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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is Going On
+In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897, by Various
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+Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897
+       A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
+
+Author: Various
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+Release Date: April 1, 2005 [EBook #15518]
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+
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+    request of many readers that they now greet the world in more
+    enduring form. They have been written as occasion suggested,
+    during several years; and they commemorate to me many of the
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+AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT.]
+
+    VOL. 1   MAY 6, 1897.   NO. 26
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now that the war between Greece and Turkey has really commenced, people
+are much interested in comparing the strength of the two armies, and
+wondering which side will gain the victory.
+
+The Greek regular army numbers one hundred and twenty-five thousand, the
+Turkish one hundred and fifty thousand. When all the reserves are called
+out, it is thought that both countries can put twice if not three times as
+many men in the field.
+
+The Turkish army is considered the finer of the two, because it is so well
+drilled, and so perfectly armed. It is said that German officers have been
+teaching the Turkish soldiers the modern methods of war.
+
+The Turks, however, are the weaker in two important points: their means of
+providing food for their soldiers, and in facilities for carrying them
+quickly from one point to another.
+
+An army that is weak in these two very important points loses a good deal
+of its usefulness.
+
+As we have seen in Cuba, men cannot fight well when they are hungry. It
+is also a fatal thing to have no good roads or railroads, along which
+large bodies of men may be sent when they are needed.
+
+The Greek army is not nearly so well drilled as the Turkish, nor so well
+officered. The Turks have in Edhem Pasha a splendid leader, while the
+Greeks have no great general to lead them, and at present no general who
+seems even particularly clever. But that need not worry the friends of
+Greece. The history of the world has taught us that every great occasion
+has brought with it a great man capable of dealing with it. The French
+Revolution brought forth Napoleon, the War of Independence gave us
+Washington. We can therefore trust that what has happened before may occur
+again, and that the Greek crisis may produce its Washington, to lead the
+brave little country safely to success.
+
+The great strength of the Greeks lies in their navy, which is one of the
+finest in Europe. The Greek ships are modern, well manned, and well armed.
+The Turkish navy, on the other hand, has been the joke of Europe for many
+years.
+
+Since the invention of the great guns that will send a cannon ball through
+the side of a wooden ship as easily as you can pierce an egg-shell with a
+needle, all the warships have been fitted with strong steel armored hulls
+and water-tight compartments, such as we told you about on page 75 of Vol.
+I. of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD.
+
+Turkey has none of these new ships. She has been bankrupt for so many
+years that she has not had the money to buy any of them.
+
+It is supposed that the Turks will be more successful on land than the
+Greeks, but that the Greek navy will win back on the sea as much as the
+army loses on land.
+
+It is also said that the Turkish arrangements for feeding the soldiers are
+so bad, that, if the war runs on into months instead of weeks, the Turks
+will not be able to hold out.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Senate has not yet taken any action on the Cuban Bill.
+
+Senator Morgan again brought it before the House, hoping that he would be
+able to bring it to a vote. He was, however, obliged to agree to hold it
+over for a day or two until Senator Hale should be able to be present, as
+Mr. Hale has some very important things he wishes to say on the subject.
+
+From Cuba there is very little news of interest.
+
+Much indignation is felt against General Weyler, because he has sent out
+soldiers to destroy the Cuban hospitals, and in the last few days several
+have been burned and the sick soldiers in them murdered.
+
+The Cubans are not able to have large hospitals, because they cannot spare
+a sufficient number of men to protect them, so they have been in the habit
+of building huts in the forests, where they would leave a few wounded men,
+in the charge of one or two nurses.
+
+These forest hospitals are not guarded. The Cubans have trusted to the
+woods to conceal them from the enemy.
+
+It seems that the Spaniards have found out the secret of the hospitals,
+and now General Weyler has sent out parties to make a careful search for
+them.
+
+As soon as a hut is found the invalids are put to death and the nurses
+taken prisoner.
+
+To fire upon or in any way attack a hospital is against the rules of
+civilized warfare, and this new horror of General Weyler's adds one more
+to the long list of his crimes.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+The Mississippi River has not begun to subside yet, and the floods grow
+daily more serious, as fresh levees give way, and allow the waters to flow
+over new districts.
+
+There is, however, some hope that the greatest height of the flood wave
+has been reached, and that the angry waters may begin to go back in a few
+days.
+
+There is still fear that the city of New Orleans may be swept by the
+flood.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+The vexed question of the Bering Sea seal fisheries is coming up again.
+
+The Bering Sea divides America from Asia, and is bordered on the American
+side by the State of Alaska, and on the Asiatic side by Siberia.
+
+Up to the year 1867, Alaska, or Aliaska, as it was called, belonged to the
+Russian Government.
+
+In that year it was sold to the United States for $7,200,000.
+
+At the time of the purchase Alaska was looked upon as a very barren land;
+no one ever dreamt that gold and silver and other valuable minerals would
+be found in it. The money spent for the purchase was seriously begrudged
+by many people, and Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State who had made the
+bargain, was much blamed, people saying that it was a foolish waste of
+the public money.
+
+The one source of income which Alaska was known to possess in those days
+was its seal fisheries. A great herd of fur-bearing seals lived in the
+Alaskan waters, and the Government expected to make these seals very
+profitable to it.
+
+Under the Russian rule, the fur seal regions had been very carefully
+protected, and when the United States bought Alaska the Government decided
+to care for the animals in the same way that the Russians had done,
+allowing only a certain number of seals to be killed each year.
+
+The fisheries were leased to a company called the Alaska Commercial
+Company of San Francisco, which had the entire rights to them, under
+certain rules and regulations laid down by the Government.
+
+Soon after Alaska and its seal fisheries came into the possession of the
+United States, English and American vessels--the latter not belonging to
+the Commercial Company--entered the Bering Sea, and slaughtered any seals
+they could reach, without regard to the proper rules for seal fishing.
+
+The Company complained to the Government, and in 1887 this seal poaching
+had become such a serious matter that the United States ordered her
+revenue cutters up to Bering Sea to protect her interests.
+
+Several ships were captured by the revenue-officers, and most of them were
+British vessels.
+
+This opened the way for the dispute between Great Britain and the United
+States, which has been going on ever since, and has been one of the most
+troublesome questions our rulers have had to deal with.
+
+Great Britain claimed that she had a perfect right to fish in Bering Sea,
+and the United States insisted that she had bought all the rights to the
+fishing when she bought Alaska.
+
+After the quarrel had dragged on for five years, it was finally, in 1892,
+decided to arbitrate it.
+
+The Committee appointed for this purpose met in Paris, France, in 1893,
+and finally decided that Russia had never had any rights in the Bering
+Sea, beyond the usual rights which all countries have of controlling the
+seas for three miles out from their borders.
+
+Beyond the three-mile limit, the ocean becomes the "high seas," and is
+then open to anybody.
+
+It was decided that Russia could not sell the Bering Sea to the United
+States.
+
+The matter being thus decided, the question of caring for the seals was
+left as unsettled as ever, and it was most necessary that some arrangement
+should be made, unless the seals were to be totally destroyed.
+
+The decision at Paris made it necessary that Great Britain should be
+willing to agree to any plan that should be adopted.
+
+It was therefore shown to the Committee that the seal flocks were in
+danger of being destroyed, and a set of laws was made that proper care
+might be taken of the seals. England and the United States agreed to obey
+these laws, and it was decided that they should go into effect at once.
+
+As it was supposed that in course of time it might be wise to alter these
+laws, it was further agreed between England and the United States that
+they should be looked over every five years, and changed if it was
+necessary.
+
+The five years has still sixteen months to run, but the American
+Government has thought it advisable to ask that the two countries meet and
+talk the subject over once more, as the laws are not strong enough to
+protect the seals.
+
+The United States complains now that Canadian and British fishers are
+killing the seals in the same careless, ignorant way that they did before
+the Treaty of Paris, and that unless they are stopped there will be no
+seals in Alaska in a very few years.
+
+The Government says that the habits of the seals must be studied and
+understood, so that they may be protected, in order that all the fur
+necessary for market may be obtained, without interfering with the growth
+of the herds.
+
+Every year the seals arrive in flocks hundreds of thousands strong, and
+seek a sandy beach, or some nice sunny rocks, where they can spend the
+summer. In these places they establish rookeries, or villages, as they are
+sometimes called.
+
+The fathers of the families come first, arriving in April to seek out
+comfortable quarters.
+
+In June the mothers come to the island, take possession of the homes
+provided for them, and pretty soon each seal mother has a nice little seal
+pup to occupy her home with her.
+
+It is a curious thing about these little seal pups that though they are
+going to spend their lives in the water, they don't like the idea of it at
+all, and have to be forced into the water by their mothers, and taught to
+swim just as though they were little boys and girls.
+
+Baby seals have nearly white fur when they are born, and, strange to say,
+until this coat falls off and the dark one comes, their mothers never
+attempt to take them to the water.
+
+The seals are not the gentle things they appear to be, with their soft
+brown eyes and their sleek coats. On the contrary, they are very fierce
+and warlike if any attempt is made to interfere with their families.
+
+When the fathers first reach the beach, and set about making the home
+ready for their families, they will not allow any of the young bachelor
+seals to land near the rookeries. They force them either to remain in the
+water, or to go to the highlands above the village.
+
+The bachelor seals think they have as much right to a comfortable home as
+the older seals, and so they fight hard to enter the villages.
+
+This fighting keeps up the whole summer while the seals are out of the
+water, and those who have seen these battles say that "night and day, the
+sound of them is like that of an approaching railway train."
+
+So steadily does the fighting continue that the old seals have no time to
+eat, and during the three or four months they stay with their families on
+the beaches they never take a mouthful of food. At the end of the time,
+when they leave the rookeries, they are thin and miserable, and covered
+with battle scars.
+
+The killing of the seals should be carefully arranged with a knowledge of
+these habits.
+
+The proper rules are that no mother seals, baby seals, or father seals
+shall be killed, but that the hunters shall watch until the badly behaved
+bachelor seals have got tired with fighting, and gone up above the
+rookeries to rest. The hunters ought then to creep in between the seals
+and the water, and making a noise to frighten them drive them inland.
+
+Every hunter should be armed with a wooden club, and when he has chosen a
+seal that seems to be about two or three years old, he should strike it
+with this club and kill it.
+
+In this way a large number of seals can be obtained without disturbing the
+rest of the flock.
+
+The manner of killing that the United States complains of is that the
+hunters creep into the rookeries and kill the mother seals, leaving the
+poor little pups to die by thousands for want of their mothers' care.
+
+Because of this wholesale killing of the seals, there are few young seals
+left to grow up in the place of those that have been taken away, and so
+after a time there will be no more flocks at all.
+
+The sealskin which we use is made out of the under fur of the animal. The
+seals which are caught for fur have a very thick, velvet-like undercoat,
+covered with a quantity of long hair, which has to be removed from the
+skins before they can be used for market.
+
+The roots of these long hairs grow much deeper into the skin than those of
+the short, thick fur, and so the pelts can be laid face downward, and
+pared away very carefully at the back until the roots of the long hairs
+are cut through. The long hairs are then pulled out of the skin, and the
+beautiful soft fur is left.
+
+It is to be hoped that, in the discussion of this matter between England
+and the United States, the proper rules for killing the seals may be very
+strictly laid down, that they may be enforced. It will be too bad if this
+splendid fur is lost through ignorance and carelessness.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+Another of the old questions that have vexed our Government is being
+brought to the front again. This one is the annexation of the Hawaiian
+Islands.
+
+The reason why this subject has come up again is that the Japanese have
+been emigrating to these islands in such vast numbers of late, that an
+invasion is feared, and the Government is anxious to have American
+protection.
+
+A little while ago word was sent that the Hawaiians had turned back four
+hundred Japanese emigrants who sought to land at Honolulu. Japan
+immediately sent war-ships to inquire into the matter, and the United
+States also sent a cruiser.
+
+It soon became evident that the affair was much more serious than at first
+appeared.
+
+The Japanese have been emigrating to Hawaii in such vast numbers that,
+unless something is done to stop them, there will soon be more Japanese
+than natives in the islands.
+
+The Government of Hawaii, awakening to the danger that threatened, has
+made fresh advances to the United States, asking once more to be annexed
+to this country.
+
+This question of annexation has been talked about since the year 1893.
+
+In January, 1893, there was a revolution in Hawaii, because the people had
+found cause to dislike their queen, Liliuokalani. This queen's behavior
+had been very bad, and her rule had been a disgrace to the islands for
+some time. At last the people would stand it no longer, and so removed her
+from the throne.
+
+The people who revolted against the Queen were either Americans or people
+born of American parents settled in Hawaii.
+
+They formed a government, and after many troubles asked the United States
+to take possession of the Hawaiian Islands, and, in return, to pay over
+$3,000,000 of debts which Hawaii had contracted, and a yearly income of
+$20,000 to the deposed queen, and also a lump sum of $150,000 to her
+daughter, Princess Kaulani.
+
+Mr. Cleveland, who was President, opposed the idea of taking possession of
+the islands, and endeavored to restore Queen Liliuokalani to her throne.
+
+His efforts were not successful. The Hawaiians would not have her back,
+and having had time to establish a government for themselves, they felt as
+if they could do without the United States as well as their dark-skinned
+Queen. So the question of annexing the islands fell through.
+
+Now it is before us again with greater force than before.
+
+It is evident that if we don't want Hawaii, Japan does, and the time is
+drawing near when some decided step must be taken.
+
+The Japanese plan for securing Hawaii seems to be similar to the English
+plan for getting possession of the Transvaal.
+
+It seems to be their idea to fill the islands with Japanese, until the
+number of Asiatics is far greater than that of the Hawaiians. Then they
+will demand a voice in the government, and when once they have secured
+that, it will be only a question of time when they will have the
+government of the islands under their control.
+
+The people of Hawaii became suspicious of this plot when they found that
+the Japanese who came over in such hordes (sometimes as many as fifteen
+hundred in one week), were not laborers seeking work, as is the case with
+most immigrants.
+
+It was found that the new arrivals belonged to the student class, and that
+after they arrived in the islands, they made no attempt to get anything to
+do, but seemed to be living on their incomes.
+
+This made the Hawaiians suspicious that these emigrants were being sent
+over at the expense of their Government, and that the Mikado was
+supporting them until he had gained his ends, and secured the islands for
+himself.
+
+Just lately there was a scare of fever in Honolulu, the port of Hawaii,
+and the baggage of the incoming people had to be carefully fumigated.
+While doing this work the officers found to their surprise that nearly
+every Japanese immigrant had a soldier's uniform done up in his baggage.
+
+The Government does not know what to make of this, but has become so
+thoroughly alarmed that it is seeking the protection of the United States.
+
+A prominent lawyer from Honolulu has come over here to assist the
+officials who are already in Washington laying their case before our
+Government.
+
+The Japanese treat the matter very lightly, and pretend that it is a
+foolish scare that amounts to nothing. They insist, however, that the
+Japanese immigrants shall not be turned back from Hawaii but allowed to
+land, as they have a right to do, according to the treaty existing between
+Hawaii and Japan.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+Some fresh news has come about the uprising in Brazil.
+
+The insurgents it would seem are led by a man named Antonio Conselhiero,
+who appears to be a very extraordinary kind of person.
+
+He first made his appearance last November, when one day he marched
+through the streets of a small town in Bahia, followed by a well-drilled,
+orderly band of men and women.
+
+These people went through the streets singing the old songs and hymns of
+the empire, and every now and then they would halt, and Conselhiero would
+address the crowd that gathered around him.
+
+From the descriptions of him that have been sent from Brazil, he seems to
+be an enormously tall man, with black eyes, and long black hair and beard.
+He is broad and big as well as tall, and looks like a giant.
+
+He seemed to have such an influence over the crowds who listened to his
+words, that they flocked to his standard, and followed him, promising to
+help him in his crusade against the government, and his attempt to restore
+the monarchy.
+
+The Governor ordered the police to send the crowds back to their homes,
+and drive Conselhiero and his band out of the city. But this was easier
+said than done. The strange man's followers, women as well as men,
+attacked the police, killing some, and wounding many.
+
+Then Conselhiero made his way to a mountain, where he encamped with his
+followers, and prepared to defy the authorities.
+
+The Governor, still thinking the whole affair was but an insignificant
+riot, sent a small body of soldiers after the insurgents, with orders to
+make them break up their camp and move off.
+
+When the soldiers arrived at Conselhiero's encampment, they made very
+light of being sent out to disperse a body of tramps and vagabonds.
+
+Their amusement did not last long. A number of women, armed with heavy
+swords, rushed out upon them, and attacked them so furiously that they
+were forced to run for their lives.
+
+More troops were sent out by the Governor, and three times were they
+beaten by Conselhiero's strange army of women and men.
+
+The authorities refused to believe that there was anything serious in
+these defeats, and persisted in thinking "the fanatics," as Conselhiero's
+followers are called, a parcel of crazy lunatics who would soon come to
+their senses.
+
+At last when it was found that Conselhiero was preaching the return of the
+monarchy to the people, and that peasants and soldiers were alike flocking
+to his standard, in the hope of seeing a prince on the throne of Brazil,
+they began to see that this man was by no means crazy, but that he was a
+very serious enemy who must be seriously treated.
+
+There is a very strong wish in the hearts of many Brazilians for the
+return of the monarchy, and numbers of influential people are joining
+Conselhiero, who is gaining ground every day.
+
+The revolution has indeed gained such a strong hold in Brazil that it
+will be a very difficult task to put it down.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+The Greater Republic of Central America does not seem to be having a very
+pleasant time of it.
+
+If you remember, it was only recognized by our Government in December
+last, and already there is trouble.
+
+On page 220 of Vol. I we told you that the Greater Republic of Central
+America was formed by the union of the three republics of Honduras, San
+Salvador, and Nicaragua.
+
+Now there is a revolution in Honduras; one of those toy revolutions we
+spoke about in No. 22 of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD.
+
+In all the small South American Republics, revolution and rebellion is as
+the breath of life to the people.
+
+If a general gets popular with his soldiers he at once plots to overthrow
+the government, and with the help of the army become president himself.
+
+Every man who is either clever or ambitious gets up a toy revolution to
+depose somebody, and take his place.
+
+The present revolution appears to be of the usual kind.
+
+The President has become unpopular, and it is said that one of the former
+presidents, Dr. Soto, thinks he would like to have another term of office,
+and so he has incited the people to revolt.
+
+A new government has been formed to take charge of affairs until they
+become more settled, and things seem to be shaping themselves to suit the
+doctor's wishes.
+
+San Salvador and Guatemala, though by their new ties they are bound to
+assist their sister republic, have declined to interfere, and it looks as
+if the life of the Greater Republic of Central America would not be nearly
+as long as its name.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+On page 134 of Vol. I. we spoke about the unfortunate Russians who are
+exiled to Siberia, and of the thousands of miles they are forced to march
+across the continent before they reach their place of punishment.
+
+It has just been reported that the Czar has issued a decree that persons
+who are exiled to Siberia shall, from this time forth, be carried by train
+to the convict settlements.
+
+In the days when the poor unfortunates had to make the journey on foot it
+took ninety days of steady marching to reach the journey's end, and women
+and children as well as men took their places in the long, sad procession
+that wound its way across the dreary steppes of Russia.
+
+This decree must have caused much rejoicing among the Russian people, and
+if the Czar continues to rule his people so mercifully and kindly, we may
+all live to see the day when there will be no more Nihilism or hatred
+between the ruler and the ruled in Russia, and when it will no longer be
+necessary to send anybody to Siberia.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+The boys of the Cambridge Manual Training School have a new lesson which
+has become very popular with them.
+
+This is a fire drill.
+
+The pupils are taught to go through the whole process of fighting a fire
+in the same way that the firemen do.
+
+Before the boys are allowed to join the fire battalion they have to be
+drilled, taught to march, and are obliged to attend lectures on surgery,
+and how to help injured people until the doctor comes.
+
+After the boys have gone through this first course of study, they begin
+their real fireman's training. They attend more lectures in which they
+learn how to handle the various ladders and machines which firemen use.
+They have to learn how a fire engine is put together, what are the uses of
+every wheel and valve, and how to clean and care for each separate part of
+the engine; and when they are quite familiar with the various things used
+by firemen they pass on to the last stage of training.
+
+This begins on March 1st, and from this time on the work is done out of
+doors.
+
+A wooden building forty feet high, and provided with doors and windows
+exactly like a three-story house, is put up in the schoolyard, and it is
+with this building that the lessons are given.
+
+Every Thursday afternoon an imaginary fire takes place in it. The hose is
+run out, the ladders are raised, and the lads go to work with a will,
+saving imaginary lives, and fighting imaginary flames.
+
+Each week some new complication is supposed to take place, and some extra
+machine has to be brought into use, until by the end of the school term
+they can handle every machine and ladder with the greatest ease.
+
+When first the fire drill was introduced into the school, the boys were
+not obliged to take the study unless they wanted to; but it has become so
+popular that they are eager and anxious to take it, and now is part of the
+regular course of the school for all boys who are strong enough to stand
+the hard work it necessitates.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+Some time ago we talked about the moving of the village of Katonah. Our
+friends in California can do better than that. While New York moves
+houses, California moves mountains.
+
+A dam is being built at San Diego, Cal., to gather water for the city.
+Where the water supply for a city is not quite sufficient, darns are often
+built, to stop small rivers from flowing away to waste; and the water
+gathered by the barrier of wood, stone, or earth, as the case may be, is
+turned into the city to be used by the people.
+
+In the San Diego work, a huge mass of rocky hillside overhung the cañon
+which was to be dammed, and at the bottom of which the river flowed.
+
+A cañon is, as you doubtless know, a deep gorge or ravine, formed by the
+river that flows through it, and which little by little has worn away its
+bed until it has cut deep down into the heart of the land, hundreds of
+feet below its original level.
+
+As we have said, the plan for the San Diego work was to build a dam across
+the cañon, and keep the waters from flowing away.
+
+The engineers thought that if they could only take this huge mass of rocky
+hill and drop it into the cañon, it would make their work very much
+easier, as the task of getting enough stone down to the bottom of the
+gorge to build their dam was by no means an easy one.
+
+They thought the matter out, and finally decided to try and move the
+mountain-side into the cañon.
+
+They laid their plans, and for two months were busy preparing for the
+great move.
+
+They tunnelled the hillside in all directions over the section which they
+desired to move, and in these tunnels laid mines of giant powder or
+dynamite.
+
+These mines they connected with electric wires, and when all was ready,
+the various wires were gathered into one bunch, and taken across the gorge
+that was to be filled up.
+
+When the explosion was about to take place the workmen and engineers moved
+ever so far away, until they were at a safe distance from the explosion,
+and one man, the foreman, was sent to the edge of the cañon to touch the
+wires, and start the firing of the mines.
+
+When he received the signal he touched the wire, and then ran away to
+safety as fast as he could go, while the others watched the explosion.
+
+It seems to have been a most wonderful sight.
+
+Bowlders and masses of rock rose from their beds on the hillside, and
+little tongues of dust and smoke shot out from the earth in all
+directions. Then there was a terrific growl, which seemed to come from the
+heart of the mountain, the earth shook, the men who were watching were
+thrown to the ground, and with a roar and a rattle the side of the
+mountain moved and began to fall.
+
+There was a shower of stones which continued to fall for over an hour, and
+the dust was so thick that it was impossible to see; but when it finally
+cleared, it was found that an enormous slice of the side of the mountain
+had been blown into the cañon below.
+
+The engineers said that one hundred and fifty thousand tons of rock had
+been moved, and to their great pride they found that it had fallen exactly
+according to their plans, and had bridged the cañon and formed the bulwark
+for the support of the dam.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+The past week has been one of great anxiety for Greece and the Greek
+cause.
+
+The Turks have been steadily gaining ground in the East; they have swarmed
+through the pass of Milouna into the plains of Thessaly.
+
+The Greeks fought nobly, and succeeded in driving the Turks a little way
+back toward Milouna, but the vast army of Turkey was too strong for them,
+and despite their efforts, the enemy has made its way into Greece, and
+advanced upon the city of Larissa.
+
+The mayors and governors of Thessaly have called on the peasants and all
+men capable of bearing arms to come to the defence of their country, and
+volunteers are flocking in every hour.
+
+The latest news that has reached us states that the Greeks have finally
+fallen back to Pharsalia, leaving Larissa at the mercy of the Turks.
+
+Now while this looks very badly for the Greeks, and at this time it seems
+as if their ultimate defeat were sure, it is too soon to offer any very
+decided opinion.
+
+It may all be a part of a very deep-laid plan of the Greeks.
+
+It must be remembered that the weak points of the Turkish army in regard
+to provisions and transportation are as well known to the Greeks as to us.
+The farther the Turks can be enticed away from the place where they keep
+their stores, the weaker they grow. The Greeks may have planned to lure
+them over the border, and away from their supplies, and then fight them
+when they have them at a disadvantage.
+
+This looks the more likely when it is taken into consideration that the
+Greeks have been successful in invading Turkey and reaching Elassona, the
+Turkish headquarters, and that they also hold the Pass of Reveni.
+
+The Greek navy has been doing some very fine work, bombarding and
+destroying towns on the east coast, as well as the west.
+
+The Greek army which was pressing on to the Turkish city of Janina in
+Epirus has met with a severe reverse.
+
+With information of the defeat comes news that is of such great importance
+to the Greek cause that the present check may prove to be of very little
+importance.
+
+This news is that the Albanians have risen against their masters the
+Turks, and joined with the Greeks.
+
+Albania was at one time a part of Greece, but that was in the early
+history of the Empire. It at last secured its freedom and became an
+independent country.
+
+In 1478 the Turks conquered Albania, and it has been under Turkish rule
+ever since. The Albanians have no love for the Turks, and though they are
+supposed to be obedient to the Sultan's wishes, he does not dare to
+appoint any but native Albanians to govern them. The people have always
+contrived to give him all the trouble possible.
+
+The Greeks hoped that the Albanians would join them, as well as the
+Macedonians, and so, despite the reverses that the week has brought, with
+these powerful friends to help them, they must be feeling more sure of
+success than they were a few days ago.
+
+Bulgaria is also becoming restless and making demands of the Sultan,
+threatening to revolt against him if he does not give them what they ask
+for.
+
+The Prince of Bulgaria has made a trip to Berlin to borrow money for the
+war. And it is likely that the Sultan may soon have so many enemies to
+fight that he will wish the Powers had allowed him to arrange the Cretan
+matters for himself, without interfering and bringing this hornet's nest
+about his ears.
+
+                                     GENIE H. ROSENFELD.
+
+
+
+
+INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.
+
+
+With the summer coming on, inventions for swimmers are being brought
+forward.
+
+The WATER SKATE or shoe is to afford a new and very delightful
+means of sport.
+
+It is intended to be used when the swimmer is in the upright position
+assumed in treading water. A swimmer can maintain this position for a long
+time, but can ordinarily make no headway in the water.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The water skate is invented to enable him to strike out with his feet as
+in walking. Under the skate there are two "fins." These remain pressed
+together with the forward movement of the foot, but with the same movement
+as the hands take in swimming. These fins open out as the foot reaches the
+limit of its stride, and push back the water exactly in the same way that
+the arms do.
+
+It is claimed that a high rate of speed can be obtained with this water
+skate.
+
+CANOPY FOR BICYCLES.--All cyclers complain so of the heat of the
+sun, that busy brains are at work to find a means of protecting the riders
+from the fierce heat.
+
+A canopy has just been invented, which seems to be the most practical and
+sensible of any of the coverings offered.
+
+It has a pointed roof to it, and spreads over the rider at a distance that
+in no way obstructs the view.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+One great advantage of this canopy is that it is firmer than any other
+kind so far suggested.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE PORTABLE FIRE-ESCAPE is an invention that should recommend
+itself to every one. It is small enough to be easily carried, and is so
+arranged that the person using it to let himself down from a burning
+building can control the rate of speed at which he descends, and avoid all
+danger of a sudden fall.
+
+It is firmly hooked on to a clamp that is provided with it, and it
+consists of a seat attached to two pulleys, through which the ropes pass.
+
+The person seeking to escape from the fire places himself on the seat,
+and, grasping the pulley firmly, lets himself out of the window. By means
+of an attachment he is able, as we have said, to regulate the speed of his
+descent.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+This invention ought to be of great service to all those who live in high
+buildings.
+
+    G.H.R.
+
+
+
+
+LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.
+
+
+    DEAR EDITOR:
+
+    Being a great reader of your paper, I of course felt inclined to
+    send you some praise, as you deserve it. I am more interested in
+    Cuba than in the affairs of Crete. I have been to see the new
+    Library, and consider it the finest in the world. Hoping much
+    success to the paper, I remain,
+
+                            Your interested reader,
+                                        NATALIE C.
+    WASHINGTON, D.C.
+
+
+
+DEAR NATALIE:
+
+Your letter was received with much pleasure.
+
+                                 EDITOR.
+
+
+    DEAR EDITOR:
+
+    My teacher, Miss Galbraith, takes your paper, and I used to be
+    looking for it; at last I bought it myself, so I could own it.
+
+    Your paper is very interesting and helpful in Geography. All my
+    family are interested in THE GREAT ROUND WORLD,
+    especially my father.
+
+    Will you please tell me if General Maceo is dead or not? We got
+    so many different stories it is hard to tell which is true. Or
+    if General Rivera is to be put to death?
+
+    I live in New Haven; it is a beautiful city, full of elm trees,
+    with parks. Also Yale College, from which Nathan Hale and Samuel
+    Morse graduated.
+
+                                    Your Reader,
+                                        JOHN C.
+    NEW HAVEN, CONN.
+
+    P.S.--I am glad that you don't publish prize-fights. It is the
+    nature of animals, not human beings.
+
+
+
+DEAR JOHN:
+
+There is no longer any doubt that General Maceo was killed. The stories
+that he was still alive were probably made up by the Cubans, for fear
+their countrymen might lose heart if they knew the truth.
+
+You will see in this number of your paper that General Rivera is not to be
+shot, according to the present reports.              EDITOR.
+
+
+    DEAR EDITOR:
+
+    I enjoy THE GREAT ROUND WORLD immensely, and look
+    forward to its coming every week. I like to read about Greece
+    and Cuba, and if I were Grecian I would gladly join in the war.
+    I hope Greece will win, for I pity the poor Cretans under the
+    cruel rule of Turkey. Wishing your paper many years of success,
+    I am,
+
+                                Your friend and reader,
+                                              HAROLD R.
+    NEW YORK, April 8th, 1897
+
+
+DEAR HAROLD:
+
+Many thanks for your pretty letter. Write to us again soon.
+                                              EDITOR.
+
+    DEAR MR. EDITOR:
+
+    I want to ask you about the _Cometa_. Did the Admiral ever bring
+    her into the Havana harbor as he boasted that he would, with
+    flags flying on her?
+
+    Do you think Cuba is going to win? I hope that she will.
+
+    Are the Americans going to help them?--and then I know the
+    Cubans will win. Yours truly,
+
+                                        SYDNEY G.
+    BALTIMORE, April 9th, 1897.
+
+MY DEAR SYDNEY:
+
+The Spanish Admiral has never brought the _Cometa_ into Havana harbor. He
+was just spinning a sailor's yarn, apparently.
+
+We hope that Cuba will win her freedom, and it seems very likely that she
+will.
+
+You will see in this number of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD that there
+is a chance that the President will try to settle the troubles between
+Cuba and Spain.
+
+                                                     EDITOR.
+
+
+    DEAR EDITOR:
+
+    Our teacher takes THE GREAT ROUND WORLD and reads
+    to us whenever the time will permit. The reading makes an
+    interesting part of the exercises of the day. We are all anxious
+    to hear about the war between Cuba and Spain, and we hope Cuba
+    will soon be free. Can you tell us about how many people pass
+    over Brooklyn Bridge in a day? I think it is wonderful how
+    buttons and such articles are made out of milk. Do they have
+    schools in Freeville? I think we should all be grateful for the
+    interesting news that is printed for us in your paper each week.
+
+                                     Yours truly,
+                                             NELLIE R.
+    TIFFIN, OHIO, March 24th, 1897.
+
+
+
+DEAR NELLIE:
+
+We are glad that you like THE GREAT ROUND WORLD. Why don't you
+try and get it for yourself by becoming one of our agents? You can get
+your own paper free of charge for two subscriptions, and it would be very
+nice to own it yourself, and be able to read it whenever you wanted to.
+
+In Freeville the children are taught to work.
+
+You ask about the number of persons who cross the Brooklyn Bridge daily.
+Mr. Martin, the Chief Engineer and Superintendent, has been so kind as to
+tell us all about it for you. We publish his note.
+
+                                                   EDITOR.
+
+One hundred and twenty-five thousand people per day ride across the bridge
+in the cars. Twelve thousand walk over on the promenade. Five thousand
+vehicles cross the bridge on the roadways.--C.C. MARTIN, Chief Engineer
+and Superintendent.
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+
+<p class="figcenter"><img src="./images/coverc.jpg" alt="William Beverley Harison, Publisher" title="William Beverley Harison, Publisher" /></p>
+<p class='center'><b>Copyright, 1897, by <span class='smcap'>William Beverley Harison</span>.</b></p>
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+
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+<h2 style="text-align: right; margin-right: 7em;margin-top: .5em; margin-bottom: .5em;">1897 Atlas of the World.</h2>
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+    inches, printed on special paper with marginal index, and well
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+
+
+<p>Every one has some sort of an atlas, doubtless, but an old atlas is no
+better than an old directory; countries do not move away, as do people,
+but they do change and our knowledge of them increases, and this atlas,
+made in 1897 from <b>new</b> plates, is perfect and up to date and covers every
+point on</p>
+
+<h3>The Great Round World.</h3>
+
+<p>Those not subscribers should secure the subscription of a friend and remit
+$5 to cover it and their own. A copy of the atlas will be sent to either
+address.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+
+<div class='center'>GREAT ROUND WORLD,</div>
+
+<div class='center'><i>3 and 5 West 18th Street, &middot; &middot; &middot; &middot; &middot; &middot; &middot; &middot;New York City.</i></div>
+
+<p><a name="Page_727" id="Page_727"></a></p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>THE GREAT ROUND WORLD</h2>
+
+<h2>NATURAL HISTORY</h2>
+
+<h2>STORIES.</h2>
+
+<h3>A Series of True Stories</h3>
+
+<h4>BY</h4>
+
+<h3>JULIA TRUITT BISHOP.</h3>
+
+<h4>Attractively Illustrated by Barnes.</h4>
+
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+
+<h3>SAMPLE SENT ON RECEIPT OF 10 CENTS</h3>
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+<h3>Author's Preface.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The stories published in this little volume have been issued
+from time to time in the Philadelphia <i>Times</i>, and it is at the
+request of many readers that they now greet the world in more
+enduring form. They have been written as occasion suggested,
+during several years; and they commemorate to me many of the
+friends I have known and loved in the animal world. &quot;Shep&quot; and
+&quot;Dr. Jim,&quot; &quot;Abdallah&quot; and &quot;Brownie,&quot; &quot;Little Dryad&quot; and
+
+&quot;Peek-a-Boo.&quot; I have been fast friends with every one, and have
+watched them with such loving interest that I knew all their
+ways and could almost read their thoughts. I send them on to
+other lovers of dumb animals, hoping that the stories of these
+friends of mine will carry pleasure to young and old.</p></div>
+
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+
+<div class='center'>
+<b>WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON,</b><br />
+<b>3 &amp; 5 West 18th Street.</b>
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+
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+present day in the way of keeping the pupils conversant with the political
+and scientific questions of the day. While this is as it should be, we
+believe that if parents would look well to the quality of reading-matter
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+exception it is the finest one of its kind ever published. It comes in
+magazine form, and is overflowing with interesting subjects written in
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+becomes interested in it.&mdash;<i>Omer, Mich., Progress, Jan. 8, 1897.</i></p></div>
+
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+
+<h2>THE &middot; FIRST &middot; BOUND &middot; VOLUME</h2>
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+
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+
+<p class='center'>(Containing Nos. 1 to 15)</p>
+
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+
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+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p class="figcenter"><img src="./images/title.jpg" alt="THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT" title="THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT" /></p>
+
+<div class='center'><b><span class='smcap'>Vol.</span> 1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class='smcap'>May</span> 6, 1897.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class='smcap'>No.</span> 26</b></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>Now that the war between Greece and Turkey has really commenced, people
+are much interested in comparing the strength of the two armies, and
+wondering which side will gain the victory.</p>
+
+<p>The Greek regular army numbers one hundred and twenty-five thousand, the
+Turkish one hundred and fifty thousand. When all the reserves are called
+out, it is thought that both countries can put twice if not three times as
+many men in the field.</p>
+
+<p>The Turkish army is considered the finer of the two, because it is so well
+drilled, and so perfectly armed. It is said that German officers have been
+teaching the Turkish soldiers the modern methods of war.</p>
+
+<p>The Turks, however, are the weaker in two important points: their means of
+providing food for their soldiers, and in facilities for carrying them
+quickly from one point to another.</p>
+
+<p>An army that is weak in these two very important points loses a good deal
+of its usefulness.</p>
+
+<p>As we have seen in Cuba, men cannot fight well <a name="Page_730" id="Page_730"></a>when they are hungry. It
+is also a fatal thing to have no good roads or railroads, along which
+large bodies of men may be sent when they are needed.</p>
+
+<p>The Greek army is not nearly so well drilled as the Turkish, nor so well
+officered. The Turks have in Edhem Pasha a splendid leader, while the
+Greeks have no great general to lead them, and at present no general who
+seems even particularly clever. But that need not worry the friends of
+Greece. The history of the world has taught us that every great occasion
+has brought with it a great man capable of dealing with it. The French
+Revolution brought forth Napoleon, the War of Independence gave us
+Washington. We can therefore trust that what has happened before may occur
+again, and that the Greek crisis may produce its Washington, to lead the
+brave little country safely to success.</p>
+
+<p>The great strength of the Greeks lies in their navy, which is one of the
+finest in Europe. The Greek ships are modern, well manned, and well armed.
+The Turkish navy, on the other hand, has been the joke of Europe for many
+years.</p>
+
+<p>Since the invention of the great guns that will send a cannon ball through
+the side of a wooden ship as easily as you can pierce an egg-shell with a
+needle, all the warships have been fitted with strong steel armored hulls
+and water-tight compartments, such as we told you about on page 75 of Vol.
+I. of <span class='smcap'>The Great Round World</span>.</p>
+
+<p>Turkey has none of these new ships. She has been bankrupt for so many
+years that she has not had the money to buy any of them.</p>
+
+<p>It is supposed that the Turks will be more successful <a name="Page_731" id="Page_731"></a>on land than the
+Greeks, but that the Greek navy will win back on the sea as much as the
+army loses on land.</p>
+
+<p>It is also said that the Turkish arrangements for feeding the soldiers are
+so bad, that, if the war runs on into months instead of weeks, the Turks
+will not be able to hold out.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The Senate has not yet taken any action on the Cuban Bill.</p>
+
+<p>Senator Morgan again brought it before the House, hoping that he would be
+able to bring it to a vote. He was, however, obliged to agree to hold it
+over for a day or two until Senator Hale should be able to be present, as
+Mr. Hale has some very important things he wishes to say on the subject.</p>
+
+<p>From Cuba there is very little news of interest.</p>
+
+<p>Much indignation is felt against General Weyler, because he has sent out
+soldiers to destroy the Cuban hospitals, and in the last few days several
+have been burned and the sick soldiers in them murdered.</p>
+
+<p>The Cubans are not able to have large hospitals, because they cannot spare
+a sufficient number of men to protect them, so they have been in the habit
+of building huts in the forests, where they would leave a few wounded men,
+in the charge of one or two nurses.</p>
+
+<p>These forest hospitals are not guarded. The Cubans have trusted to the
+woods to conceal them from the enemy.</p>
+
+<p>It seems that the Spaniards have found out the secret of the hospitals,
+and now General Weyler has sent out parties to make a careful search for
+them.<a name="Page_732" id="Page_732"></a></p>
+
+<p>As soon as a hut is found the invalids are put to death and the nurses
+taken prisoner.</p>
+
+<p>To fire upon or in any way attack a hospital is against the rules of
+civilized warfare, and this new horror of General Weyler's adds one more
+to the long list of his crimes.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>The Mississippi River has not begun to subside yet, and the floods grow
+daily more serious, as fresh levees give way, and allow the waters to flow
+over new districts.</p>
+
+<p>There is, however, some hope that the greatest height of the flood wave
+has been reached, and that the angry waters may begin to go back in a few
+days.</p>
+
+<p>There is still fear that the city of New Orleans may be swept by the
+flood.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>The vexed question of the Bering Sea seal fisheries is coming up again.</p>
+
+<p>The Bering Sea divides America from Asia, and is bordered on the American
+side by the State of Alaska, and on the Asiatic side by Siberia.</p>
+
+<p>Up to the year 1867, Alaska, or Aliaska, as it was called, belonged to the
+Russian Government.</p>
+
+<p>In that year it was sold to the United States for $7,200,000.</p>
+
+<p>At the time of the purchase Alaska was looked upon as a very barren land;
+no one ever dreamt that gold and silver and other valuable minerals would
+be found in it. The money spent for the purchase was seriously begrudged
+by many people, and Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State who had made the
+bargain, was <a name="Page_733" id="Page_733"></a>much blamed, people saying that it was a foolish waste of
+the public money.</p>
+
+<p>The one source of income which Alaska was known to possess in those days
+was its seal fisheries. A great herd of fur-bearing seals lived in the
+Alaskan waters, and the Government expected to make these seals very
+profitable to it.</p>
+
+<p>Under the Russian rule, the fur seal regions had been very carefully
+protected, and when the United States bought Alaska the Government decided
+to care for the animals in the same way that the Russians had done,
+allowing only a certain number of seals to be killed each year.</p>
+
+<p>The fisheries were leased to a company called the Alaska Commercial
+Company of San Francisco, which had the entire rights to them, under
+certain rules and regulations laid down by the Government.</p>
+
+<p>Soon after Alaska and its seal fisheries came into the possession of the
+United States, English and American vessels&mdash;the latter not belonging to
+the Commercial Company&mdash;entered the Bering Sea, and slaughtered any seals
+they could reach, without regard to the proper rules for seal fishing.</p>
+
+<p>The Company complained to the Government, and in 1887 this seal poaching
+had become such a serious matter that the United States ordered her
+revenue cutters up to Bering Sea to protect her interests.</p>
+
+<p>Several ships were captured by the revenue-officers, and most of them were
+British vessels.</p>
+
+<p>This opened the way for the dispute between Great Britain and the United
+States, which has been going on ever since, and has been one of the most
+troublesome questions our rulers have had to deal with.<a name="Page_734" id="Page_734"></a></p>
+
+<p>Great Britain claimed that she had a perfect right to fish in Bering Sea,
+and the United States insisted that she had bought all the rights to the
+fishing when she bought Alaska.</p>
+
+<p>After the quarrel had dragged on for five years, it was finally, in 1892,
+decided to arbitrate it.</p>
+
+<p>The Committee appointed for this purpose met in Paris, France, in 1893,
+and finally decided that Russia had never had any rights in the Bering
+Sea, beyond the usual rights which all countries have of controlling the
+seas for three miles out from their borders.</p>
+
+<p>Beyond the three-mile limit, the ocean becomes the &quot;high seas,&quot; and is
+then open to anybody.</p>
+
+<p>It was decided that Russia could not sell the Bering Sea to the United
+States.</p>
+
+<p>The matter being thus decided, the question of caring for the seals was
+left as unsettled as ever, and it was most necessary that some arrangement
+should be made, unless the seals were to be totally destroyed.</p>
+
+<p>The decision at Paris made it necessary that Great Britain should be
+willing to agree to any plan that should be adopted.</p>
+
+<p>It was therefore shown to the Committee that the seal flocks were in
+danger of being destroyed, and a set of laws was made that proper care
+might be taken of the seals. England and the United States agreed to obey
+these laws, and it was decided that they should go into effect at once.</p>
+
+<p>As it was supposed that in course of time it might be wise to alter these
+laws, it was further agreed between England and the United States that
+they should be looked over every five years, and changed if it was
+necessary.<a name="Page_735" id="Page_735"></a></p>
+
+<p>The five years has still sixteen months to run, but the American
+Government has thought it advisable to ask that the two countries meet and
+talk the subject over once more, as the laws are not strong enough to
+protect the seals.</p>
+
+<p>The United States complains now that Canadian and British fishers are
+killing the seals in the same careless, ignorant way that they did before
+the Treaty of Paris, and that unless they are stopped there will be no
+seals in Alaska in a very few years.</p>
+
+<p>The Government says that the habits of the seals must be studied and
+understood, so that they may be protected, in order that all the fur
+necessary for market may be obtained, without interfering with the growth
+of the herds.</p>
+
+<p>Every year the seals arrive in flocks hundreds of thousands strong, and
+seek a sandy beach, or some nice sunny rocks, where they can spend the
+summer. In these places they establish rookeries, or villages, as they are
+sometimes called.</p>
+
+<p>The fathers of the families come first, arriving in April to seek out
+comfortable quarters.</p>
+
+<p>In June the mothers come to the island, take possession of the homes
+provided for them, and pretty soon each seal mother has a nice little seal
+pup to occupy her home with her.</p>
+
+<p>It is a curious thing about these little seal pups that though they are
+going to spend their lives in the water, they don't like the idea of it at
+all, and have to be forced into the water by their mothers, and taught to
+swim just as though they were little boys and girls.</p>
+
+<p>Baby seals have nearly white fur when they are <a name="Page_736" id="Page_736"></a>born, and, strange to say,
+until this coat falls off and the dark one comes, their mothers never
+attempt to take them to the water.</p>
+
+<p>The seals are not the gentle things they appear to be, with their soft
+brown eyes and their sleek coats. On the contrary, they are very fierce
+and warlike if any attempt is made to interfere with their families.</p>
+
+<p>When the fathers first reach the beach, and set about making the home
+ready for their families, they will not allow any of the young bachelor
+seals to land near the rookeries. They force them either to remain in the
+water, or to go to the highlands above the village.</p>
+
+<p>The bachelor seals think they have as much right to a comfortable home as
+the older seals, and so they fight hard to enter the villages.</p>
+
+<p>This fighting keeps up the whole summer while the seals are out of the
+water, and those who have seen these battles say that &quot;night and day, the
+sound of them is like that of an approaching railway train.&quot;</p>
+
+<p>So steadily does the fighting continue that the old seals have no time to
+eat, and during the three or four months they stay with their families on
+the beaches they never take a mouthful of food. At the end of the time,
+when they leave the rookeries, they are thin and miserable, and covered
+with battle scars.</p>
+
+<p>The killing of the seals should be carefully arranged with a knowledge of
+these habits.</p>
+
+<p>The proper rules are that no mother seals, baby seals, or father seals
+shall be killed, but that the hunters shall watch until the badly behaved
+bachelor seals have got tired with fighting, and gone up above the
+<a name="Page_737" id="Page_737"></a>rookeries to rest. The hunters ought then to creep in between the seals
+and the water, and making a noise to frighten them drive them inland.</p>
+
+<p>Every hunter should be armed with a wooden club, and when he has chosen a
+seal that seems to be about two or three years old, he should strike it
+with this club and kill it.</p>
+
+<p>In this way a large number of seals can be obtained without disturbing the
+rest of the flock.</p>
+
+<p>The manner of killing that the United States complains of is that the
+hunters creep into the rookeries and kill the mother seals, leaving the
+poor little pups to die by thousands for want of their mothers' care.</p>
+
+<p>Because of this wholesale killing of the seals, there are few young seals
+left to grow up in the place of those that have been taken away, and so
+after a time there will be no more flocks at all.</p>
+
+<p>The sealskin which we use is made out of the under fur of the animal. The
+seals which are caught for fur have a very thick, velvet-like undercoat,
+covered with a quantity of long hair, which has to be removed from the
+skins before they can be used for market.</p>
+
+<p>The roots of these long hairs grow much deeper into the skin than those of
+the short, thick fur, and so the pelts can be laid face downward, and
+pared away very carefully at the back until the roots of the long hairs
+are cut through. The long hairs are then pulled out of the skin, and the
+beautiful soft fur is left.</p>
+
+<p>It is to be hoped that, in the discussion of this matter between England
+and the United States, the proper rules for killing the seals may be very
+strictly laid down, that they may be enforced. It will be too bad <a name="Page_738" id="Page_738"></a>if this
+splendid fur is lost through ignorance and carelessness.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>Another of the old questions that have vexed our Government is being
+brought to the front again. This one is the annexation of the Hawaiian
+Islands.</p>
+
+<p>The reason why this subject has come up again is that the Japanese have
+been emigrating to these islands in such vast numbers of late, that an
+invasion is feared, and the Government is anxious to have American
+protection.</p>
+
+<p>A little while ago word was sent that the Hawaiians had turned back four
+hundred Japanese emigrants who sought to land at Honolulu. Japan
+immediately sent war-ships to inquire into the matter, and the United
+States also sent a cruiser.</p>
+
+<p>It soon became evident that the affair was much more serious than at first
+appeared.</p>
+
+<p>The Japanese have been emigrating to Hawaii in such vast numbers that,
+unless something is done to stop them, there will soon be more Japanese
+than natives in the islands.</p>
+
+<p>The Government of Hawaii, awakening to the danger that threatened, has
+made fresh advances to the United States, asking once more to be annexed
+to this country.</p>
+
+<p>This question of annexation has been talked about since the year 1893.</p>
+
+<p>In January, 1893, there was a revolution in Hawaii, because the people had
+found cause to dislike their queen, Liliuokalani. This queen's behavior
+had been very bad, and her rule had been a disgrace to the islands <a name="Page_739" id="Page_739"></a>for
+some time. At last the people would stand it no longer, and so removed her
+from the throne.</p>
+
+<p>The people who revolted against the Queen were either Americans or people
+born of American parents settled in Hawaii.</p>
+
+<p>They formed a government, and after many troubles asked the United States
+to take possession of the Hawaiian Islands, and, in return, to pay over
+$3,000,000 of debts which Hawaii had contracted, and a yearly income of
+$20,000 to the deposed queen, and also a lump sum of $150,000 to her
+daughter, Princess Kaulani.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Cleveland, who was President, opposed the idea of taking possession of
+the islands, and endeavored to restore Queen Liliuokalani to her throne.</p>
+
+<p>His efforts were not successful. The Hawaiians would not have her back,
+and having had time to establish a government for themselves, they felt as
+if they could do without the United States as well as their dark-skinned
+Queen. So the question of annexing the islands fell through.</p>
+
+<p>Now it is before us again with greater force than before.</p>
+
+<p>It is evident that if we don't want Hawaii, Japan does, and the time is
+drawing near when some decided step must be taken.</p>
+
+<p>The Japanese plan for securing Hawaii seems to be similar to the English
+plan for getting possession of the Transvaal.</p>
+
+<p>It seems to be their idea to fill the islands with Japanese, until the
+number of Asiatics is far greater than that of the Hawaiians. Then they
+will demand a voice in the government, and when once they have <a name="Page_740" id="Page_740"></a>secured
+that, it will be only a question of time when they will have the
+government of the islands under their control.</p>
+
+<p>The people of Hawaii became suspicious of this plot when they found that
+the Japanese who came over in such hordes (sometimes as many as fifteen
+hundred in one week), were not laborers seeking work, as is the case with
+most immigrants.</p>
+
+<p>It was found that the new arrivals belonged to the student class, and that
+after they arrived in the islands, they made no attempt to get anything to
+do, but seemed to be living on their incomes.</p>
+
+<p>This made the Hawaiians suspicious that these emigrants were being sent
+over at the expense of their Government, and that the Mikado was
+supporting them until he had gained his ends, and secured the islands for
+himself.</p>
+
+<p>Just lately there was a scare of fever in Honolulu, the port of Hawaii,
+and the baggage of the incoming people had to be carefully fumigated.
+While doing this work the officers found to their surprise that nearly
+every Japanese immigrant had a soldier's uniform done up in his baggage.</p>
+
+<p>The Government does not know what to make of this, but has become so
+thoroughly alarmed that it is seeking the protection of the United States.</p>
+
+<p>A prominent lawyer from Honolulu has come over here to assist the
+officials who are already in Washington laying their case before our
+Government.</p>
+
+<p>The Japanese treat the matter very lightly, and pretend that it is a
+foolish scare that amounts to nothing. They insist, however, that the
+Japanese immigrants shall not be turned back from Hawaii but <a name="Page_741" id="Page_741"></a>allowed to
+land, as they have a right to do, according to the treaty existing between
+Hawaii and Japan.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>Some fresh news has come about the uprising in Brazil.</p>
+
+<p>The insurgents it would seem are led by a man named Antonio Conselhiero,
+who appears to be a very extraordinary kind of person.</p>
+
+<p>He first made his appearance last November, when one day he marched
+through the streets of a small town in Bahia, followed by a well-drilled,
+orderly band of men and women.</p>
+
+<p>These people went through the streets singing the old songs and hymns of
+the empire, and every now and then they would halt, and Conselhiero would
+address the crowd that gathered around him.</p>
+
+<p>From the descriptions of him that have been sent from Brazil, he seems to
+be an enormously tall man, with black eyes, and long black hair and beard.
+He is broad and big as well as tall, and looks like a giant.</p>
+
+<p>He seemed to have such an influence over the crowds who listened to his
+words, that they flocked to his standard, and followed him, promising to
+help him in his crusade against the government, and his attempt to restore
+the monarchy.</p>
+
+<p>The Governor ordered the police to send the crowds back to their homes,
+and drive Conselhiero and his band out of the city. But this was easier
+said than done. The strange man's followers, women as well as men,
+attacked the police, killing some, and wounding many.</p>
+
+<p>Then Conselhiero made his way to a mountain, where <a name="Page_742" id="Page_742"></a>he encamped with his
+followers, and prepared to defy the authorities.</p>
+
+<p>The Governor, still thinking the whole affair was but an insignificant
+riot, sent a small body of soldiers after the insurgents, with orders to
+make them break up their camp and move off.</p>
+
+<p>When the soldiers arrived at Conselhiero's encampment, they made very
+light of being sent out to disperse a body of tramps and vagabonds.</p>
+
+<p>Their amusement did not last long. A number of women, armed with heavy
+swords, rushed out upon them, and attacked them so furiously that they
+were forced to run for their lives.</p>
+
+<p>More troops were sent out by the Governor, and three times were they
+beaten by Conselhiero's strange army of women and men.</p>
+
+<p>The authorities refused to believe that there was anything serious in
+these defeats, and persisted in thinking &quot;the fanatics,&quot; as Conselhiero's
+followers are called, a parcel of crazy lunatics who would soon come to
+their senses.</p>
+
+<p>At last when it was found that Conselhiero was preaching the return of the
+monarchy to the people, and that peasants and soldiers were alike flocking
+to his standard, in the hope of seeing a prince on the throne of Brazil,
+they began to see that this man was by no means crazy, but that he was a
+very serious enemy who must be seriously treated.</p>
+
+<p>There is a very strong wish in the hearts of many Brazilians for the
+return of the monarchy, and numbers of influential people are joining
+Conselhiero, who is gaining ground every day.</p>
+
+<p>The revolution has indeed gained such a strong hold <a name="Page_743" id="Page_743"></a>in Brazil that it
+will be a very difficult task to put it down.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>The Greater Republic of Central America does not seem to be having a very
+pleasant time of it.</p>
+
+<p>If you remember, it was only recognized by our Government in December
+last, and already there is trouble.</p>
+
+<p>On page 220 of Vol. I we told you that the Greater Republic of Central
+America was formed by the union of the three republics of Honduras, San
+Salvador, and Nicaragua.</p>
+
+<p>Now there is a revolution in Honduras; one of those toy revolutions we
+spoke about in No. 22 of <span class='smcap'>The Great Round World</span>.</p>
+
+<p>In all the small South American Republics, revolution and rebellion is as
+the breath of life to the people.</p>
+
+<p>If a general gets popular with his soldiers he at once plots to overthrow
+the government, and with the help of the army become president himself.</p>
+
+<p>Every man who is either clever or ambitious gets up a toy revolution to
+depose somebody, and take his place.</p>
+
+<p>The present revolution appears to be of the usual kind.</p>
+
+<p>The President has become unpopular, and it is said that one of the former
+presidents, Dr. Soto, thinks he would like to have another term of office,
+and so he has incited the people to revolt.</p>
+
+<p>A new government has been formed to take charge of affairs until they
+become more settled, and things seem to be shaping themselves to suit the
+doctor's wishes.<a name="Page_744" id="Page_744"></a></p>
+
+<p>San Salvador and Guatemala, though by their new ties they are bound to
+assist their sister republic, have declined to interfere, and it looks as
+if the life of the Greater Republic of Central America would not be nearly
+as long as its name.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>On page 134 of Vol. I. we spoke about the unfortunate Russians who are
+exiled to Siberia, and of the thousands of miles they are forced to march
+across the continent before they reach their place of punishment.</p>
+
+<p>It has just been reported that the Czar has issued a decree that persons
+who are exiled to Siberia shall, from this time forth, be carried by train
+to the convict settlements.</p>
+
+<p>In the days when the poor unfortunates had to make the journey on foot it
+took ninety days of steady marching to reach the journey's end, and women
+and children as well as men took their places in the long, sad procession
+that wound its way across the dreary steppes of Russia.</p>
+
+<p>This decree must have caused much rejoicing among the Russian people, and
+if the Czar continues to rule his people so mercifully and kindly, we may
+all live to see the day when there will be no more Nihilism or hatred
+between the ruler and the ruled in Russia, and when it will no longer be
+necessary to send anybody to Siberia.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>The boys of the Cambridge Manual Training School have a new lesson which
+has become very popular with them.</p>
+
+<p>This is a fire drill.<a name="Page_745" id="Page_745"></a></p>
+
+<p>The pupils are taught to go through the whole process of fighting a fire
+in the same way that the firemen do.</p>
+
+<p>Before the boys are allowed to join the fire battalion they have to be
+drilled, taught to march, and are obliged to attend lectures on surgery,
+and how to help injured people until the doctor comes.</p>
+
+<p>After the boys have gone through this first course of study, they begin
+their real fireman's training. They attend more lectures in which they
+learn how to handle the various ladders and machines which firemen use.
+They have to learn how a fire engine is put together, what are the uses of
+every wheel and valve, and how to clean and care for each separate part of
+the engine; and when they are quite familiar with the various things used
+by firemen they pass on to the last stage of training.</p>
+
+<p>This begins on March 1st, and from this time on the work is done out of
+doors.</p>
+
+<p>A wooden building forty feet high, and provided with doors and windows
+exactly like a three-story house, is put up in the schoolyard, and it is
+with this building that the lessons are given.</p>
+
+<p>Every Thursday afternoon an imaginary fire takes place in it. The hose is
+run out, the ladders are raised, and the lads go to work with a will,
+saving imaginary lives, and fighting imaginary flames.</p>
+
+<p>Each week some new complication is supposed to take place, and some extra
+machine has to be brought into use, until by the end of the school term
+they can handle every machine and ladder with the greatest ease.</p>
+
+<p>When first the fire drill was introduced into the <a name="Page_746" id="Page_746"></a>school, the boys were
+not obliged to take the study unless they wanted to; but it has become so
+popular that they are eager and anxious to take it, and now is part of the
+regular course of the school for all boys who are strong enough to stand
+the hard work it necessitates.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p>Some time ago we talked about the moving of the village of Katonah. Our
+friends in California can do better than that. While New York moves
+houses, California moves mountains.</p>
+
+<p>A dam is being built at San Diego, Cal., to gather water for the city.
+Where the water supply for a city is not quite sufficient, darns are often
+built, to stop small rivers from flowing away to waste; and the water
+gathered by the barrier of wood, stone, or earth, as the case may be, is
+turned into the city to be used by the people.</p>
+
+<p>In the San Diego work, a huge mass of rocky hillside overhung the ca&ntilde;on
+which was to be dammed, and at the bottom of which the river flowed.</p>
+
+<p>A ca&ntilde;on is, as you doubtless know, a deep gorge or ravine, formed by the
+river that flows through it, and which little by little has worn away its
+bed until it has cut deep down into the heart of the land, hundreds of
+feet below its original level.</p>
+
+<p>As we have said, the plan for the San Diego work was to build a dam across
+the ca&ntilde;on, and keep the waters from flowing away.</p>
+
+<p>The engineers thought that if they could only take this huge mass of rocky
+hill and drop it into the ca&ntilde;on, it would make their work very much
+easier, as the task of getting enough stone down to the bottom <a name="Page_747" id="Page_747"></a>of the
+gorge to build their dam was by no means an easy one.</p>
+
+<p>They thought the matter out, and finally decided to try and move the
+mountain-side into the ca&ntilde;on.</p>
+
+<p>They laid their plans, and for two months were busy preparing for the
+great move.</p>
+
+<p>They tunnelled the hillside in all directions over the section which they
+desired to move, and in these tunnels laid mines of giant powder or
+dynamite.</p>
+
+<p>These mines they connected with electric wires, and when all was ready,
+the various wires were gathered into one bunch, and taken across the gorge
+that was to be filled up.</p>
+
+<p>When the explosion was about to take place the workmen and engineers moved
+ever so far away, until they were at a safe distance from the explosion,
+and one man, the foreman, was sent to the edge of the ca&ntilde;on to touch the
+wires, and start the firing of the mines.</p>
+
+<p>When he received the signal he touched the wire, and then ran away to
+safety as fast as he could go, while the others watched the explosion.</p>
+
+<p>It seems to have been a most wonderful sight.</p>
+
+<p>Bowlders and masses of rock rose from their beds on the hillside, and
+little tongues of dust and smoke shot out from the earth in all
+directions. Then there was a terrific growl, which seemed to come from the
+heart of the mountain, the earth shook, the men who were watching were
+thrown to the ground, and with a roar and a rattle the side of the
+mountain moved and began to fall.</p>
+
+<p>There was a shower of stones which continued to fall for over an hour, and
+the dust was so thick that <a name="Page_748" id="Page_748"></a>it was impossible to see; but when it finally
+cleared, it was found that an enormous slice of the side of the mountain
+had been blown into the ca&ntilde;on below.</p>
+
+<p>The engineers said that one hundred and fifty thousand tons of rock had
+been moved, and to their great pride they found that it had fallen exactly
+according to their plans, and had bridged the ca&ntilde;on and formed the bulwark
+for the support of the dam.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+<p>The past week has been one of great anxiety for Greece and the Greek
+cause.</p>
+
+<p>The Turks have been steadily gaining ground in the East; they have swarmed
+through the pass of Milouna into the plains of Thessaly.</p>
+
+<p>The Greeks fought nobly, and succeeded in driving the Turks a little way
+back toward Milouna, but the vast army of Turkey was too strong for them,
+and despite their efforts, the enemy has made its way into Greece, and
+advanced upon the city of Larissa.</p>
+
+<p>The mayors and governors of Thessaly have called on the peasants and all
+men capable of bearing arms to come to the defence of their country, and
+volunteers are flocking in every hour.</p>
+
+<p>The latest news that has reached us states that the Greeks have finally
+fallen back to Pharsalia, leaving Larissa at the mercy of the Turks.</p>
+
+<p>Now while this looks very badly for the Greeks, and at this time it seems
+as if their ultimate defeat were sure, it is too soon to offer any very
+decided opinion.</p>
+
+<p>It may all be a part of a very deep-laid plan of the Greeks.</p>
+
+<p>It must be remembered that the weak points of the Turkish <a name="Page_749" id="Page_749"></a>army in regard
+to provisions and transportation are as well known to the Greeks as to us.
+The farther the Turks can be enticed away from the place where they keep
+their stores, the weaker they grow. The Greeks may have planned to lure
+them over the border, and away from their supplies, and then fight them
+when they have them at a disadvantage.</p>
+
+<p>This looks the more likely when it is taken into consideration that the
+Greeks have been successful in invading Turkey and reaching Elassona, the
+Turkish headquarters, and that they also hold the Pass of Reveni.</p>
+
+<p>The Greek navy has been doing some very fine work, bombarding and
+destroying towns on the east coast, as well as the west.</p>
+
+<p>The Greek army which was pressing on to the Turkish city of Janina in
+Epirus has met with a severe reverse.</p>
+
+<p>With information of the defeat comes news that is of such great importance
+to the Greek cause that the present check may prove to be of very little
+importance.</p>
+
+<p>This news is that the Albanians have risen against their masters the
+Turks, and joined with the Greeks.</p>
+
+<p>Albania was at one time a part of Greece, but that was in the early
+history of the Empire. It at last secured its freedom and became an
+independent country.</p>
+
+<p>In 1478 the Turks conquered Albania, and it has been under Turkish rule
+ever since. The Albanians have no love for the Turks, and though they are
+supposed to be obedient to the Sultan's wishes, he does not dare to
+appoint any but native Albanians to govern <a name="Page_750" id="Page_750"></a>them. The people have always
+contrived to give him all the trouble possible.</p>
+
+<p>The Greeks hoped that the Albanians would join them, as well as the
+Macedonians, and so, despite the reverses that the week has brought, with
+these powerful friends to help them, they must be feeling more sure of
+success than they were a few days ago.</p>
+
+<p>Bulgaria is also becoming restless and making demands of the Sultan,
+threatening to revolt against him if he does not give them what they ask
+for.</p>
+
+<p>The Prince of Bulgaria has made a trip to Berlin to borrow money for the
+war. And it is likely that the Sultan may soon have so many enemies to
+fight that he will wish the Powers had allowed him to arrange the Cretan
+matters for himself, without interfering and bringing this hornet's nest
+about his ears.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">G</span><span class='smcap'>enie H. Rosenfeld.</span><br />
+<a name="Page_751" id="Page_751"></a></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.</h2>
+
+
+<p>With the summer coming on, inventions for swimmers are being brought
+forward.</p>
+
+<div class="figright">
+<a href="./images/27.jpg"><img src="./images/27-tb.jpg" alt="Water Skate" title="Water Skate" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>The <span class='smcap'>Water Skate</span> or shoe is to afford a new and very delightful
+means of sport.</p>
+
+<p>It is intended to be used when the swimmer is in the upright position
+assumed in treading water. A swimmer can maintain this position for a long
+time, but can ordinarily make no headway in the water.</p>
+
+<p>The water skate is invented to enable him to strike out with his feet as
+in walking. Under the skate there are two &quot;fins.&quot; These remain pressed
+together with the forward movement of the foot, but with the same movement
+as the hands take in swimming. These fins open out as the foot reaches the
+limit of its stride, and push back the water exactly in the same way that
+the arms do.</p>
+
+<p>It is claimed that a high rate of speed can be obtained with this water
+skate.</p>
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p><span class='smcap'>Canopy for Bicycles.</span>&mdash;All cyclers complain so of the heat of the
+sun, that busy brains are at work to find a means of protecting the riders
+from the fierce heat.</p>
+
+<p>A canopy has just been invented, which seems to <a name="Page_752" id="Page_752"></a>be the most practical and
+sensible of any of the coverings offered.</p>
+
+<p>It has a pointed roof to it, and spreads over the rider at a distance that
+in no way obstructs the view.</p>
+
+<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/28.jpg"><img src="./images/28-tb.jpg" alt="Bicycle Canopy" title="Bicycle Canopy" /></a></p>
+
+<p>One great advantage of this canopy is that it is firmer than any other
+kind so far suggested.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p><span class='smcap'>The Portable Fire-Escape</span> is an invention that should recommend
+itself to every one. It is small enough to be easily carried, and is so
+arranged that the person using it to let himself down from a burning
+building can control the rate of speed at which he descends, and avoid all
+danger of a sudden fall.</p>
+
+<p>It is firmly hooked on to a clamp that is provided with it, and it
+consists of a seat attached to two pulleys, through which the ropes pass.<a name="Page_753" id="Page_753"></a></p>
+
+<p>The person seeking to escape from the fire places himself on the seat,
+and, grasping the pulley firmly, lets himself out of the window. By means
+of an attachment he is able, as we have said, to regulate the speed of his
+descent.</p>
+
+<p class="figcenter"><a href="./images/29.jpg"><img src="./images/29-tb.jpg" alt="Portable Fire Escape" title="Portable Fire Escape" /></a></p>
+
+<p>This invention ought to be of great service to all those who live in high
+buildings.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">G.H.R.</span><br />
+<a name="Page_754" id="Page_754"></a></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="blockquot"><span class='smcap'>Dear Editor:</span><a name="Page_755" id="Page_755"></a><a name="Page_756" id="Page_756"></a><a name="Page_757" id="Page_757"></a>
+
+<p>    Being a great reader of your paper, I of course felt inclined to
+    send you some praise, as you deserve it. I am more interested in
+    Cuba than in the affairs of Crete. I have been to see the new
+    Library, and consider it the finest in the world. Hoping much
+    success to the paper, I remain,</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 14em;">Your interested reader,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 20em;">N</span><span class='smcap'>atalie C.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">W</span><span class='smcap'>ashington, D.C.</span><br />
+<br /><br /></p>
+
+
+
+<div><span class='smcap'>Dear Natalie:</span></div>
+
+<p>Your letter was received with much pleasure.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 16.5em;">E</span><span class='smcap'>ditor.</span><br />
+<br /><br /></p>
+
+
+<div class="blockquot"><span class='smcap'>Dear Editor:</span>
+
+<p>    My teacher, Miss Galbraith, takes your paper, and I used to be
+    looking for it; at last I bought it myself, so I could own it.</p>
+
+<p>    Your paper is very interesting and helpful in Geography. All my
+    family are interested in <span class='smcap'>The Great Round World</span>,
+    especially my father.</p>
+
+<p>    Will you please tell me if General Maceo is dead or not? We got
+    so many different stories it is hard to tell which is true. Or
+    if General Rivera is to be put to death?</p>
+
+<p>    I live in New Haven; it is a beautiful city, full of elm trees,
+    with parks. Also Yale College, from which Nathan Hale and Samuel
+    Morse graduated.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Your Reader,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 20em;">J</span><span class='smcap'>ohn C.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">N</span><span class='smcap'>ew Haven, Conn.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>P.S.&mdash;I am glad that you don't publish prize-fights. It is the
+    nature of animals, not human beings.<br /><br /></p></div>
+
+
+
+<div><span class='smcap'>Dear John:</span></div>
+
+<p>There is no longer any doubt that General Maceo was killed. The stories
+that he was still alive were probably made up by the Cubans, for fear
+their countrymen might lose heart if they knew the truth.</p>
+
+<p>You will see in this number of your paper that General Rivera is not to be
+shot, according to the present reports.  &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;          <span class='smcap'>Editor.</span><br /><br /></p>
+
+
+<div class="blockquot"><span class='smcap'>Dear Editor</span>:
+
+<p>    I enjoy <span class='smcap'>The Great Round World</span> immensely, and look
+    forward to its coming every week. I like to read about Greece
+    and Cuba, and if I were Grecian I would gladly join in the war.
+    I hope Greece will win, for I pity the poor Cretans under the
+    cruel rule of Turkey. Wishing your paper many years of success,
+    I am,</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 16em;">Your friend and reader,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 23em;">H</span><span class='smcap'>arold R.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">N</span><span class='smcap'>ew York</span>, April 8th, 1897<br />
+<br /><br /></p>
+
+
+<div><span class='smcap'>Dear Harold</span>:</div>
+
+<p>Many thanks for your pretty letter. Write to us again soon.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">E</span><span class='smcap'>ditor</span>.<br /><br /></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><span class='smcap'>Dear Mr. Editor</span>:
+
+<p>    I want to ask you about the <i>Cometa</i>. Did the Admiral ever bring
+    her into the Havana harbor as he boasted that he would, with
+    flags flying on her?</p>
+
+<p>    Do you think Cuba is going to win? I hope that she will.</p>
+
+<p>    Are the Americans going to help them?&mdash;and then I know the
+    Cubans will win. Yours truly,</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 20em;">S</span><span class='smcap'>Sydney</span> G.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">B</span><span class='smcap'>Baltimore</span>, April 9th, 1897.<br />
+<br /><br /></p>
+
+<div><span class='smcap'>My Dear Sydney</span>:</div>
+
+<p>The Spanish Admiral has never brought the <i>Cometa</i> into Havana harbor. He
+was just spinning a sailor's yarn, apparently.</p>
+
+<p>We hope that Cuba will win her freedom, and it seems very likely that she
+will.</p>
+
+<p>You will see in this number of <span class='smcap'>The Great Round World</span> that there
+is a chance that the President will try to settle the troubles between
+Cuba and Spain.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">E</span><span class='smcap'>ditor.</span><br />
+<br /><br /></p>
+
+
+<div class="blockquot"><span class='smcap'>Dear Editor:</span>
+
+<p>    Our teacher takes <span class='smcap'>The Great Round World</span> and reads
+    to us whenever the time will permit. The reading makes an
+    interesting part of the exercises of the day. We are all anxious
+    to hear about the war between Cuba and Spain, and we hope Cuba
+    will soon be free. Can you tell us about how many people pass
+    over Brooklyn Bridge in a day? I think it is wonderful how
+    buttons and such articles are made out of milk. Do they have
+    schools in Freeville? I think we should all be grateful for the
+    interesting news that is printed for us in your paper each week.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 18.5em;">Yours truly,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 22.5em;">N</span><span class='smcap'>ellie R.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">T</span><span class='smcap'>iffin, Ohio,</span> March 24th, 1897.<br />
+<br /><br /></p>
+
+
+
+<div><span class='smcap'>Dear Nellie:</span></div>
+
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+
+<p>You ask about the number of persons who cross the Brooklyn Bridge daily.
+Mr. Martin, the Chief Engineer and Superintendent, has been so kind as to
+tell us all about it for you. We publish his note.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">E</span><span class='smcap'>ditor.</span><br />
+<br /></p>
+
+<p>One hundred and twenty-five thousand people per day ride across the bridge
+in the cars. Twelve thousand walk over on the promenade. Five thousand
+vehicles cross the bridge on the roadways.&mdash;C.C. <span class='smcap'>Martin</span>, Chief Engineer
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is Going On
+In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897
+       A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: April 1, 2005 [EBook #15518]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team. (www.pgdp.net)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+_FIVE CENTS._
+
+THE GREAT ROUND WORLD
+
+AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT
+
+    SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. MAY 6, 1897  Vol. 1. NO. 26
+    $2.50 PER YEAR
+    [Entered at Post Office, New York City, as second-class matter]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
+
+    WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON. PUBLISHER
+
+    NO. 3 AND 5 WEST 18TH ST. NEW YORK CITY
+
+Copyright, 1897, by WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON.
+
+    AS A
+    =SPECIAL INDUCEMENT=
+
+    for our subscribers to interest others in "The Great Round
+    World," we will give to each subscriber who sends us $2.50 to
+    pay for a year's subscription to a new name, a copy of
+
+    =Rand, McNally & Co.=
+      =1897 Atlas of the World.=
+
+    =160 pages of colored maps from new plates, size 11 1/2 x 14
+    inches, printed on special paper with marginal index, and well
+    worth its regular price - - - - $2.50.=
+
+
+Every one has some sort of an atlas, doubtless, but an old atlas is no
+better than an old directory; countries do not move away, as do people,
+but they do change and our knowledge of them increases, and this atlas,
+made in 1897 from =new= plates, is perfect and up to date and covers every
+point on
+
+    =The Great Round World.=
+
+Those not subscribers should secure the subscription of a friend and remit
+$5 to cover it and their own. A copy of the atlas will be sent to either
+address.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GREAT ROUND WORLD,
+
+_3 and 5 West 18th Street, . . . . . . . .New York City._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE GREAT ROUND WORLD
+NATURAL HISTORY
+STORIES.
+
+A Series of True Stories
+
+BY
+JULIA TRUITT BISHOP.
+
+Attractively Illustrated by Barnes.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+These stories will be issued in parts. Price, 10 cents each. Subscription
+price (12 numbers), $1.00. Part 1. issued as supplement to GREAT ROUND
+WORLD. NO. 20.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    =Author's Preface.=
+
+    The stories published in this little volume have been issued
+    from time to time in the Philadelphia _Times_, and it is at the
+    request of many readers that they now greet the world in more
+    enduring form. They have been written as occasion suggested,
+    during several years; and they commemorate to me many of the
+    friends I have known and loved in the animal world. "Shep" and
+    "Dr. Jim," "Abdallah" and "Brownie," "Little Dryad" and
+    "Peek-a-Boo." I have been fast friends with every one, and have
+    watched them with such loving interest that I knew all their
+    ways and could almost read their thoughts. I send them on to
+    other lovers of dumb animals, hoping that the stories of these
+    friends of mine will carry pleasure to young and old.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    =WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON,=
+    =3 & 5 West 18th Street.=
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+       *       *      *       *       *
+
+_We hope that_ ...
+
+=TEACHERS=
+
+will avail themselves of the special trial subscription rate of =$1 a
+year= before the time expires.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GREAT ROUND WORLD,
+
+3 and 5 West 18th Street, . . . . . . New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A great deal is expected of the teachers in our public schools at the
+present day in the way of keeping the pupils conversant with the political
+and scientific questions of the day. While this is as it should be, we
+believe that if parents would look well to the quality of reading-matter
+placed before their children better results would be obtained from the
+teachers' efforts in this line. THE GREAT ROUND WORLD, AND WHAT IS
+GOING ON IN IT, is the name of a newspaper for children, and without
+exception it is the finest one of its kind ever published. It comes in
+magazine form, and is overflowing with interesting subjects written in
+such a bright and yet simple manner that the whole household unwittingly
+becomes interested in it.--_Omer, Mich., Progress, Jan. 8, 1897._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=THE . FIRST . BOUND . VOLUME=
+
+OF
+
+="The Great Round World"=
+
+(Containing Nos. 1 to 15)
+
+IS NOW READY.
+
+    Handsomely bound in strong cloth, with title on side and back.
+    Price, postage paid, $1.25. Subscribers may exchange their
+    numbers by sending them to us (express paid) with 35 cents to
+    cover cost of binding, and 10 cents for return carriage. Address
+
+=_3 sad 5 West 18th Street,- - - -New York City._=
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: THE GREAT ROUND
+WORLD
+AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT.]
+
+    VOL. 1   MAY 6, 1897.   NO. 26
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Now that the war between Greece and Turkey has really commenced, people
+are much interested in comparing the strength of the two armies, and
+wondering which side will gain the victory.
+
+The Greek regular army numbers one hundred and twenty-five thousand, the
+Turkish one hundred and fifty thousand. When all the reserves are called
+out, it is thought that both countries can put twice if not three times as
+many men in the field.
+
+The Turkish army is considered the finer of the two, because it is so well
+drilled, and so perfectly armed. It is said that German officers have been
+teaching the Turkish soldiers the modern methods of war.
+
+The Turks, however, are the weaker in two important points: their means of
+providing food for their soldiers, and in facilities for carrying them
+quickly from one point to another.
+
+An army that is weak in these two very important points loses a good deal
+of its usefulness.
+
+As we have seen in Cuba, men cannot fight well when they are hungry. It
+is also a fatal thing to have no good roads or railroads, along which
+large bodies of men may be sent when they are needed.
+
+The Greek army is not nearly so well drilled as the Turkish, nor so well
+officered. The Turks have in Edhem Pasha a splendid leader, while the
+Greeks have no great general to lead them, and at present no general who
+seems even particularly clever. But that need not worry the friends of
+Greece. The history of the world has taught us that every great occasion
+has brought with it a great man capable of dealing with it. The French
+Revolution brought forth Napoleon, the War of Independence gave us
+Washington. We can therefore trust that what has happened before may occur
+again, and that the Greek crisis may produce its Washington, to lead the
+brave little country safely to success.
+
+The great strength of the Greeks lies in their navy, which is one of the
+finest in Europe. The Greek ships are modern, well manned, and well armed.
+The Turkish navy, on the other hand, has been the joke of Europe for many
+years.
+
+Since the invention of the great guns that will send a cannon ball through
+the side of a wooden ship as easily as you can pierce an egg-shell with a
+needle, all the warships have been fitted with strong steel armored hulls
+and water-tight compartments, such as we told you about on page 75 of Vol.
+I. of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD.
+
+Turkey has none of these new ships. She has been bankrupt for so many
+years that she has not had the money to buy any of them.
+
+It is supposed that the Turks will be more successful on land than the
+Greeks, but that the Greek navy will win back on the sea as much as the
+army loses on land.
+
+It is also said that the Turkish arrangements for feeding the soldiers are
+so bad, that, if the war runs on into months instead of weeks, the Turks
+will not be able to hold out.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Senate has not yet taken any action on the Cuban Bill.
+
+Senator Morgan again brought it before the House, hoping that he would be
+able to bring it to a vote. He was, however, obliged to agree to hold it
+over for a day or two until Senator Hale should be able to be present, as
+Mr. Hale has some very important things he wishes to say on the subject.
+
+From Cuba there is very little news of interest.
+
+Much indignation is felt against General Weyler, because he has sent out
+soldiers to destroy the Cuban hospitals, and in the last few days several
+have been burned and the sick soldiers in them murdered.
+
+The Cubans are not able to have large hospitals, because they cannot spare
+a sufficient number of men to protect them, so they have been in the habit
+of building huts in the forests, where they would leave a few wounded men,
+in the charge of one or two nurses.
+
+These forest hospitals are not guarded. The Cubans have trusted to the
+woods to conceal them from the enemy.
+
+It seems that the Spaniards have found out the secret of the hospitals,
+and now General Weyler has sent out parties to make a careful search for
+them.
+
+As soon as a hut is found the invalids are put to death and the nurses
+taken prisoner.
+
+To fire upon or in any way attack a hospital is against the rules of
+civilized warfare, and this new horror of General Weyler's adds one more
+to the long list of his crimes.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+The Mississippi River has not begun to subside yet, and the floods grow
+daily more serious, as fresh levees give way, and allow the waters to flow
+over new districts.
+
+There is, however, some hope that the greatest height of the flood wave
+has been reached, and that the angry waters may begin to go back in a few
+days.
+
+There is still fear that the city of New Orleans may be swept by the
+flood.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+The vexed question of the Bering Sea seal fisheries is coming up again.
+
+The Bering Sea divides America from Asia, and is bordered on the American
+side by the State of Alaska, and on the Asiatic side by Siberia.
+
+Up to the year 1867, Alaska, or Aliaska, as it was called, belonged to the
+Russian Government.
+
+In that year it was sold to the United States for $7,200,000.
+
+At the time of the purchase Alaska was looked upon as a very barren land;
+no one ever dreamt that gold and silver and other valuable minerals would
+be found in it. The money spent for the purchase was seriously begrudged
+by many people, and Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State who had made the
+bargain, was much blamed, people saying that it was a foolish waste of
+the public money.
+
+The one source of income which Alaska was known to possess in those days
+was its seal fisheries. A great herd of fur-bearing seals lived in the
+Alaskan waters, and the Government expected to make these seals very
+profitable to it.
+
+Under the Russian rule, the fur seal regions had been very carefully
+protected, and when the United States bought Alaska the Government decided
+to care for the animals in the same way that the Russians had done,
+allowing only a certain number of seals to be killed each year.
+
+The fisheries were leased to a company called the Alaska Commercial
+Company of San Francisco, which had the entire rights to them, under
+certain rules and regulations laid down by the Government.
+
+Soon after Alaska and its seal fisheries came into the possession of the
+United States, English and American vessels--the latter not belonging to
+the Commercial Company--entered the Bering Sea, and slaughtered any seals
+they could reach, without regard to the proper rules for seal fishing.
+
+The Company complained to the Government, and in 1887 this seal poaching
+had become such a serious matter that the United States ordered her
+revenue cutters up to Bering Sea to protect her interests.
+
+Several ships were captured by the revenue-officers, and most of them were
+British vessels.
+
+This opened the way for the dispute between Great Britain and the United
+States, which has been going on ever since, and has been one of the most
+troublesome questions our rulers have had to deal with.
+
+Great Britain claimed that she had a perfect right to fish in Bering Sea,
+and the United States insisted that she had bought all the rights to the
+fishing when she bought Alaska.
+
+After the quarrel had dragged on for five years, it was finally, in 1892,
+decided to arbitrate it.
+
+The Committee appointed for this purpose met in Paris, France, in 1893,
+and finally decided that Russia had never had any rights in the Bering
+Sea, beyond the usual rights which all countries have of controlling the
+seas for three miles out from their borders.
+
+Beyond the three-mile limit, the ocean becomes the "high seas," and is
+then open to anybody.
+
+It was decided that Russia could not sell the Bering Sea to the United
+States.
+
+The matter being thus decided, the question of caring for the seals was
+left as unsettled as ever, and it was most necessary that some arrangement
+should be made, unless the seals were to be totally destroyed.
+
+The decision at Paris made it necessary that Great Britain should be
+willing to agree to any plan that should be adopted.
+
+It was therefore shown to the Committee that the seal flocks were in
+danger of being destroyed, and a set of laws was made that proper care
+might be taken of the seals. England and the United States agreed to obey
+these laws, and it was decided that they should go into effect at once.
+
+As it was supposed that in course of time it might be wise to alter these
+laws, it was further agreed between England and the United States that
+they should be looked over every five years, and changed if it was
+necessary.
+
+The five years has still sixteen months to run, but the American
+Government has thought it advisable to ask that the two countries meet and
+talk the subject over once more, as the laws are not strong enough to
+protect the seals.
+
+The United States complains now that Canadian and British fishers are
+killing the seals in the same careless, ignorant way that they did before
+the Treaty of Paris, and that unless they are stopped there will be no
+seals in Alaska in a very few years.
+
+The Government says that the habits of the seals must be studied and
+understood, so that they may be protected, in order that all the fur
+necessary for market may be obtained, without interfering with the growth
+of the herds.
+
+Every year the seals arrive in flocks hundreds of thousands strong, and
+seek a sandy beach, or some nice sunny rocks, where they can spend the
+summer. In these places they establish rookeries, or villages, as they are
+sometimes called.
+
+The fathers of the families come first, arriving in April to seek out
+comfortable quarters.
+
+In June the mothers come to the island, take possession of the homes
+provided for them, and pretty soon each seal mother has a nice little seal
+pup to occupy her home with her.
+
+It is a curious thing about these little seal pups that though they are
+going to spend their lives in the water, they don't like the idea of it at
+all, and have to be forced into the water by their mothers, and taught to
+swim just as though they were little boys and girls.
+
+Baby seals have nearly white fur when they are born, and, strange to say,
+until this coat falls off and the dark one comes, their mothers never
+attempt to take them to the water.
+
+The seals are not the gentle things they appear to be, with their soft
+brown eyes and their sleek coats. On the contrary, they are very fierce
+and warlike if any attempt is made to interfere with their families.
+
+When the fathers first reach the beach, and set about making the home
+ready for their families, they will not allow any of the young bachelor
+seals to land near the rookeries. They force them either to remain in the
+water, or to go to the highlands above the village.
+
+The bachelor seals think they have as much right to a comfortable home as
+the older seals, and so they fight hard to enter the villages.
+
+This fighting keeps up the whole summer while the seals are out of the
+water, and those who have seen these battles say that "night and day, the
+sound of them is like that of an approaching railway train."
+
+So steadily does the fighting continue that the old seals have no time to
+eat, and during the three or four months they stay with their families on
+the beaches they never take a mouthful of food. At the end of the time,
+when they leave the rookeries, they are thin and miserable, and covered
+with battle scars.
+
+The killing of the seals should be carefully arranged with a knowledge of
+these habits.
+
+The proper rules are that no mother seals, baby seals, or father seals
+shall be killed, but that the hunters shall watch until the badly behaved
+bachelor seals have got tired with fighting, and gone up above the
+rookeries to rest. The hunters ought then to creep in between the seals
+and the water, and making a noise to frighten them drive them inland.
+
+Every hunter should be armed with a wooden club, and when he has chosen a
+seal that seems to be about two or three years old, he should strike it
+with this club and kill it.
+
+In this way a large number of seals can be obtained without disturbing the
+rest of the flock.
+
+The manner of killing that the United States complains of is that the
+hunters creep into the rookeries and kill the mother seals, leaving the
+poor little pups to die by thousands for want of their mothers' care.
+
+Because of this wholesale killing of the seals, there are few young seals
+left to grow up in the place of those that have been taken away, and so
+after a time there will be no more flocks at all.
+
+The sealskin which we use is made out of the under fur of the animal. The
+seals which are caught for fur have a very thick, velvet-like undercoat,
+covered with a quantity of long hair, which has to be removed from the
+skins before they can be used for market.
+
+The roots of these long hairs grow much deeper into the skin than those of
+the short, thick fur, and so the pelts can be laid face downward, and
+pared away very carefully at the back until the roots of the long hairs
+are cut through. The long hairs are then pulled out of the skin, and the
+beautiful soft fur is left.
+
+It is to be hoped that, in the discussion of this matter between England
+and the United States, the proper rules for killing the seals may be very
+strictly laid down, that they may be enforced. It will be too bad if this
+splendid fur is lost through ignorance and carelessness.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+Another of the old questions that have vexed our Government is being
+brought to the front again. This one is the annexation of the Hawaiian
+Islands.
+
+The reason why this subject has come up again is that the Japanese have
+been emigrating to these islands in such vast numbers of late, that an
+invasion is feared, and the Government is anxious to have American
+protection.
+
+A little while ago word was sent that the Hawaiians had turned back four
+hundred Japanese emigrants who sought to land at Honolulu. Japan
+immediately sent war-ships to inquire into the matter, and the United
+States also sent a cruiser.
+
+It soon became evident that the affair was much more serious than at first
+appeared.
+
+The Japanese have been emigrating to Hawaii in such vast numbers that,
+unless something is done to stop them, there will soon be more Japanese
+than natives in the islands.
+
+The Government of Hawaii, awakening to the danger that threatened, has
+made fresh advances to the United States, asking once more to be annexed
+to this country.
+
+This question of annexation has been talked about since the year 1893.
+
+In January, 1893, there was a revolution in Hawaii, because the people had
+found cause to dislike their queen, Liliuokalani. This queen's behavior
+had been very bad, and her rule had been a disgrace to the islands for
+some time. At last the people would stand it no longer, and so removed her
+from the throne.
+
+The people who revolted against the Queen were either Americans or people
+born of American parents settled in Hawaii.
+
+They formed a government, and after many troubles asked the United States
+to take possession of the Hawaiian Islands, and, in return, to pay over
+$3,000,000 of debts which Hawaii had contracted, and a yearly income of
+$20,000 to the deposed queen, and also a lump sum of $150,000 to her
+daughter, Princess Kaulani.
+
+Mr. Cleveland, who was President, opposed the idea of taking possession of
+the islands, and endeavored to restore Queen Liliuokalani to her throne.
+
+His efforts were not successful. The Hawaiians would not have her back,
+and having had time to establish a government for themselves, they felt as
+if they could do without the United States as well as their dark-skinned
+Queen. So the question of annexing the islands fell through.
+
+Now it is before us again with greater force than before.
+
+It is evident that if we don't want Hawaii, Japan does, and the time is
+drawing near when some decided step must be taken.
+
+The Japanese plan for securing Hawaii seems to be similar to the English
+plan for getting possession of the Transvaal.
+
+It seems to be their idea to fill the islands with Japanese, until the
+number of Asiatics is far greater than that of the Hawaiians. Then they
+will demand a voice in the government, and when once they have secured
+that, it will be only a question of time when they will have the
+government of the islands under their control.
+
+The people of Hawaii became suspicious of this plot when they found that
+the Japanese who came over in such hordes (sometimes as many as fifteen
+hundred in one week), were not laborers seeking work, as is the case with
+most immigrants.
+
+It was found that the new arrivals belonged to the student class, and that
+after they arrived in the islands, they made no attempt to get anything to
+do, but seemed to be living on their incomes.
+
+This made the Hawaiians suspicious that these emigrants were being sent
+over at the expense of their Government, and that the Mikado was
+supporting them until he had gained his ends, and secured the islands for
+himself.
+
+Just lately there was a scare of fever in Honolulu, the port of Hawaii,
+and the baggage of the incoming people had to be carefully fumigated.
+While doing this work the officers found to their surprise that nearly
+every Japanese immigrant had a soldier's uniform done up in his baggage.
+
+The Government does not know what to make of this, but has become so
+thoroughly alarmed that it is seeking the protection of the United States.
+
+A prominent lawyer from Honolulu has come over here to assist the
+officials who are already in Washington laying their case before our
+Government.
+
+The Japanese treat the matter very lightly, and pretend that it is a
+foolish scare that amounts to nothing. They insist, however, that the
+Japanese immigrants shall not be turned back from Hawaii but allowed to
+land, as they have a right to do, according to the treaty existing between
+Hawaii and Japan.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+Some fresh news has come about the uprising in Brazil.
+
+The insurgents it would seem are led by a man named Antonio Conselhiero,
+who appears to be a very extraordinary kind of person.
+
+He first made his appearance last November, when one day he marched
+through the streets of a small town in Bahia, followed by a well-drilled,
+orderly band of men and women.
+
+These people went through the streets singing the old songs and hymns of
+the empire, and every now and then they would halt, and Conselhiero would
+address the crowd that gathered around him.
+
+From the descriptions of him that have been sent from Brazil, he seems to
+be an enormously tall man, with black eyes, and long black hair and beard.
+He is broad and big as well as tall, and looks like a giant.
+
+He seemed to have such an influence over the crowds who listened to his
+words, that they flocked to his standard, and followed him, promising to
+help him in his crusade against the government, and his attempt to restore
+the monarchy.
+
+The Governor ordered the police to send the crowds back to their homes,
+and drive Conselhiero and his band out of the city. But this was easier
+said than done. The strange man's followers, women as well as men,
+attacked the police, killing some, and wounding many.
+
+Then Conselhiero made his way to a mountain, where he encamped with his
+followers, and prepared to defy the authorities.
+
+The Governor, still thinking the whole affair was but an insignificant
+riot, sent a small body of soldiers after the insurgents, with orders to
+make them break up their camp and move off.
+
+When the soldiers arrived at Conselhiero's encampment, they made very
+light of being sent out to disperse a body of tramps and vagabonds.
+
+Their amusement did not last long. A number of women, armed with heavy
+swords, rushed out upon them, and attacked them so furiously that they
+were forced to run for their lives.
+
+More troops were sent out by the Governor, and three times were they
+beaten by Conselhiero's strange army of women and men.
+
+The authorities refused to believe that there was anything serious in
+these defeats, and persisted in thinking "the fanatics," as Conselhiero's
+followers are called, a parcel of crazy lunatics who would soon come to
+their senses.
+
+At last when it was found that Conselhiero was preaching the return of the
+monarchy to the people, and that peasants and soldiers were alike flocking
+to his standard, in the hope of seeing a prince on the throne of Brazil,
+they began to see that this man was by no means crazy, but that he was a
+very serious enemy who must be seriously treated.
+
+There is a very strong wish in the hearts of many Brazilians for the
+return of the monarchy, and numbers of influential people are joining
+Conselhiero, who is gaining ground every day.
+
+The revolution has indeed gained such a strong hold in Brazil that it
+will be a very difficult task to put it down.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+The Greater Republic of Central America does not seem to be having a very
+pleasant time of it.
+
+If you remember, it was only recognized by our Government in December
+last, and already there is trouble.
+
+On page 220 of Vol. I we told you that the Greater Republic of Central
+America was formed by the union of the three republics of Honduras, San
+Salvador, and Nicaragua.
+
+Now there is a revolution in Honduras; one of those toy revolutions we
+spoke about in No. 22 of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD.
+
+In all the small South American Republics, revolution and rebellion is as
+the breath of life to the people.
+
+If a general gets popular with his soldiers he at once plots to overthrow
+the government, and with the help of the army become president himself.
+
+Every man who is either clever or ambitious gets up a toy revolution to
+depose somebody, and take his place.
+
+The present revolution appears to be of the usual kind.
+
+The President has become unpopular, and it is said that one of the former
+presidents, Dr. Soto, thinks he would like to have another term of office,
+and so he has incited the people to revolt.
+
+A new government has been formed to take charge of affairs until they
+become more settled, and things seem to be shaping themselves to suit the
+doctor's wishes.
+
+San Salvador and Guatemala, though by their new ties they are bound to
+assist their sister republic, have declined to interfere, and it looks as
+if the life of the Greater Republic of Central America would not be nearly
+as long as its name.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+On page 134 of Vol. I. we spoke about the unfortunate Russians who are
+exiled to Siberia, and of the thousands of miles they are forced to march
+across the continent before they reach their place of punishment.
+
+It has just been reported that the Czar has issued a decree that persons
+who are exiled to Siberia shall, from this time forth, be carried by train
+to the convict settlements.
+
+In the days when the poor unfortunates had to make the journey on foot it
+took ninety days of steady marching to reach the journey's end, and women
+and children as well as men took their places in the long, sad procession
+that wound its way across the dreary steppes of Russia.
+
+This decree must have caused much rejoicing among the Russian people, and
+if the Czar continues to rule his people so mercifully and kindly, we may
+all live to see the day when there will be no more Nihilism or hatred
+between the ruler and the ruled in Russia, and when it will no longer be
+necessary to send anybody to Siberia.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+The boys of the Cambridge Manual Training School have a new lesson which
+has become very popular with them.
+
+This is a fire drill.
+
+The pupils are taught to go through the whole process of fighting a fire
+in the same way that the firemen do.
+
+Before the boys are allowed to join the fire battalion they have to be
+drilled, taught to march, and are obliged to attend lectures on surgery,
+and how to help injured people until the doctor comes.
+
+After the boys have gone through this first course of study, they begin
+their real fireman's training. They attend more lectures in which they
+learn how to handle the various ladders and machines which firemen use.
+They have to learn how a fire engine is put together, what are the uses of
+every wheel and valve, and how to clean and care for each separate part of
+the engine; and when they are quite familiar with the various things used
+by firemen they pass on to the last stage of training.
+
+This begins on March 1st, and from this time on the work is done out of
+doors.
+
+A wooden building forty feet high, and provided with doors and windows
+exactly like a three-story house, is put up in the schoolyard, and it is
+with this building that the lessons are given.
+
+Every Thursday afternoon an imaginary fire takes place in it. The hose is
+run out, the ladders are raised, and the lads go to work with a will,
+saving imaginary lives, and fighting imaginary flames.
+
+Each week some new complication is supposed to take place, and some extra
+machine has to be brought into use, until by the end of the school term
+they can handle every machine and ladder with the greatest ease.
+
+When first the fire drill was introduced into the school, the boys were
+not obliged to take the study unless they wanted to; but it has become so
+popular that they are eager and anxious to take it, and now is part of the
+regular course of the school for all boys who are strong enough to stand
+the hard work it necessitates.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+Some time ago we talked about the moving of the village of Katonah. Our
+friends in California can do better than that. While New York moves
+houses, California moves mountains.
+
+A dam is being built at San Diego, Cal., to gather water for the city.
+Where the water supply for a city is not quite sufficient, darns are often
+built, to stop small rivers from flowing away to waste; and the water
+gathered by the barrier of wood, stone, or earth, as the case may be, is
+turned into the city to be used by the people.
+
+In the San Diego work, a huge mass of rocky hillside overhung the canon
+which was to be dammed, and at the bottom of which the river flowed.
+
+A canon is, as you doubtless know, a deep gorge or ravine, formed by the
+river that flows through it, and which little by little has worn away its
+bed until it has cut deep down into the heart of the land, hundreds of
+feet below its original level.
+
+As we have said, the plan for the San Diego work was to build a dam across
+the canon, and keep the waters from flowing away.
+
+The engineers thought that if they could only take this huge mass of rocky
+hill and drop it into the canon, it would make their work very much
+easier, as the task of getting enough stone down to the bottom of the
+gorge to build their dam was by no means an easy one.
+
+They thought the matter out, and finally decided to try and move the
+mountain-side into the canon.
+
+They laid their plans, and for two months were busy preparing for the
+great move.
+
+They tunnelled the hillside in all directions over the section which they
+desired to move, and in these tunnels laid mines of giant powder or
+dynamite.
+
+These mines they connected with electric wires, and when all was ready,
+the various wires were gathered into one bunch, and taken across the gorge
+that was to be filled up.
+
+When the explosion was about to take place the workmen and engineers moved
+ever so far away, until they were at a safe distance from the explosion,
+and one man, the foreman, was sent to the edge of the canon to touch the
+wires, and start the firing of the mines.
+
+When he received the signal he touched the wire, and then ran away to
+safety as fast as he could go, while the others watched the explosion.
+
+It seems to have been a most wonderful sight.
+
+Bowlders and masses of rock rose from their beds on the hillside, and
+little tongues of dust and smoke shot out from the earth in all
+directions. Then there was a terrific growl, which seemed to come from the
+heart of the mountain, the earth shook, the men who were watching were
+thrown to the ground, and with a roar and a rattle the side of the
+mountain moved and began to fall.
+
+There was a shower of stones which continued to fall for over an hour, and
+the dust was so thick that it was impossible to see; but when it finally
+cleared, it was found that an enormous slice of the side of the mountain
+had been blown into the canon below.
+
+The engineers said that one hundred and fifty thousand tons of rock had
+been moved, and to their great pride they found that it had fallen exactly
+according to their plans, and had bridged the canon and formed the bulwark
+for the support of the dam.
+
+       *        *        *        *        *
+
+The past week has been one of great anxiety for Greece and the Greek
+cause.
+
+The Turks have been steadily gaining ground in the East; they have swarmed
+through the pass of Milouna into the plains of Thessaly.
+
+The Greeks fought nobly, and succeeded in driving the Turks a little way
+back toward Milouna, but the vast army of Turkey was too strong for them,
+and despite their efforts, the enemy has made its way into Greece, and
+advanced upon the city of Larissa.
+
+The mayors and governors of Thessaly have called on the peasants and all
+men capable of bearing arms to come to the defence of their country, and
+volunteers are flocking in every hour.
+
+The latest news that has reached us states that the Greeks have finally
+fallen back to Pharsalia, leaving Larissa at the mercy of the Turks.
+
+Now while this looks very badly for the Greeks, and at this time it seems
+as if their ultimate defeat were sure, it is too soon to offer any very
+decided opinion.
+
+It may all be a part of a very deep-laid plan of the Greeks.
+
+It must be remembered that the weak points of the Turkish army in regard
+to provisions and transportation are as well known to the Greeks as to us.
+The farther the Turks can be enticed away from the place where they keep
+their stores, the weaker they grow. The Greeks may have planned to lure
+them over the border, and away from their supplies, and then fight them
+when they have them at a disadvantage.
+
+This looks the more likely when it is taken into consideration that the
+Greeks have been successful in invading Turkey and reaching Elassona, the
+Turkish headquarters, and that they also hold the Pass of Reveni.
+
+The Greek navy has been doing some very fine work, bombarding and
+destroying towns on the east coast, as well as the west.
+
+The Greek army which was pressing on to the Turkish city of Janina in
+Epirus has met with a severe reverse.
+
+With information of the defeat comes news that is of such great importance
+to the Greek cause that the present check may prove to be of very little
+importance.
+
+This news is that the Albanians have risen against their masters the
+Turks, and joined with the Greeks.
+
+Albania was at one time a part of Greece, but that was in the early
+history of the Empire. It at last secured its freedom and became an
+independent country.
+
+In 1478 the Turks conquered Albania, and it has been under Turkish rule
+ever since. The Albanians have no love for the Turks, and though they are
+supposed to be obedient to the Sultan's wishes, he does not dare to
+appoint any but native Albanians to govern them. The people have always
+contrived to give him all the trouble possible.
+
+The Greeks hoped that the Albanians would join them, as well as the
+Macedonians, and so, despite the reverses that the week has brought, with
+these powerful friends to help them, they must be feeling more sure of
+success than they were a few days ago.
+
+Bulgaria is also becoming restless and making demands of the Sultan,
+threatening to revolt against him if he does not give them what they ask
+for.
+
+The Prince of Bulgaria has made a trip to Berlin to borrow money for the
+war. And it is likely that the Sultan may soon have so many enemies to
+fight that he will wish the Powers had allowed him to arrange the Cretan
+matters for himself, without interfering and bringing this hornet's nest
+about his ears.
+
+                                     GENIE H. ROSENFELD.
+
+
+
+
+INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.
+
+
+With the summer coming on, inventions for swimmers are being brought
+forward.
+
+The WATER SKATE or shoe is to afford a new and very delightful
+means of sport.
+
+It is intended to be used when the swimmer is in the upright position
+assumed in treading water. A swimmer can maintain this position for a long
+time, but can ordinarily make no headway in the water.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The water skate is invented to enable him to strike out with his feet as
+in walking. Under the skate there are two "fins." These remain pressed
+together with the forward movement of the foot, but with the same movement
+as the hands take in swimming. These fins open out as the foot reaches the
+limit of its stride, and push back the water exactly in the same way that
+the arms do.
+
+It is claimed that a high rate of speed can be obtained with this water
+skate.
+
+CANOPY FOR BICYCLES.--All cyclers complain so of the heat of the
+sun, that busy brains are at work to find a means of protecting the riders
+from the fierce heat.
+
+A canopy has just been invented, which seems to be the most practical and
+sensible of any of the coverings offered.
+
+It has a pointed roof to it, and spreads over the rider at a distance that
+in no way obstructs the view.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+One great advantage of this canopy is that it is firmer than any other
+kind so far suggested.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE PORTABLE FIRE-ESCAPE is an invention that should recommend
+itself to every one. It is small enough to be easily carried, and is so
+arranged that the person using it to let himself down from a burning
+building can control the rate of speed at which he descends, and avoid all
+danger of a sudden fall.
+
+It is firmly hooked on to a clamp that is provided with it, and it
+consists of a seat attached to two pulleys, through which the ropes pass.
+
+The person seeking to escape from the fire places himself on the seat,
+and, grasping the pulley firmly, lets himself out of the window. By means
+of an attachment he is able, as we have said, to regulate the speed of his
+descent.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+This invention ought to be of great service to all those who live in high
+buildings.
+
+    G.H.R.
+
+
+
+
+LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.
+
+
+    DEAR EDITOR:
+
+    Being a great reader of your paper, I of course felt inclined to
+    send you some praise, as you deserve it. I am more interested in
+    Cuba than in the affairs of Crete. I have been to see the new
+    Library, and consider it the finest in the world. Hoping much
+    success to the paper, I remain,
+
+                            Your interested reader,
+                                        NATALIE C.
+    WASHINGTON, D.C.
+
+
+
+DEAR NATALIE:
+
+Your letter was received with much pleasure.
+
+                                 EDITOR.
+
+
+    DEAR EDITOR:
+
+    My teacher, Miss Galbraith, takes your paper, and I used to be
+    looking for it; at last I bought it myself, so I could own it.
+
+    Your paper is very interesting and helpful in Geography. All my
+    family are interested in THE GREAT ROUND WORLD,
+    especially my father.
+
+    Will you please tell me if General Maceo is dead or not? We got
+    so many different stories it is hard to tell which is true. Or
+    if General Rivera is to be put to death?
+
+    I live in New Haven; it is a beautiful city, full of elm trees,
+    with parks. Also Yale College, from which Nathan Hale and Samuel
+    Morse graduated.
+
+                                    Your Reader,
+                                        JOHN C.
+    NEW HAVEN, CONN.
+
+    P.S.--I am glad that you don't publish prize-fights. It is the
+    nature of animals, not human beings.
+
+
+
+DEAR JOHN:
+
+There is no longer any doubt that General Maceo was killed. The stories
+that he was still alive were probably made up by the Cubans, for fear
+their countrymen might lose heart if they knew the truth.
+
+You will see in this number of your paper that General Rivera is not to be
+shot, according to the present reports.              EDITOR.
+
+
+    DEAR EDITOR:
+
+    I enjoy THE GREAT ROUND WORLD immensely, and look
+    forward to its coming every week. I like to read about Greece
+    and Cuba, and if I were Grecian I would gladly join in the war.
+    I hope Greece will win, for I pity the poor Cretans under the
+    cruel rule of Turkey. Wishing your paper many years of success,
+    I am,
+
+                                Your friend and reader,
+                                              HAROLD R.
+    NEW YORK, April 8th, 1897
+
+
+DEAR HAROLD:
+
+Many thanks for your pretty letter. Write to us again soon.
+                                              EDITOR.
+
+    DEAR MR. EDITOR:
+
+    I want to ask you about the _Cometa_. Did the Admiral ever bring
+    her into the Havana harbor as he boasted that he would, with
+    flags flying on her?
+
+    Do you think Cuba is going to win? I hope that she will.
+
+    Are the Americans going to help them?--and then I know the
+    Cubans will win. Yours truly,
+
+                                        SYDNEY G.
+    BALTIMORE, April 9th, 1897.
+
+MY DEAR SYDNEY:
+
+The Spanish Admiral has never brought the _Cometa_ into Havana harbor. He
+was just spinning a sailor's yarn, apparently.
+
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+
+You will see in this number of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD that there
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+
+                                                     EDITOR.
+
+
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+                                     Yours truly,
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