The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-12-03

about it, because l choose that you shoul
attend to your studies Now 60 to tn
| barn and help Jerry shell corn.
The boy was too full of grief to max
any explanation and without q word h
left his chamber, but for long days he wa
weary and down hearted.
Samuel" said Mr.. Winthrop, one day
after the spring had opened, " l have seeI
Mr. Young and he is willing to take yoi
as an apprentice. Jerry and / can ge
along on the farm, and think that tn
best thing you can do is to learn the black
smiths trade. l have given up all hope
OF ever making a surveyor out of you, ant
if you had q farm you would not know
how to measure or lay it out. Jerry will
now soon be able to take my place as sur
veyor, and have already made arrange
ments for having him sworn and taking
his commission. But your trade is good
one however, and have no doubt you will
be able to make a good living at it
Mr.. Young was blacksmith in . neigh
boring town, and he carried on quite an
SSassnsive business. Moreover, he had the
reputation of being a very fine man.
Samuel was delighted with his fathers pro
posal and when he learned that Nj. Young
also carried on quite large machine shop
he was in extacies His trunk was packed
"a good supply Of clothes having been
provided; and after kissing his mother
and sister, and shaking hands with his
father and brother, mounted the stage and
set off for his new destination.
He found Mr.. Young all he could wish,
and went into his business with an assidui-
ty that surprised his master
One evening after Samuel Winthrop had
been with his new master six months, the
latter came into the shop after all the
lourneymen had quit work and gone home
and found the youth busily engaged in tit
ting piece of iron. There were quite a
number OF pieces on the bench by his side,
and some were curiously rivited together
and fixed with springs and slides, while
others appeared not yet ready for their des-
tined use Mr. Young ascertained what
the young workman was up TO, and he not
only encouraged him in his undertaking,
but he stood for half al hour and watch
ed him at his work Next day Samsel
Winthrop was removed from the black
smith 5 shop to the machine shop.
Samuel often visited his parents. At
the end Of two years his father was not a
little surprised when Mr.. Young informed
him that Samuel was the most useful
hand in his employ
Time flew fast. Samuel was twenty y-one
Jeremiah had been free almost two years,
and was one Of the most accurate and
trustworthy surveyors in the county.
Mr.. Winthrop looked upon his eldest
son with pride, and often expressed wish
that his other son could have been like
him Samuel had come home to visit his
parents, and Mr.. Young had come with
him.
Mr.. Young" said Mr. Winthrop, after
the tea things had been cleared away,
" that IS fine factory they have just erec-
ted in your town.
"Yes," returned Mr. Young "there are
three OF them, and they are doing a very
heavy business
understand they have an extensive
machine shop connected with the factories
Now If my son Sam is a. good workman
IS you say he Is, perhaps ne might &c. a
first rate situation there"
Mr.. Young looked at Samuel and smiled
a BY the way. continued the old farmer,
1. nat Is ali r-ri---ci-o hear e.d s.Ss in
thJ papers about these paten. Winthrop
looms? They tell me they GO ahead of
anything. that ever was got up before"
Iou may ask your son about this,
>fi''i -ii cuHe Li.tl - SOLiAc OA
uel's business"
"Eh? What NY son? Some OF Sam
The old man stopped short and gazed at
his son. He was bewildered 1t could
not be that his son-his idle son--was the
inventor of the great, powerful loom that
had taken all the manufacturers by sur
prise.
What do you mean he at length in
quired.
1T is simply this, father, that the loom
is mine" returned Samuel with conscious
pride. 81 have invented it, and taken out
a patent right, and have already been Of
fered ten thousand dollars for the patent
right in two adjoining States. Don't you
that clap-trap you crushed with
your foot six years ago 2
Yes, answered the old man, whose
eyes were bent on the floor, and over
whose mind new light seemed breaking
"Well,' continued Samuel, "that was
almost pattern, though, of course, have
made much alteration and improvement,
and there is room for more"
And that was what you were studying,
when you used to stand and see me
weave. and when you fumbled about my
loom SO much7' said Mrs. Winthrop.
You are right, mother. Even then
had conceived the idea which have since
carried out
And that is why you could not under
stand my mathematical problems" uttered
Mr.. Winthrop, and he started from his
chair and took the youth by the hand
" Samuel, my son, forgive me for the
harshness l have used towards you l
have been blinded and now see how have
misunderstood you. While have thought
you idle and careless, you were solving a
philosophical problem could never have
comprehended. Forgive me, Samuel
meant well enough, but lacked judgment
and discrimination.
OF course the old man had long before
been forgiven for his harshness, and his
mind was opened to a new lesson in hui
man nature. 1t was simply this:
Different minds have different capaci-
ties, and no mind can ever be driven to
love that for. which it has no taste. First,
seek to understand the natural abilities
and dispositions of children, and then, in
your management of their education for
after life, govern yourself accordingly
George Combe, the greatest moral philoso-
pher of his day, could hardly reckon in
simple addition, and Colburn, the mathe-
matician, could not write out q common
place address.
WHEAT SYMBOL OF CIvILIzATION.-It is q
logical speech which Cereceur, the old
French traveller, puts in the mouth of the
Chief of the Mississais, ss perpetuated by
Klippart, in his work on the Wheat Plant
. Do YOU not see the whites living upon
seeds while we eat flesh? That flesh re-
auires more than thirty moons to grow up
and is then often scarce. That each o1
the wonderful seeds they SOW in the earth
returns them an hundred fold. The flesh
on which we subsist has four legs to escape
from us, while we have but two to pursue
and capture it. The grain remains where
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