Eli's Portion

The patieuce, perseverance and skül orutuoii to inventora was exhibitcd at an early age by KJi Whituey, who.se inventiou oí the cottoii íííi ufterward mude hiin fauiout-. Oí the boy 's passion or nieohauics aud bis fatber's view of ,t, bis sister Uas given tbe following aconiit in Philip O. Hubert's recent. L-ook, 'luvfiutoi's:1' Our father bad a workshop atul somoimes made wbeels of differtut kinds, nud (ihairs. Ho had a variety of too]s, and a latho fox tarfliug chair posts. This ;ave aiy brother tui opportunity of earuüjg the usft of tcols wiit'ii vcry young. He lost no time, bnt aq soon as lic ould baudle tools he %vas always makng socuetliing in tbe shop and seerned o prefer that to work on the fiirm. After the deatJi of our mother, when our father had been absent from home ;wo or three days, on nis return ho in[nired of the housekeeper what the boys had beon doing. She told him what the elders had done. "But what haB Eli been doing?" said ia She replied that he bad been making a fiddle. "Ah," said he despondently, "I fpar Sli will have to take bis portion in iiddles. ' '