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Show COMMINGLING OF RACES. A writer in the Sun tells about the first Norman conquest of France, and aays: "The Norseman entered France a fighting, plundering, savage. There he acquired a refinement which polished the rough exterior without lowering his capacity as a soldier. The strong Norse blood throughout north-ern north-ern France doubtless changed the characteristic of the conquered inhabitants. May not the present generation assume that they are much the descend-'ai.ts descend-'ai.ts of the conquerors as the conquered?" That read very ominously. It is an indication that the next generation of Americans will hardly know whether they are Americans or whether Italians, Ital-ians, or Greeks, or Slavs. This last generation pro-'jduced pro-'jduced a great many people that had a brogue like Ireland, a drawl like England, and who are canny i like Scotchmen, Now if we take on the soft and 'sunny tones of the black hand, for instance, or if ijwhen we come in the next generation to study ! Greek, it will come to us like a mother tongue,. or j t he child of the next generation goes out like a I Iterzegovinian to rob the neighbor's-hen roos;, jhi. will ha able to say in his defense that in his dreams he looked back upon the time when hia fore- father marched in a Roman triumph, or fought with pliltiadc at Marathon, or that he was a pirate off 1, the roast of Greece in the long ago, who can dia-Ipute dia-Ipute him! The question still keeps coming. back I who are the 'Americans going to be ia another ha'.f j century! |