THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK

was in the end overwhelmed by the obstacles
that he encountered. In 1845 he died by his
own hand. Apparently, his life had been a
failure. In reality, he had succeeded. He
was the first filament-maker in the world. He
started a new process which has now become
world-wide.

Unhappily for Schwabe, he did not know
what was being done at that time by a
German—F. G. Keller, of Hainichen. Keller
was a clever and inventive man. One day,
he noticed some little children at play.
They were making chains of cherry stones.
They put the cherry stones in small hollows
in a board and ground holes in them with a
erindstone.

Keller noticed that the grindstone ground
a powder of wood, which fell in a pan of
water. - He picked up some of this powder
and noticed that it had been wetted into a
pulp. He understood paper-making. All
paper was at that time made of rags. It was
scarce and dear. He thought: “ Why not
make paper from wood ? ”’

He at once made experiments. He succeeded.
 He made paper from wood pulp. He
made no fortune out of his discovery. Others