A very pleasing story tells of how an aged bell-ringer waited breathlessly to announce to waking thousands the vote of Congress.

"What time did you come in, Brenner, from the beach?" Mrs. Brenner closed her hands tightly, the interlaced ringers locking themselves.

Trials may be troublesome, but officers are paid for taking trouble; and the ingenuity of inventors will always be quickened in proportion to the conviction that their inventions will receive a full and unprejudiced trial; and that, if their first shot at the target of Success be an outside ringer, they will not be denied a chance of throwing another in the Bull's-eye.