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Show ; Pretty Hard Taak. Senator 1'erklna of California, who spent yeara of hla early llfo at sea, telle of a atnwaway being found In the hold of tbe vessel. The lad was made rahln boy to the captain, who look qulto a fancy to hlm. When the ship made her Ural stop the captain rave the lud f.n and Bent hlm aalior for some vegetables. The boy told a groceryman what he had cotno for and the aton-Keener, pointing to a barrel of dried pi us, auld: "Them's vegetables." The boy Invested the I'JO and on rowing out to the ship, which wns anchored lu the hay, was hailed by the captain: "Havo you brought tho vegoialilea!" "Yea, air," aid the lad, not very confidently. "l.ook alive, then, and hand them up one at a time." Illiterate Immigrant. The following la the percentage of Illiterates among various classes who come to the United State: Scandinavian, Scandi-navian, 0: Kngllsb, 1.1; Irtnh, S.J; Herman, 4 1; MuK.var. 7.6; Hebrew, it.li; polish, 37.5; South Italian, M l. A law excluding Illiterate would, therefore, excludu mote than half tbe Southern Italian aud more thn third of the Poles, while it would effort Uie Immigration from the Bran dlnavlan raeea nut at all. It would reduce the Merman Immigration only per rent. |