The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-02-09

MS employ.
Time flew fast. S,muel was twenty.one
Jeremiah had been rec almost two years
and he was one OF he most accurate ant
trustworthy surveyors in the country.
Mr.. Winthrop LOOKED upon his eldest sol
with pride, and ofenexpressed a wish lha
his other son could htvc been like him.
Samuel had come hone 10 visit his par
ents, and Mr.. Yornghad come with him.
"Mr. Young" salt Mr.. Winthrop, allel
the tea things had ben cleared away" ,ha
is fine factory they wave erected in YOU
town. h-
EYES," returned M. Young, "ihere are
three of them, and they are dong heavy
business"
81 understand ,hey nave an ex,ensivs
machine shop conneclelw the factories.
Now If my boy Sam is IS good workman
as you say he is, perhaps he might get 9
first rate situation there"
Mr.. Young looked at Samuel and smiled
"By the way" continued he old farm
er, "what is all this noise hear and see in
the newspapers abou, these patent Win
,hrop looms. They tell me they 90 ahead
of everything that was ever got up be-
fore."
"You must ask your son about ,hat,'
returned Mr.. Young. "Thal's some o.
his businesstn
"Eh! Wha,l My son? Some 0i
SAM"
The old man stopped shert and gazed a,
his son. He was bewndersd. I, could no
be that his son, his idle son, was the inven-
Tor OF the great power loom that had taken
all the manufacturers by surprise.
"What do you mean =" he at length
asked.
at is simply this, father, ,ha, this loom
is mine," returned Samuel with a look OF
conscious pride. "I have invented il, and
have taken a patent right, and have already
been offered len thousand dollars for the
patent right in two adjoining States. Dom
you remember that clap.trap you crushed
with your foo: six years agol"
" Yes" answered the old man, whose
eyes were now bent 10 the floor, and ove
whose mind a new ligh, seemed 10 bt
breaking.
"Well," continued Samuel, that was al
most pattern TO the very loom have Sc
up in tho factories, though OF course,
have made much alteration and improve
ment, and there is room for improvement
yet.
"And that is what you were studying
when you used 10 stand and see me weave
and when you used 10 tumble about my
loom SO much u said Mrs. Winthrop.
"You are tight, mother. Even then
conceived the idea | have since carried
out"
"And that is why you could not under
stand my mathematical problems," uttered
MIR. Winthrop, us he started from his chai
and took the youth by the hand.
Samuel" my SOU, forgive mo for the
harshness | have used towards you. Ihavt
been blind, and now see how I misunder
stood you. While have thought you were
idle and careless you were solving philo.
sophical problem that could never have
comprehended. Forgive me, Samuel
mean, well enough, bu, lacked judgmen
and di- elimination"
or course the old man had long befor,
been foseiven. for his harshness, and hi:
mind was open 10 a new lesson in human
nature. II was simply this:-
Different mlnds have different capacities
and no mind can ever be driven 10 love
that for which il has no taste. First, seel
10 understand the natural abilities and dis
positions Of children, and then in the man
agement Of their education for after life
govern yourself accordingly. Georg,
Combe, the greatest moral philosopher o
his day, could hardly reckon in simple ad
dl,ion, and Colburn, the mathematician
could no, write out a common place ad
dress.