammer, HUMPHREYS and myself, we
ers big men, the shortest being six fe
The tall. The contrast raised a laui
among the ladies. Then said Frank
md. in his kindnest tones:
) to "'My dear Able, / am aware h
leer manhood is not a matter Of feet al