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Show It is said that Biugiiam Young, during dur-ing his palmy days, had a city ordinance passed suppressing the use of church bells except in case of fire. This ordinance or-dinance has been inveighed against as tyrannical. But when it is stated in explanation that there was only about one bell in use, and that was in the vicinity vi-cinity of Social hall avenue, and that the ordinance was in the nature cf protection pro-tection to the community, his zeal against the bell will not seem so unreasonable. Why, that bell is still being thumped by its ponderous iron clapper, and it never begins its deafening deafen-ing wail that one does not recall the dire scenes depicted in Dante. All the dogs in the neighborhood begin to raise their plaintive cries in lugubrious howls and yowls and long drawn growls. The awful bell is a nuisance. Since the city is not likely to pass an ordinance to suppress it, we pray the good Lord to bless its owners and enable en-able them to get a new, sweet-toned, silvery-noted bell. |