A Relative Of Ben's

Secretary Folger traces his desceiit EromtheFranklinfamily of Massachusetts.of which Benjamin Franklin was a member. Writing to a friend living in Nantueket lately Mr. Folger related tho following curious circumstances : '■When 1 was in the senate in the state of New York, Andrew D. White, president of the Cornell University, late United States Minister to Vienn?, was also a member. After I had sat down from speaking once he carne to me and said: 'I have just solved a perplexity that I have been in. 1 have been trying for a long time to determine who it is that you are like, and it has come to me- it is Bsrjjamin Franklin.' 'Very likely,' I said; 'for Franklin's mother was a Folger.' So when I was at Mentor to see General Garüeld, I was seated in the drawing room awaiting his coming. The door of the room was open so that the stairs frornabove gave a view into it, and of the place where I sat. I heard a person coming down stairs, but stopping half-way; af ter a pause he resumed his way and came into the room. It was General Garfleld. He said: 'I stopped on the stairs when 1 Qrat got sight of you, for somethiag strucic me as not unfamiliar in your face and head. You look like the picture of Franklin.' 'I have a right to,' I said ; 'his mother was a Folger'."