abandon your foolish telephone." Bell's "School of Vocal Physiology," confined his attention to the musical telegraph, and stopped wasting his and arranged to stay with a friend in Washington, to save a hotel bill science, poverty, business, and affection. Pouring out his sorrows in a a theoretical knowledge of what a speaking telephone ought to be. What best-paying patron and the other was the father of the girl whom he time on ear-toys that never could be of any financial value. What hoped to marry. "If you wish my daughter," said Hubbard, "you must knew. And his mind was torn and distracted by the contrary calls of stupendous success too easily, Bell was flung back by an avalanche Then, as though Fortune suddenly felt that he was winning this While stumbling through this Slough of Despond, he was called to electric current could best be brought into harness. classes, for flesh and blood could not stand much longer such a strain professorship had been given up, and he had no pupils except Georgie Sanders and Mabel Hubbard. He was poor, much poorer than his associates of such a journey, he borrowed the price of a return ticket from Sanders Washington by his patent lawyer. Not having enough money to pay the cost letter to his mother, he said: "I am now beginning to realize the cares experiments, abruptly announced that they would pay no more unless he too, from which he had hoped so much, had come to an inglorious end. and anxieties of being an inventor. I have had to put off all pupils and remained to be done was to construct such a machine and find out how the as I have had upon me." of troubles. Sanders and Hubbard, who had been paying the cost of his He had been too much absorbed in his experiments to sustain it. His these two men asked could scarcely be denied, as one of them was his