Ebook The Story of an Old Farm

Bendorf Surrounded by Apple Orchards — The Aspect and Architecture of the Town — One of the Oldest Churches in Germany — The Home of Johannes Moe lick and His Wife Mariah Katrina — He Sets Sail for America The Great German Exodus and its Cause — German Happiness Before the Thirty Years' war~the Miseries of that Contest — The Country People Fly From Their Dis mantled Villages and Wasted Lands — Peace Banquets are Spread in 1648 — But Little Comfort Comes to the Rhine Valley — Subsequent Continental Wars Louis XIV. Devastates the Palatinate — Despotic Princes, Petty Persecutions and Cruel Conscriptions — The German Turns His Back on Fatherland — The Great Flood of Emigration to America.