here half a dozen years, have acquired the telephone habit and helps on the process of assimilation. Such is the push of American life, experts or college graduates. It reaches the man with a nickel as and the American spirit. that there are now in the United States seventy thousand holders of Bell that the humble immigrants from Southern Europe, before they have been have linked on their small shops to the great wire network of public schools, the telephone has a peculiar value as a part of the of all manner of men, is perhaps not too much to claim, when we remember Greece. And in the swarming East Side itself, there is a single exchange exchanges of Egypt. intercommunication. In the one community of Brownsville, for example, In a country like ours, where there are eighty nationalities in the two hundred and sixty-four wires crossing the Mississippi, in the Bell in Orchard Street which has more wires than there are in all the well as the man with a million. It speaks all languages and serves all Line. It is the telephone which does most to link together cottage almost point to it as a national emblem, as the trade-mark of democracy and skyscraper and mansion and factory and farm. It is not limited to trades. It helps to prevent sectionalism and race feuds. It gives national digestive apparatus. It prevents the growth of dialects and settled several years ago by an overflow of Russian Jews from the East system; and five hundred and forty-four crossing Mason and Dixon's a common meeting place to capitalists and wage-workers. It is so essentially the instrument of all the people, in fact, that we might Side of New York, there are now as many telephones as in the kingdom of telephone stock and ten million users of telephone service. There are