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Show Bells Over the World Will Herald In a New Year of Promised Peace .For Centuries the Old Year Has Died to Tolling Of Bells With Hope for Better Times. "Never forget the cheerful and cordial observance of New Year's Day." George Washington. Since early ages, the sound of stone, of hollow resonant wood, and of all the metals that came out of the earth, fashioned as a means by which man could make his gods hear him, have also been used to announce peace and the turning point toward better things of life. The first bells were fashioned by primitive man of wood. Prior to this time the "click stone," sometimes some-times called the first bell, was a resonant stone suspended by a thong has started a movement for the wide development of carillon music, believing be-lieving they could be made an element ele-ment in promoting human accord and genuine sympathy among the many racial groups in America. Just when bells were first used to announce the end of the old year and the start of the new is not known. Long before the clock had found Its way to the tower, they had been used to announce time, often united with the observance of the canonical hours. By this usage a monastery became timemarket to the neighborhood. h iJMWjJfV v m m r. fwr Tgv Jv" y i-? - I 1 t i I . " H , , I w'"A w'f "I RING OUT, WILD BELLS Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind For those that here weseenomore; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of trf,x and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. -LORD TENNYSON. In ' i . ....... and struck with a stick or another stone to give the ringing effect. The first church bell was erected by Paulimus, bishop of Nola, in the city of Campania. Italy, in about 400 A. D. Early bells were baptized. bap-tized. In Switzerland a curious tradition tra-dition is that all baptized bells take a trip to Rome every year during Passion weeks and get back in time to be rung on Easter morning. "'ill thuy tluinrlf'r here arc harmless! Fur th'se lit'lls have been annointed .!m baptized with holy water. 7 hev defy our utmost power." The science of music of bells has been recognized in some of the lead-ins; lead-ins; music institutions of the world. M. Kamiel Lefevre is carillonneur of the Riverside church in New York City where the chief of carillons, bv size and scope, were installed. He |