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Show Gknmany 13 now inaugurating, at Delruold, a city on the river Werro, in the northwestern portion of the empire, an imperial statue to Her maun, who is called the deliverer of Germany from Roman rule. He was born sixteen years before Christ, and while in the Roman service, conceived con-ceived the idea ot delivering his country coun-try trom its oppressors, and through hia military skill and strategy placed the German tribea on a war footing and annihilated the whole Roman army in the ninth year of the christian era. The Romans subsequently attempted at-tempted to regain their hold of the country, but tailed, and to Hermann, j therefore, is awarded the credit of. delivering Germany from the all but ( universal power of the then gre;it;! ruling empiro of the world. Htijj name has heretofore been little known In other nations; and the consolidation consolida-tion of the German empiro bus ltd to tardy recognition of his great lervicea to that people. Hermann was slain by hia own relatives in the thirty-seventh year of his age and the twelfth of hia leadership. Dclmo!d, the small city where the statue was inaugurated, was a scene of groat activity on the first day of the festivities, festivi-ties, the Emperor William and many members of the royal family, with representatives frm all the stairs of the empire, be:ni; presont, with some 50,000 people, for whom the place ftflorded poor accommodationa. |