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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is Going On
+In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897, by Various
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+Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897
+       A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
+
+Author: Various
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+Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop
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+
+    VOL. 1   AUGUST 5, 1897.   NO. 39
+
+It seemed, at the early part of last week, as though the Sultan of
+Turkey might be brought to terms, but matters have again become
+threatening, and the outcome is as doubtful as ever.
+
+The Sultan is a very wily person, and, finding that delays and triflings
+would no longer serve him, he changed his tactics and said that he had
+been misrepresented by the reports, and was as anxious for peace as the
+rest of the Powers.
+
+He issued a proclamation of the most friendly character, declaring it to
+be the plain duty of Turkey to put an end to the uncertainty, and
+commanded his ministers to find some means of coming to an agreement.
+
+The following day the Ambassadors sent to Tewfik Pasha, and asked him
+whether Turkey was willing to resume the peace councils in accordance
+with the wishes of the Powers. They stated very clearly that if matters
+were not to be discussed on those lines, they would be obliged to break
+off the conference, and tell their various governments that Turkey could
+only be made to obey by force of arms.
+
+After consulting with his Government, Tewfik Pasha replied that the
+Porte was willing to accept the frontier suggested--with some slight
+alterations.
+
+This did not seem unreasonable to the Ambassadors, and they telegraphed
+hopefully to their governments that the peace was as good as concluded.
+
+As to the slight changes asked for, the Powers had informed Turkey early
+in the conference that they would be willing to meet her wishes in
+regard to the frontier line if it was possible to do so.
+
+Everything seemed in train for a speedy peace. In addition to being
+willing to give up Thessaly, the Sultan had also intimated that he would
+reduce the sum of money asked for as war indemnity. When first the
+negotiations were commenced, Turkey demanded $50,000,000. It was said
+that she would now accept $20,000,000.
+
+The Ambassadors were prepared to have the Porte (the Turkish Government)
+ask that all the mountain passes between Greece and Turkey should be
+given to Turkey, and that the army should continue to occupy Thessaly
+until the war indemnity was paid. They thought that the final
+understanding would be reached at the very next meeting.
+
+They were doomed to disappointment. The following day, when the
+conference assembled, Tewfik Pasha kept the Ambassadors waiting a long
+time for him, and, when he at last appeared, laid a new frontier plan
+before the diplomats.
+
+To their surprise, they found that the frontier demanded was mapped out
+in direct opposition to their wishes.
+
+They one and all declined to discuss it, and informed Tewfik that they
+would adjourn until he brought a written acceptance of the frontier as
+they had designated it, and the meeting broke up with unpleasant feeling
+on both sides.
+
+The military experts who had arranged the frontier line had appointed
+the day after this stormy interview to meet the Turkish frontier
+commission.
+
+They waited and waited, but the Turks did not put in an appearance.
+
+They then went over and reported the fact to the Ambassadors, who had
+met together in the council room--in the hope that Tewfik would come
+with the written acceptance.
+
+The hours went by and brought no Tewfik.
+
+The Ambassadors went to the Austrian embassy to talk the matter over and
+decide what course they should pursue. They had hardly reached the place
+before the Pasha appeared. He said that the Sultan, his master, had
+detained him and the military commission, discussing the situation, and
+added that the Sultan had decided to appoint two of the military
+delegates to discuss the peace negotiations in his (Tewfik's) place.
+
+Believing this to be but an excuse for further delay, the Ambassadors
+one and all refused to have any dealings with any one but Tewfik Pasha.
+
+The Turkish Minister then withdrew, to acquaint His Majesty with the
+decision of the Ambassadors--and so the matter stands for the present.
+
+No one knows what the Sultan's next move will be.
+
+England does not believe that he really intends to give up Thessaly, but
+the other Powers think that he will do so as soon as he is absolutely
+sure that a refusal will mean war.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The most interesting news in regard to Cuba this week is the renewal of
+the report that Spain and Japan have entered into an alliance against
+the United States.
+
+A correspondent at Paris, France, telegraphs that the understanding
+between the two countries is to the effect that should the United States
+take any active measures to secure the freedom of Cuba, or persist in
+the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, Spain and Japan shall declare
+war on her at the same moment. The plan is that Spain shall send vessels
+to attack our Atlantic seaboard, and Japan shall simultaneously make war
+on the Pacific coast.
+
+Inquiries at the Japanese embassy only elicited a denial of the report.
+The Japanese insist that it is absurd to think of an alliance between
+Japan and Spain, because there is an unfriendly feeling between the two
+countries on account of the war in the Philippine Islands. Spain, as you
+may remember, accused Japan of assisting the rebels in Manila with the
+hope of securing the Philippines for herself.
+
+Inquiries were also made of the Secretary of State, but the department
+denied the truth of the rumors as firmly as the Japanese had done.
+
+We should not be too sure that these rumors are false on this account,
+for Ambassadors and diplomatists are frequently obliged, for state
+reasons, to deny facts which they know to be perfectly true.
+
+There has been considerable excitement in Havana on account of the
+arrest of some fifty of the most prominent merchants in the city.
+
+The charge made against them was that they had been shipping goods into
+the interior of the island without a license, as required by a recent
+rule of Weyler's.
+
+The true cause of their arrest was that a number of packages containing
+medicine and ammunition were found on board one of the trains leaving
+Havana. Weyler declared that these packages were intended for the Cuban
+rebels, and had the merchants arrested.
+
+There is intense indignation in Havana over this outrage. All the men
+arrested were wealthy and prominent, some having held important official
+positions in the city--one in particular having been Mayor.
+
+It is openly said that the whole affair was planned by the Spaniards to
+give them an opportunity of plundering these men of their wealth. It is
+reported that the Chief of Police has informed the prisoners that they
+will be released, and no further proceedings taken against them, if they
+will pay him the sum of one million dollars.
+
+When the news of these arrests became known, crowds gathered around the
+jail, protesting against the Government and calling loudly for the
+recall of Weyler.
+
+The Government in Madrid has been cabled to upon the subject, but so far
+no reply has been received.
+
+A dispatch from Madrid tells us that the people are indignant over Seņor
+Canovas' promise to send another twenty thousand soldiers to Cuba.
+
+They say that Spain has already suffered enough, and that the
+Government ought not to ask for any more money or soldiers.
+
+They complain that they were told that Cuba was pacified a month ago,
+and that nothing remained to be done but to subdue some bands of
+insurgents that were scattered throughout the island. This was only a
+month ago, and now they are asked to prepare a fresh army to go to Cuba,
+and are told that the Spanish cause has met with disaster.
+
+The Spanish papers are openly declaring that the time has come to put a
+stop to the sacrifice of men and money, and that the mother country must
+end her wars and give her people peace.
+
+The latest news of the insurgents is that Gomez is advancing on Havana,
+and promises that at the gates of the city he will show General Weyler
+whether the island is really pacified or not.
+
+He has issued a proclamation, saying that Spain might as well stop any
+attempt to grant reforms to Cuba. He says: "We will accept neither
+reforms nor home rule. Spain must know that this war is one for
+independence, and that the Cubans would rather die than yield. The day
+we lifted our flag of liberty, we wrote on it: 'Independence or death.'"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The committee appointed to inquire into the Transvaal raid has sent in
+its report to Parliament--or, to speak correctly, it has sent in two
+reports, for the members could not agree.
+
+One report says that, whatever justification there may have been for the
+people of Johannesberg to rebel against the rule of the Boers, there was
+none whatever for Mr. Cecil Rhodes to organize and dispatch an invading
+army into the Transvaal.
+
+This portion of the committee declares that the blame rests entirely on
+Cecil Rhodes, notwithstanding the fact that Dr. Jameson did finally
+invade the territory without direct orders.
+
+They find that Cecil Rhodes seriously embarrassed the home and colonial
+governments, by thus breaking the peaceful understanding between the
+nations; and further, that he used his high position to provoke a
+rebellion, and deliberately deceived the home Government that he might
+be able to carry out his own personal plans. The Government in England
+is declared to be entirely innocent of any knowledge of the affair, but
+two officers of the colonial Government are found guilty.
+
+To the surprise of everybody, the report contains no suggestion for the
+punishment of any of the offenders.
+
+In regard to Cecil Rhodes' refusal to produce the telegrams which they
+asked for, the committee says that he ought undoubtedly to be
+disciplined for his conduct, but that it would take so much time to do
+so that it would perhaps be as well to let the matter alone.
+
+This is one report.
+
+The other is much stronger in its tone. It blames everybody concerned,
+and says that there is little doubt that the raid was simply a plot
+arranged to make wealthy men wealthier.
+
+This report does not agree that the home Government is entirely
+blameless. It says that it is a pity that the matter was not more fully
+investigated, so that it could be thoroughly ascertained whether the
+Government, and especially Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, was in truth ignorant
+of the plot.
+
+Both reports agree that the officers who led the raiders imagined that
+they were acting under orders from the British Government, and that they
+have been punished more heavily than they deserved. The second report
+suggests that their commissions should be restored to them.
+
+After the raid was over these soldiers were arrested and sent to
+England, where they were tried for invading a friendly country without
+proper authority. They were found guilty and sent to Holloway Jail in
+London.
+
+When they were convicted they were one and all deprived of their
+commissions in the British army. While they were only imprisoned for a
+short time, and were not harshly treated in any sense, the fact of being
+dismissed from the army was a very serious thing for them.
+
+A commission in the army means the authority by which the officer holds
+his rank of Captain or Colonel--or whatever it may be--and is naturally
+valued very highly by the holder.
+
+In England, especially, the highest class of young men go into the army
+as officers, and to leave the army without wishing to, to have one's
+commission taken away from one, is a great disgrace. An officer who
+leaves the army at his own wish has all other careers open to him, but
+one who is dismissed from the service is disgraced and cannot easily
+find fresh employment, and moreover loses all the income and standing
+that being an officer in the army had given him.
+
+This is the position of the officers who led the Transvaal raid; they
+have been disgraced and deprived of their profession.
+
+If, indeed, they are innocent, it is only right that their commissions
+should be restored to them.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Tariff Conference has done its work very rapidly.
+
+After less than two weeks of discussion, this committee has prepared its
+report and given it to Congress.
+
+It was presented to the House on the 20th of July, and after a debate of
+two hours it was adopted by a vote of 185 to 115.
+
+The Conference had done its work so well, and had arranged the changes
+in the bill in such a manner, that the House made little objection to
+them.
+
+The measure now goes to the Senate, where it has to be readopted; but,
+as the changes made by the Conference were so very slight, no doubt is
+felt that it will be passed without delay.
+
+Unless something very unforeseen occurs, it will be in the hands of the
+President before the week is out, and the Dingley Bill will then become
+a law.
+
+There is general rejoicing that the long and tedious discussion is over,
+and that Congress will be able to adjourn before many days have passed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+An interesting story comes from Paris about the new X-rays.
+
+According to the account which reaches us, an apparatus has been
+prepared by which the Custom House officers can examine the baggage and
+ascertain whether there are any dutiable articles concealed in it,
+without going through all the trouble of unpacking and searching.
+
+It is said that cigars can be easily counted by this new process, which
+promises to be a great success.
+
+The method of using it is very simple.
+
+The instrument is mounted on a large table; one of the Custom House
+officers takes the fluoroscope and stands at the end of the table. Two
+others seize the baggage, and piece by piece hold it in front of the
+rays for examination.
+
+If this method is really as useful as it is declared to be, it will save
+an infinite amount of trouble in our Custom House. Unfortunately there
+are so many more dutiable articles in this country than in France that
+it is possible even the X-rays might not be sharp enough to discover
+them all.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The treaty for the annexation of Hawaii has been approved by the Senate
+Committee on Foreign Relations, and returned to the Senate for
+ratification.
+
+The committee thoroughly approved of the treaty, and sent it to the
+Senate without any alteration or criticism. It therefore stands as we
+explained it to you in No. 34.
+
+The chairman of the committee, Senator Davis, would be glad to have the
+treaty ratified at once, as he thinks that speedy action would be the
+best way to avoid any trouble with Japan. He has, however, been warned
+that if he tries to press the treaty this session, the Senate will block
+it with the lengthy discussions about which we told you. Senator Davis
+therefore thinks that it will be best to let the matter rest for the
+present.
+
+The President called a cabinet council to discuss the affairs of Hawaii,
+and at the council a policy was laid down to protect our interests in
+the Sandwich Islands until the treaty can be ratified.
+
+In accordance with this policy full instructions have been sent to
+Rear-Admiral Beardslee, who is in command of the cruiser _Philadelphia_,
+which is now in Hawaiian waters.
+
+The Admiral has been commanded to land a force of sailors and marines
+and hoist the American flag over the Hawaiian Islands at the first sign
+of hostility from Japan.
+
+As we stated before, the American fleet in Hawaiian waters is to be
+reinforced by the battle-ship _Oregon_, one of our first-class cruisers.
+This will give the Admiral three vessels under his command--the
+_Philadelphia_, the _Oregon_, and the _Marion_. There have been several
+rumors that the _Marion_ was to be recalled, because she was an
+old-fashioned wooden ship, and was badly in need of repairs. She will,
+however, remain where she is for the present.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Reliable information has been brought to us of an enormous find of gold
+on the borders of British Columbia and Alaska.
+
+The accounts of the find read like a fairy-story.
+
+Those familiar with placer mining declare that the new gold-fields are
+the richest and finest ever discovered; they say that the California
+find of 1849 cannot be compared with this present one.
+
+The place where this great discovery has been made is on the borders of
+Alaska, not many miles east of the British Columbia boundary, and
+therefore on English territory. It is called the Klondike district.
+
+The Klondike is a river, a tributary of the Yukon River, into which it
+flows above Forty Mile Creek.
+
+The story of the find is interesting.
+
+It was discovered by an old hunter named McCormick.
+
+McCormick had married an Indian squaw, and was therefore, according to
+the custom, known by the uncomplimentary name of squaw man, and was not
+much liked by other white men.
+
+He lived a very lonely life in his cabin, with his squaw wife and his
+half-Indian children, and made his living by hunting and fishing.
+
+In the spring of 1896 he went up the Klondike River to fish. At the
+point where this stream meets the Yukon, very large salmon are often
+caught. It was for this profitable spot that McCormick set out.
+
+He had poor luck, however. The salmon didn't run as usual, and his
+fishing expedition was a failure.
+
+He didn't want to go home empty-handed, and cast about for some fresh
+game. In his uncertainty he bethought him that the Indians had often
+told him that gold was very abundant in this region, and could be washed
+out of the sand in any little pan or vessel that hunters happened to
+carry.
+
+Failing to catch salmon, he determined to seek for gold, and, starting
+off in the direction the Indians had pointed out, he soon found that
+their stories were absolutely true.
+
+Filling his pockets with all the nuggets he could carry, he started back
+with the news.
+
+As soon as word was spread abroad, the miners began to rush into the new
+district.
+
+After McCormick's fishing-trip several men went prospecting, and,
+finding that he had not exaggerated the greatness of his discovery, men
+began to hurry to the Klondike region to take up their claims and secure
+their share of the great prize.
+
+The work of mining this gold is very lengthy and somewhat curious.
+
+The Yukon region, in which the Klondike lies, is very cold. Alaska is
+bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, and the Arctic circle runs
+right through the Yukon country. You can imagine therefore that it is
+terribly cold, and that the ground is frozen nearly all the year round.
+
+The rich pay-dirt in which the gold is found lies from eighteen to
+twenty-five feet below the surface. It would not pay the miners to wait
+for the short warm season when the frost is out of the ground to make
+their harvest; so they have found a plan to get at the gold all the year
+round, no matter how hard or frozen the earth may be.
+
+They build great fires on the top of the gravel, and fix them so that
+they shall burn all night. When morning comes about eighteen inches of
+the ground beneath the fire is found to be thawed out. This surface is
+shovelled away, and another fire built on the gravel where it is frozen
+again.
+
+They keep right on in this slow and tedious way, until finally the
+pay-dirt is reached.
+
+The yield from these new gold-fields is something wonderful. It is
+greater than anything ever recorded in the history of gold mining.
+
+[Illustration: ALASKA: YUKON VALLEY AND GOLD FIELDS.
+
+(The State of Pennsylvania is inserted to show comparative size.)]
+
+One miner, who is a thoroughly experienced man, declares that he is
+absolutely amazed at the amount of gold that has already been produced.
+He says that the work has only been commenced, and that this present
+find which is setting people crazy is nothing to the gold that will be
+discovered as soon as the miners really get to work.
+
+He stated that, in addition to the rich pay-dirt we have already spoken
+of, there were veins of gold in the rocks underneath, which veins
+appeared to grow richer the farther they were probed. In his opinion the
+gold deposits of the Yukon region form the mother vein of all the gold
+in North America.
+
+Many people are hurrying to the Klondike district from all parts, and
+the excitement is intense.
+
+San Francisco has caught the gold fever. It reached the city through
+some miners from Klondike, who arrived by steamer, bringing with them
+piles of shining gold to prove the truth of their stories.
+
+Not one member of this party went up to Alaska with anything more than
+his outfit and a few hundred dollars. All have brought back stores of
+riches.
+
+The smallest amount of gold owned by any of these men was valued at five
+thousand dollars, while several had as much as fifty thousand dollars'
+worth.
+
+The luckiest people in this little band were a Mr. and Mrs. Lippey, who
+left New York in April, 1896.
+
+Mrs. Lippey was the first woman to go over the trail to Klondike. She
+went because she did not wish her husband to undertake the journey
+alone, preferring to share his hardships with him.
+
+They brought back sixty thousand dollars' worth of gold.
+
+Another party has just reached Seattle, Wash., having come direct by
+steamer from St. Michaels, Alaska.
+
+In this party there were sixty-eight people, who brought back with them
+one and one-half tons of gold. This is worth nearly a million dollars.
+
+[Illustration: Alaskan Child and Dogsled]
+
+The gold is found in dust and nuggets ranging in size from a hazelnut to
+fine bird-shot.
+
+It must not be supposed that this gold is lightly earned. Those who have
+returned say that the hardships of the life are beyond description. Many
+declare that no amount of gold could tempt them back, as beyond the
+hard, rough life, the severe cold, and the constant labor, there is an
+ever-present dread of starvation. It is difficult for any man to take in
+sufficient food to last him through the long winter, and there is
+hardly any possibility of obtaining more when the supplies run out.
+
+A company has been formed to send provisions up into the district, and
+if this is done the work will be rendered much easier.
+
+The treasury of the United States has already begun to feel the benefit
+of the Klondike gold discovery.
+
+The San Francisco mint has received half a million dollars' worth of the
+gold, and expects another half-million by the next steamer.
+
+The Mint Bureau has been informed that Alaskan gold has been received at
+several of the Pacific ports for shipment to the East, and the ton and a
+half from Seattle is also on its way.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+There has long been a movement on foot to limit the wearing of feathers
+on hats.
+
+So many charming birds are slaughtered to adorn the headgear of our
+women folks, that it has been feared some of the songsters might become
+extinct.
+
+A law has, however, just been passed for their protection in
+Massachusetts, which forbids the use of certain birds for millinery
+purposes.
+
+The petition begging that a bill of this character might be framed by
+the State Senators was drawn up by United States Senator George F. Hoar.
+
+The petition was supposed to come from the birds themselves, and to be
+signed by thirty-five song-birds. It was written in such a delightful
+manner that it roused the interest of the Massachusetts Legislature, and
+the desired bill was prepared and passed in an astonishingly short space
+of time.
+
+The document is so pretty and graceful in its tone and language that
+you would certainly like to read it for yourselves.
+
+Here it is:
+
+
+"_To the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:_
+
+"We, the song-birds of Massachusetts and their playfellows, make this
+our humble petition. We know more about you than you think we do. We
+know how good you are. We have hopped about the roofs and looked in at
+your windows of the houses you have built for poor and sick and hungry
+people and little lame and deaf and blind children. We have built our
+nests in the trees and sung many a song as we flew about the gardens and
+parks you have made so beautiful for your children, especially your poor
+children, to play in. Every year we fly a great way over the country,
+keeping all the time where the sun is bright and warm. And we know that
+whenever you do anything the people all over this great land between the
+seas and the great lakes find it out, and pretty soon will try to do the
+same. We know. We know.
+
+"We are Americans just the same as you are. Some of us, like some of
+you, came across the great sea. But most of the birds like us have lived
+here a long while; and the birds like us welcomed your fathers when they
+came here many, many years ago. Our fathers and mothers have always done
+their best to please your fathers and mothers.
+
+"Now, we have a sad story to tell you. Thoughtless or bad people are
+trying to destroy us. They kill us because our feathers are beautiful.
+Even pretty and sweet girls, who, we should think, would be our best
+friends, kill our brothers and children so that they may wear our
+plumage on their hats. Sometimes people kill us for mere wantonness.
+Cruel boys destroy our nests and steal our eggs and our young ones.
+People with guns and snares lie in wait to kill us; as if the place for
+a bird were not in the sky, alive, but in a shop window or in a glass
+case. If this goes on much longer all our song-birds will be gone.
+Already we are told in some other countries that used to be full of
+birds they are now almost gone. Even the nightingales are being killed
+in Italy.
+
+"Now we humbly pray that you will stop all this and will save us from
+this sad fate. You have always made a law that no one shall kill a
+harmless song-bird or destroy our nests or our eggs. Will you please
+make another one that no one shall wear our feathers, so that no one
+will kill us to get them? We want them all ourselves. Your pretty girls
+are pretty enough without them. We are told that it is as easy for you
+to do it as for a blackbird to whistle.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+No. 1. Hummingbird.
+    2. Whippoorwill.
+    3. Bobolink.
+    4. Scarlet Tanager.
+    5. Baltimore Oriole.
+    6. Song-Sparrow.]
+
+"If you will, we know how to pay you a hundred times over. We will teach
+your children to keep themselves clean and neat. We will show them how
+to live together in peace and love and to agree as we do in our nests.
+We will build pretty houses which you will like to see. We will play
+about your garden and flower-beds--ourselves like flowers on
+wings--without any cost to you. We will destroy the wicked insects and
+worms that spoil your cherries and currants and plums and apples and
+roses. We will give you our best songs, and make the spring more
+beautiful and the summer sweeter to you. Every June morning when you
+go out into the field, oriole and bluebird and blackbird and bobolink
+will fly after you and make the day more delightful to you. And when you
+go home tired after sundown, vesper-sparrow will tell you how grateful
+we are. When you sit down on your porch after dark, fifebird and
+hermit-thrush and wood-thrush will sing to you, and even whippoorwill
+will cheer you up a little. We know where we are safe. In a little while
+all the birds will come to live in Massachusetts again, and everybody
+who loves music will like to make a summer home with you."
+
+The signers are:
+
+     Brown thrasher,              Kingbird,
+     Robert o' Lincoln,           Swallow,
+     Hermit-thrush,               Cedarbird,
+     Vesper-sparrow,              Cowbird,
+     Robin redbreast,             Martin,
+     Song-sparrow,                Veery,
+     Scarlet tanager,             Vireo,
+     Summer redbird,              Oriole,
+     Blue heron,                  Blackbird,
+     Hummingbird,                 Fifebird,
+     Yellowbird,                  Wren,
+     Whippoorwill,                Linnet,
+     Water-wagtail,               Peewee,
+     Woodpecker,                  Phoebe,
+     Pigeon-woodpecker,           Yokebird,
+     Indigo-bird,                 Lark,
+     Yellowthroat,                Sandpiper,
+     Wilson's thrush,             Chewink.
+     Chickadee,
+
+The bill which was drawn up in response to this petition provides that
+any one who shall wear birds or feathers for the purpose of dress or
+ornament shall be fined $10, and that the same fine shall be exacted
+from all persons who take or kill certain specially mentioned
+song-birds.
+
+The police are rather worried over the new law, because they are not
+sure whether they have the right to arrest ladies who are wearing
+feathers in their hats.
+
+The Chief of Police has sent out a circular (containing a copy of the
+act that has just been passed) to all milliners and dealers in birds'
+feathers.
+
+He intends to punish these merchants if they infringe the law, and then,
+when the law has had time to be generally known and understood, he
+intends to arrest all women who still persist in wearing feathers in
+their hats.
+
+New York passed a similar law last year, but the Governor refused to
+sign it, because the Forest Commissioners did not approve of it.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We told you last week that President McKinley was anxious to withhold
+the letters that had passed between this country and England in
+reference to the seal question.
+
+Unfortunately his wishes have been thwarted by the publication of Mr.
+Sherman's letter to Ambassador Hay.
+
+It is a great pity that this letter found its way into print, for it is
+most unfriendly in its tone.
+
+It accuses Great Britain of bad faith in her method of carrying out the
+terms of the Paris treaty. It declares that at the end of the first year
+the United States discovered that the provisions of the Paris treaty
+were not sufficient for the protection of the seals, and that this
+Government immediately asked England to call a conference and reconsider
+the matter.
+
+Great Britain put off replying to this request for three years, and now,
+after all this delay, says that there is nothing to show that seal life
+is in danger.
+
+Mr. Sherman, in his letter, complains that the English Prime Minister
+bases his refusal on the report of an English scientist named Prof.
+D'Arcy Thompson. This report Secretary Sherman declares to be so greatly
+at variance with the reports of Dr. David Starr Jordan and the many
+observations made by other distinguished naturalists, that he insists
+that it is not a reliable document, but merely written to suit the
+political situation.
+
+The publication of this correspondence has called forth much angry
+comment from England.
+
+The result of the affair has been exactly what the President
+predicted--the rousing of unnecessary bad feeling between the two
+countries.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We have had a slight disagreement with the Moorish Government.
+
+The country of Morocco is situated on the northwest of Africa, and is
+bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the west by the
+Atlantic Ocean.
+
+The Straits of Gibraltar lie between Morocco and Spain, and the Pillars
+of Hercules, about which you have probably heard, are the promontories
+of Europe and Africa which jut out into the Mediterranean Sea at the
+Straits, and are but eight miles apart.
+
+The European point is called the Rock of Gibraltar; the African, Abyla,
+or Apes' Hill, from the number of apes that have made their home on it.
+
+Morocco is ruled by a Sultan, whose authority is supreme.
+
+The Moors, as the inhabitants of this country are called, are a very
+ancient and warlike people, who were at one time a very powerful race.
+
+In the twelfth century they conquered Andalusia, Valencia, and a part of
+Aragon in Spain, together with a portion of Portugal. In Spain they
+established the Kingdom of Granada, about which so many enchanting poems
+and romances have been written.
+
+In the city of Granada they built the famous Alhambra. This magnificent
+palace and citadel was built by the Moorish kings of Granada in the
+thirteenth century. The Royal Villa, the Generaliffe, which is also in
+the city of Granada, was built about the same time.
+
+The Alhambra and the Generaliffe are considered two of the most
+beautiful buildings in the world. The architecture and the decorations
+are perfect in detail and execution. You must read some time Washington
+Irving's "Alhambra." It is filled with interesting legends of these
+Moorish palaces.
+
+The Moors were driven out of Spain in the fifteenth century.
+
+They are still a very warlike people, and have had frequent campaigns
+against France and Spain.
+
+Their country is supposed to be very rich in minerals, but as yet it has
+not been developed.
+
+A great part of the trade of Morocco is controlled by foreigners, and in
+consequence special laws have had to be made to protect the traders.
+
+According to the treaty between the United States and the Sultan of
+Morocco, American traders are allowed to employ two natives as agents
+for the sale of their goods. These natives are given the same protection
+as Americans.
+
+The trouble with Morocco arose from the fact that one of the native
+agents, while returning from his rounds, was assaulted and robbed of
+$1,200, the outrage occurring in broad daylight in front of the
+consulate.
+
+The merchant for whom the agent was working reported the matter to the
+Moorish Government, and demanded that the thieves should be arrested and
+punished.
+
+Notwithstanding that these robbers were well-known characters, the
+Moorish authorities made no attempt to bring them to justice, and paid
+no attention to the protests of the Consul.
+
+The agent and the merchant immediately filed a claim for damages against
+the Moorish Government, and the Consul cabled to this country, asking
+that an American gunboat be sent to Tangier, to show the Moors that the
+United States proposes to protect her citizens.
+
+The flag-ship _San Francisco_ and the cruiser _Raleigh_ immediately set
+out for Tangier, one of the principal seaports of Morocco.
+
+The appearance of these vessels had a very healthy effect on the
+authorities. One of the robbers was immediately arrested, and the Moors
+agreed to search for the other and bring him to justice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A story comes from Oklahoma that gophers have completely destroyed a
+canal which has recently been built at an expense of $40,000.
+
+These gophers are little animals, striped and spotted, and about the
+size of a large rat.
+
+The Oklahoma Canal was built to bring the waters of the river through
+the town, with the idea of erecting mills all along the banks and making
+Oklahoma a more prosperous city.
+
+It was laid out by expert engineers, and took a large amount of time and
+money to build; it was five miles long.
+
+When the canal was completed and opened, it proved a great success;
+there was sufficient force of water to turn any number of mills, and a
+great era of money-making appeared to be ahead of Oklahoma.
+
+Unfortunately the soil through which the canal had been dug was porous
+and sandy.
+
+Before the work had been long completed, gophers appeared on the banks
+and began to burrow their holes.
+
+The water washed into the burrows, and soon a crevasse appeared, and the
+canal swept through the sandy banks.
+
+Repairs were attempted, and for a long time the people were so anxious
+to preserve their canal that they continued these repairs at great
+expense. Finally the Canal Company became discouraged; they could no
+longer afford to fight the gophers, and so they abandoned the waterway
+and left the little pests the victors.
+
+In a very short time the canal was gone.
+
+The banks, riddled by the gophers, gave way, and the waters soon flowed
+back into their original course. Where the canal once ran, farmers are
+now ploughing and planting their crops, and Oklahoma has lost its fine
+canal.
+
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+Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897
+       A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
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+<div class='center'><b><span class='smcap'>Vol.</span> 1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class='smcap'>August</span> 5, 1897.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class='smcap'>No.</span> 39</b></div>
+
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+
+<p>It seemed, at the early part of last week, as though the Sultan of
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+
+<p>The Sultan is a very wily person, and, finding that delays and triflings
+would no longer serve him, he changed his tactics and said that he had
+been misrepresented by the reports, and was as anxious for peace as the
+rest of the Powers.</p>
+
+<p>He issued a proclamation of the most friendly character, declaring it to
+be the plain duty of Turkey to put an end to the uncertainty, and
+commanded his ministers to find some means of coming to an agreement.</p>
+
+<p>The following day the Ambassadors sent to Tewfik Pasha, and asked him
+whether Turkey was willing to resume the peace councils in accordance
+with the wishes of the Powers. They stated very clearly that if matters
+were not to be discussed on those lines, they would be obliged to break
+off the conference, and tell their various governments that Turkey could
+only be made to obey by force of arms.</p><p><a name="Page_1094" id="Page_1094"></a></p>
+
+<p>After consulting with his Government, Tewfik Pasha replied that the
+Porte was willing to accept the frontier suggested&mdash;with some slight
+alterations.</p>
+
+<p>This did not seem unreasonable to the Ambassadors, and they telegraphed
+hopefully to their governments that the peace was as good as concluded.</p>
+
+<p>As to the slight changes asked for, the Powers had informed Turkey early
+in the conference that they would be willing to meet her wishes in
+regard to the frontier line if it was possible to do so.</p>
+
+<p>Everything seemed in train for a speedy peace. In addition to being
+willing to give up Thessaly, the Sultan had also intimated that he would
+reduce the sum of money asked for as war indemnity. When first the
+negotiations were commenced, Turkey demanded $50,000,000. It was said
+that she would now accept $20,000,000.</p>
+
+<p>The Ambassadors were prepared to have the Porte (the Turkish Government)
+ask that all the mountain passes between Greece and Turkey should be
+given to Turkey, and that the army should continue to occupy Thessaly
+until the war indemnity was paid. They thought that the final
+understanding would be reached at the very next meeting.</p>
+
+<p>They were doomed to disappointment. The following day, when the
+conference assembled, Tewfik Pasha kept the Ambassadors waiting a long
+time for him, and, when he at last appeared, laid a new frontier plan
+before the diplomats.</p>
+
+<p>To their surprise, they found that the frontier demanded was mapped out
+in direct opposition to their wishes.</p>
+
+<p>They one and all declined to discuss it, and informed<a name="Page_1095" id="Page_1095"></a> Tewfik that they
+would adjourn until he brought a written acceptance of the frontier as
+they had designated it, and the meeting broke up with unpleasant feeling
+on both sides.</p>
+
+<p>The military experts who had arranged the frontier line had appointed
+the day after this stormy interview to meet the Turkish frontier
+commission.</p>
+
+<p>They waited and waited, but the Turks did not put in an appearance.</p>
+
+<p>They then went over and reported the fact to the Ambassadors, who had
+met together in the council room&mdash;in the hope that Tewfik would come
+with the written acceptance.</p>
+
+<p>The hours went by and brought no Tewfik.</p>
+
+<p>The Ambassadors went to the Austrian embassy to talk the matter over and
+decide what course they should pursue. They had hardly reached the place
+before the Pasha appeared. He said that the Sultan, his master, had
+detained him and the military commission, discussing the situation, and
+added that the Sultan had decided to appoint two of the military
+delegates to discuss the peace negotiations in his (Tewfik's) place.</p>
+
+<p>Believing this to be but an excuse for further delay, the Ambassadors
+one and all refused to have any dealings with any one but Tewfik Pasha.</p>
+
+<p>The Turkish Minister then withdrew, to acquaint His Majesty with the
+decision of the Ambassadors&mdash;and so the matter stands for the present.</p>
+
+<p>No one knows what the Sultan's next move will be.</p>
+
+<p>England does not believe that he really intends to give up Thessaly, but
+the other Powers think that he <a name="Page_1096" id="Page_1096"></a>will do so as soon as he is absolutely
+sure that a refusal will mean war.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The most interesting news in regard to Cuba this week is the renewal of
+the report that Spain and Japan have entered into an alliance against
+the United States.</p>
+
+<p>A correspondent at Paris, France, telegraphs that the understanding
+between the two countries is to the effect that should the United States
+take any active measures to secure the freedom of Cuba, or persist in
+the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, Spain and Japan shall declare
+war on her at the same moment. The plan is that Spain shall send vessels
+to attack our Atlantic seaboard, and Japan shall simultaneously make war
+on the Pacific coast.</p>
+
+<p>Inquiries at the Japanese embassy only elicited a denial of the report.
+The Japanese insist that it is absurd to think of an alliance between
+Japan and Spain, because there is an unfriendly feeling between the two
+countries on account of the war in the Philippine Islands. Spain, as you
+may remember, accused Japan of assisting the rebels in Manila with the
+hope of securing the Philippines for herself.</p>
+
+<p>Inquiries were also made of the Secretary of State, but the department
+denied the truth of the rumors as firmly as the Japanese had done.</p>
+
+<p>We should not be too sure that these rumors are false on this account,
+for Ambassadors and diplomatists are frequently obliged, for state
+reasons, to deny facts which they know to be perfectly true.</p>
+
+<p>There has been considerable excitement in Havana <a name="Page_1097" id="Page_1097"></a>on account of the
+arrest of some fifty of the most prominent merchants in the city.</p>
+
+<p>The charge made against them was that they had been shipping goods into
+the interior of the island without a license, as required by a recent
+rule of Weyler's.</p>
+
+<p>The true cause of their arrest was that a number of packages containing
+medicine and ammunition were found on board one of the trains leaving
+Havana. Weyler declared that these packages were intended for the Cuban
+rebels, and had the merchants arrested.</p>
+
+<p>There is intense indignation in Havana over this outrage. All the men
+arrested were wealthy and prominent, some having held important official
+positions in the city&mdash;one in particular having been Mayor.</p>
+
+<p>It is openly said that the whole affair was planned by the Spaniards to
+give them an opportunity of plundering these men of their wealth. It is
+reported that the Chief of Police has informed the prisoners that they
+will be released, and no further proceedings taken against them, if they
+will pay him the sum of one million dollars.</p>
+
+<p>When the news of these arrests became known, crowds gathered around the
+jail, protesting against the Government and calling loudly for the
+recall of Weyler.</p>
+
+<p>The Government in Madrid has been cabled to upon the subject, but so far
+no reply has been received.</p>
+
+<p>A dispatch from Madrid tells us that the people are indignant over Se&ntilde;or
+Canovas' promise to send another twenty thousand soldiers to Cuba.</p>
+
+<p>They say that Spain has already suffered enough, <a name="Page_1098" id="Page_1098"></a>and that the
+Government ought not to ask for any more money or soldiers.</p>
+
+<p>They complain that they were told that Cuba was pacified a month ago,
+and that nothing remained to be done but to subdue some bands of
+insurgents that were scattered throughout the island. This was only a
+month ago, and now they are asked to prepare a fresh army to go to Cuba,
+and are told that the Spanish cause has met with disaster.</p>
+
+<p>The Spanish papers are openly declaring that the time has come to put a
+stop to the sacrifice of men and money, and that the mother country must
+end her wars and give her people peace.</p>
+
+<p>The latest news of the insurgents is that Gomez is advancing on Havana,
+and promises that at the gates of the city he will show General Weyler
+whether the island is really pacified or not.</p>
+
+<p>He has issued a proclamation, saying that Spain might as well stop any
+attempt to grant reforms to Cuba. He says: "We will accept neither
+reforms nor home rule. Spain must know that this war is one for
+independence, and that the Cubans would rather die than yield. The day
+we lifted our flag of liberty, we wrote on it: 'Independence or death.'"</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The committee appointed to inquire into the Transvaal raid has sent in
+its report to Parliament&mdash;or, to speak correctly, it has sent in two
+reports, for the members could not agree.</p>
+
+<p>One report says that, whatever justification there may have been for the
+people of Johannesberg to rebel against the rule of the Boers, there was
+none whatever <a name="Page_1099" id="Page_1099"></a>for Mr. Cecil Rhodes to organize and dispatch an invading
+army into the Transvaal.</p>
+
+<p>This portion of the committee declares that the blame rests entirely on
+Cecil Rhodes, notwithstanding the fact that Dr. Jameson did finally
+invade the territory without direct orders.</p>
+
+<p>They find that Cecil Rhodes seriously embarrassed the home and colonial
+governments, by thus breaking the peaceful understanding between the
+nations; and further, that he used his high position to provoke a
+rebellion, and deliberately deceived the home Government that he might
+be able to carry out his own personal plans. The Government in England
+is declared to be entirely innocent of any knowledge of the affair, but
+two officers of the colonial Government are found guilty.</p>
+
+<p>To the surprise of everybody, the report contains no suggestion for the
+punishment of any of the offenders.</p>
+
+<p>In regard to Cecil Rhodes' refusal to produce the telegrams which they
+asked for, the committee says that he ought undoubtedly to be
+disciplined for his conduct, but that it would take so much time to do
+so that it would perhaps be as well to let the matter alone.</p>
+
+<p>This is one report.</p>
+
+<p>The other is much stronger in its tone. It blames everybody concerned,
+and says that there is little doubt that the raid was simply a plot
+arranged to make wealthy men wealthier.</p>
+
+<p>This report does not agree that the home Government is entirely
+blameless. It says that it is a pity that the matter was not more fully
+investigated, so that it could be thoroughly ascertained whether the<a name="Page_1100" id="Page_1100"></a>
+Government, and especially Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, was in truth ignorant
+of the plot.</p>
+
+<p>Both reports agree that the officers who led the raiders imagined that
+they were acting under orders from the British Government, and that they
+have been punished more heavily than they deserved. The second report
+suggests that their commissions should be restored to them.</p>
+
+<p>After the raid was over these soldiers were arrested and sent to
+England, where they were tried for invading a friendly country without
+proper authority. They were found guilty and sent to Holloway Jail in
+London.</p>
+
+<p>When they were convicted they were one and all deprived of their
+commissions in the British army. While they were only imprisoned for a
+short time, and were not harshly treated in any sense, the fact of being
+dismissed from the army was a very serious thing for them.</p>
+
+<p>A commission in the army means the authority by which the officer holds
+his rank of Captain or Colonel&mdash;or whatever it may be&mdash;and is naturally
+valued very highly by the holder.</p>
+
+<p>In England, especially, the highest class of young men go into the army
+as officers, and to leave the army without wishing to, to have one's
+commission taken away from one, is a great disgrace. An officer who
+leaves the army at his own wish has all other careers open to him, but
+one who is dismissed from the service is disgraced and cannot easily
+find fresh employment, and moreover loses all the income and standing
+that being an officer in the army had given him.</p><p><a name="Page_1101" id="Page_1101"></a></p>
+
+<p>This is the position of the officers who led the Transvaal raid; they
+have been disgraced and deprived of their profession.</p>
+
+<p>If, indeed, they are innocent, it is only right that their commissions
+should be restored to them.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The Tariff Conference has done its work very rapidly.</p>
+
+<p>After less than two weeks of discussion, this committee has prepared its
+report and given it to Congress.</p>
+
+<p>It was presented to the House on the 20th of July, and after a debate of
+two hours it was adopted by a vote of 185 to 115.</p>
+
+<p>The Conference had done its work so well, and had arranged the changes
+in the bill in such a manner, that the House made little objection to
+them.</p>
+
+<p>The measure now goes to the Senate, where it has to be readopted; but,
+as the changes made by the Conference were so very slight, no doubt is
+felt that it will be passed without delay.</p>
+
+<p>Unless something very unforeseen occurs, it will be in the hands of the
+President before the week is out, and the Dingley Bill will then become
+a law.</p>
+
+<p>There is general rejoicing that the long and tedious discussion is over,
+and that Congress will be able to adjourn before many days have passed.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>An interesting story comes from Paris about the new X-rays.</p>
+
+<p>According to the account which reaches us, an apparatus has been
+prepared by which the Custom House <a name="Page_1102" id="Page_1102"></a>officers can examine the baggage and
+ascertain whether there are any dutiable articles concealed in it,
+without going through all the trouble of unpacking and searching.</p>
+
+<p>It is said that cigars can be easily counted by this new process, which
+promises to be a great success.</p>
+
+<p>The method of using it is very simple.</p>
+
+<p>The instrument is mounted on a large table; one of the Custom House
+officers takes the fluoroscope and stands at the end of the table. Two
+others seize the baggage, and piece by piece hold it in front of the
+rays for examination.</p>
+
+<p>If this method is really as useful as it is declared to be, it will save
+an infinite amount of trouble in our Custom House. Unfortunately there
+are so many more dutiable articles in this country than in France that
+it is possible even the X-rays might not be sharp enough to discover
+them all.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The treaty for the annexation of Hawaii has been approved by the Senate
+Committee on Foreign Relations, and returned to the Senate for
+ratification.</p>
+
+<p>The committee thoroughly approved of the treaty, and sent it to the
+Senate without any alteration or criticism. It therefore stands as we
+explained it to you in No. 34.</p>
+
+<p>The chairman of the committee, Senator Davis, would be glad to have the
+treaty ratified at once, as he thinks that speedy action would be the
+best way to avoid any trouble with Japan. He has, however, been warned
+that if he tries to press the treaty this session, the Senate will block
+it with the lengthy discussions about which we told you. Senator Davis
+<a name="Page_1103" id="Page_1103"></a>therefore thinks that it will be best to let the matter rest for the
+present.</p>
+
+<p>The President called a cabinet council to discuss the affairs of Hawaii,
+and at the council a policy was laid down to protect our interests in
+the Sandwich Islands until the treaty can be ratified.</p>
+
+<p>In accordance with this policy full instructions have been sent to
+Rear-Admiral Beardslee, who is in command of the cruiser <i>Philadelphia</i>,
+which is now in Hawaiian waters.</p>
+
+<p>The Admiral has been commanded to land a force of sailors and marines
+and hoist the American flag over the Hawaiian Islands at the first sign
+of hostility from Japan.</p>
+
+<p>As we stated before, the American fleet in Hawaiian waters is to be
+reinforced by the battle-ship <i>Oregon</i>, one of our first-class cruisers.
+This will give the Admiral three vessels under his command&mdash;the
+<i>Philadelphia</i>, the <i>Oregon</i>, and the <i>Marion</i>. There have been several
+rumors that the <i>Marion</i> was to be recalled, because she was an
+old-fashioned wooden ship, and was badly in need of repairs. She will,
+however, remain where she is for the present.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Reliable information has been brought to us of an enormous find of gold
+on the borders of British Columbia and Alaska.</p>
+
+<p>The accounts of the find read like a fairy-story.</p>
+
+<p>Those familiar with placer mining declare that the new gold-fields are
+the richest and finest ever discovered; they say that the California
+find of 1849 cannot be compared with this present one.</p>
+
+<p>The place where this great discovery has been made <a name="Page_1104" id="Page_1104"></a>is on the borders of
+Alaska, not many miles east of the British Columbia boundary, and
+therefore on English territory. It is called the Klondike district.</p>
+
+<p>The Klondike is a river, a tributary of the Yukon River, into which it
+flows above Forty Mile Creek.</p>
+
+<p>The story of the find is interesting.</p>
+
+<p>It was discovered by an old hunter named McCormick.</p>
+
+<p>McCormick had married an Indian squaw, and was therefore, according to
+the custom, known by the uncomplimentary name of squaw man, and was not
+much liked by other white men.</p>
+
+<p>He lived a very lonely life in his cabin, with his squaw wife and his
+half-Indian children, and made his living by hunting and fishing.</p>
+
+<p>In the spring of 1896 he went up the Klondike River to fish. At the
+point where this stream meets the Yukon, very large salmon are often
+caught. It was for this profitable spot that McCormick set out.</p>
+
+<p>He had poor luck, however. The salmon didn't run as usual, and his
+fishing expedition was a failure.</p>
+
+<p>He didn't want to go home empty-handed, and cast about for some fresh
+game. In his uncertainty he bethought him that the Indians had often
+told him that gold was very abundant in this region, and could be washed
+out of the sand in any little pan or vessel that hunters happened to
+carry.</p>
+
+<p>Failing to catch salmon, he determined to seek for gold, and, starting
+off in the direction the Indians had pointed out, he soon found that
+their stories were absolutely true.</p>
+
+<p>Filling his pockets with all the nuggets he could carry, he started back
+with the news.</p><p><a name="Page_1105" id="Page_1105"></a></p>
+
+<p>As soon as word was spread abroad, the miners began to rush into the new
+district.</p>
+
+<p>After McCormick's fishing-trip several men went prospecting, and,
+finding that he had not exaggerated the greatness of his discovery, men
+began to hurry to the Klondike region to take up their claims and secure
+their share of the great prize.</p>
+
+<p>The work of mining this gold is very lengthy and somewhat curious.</p>
+
+<p>The Yukon region, in which the Klondike lies, is very cold. Alaska is
+bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, and the Arctic circle runs
+right through the Yukon country. You can imagine therefore that it is
+terribly cold, and that the ground is frozen nearly all the year round.</p>
+
+<p>The rich pay-dirt in which the gold is found lies from eighteen to
+twenty-five feet below the surface. It would not pay the miners to wait
+for the short warm season when the frost is out of the ground to make
+their harvest; so they have found a plan to get at the gold all the year
+round, no matter how hard or frozen the earth may be.</p>
+
+<p>They build great fires on the top of the gravel, and fix them so that
+they shall burn all night. When morning comes about eighteen inches of
+the ground beneath the fire is found to be thawed out. This surface is
+shovelled away, and another fire built on the gravel where it is frozen
+again.</p>
+
+<p>They keep right on in this slow and tedious way, until finally the
+pay-dirt is reached.</p>
+
+<p>The yield from these new gold-fields is something wonderful. It is
+greater than anything ever recorded in the history of gold mining.</p><p><a name="Page_1106" id="Page_1106"></a></p><p><a name="Page_1107" id="Page_1107"></a></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="./images/18.png"><img src="./images/18-tb.png" alt="ALASKA: YUKON VALLEY AND GOLD FIELDS." title="ALASKA: YUKON VALLEY AND GOLD FIELDS." /></a></div>
+
+<div class='center'>ALASKA: YUKON VALLEY AND GOLD FIELDS.<br />
+(The State of Pennsylvania is inserted to show comparative size.)</div><p><a name="Page_1108" id="Page_1108"></a></p>
+
+<p>One miner, who is a thoroughly experienced man, declares that he is
+absolutely amazed at the amount of gold that has already been produced.
+He says that the work has only been commenced, and that this present
+find which is setting people crazy is nothing to the gold that will be
+discovered as soon as the miners really get to work.</p>
+
+<p>He stated that, in addition to the rich pay-dirt we have already spoken
+of, there were veins of gold in the rocks underneath, which veins
+appeared to grow richer the farther they were probed. In his opinion the
+gold deposits of the Yukon region form the mother vein of all the gold
+in North America.</p>
+
+<p>Many people are hurrying to the Klondike district from all parts, and
+the excitement is intense.</p>
+
+<p>San Francisco has caught the gold fever. It reached the city through
+some miners from Klondike, who arrived by steamer, bringing with them
+piles of shining gold to prove the truth of their stories.</p>
+
+<p>Not one member of this party went up to Alaska with anything more than
+his outfit and a few hundred dollars. All have brought back stores of
+riches.</p>
+
+<p>The smallest amount of gold owned by any of these men was valued at five
+thousand dollars, while several had as much as fifty thousand dollars'
+worth.</p>
+
+<p>The luckiest people in this little band were a Mr. and Mrs. Lippey, who
+left New York in April, 1896.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Lippey was the first woman to go over the trail to Klondike. She
+went because she did not wish her husband to undertake the journey
+alone, preferring to share his hardships with him.</p>
+
+<p>They brought back sixty thousand dollars' worth of gold.</p><p><a name="Page_1109" id="Page_1109"></a></p>
+
+<p>Another party has just reached Seattle, Wash., having come direct by
+steamer from St. Michaels, Alaska.</p>
+
+<p>In this party there were sixty-eight people, who brought back with them
+one and one-half tons of gold. This is worth nearly a million dollars.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="./images/20.png" alt="Alaska Life" title="Alaska Life" /></div>
+
+<p>The gold is found in dust and nuggets ranging in size from a hazelnut to
+fine bird-shot.</p>
+
+<p>It must not be supposed that this gold is lightly earned. Those who have
+returned say that the hardships of the life are beyond description. Many
+declare that no amount of gold could tempt them back, as beyond the
+hard, rough life, the severe cold, and the constant labor, there is an
+ever-present dread of starvation. It is difficult for any man to take in
+sufficient food to last him through the long winter, and there is
+<a name="Page_1110" id="Page_1110"></a>hardly any possibility of obtaining more when the supplies run out.</p>
+
+<p>A company has been formed to send provisions up into the district, and
+if this is done the work will be rendered much easier.</p>
+
+<p>The treasury of the United States has already begun to feel the benefit
+of the Klondike gold discovery.</p>
+
+<p>The San Francisco mint has received half a million dollars' worth of the
+gold, and expects another half-million by the next steamer.</p>
+
+<p>The Mint Bureau has been informed that Alaskan gold has been received at
+several of the Pacific ports for shipment to the East, and the ton and a
+half from Seattle is also on its way.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>There has long been a movement on foot to limit the wearing of feathers
+on hats.</p>
+
+<p>So many charming birds are slaughtered to adorn the headgear of our
+women folks, that it has been feared some of the songsters might become
+extinct.</p>
+
+<p>A law has, however, just been passed for their protection in
+Massachusetts, which forbids the use of certain birds for millinery
+purposes.</p>
+
+<p>The petition begging that a bill of this character might be framed by
+the State Senators was drawn up by United States Senator George F. Hoar.</p>
+
+<p>The petition was supposed to come from the birds themselves, and to be
+signed by thirty-five song-birds. It was written in such a delightful
+manner that it roused the interest of the Massachusetts Legislature, and
+the desired bill was prepared and passed in an astonishingly short space
+of time.</p>
+
+<p>The document is so pretty and graceful in its tone <a name="Page_1111" id="Page_1111"></a>and language that
+you would certainly like to read it for yourselves.</p>
+
+<p>Here it is:</p>
+
+
+<p>"<i>To the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:</i></p>
+
+<p>"We, the song-birds of Massachusetts and their playfellows, make this
+our humble petition. We know more about you than you think we do. We
+know how good you are. We have hopped about the roofs and looked in at
+your windows of the houses you have built for poor and sick and hungry
+people and little lame and deaf and blind children. We have built our
+nests in the trees and sung many a song as we flew about the gardens and
+parks you have made so beautiful for your children, especially your poor
+children, to play in. Every year we fly a great way over the country,
+keeping all the time where the sun is bright and warm. And we know that
+whenever you do anything the people all over this great land between the
+seas and the great lakes find it out, and pretty soon will try to do the
+same. We know. We know.</p>
+
+<p>"We are Americans just the same as you are. Some of us, like some of
+you, came across the great sea. But most of the birds like us have lived
+here a long while; and the birds like us welcomed your fathers when they
+came here many, many years ago. Our fathers and mothers have always done
+their best to please your fathers and mothers.</p>
+
+<p>"Now, we have a sad story to tell you. Thoughtless or bad people are
+trying to destroy us. They kill us because our feathers are beautiful.
+Even pretty <a name="Page_1112" id="Page_1112"></a>and sweet girls, who, we should think, would be our best
+friends, kill our brothers and children so that they may wear our
+plumage on their hats. Sometimes people kill us for mere wantonness.
+Cruel boys destroy our nests and steal our eggs and our young ones.
+People with guns and snares lie in wait to kill us; as if the place for
+a bird were not in the sky, alive, but in a shop window or in a glass
+case. If this goes on much longer all our song-birds will be gone.
+Already we are told in some other countries that used to be full of
+birds they are now almost gone. Even the nightingales are being killed
+in Italy.</p>
+
+<p>"Now we humbly pray that you will stop all this and will save us from
+this sad fate. You have always made a law that no one shall kill a
+harmless song-bird or destroy our nests or our eggs. Will you please
+make another one that no one shall wear our feathers, so that no one
+will kill us to get them? We want them all ourselves. Your pretty girls
+are pretty enough without them. We are told that it is as easy for you
+to do it as for a blackbird to whistle.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><a href="./images/24.png"><img src="./images/24-tb.png" alt="Birds" title="Birds" /></a></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 1.</td><td align='left'>Hummingbird.</td><td align='left'>No. 4.</td><td align='left'>Scarlet Tanager.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2.</td><td align='left'>Whippoorwill.</td><td align='right'>5.</td><td align='left'>Baltimore Oriole.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3.</td><td align='left'>Bobolink.</td><td align='right'>6.</td><td align='left'>Song-Sparrow.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+<p>"If you will, we know how to pay you a hundred times over. We will teach
+your children to keep themselves clean and neat. We will show them how
+to live together in peace and love and to agree as we do in our nests.
+We will build pretty houses which you will like to see. We will play
+about your garden and flower-beds&mdash;ourselves like flowers on
+wings&mdash;without any cost to you. We will destroy the wicked insects and
+worms that spoil your cherries and currants and plums and apples and
+roses. We will give you our best songs, and make the spring more
+beautiful and the summer sweeter to you. Every June <a name="Page_1113" id="Page_1113"></a><a name="Page_1114" id="Page_1114"></a>morning when you
+go out into the field, oriole and bluebird and blackbird and bobolink
+will fly after you and make the day more delightful to you. And when you
+go home tired after sundown, vesper-sparrow will tell you how grateful
+we are. When you sit down on your porch after dark, fifebird and
+hermit-thrush and wood-thrush will sing to you, and even whippoorwill
+will cheer you up a little. We know where we are safe. In a little while
+all the birds will come to live in Massachusetts again, and everybody
+who loves music will like to make a summer home with you."</p>
+
+<p>The signers are:</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Bird Signers">
+<tr><td align='left'>Brown thrasher,</td><td align='left'>Kingbird,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Robert o' Lincoln,</td><td align='left'>Swallow,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Hermit-thrush,</td><td align='left'>Cedarbird,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Vesper-sparrow,</td><td align='left'>Cowbird,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Robin redbreast,</td><td align='left'>Martin,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Song-sparrow,</td><td align='left'>Veery,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Scarlet tanager,</td><td align='left'>Vireo,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Summer redbird,</td><td align='left'>Oriole,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Blue heron,</td><td align='left'>Blackbird,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Hummingbird,</td><td align='left'>Fifebird,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Yellowbird,</td><td align='left'>Wren,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Whippoorwill,</td><td align='left'>Linnet,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Water-wagtail,</td><td align='left'>Peewee,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Woodpecker,</td><td align='left'>Ph&oelig;be,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Pigeon-woodpecker,</td><td align='left'>Yokebird,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Indigo-bird,</td><td align='left'>Lark,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Yellowthroat,</td><td align='left'>Sandpiper,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Wilson's thrush,</td><td align='left'>Chewink.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Chickadee,</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<p><a name="Page_1115" id="Page_1115"></a></p>
+
+<p>The bill which was drawn up in response to this petition provides that
+any one who shall wear birds or feathers for the purpose of dress or
+ornament shall be fined $10, and that the same fine shall be exacted
+from all persons who take or kill certain specially mentioned
+song-birds.</p>
+
+<p>The police are rather worried over the new law, because they are not
+sure whether they have the right to arrest ladies who are wearing
+feathers in their hats.</p>
+
+<p>The Chief of Police has sent out a circular (containing a copy of the
+act that has just been passed) to all milliners and dealers in birds'
+feathers.</p>
+
+<p>He intends to punish these merchants if they infringe the law, and then,
+when the law has had time to be generally known and understood, he
+intends to arrest all women who still persist in wearing feathers in
+their hats.</p>
+
+<p>New York passed a similar law last year, but the Governor refused to
+sign it, because the Forest Commissioners did not approve of it.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>We told you last week that President McKinley was anxious to withhold
+the letters that had passed between this country and England in
+reference to the seal question.</p>
+
+<p>Unfortunately his wishes have been thwarted by the publication of Mr.
+Sherman's letter to Ambassador Hay.</p>
+
+<p>It is a great pity that this letter found its way into print, for it is
+most unfriendly in its tone.</p>
+
+<p>It accuses Great Britain of bad faith in her method of carrying out the
+terms of the Paris treaty. It declares that at the end of the first year
+the United<a name="Page_1116" id="Page_1116"></a> States discovered that the provisions of the Paris treaty
+were not sufficient for the protection of the seals, and that this
+Government immediately asked England to call a conference and reconsider
+the matter.</p>
+
+<p>Great Britain put off replying to this request for three years, and now,
+after all this delay, says that there is nothing to show that seal life
+is in danger.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Sherman, in his letter, complains that the English Prime Minister
+bases his refusal on the report of an English scientist named Prof.
+D'Arcy Thompson. This report Secretary Sherman declares to be so greatly
+at variance with the reports of Dr. David Starr Jordan and the many
+observations made by other distinguished naturalists, that he insists
+that it is not a reliable document, but merely written to suit the
+political situation.</p>
+
+<p>The publication of this correspondence has called forth much angry
+comment from England.</p>
+
+<p>The result of the affair has been exactly what the President
+predicted&mdash;the rousing of unnecessary bad feeling between the two
+countries.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>We have had a slight disagreement with the Moorish Government.</p>
+
+<p>The country of Morocco is situated on the northwest of Africa, and is
+bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the west by the
+Atlantic Ocean.</p>
+
+<p>The Straits of Gibraltar lie between Morocco and Spain, and the Pillars
+of Hercules, about which you <a name="Page_1117" id="Page_1117"></a>have probably heard, are the promontories
+of Europe and Africa which jut out into the Mediterranean Sea at the
+Straits, and are but eight miles apart.</p>
+
+<p>The European point is called the Rock of Gibraltar; the African, Abyla,
+or Apes' Hill, from the number of apes that have made their home on it.</p>
+
+<p>Morocco is ruled by a Sultan, whose authority is supreme.</p>
+
+<p>The Moors, as the inhabitants of this country are called, are a very
+ancient and warlike people, who were at one time a very powerful race.</p>
+
+<p>In the twelfth century they conquered Andalusia, Valencia, and a part of
+Aragon in Spain, together with a portion of Portugal. In Spain they
+established the Kingdom of Granada, about which so many enchanting poems
+and romances have been written.</p>
+
+<p>In the city of Granada they built the famous Alhambra. This magnificent
+palace and citadel was built by the Moorish kings of Granada in the
+thirteenth century. The Royal Villa, the Generaliffe, which is also in
+the city of Granada, was built about the same time.</p>
+
+<p>The Alhambra and the Generaliffe are considered two of the most
+beautiful buildings in the world. The architecture and the decorations
+are perfect in detail and execution. You must read some time Washington
+Irving's "Alhambra." It is filled with interesting legends of these
+Moorish palaces.</p>
+
+<p>The Moors were driven out of Spain in the fifteenth century.</p>
+
+<p>They are still a very warlike people, and have had frequent campaigns
+against France and Spain.</p><p><a name="Page_1118" id="Page_1118"></a></p>
+
+<p>Their country is supposed to be very rich in minerals, but as yet it has
+not been developed.</p>
+
+<p>A great part of the trade of Morocco is controlled by foreigners, and in
+consequence special laws have had to be made to protect the traders.</p>
+
+<p>According to the treaty between the United States and the Sultan of
+Morocco, American traders are allowed to employ two natives as agents
+for the sale of their goods. These natives are given the same protection
+as Americans.</p>
+
+<p>The trouble with Morocco arose from the fact that one of the native
+agents, while returning from his rounds, was assaulted and robbed of
+$1,200, the outrage occurring in broad daylight in front of the
+consulate.</p>
+
+<p>The merchant for whom the agent was working reported the matter to the
+Moorish Government, and demanded that the thieves should be arrested and
+punished.</p>
+
+<p>Notwithstanding that these robbers were well-known characters, the
+Moorish authorities made no attempt to bring them to justice, and paid
+no attention to the protests of the Consul.</p>
+
+<p>The agent and the merchant immediately filed a claim for damages against
+the Moorish Government, and the Consul cabled to this country, asking
+that an American gunboat be sent to Tangier, to show the Moors that the
+United States proposes to protect her citizens.</p>
+
+<p>The flag-ship <i>San Francisco</i> and the cruiser <i>Raleigh</i> immediately set
+out for Tangier, one of the principal seaports of Morocco.</p>
+
+<p>The appearance of these vessels had a very healthy <a name="Page_1119" id="Page_1119"></a>effect on the
+authorities. One of the robbers was immediately arrested, and the Moors
+agreed to search for the other and bring him to justice.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>A story comes from Oklahoma that gophers have completely destroyed a
+canal which has recently been built at an expense of $40,000.</p>
+
+<p>These gophers are little animals, striped and spotted, and about the
+size of a large rat.</p>
+
+<p>The Oklahoma Canal was built to bring the waters of the river through
+the town, with the idea of erecting mills all along the banks and making
+Oklahoma a more prosperous city.</p>
+
+<p>It was laid out by expert engineers, and took a large amount of time and
+money to build; it was five miles long.</p>
+
+<p>When the canal was completed and opened, it proved a great success;
+there was sufficient force of water to turn any number of mills, and a
+great era of money-making appeared to be ahead of Oklahoma.</p>
+
+<p>Unfortunately the soil through which the canal had been dug was porous
+and sandy.</p>
+
+<p>Before the work had been long completed, gophers appeared on the banks
+and began to burrow their holes.</p>
+
+<p>The water washed into the burrows, and soon a crevasse appeared, and the
+canal swept through the sandy banks.</p>
+
+<p>Repairs were attempted, and for a long time the people were so anxious
+to preserve their canal that they continued these repairs at great
+expense. Finally the Canal Company became discouraged; they could <a name="Page_1120" id="Page_1120"></a>no
+longer afford to fight the gophers, and so they abandoned the waterway
+and left the little pests the victors.</p>
+
+<p>In a very short time the canal was gone.</p>
+
+<p>The banks, riddled by the gophers, gave way, and the waters soon flowed
+back into their original course. Where the canal once ran, farmers are
+now ploughing and planting their crops, and Oklahoma has lost its fine
+canal.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">G.</span><span class="smcap">H. Rosenfeld.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 65%;' />
+
+<h2>WE ARE PREPARING</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">==a==</span></h3>
+
+<h2>MAP OF ALASKA</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="./images/alaskadiv.png" alt="Divider" title="Divider" /></div>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<span class="u">Corrected to Date, after the Latest<br />
+Russian and Government Surveys ...</span><br /><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter"><img src="./images/alaskadiv.png" alt="Divider" title="Divider" /></div>
+
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 22em;"><i>P</i></span><span class="smcap"><i>rice, 10 Cents</i></span>
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 65%;' />
+
+<h2><span class="u"><b>EXAMINATIONS</b></span></h2>
+
+<div>
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Have you thought of the Relief Maps for examination work?</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Are you following from day to day the war in the East?</span><br />
+</div>
+
+
+<h2>Klemm's Relief Practice Maps</h2>
+
+<div>are especially adapted to examination work, as they are perfectly free
+from all political details. ANY examination work may be done on them.</div>
+
+<p>For following the EASTERN QUESTION use Klemm's Roman Empire, and record
+each day's events. Small flags attached to pins, and moved on a map as the
+armies move, keep the details before you in a most helpful way, especially
+when you use the Relief Maps.</p>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Klemm's Maps">
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+
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+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+</div>
+
+<hr style='width: 65%;' />
+
+<h2>"The Great Round World" PRIZE CONTEST</h2>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">The Great Round World</span> is now over six months old, and it feels
+some anxiety to know just how much interest its readers have taken in
+the news and how much information they have gained from its pages. To
+ascertain this, it has been decided to offer ten prizes for the best
+answers to the following:</p>
+
+<div class='center'><span class='u'><b>Name ten of the most important events that have been mentioned in "The
+Great Round World" in the first 30 numbers, that is, up to number of
+June 3d.</b></span></div>
+
+<div class='center'><i>In mentioning these events give briefly reasons for considering them
+important.</i></div>
+
+<p>This competition will be open to subscribers only, and any one desiring
+to enter the competition must send to this office their name and the
+date of their subscription; a number will then be given them.</p>
+
+<p>All new subscribers will be furnished with a card entitling them to
+enter the competition.</p>
+
+<p>In making the selection of important events, remember that wars and
+political events are not necessarily the most important. If, for
+instance, the air-ship had turned out to be a genuine and successful
+thing, it would have been most important as affecting the history of the
+world. Or if by chance the telephone or telegraph had been invented in
+this period, these inventions would have been <i>important</i> events.</p>
+
+<p>Prizes will be awarded to those who make the best selection and who
+mention the events in the best order of their importance. Answers may be
+sent in any time before September 1st.</p>
+
+<p>The Great Round World does not want you to hurry over this contest, but
+to take plenty of time and do the work carefully. It will be a pleasant
+occupation for the summer months.</p>
+
+<p>We would advise you to take the magazines starting at No. 1, look them
+over carefully, keep a note-book at your side, and jot down in it the
+events that seem to you important; when you have finished them all, No.
+1 to 30, look over your notes and select the ten events that seem to you
+to be the most important, stating after each event your reason for
+thinking it important.</p>
+
+<p>For instance: suppose you decide that the death of Dr. Ruiz was one of
+these important events, you might say, "The killing of Dr. Ruiz in the
+prison of Guanabacoa&mdash;because it brought the cruelties practised on
+American citizens to the attention of our Government," etc., etc.</p>
+
+<p>In sending your answers put your number and the date only on them, for
+the judges are not to know names and addresses of the contestants, that
+there may be no favoritism shown.</p>
+
+<p>It is important to put date on, for if two or more are found of similar
+standing, the one first received will be given preference.</p>
+
+<p>Address all letters to REVIEW PRIZE CONTEST DEPARTMENT,
+<span class="smcap">Great Round World</span>, 3 and 5 West 18th Street, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;New York City.</p>
+
+<div class='center'><i>Write answer on one side of the paper only</i></div>
+
+<div class='center'><b>Prizes will be selections from the premium catalogue</b></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Prizes">
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 1.</td>
+<td align='left'>Premiums</td>
+<td align='left'>&nbsp; as</td>
+<td align='left'>&nbsp;given</td>
+<td align='left'>&nbsp;for</td>
+<td align='left'>&nbsp;15</td>
+<td align='left'>&nbsp;Subscriptions</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 2.</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='right'>12</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 3.</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='right'>10</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 4.</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='right'>9</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 5.</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='right'>8</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 6.</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='right'>7</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 7.</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='right'>5</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 8.</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='right'>5</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 9.</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='right'>5</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'>No. 10.</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td>
+<td align='right'>5</td>
+<td align='center'>&quot;</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is Going On
+In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 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. 39, August 5, 1897
+       A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
+
+Author: Various
+
+Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop
+
+Release Date: May 27, 2005 [EBook #15916]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team.(www.pgdp.net)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+_FIVE CENTS._
+
+THE GREAT ROUND WORLD
+AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT
+
+  Vol. 1                AUGUST 5, 1897                No. 39.
+[Entered at Post Office, New York City, as second class matter]
+
+[Illustration: A
+WEEKLY
+NEWSPAPER
+FOR
+BOYS AND
+GIRLS]
+
+Subscription
+$2.50 per year
+$1.25 6 months
+
+
+    WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON. PUBLISHER
+    NO. 3 AND 5 WEST 18TH ST. NEW YORK CITY
+
+=Copyright, 1897, by WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON.=
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
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+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO ANY ONE SENDING US 4 NEW SUBSCRIBERS
+
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+
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+     inches, and weighs only 5 ounces. Delivered ready for 12 exposures
+     without reloading.]
+
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+(2-1/2 inches) to avoid distortion.
+
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+for changing stops and for time exposures are alongside of the exposure
+lever and always show by their position what stop is before the lens and
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+
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+
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+
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+carrying-case=
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
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+
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+    =No. 4=
+   Bulls-Eye
+
+     For pictures 4x5 inches; delivered ready for 12 exposures without
+     reloading. Size of camera, 4-7/8 x 5-7/8 x 9-1/4 inches; weight 2
+     pounds 2 ounces; length of focus of lens, 6-1/4 inches.]
+
+Fitted with an achromatic lens of superior quality, having a set of
+three stops; has two finders, one for vertical and one for horizontal
+exposures; and is also provided with two sockets for tripod screws, one
+for vertical and one for horizontal exposures. Fitted with improved
+rotary shutter, for snap-shots or time exposures. Can be loaded in
+daylight. Handsomely finished and covered with leather.
+
+=Both of the above cameras are manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Co.,
+Rochester, N.Y., and this is a guarantee of their worth=
+
+                 =THE GREAT ROUND WORLD=
+     =3 AND 5 WEST 18TH ST.         NEW YORK CITY=
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
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+
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+
+OF
+
+=THE GREAT ROUND WORLD=
+
+(Containing Nos. 16 to 30)
+
+=IS NOW READY=
+
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+
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+
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+
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+and Frederick Boyle. Illustrated. 8vo.
+
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+Illustrated. 12 mo.
+
+=THE FUR TRADERS OF THE WEST= or, =The Doones of Fowey=. By E.R.
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+
+=LOST IN AFRICA.= A Book of Adventure. By Frederick Whishaw. With
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+=THE DAYS OF BRUCE.= A Story from Scottish History. By Grace Aguilar.
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+
+=THE DESERT SHIP.= A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land. By John
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+
+=NUTTALL'S STANDARD DICTIONARY.= Compiled by the Rev. James Wood.
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+
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+
+=GIRL'S HOME COMPANION.= Edited by Mrs. L. Valentine. Illustrated. 8vo.
+Contains full description of indoor and outdoor games and valuable
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+accomplishments for girls.
+
+=LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS.= By J.T. Knowells. 8vo.
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+=ON HONOUR'S ROLL.= Tales of Heroism in the Nineteenth Century. By L.
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+=HARRY RAYMOND.= By Commander Cameron. Illustrated. 8vo.
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+=WE THREE BOYS.= By L. Valentine. Illustrated. 8vo.
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+=SEA FIGHTS AND LAND BATTLES.= By Mrs. Valentine. Illustrated. 8vo.
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+=PUZZLES OLD AND NEW.= By Professor Hoffman. 8vo. With over 500 diagrams
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+=MASTERMAN READY.= By Captain Marryatt. Illustrated. 12mo.
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+=SETTLERS IN CANADA.= By Captain Marryatt. Illustrated. 12mo.
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+       *       *       *       *       *
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+              =The Great Round World=
+     =3 AND 5 WEST 18TH ST.           NEW YORK CITY=
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: THE GREAT ROUND
+WORLD
+AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT.]
+
+    VOL. 1   AUGUST 5, 1897.   NO. 39
+
+It seemed, at the early part of last week, as though the Sultan of
+Turkey might be brought to terms, but matters have again become
+threatening, and the outcome is as doubtful as ever.
+
+The Sultan is a very wily person, and, finding that delays and triflings
+would no longer serve him, he changed his tactics and said that he had
+been misrepresented by the reports, and was as anxious for peace as the
+rest of the Powers.
+
+He issued a proclamation of the most friendly character, declaring it to
+be the plain duty of Turkey to put an end to the uncertainty, and
+commanded his ministers to find some means of coming to an agreement.
+
+The following day the Ambassadors sent to Tewfik Pasha, and asked him
+whether Turkey was willing to resume the peace councils in accordance
+with the wishes of the Powers. They stated very clearly that if matters
+were not to be discussed on those lines, they would be obliged to break
+off the conference, and tell their various governments that Turkey could
+only be made to obey by force of arms.
+
+After consulting with his Government, Tewfik Pasha replied that the
+Porte was willing to accept the frontier suggested--with some slight
+alterations.
+
+This did not seem unreasonable to the Ambassadors, and they telegraphed
+hopefully to their governments that the peace was as good as concluded.
+
+As to the slight changes asked for, the Powers had informed Turkey early
+in the conference that they would be willing to meet her wishes in
+regard to the frontier line if it was possible to do so.
+
+Everything seemed in train for a speedy peace. In addition to being
+willing to give up Thessaly, the Sultan had also intimated that he would
+reduce the sum of money asked for as war indemnity. When first the
+negotiations were commenced, Turkey demanded $50,000,000. It was said
+that she would now accept $20,000,000.
+
+The Ambassadors were prepared to have the Porte (the Turkish Government)
+ask that all the mountain passes between Greece and Turkey should be
+given to Turkey, and that the army should continue to occupy Thessaly
+until the war indemnity was paid. They thought that the final
+understanding would be reached at the very next meeting.
+
+They were doomed to disappointment. The following day, when the
+conference assembled, Tewfik Pasha kept the Ambassadors waiting a long
+time for him, and, when he at last appeared, laid a new frontier plan
+before the diplomats.
+
+To their surprise, they found that the frontier demanded was mapped out
+in direct opposition to their wishes.
+
+They one and all declined to discuss it, and informed Tewfik that they
+would adjourn until he brought a written acceptance of the frontier as
+they had designated it, and the meeting broke up with unpleasant feeling
+on both sides.
+
+The military experts who had arranged the frontier line had appointed
+the day after this stormy interview to meet the Turkish frontier
+commission.
+
+They waited and waited, but the Turks did not put in an appearance.
+
+They then went over and reported the fact to the Ambassadors, who had
+met together in the council room--in the hope that Tewfik would come
+with the written acceptance.
+
+The hours went by and brought no Tewfik.
+
+The Ambassadors went to the Austrian embassy to talk the matter over and
+decide what course they should pursue. They had hardly reached the place
+before the Pasha appeared. He said that the Sultan, his master, had
+detained him and the military commission, discussing the situation, and
+added that the Sultan had decided to appoint two of the military
+delegates to discuss the peace negotiations in his (Tewfik's) place.
+
+Believing this to be but an excuse for further delay, the Ambassadors
+one and all refused to have any dealings with any one but Tewfik Pasha.
+
+The Turkish Minister then withdrew, to acquaint His Majesty with the
+decision of the Ambassadors--and so the matter stands for the present.
+
+No one knows what the Sultan's next move will be.
+
+England does not believe that he really intends to give up Thessaly, but
+the other Powers think that he will do so as soon as he is absolutely
+sure that a refusal will mean war.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The most interesting news in regard to Cuba this week is the renewal of
+the report that Spain and Japan have entered into an alliance against
+the United States.
+
+A correspondent at Paris, France, telegraphs that the understanding
+between the two countries is to the effect that should the United States
+take any active measures to secure the freedom of Cuba, or persist in
+the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, Spain and Japan shall declare
+war on her at the same moment. The plan is that Spain shall send vessels
+to attack our Atlantic seaboard, and Japan shall simultaneously make war
+on the Pacific coast.
+
+Inquiries at the Japanese embassy only elicited a denial of the report.
+The Japanese insist that it is absurd to think of an alliance between
+Japan and Spain, because there is an unfriendly feeling between the two
+countries on account of the war in the Philippine Islands. Spain, as you
+may remember, accused Japan of assisting the rebels in Manila with the
+hope of securing the Philippines for herself.
+
+Inquiries were also made of the Secretary of State, but the department
+denied the truth of the rumors as firmly as the Japanese had done.
+
+We should not be too sure that these rumors are false on this account,
+for Ambassadors and diplomatists are frequently obliged, for state
+reasons, to deny facts which they know to be perfectly true.
+
+There has been considerable excitement in Havana on account of the
+arrest of some fifty of the most prominent merchants in the city.
+
+The charge made against them was that they had been shipping goods into
+the interior of the island without a license, as required by a recent
+rule of Weyler's.
+
+The true cause of their arrest was that a number of packages containing
+medicine and ammunition were found on board one of the trains leaving
+Havana. Weyler declared that these packages were intended for the Cuban
+rebels, and had the merchants arrested.
+
+There is intense indignation in Havana over this outrage. All the men
+arrested were wealthy and prominent, some having held important official
+positions in the city--one in particular having been Mayor.
+
+It is openly said that the whole affair was planned by the Spaniards to
+give them an opportunity of plundering these men of their wealth. It is
+reported that the Chief of Police has informed the prisoners that they
+will be released, and no further proceedings taken against them, if they
+will pay him the sum of one million dollars.
+
+When the news of these arrests became known, crowds gathered around the
+jail, protesting against the Government and calling loudly for the
+recall of Weyler.
+
+The Government in Madrid has been cabled to upon the subject, but so far
+no reply has been received.
+
+A dispatch from Madrid tells us that the people are indignant over Senor
+Canovas' promise to send another twenty thousand soldiers to Cuba.
+
+They say that Spain has already suffered enough, and that the
+Government ought not to ask for any more money or soldiers.
+
+They complain that they were told that Cuba was pacified a month ago,
+and that nothing remained to be done but to subdue some bands of
+insurgents that were scattered throughout the island. This was only a
+month ago, and now they are asked to prepare a fresh army to go to Cuba,
+and are told that the Spanish cause has met with disaster.
+
+The Spanish papers are openly declaring that the time has come to put a
+stop to the sacrifice of men and money, and that the mother country must
+end her wars and give her people peace.
+
+The latest news of the insurgents is that Gomez is advancing on Havana,
+and promises that at the gates of the city he will show General Weyler
+whether the island is really pacified or not.
+
+He has issued a proclamation, saying that Spain might as well stop any
+attempt to grant reforms to Cuba. He says: "We will accept neither
+reforms nor home rule. Spain must know that this war is one for
+independence, and that the Cubans would rather die than yield. The day
+we lifted our flag of liberty, we wrote on it: 'Independence or death.'"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The committee appointed to inquire into the Transvaal raid has sent in
+its report to Parliament--or, to speak correctly, it has sent in two
+reports, for the members could not agree.
+
+One report says that, whatever justification there may have been for the
+people of Johannesberg to rebel against the rule of the Boers, there was
+none whatever for Mr. Cecil Rhodes to organize and dispatch an invading
+army into the Transvaal.
+
+This portion of the committee declares that the blame rests entirely on
+Cecil Rhodes, notwithstanding the fact that Dr. Jameson did finally
+invade the territory without direct orders.
+
+They find that Cecil Rhodes seriously embarrassed the home and colonial
+governments, by thus breaking the peaceful understanding between the
+nations; and further, that he used his high position to provoke a
+rebellion, and deliberately deceived the home Government that he might
+be able to carry out his own personal plans. The Government in England
+is declared to be entirely innocent of any knowledge of the affair, but
+two officers of the colonial Government are found guilty.
+
+To the surprise of everybody, the report contains no suggestion for the
+punishment of any of the offenders.
+
+In regard to Cecil Rhodes' refusal to produce the telegrams which they
+asked for, the committee says that he ought undoubtedly to be
+disciplined for his conduct, but that it would take so much time to do
+so that it would perhaps be as well to let the matter alone.
+
+This is one report.
+
+The other is much stronger in its tone. It blames everybody concerned,
+and says that there is little doubt that the raid was simply a plot
+arranged to make wealthy men wealthier.
+
+This report does not agree that the home Government is entirely
+blameless. It says that it is a pity that the matter was not more fully
+investigated, so that it could be thoroughly ascertained whether the
+Government, and especially Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, was in truth ignorant
+of the plot.
+
+Both reports agree that the officers who led the raiders imagined that
+they were acting under orders from the British Government, and that they
+have been punished more heavily than they deserved. The second report
+suggests that their commissions should be restored to them.
+
+After the raid was over these soldiers were arrested and sent to
+England, where they were tried for invading a friendly country without
+proper authority. They were found guilty and sent to Holloway Jail in
+London.
+
+When they were convicted they were one and all deprived of their
+commissions in the British army. While they were only imprisoned for a
+short time, and were not harshly treated in any sense, the fact of being
+dismissed from the army was a very serious thing for them.
+
+A commission in the army means the authority by which the officer holds
+his rank of Captain or Colonel--or whatever it may be--and is naturally
+valued very highly by the holder.
+
+In England, especially, the highest class of young men go into the army
+as officers, and to leave the army without wishing to, to have one's
+commission taken away from one, is a great disgrace. An officer who
+leaves the army at his own wish has all other careers open to him, but
+one who is dismissed from the service is disgraced and cannot easily
+find fresh employment, and moreover loses all the income and standing
+that being an officer in the army had given him.
+
+This is the position of the officers who led the Transvaal raid; they
+have been disgraced and deprived of their profession.
+
+If, indeed, they are innocent, it is only right that their commissions
+should be restored to them.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Tariff Conference has done its work very rapidly.
+
+After less than two weeks of discussion, this committee has prepared its
+report and given it to Congress.
+
+It was presented to the House on the 20th of July, and after a debate of
+two hours it was adopted by a vote of 185 to 115.
+
+The Conference had done its work so well, and had arranged the changes
+in the bill in such a manner, that the House made little objection to
+them.
+
+The measure now goes to the Senate, where it has to be readopted; but,
+as the changes made by the Conference were so very slight, no doubt is
+felt that it will be passed without delay.
+
+Unless something very unforeseen occurs, it will be in the hands of the
+President before the week is out, and the Dingley Bill will then become
+a law.
+
+There is general rejoicing that the long and tedious discussion is over,
+and that Congress will be able to adjourn before many days have passed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+An interesting story comes from Paris about the new X-rays.
+
+According to the account which reaches us, an apparatus has been
+prepared by which the Custom House officers can examine the baggage and
+ascertain whether there are any dutiable articles concealed in it,
+without going through all the trouble of unpacking and searching.
+
+It is said that cigars can be easily counted by this new process, which
+promises to be a great success.
+
+The method of using it is very simple.
+
+The instrument is mounted on a large table; one of the Custom House
+officers takes the fluoroscope and stands at the end of the table. Two
+others seize the baggage, and piece by piece hold it in front of the
+rays for examination.
+
+If this method is really as useful as it is declared to be, it will save
+an infinite amount of trouble in our Custom House. Unfortunately there
+are so many more dutiable articles in this country than in France that
+it is possible even the X-rays might not be sharp enough to discover
+them all.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The treaty for the annexation of Hawaii has been approved by the Senate
+Committee on Foreign Relations, and returned to the Senate for
+ratification.
+
+The committee thoroughly approved of the treaty, and sent it to the
+Senate without any alteration or criticism. It therefore stands as we
+explained it to you in No. 34.
+
+The chairman of the committee, Senator Davis, would be glad to have the
+treaty ratified at once, as he thinks that speedy action would be the
+best way to avoid any trouble with Japan. He has, however, been warned
+that if he tries to press the treaty this session, the Senate will block
+it with the lengthy discussions about which we told you. Senator Davis
+therefore thinks that it will be best to let the matter rest for the
+present.
+
+The President called a cabinet council to discuss the affairs of Hawaii,
+and at the council a policy was laid down to protect our interests in
+the Sandwich Islands until the treaty can be ratified.
+
+In accordance with this policy full instructions have been sent to
+Rear-Admiral Beardslee, who is in command of the cruiser _Philadelphia_,
+which is now in Hawaiian waters.
+
+The Admiral has been commanded to land a force of sailors and marines
+and hoist the American flag over the Hawaiian Islands at the first sign
+of hostility from Japan.
+
+As we stated before, the American fleet in Hawaiian waters is to be
+reinforced by the battle-ship _Oregon_, one of our first-class cruisers.
+This will give the Admiral three vessels under his command--the
+_Philadelphia_, the _Oregon_, and the _Marion_. There have been several
+rumors that the _Marion_ was to be recalled, because she was an
+old-fashioned wooden ship, and was badly in need of repairs. She will,
+however, remain where she is for the present.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Reliable information has been brought to us of an enormous find of gold
+on the borders of British Columbia and Alaska.
+
+The accounts of the find read like a fairy-story.
+
+Those familiar with placer mining declare that the new gold-fields are
+the richest and finest ever discovered; they say that the California
+find of 1849 cannot be compared with this present one.
+
+The place where this great discovery has been made is on the borders of
+Alaska, not many miles east of the British Columbia boundary, and
+therefore on English territory. It is called the Klondike district.
+
+The Klondike is a river, a tributary of the Yukon River, into which it
+flows above Forty Mile Creek.
+
+The story of the find is interesting.
+
+It was discovered by an old hunter named McCormick.
+
+McCormick had married an Indian squaw, and was therefore, according to
+the custom, known by the uncomplimentary name of squaw man, and was not
+much liked by other white men.
+
+He lived a very lonely life in his cabin, with his squaw wife and his
+half-Indian children, and made his living by hunting and fishing.
+
+In the spring of 1896 he went up the Klondike River to fish. At the
+point where this stream meets the Yukon, very large salmon are often
+caught. It was for this profitable spot that McCormick set out.
+
+He had poor luck, however. The salmon didn't run as usual, and his
+fishing expedition was a failure.
+
+He didn't want to go home empty-handed, and cast about for some fresh
+game. In his uncertainty he bethought him that the Indians had often
+told him that gold was very abundant in this region, and could be washed
+out of the sand in any little pan or vessel that hunters happened to
+carry.
+
+Failing to catch salmon, he determined to seek for gold, and, starting
+off in the direction the Indians had pointed out, he soon found that
+their stories were absolutely true.
+
+Filling his pockets with all the nuggets he could carry, he started back
+with the news.
+
+As soon as word was spread abroad, the miners began to rush into the new
+district.
+
+After McCormick's fishing-trip several men went prospecting, and,
+finding that he had not exaggerated the greatness of his discovery, men
+began to hurry to the Klondike region to take up their claims and secure
+their share of the great prize.
+
+The work of mining this gold is very lengthy and somewhat curious.
+
+The Yukon region, in which the Klondike lies, is very cold. Alaska is
+bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, and the Arctic circle runs
+right through the Yukon country. You can imagine therefore that it is
+terribly cold, and that the ground is frozen nearly all the year round.
+
+The rich pay-dirt in which the gold is found lies from eighteen to
+twenty-five feet below the surface. It would not pay the miners to wait
+for the short warm season when the frost is out of the ground to make
+their harvest; so they have found a plan to get at the gold all the year
+round, no matter how hard or frozen the earth may be.
+
+They build great fires on the top of the gravel, and fix them so that
+they shall burn all night. When morning comes about eighteen inches of
+the ground beneath the fire is found to be thawed out. This surface is
+shovelled away, and another fire built on the gravel where it is frozen
+again.
+
+They keep right on in this slow and tedious way, until finally the
+pay-dirt is reached.
+
+The yield from these new gold-fields is something wonderful. It is
+greater than anything ever recorded in the history of gold mining.
+
+[Illustration: ALASKA: YUKON VALLEY AND GOLD FIELDS.
+
+(The State of Pennsylvania is inserted to show comparative size.)]
+
+One miner, who is a thoroughly experienced man, declares that he is
+absolutely amazed at the amount of gold that has already been produced.
+He says that the work has only been commenced, and that this present
+find which is setting people crazy is nothing to the gold that will be
+discovered as soon as the miners really get to work.
+
+He stated that, in addition to the rich pay-dirt we have already spoken
+of, there were veins of gold in the rocks underneath, which veins
+appeared to grow richer the farther they were probed. In his opinion the
+gold deposits of the Yukon region form the mother vein of all the gold
+in North America.
+
+Many people are hurrying to the Klondike district from all parts, and
+the excitement is intense.
+
+San Francisco has caught the gold fever. It reached the city through
+some miners from Klondike, who arrived by steamer, bringing with them
+piles of shining gold to prove the truth of their stories.
+
+Not one member of this party went up to Alaska with anything more than
+his outfit and a few hundred dollars. All have brought back stores of
+riches.
+
+The smallest amount of gold owned by any of these men was valued at five
+thousand dollars, while several had as much as fifty thousand dollars'
+worth.
+
+The luckiest people in this little band were a Mr. and Mrs. Lippey, who
+left New York in April, 1896.
+
+Mrs. Lippey was the first woman to go over the trail to Klondike. She
+went because she did not wish her husband to undertake the journey
+alone, preferring to share his hardships with him.
+
+They brought back sixty thousand dollars' worth of gold.
+
+Another party has just reached Seattle, Wash., having come direct by
+steamer from St. Michaels, Alaska.
+
+In this party there were sixty-eight people, who brought back with them
+one and one-half tons of gold. This is worth nearly a million dollars.
+
+[Illustration: Alaskan Child and Dogsled]
+
+The gold is found in dust and nuggets ranging in size from a hazelnut to
+fine bird-shot.
+
+It must not be supposed that this gold is lightly earned. Those who have
+returned say that the hardships of the life are beyond description. Many
+declare that no amount of gold could tempt them back, as beyond the
+hard, rough life, the severe cold, and the constant labor, there is an
+ever-present dread of starvation. It is difficult for any man to take in
+sufficient food to last him through the long winter, and there is
+hardly any possibility of obtaining more when the supplies run out.
+
+A company has been formed to send provisions up into the district, and
+if this is done the work will be rendered much easier.
+
+The treasury of the United States has already begun to feel the benefit
+of the Klondike gold discovery.
+
+The San Francisco mint has received half a million dollars' worth of the
+gold, and expects another half-million by the next steamer.
+
+The Mint Bureau has been informed that Alaskan gold has been received at
+several of the Pacific ports for shipment to the East, and the ton and a
+half from Seattle is also on its way.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+There has long been a movement on foot to limit the wearing of feathers
+on hats.
+
+So many charming birds are slaughtered to adorn the headgear of our
+women folks, that it has been feared some of the songsters might become
+extinct.
+
+A law has, however, just been passed for their protection in
+Massachusetts, which forbids the use of certain birds for millinery
+purposes.
+
+The petition begging that a bill of this character might be framed by
+the State Senators was drawn up by United States Senator George F. Hoar.
+
+The petition was supposed to come from the birds themselves, and to be
+signed by thirty-five song-birds. It was written in such a delightful
+manner that it roused the interest of the Massachusetts Legislature, and
+the desired bill was prepared and passed in an astonishingly short space
+of time.
+
+The document is so pretty and graceful in its tone and language that
+you would certainly like to read it for yourselves.
+
+Here it is:
+
+
+"_To the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:_
+
+"We, the song-birds of Massachusetts and their playfellows, make this
+our humble petition. We know more about you than you think we do. We
+know how good you are. We have hopped about the roofs and looked in at
+your windows of the houses you have built for poor and sick and hungry
+people and little lame and deaf and blind children. We have built our
+nests in the trees and sung many a song as we flew about the gardens and
+parks you have made so beautiful for your children, especially your poor
+children, to play in. Every year we fly a great way over the country,
+keeping all the time where the sun is bright and warm. And we know that
+whenever you do anything the people all over this great land between the
+seas and the great lakes find it out, and pretty soon will try to do the
+same. We know. We know.
+
+"We are Americans just the same as you are. Some of us, like some of
+you, came across the great sea. But most of the birds like us have lived
+here a long while; and the birds like us welcomed your fathers when they
+came here many, many years ago. Our fathers and mothers have always done
+their best to please your fathers and mothers.
+
+"Now, we have a sad story to tell you. Thoughtless or bad people are
+trying to destroy us. They kill us because our feathers are beautiful.
+Even pretty and sweet girls, who, we should think, would be our best
+friends, kill our brothers and children so that they may wear our
+plumage on their hats. Sometimes people kill us for mere wantonness.
+Cruel boys destroy our nests and steal our eggs and our young ones.
+People with guns and snares lie in wait to kill us; as if the place for
+a bird were not in the sky, alive, but in a shop window or in a glass
+case. If this goes on much longer all our song-birds will be gone.
+Already we are told in some other countries that used to be full of
+birds they are now almost gone. Even the nightingales are being killed
+in Italy.
+
+"Now we humbly pray that you will stop all this and will save us from
+this sad fate. You have always made a law that no one shall kill a
+harmless song-bird or destroy our nests or our eggs. Will you please
+make another one that no one shall wear our feathers, so that no one
+will kill us to get them? We want them all ourselves. Your pretty girls
+are pretty enough without them. We are told that it is as easy for you
+to do it as for a blackbird to whistle.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+No. 1. Hummingbird.
+    2. Whippoorwill.
+    3. Bobolink.
+    4. Scarlet Tanager.
+    5. Baltimore Oriole.
+    6. Song-Sparrow.]
+
+"If you will, we know how to pay you a hundred times over. We will teach
+your children to keep themselves clean and neat. We will show them how
+to live together in peace and love and to agree as we do in our nests.
+We will build pretty houses which you will like to see. We will play
+about your garden and flower-beds--ourselves like flowers on
+wings--without any cost to you. We will destroy the wicked insects and
+worms that spoil your cherries and currants and plums and apples and
+roses. We will give you our best songs, and make the spring more
+beautiful and the summer sweeter to you. Every June morning when you
+go out into the field, oriole and bluebird and blackbird and bobolink
+will fly after you and make the day more delightful to you. And when you
+go home tired after sundown, vesper-sparrow will tell you how grateful
+we are. When you sit down on your porch after dark, fifebird and
+hermit-thrush and wood-thrush will sing to you, and even whippoorwill
+will cheer you up a little. We know where we are safe. In a little while
+all the birds will come to live in Massachusetts again, and everybody
+who loves music will like to make a summer home with you."
+
+The signers are:
+
+     Brown thrasher,              Kingbird,
+     Robert o' Lincoln,           Swallow,
+     Hermit-thrush,               Cedarbird,
+     Vesper-sparrow,              Cowbird,
+     Robin redbreast,             Martin,
+     Song-sparrow,                Veery,
+     Scarlet tanager,             Vireo,
+     Summer redbird,              Oriole,
+     Blue heron,                  Blackbird,
+     Hummingbird,                 Fifebird,
+     Yellowbird,                  Wren,
+     Whippoorwill,                Linnet,
+     Water-wagtail,               Peewee,
+     Woodpecker,                  Phoebe,
+     Pigeon-woodpecker,           Yokebird,
+     Indigo-bird,                 Lark,
+     Yellowthroat,                Sandpiper,
+     Wilson's thrush,             Chewink.
+     Chickadee,
+
+The bill which was drawn up in response to this petition provides that
+any one who shall wear birds or feathers for the purpose of dress or
+ornament shall be fined $10, and that the same fine shall be exacted
+from all persons who take or kill certain specially mentioned
+song-birds.
+
+The police are rather worried over the new law, because they are not
+sure whether they have the right to arrest ladies who are wearing
+feathers in their hats.
+
+The Chief of Police has sent out a circular (containing a copy of the
+act that has just been passed) to all milliners and dealers in birds'
+feathers.
+
+He intends to punish these merchants if they infringe the law, and then,
+when the law has had time to be generally known and understood, he
+intends to arrest all women who still persist in wearing feathers in
+their hats.
+
+New York passed a similar law last year, but the Governor refused to
+sign it, because the Forest Commissioners did not approve of it.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We told you last week that President McKinley was anxious to withhold
+the letters that had passed between this country and England in
+reference to the seal question.
+
+Unfortunately his wishes have been thwarted by the publication of Mr.
+Sherman's letter to Ambassador Hay.
+
+It is a great pity that this letter found its way into print, for it is
+most unfriendly in its tone.
+
+It accuses Great Britain of bad faith in her method of carrying out the
+terms of the Paris treaty. It declares that at the end of the first year
+the United States discovered that the provisions of the Paris treaty
+were not sufficient for the protection of the seals, and that this
+Government immediately asked England to call a conference and reconsider
+the matter.
+
+Great Britain put off replying to this request for three years, and now,
+after all this delay, says that there is nothing to show that seal life
+is in danger.
+
+Mr. Sherman, in his letter, complains that the English Prime Minister
+bases his refusal on the report of an English scientist named Prof.
+D'Arcy Thompson. This report Secretary Sherman declares to be so greatly
+at variance with the reports of Dr. David Starr Jordan and the many
+observations made by other distinguished naturalists, that he insists
+that it is not a reliable document, but merely written to suit the
+political situation.
+
+The publication of this correspondence has called forth much angry
+comment from England.
+
+The result of the affair has been exactly what the President
+predicted--the rousing of unnecessary bad feeling between the two
+countries.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We have had a slight disagreement with the Moorish Government.
+
+The country of Morocco is situated on the northwest of Africa, and is
+bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the west by the
+Atlantic Ocean.
+
+The Straits of Gibraltar lie between Morocco and Spain, and the Pillars
+of Hercules, about which you have probably heard, are the promontories
+of Europe and Africa which jut out into the Mediterranean Sea at the
+Straits, and are but eight miles apart.
+
+The European point is called the Rock of Gibraltar; the African, Abyla,
+or Apes' Hill, from the number of apes that have made their home on it.
+
+Morocco is ruled by a Sultan, whose authority is supreme.
+
+The Moors, as the inhabitants of this country are called, are a very
+ancient and warlike people, who were at one time a very powerful race.
+
+In the twelfth century they conquered Andalusia, Valencia, and a part of
+Aragon in Spain, together with a portion of Portugal. In Spain they
+established the Kingdom of Granada, about which so many enchanting poems
+and romances have been written.
+
+In the city of Granada they built the famous Alhambra. This magnificent
+palace and citadel was built by the Moorish kings of Granada in the
+thirteenth century. The Royal Villa, the Generaliffe, which is also in
+the city of Granada, was built about the same time.
+
+The Alhambra and the Generaliffe are considered two of the most
+beautiful buildings in the world. The architecture and the decorations
+are perfect in detail and execution. You must read some time Washington
+Irving's "Alhambra." It is filled with interesting legends of these
+Moorish palaces.
+
+The Moors were driven out of Spain in the fifteenth century.
+
+They are still a very warlike people, and have had frequent campaigns
+against France and Spain.
+
+Their country is supposed to be very rich in minerals, but as yet it has
+not been developed.
+
+A great part of the trade of Morocco is controlled by foreigners, and in
+consequence special laws have had to be made to protect the traders.
+
+According to the treaty between the United States and the Sultan of
+Morocco, American traders are allowed to employ two natives as agents
+for the sale of their goods. These natives are given the same protection
+as Americans.
+
+The trouble with Morocco arose from the fact that one of the native
+agents, while returning from his rounds, was assaulted and robbed of
+$1,200, the outrage occurring in broad daylight in front of the
+consulate.
+
+The merchant for whom the agent was working reported the matter to the
+Moorish Government, and demanded that the thieves should be arrested and
+punished.
+
+Notwithstanding that these robbers were well-known characters, the
+Moorish authorities made no attempt to bring them to justice, and paid
+no attention to the protests of the Consul.
+
+The agent and the merchant immediately filed a claim for damages against
+the Moorish Government, and the Consul cabled to this country, asking
+that an American gunboat be sent to Tangier, to show the Moors that the
+United States proposes to protect her citizens.
+
+The flag-ship _San Francisco_ and the cruiser _Raleigh_ immediately set
+out for Tangier, one of the principal seaports of Morocco.
+
+The appearance of these vessels had a very healthy effect on the
+authorities. One of the robbers was immediately arrested, and the Moors
+agreed to search for the other and bring him to justice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A story comes from Oklahoma that gophers have completely destroyed a
+canal which has recently been built at an expense of $40,000.
+
+These gophers are little animals, striped and spotted, and about the
+size of a large rat.
+
+The Oklahoma Canal was built to bring the waters of the river through
+the town, with the idea of erecting mills all along the banks and making
+Oklahoma a more prosperous city.
+
+It was laid out by expert engineers, and took a large amount of time and
+money to build; it was five miles long.
+
+When the canal was completed and opened, it proved a great success;
+there was sufficient force of water to turn any number of mills, and a
+great era of money-making appeared to be ahead of Oklahoma.
+
+Unfortunately the soil through which the canal had been dug was porous
+and sandy.
+
+Before the work had been long completed, gophers appeared on the banks
+and began to burrow their holes.
+
+The water washed into the burrows, and soon a crevasse appeared, and the
+canal swept through the sandy banks.
+
+Repairs were attempted, and for a long time the people were so anxious
+to preserve their canal that they continued these repairs at great
+expense. Finally the Canal Company became discouraged; they could no
+longer afford to fight the gophers, and so they abandoned the waterway
+and left the little pests the victors.
+
+In a very short time the canal was gone.
+
+The banks, riddled by the gophers, gave way, and the waters soon flowed
+back into their original course. Where the canal once ran, farmers are
+now ploughing and planting their crops, and Oklahoma has lost its fine
+canal.
+
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