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purporting to weigh sixteen ounces, but
which were only eleven or twelve ounces in
weight, he would have difficulty in making
the wife believe it, with hunger gnawing at
| her vita1s and the children crying for more
bread
THE HERMANN STATUE.
On Monday last, amid vast concourse,
numbering thousands Of the German people,
t including scholars, artists, soldiers, and
| musicians, the Emperor WILLIAM and the
Royal family being ths nucleus Of the great
throng, grand colossal monument was raised
on the summit Of the Grotenberg, near Det-
mold, in the Thuringian Forest, to the
| memory OF Hermann, known to the Romans
as ARMN1Us, Prince of the Cheruskii, who
| first broke the yoke Of Roman tyranny, lib
Grated the German people, and united them
in confederacy. The great statue is typical
! Of German patriotism, and it illustrates Ger
! man perseverance and devotion to art. It
tells story nearly 1000 years old, and it is
the work Of one man through ifetime-a
lifetime devoted to lofty artistic ideal, amid
the most imposing obstacles, and finally
crowned with success and insuring imperish-
able fame to the aged artist who commenced
his work in youth and ended it in extreme
old age.
This story Of German patriotism may be
briefly told. During the pre-Christian era,
Germany had been harassed by JULIUS C4sAR,
Dausus, and TBER1us, and the Inter about
the year Z L. D. appointed PuB11us Qum-
ru1us VARus Governor Of that part Of Ger
commenced the work Of Remaining Ger
many BY imposing the severest punishments,
levying oppressive taxes, and subjecting the
people to every species of degradation, from
which they had no appeal. In order further
to Romantic them, he concentrated power
full army and marched against those tribes
which were only in partial allegiance. Then
hermann, Chief Of the Cheruskii, rallied the
German tribes about him. While VAnus and
his legions were marching slowly down the
Weser, the Germans had risen from the Elbe
to the Rhine, and docked around Hermann.
They hung upon the danks and the rear Of
the Romans, harassing them aud driving
them into confusion, until their regular order
of march was broken At last, VARUs reached
The pathless forests Of Thuringia, where now
stands the statue Of HERMANN overlooking
the scene Of destruction and death. In these
narrow defles he found himself surrounded
On every hand by the enthusiastic German
warriors- He gave up all idea Of attempting
to subdue the insurgents, and attempted to
escape by pressing forward Then the i'm
menss German hordes poured down the for
est pathways and slaughtered them by thou
sands. Three days the fight lasted, and at
the end of the third day the great Roman
army was annihilated- VAnus, like his faith
er at Phiippi, fell upon his own sword The
dom was born The Romans never again
crossed the Rhine. An English historian pic
lures the CONSERVATION among the Romans
when the news Of the defeat reached them
There w2s joy in Rome when 9KRAAs1cus, In Sep
ternbsr A. D. o. brought tho news Of tho termination
Of the Dalmadan War. Music sounded in the streets,
temples and houses bedecked with flowers, and
innumersbe crowds thronged the Forum the bridges,
the public Places streAned along the Via SacTa to
the capitone OF P.latian Hs thanking the gods and
conerasulating each cther. Five dsys had
GERMAH1ous been in tho city in tho midst Of = con-
tinua round Of festival when, toward the evening Of
the nth day, the festivities suddenly ceased and the
palaces grew STILL men knew not WHEREFORE Crowds
stl ps1ambu,.ted 'reets, tut the nusie By de-
gFses became SLANT, md ssnsrn asr Of .na-
e, sr..a av,r The n,obty etT 1t ,euatn tho te9hls
truth was divnesd Tho Roman arrny In tho ha.rt Of
Germany vas not merely defeated but annihilased
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