Benjamin Franklin used to say, if you wish to be sure that a thing is done, go and do it yourself.

NEW JERSEYWilliam Livingston, David Brearly, William Patterson, Jonathan Dayton. PENNSYLVANIABenjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris. DELAWAREGeorge Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom. MARYLANDJames McHenry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll.

* FRANKLIN'S SPEECH ON THE LAST DAY OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

In ConventionThe engrossed Constitution being read, Doctor Franklin rose with a speech in his hand, which he had reduced to writing for his own convenience, and which Mr. Wilson read in the words following: MR.

This ambiguous form had been drawn up by Mr. Gouverneur Morris, in order to gain the dissenting members, and put into the hands of Doctor Franklin, that it might have the better chance of success.

Whilst the last members were signing, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the President's chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.

In 1852 the Democrats nominated Franklin Pierce and William E. King, and declared in their platform that they would "abide by and adhere to" the Compromise of 1850, and would "resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question."

[Illustration: Franklin Pierce] So far as the Whigs were concerned, the question was settled; for the Northern people, angry at their acceptance of the Compromise of 1850 and the fugitive-slave law, refused to vote for Scott, and Pierce was elected.

SEE Bobbitt, Franklin.

MATHIEWS FRANKLIN K., ed.

SEE Mathiews, Franklin K., ed.

SEE Dawson, Elmer A. STRATEMEYER, EDWARD. SEE Dixon, Franklin W. STRATEMEYER, EDWARD.

Sally Carrighar (A); 17May71; R506215. CARROLL, FRANKLIN B. Understanding the universe.

By Franklin B. Carroll, Frank A. Rexford & Henry T. Weed.

SEE EDGERTON, FRANKLIN.

EDGERTON, FRANKLIN.

Translated & interpreted by Franklin Edgerton.

FRANKLIN, ADELE.

By Adele Franklin & Agnes E. Benedict.

Adele Franklin (A & E of A. E. Benedict); 1Oct71; R514538. FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN.

Adele Franklin (A & E of A. E. Benedict); 1Oct71; R514538. FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin & selections from his writings.

Random House, Inc. (PWH); 30Sep71; R514428. FRANKLIN, FRANCIS.

Our landlady to Benjamin Franklin, briskly,Go to school right off, there's a good boy!

Will you run up stairs, Benjamin Franklin, (for B.F. had not gone right off, of course,) and bring down a small volume from the left upper corner of the right-hand shelves?