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September 30, 1914.



Dutch Agency circulates a report of a great patriotic concert recently held in Berlin. The programme, which is printed on a mere scrap of paper, was as follows:—

A GRAND PRUSSIAN PATRIOTIC CONCERT

Will be held in the

I.

"Hail, Smiling Marne." Band of the Imperial Prussian Guard.

II.

"Father, dear Father, come Home with me now." Words and music by the.

III.

"The Sally of our Ally." Words and music by the Emperor.

IV.

"Forty Years On." Setting arranged by Count the Second.

V.

"Oft in the Stilly Night." Words and music by, composer of "What does little Birdie say?"

VI.

"The Blue Carpathian Mountains." The Viennese Orchestra.

VII.

"The Bonny Bonny Banks." Arranged by the Imperial Minister of Finance.

VIII.

"And Nobody cares for Me!" Respectfully dedicated to the.

IX. (in which the audience is requested to join):

 

mist in the hollows,
 * There's gold on the tree,

And South go the swallows
 * Away over sea.

They home in our steeple
 * That climbs in the wind,

And, parson and people,
 * We welcome 'em kind.

The steeple was set here
 * In 1266;

If could get here
 * He'd burn it to sticks.

He'd burn it for ever,
 * Bells, belfry and vane,

That swallows would never
 * Come home there again.

He'd hang down their perches
 * With cannor and gun,

For churches is churches,
 * And a Hun.

So—mist in the hollow
 * And leaf falling brown—

Ere home comes the swallow
 * May be down!

And high stand the steeples
 * From Lincoln to Wells,

For parsons and peoples,
 * For birds and for bells!

 "'It makes things clearer, for example, if one knows that a howitzer gun drops its shells, while an ordinary field gun fires them to all intents and purposes vertically.' Weekly Dispatch."

Much clearer.