Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1898 — WHAT FRANKLIN DID FOR US. [ARTICLE]

WHAT FRANKLIN DID FOR US.

Deep Debt for Many Good Deed* We k' u ' OWe to the Great Man. is Here Is a list of the good deeds of enjamin Mauldin. ,; ■ ■ s founded the Philadelphia library, the leader hi the field of hundreds oif others pf similar character. ' ' ■••••«* lie edited,the best newspaper In the colondea, and gave a start to the press of AmeMc&J i /ju- . ,V HC ekeinpilfled the value of advertising In modern business. ‘‘Poor. Richard” maxims were wit and that brought home valulable truths, to readers suph as they could understand and make of practical .•service.; , ~ . He established the postofllce system jof America.; It was he who caused Philadelphia to be paved, ahd kept clean. ! He Invented,...when fuel was scarce, the FrankHn stove, which economizes it; and made-afree gift of his Invention to. the piiblic, besides suggesting vari-, ous other heating Inventions, later on* In which -this, qountry Ipads all others. He was the remover of the once unb verbal nuisance—smoky chimneys. lie was the first effective promulgator of the gospel of vefitilatfon. r ' *>•'-•- He made important eleqtriCal discoveries, and, as is said, “robbed thunder of its terrors and lightning of its power to destroy.” Be was Instrumental in founding the first high school In Pennsylvania; he protested till his death against using funds of that institution In teaching youth the languages of Greece and Rome, when French, Spanish and German were so much more required In regular commercial transactions. He founded the American Philosophical Society, the first organization of the friends of science In this country. His aid >vas valuable In founding the Pennsylvania Hospital. He led that State in Its struggle of thirty years against the tyranny of the Penns. . ' » When the Indians were carrying on bloody marauding expeditions within eighty miles of Philadelphia he commanded and led the troops of the city . that were sent against them. He was the author of tha first scheme for uniting the colonies; his scheme contained many features that bind the States of the Union to-day. More than any other man he was instrumental iu causing the repeal of the stamp act, and more than any other man he educated the colonies up to independence. He discovered the temperature of the gulf stream, and that northwest storms began in the southwest. It was be who directed attention to the advantage of building ships In wa-ter-tight compartments, getting the Idea from the Chinese. In Paris he saved the alliance from being destroyed repeatedly, and brought the negotiations for peace to a successful 'close. • He labored for the abolition of slavery toward the close of hfs life, and lu aid of those emancipated.—Plants and People.