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Show DELLS RING NO MORE. Their Joyous Peals No Longer Heard In Belgium. Time was when, even among the cities of Flanders, famous for ages for their silvery bells, the bells of Urusfels enjoyed pre-eminence. Tho city used to possess seven great peals whoso silvery volcos shed their harmonies har-monies dally over the city. One after another, however, they have disappeared, disap-peared, until only a single peal remains re-mains that uf St. Jacques-sur-Conden-berg, and this Is never heard silent like the rest of the glorious bells of Belgium, which once from nearly every ev-ery parish church in the land breathed forth the soul of Flemish art in melody. mel-ody. Inspiring founders and artists to work that won fame through Europe. The French revolution wrought the ruin and condemned tho lafid to the Bllence of tho utilitarian age. |