Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-12
WORLDS noted BELLS
Big Part They Have Played In Daily
3 Life.
TOLL FOR JOY AS WELL As GRIEF

y
Caused the Preservation Of the Old
Liberty Bell-The Great Bell of
Moscow is the Largest in the World.
Carl Scruz Lowden in Dearborn In
/ dependent.
The alarm clock awakens you. 1t
commits the deed with. a little but
mighty bell. Before you are fully
fdressed the telephone insistently sum-
mons you with it's, ringing. AS you
hang up the receiver your ears are as
sailed again and at first you think II
is the burglar device recently install.
ed; instead it is the doorbell.
You catch car. The conductor
rings the t''go ahead" and rings. up
your fare. Soon a wagon ,obstructs
the motorman's path, and he takes his
morning exercise by kicking the
button that works the gong, that is
merely another form of bell Next. a
passenger rings to get off, the car
stops, and just then Fido comes jog
ging along with bells ON his collar!'
Presently you heara thrilling sound
and you guess that it is an ambulance.
No, you are wrong. The fire laddies
are on their way to battle DANES
somewhere in the city. Soon, how
ever an!ambulance does, pass with its
bell madly Changing. Somebody per-
habs a Victim of the fire. has been in
jursd. You may possibly: reach your
office, without ,encouhtering the bell
hefalded1 patrol wagon S.E. 'r
| AID IL you live in the country you
fnd that when. snow covers the
ground, sleighs venture. out; and the
horses that draw them invariably
wear necklaces and belts of jingling-
jangling, merry bells. In the old days
every town, had crier who carried a
bell. Then it was, too, that every
farmer belled his cows and bel!ed his
sheep SO. be could find them readily in
the woods. The custom Of belling the
Domestic animals faded away as the
a&sot in its work of clearing the land
When watches were scarce and
high priced. the farmer blowing his
fed depended on a big, heavy, stout
sonorous bell to call him to dinner
Now the dinner bell has virtually
passed on It's big brother, the
church bell, has survived; but it is
sentiment and not genuine need that
has kept it on duty.
The world is full Of bells, and ]
have named only few Of them. Just
consider what the old world would be
like without these messages of joy
and grief, Of gladness and sadness. 1t
we uld be a changed world indeed.
At Weymouth, MASSACHUSETTS,, the
traveller may see bell abandoned in
d field. Cast in 1860, boys and girls
of the. Sunday school of the First
Baptist church saved their pennies
and purchased it six years later. 1t
was mounted in the belfry, where it
served well for five years. Then it
body wanted the bell Finally, some
person convinced the town govern
rnent that il could be used as water
ing trough in Lincoln Square. With
a longer lease of life, the bell survived
in this somewhat undignifed but util-
itarian sole until 1886. Then Wey-
smouth put in its modern waterworks;
and the huge cast piece that originally
1~,xf4 70 in he
church and the children to Sunday
school was carted out rather ignomin-
iously to, the edge of woods, where
2. 1t was dumped to be out of the way
l. Without doubt the most famous
i bell in this country is that one Of pa
triotic remembrance which has in
scribed on its head the biblical quo.
tation, proclaim liberty Throughout
all the land unto all the inhabitant:
thereof" Now it is cracked and use
less, but it has not and never will bt
abandoned in a field TO waste away ir
the form of rust.
For many years. however, th'
Liberty Bell was neglected. And who
; 40 you suppose saved it from con
tinued Obscurity? A son Of old Eng
land, who afterward became Edward
VII was visiting the United States il
1860, when he stopped off at Philadel.
phia and saw the object which we 81
greatly venerate now.
This old bell" said the then Prince
of Wales, "is the greatest relic thi!
republic has today. Instead of being