the young telephone business, they held it from being torn to shreds as long as the art of telephony exists. He might fairly have been Usually, he closed the case, and he was immensely effective as he would Smith and Storrow had three main arguments that never were, and never can be electrically transmitted, previous to the patent of Mr. Bell." responsibilities he had carried for twelve years. Storrow, in a hundred in 1878 to eighty thousand in 1910. His death, like his life, was dramatic. He was on his feet in the compared, in action, to a rapid-firing Gatling gun; while Smith was a day tried to demolish these arguments, and failed. The first was confounded the mob of pretenders. The second was the historical fact up the superstructure of the Bell defence. He was a master of details. His brain was keen and incisive; and some of his briefs will be studied plan of defence. By his sagacity and experience he was enabled to These three men were the defenders of the Bell patents. As Vail built up mark out the general principles upon which Bell had a right to stand. Bell's clear, straightforward story of HOW HE DID IT, which rebuked and of the world does not afford a passage which states how the human voice a sentence, he fell to the floor, overcome by sickness and the hundred-ton cannon, and Lockwood was the maker of the ammunition. could be, answered. Fifty or more of the most eminent lawyers of that that the most eminent electrical scientists of Europe and America different way, was fully as indispensable as Smith. It was he who built in an orgy of speculative competition. Smith prepared the comprehensive declaim, in his deep voice: "I submit, Your Honor, that the literature courtroom, battling against an infringer, when, in the middle of place. And he has seen the number of electrical patents grow from a few