Arizona republican., 1909-02-20

law Butit isn't In the biggest city of that odd country there is great belltower This beltower had several bells in it. very sveet-toned splendid bells, made lpressly to ring the joyful occasions when Princess was born who would be Queen some day And the great tower was built expressly for the bells to ring ln- 50 you see what lot they thought of Queens ln that country.
 lvoces that you hear when the bell rings. All that about its being the capper of the bell IS mere nonsense and would hardly deceive child. don know why i-1aon1e say such things Most Bell-oeople very energetic busy folk who love the sound of their own voices and hate being idle-and when nearly two hundred years had gone by, and no Princess had been born they got tired of living bells that were never rung So they slipped of the Bclfry fine frosty night and left the big beautiful bells empty and went of to find other homes. One of them went 10 live III dinner bell, and ono in q school bell and the rest all found hornes-thcy did not mind where just any where in fact where they could ind any Bel-Person kind enough to give them board and lodging. Ana everyone was surprised at the increased oudneSs and sweetness n the voices of these hospable bells. For of course the Bel-pcope from the Belfry did their best to help in the houSework, as polite guests should and always added their voices to those ot tner hosts on all occasions when bel-talk called for. And the seven big beautiful bells in the Bery were leit hollow and dark and quite empty except fer the clap pers who did the least about the comforts of a home.
 Now of course good house does not remain empty long especially when there is rent to pay. and n very short time the bells all had tenants-and they were all the kind of folk that respectable Bell people would care to be acquainted with.
 They had been turned out of other bellS-cracked bells and broken bells the bells Of horses that had been lost storms ot ships that had gone down at sea. They hated work, and they were glum silent, dsagreeabe peopebut far they could be pleased about anything they pleased to live bells that never rung-n houses where there nothing to do. They sat hunched up under the black dOTnes of their houses dressed in darkness and Cobwebs-and their only pleasure dleness-their only feasts the thick dusty silence that lies heavy in all beries where the bells never ring They hardly ever spoke to each other and in the whispers that good Bell people talk among themselves and that can hear but the bat whose for music very fine and who has himself particularly high voice. And when they did speak they quarreed.
 And when at last the bells uyere rung for the = birth of a Princess the wicked Bel-people Ss were furious. Of course they had to rfng-a B% bell can't help that, when the rope is pulled
 but their voices were so ugly that people were
 quite shocked
 What poor taste ancestors must have hadln they said. To think these were good.besl4
 Dear mel" said the King to the Queen, what odd ideas people had in the old days-I always understood that these bells had beautiful voices, but zine anyone having such poor for music thie he would call the noise they make anything but ugly"
 They're quite hideous," said the Queen And so they were.
 Now that night the lazy Bell-folk came down out of the Belfry full of anger against the Princess whose birth had disturbed their idleness There is anger like that of lazy person who made to go to work against his will.
 And they crept of the dark domes of their houses and came down in their dust dresses and cobweo cOaks and cIept up the Palace where everyone had gone to bed long before and stood round the mother of-pearl cradle where the baby Princess lay asleep And they reached their seven dark right hands out across the white satin coverlet and the oldest and hoarsest and lagest- said: