Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1898 — A Young Inventor. [ARTICLE]

A Young Inventor.

The power loom was the invention of a farmer’s boy, who had never seen or jheard of such a thing. He fashioned one with his pen-knife, and when he 'got It all done he showed It with great (enthusiasm to his father, who at once Jklcked It all to pieces, saying he;would have no boy about him who would /spend his time on such foolish things. | The boy was sent to a blacksmith to : learn a trade, and his master took a (lively Interest in him. He made a loom ■of wliat was left of the one his father 'had broken up and showed It to his (master. The blacksmith saw he had Ino common boy as an apprentice and Ithat the invention was a valuable one. ‘He bad a loom constructed’ under the (supervision of the boy. It worked to ‘their perfect satisfaction, and the blacksmith-furnished the means to manufacture the loom, and the boy received half the profits. In about a year the blacksmith wrote to the boy’s father that he should visit him and bring with him a wealthy gentleman who was the Inventor of /the celebrated power loom. • ( Yoij may be able to judge of the astonishment at the old home when his son was presented to him as .the inventor, who told him that the It Jb was the same as the model that he had kicked to pieces the previous year.