Until Europe's conflict raised concealed characteristics to the surface the German-American's indifference to politics had not been looked upon as a serious matter.

CHAPTER XXIII SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA Destruction of the Great Cunard Liner by a German Submarine Caused a Serious Crisis in German-American RelationsOver a Hundred Americans and Many Canadians Drowned, Including Citizens of Prominence and WealthPrompt Diplomatic Action by President WilsonThe German Campaign of Frightfulness and Its Results.

"Then I'm your friend for life and two days afterward," answered the German-American lad, and said this so gravely the others had to laugh.

And the German-American youth winked one eye suggestively.

The German-American boy had a big squirtgun filled with water, a gun used by the gardener for spraying the bushes.

"IerI don't mean neckties," stammered the German-American student, "I mean steamboats.

"Yes, I saw them," said the German-American student in answer to a question.

"I dink I can take care of myself," answered the German-American student.

The cap-and-bells element is largely represented in Chapman's select company of German-American talent: the confetti of foolishness is thrown at uswe dodge, laugh, listen and no one has time to think, weigh, sift or analyze.

From the architect's office they drove to the German-American Bank, where Ajo gave his check for a hundred thousand dollars, to be placed to the credit of Mr. Wilcox, the real estate agent.

The person whom I saw was, I believe, a German-American.

Once as a very fat and perspiring German-American began to fight the crowd in the endeavor to turn around and leave the car, his slowly revolving bulbous bulk pushed her so smotheringly into the broad back of a negro ahead of her that she felt faint.

The superintendent of your building is a German-American and we dare not trust him, and there is no vacant apartment that we can rent.

His uncle was a German-American, a proved spy or at least a messenger for spies.

I stopped at Kork, on the branch road leading to Strasbourg, to meet a German-American about to return to my home in Pennsylvania, where he had lived for some time.

He is a fine type of the German-American citizen, and, since the war began, with his wife and son has held the fort and tactfully looked after the interests of both Americans and Germans.

He based this astonishing belief, which was violently attacked by the German-American Press, upon his observation of his audiences and by the street music, even including whistling and singing.

But as Jimmie speaks German-American, we got what we wanted in the way of a boat, and found that the Königsee is quite as green as the Achensee is blue.

I stopt at Kork, on the branch-road leading to Strassburg, to meet a German-American about to return to my home in Pennsylvania, where he had lived for some time.

I liked to think of this as the train sped on at the close of the short winter afternoon, for my first business was to call upon a middle-class family on behalf of a German-American in New York, who wished me to take 100 pounds to his relatives in a small Rhenish town.

These pastors are in communication with the German-American Lutherans in the United States, who exerted their influence to the utmost against the election of President Wilson, taking their instructions indirectly from the German Foreign Office.

So I found festive Berlin patting Americans on the back, cheering Americans in German-American meetings, and prettily intertwining the Stars and Stripes and the German flag.

On Saturday morning it was advertised on yellow and black posters throughout Berlin, and was quickly bought by a feverish public to whom anything pertaining to German-American relations was of the sharpest interest.

I know a case of one young girl, a German-American, whose parents returned to Hamburg, who declined to repeat the ridiculous German formula, "Gott strafe England," and stuck to her point, with the result that she was not invited to that circle again.

After the British and French autumn offensive of 1915 the feeling against America on the part of German women became so intense that the American flag had to be withdrawn from the American hospital at Munich, although that hospital, supported by German-American funds, has done wonderful work for the German wounded.