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POLES IN PROCESSION AT THE FUNERAL OF A FAMOUS AMERICAN PRELATE 



The square-topped caps distinguish the uniforms of the Polish soldiers, while the fore- 

 most private citizen of Poland, Ignace Paderewski, leads this contingent of his countrymen 

 who are paying a final tribute to the late Cardinal Farley. Thousands of Poles in America 

 who had not been naturalized, and therefore were not subject to the draft, volunteered for 

 service against the Germans and were trained at a mobilization camp near Niagara Falls. On 

 the western front the Polish Legion shared honors of war with the famous French Foreign 

 Legion (see also page 499). 



Prussian is applied to all Prussian subjects, 

 the great majority belong to States spoliated or 

 destroyed. 



This system was endured and favored as 

 long as attended by the glamour of foreign 

 military success. In the wars with Denmark, 

 Austria-Hungary, and France, it intoxicated by 

 triumphs, electric in rapidity. But the first 

 great disaster was sure to hurl it to the ground 

 amid the awakened scorn and detestation of 

 the German people. The political delirium 

 now sweeping over Germany is manifestation 

 of this awakening. 



SLAVIC TRIBES IN GERMANY 



Slavic tribes, formerly scattered through 

 Germany as far as the Elbe, have been almost 

 entirely absorbed into the German population. 



The Polabs, once numerous, were probably 



the last to disappear. The district in eastern 

 Hanover, where their language was spoken as 

 late as the seventeenth century, is still called 

 Wend. 



In Lusatia, the name derived from the Slav 

 tribe Lusitzi, now belonging to Saxony and 

 Prussia, there are about 170,000 Sorbs, or 

 Wends. In most difficult circumstances they 

 have resolutely retained their language and 

 customs in the midst of a German population 

 eight times their number. Forgotten by the 

 world and gradually becoming Germanized, 

 they were vitalized by a remarkable national- 

 istic awakening at the beginning of the nine- 

 teenth century. Ill-treated in Prussia, they 

 have been favored in Saxony, where their capi- 

 tal, Bautzen, is an intellectual center. Their 

 language is intermediate between Polish and 

 Czech. 



