The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-23

the bell and so call the magistrate of the
city and ask and receive justice. When,
in The course of time the lower end of the
bel rope rotted away, a wild vine was tied
to il to lengthen il. One day an old and
starving horse hat had been abandoned by
its owner and turned out 70 die wandered
into the tower, and, trying to eat the vine,
rang the bell The magistrate of the city
coming TO see who had rung the fell, found
the poor creature. He caused the owner
of the horse. in whose service il had toll
ed and been worn Out 70 be summoned be-
fore him, and decreed that, as the animal
had rung the bell of justice, he should have
Justice and that during the remainder of
The horses life his owner should provide
for him proper food and drink and stable.
Ii is on this story that Longfel-ow found
ed his ballad Of "The Bel of Atri,' which
concludes with these lines:
The King heard and approved, and laugh
ed in glee
And cried aloud: Right well it pleaseth
me-
Church bells at best but ring US to the
door;
But go not in to mass; my bell doth more:
1t cometh into court and pleads the cause
OF creatures dumb and unknown to the
laws;
And this shall make, in every Christian
cline,
The Bell of Atri famous for all time.
The CornstaIIS Bell.
On the bell of a small village church in
the east of Germany there is carved the
figure of cornstalk. The cornstalk has
an interesting story connected with It..
When the church was built the poor peo-
pie had spent all their money and had
nothing over with which to buy bell to
hang in the tower. One day when the
r4ft IL hoe he
saw growing out Of a crack in the Old
crumbling wall of the churchyard a green
stalk of corn. The idea suddenly struck
him that perhaps this green stalk of corn,
on what we call the snowfall plan -
which grows bigger as It rolls on, might
be made the means of getting the coveted
bell He waited iii the cornstalk was gol-
den ripe, and then plucked the six ears
thai were on 1t. and sowed them next
spring in his garden. In the autumn time
he gathered the little crop thus produced,
and sowed it again, till at last he had
not room enough in his garden for the
harvest. So he divided the seeds among a
certain number Of farmers, who went into
on sowing the produce until in the eighth
year the crop was so large that when II
was put together and sold they found they
had money enough 10 buy a large and
beautiful bell And they carved upon il
the story of It's origin and the stalk Of
corn TO which il owed its existence.
A story of another kind is told of a bell
In one of the churches at Ladenburg, Ger
many. long time ago, about A. d. 1873,
a young lady Of HE noble family of Sick
ingen was returning home to Laden burg
from visit TO a neighboring village. An
unexpected SHOWS orm brought on dark
ness before she could reach the town. At
that period there were still remains OF
forest in the wide surrounding plain. The
mantle of snow soon obliterated the roads.
In this condition of things, the young lady
soon lost her way, and wandered help
Iessly about I'm the dark wintry night In
her distress Of b. widerment and despon-
dency. she prayed ardently to heaven for
deliverance. When hope had Well-nigh
died in her bosom, she heard the peal of
a bell She fastened in the direction Of
the sound and as the bel continued TO
sound. she still followed, til at length she
found herself under the wall of Ladenburg.
In grateful CONNIE moration of this deliv-
erance, the Knght Hans Won Sickingen
founded a charity Of 600 bushels Of wheat
to be distributed every year among the
poor OF the town, with the additional stip-
ulation that forever after a bell should
sound from that church tower at the same
hour of the might that brought deliver
ance to the young girl
The BELLS of Florence.
Among tha many bells that swing from