out in improving each of the cities and the remainder again invested for another century for the same purpose.

The Franklin fund of the city of Boston now amounts to about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which will be expended on a public park, to be known as the Franklin Park. The Philadelphia fund, which now amounts to about seventy-seven thousand dollars, will, when the century expires (1891), probably be used for the advantage of that city.

Thus Franklin is even now carrying out the resolution he had taken of being useful after his death-illustrating the truth of the Hindoo saying that "our works live on when we have passed away." Of the four greatest men that this country has produced he stands first in order of time - Franklin, Washington, Webster, Lincoln. Of those who have reached advanced age he was one of the few who could truthfully say that he "was willing to live his life over again." Did that mean that his had been a perfect life? His confession of his “errata" answers that question. What it did mean was this that on the whole, the spirit of his life was steadily tending onward and upward, so that though he stumbled as he ran yet he recovered himself, and, in the end, won the race.

At his funeral twenty thousand people gathered to take part, and when the news of his death reached France the National Assembly put on mourning for the man of whom Turgot1 had said, "He snatched the thunderbolt from the sky and the scepter from the hands of tyrants." He was buried in the graveyard of Christ Church, Philadelphia, by the side of his wife, who died while he was in England in 1774. The plain marble slab over the two graves bears,

1 Turgot (Tur'go): "Eripuit cælo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis."

at his request, no other inscription than "Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, 1790."

More than sixty years before, when a delphia, he had written his own epitaph.

printer in Phila

Here it is :

"THE BODY

OF

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,

PRINTER,

(Like the cover of an old book,

Its contents torn out,

And stript of its lettering and gilding,)

LIES HERE, FOOD FOR WORMS.

BUT THE WORK SHALL NOT BE LOST,

FOR IT WILL (as he believed) APPEAR ONCE MORE,

IN A NEW AND MORE ELEGANT EDITION,

REVISED AND CORRECTED

BY

THE AUTHOR."