plan for thirteen States and three millions of people, but for a republic of fifty States and five hundred mil- lion; not for a single century, but for a thousand years. Dominated by this thought, he builded better and wiser than anyone in his lifetime was willing to admit; for the chief men of his day

not pay the bond he had given sor the purchase money, and Franklin in 1754 put one William Dunlap in charge. He rented the establishment to the latter from February, 1754, to April, 1757, at the rate of £20 per annum, then ceased. Those were the days os small things in the newspaper world, as well as

never given to thinking one thing and saying an- other. He was a close observer, both of men and things, and for many years was accustomed to note in what may be termed a note-book or diary his ob- servations on persons and the things that were going on in the busy world around him. Some of the most