eld them up in order
that there might be incorporated in them certain improvements he had just
made. His partners protested that the machines embodied all the features
the purchasers had paid for. The inventor was obdurate, and every one of
the machines had added to it the improvements, and all the alterations
were made solely at his expense.

Head Not Turned by Fortune.

The immense fortune he had made from this and other inventions never for
an instant turned him from his work and experiments. Like Edison, he had
the ability to concentrate his mind for long periods, to work for long
stretches with little rest, and to apportion to his assistants the
experiments that he could not personally perform. He could have retired
thirty-five years ago and been assured of a large income for the remainder
of his life, but he preferred to stick to his work to the last.

"You've got your fortune now," said one of his friends; "why don't you
stop working?"

"I didn't work simply to acquire wealth," he replied. "I value the money
chiefly for what it will enable me to do."

His second great invention was the air-brake, introduced by him at about
the same time Westinghouse introduced his air-brake in America. The
English inventor, however, experienced little difficulty in having his
device adopted, for he had already made a name for himself, and the
English railroad officials were willing to give the benefit of thorough,
practical tests to what he brought them. The tests proved the efficiency
of the brake, and its general adoption added greatly to the inventor's
already large income.

He worked incessantly, experimenting in all branches of science, and his
improvements in mill machinery, in railroad devices and steel working are
of immense value. For weeks at a time, the expense of his experiments
averaged a thousand pounds a day. In spite of this, the enormous income he
received from his patents more than kept pace with his expenses, and when
he died, early last February, he was one of the richest men in the United
Kingdom.

HARD-FIGHTING EDITOR.

Founder of Modern Journalism Was
Called Everything That Had an Unpleasant
Name, but He Prospered.

James Gordon Bennett, who founded the _New York Herald_, was well over
thirty-five years of age when he left the office of the old _New York
Courier and Enquirer_. He had learned what a newspaper should be, he
believed, and he was going to put that knowledge into operation.