Show i I SOWING SEED I I he suggcHtlto power of rmd md fit f i idling ideas upon youthful and ambitious ambi-tious minds is manifest t in the life and oxpeiieneo of Fromont the path flndei I In the second mnnboi of his Memoirs ho gives an account of a visit of Senator I Itonton to the oflico of tho chief of thu Coast Siutot where lemont 1 then n very I oung man was acting as assistant driftsin lie wet an interested listener to the conversation between tho Senatoi and Mr icollet in in interview had at the lIst 1 lined ontli mans olhce Senator Sen-ator Benton hid brought into the Senate in 182o a bill to uithomo the 1resi lent Mr Munroe to use a the icliimjnt of the army tititl 1 nut to act i ellii unth m protecting Amerii in Intel e sts in On gon t Tho soot stretch of com piritivel unknown eounti ling he twcen tin Mississippi mu and the 1itillc moan win in Senator lieiitons estimation of great promise and taluo in an an i out of which futuri States of the Union would ho eaited The result of certain surtes west of the Mississippi hid suggested to bun the slime work for the broidci field hoond tho Missouri In the course of his inquiries ho dwelt on the unotcnpicd country named and tho I existing uncertain md miompletoknowl cdfo oncoming it The interview turned lomontt I thoughts into a now channel lie I had I dototed all his thoughts to his intended profession of e ngmeermg lint Mi Hen tons siigg stions h id bioidcnod his field of tision lIe writes To travel t ovti a put of the world which still remained tho new tho openin up of unknown lands i tho nuking unknown countries known the stud without books the leainmg at first t hand from natuio her pelf beeimo a source of never ending I delight to me this mtertiow with Mr Henton was pregnant of ie ults md I decisive of II1Y life The few words md lomprchensito 1 ideas of Sen itor Benton fell like seed In good ground What the lurtest ban been vteknow So the thinkers ot Hit t woiltl furnish i i mspnation and aspu ition to tho piactleal i workers Mind is i superior to muscle but both combined md rightly directed r create tho leathers of great enteiprists i I and stamp thorn repnsontatitti nun of I I i then ltinw |