The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-08
THE HUMAN PROCESSION


 Hold the F'ort,'' the famous hymn which has been sung by millions all over the world, was first heard in 1871 at musical gatherings in the Northwest held by P. F. Bliss. the singing evangelist who wrote both the words and music of the song Bliss was born in Clearfeld county, Pa., seventy-fye years ago today. July g., 1888, and died at Ashtabula, O., in 1878. Hold the Fort was inspired by an incident of the war between North and South, and was composed in 1871 It gained almost immediate popularity, and its adoption by Moo- dy and Sankey spread 1t all over the globe. MT. Bliss wrote many hymns, and considered "Hold the Fort" one of the least meritor1ous of his ef- forts, but this estimate has never been shared, by the religious world. The monument to Bliss erected at his birthplace bears the inscription, Hold the Fort From the literary and ar- tistic viewpoints Hold the Fort has little merit, but it contains clements that continue to make a powerful ap- peal. to the emotions of millions.
 John Davison Rockefeller begins his seventy-dfth year today, but. despite not bowed down by the burden nor weary Of life. and has often express ed the hope that he may live to pass the century mark. The birthday of the worlds richest man is always marked by a steady stream of mess ages of congratu1atton from prominent men all over Europe and America.
 It has been persistently reported that the oil magnate intends to spend his last years In England, on an es- tate in Devonshtre, but this has been categoricaEy denied by MT. Rockefeller who asserts that he has never dream ed of such a thing.
 'fThe good old Stars and Stripes are good enough for me-" he is reported to have said. Considering the number of good old American dollars he has accumulated under said good old Stars and Stripes, the patriotic sentiment does him proud.
 Mr. Rockefeller has often explained his system for acquiring great wealth but, as there appears to be about the usual number of poor people in these parts, the advice must have escaped their attention. Here is John DIS recipe for getting rich:
 Save your pennHes."
 There's the entire secret, told in sim pie words of one and two syllables. After this, there is absolutely no. ex- cuse for poverty.
 The recipe was first published less than a year ago, but it has already started many on the road to affluence- One little girl, it is reported, has al- ready acted on the oil kings advice to the extent of saving 130 pennies, and all she has to do now is to save 99.- 9s9, 9e9. 87o more pennies to be as rich as Rockefeller.
 It's the easiest thing in the world to save a billion dollars, the estimated amount of MT. Rockefeller's increment. now that he has explained the secret. Indeed. 1t is so simple that the won. der is we are not all bil1iona1re&
 Positively all that one has to do to accumulate a billion dollars, which is 100, ,0oo, ,Oo0.000 cents, is to "save the pennies at the rate of 3,340 minute, twenty-four hours a day, for three score years and ten.
 Of course, most of us won't do that. We squander our pennies on cigars, and ice cream sodas, and food, and beer, and clothes and educating our children, and such things, and at the end of the year what have we got? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
 If MT. Rockefeller realizes his am bition to live to be 8 hundred and if he keeps on saving the pennies at the present rate, he will on his hundredth birthday, have
 Well, he will have nearly everything. as nearly as I can figure it.
 BenJanln La ron WA1cuSA' AOTAA1e1 president and now receiver of the St. Louis 6 San Francisco railway, was born at Palmyra, Mo, hfty-five years ago today. He commenced his railroad career as an employee in the Burling- ton shops at Hannibal, Mo. and work ed his way up to the presidency of the Rock Island and the Frisco sys- tems.
 Int Rt. Hon. Alexander M. Carlisle long the head of the great Harland and Wolff shipbui1ding firm of Bel fast, and a recent American visitor was born at ManyInena, county An trim. ffty-nine years ago today. He entered the Belfast shipbuilding plant as an apprentice at thea of sixteen. anooAr onsaAn nur0