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Show Points Abont Immigrants. New York, Aug. 25. It is a noticeable feature of the German immigration this year that nearly all the young men are healthy and fine looking, and in most instances in-stances belong to the skilled trades. Their exodus is due to the high cost of living at home and the increased burdens of military mili-tary service. . It has been noticed that of the thousands of immigrants who belong to the Greek Catholic faith, hardly 5 per cent, profess that religion after being here a few years. Much of this change is due to the efforts of the Koman Catholic church, which has missionaries whose duty it is to follow up and convert the heterodox foreigners. The missionaries ara chosen from the rices which supply the immigrants, and.inciude Finns, Poles, Kussiaus, Greeks, Armenians Armeni-ans and Slavs. They work very hard, and display a zeal and energy seldom witnessed on the part of American ministers of any denomination. A small portion of Greek Catholics are converted to Protestantism, while tk majority become agnostics or ir-religioa. |