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There is danger for children, walking to and returning from school afbng lanes and across fields- There is danger for workmen in the fields and along the edge of wooded areas. There is danger for stock. Some cattle in the county represents a large investment and the owner cannot run the risk of having it killed by hunters

Million Dollar

Demonstration

When Ben Franklin died in 1790, he bequeathed to the town of Boston $5,000 and an idea. The idea was not to spend the money, but to invest itThe will directed that the money be invested for 100 years, then divided one part to go for public works and the remainder to be reinvested for another 100 years, then divided, one part to go for public works and the remainder to be reinvested for another 100 years.

In 1891 the fund was added up and it furnished, according to the terms of Ben Franklin’s idea, $391,168.68 for public works in Boston, and an additional $102,455.70 for reinvestment. This second portion has already increased to the point where it

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