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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—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—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—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—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 Señor +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—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—or whatever it may be—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—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—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 <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'>Phœbe,</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—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. 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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"> +<tr><td align='left'><b>SAMPLE SET RELIEF MAPS (15), $1.00</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>SAMPLE ROMAN EMPIRE, 10 CENTS</b></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class='center'><b>WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON, · · 5 West 18th Street, N.Y.</b></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p class="figcenter"><img src="./images/bookcover.png" alt="Do you Cover your Books?" title="Do you Cover your Books?" /></p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">THE "ONE PIECE"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">ADJUSTABLE BOOK COVERS</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>are made of the strongest and best book-cover paper obtainable. 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The book covers themselves are a marvel of +ingenuity, and, although they are in one piece and can be adjusted to fit +perfectly any sized book without cutting the paper, they are also so +simple that any boy or girl can use them; as they are already gummed they +are always ready for use.</p> + +<p>A sample dozen will be mailed to any address for 20 cents (or ten two-cent +stamps) if you write</p> + +<div class='center'> +<b>WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON</b><br /> +<b>3 and 5 West 18th Street, New York City</b> +</div> + + +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<h3><span class="smcap">To any one sending us</span></h3> + +<div class="figleft"><img src="./images/gun.png" alt="Rifle" title="Rifle" /></div> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="For 8 Subscribers"> +<tr><td align='left'><div class="figleft"><img src="./images/gun8.png" alt="Flourish and 8" title="Flourish and 8" /></div> +</td><td align='left'><div><i>NEW....</i><br /><i>SUBSCRIBERS</i></div></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class='center'>WE WILL SEND A</div> + +<div class='center'><big><b>JUNIOR RIFLE</b></big></div> + +<div class="center"><span class="u">22 calibre, highly finished, with rebounding<br /> +lock, case-hardened frame, detachable<br /> +barrel, automatic shell ejector.<br /> +Weight 4-1/2 pounds.</span></div> + +<div class='center'>OR</div> + + +<div class='center'><big><b>A "Shattuck New</b></big><br /> +<big><b>Model" Shot=Gun</b></big></div> + +<div class="center"><span class="u">Side-snap action, rebounding lock,<br /> +walnut pistol-grip stock, patent<br /> +fore end, rubber butt, and pistol-grip<br /> +cap, nickel frame, choke-bored,<br /> +twist-steel barrel.<br /> +12 or 16 gauge.</span></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="./images/gundiv.png" alt="Divider" title="Divider" /></div> + +<div class='center'> +<b><span class="smcap">The Great Round World</span></b><br /> +<span class="smcap">3 and 5 West 18th St. new york city</span><br /> +</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—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, 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'> as</td> +<td align='left'> given</td> +<td align='left'> for</td> +<td align='left'> 15</td> +<td align='left'> Subscriptions</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>No. 2.</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='right'>12</td> +<td align='center'>"</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>No. 3.</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='right'>10</td> +<td align='center'>"</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>No. 4.</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='right'>9</td> +<td align='center'>"</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>No. 5.</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='right'>8</td> +<td align='center'>"</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>No. 6.</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='right'>7</td> +<td align='center'>"</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>No. 7.</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='right'>5</td> +<td align='center'>"</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>No. 8.</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='right'>5</td> +<td align='center'>"</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>No. 9.</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='right'>5</td> +<td align='center'>"</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>No. 10.</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='center'>"</td> +<td align='right'>5</td> +<td align='center'>"</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of 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 + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND *** + +***** This file should be named 15916-h.htm or 15916-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/9/1/15916/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team.(www.pgdp.net) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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