It is a beautiful story, that in one of
the old cities of Italy, the King caus
ed a bell to be hung in a tower in one
of the public squares and called it
“ the bell of justice,” and commanded
that any one who had been wronged
should go and ring the bell and so call
the magistrate of the city and ask and
receive justice. When, in the course
of time, the lower end of the bell rope
rotted away, a wild vine was tied to it
to lengthen it, and one day an old and
starving horse that had been abandon
ed by its owner and turned out to die,
wandered into the tower and in trying
to eat the vine, rang the bell. The
magistrate of the city, coming to see
who rang the bell, found the old and
starving horse and he caused the
owner of the horse, in whose service
the beast had toiled and been worn
out, and declared that as his poor an
imal had rung the bell of justice, he
should have justice, and that during
the horse's life his owner should pro*-
vide for him proper food and drink
and stable. It is a great pity that
some of the hitching posts in
Shullsburg are not provided with
“ bells of justice ” and that a magis
trate is not ready to render justice to
the horses that are left unblanketed
and unfed for hours on stormy nights,
while their owners are enjoying the
comforts of a good fire and taking in
a number of whiskey straights in seme
neighboring saloon.
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