Nevada County picayune., 1889-03-06
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Bows are very important aSeh'icH in the worlds development. The greatest and hest of men have been boys. and some of them were voted very stupid boys. You see, big folks do not always judge correctly, II a boy uses his brain in legitimate way, he usually ends in being use ful man. A stupid boy is one who wastes time. To waste time is both stupid and wicked. Watt, the ln- ventor of the steam engine, ald not perfect his invention at once. It was necessary to employ q boy 10 open and close the iIlVca of the engine by means oI levers. hIs boy proved to be one who kept hlS eyes open and used his brain. This story is told of him:
 As he was working these levers he saw that parts of the engine moved in the right direction and at the same time that he had to open or close the valves. He procured a long, strong cord, and made one end fast to the proper part of the engine, and the other end to the valve lever. Then he had the satisfaction of see ing the engine move off with perfect regularity of motion. A short time after the foreman came around and saw the boy playing marbles at the door. Looking at the engine. he saw the ingenuity of the boy, and also the advantage of so great an invention. Mir. Watt then carried out the boys inventive genius III a practical form. and made the steam engine a perfect automatic working machine. .'
 The powcr-loom, which furnishes employment to thousands, and has reduced the cost of production so much that your father can clothe you with q fraction of the cost that he could if there were no power looms, was the invention of boy,
 "He cut one out with his knife, and after he had got It all done, he. with great enthusiasm, showed it to his father. who at once kicked it to pieces. saying that he would have no boy about him who would spend his time on such foolish things. The boy was afterwards apprenticed to a blacksmith, and he soon found that his new master was kind and took q lively interest in him. He had made loom of what was left of the one his father had broken up, which he showed to his master. The blacksmith saw that he had no common boy as apprentice, and that the invention was valuable one. He immcdi- ately had loom constructed under the supervision of the boy. It worked to their perfect satisfaction, rnd the blacksmith furnished the means to manufacture the looms. the boy to receive one-half the profits. In about a year the blacksmith wrote to the boys father that he should visit him and bring with him wealthy gentleman, who was the inventor of i the power-loom. You may be able to judge of the astonishment of the father when his son was presented as 1 the inventor, who told him the loom was the same as the model that he (the father) had kicked to pleces a year before"
 1 The Mccormick reaper, now found in every country of the world, is the
 invention of q farmers boy who kept his eyes open and used his brain when a boy on hls fathers farm.
 If you should ask any successful , inventor, or merchant, or general, or artist, or literary man, when he first began to think of the thing that made him successful, he, no doubt, would answer: When was young boy. ' I- Exchange.