Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-09-01

chamber, but for many days afterwards he was
weary and down-hearted. -.
4" Samuel" said Mr.. Winthrop one day after
the spring had opened, al have seen Mr..
Young and he is willing to take you as an ap-
prentice. jerry and l can get along on the
farm, and think the best thing you can do is
to learn the blacksmith's trade. have given
up all hopes Of ever making q surveyor out of
you, and if you had farm you would not know
how to measure it or lay it out. Jerry will
soon be able to take my place as surveyor, and
L have already made arrangements for having
him sworn and obtaining his commission. But
your trade is good one, however, and have
no doubt you viii be able to make good liv-
ing at it."
ing town, and carried on quite an extensive
business. Moreover, be had the reputation of
being fine man. Samuel was delighted with
his fathers proposal, and when he heard that
Mr.. Young carried on quite large machine
shop, he was in ecstacies. His trunk was
packed-s good supply of clothes having been
provided; and kissing his mother and sister,
and shaking hands with his father and brother.
mounted the stage, and set cut for his new des.
tination.
He found Mr.. Young all he could wish, and
went into the business with an assiduity that
surprised his master. =
One evening, after Samuel Winthrop had
been with bis new master six months the lat
ter came into the shop after all the iourneymen
had quit work and gone home, and found the
youth busily engaged in fitting piece of iron
There was quite number of pieces on the
bench by his side, and some were riveted Gu
riously together, and fixed with springs and
slides, while others appeared not yet ready for
their destined use Mr.. Young ascertained
what the young man was up to, and he not
only encouraged him in his undertaking. but
he stood for half an hour and watched him at
his work. Next day Samuel was removed
from the blacksmith's shop to the machine
shop.
Samuel often visited his parents. At the
end of two years his father was not little
surprised when Mr.. Young informed him that
Samuel was the most useful hand in his
employ.
Time few fast. Samuel was twenty-one.
jerry had been free nearly three years, and
was one Of the most accurate and trustworthy
surveyors of the county.
Mr.. Winthrop looked upon his eldest son
with pride, and often expressed a wish that
his other son should have been like him.
Samuel came 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, s'that is a
fine factory that has just been erected in your
town"
yes" returned Mr.. Young, "there are
three of them, and they are doing very heavy
business"
" L understand they have an extensive ma.
chine shop connected with the factories Now,
If my son Sam is q good workman, as you say
he is, perhaps he might get a first rate situs-
ton there"
Mr.. Young looked at Samuel and smiled.
By the way" continued the old farmer
''what is all this noise I hear and see in the
papers about those patent Winthrop looms?
They tell me they 90 ahead Of anything that
was ever got up before"
You may ask your son about that" said
Mr. Young: "that is some of SamueI's bust
ness
"Eh? What? My son, Some of Sam"
The old man stopped short and gszed at his
son. He was bewildered. 1t could not be that
his son-his idle son-was the inventor of the
great power loom that had taken all the manu-
facturers by surprise.
What do you mean?" he at length in
quired
B." 1t is simply this, father, the loom is mine, -
returned Samuel, with conscious pride. II
have invented it, and taken q patent right and
have already been offered ten thousand dollars
for the patent right in two adjoining States
Dom You remember that clap trap you crushed
with your foot, six years ago 90
- Yes" answered the old man, whose eyes
were bent to the foor, and over whose mind a
new light seemed breaking.
Well, continued Samuel, "that was al
most a patent, though, of course, I have made
much alteration and improv ement, and there
Is room for more"
7" And that was what you were studying,
when you used TO stand and see me weave.
and fumbled about my loom 80 much 2" said
Mrs. Winthrop. y ....I' :.
"And that is why you could not understand
my mathematical problems - uttered Mr.. Win
thrOp, as he started from his chair and took
the youth by the hand. I" Samuel, nv son.
forgive me for the harshness which have used
towards you I have been blinded, and now
see how misunderstood you While 1 have
thought you idle and careless, you were solving
a philosophical problem / could never COM
prehend.. Forgive me, .Samuel-I meant we'll
enough, but lacked judgment and discrimina-
lion." .'"o ''H7 p
OF course the old man had long before been
forgiven for his harshness, and his mind was
opened TO = new lesson in human nature 1t
was simply this Different minds have differ
ent capacities, and no mind can be driven to
love that for which it has no taste First seek
to understand natural abilities and dispositions
OF children, and then in your management Of
their education for after life, govern Yourselves
accordingly George Combe, the greatest
moral philosopher Of bis day, could hardly
reckon in simple addition, and Colburn, the
mathemstician, could not write out common.
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