steamer pitched and rolled and groaned and
creaked. It was midnight, and a portly figure crept forward to the
fo'cs'le hatch. "Thank heaven," murmured the bishop, "those men are
swearing yet."--_New York Mercury._

How They Got On In The World.

Brief Biographies of Successful Men Who Have Passed Through
the Crucible of Small Beginnings and Won Out.

_Compiled and edited for_ THE SCRAP BOOK.

A TITLED INVENTOR.

Englishman Spent Fortune After Fortune
Experimenting With New Ideas,
but Died a Millionaire.

Samuel Cunliffe-Lister, Lord Masham, whose air-brake is used on many
British railroads and who invented the first successful wool-combing
machine, started, in 1837, at Manningham, Yorkshire, England, in company
with his elder brother, a small worsted-spinning establishment. Both
brothers had worked at the trade since childhood, and both were capable
men. For a time the business prospered. Then it began to drop off and the
elder partner accused Samuel of wasting his time and energy in
experimenting with toys when he should devote his efforts exclusively to
building up the enterprise they had started. The discussion almost
terminated in a rupture between the two, but a couple of the toys were
patented and as machines in the worsted-spinning business they brought in
a fair profit.

But another cause for dissension arose. As fast as money came in for early
inventions it was spent in experimenting on other things. Several times
Cunliffe-Lister spent what would then be looked upon as a fairly
comfortable fortune in trying to perfect his ideas, and, despite his
income, he continually hovered on the verge of bankruptcy.

Perfects His Wool-Comber.

At last, in 1865, he perfected the wool-comber, a machine that takes the
raw material, thoroughly cleanses it, and straightens the fiber, leaving
it ready for the carder to take in hand. Its enormous utility was
instantly recognized, and the wool-working towns and cities of England
and the United States were supplied with the new machines. During the
subsequent years the inventor received every year, from this machine
alone, an income that seldom fell below two hundred thousand pounds.

The first form of the wool-comber was far more perfect than the first form
of most machines. Nevertheless, Cunliffe-Lister spent enormous sums of
money in making improvements on it, and on one occasion, when several
hundred of the machines were ready for shipment, he h