Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS.
From Chambers Miscellany.
Story of jacquard.
CONCLUDED


sorrow. AS seven O'Clock sounded from
neigh5oring church, they sat down TO theil
meagre supper composed Of fried ehestnuts
which were distributed by Antoinette, along
with a piece Of bread. Joseph sat seemingl,
plunged in his own sad reflections, without
touching his supper.
Why do you not eat! Are you unwell
Joseph 2 asked his mother.
mo- replied he I'M thinking OF some,
thing
What is it!' asked all together.
Il think-but you must not be angry with
me, or suppose that it is a childish caprice OH
my part-but | have reflected well, and | can.
not be a canut.'
"A wise thought, certainly exclaimed
his father, striking his knife against the part
OF the loom which served him as a supper.
table. Have | not told you, An,oinettc,
that your sons brain was touched 7 But tell
ME, foolish boy, what has put this idea into
your head =
1t is the sight of the mispries which the
canuts endure, father. If they had other
looms, andD'
Are not these good enough = interrupted
the weaver.
See their effects replied the boy, cast.
ing a look of grief towards the body of his
cousin.
1T is our fate = said the weaver in a sub.
dued voice.
1T is our fate to work for the rich; that is
but just answered Joseph. 'Of that | do
not complain but of the loom, father-the
loom, which kills the workmen.'
You are foolish, Joseph = said his moth
er. How can you think 10 change a ina
chine which has served the canuts for centu-
ries =
1t is precisely, my dear mother, because
1t is the same machine which has served for
such a length Of time, that it seems possible
10 me that another might be invented. Do
not interrupt me, father, but allow me TO fin
sh. Tell me, are not your stuffs finer and
,etter finished than those made by your ia.
her =
My father was not a canut; he was a
itone mason at Couzon.'
My granduncle Hive then was one!
Yes replied his mother.
VERY well did Uncle kive make as fine
tufts as my father =
Certainly not said the weaver.
Then, since the stuffs have been improv-
ID, why should not the looms be improved
Ilso =
why !-why Repeated the routinier
workman pettishly. Because they cannot
Say father because no one has thought of
ioing so, father replied the boy adding
with a sigh, as he looked towards the place
the little Josephine lay, 'and one would
DO well to think of it,
What, then, would you wish 10 dog as
ked his father, touched al the silent appeal.
TO enter as an apprentice with Master
Pinet the bookbinder, father!'
B 1t SO; though it would be better to
follow the trade Of your father. 10 whom
can ] b~equeaih my loom, if not 10 your
You can bequeath it TO the husband Of my
sister, as my mothers father bequeathed il to
you, father. However, | do not say that |
shall always refuse TO work as a canut; but
must be when another loom has been in.
by some one, and that person may
perchance be myself
V.
Following the bent of his inclination,
young jacquard passed from the workshop of
his father into that of a bookbinder, but his
active and inventive spirit prevented him from
remaining long in the inferior regions Of la
Dor. Mechanics had for him a peculiar at
but, unfortunately, his limited means
did not allow him to put into immediate ex-
the products Of his busy brain. His
talents were but slowly developed; for the
man who possesses a happy and useful idea.
resembles the earth containing some hidden
treasure; it requires, in the first instance,
some occasion Cor its development and Sec
ondly, some accidental circumstance or op-
portuniiy for its discovery. The following
were the simple means which brought Jac-
guards abilities TO light.
elz-. H. .--.- A. IL D.
Amiens, the Royal Society of London offer
ed a considerable sum Of money to any one
who should invent a mechanical apparatus
applicable TO some peculiar process OF thread
making. An extract Of the socieiy's program.
me, copied into a French paper, fell under
the eye OF jacquard, who Immediately set his
brains to work, and after many ~fruiiless es-
says, at length succeeded in finding the Sc
cret. Being as simple as it was useful, he
imagined that he could not have been alone
in the discovery /; nevertheless, this did not
prevent him from making a model Of the ma
chine but once made, he put it in his pocket,
and thought no more Of the matter. One day
however, while with some of his acquaintan-
ceS, who had also read the programme, the
conversation turned on the flet or thread ma
chine.
hAcio 10 w uihCuliy eOlNeuy SdIu Ie, I'd
king the model from his pocket.
Have you not made known the discove
ry, and demanded the sum offered? = aske,
one of his acquaintances.
Nonsense! DO you imagine hat | an
the only person who has discovered it!'
VIII you confde it TO mel asked hi
friend, taking up the miniature flet.
Will all my heart,' said jacquard an
in an hOnF aItaTu raF bc ha had for,rn1Ian Ii
model in rejecting over an idea which ha
engrossed his attention for a length Of time
the means Of meliorating by some new dis
cIiption Of loom, the miseries Of the csnut
OF Lyons, as that class of weavers are calle
who manufacture the gold and silver tissues
Some weeks afterwards, jacquard was sum
moned before the project, and without beinI
able to form the slightest conjecture why h
was sent for, Immediately obeyed the order
Monsieur said the magistrate. hav
| heard Of youT ability as a mechanic and hon