July 9, 1915. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder ben re u 9 
‘When in the Course of Human Events—”’ 
UR nation is counting up its birthdays with the com- 
ing of the Glorious Fourth each year, and is fast 
making progress in its second century. But while the 
Fourth of July in this year of 1915 makes us a natioa 
139 years old, we are still in our infancy. As we grow 
older the prevailing sentiment of the people seems ‘o 
favor more civilized methods of celebrating our natal 
day—a sign that we have come to realize that noise is not 
patriotism, nor lawlessness liberty. True love of coun- 
try does not consist in reviving memories of past injuries, 
or paradng the fact that we conquered our enemies—it 
means honoring the flag with our best manhood and 
womanhood. 
The picture opposite is from an old engraving of the 
famous painting of Trumbull’s, ’The Declaration of In- 
dependence.” At the table sits John Hancock, President 
of the Continental Congress. The Committee of Five 
standing before him are Benjamin Franklin, Thomas 
Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman and Robert L. 
Livingstone. 
Of ‘his best loved work, “The Declaration,” Trum- 
bull wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1823: “The event 
was great beyond all others in the history of man; the 
actors in it were men who not only by that act, buti by 
the consistent and undeviating patriotism of their subse- 
quent conduct deserve to live in the memory of mankind 
to the end of time; and I thank God that I have possessed 
calmness of mind and steadiness of purpose to complete 
this memorial of such men and such an act.” 
“Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land—’”’ 
FEW relics of Revolutionary times and the 
seven years’ war for freedom are more 
treasured than the "Liberty Bell” which pro- 
claimed for two hours, the sounds of jubilee 
from the belfry of the old State House in 
Philadelphia, on the afternoon of July 4, 17706, 
at the adoption of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence. There the Colonial Congress had been in 
session, solemnly deliberating on the affairs of 
the country, and on that day in particular, there 
were grave portends of some decisive act on its 
part—decisive of the country’s destiny for weal 
or woe. The final and memorable act came, 
and thus it was, of course, that this bell was 
the first in the United States rung in honor of 
that great event. Tradition, or history, shows 
that this bell was imported from England for 
the State House in 1752, but became cracked on 
the first trial after it was hung. It was recast 
in Philadelphia in 1753; but on the approach “f 
the British to Philadelphia in 1777, the bell was 
taken down and removed to a place of safety. 
The next year the steeple itself, having be- 
come decayed, was taken down, and a simple 
belfry or tower substituted. 
Singular, and 
fillets around its crown, cast there twenty-three 
years before Congress met in the State House, 
are the Scripture words, ‘“Proclaim liberty 
throughout the land unto all the inhabitants 
thereof.” 
The size of this national relic and treasure 
appropriate, surely, upon 
is a matter, of course, of only secondary mo- 
ment; but, as every item pertaining to what ‘s 
invested with such memorable associations can 
scarcely be regarded as inconsequential or de- 
void of interest, it may be stated that the bell 
measures just four feet in diameter at the lip, 
and is three inches thick at the heaviest part. 
The Liberty Bell 
