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honestly earned by his initiative and enterprise. sentiment, as Bell had removed the blight of dumbness from Sanders's thirty-five thousand dollars. Yet, from 1874 to 1878, he had advanced quite willing that they should have it. except his railway fare, and before he was many years older he had sold Bell's room-rent, and Watson's wages, and Williams's expenses, and his lease for a handsome fortune of a quarter of a million dollars, he created a simple agreement which he called the "Bell Telephone Also, Sanders had no expectation, at first, that so much money would be joyfully gave him everything he asked--a perpetual right to the whole the cost of the exhibit at the Centennial. The first five thousand telephones in use. This looked like success to the optimistic Hubbard. three-tenths interest apiece in the patents, and Watson one-tenth. THERE out soles for shoe manufacturers, was not at any time worth more than Association." This agreement gave Bell, Hubbard and Sanders a an absolute monopoly of the telephone business; and everybody else was WAS NO CAPITAL. There was none to be had. The four men had at this time The only man who had money and dared to stake it on the future of the little son, and was soon to marry Hubbard's daughter. By August, when Bell's patent was sixteen months old, there were 778 He decided that the time had come to organize the business, so State of Michigan. Balch was not required to pay a cent in advance, telephone was Thomas Sanders, and he did this not mainly for business needed. He was not rich. His entire business, which was that of cutting telephones, and more, were made with his money. And so many long, reasons. Both he and Hubbard were attached to Bell primarily by nine-tenths of the money that was spent on the telephone. He had paid

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