Show THE OLD PLANTATION BELL Old bells beHs always s interest me rema remarked remarked re re- re- re ma marked a ma man n who had hud Iou lounged I Into n to a a. Junk shop to s see sec ce I if he couldn't find the old brass candlesticks his wife was always talking about Where here did that old farm bell come from The junk de dealer ler smiled a u. little and said hald That old farm arm bell hell has quite a history It w w s s brought from rom wn way down South after atter the Civil War ur by a colored man Old Jack everybody calls callshim him hIrn Ho He cuts grass around town ton saws wood and does other odd Jobs The Theold Theold Theold old bell ben he me sa says s 's was on the thc plantation to which he belonged with Ith eight live other slaves slave and anti when the family broke up his bis old master asked him what hat he would like e to have as a J keepsake from the old home He chose the farm aria bell bel bellit It It is hard Iron you ou see ace and has a good old od ed count country ring to it Old Jack says say's he brought the bell ben up North all alJ way a in h h a P push Sh cart with his bla other traps tl-aJ but I dont don't know abou about that At an any rate late lot for many y years arS he has lent the plantation bell beU to toa toa toa a little back street sheet church i in which he was prime prime- mover mo The little church hadn't an any steeple but Old Jack rigged the bell up tip on ona a frame be behind the church and rang it faithfully on SunI Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- I day twice a da day an and on ort on week days when they had He He would not trust anybody else to ring that bell hell Nosir h he thought too much of oC it 11 for fOI tho that t. t Well the oth l- l da day he brought It here on his push pushcart cart and asked me to bu buy it for tor 1 He lie ald t-ald his church folk tolk had built buill a v. nc new y nc church with ith a big steeple and had got so st stylish lIsh th that thai t they didn't want old bell any more they made fun of ot it it and amI said aid it didn't sound like a a n church bell ben anWa anyway it sounded like an ail old way back tavern dinner bell belt Old Jack wept at parting with it but he said d it made him feel badly badh to look at It now no and he hoped it would be 10 sold off oft Into the country countr where It could ring on a 11 farm again I I gave save him the tIme Collar and ollar-and and a quarter for tor luck luck and and promised ed him him I wouldn't sell II IL except to a farmer You dont don't know kno one who needs a bell ben d do db you ou 7 Ill In take Old Jacks Jack's bell belt said the tho listener WC wet sot got a small place In the coun country and m my wife will wili be tickled to death to have havo a real time old plantation planta tion tion bell to ring at dinner time De De Detroit troit rolt Free Press |