There is no denying that in the estimation of a large number of the groups we are considering, the question of neat and orderly service, the capped and aproned maid, the liveried bell-boy and butler, expresslike the smoothly shaven lawna certain social convention; and because it means expense, the house in working order means more than shelter: it sets forth pecuniary standing in the community.

It is the story of great menMorse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and othersand how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the scientist, and others in both the technical and commercial fields, they succeeded in flashing both messages and speech around the world, with wires and without wires.

The early life of Alexander Graham Bell was full of color, and I have told the story of his patient investigations of human speech and hearing, which, finally culminated in a practical telephone.

Through a well in the center of the ship they suspended an eight-hundred-pound bell twenty feet beneath the surface of the sea.

He also invented a sound telegraph by which signals were transmitted by the strokes of a bell operated by the current at the receiving end of the circuit.

His receiving apparatus was an electro-magnet, the armature of which struck a bell.

The grandfather, the father, and the uncle of Alexander Graham Bell were all elocutionists of note.

Although Bell did not know it, many others were struggling with the same problem, the answer to which proved most elusive.

Sir Charles Wheatstone was then England's leading man of science, and so Bell sought his counsel.

Mr. Sanders sought Bell's tutelage for his son, and it was agreed that Bell should give Georgie private lessons for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars a year.

Hubbard first became aware of Bell's inventive genius when the latter was calling one evening at the Hubbard home in Cambridge.

" From that time forward Hubbard took every occasion to encourage Bell to carry forward his experiments in musical telegraphy.

Bell had a great horror that his ideas might be stolen and was very nervous over any possible intrusion into his precious workshop.

Hubbard went even further, and insisted that if Bell did not abandon his foolish notions he could not marry his daughter.

Now he was destined to aid Bell, as he had aided Morse a generation earlier.

This proved just the stimulus Bell needed, and he returned to Boston with a new determination to perfect his great idea.

He had also secured the services of an assistant, one Thomas Watson, who received nine dollars a week for his services in Bell's behalf.

But these were the years when Bell and Watson were "going to school," learning how to apply electricity to this new use, striving to make their apparatus talk.

By June of 1875 Bell had completed a new Instrument.

Bell and Watson had been working upon their crude apparatus for months, and finally, on June 2d, sounds were actually transmitted.

Bell was afire with enthusiasm; the first great step had been taken.

The patent issued to Bell has been described as "the most valuable single patent ever issued."

Bell showed him how to place his ear to the receiver, and he then went to the transmitter which had been placed at the other end of the wire strung along the room.

Bell, at a distance, spoke into the transmitter.

Hubbard, however, had faith in the invention, and as Bell was not a business man, he took upon himself the work of promotionthe necessary, valuable work which must be accomplished before any big idea or invention may be put at the service of the public.

As in certain American citiesthe word is well applied hereshe is esteemed the greatest belle who can contrive to utter her nursery sentiments in the loudest voice, so in Templeton, was he considered the ablest musician who could give the greatest éclat to a false note.

THE BELLE OF THE BEACH CHAPTER IX.

THE BELLE OF THE BEACH.

The man-of-war was to sail the same day their schooner did, and he had just determined, by the aid of Terrence, to bag five dozen brace of ducks for the belle of Mariana, when his friend went boldly over to the enemy.

Mrs. Fitzgerald drew near, and signified to her cousin a wish to be introduced; for it would have mortified her vanity, when she afterward retailed the gossip of the ball-room, if she had been obliged to acknowledge that she was not presented to la belle lionne.

Mrs. Sandford, less demonstrative in manner than her sister-in-law, and less brilliant in conversation and personal attractions, was yet a most winning, lovable woman,a companion for a summer ramble, or a quiet tête-à-tête, rather than a belle for a drawing-room.

It charms our ears with its song, and pleases our eye with its beauty, and I am a firm believer in the utility of beautybut can you, or rather will you not go with me?" "Oh Belle I would, but I am as sleepy as a cat.

Oh Belle I wish you could have been there.

Chapter IX Belle Gordon Belle Gordon was a Christian; she had learned or tried to realize what is meant by the apostle Paul when he said, "Ye are bought with a price.

Chapter IX Belle Gordon Belle Gordon was a Christian; she had learned or tried to realize what is meant by the apostle Paul when he said, "Ye are bought with a price.

" With gentle womanly tact Belle saw that the loss of her hair was a subject replete with bitter anguish, and turning to the children she took them in her lap and interested and amused them by telling beautiful fairy stories.

In a short time Mary's composure returned, and she said, "Miss Belle, I can now tell you how I lost my hair.

Chapter XIV Belle Gordon's indignation was thoroughly aroused by hearing Mary Gough's story about the loss of her hair, and she made up her mind that when she saw Joe Gough she would give him a very plain talking.

" "Oh," said Mary, her pale cheek growing whiter with apprehension; "That's his footsteps now, Miss Belle don't say anything to him, Joe's as good and kind a man as I ever saw when he is sober, but sometimes he is really ugly when he has been drinking.

" "Good morning, Mr. Gough," said Belle bowing politely and extending her hand.

Belle immediately felt her indignation changing to pity.

"Mother Graham," said Belle, "a happy thought has just struck me, Couldn't we induce Mr. Gough to attend the meeting of the Reform Club?

Recently called to the council by King Louis XV., Marshal Belle-Isle, still full of daring in spite of his age, loudly declared that, "since war had come, it must be made on a large scale if it were to be made to any purpose, and speedily."

M. de Belle-Isle had insisted strongly on the choice of Marshal d'Estrees; he was called "the Temporizer," and was equally brave and prudent.

"I am very impatient, I do assure you, to be on the other side of the Rhine," wrote Count Clermont to Marshal Belle-Isle; "all the country about here is infested by runaway soldiers, convalescents, camp-followers, all sorts of understrappers, who commit fearful crimes.

The Count of Gisors, son of Marshal Belle-Isle, a young officer of the greatest promise, had been killed at Crevelt; Count Clermont was superseded by the Marquis of Contades.

After the death of Marshal Belle-Isle he exchanged the office for that of minister of war; with it he combined the ministry of the marine.

Whilst Pitt kept his answer waiting, an English squadron blockaded Belle-Isle, and the governor, M. de Sainte-Croix, left without relief, was forced to capitulate after an heroic resistance.

When the conditions demanded by England were at last transmitted to Versailles, the English flag was floating over the citadel of Belle-Isle, the mouth of the Loire and of the Vilaine was blockaded.

Chaucer tells us that the French call the Daisy La belle Marguerite.