1. What advice did Franklin receive at this time? 2. What answer did he return? What was the result of the election? 3. What did Franklin consider the opinion of Quakers on the subject of defence? 4. What anecdote is related of William Penn? 6. To what did Franklin turn his attention on the declaration of peace? In what year was the academy founded? 7. What building was taken for the school house? 8. To what pursuits did he now intend to devote himself? What did the public consider him? 9. What offices did he receive at this time? 10. Why did he retire from the office of justice of the peace? 11. Who were appointed to treat with the Indians? 12. What is related of the Indians? How was the treaty concluded? 13. What happened in the evening? 14. What course did they pursue the next day? How did the commissioners excuse themselves? 15. Who proposed the plan for the Philadelphia hospital? What compliment did he pay to Franklin? 16. Did Franklin approve of the scheme and assist in it? 17. What did Mr. Gilbert Tennent request of Franklin? How was his request treated? 18. What advice did Franklin give? 19. To what smaller matters of public interest did Franklin now attend? CHAPTER XI. _Spence's Experiments in Electricity. Franklin repeats them. Makes important Discoveries. Letters to Collinson. Experiment with the Kite. Publication of his Letters. Anecdote of the Abbé Nollet. Fame of Franklin. Elected a Member of the Royal Society._ 1. It was in the year 1746, that Franklin first attended to the branch of philosophy in which he afterwards became so distinguished. During that year he was in Boston, and there met with a Dr. Spence, who showed him some experiments in electricity. It was a subject altogether new to him, and, though the experiments were not very well performed, they surprised and pleased him. 2. If you take a stick of sealing-wax, or a glass tube, or a piece of amber which has been a long time untouched, and bring it near some small pieces of paper, chaff, or other light substance, it produces no impression upon them. But if you first rub lightly and briskly the wax, the tube, or the amber, with a piece of dry woollen cloth, or cat skin, and then bring it near any of these light substances, you will find that they fly to it, and remain upon it. The power which attracts these substances, and which is excited by the rubbing, is called _electricity_. 3. It is so called from a Greek word which signifies amber, the substance in which this power was first observed. Amber is a brittle mineral substance, of a yellow, and sometimes a reddish brown color. It is found in several countries in Europe, and has recently been found in the United States, at Cape Sable, in Maryland. This is the substance with which the first electrical experiment was performed, ages ago, by a Greek philosopher of the name of Thales.