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Show Who Rang the Bell for the Faithful Sexton? In the New Year for sixty years!" were his congratulations. The old sexton sex-ton smiled but suld nothing. And It grew, to be a tale In the village of how one man had rung the bells for sixty years, und died on New Year's morning. And there was never a whisper whis-per Unit" II was not so. Who did ring the bell? Perhaps an angel these . . things liclng possible when hope is stronger fluin faith. Marthan Canning Can-ning Thomas. (SX list Western Newspaper Union.) UP t'.'.TIl. sin o cluck of New Year's ee the old sexton lie ' ileved llml he could climb- the slalrs in the church steeple to ring the bell Itut when he found hlmsell scarcely able to pull blinseif out ol tils clnili I wh.it with the selling of his hones i uml Un- pniii In his dies!) lie knew j thai his dream of ringing out the old I uml in the new for sixty veins would never come true. For fifty nine years ! he hud done It; on the .sixtieth lie ; must full. There was no one lo call; ! no one he could get to fill his place. lie lived alone on 'the outskirts of the I village. t He sat np , waiting for twelve I o'clock. Dreading It. j et faithful to Ib'S practice. As his kitchen clock struck the hour ' he heard to his urnazenieut Jbe deep tones of the chnrcb bell. One two three four i five t . . . and on steadily to the hour. Who had done this .o blmt Nejti morning a caller dropped In. "How wonderfu' that you could ring |