. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . other words, — I mourn the deaths ; I
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . other words, — I mourn the deaths ; I break the lightnings ; I mark the sabbaths ;I arouse the slow ; I scatter the winds ; I appease the cruel. And this : — Laudo Deum verum ; plebem voco ; congrego clerum;Defunctos ploro ; pestem fugo ; festam que honoro. That is to say, — I praise the true God ; I call the people ; I convoke the clergy;I mourn the dead; I frighten the plague ; I honor the feast. Schiller, Tennyson, Edgar A. Poe, and nearly all the great national poets,have given us a song of the bell. The Bells of Shandon shows how uni-versal is the love of this powerful mover of the sentiments and feelings. The early bells of the United States were all imported from England, whencealone, for a long period, were to be obtained the supplies of tin which enterinto their composition. Not many were wanted : yet the early Early bellssettlers of America were a very religious people, and the white imP°rted-spires of their churches dotted the dark brown and green of every landscape;. INDUSTRIAL HISTORY and it was desired to hang a bell in as many of the spires as possible. So therewas something of a demand for bells, and the ships from England brought allthat were ordered. Occasionally one was hung in a state-house also. Amongthis class was the famous bell imported in 1752 for Independence Hall atPhiladelphia; which, being cracked on trial by a too energetic stroke of theclapper, was recast under the direction of
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