pil took out a clean cloth handke

Ties, that I find myself wandering. To glance at conditions at the
present

time, about 600,000 aliens are coming to America yearly. What is the
result? I was invited to meet a distinguished German visiting in New
York last month, and at the dinner a young lady who sat by my side
said to me, "I wish I could puzzle him." "Why?" I asked, in
amazement. "Oh," was her reply, "he looks so cram full of knowledge;
I would like to take him down." "Ah," I said. "Ask him which is the
third
largest German city in the world.

It is New York; he will never guess it." She
did so, and I assure you he was "puzzled," and would scarcely believe
it until a well-known man assured him it was
true. There are more Germans in Chicago than in Leipsic, Cologne,
Dresden, Munich, or a dozen small towns joined in one. Half of the
Chicago Germans speak their own tongue. This city is the third
Swedish city of the world in population. It is the fourth Polish city
and the second Bohemian city. I was informed by a professor
in the University of Chicago that, in that strange city, the number
of people who

speak the language of the Bohemians equaled the combined inhabitants
of Richmond, Atlanta, Portland, and Nashville--all large cities.
"What do you think of it?" I asked. "We are up against it," was the
reply. I can not explain this
retort so that you would
understand it, but it had
great