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■ r f . ' l ' I b « * . , Library . _ ^ Over the Top aH 011 Knees Our P u t in the Greet War i Um of Ashes. Commission to lire Cxplafne Keys to Their Felltleal Flay. key* te the BnssUn peMUeal all, aiiaple. and to he . LivS, My Home in the Field of Honor Hoard The End of a Chapter Leslie God the Invisible King , Weils Why We Art a t War Wileon Scientific Boohs The Airman Collins Life of the Grasshopper Fahre Friends in Feather Porter Useful Books ■ events,\ says Charles Bettor Meals for Lees Money Russell, who was seat by Prte- with the American com- to new Rneam. Here is one sple event as fee givee It In Magaslne: la a place, on .the Trane- railroad cafied Passing Point Of, a brown little speck on the of the Siberian be the Md e t May there easse ap te It • procession of forty of them, I think red flags. They tramped along what In Siberia, by a ____ _ of speech. Is called a road, tod la. In fact, not otherwise than a of ruts in black gnmbo mad. train was doming from m e past, rrom Vladivostok. At Pass- ■flbg Point No. 87 it took the eldetrack to waM for the train It was to meet Wf a sudden the processionist* were •sen to line op In front of the baggage , cor, to fall on their knees there, to lift tiielr hands in attitudes of prayer, the while they ottered strange, walling Cries and many wept “What were they crying about? The/ had learned that in that baggage car were the ashes of a Russian revolh- ttonlet, an old-time hero of the long, long straggle. He bad been condemned by the czar to one of the worst pris ons In coldest Siberia; he had man aged to escape and in the end to get ‘ to America. There he died, and his body wo* cremated. Now hie ashes In BibTe Stories a draped memorial urn were being car ried In etate\back to that free Russia he had dreamed of and suffered for. But note: \Of the peasants that fell on their Jknees before that handful of dust that day, about one-half could not read. All Of them, you might think, lived in a region farther from tl!b world and Its affairs than la Cape Nome from the Bowery. Tot all of them knew well enough the name of this deed hero and his deeds, and instinctively all before hls ashes that they might testify at once their roverance for him and the fervor of their torn revolu tionary faith. \Bat what did that procession mean. <|reen Handy Sanders wandering red-flogged along the black JStoof Sneiy S i b S ^ U u e t m t thatBlue War Food Tan Lessons in Thrift Light in the Clearing Baebeller Mistress Anne Ballsy Wall Street Girl Bartlett Dark Star Chambers Christine Cholmondeley The Red Badge of Courage Crane Skinner’s Dress Suit Dodge Stembonl Nights Dwight Fanny Herself Ferber Understood Betsy Fisher The Secret Witness Gibbs The Triumph 1 Harben The'Rise of David Levinsky Caban Romance of Martin Connor Kendall The High Heart King The Interlopers Lippman Red Pepper’s Patients Richmond The Long Lana’s Tnmhtg Rives Salt of the Earth Sidgwkk Nan of Music Mountain Spearman The Hungry Stones Tagore The Research Magnificent Wells The Soul of a Bishop Wells Non-Fiction for Boys and Girls Carpentry for Boys Adams Story of Glass Bassett Book of Magic Co’lins Book of Electricity Collins E ementary Geography Dyer Boy’s Book of Pirates Gilbert Boys and Girls of Many Lands McFee Paul Revere Moses Tales of the Great War Newbolt Olcott Holiday Plays Olcott Indian Names, Facts and Games Poast Boys! Book of Famous Warships -v, Stevens When I Was a Boy in Ronmania • Van Teslaar Fiction for Boys The Eyes of the Woods Altsheler The Free Rangers Altsheler Hitting the Line Barbour Boy Scout Crusoes Burritt Quest of the Golden Valley Brown The Country Pennant \ Heyleger The Fullback * Perry Bobby of the Labrador Wallaoe Fiction for Girls Blithe McBride it 1 Just at i Andrew Ja. Freshman and His College Lockwood Stepdaughter of the 1‘rttirie Lynn The Double Garden Maeterlinck When a Man Comes to Himself Noa-Flctioa London Films > Howells Out of the East Hearn Neighbors Biis Florence Nightingale Richards Readings in Ancient History Daria A Day in Old Athens Davis Gregt Captains Grant Plutarch’s Lives Gina Old. Greek life Mahaffy The Spartan Snedeker History of Greek Art Tarbetl Replaced Books Amateur Gentleman Famol Through One Administration Burnett Somehow Good DeMorgan damping Prog Double barrelled Detective Story The Village Shield ____ , , _ ____ s _________ Ribbon, Girl Pioneer ____ Iey the peasants were making a ’demon- Campfire Girls and Mount Greylock -Stratton.’ Demonstration about what? Homibrook Due Gaines Hals ’Why. if you will believe me, against the Austrian government’s sentence of ienth against Frederick Adler, slayer ' «f the Austrian prime minister. \And there you a re: that is Russia. Also, yon may see in this Incident how deep In the heart of every peasant and toller are at least the rudiments of the •svololion’a creed.” Magnitude In Modern War. 1 The magnitude of the war, aa a whole, la repeated In every phase of Its activity, and In ao way more so than In Its Instruments of war. As we have more than once remarked, the Scientific American, it haa ) Wonder Tales Retold been necessary to multiply our units Fairy Operettas «f measurement by from 10 to 100. Weapons which were thought massive and powerful in 1814 are puny In 1917. Thus, heavy artillery, whose weight tied It down, to fixed fortification, la B now moving merrily over the -Acid of battle. Where, formerly, we talked In millions, now we talk freely In bll- Uono. Before the war 25 to 80 knots was bnttle-Criiiser speed—today we have such ships of from 180,000 to • 200.000 horse power steaming at 88 to I 40 knots. A notable Instance of this growth is in the field of aviation, where the British have airplanes of 000 horse power and the Italians have gone 1,000. And the end la not y et Flve-Yesr-Old Seal Skins. A sufficient number of skins of Eve-, year-old fur senle will be taken on the Prtbiiof Islands, Alaska, to enable the United States bureau of fisheries to determine fully how they will be re ceived by the trade and the best uses to which such skips may be put, says -» tile Scientific American. These skins have about twice tho area of the skins from an average three-year-old seal, and are regarded About Harriet Hunt Ann’s House of Dreams Montgomery Schoolgirl Anies . Ssmson The Sapphire Signet Seaman Books for Little Folks The Way to the House of Santa Claus Burnett Treasure Flower Gaines Stories to Tell to the Little Ones Bryant Overall Boys in Switzerland Grover The Allies Fairy Book Goss The Cave Twins Perkins Our Little Cossack Cousin in Siberia Postnikov ■ Pyle Richards Little Pioneers Warren General Literature Long Road of Women’s Memory Adams My Four Years in Germany Gerard New Map of Africa Gibbons Every Man’s Chemistry Henderick Essentials of International Public Law Herahey Second Book of Operas Krehbiel Practical Brass and Iron Founders' Guide Larkin Through Glacier Park -' Rinehart How to Debate Shorter Three Minute Declamations for Col lege Men - . Drama Every Woman justice She Stoops to Conquer Sunken Bell Lull’s House • Kismet Richelieu Paolo and Francesco Rivals' r : ' : -- The Four Millions Gallagher Joli Boys Captain January Henry Davis Alcott Richards Police C o u rt The case against C. Kassel, charged with auto speeding, tried before a jury on December 20, resulted in a ver dict a t not guilty. A n o ther Big Fire a t Long B each The Brooklyn Times estimates the loss from tha big fire at Long Beach early Wednesday morning at 8430 030. The fire dastroyed four large buildings on the ocean front, starting at about 1:30 and still burning at noon Wed nesday, although under control. F o u rteen Years A g o (Ite m s e f In t e r e s t from th e N e eean C o u n ty Review files fourteen y e a rs ego th is w e e k ) William H. Cotter severe’y burned by explosion of gasoline engine in Poinciana Hotel, Florida. More ice in bay than any time in ten years before first of January. William Bomscheuer elected Noble Grand in Odd Fellows. Improved Order of Heptasopha or ganised with Leo Fishal as Archon. M E R R ICK (Continued from Page 1) A beautiful and inspiring service with a large congregation was held at the local church on Sunday night when Christmas carols were sung. The chA-ch looks exceptionally pretty in its 'Christmas greens. Mr. Samuel Conner was violin soloist and accom panied the organ for the singing. The singing of a trio,-Mrs. F. G. Hill, Mrs. WM. F. Rohlff, and Mr. F. G. Hill, was excellent. The Rector’s ad dress was upon the text; “I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly, “John 10:10. A service flag with 8 stars was dedicated in honor of the follow ing men connected with the church: Major Walter F. Spear, 1st Lieut Her man C. Schwab, 1st Lieut. Chas. Kup- fer, Herbert A. Muller, Gustav B. Muller, John L. Burns, Chas. F. Simes, George S. Johnson. Wellman Miller has been confined to his home with an attack of the mumps. Cannot Be Repaired. The toss of a friend is like that oi i limb; time may heal the anguish o I.o Wound, but the loss cannot be re ;>afred.—Southey. Penalty of Leadership. A good executive must always work harder than the men under him. This Is the world-old psychology of .the art Davis of command in any walk of life. Brqwne Galsworthy Goldsmith Hauptmsn Ibsen Knoblauch Lytton Phillips Sheridan N o t ic e o f d iv id e n d The directors of the Freeport Bank, Freeport. N. Y., have on this date de clared a Semi-Annual Dividend of 6% on the Capital Stock payable January 1, 1918. ‘i .. Dated, Dae. 18, 1917. >* ----- hW iro WILLIAM S. HALL, ,5 Cashier. . ' 1 - y<pi jmf 'P 1 pyw | members of I at Freeport * his wife in and Mrs. Parks Presbyterian Church a t took great pleasure in its services and in the work at the chapel at Roose velt The Sunday School there Mr. Parka’ solace and delight He gave himself to it to any service to which he had been officially called. He saw in it a chance to serve his Master deem to the end of Hfe. And because ef his love for it the services were held in the chapel on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. ^ Mr. Parks had filled out a long and useful life. He was pest 88 yearn. Born in Vermont <xf e large family. His father Was the father at 21 child ren. His own brothers and sis te n 8, two of him. Mrs. Finch of Milton, Cornu, herself past 80 years, visited him dim ing his last illness, returning home but a few days before his death, and Mrs. Swan of Walla River, Vermont As a young man Mr. Paries can New York and graduated from New York University in 1863. pursued his theological studies in Un ion Seminary, graduating ha 1866. Be fore graduation he ■erred in the Christian Commission and occasion ally spoke of the horrors at the bat tlefield of Gettysburg. Soon after graduation he was married to Miss Mary Barneet of New York, who still survives him. The young couple went at once into independent mission work in Mexico. They labored together in Monterey, Cadereyta Saltillo, for six years. Two of their children were born and died during these years of hardship. Following this period of labor, Mr. Parks was pastor for 6 years of the Fred Reformed Church of Jersey City. Then followed three years' -with the North Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church on Fulton Street, New York. This was the church of the famous Fulton Street Monday prayer meet ings. These meetings were in prog ress during the entire period of Mr. Parks’ pastorate. His latter years were occupied with work for the Con- gregationalists of Connecticut He labored three years a t Weston, eleven years at Exeter Church, Lebanon, where he became interested in a mis sion enterprise at Liberty Hill, or ganised it into a church and spent his last years of pastoral service there. He retired and came here to make Freeport his home in 1912. He has been in good health until his recent illness. He supplied the Pres byterian pulpit in Freeport during the pastor’s vacation for two summers and frequently assisted at the Com munion. His venerable years, his kindly face, his earnest faith marked him as a saint of God and his words of exhor tation and prayer came as a gracious blessing to those who listened. J. Sidney Gould. SELENA SMYTH Mrs. Selena Smyth died at her home, Babylon Turnpike, on Tuesday, December 25, age 72 years. Funeral services at her 1st* home on Satur day, December 29, a t 2 p. m.; inter ment in Greenfield Cemetery, Rev. Dr. Roosevelt of - ii shrd cmfwy Dr. Smith of Roosevelt officiating; Southard & Moore, funeral directors GEORGE O. BAKER George O. Baker, a Civil War vet eran, and one of the best known sail makers in this section of the country, aged 88, died a t Nassau Hospital on Christmas Day, of pneumonia. Fun eral services will be held today, Fri day, at Greenfield Cemetery; Fulton, funeral director. MARIA BIELEFELD Maria, mother ef Edward Bielefeld, who some years ago conducted a bicy cle repair a tore on W. Merrick Road) died at the home of her son, 287 East 78th Street, New York City, on Sat urday, December 22, aged 78 years. Funeral services were held at Green field Cemetery on December 24; C. A. Fulton, funeral director. HENRIETTA wiLCOTT WALLACE Henrietta Wolcott, wife of Charles Wallace, died Saturday at Nassau Hospital, in her 43rd year. Funeral were held from her home, Charles Street, Roosevelt, Monday, Rev. S. D. Coors officiating; interment at Greenfield Cemetery; Fulton, fun- The m - - *boot4c ___ ■ l_ had to dive for them; - j { v y j I r. at jelly sad From there we stopped a t * lot of lit tle villages along the way. $ got a m m m - - ? * ■ which I wil in Joekson id home. We la villa sometime Tuesday night, and w* got up Wednesday morning and got something to e at in the station a t 7.-00 a. m., then we want to camp, about 9 alias on the train. It is very warm during the day, but ehiRy nights. I am writing this on my mem k it There is a K. o f C. building her*. I am go ing over tonight. How to everybody home? Tell Florence that cake was Slick. Hew do yoo all feel after that Saturday? My address is on the first page- WiU write later. _____ , B~ a i t Howard Teas haa been transferred from the 23rd to the 27th Engineers, and is new a t Camp Meade. Mr. Teas was ill at the Walter Read Hospital. D. C., for three weeks but haa re turned to camp. Another lad that belongs to a cer tain extent in the Freeport Roll of Honor, although are cannot put him there, aa his present address is 2491 ifierd Avenue, Brooklyn, is A. Ver non Walters, a brother of Mrs. Henry Leray Marson of South Long Beach Avenue. Mr. Walters is a former Freeport High School boy, who gradu ated from Tennessee Military Instil, tute in 1915 with high honors, being the c’aas valedictorian. He is now chief boatswain’s mate on the U. S. S. Natoma, S. P. 666. Mr. Walters was married to Miss Marguerite Dol lard of Oyster Bay on April 7 of this year. William G. Murray, a former Free port lad, and for several years con nected with the Nassau County Re view, but who want North several years ago for benefit of his health, haa enlisted in Vermont, in the Coast Ar tillery. Austin Montross has enlisted in the Aviation Corps, being in the 46th Aero Squadron. He is a brother of Jerome Montross, who is enlisted in the Nav al Reserve. New Y e a r's Eve Dance The ladies of Wantagh are giving a Pinochle and Dance in the Firemen’s Hall, Wantagh, a t 8:30 o’clock sharp, on December 31st, 1917, for benefit of the Fire Department Lucky Number Dances and prizes for Cards. 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