Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . dili-gence, persuaded him to go to Eng-land, to purchase materials for apress, on his own account. Thiswas in 1725, but he found he wasthe bearer of no letters that wouldaid him, and he was accordinglyobliged to work at his trade. Hereturned to Philadelphia, where,in a short time, he entered intobusiness with one Meredith, andabout 1728, began a newspaper in which he inserted many of his moralessays, and advice about saving money. He published Poor Richards Almanac which is well
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . dili-gence, persuaded him to go to Eng-land, to purchase materials for apress, on his own account. Thiswas in 1725, but he found he wasthe bearer of no letters that wouldaid him, and he was accordinglyobliged to work at his trade. Hereturned to Philadelphia, where,in a short time, he entered intobusiness with one Meredith, andabout 1728, began a newspaper in which he inserted many of his moralessays, and advice about saving money. He published Poor Richards Almanac which is well known. It hasa great many wise and pithy sayings, that has always been regarded asexcellent advice for everybody. At the age of twenty-seven, lie began thestudy of modem and classical lansjuao-es. He founded the University of Pennsylvania and the American Philo-sophical Society, and invented the Franklin stove, which held a placefor a long time among the variety of modem inventions of a similar 1746 he made his experiments on electricity and applied his discoveriesto the invention of the lightning franklins birthplace. BENJAMIN I^RANKLIN. 77 The story is told of him that he went into the fields on the outskirtsof Philadelphia during a thunder storm, sent up a kite that had a wireattached to it, and in this way drew lightning from the clouds. This ledhim to conclude that safety could be obtained during thunder storms byhaving lightning rods. These would be good conductors for the elec-tricity, which in thatcase would not make aconductor of a personthat was near, therebydestroying life. In 1751 Franklinwas appointed deputypostmaster general forthe colonies. After thedefeat of General Brad-dock, which was men-tioned when I told youabout Washington, aprovincial militia wasestablished and Frank-lin was chosen 1757 he was sent toEngland with a petitionto the king and councilagainst the propertyowners who refused tobear a share in the pub-lic expenses. Whilet
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