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The peace negotiations have not made very much
progress during the past week.

Turkey has announced to the Powers that she holds
that Thessaly belongs to her by right of conquest, and
she is not willing to give it up.

But the Powers are determined to allow only a sum
of money as a war indemnity, and a rearrangement
of the frontier whereby Turkey will gain certain
strategic points.

The Sultan has again asked the Emperor of Germany
to help him to secure Thessaly, but William has
declined to interfere in the matter, and has advised
the Sultan to obey the wishes of the Powers.

The Czar of Russia has also written to the Sultan,
urging him to accept the conditions offered, and not
delay the negotiations by making demands on Greece
which it will be impossible for her to accept.

The delay in the peace negotiations is causing considerable
alarm in Europe.

It seems that the Sultan’s main object in writing to
Germany and Russia has been to gain time.

It is thought that he hopes the Powers will disagree
and leave him free to do as he pleases.

If, however, they still remain as firm as they are at
present, he thinks the delay may give time for the
Mohammedans to calm down.

These people are now so excited over the success
that has attended the Turkish arms, that it is feared
they will revolt against the Sultan if he agrees to
give up Thessaly.

We told you about the visit of the Sheik ul Islam to
the Sultan.

These Sheiks are very powerful persons. It is perhaps
a little difficult to make you understand just how
powerful they are, living as you do in a country where
such conditions do not exist.

The Sheiks are leaders of numerous tribes of people
to whom their word is absolute law, and whom they
command as entirely as a father commands his children,
and for the reason that the tribesmen are in a
measure the children of the Sheik.

In the olden times family life was much stronger
and closer than it is to-day. The father of a family
would continue to govern the affairs of his sons after
they had grown up and married and had families of
their own. Until his death, the father would be the
ruler of his own group of relatives, and when he was
gone, his eldest son would become the head of the
family in his place.

As the grandchildren grew up and raised sons and
daughters of their own, the family would grow larger;
but, while all obeyed their own fathers, they also
obeyed the rulings of the head or chief of the
family.

It was the plan of leadership that we read of in the
Bible—the patriarchal system, as it was called.

The clans of the Highlands of Scotland are formed
in a similar manner. A member of a clan is simply
a relative, a person of the same blood and family as
the head of the clan, and according to their custom
he obeys the commands of his chieftain.

In ancient times, when a Highland chieftain went
to war, he had the right to call on every man in the
clan to join him. None who were able to answer the
call ever thought of refusing.

In the East to-day the patriarchal system prevails
as strongly as ever. The Sheiks or Chiefs are the
rulers of the people, and can control and command
them as they please.

The people of the Eastern tribes are nearly all Mohammedans.
As we have told you before, they think
it right to kill those who do not believe in the Prophet
Mohammed.

They would be very glad to gain possession of Thessaly
and spread Mohammedanism throughout the
province. They are therefore most unwilling that
the Sultan should allow it to fall again into the hands
of the Greeks.

Should the Sultan consent to the demands of the
Powers and restore Thessaly, the Sheiks might call
out their tribes and carry on the war themselves.

The Sultan has therefore to be very careful not
to anger them, and it is for this reason that he delays,
hoping that in time one party or the other may
give in.

The Powers are, however, quite tired of the delay,
and the latest despatch says that they have sent the Sultan
a collective note, which means a letter expressing
the sentiments of all the diplomats concerned.

This note states that they cannot allow any further
delay, and demands that the Porte arrive at a decision
immediately.

It is also stated on good authority that the Greek
Government has arranged a loan to pay the money
that Turkey demands as a war indemnity, so that
just as soon as the peace negotiations are concluded
Greece may be ready to pay the required sum.

The report about the wounding of General Gomez
has been contradicted.

It seems that the Spaniards and Cubans had an engagement
near the Jucaro Moron trocha.

A body of insurgents under General Vega were trying
to join the forces of General Gomez, when they
encountered the Spanish troops.

The insurgents gave battle, and were getting the
best of the fight, when a second Spanish column appeared
in sight.

The insurgents, finding themselves outnumbered,
retreated.

In the engagement General Vega was wounded,
his horse being shot under him, and he himself falling
unconscious to the ground. His staff surrounded him,
and carried him away to a place of safety, but not before
the Spaniards had seen what had occurred.

Knowing Gomez to be in the neighborhood, they
supposed it was he who had been in command, and so
the mistake arose.

It is a happy thing for the Cubans that Gomez is
still spared to them. The terrible disasters of the
Greek campaign have shown us how necessary good
leaders are.

General Weyler has announced his intention of
doing no more fighting until the close of the rainy
season.

He is on his way back to Havana. He has not pacified
Santiago de Cuba as he promised to do, but now
declares that it is impossible to attempt any military
operations during the rainy season.

The Cubans do not agree with him. The rain has,
so far, not dampened their ardor.

Every day reports come to us that raids and skirmishes
are taking place all over the island.

On the outskirts of Havana the insurgents are keeping
up a constant fight. They are burning houses,
and making the best of every opportunity to harass
the enemy.

A bold attempt was made to capture Fondeviela the
other day; some fierce fighting took place, but the
Colonel eventually succeeded in driving off the Cubans.

The case of Gen. Rius Rivera is likely to be settled
without the interference of the Spanish Government.

The unfortunate soldier is seriously ill, and not expected
to live many days. It is said that he is not
dying of his wounds, but of a disease that has developed
since he has been in prison.

A late report says that the discontent among the
Spanish soldiers in regard to their pay has induced
their officers to give them permission to plunder where
they can. The few unfortunates who have any property
left are now at the mercy of the soldiers.

This state of distress in the island is in great contrast
to the charming picture of peace and prosperity
which it presented a few short years ago.

A writer in The Sun describes the island as it was
before the breaking out of the first war.

He says that in those days its commerce with this
country amounted to a hundred million dollars a year.
It maintained an army of twenty thousand Spanish
soldiers, and its harbors were always filled with
Spanish vessels.

Havana was then one of the gayest capitals in the
world. Its streets were thronged with fine carriages,
in which the beauties of the island took their daily
drives. At night all the fashion of the city would
congregate on the Plaza in front of the Governor’s
mansion, and listen to the music of the military bands.

The people of the island were loyal and obedient to
the wishes of the mother country. They gave up the
treasures of the island in return for a kindly government.

In those days Spain called Cuba the ever-faithful
island, because she was the only American possession
of Spain that still remained contented under the rule
of the mother country.

To travellers she seemed an earthly Paradise, and
many were the stories of the beauties of this favored
isle.

No one could say enough pleasant things about its
light-hearted, kindly people, its marvellous vegetation,
its lovely flowers, its delicious fruits, and its generous
soil in which anything that was planted would grow.

When we think of Cuba to-day, laid waste by fire
and sword, with barren fields and starving people, we
cannot help feeling that the causes must have been
great which led to such a terrible sacrifice.

The only news relating to Hawaiian matters this
week is that Japan is seriously angry with us over
the treatment her Minister at Washington has received
at the hands of the Secretary of State.

It would seem that the Japanese are extremely precise
and particular about the way their diplomatic
affairs are conducted.

Their idea of what is necessary on such occasions is
very different from ours, and unfortunately the Japanese
Ministers both at Honolulu and Washington
have not received the treatment that, according to
their views, is due them.

Minister Hoshi, in Washington, is so indignant
that he was not informed of the negotiations in regard
to the treaty, that it is said he has asked to be recalled
to Japan.

His displeasure has been increased by Secretary
Sherman’s failure to reply to his letter asking for an
explanation.

We told you that England had been making arrangements
with Portugal to secure Delagoa Bay, in
South Africa, and that this contract, if concluded,
would give Great Britain the control of the only port
available for the people of the Transvaal.

President Krüger is, however, too clever a man to
allow this to be done without making some effort to
secure the port for himself.

We told you that Dr. Leyds had been sent to England
by the Boer Government to arrange the trouble
over the Transvaal Raid.

Dr. Leyds had a further commission, which he did
not mention while he was in London.

This was to try and secure possession of Delagoa
Bay for his own country.

He went to Paris, and organized a company to buy
from Portugal certain lands in Africa which should include
Delagoa Bay, its ports and customs.

To prevent England getting any knowledge of what
was going on, the matter was arranged in Paris, and
appeared on the surface to be a French speculation.

But it has come to light that the large sums of
money which will have to be paid to conclude the
matter are being subscribed in part by German financiers,
and the rest by the National Bank of the
Transvaal.

It seems that it is an arrangement between Germany
and the Transvaal.

As we have told you before, Germany is quite
friendly with the South African Republic, so much so
that, at the time of the raid, the Emperor of Germany
very much displeased the English people by
sending President Krüger a telegram congratulating
him on his victory over the raiders.

It is said that neither the English nor the Boer-German
offer for Delagoa Bay has as yet been accepted
by Portugal.

The news from India is of a very serious character.

We told you some months ago how the trees in Bengal
province had been marked, and how the European
residents in India feared that it might be the signal
for another mutiny.

It would almost seem that their fears were well
grounded.

On the clay of the Jubilee celebration in India the
natives killed Government officers in various parts of
the country, and assumed a hostile and impudent
attitude toward Europeans generally.

Last week a riot broke out in one of the suburbs of
the city of Calcutta, and for more than forty-eight
hours the mob held the town.

The trouble arose over a mosque or Mohammedan
temple.

It is contrary to the rules of their religion to allow
mosques to be built on ground that belongs to unbelievers,
but of late the Moslems have been seizing on
buildings owned by Europeans and Hindoos, converting
them into mosques, and then refusing to pay rent
for them.

This practice has annoyed the land-owners very
much, and at last one owner, a Hindoo, determined
to put an end to the nuisance.

The Mohammedans had seized a mud hut which he
owned, and as usual they refused to pay rent for it.
The Hindoo appealed to the British Government, and
under its protection sent workmen over and had the
hut demolished.

This enraged the Mohammedans.

The hut had been converted into a mosque, and
they regarded its destruction as a wicked act.

They rose against the Europeans under whose
authority this had been done, attacked them, and the
soldiers had to be called out to quell the disturbance.

The riots lasted for two days. At the end of that
time it was reported that to pacify the mob the
authorities had given them possession of the land on
which the mosque had stood.

The European residents were very angry when this
news reached them. They feared that it would make
the people still more unruly, as they would be sure to
think the authorities were afraid of them if they gave
in to their demands.

This prediction appears to have been correct, for
even after the rioters had been subdued, it was unsafe
for Europeans to venture into some parts of Calcutta
without protection.

It is stated that the authorities did not really give
up the land, but only allowed the rumor to be circulated
for the sake of pacifying the mob. The police
have possession of the disputed property, and will not
allow any one to approach it.

It has developed that notwithstanding the fact that
the owner of the land was a Hindoo, there is no really
bad feeling between the Hindoos and the Mohammedans,
but that both have combined against the Europeans.

It is distinctly an anti-European feeling. British
authority is openly defied by the natives, and the situation
is regarded as very grave.

In Simla, which is the summer home of the Viceroy
of India, there has been more rioting.

A mob tried to seize upon a mosque, but the police
and soldiers opened fire on them, and a serious fight
ensued.

The mob was finally repulsed, and the leader arrested.

Simla, which is one of the most fashionable of the
Indian summer resorts, is built high up among the
Himalayan Mountains.

The seat of the government of India is really in
Calcutta, but the heat there is so intense during the
summer months that the Europeans cannot endure it.

For fully half the year the Viceroy, who is the representative
of the Queen, moves up to Simla, with his
council and household, and the government is carried
on there.

That riots should have occurred at the seat of government
makes the Europeans still more uneasy.

Nor are these the only disturbances we have to record.

In a recent number we told you about the attack
on one of the government officials in the Fochi
Valley.

There has been a fresh outbreak in the same place.
A number of coolies or porters, who were carrying
provisions, were attacked and robbed.

This time the attacking party did not meet with
such success. The military commanders have been on
the alert since the last outrage, and no sooner was the
news of the attack telegraphed, than a body of cavalry
started in pursuit of the offenders.

They were overtaken before they had time to reach
their hill dwellings, and fifty of them were captured
and brought back as prisoners.

It is little to be wondered at that these various disturbances,
coming so closely one upon the other, should
be causing the Europeans in India a great deal of uneasiness.

It may be that the memories of the mutiny make
them a little over-anxious, but the situation is certainly
very serious.

There is a report that the Siamese have invaded the
French possessions in Indo-China.

The French colonies in Asia consist of Cochin China,
Tonquin, Anam, and Cambodia, and since the year
1896 a large portion of Siam has been added to them.

All these provinces lie to the east of Burmah and
Siam, at the extreme southeast of Asia.

The telegrams state that Cambodia has been invaded
by the Siamese, who have pillaged and burned
many villages and carried off a number of prisoners.

In Bangkok, which is the capital of Siam, and also
in the provinces ceded to France, French authority is
no longer acknowledged.

The Siamese demand taxes of the people, and when
they insist that they are under French protection and
must pay their taxes to France, their claims are not
listened to. All their papers which relate to the subject
are destroyed, and they are forced to pay the
taxes demanded.

When the French in their turn ask for the taxes,
the people naturally refuse to pay them twice; then
there are lawsuits, and the people who will not pay
are brought before the judges.

This, however, does little good to the French, for
the courts refuse to hear French complaints.

Some of the Cambodian chiefs who are under French
protection have been arrested by the Siamese, thrown
into prison, and kept there many months without being
brought to trial.

It is thought that the King of Siam needs a lesson
to teach him to be more respectful to his European
neighbors.

You remember that in the case of United States
Vice-Consul Mr. Kellet at Bangkok, that the trouble
arose from the Siamese trying to seize the property
of an American citizen named Cheek, and that Siam
did not want to make amends for the wrong.

It seems that the French difficulty arises from much
the same cause. The Siamese Government does not
like to see the taxes going out of its hands, and so,
despite its treaties, seizes them for itself.

The spread of civilization into Asia has taught these
Eastern monarchs many things, and they are no longer
simple, docile people, who can be overawed by the
knowledge and power of the Europeans.

The Japanese have recently come to the front as a
nation, and it would not be surprising if the Siamese
followed their example.

The King of Siam, who has just been visiting Europe
to attend the Jubilee celebrations, appears to be
a clever and progressive monarch.

He has been visiting Rome, and has of course been
taken to see the wonderful art treasures that this very
ancient city contains. His guides were much impressed
by the correct taste the King displayed in
matters of art. They declare that no artist could
have made better comments on the various pictures
and statues shown him than this King of Siam, to
whom examples of Greek art were new.

The history of Italy and the deeds of its great men
were also familiar to this far-away King. In passing
through one of the galleries he saw the statues of King
Victor Emmanuel of Italy and of Garibaldi, the two
men who had worked so bravely for the liberty of
Italy.

The King of Siam stopped before these statues, uncovered
his head, and paid silent homage to the noble
deeds of these two great heroes. His suite followed
his example, all the gentlemen in his train bowing
with uncovered heads and passing silently on.

The King also appears to have a keen sense of humor.

He was invited by one of the scientific societies of
Rome to attend a lecture on some very deep subject,
in which he was not at all interested.

He did not want to attend, but confided to King
Humbert that he feared the professors would call him
a barbarian if he stayed away. So to the lecture he
went.

On his return King Humbert asked him how he had
enjoyed it.

“To be frank with you,” he replied, “it is even
stronger at putting you to sleep than our opium.”

When the news of the trouble in Siam was telegraphed,
the King declared that he knew nothing of
the affair. If he is as clever as they say, he probably
keeps himself thoroughly acquainted with everything
that is happening in his kingdom.

The chances are that he knows all about the matter,
but does not want it mentioned until his pleasure trip
is over.

A sad story of a wrecked steamer has just reached
us.

The vessel, the Aden, was one of the steamers
which carry passengers from Europe to India, passing
through the Suez Canal.

Heavy winds and storms have been raging in the
Indian Ocean for some weeks past; in fact, the storms
and the earthquake about which we told you came at
the same time.

The unfortunate steamer was caught in one of these
tempests, and driven on a reef off Socotra Island.

Socotra is at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. It is
into this gulf that the Red Sea flows.

As soon as the accident occurred the life-boats were
launched, and some of the passengers and crew were
put aboard them.

Unhappily the sea was running so high that the
boats could not live in it. They were soon overturned
and their occupants drowned.

Two other boats were smashed to pieces in the effort
to launch them, and finally seven persons found themselves
forced to stay by the wreck.

The accident happened in the dead of night, and
until the daylight came they were clinging together,
expecting that the vessel would go down at any moment.

When morning came they found that the ship was
so tightly wedged on the rocks that she was not likely
to sink, but they were out of sight of land, and had
no chance of rescue unless some passing vessel happened
to see them.

To add to their misery, great waves were constantly
washing over the wreck. They had taken refuge in
one of the deck cabins, and here they were forced to
stay for three or four days until the waters became
calmer.

They were at first afraid that they would be
starved, but a few biscuits were found in the cabin,
and on these they subsisted until it was safe to cross
the deck to the cook’s galley without danger of being
washed overboard. Here they found provisions.

Two women were of the party, and they appear to
have behaved very well, doing their share toward
making their comrades comfortable, and preparing the
best meals they could under the circumstances.

When the storm was so far abated that they dared
to go on deck, they set signals, in the hopes of attracting
some passing vessel.

Two vessels, however, passed without noticing them,
but at last, after fourteen days of anxiety and fear,
help came to them.

They were taken off the vessel and brought safely
to land.

The owners of the Aden made full inquiry into the
cause of the disaster, and attributed it to the storm,
and not to any carelessness on the part of captain or
crew.

There will have to be a new trial of the case against
the Tobacco Trust, the jury having been discharged by
the court.

We told you, in reference to the Laurada trial, that
it was necessary for all the twelve jurymen to agree
before a verdict could be secured.

When a trial is finished and the case is given to the
jury, the jurymen in the charge of the sheriff are
locked up in the jury-room and kept there until they
arrive at a decision or the judge dismisses them.

When the jurors arrive in their own room, a ballot
is taken, and if the vote is not unanimous they begin
a regular discussion of the case. A foreman of the
jury is chosen at the beginning of the trial, and serves
as chairman of the jury while the case is in their
hands.

After he thinks the matter has been well weighed,
the foreman asks the jurymen if they are ready to
vote. Another ballot is then taken, each man registering
his opinion.

The foreman counts the votes.

If the jury is not all of the same way of thinking,
the matter is again discussed and a new ballot taken.

In the Tobacco Trust trial the jury was “out,” as it
is called, twenty-one hours. During that time forty
ballots were taken, ten of the jury voting “guilty”
and two “not guilty.”

At the end of that time one of the jurors was taken
ill. The foreman sent a request for a doctor, and
asked the judge to dismiss the jury, as it was impossible
for them to come to a decision.

The judge has the right to keep the jury locked up
until he is satisfied that they cannot arrive at a verdict.

In this instance he kept them three hours longer,
and then, finding them still divided ten to two, he discharged
them.

In English and American law there are only two
verdicts, “Guilty” or “Not guilty,” and a person who
has once been adjudged not guilty can never be tried
again for the same crime. In Scotland they have a
third verdict—”Not proven.” Under this verdict a
person regains his liberty, but he can be tried again at
any time that fresh evidence against him is secured.

The jurors would probably have agreed on the verdict
of “Not proven” had it been in use in our courts,
but, as it is, there will have to be another trial of
the Tobacco Trust as soon as the District Attorney is
ready to prosecute.

People living in New York have long complained of
the lack of accommodation on the surface and elevated
roads.

During the crowded hours of the day it does not
seem possible to put on enough cars to seat the passengers.

Men and women have to stand in these crowded
cars, packed as closely as herrings in a barrel.

After enduring this nuisance for many years with
surprising patience, the people have at last sought the
aid of the Board of Health.

They have complained to the Board that standing
in the cars is injurious to the health of women and
persons in delicate health.

When the summer came on and the crowding nuisance
was not abated, but the discomforts were considerably
increased by the neglect of the companies to
provide straps in the open cars for the people to hold
on to, the complaints increased to such an extent that
the Board of Health decided to take immediate action.

A careful investigation was commenced, and it was
found that in rounding the curve at Fourteenth Street
and Broadway, and the sharp curves at Fifty-third
Street, every person who was not provided with a seat
was in danger of losing life or limb.

The standing passengers were jostled, jolted, and
flung this way and that, without sufficient protection
against being thrown off the cars.

Inspectors from the Health Board were stationed at
the different points to ascertain just how many persons
were forced to travel in this dangerous manner.

The inspector detailed to watch the Lexington Avenue
branch of the cable road reported that during two
hours, 1,750 had been standing up in the 135 cars that
had passed him.

From the various reports it was seen that most of
this crowding could be stopped if the companies made
rules to regulate the number of passengers allowed in
each car, and provided enough cars to accommodate
their patrons.

When the reports were all in, the Health Board met
to discuss the matter.

One of its members is the President of the Board of
Police. His department has had a great deal of trouble
with the Broadway Cable Company.

It has been necessary to station extra policemen
along the route to help people to cross the tracks in
safety. Several policemen have been injured at the
curves, and the Police Board has no love for the railroad.

At the meeting he introduced a resolution which he
wished to make a part of the Sanitary Code.

The Sanitary Code is a set of rules enacted for the
protection of the lives and health of the citizens. These
rules relate to all matters that concern our daily life.
They prohibit unhealthy businesses being carried on.
They require that tenement houses shall be properly
built, drained, etc. They prevent the keeping of cows,
pigs, or poultry within city limits. They regulate the
sale of provisions, and prevent unwholesome food being
sold in the city. Under these rules, all the meat that
is dressed for market within the limits of the city is
inspected, and must be prepared in a certain manner.
No one can offer milk for sale without a permit from
the Board of Health, and this permit is only granted
when the inspectors have assured themselves that the
applicants have clean and airy places in which to handle
the milk.

The Sanitary Code covers everything that applies
to our health and comfort, and, as you may suppose, its
rules are very far-reaching.

The new rule proposed by the Police Commissioner
is to the effect that no surface car shall be sent around
any curve at a greater rate of speed than two miles
an hour.

This rule, if passed, will put an end to the horrors
of Dead Man’s Curve, as the Fourteenth-Street curve
has come to be called, for at this slow pace the passengers
will have no difficulty in keeping their feet,
and the pedestrians will easily be able to get out of
the way of the cars.

It will be two weeks before this rule can be made
part of the Sanitary Code, and during that time arguments
for and against it will be heard by the Department.

If the Health Board will only follow this rule with
another, forbidding the overcrowding of cars, New
Yorkers will have a chance of getting comfortable
service from the car systems.

We told you about the great Yerkes telescope some
little while ago.

It has, if you remember, the largest lens in the
world, and with it astronomers can look farther into
space than with any other glass now in existence.

At the end of last May the big telescope was in position,
and the scientific world waited anxiously to
hear of the wonders it would reveal.

Professor Barnard, who is in charge of the observatory,
stated that it was impossible even to guess what
discoveries might be made with it.

He stated that it allowed the observer to penetrate
one-fourth farther into space than the famous Lick
telescope. It was therefore to be supposed that some
new knowledge about the moon and the planets would
soon be obtainable.

He expected that in the course of a few weeks he
would be able to give some new information about
the planet Jupiter and its moons, and Saturn and its
rings. He hoped also to give a fuller description of the
hills and valleys on the desolate surface of the moon.

Unfortunately his hopes will not be fulfilled for a
long time to come.

But eight days after the first peep had been obtained
through the great glass, a very unfortunate
accident happened in the observatory.

The elevating floor of the telescope gave way, and
fell forty feet, to the bottom of the dome.

Two astronomers had been observing the stars the
entire night, but happily they had left the building
just before the accident occurred. As good luck would
have it, the great telescope was also uninjured, but a
great deal of damage was done to the building.

It is estimated that it will take the whole summer
to tear out the wreckage and make the repairs.

During that time the telescope cannot be used. This
is a great disappointment to the scientists.

We told you of the labor entailed in the grinding
of a lens.

Mr. Alvan G. Clark, the man who made the great
glass of which we have been speaking, has just died.

He and his father and brother had devoted their
entire lives to the making of telescopes, and made
many of the famous glasses of the world. The great
glass at the Lick Observatory, which measures thirty-six
inches across, is of their manufacture.

Their greatest triumph was the Yerkes lens, which
is forty inches in diameter, and which was completed
only a few months before Mr. Clark’s death.

This firm did a great deal to further astronomical
research. Not only did they manufacture such perfect
instruments that the possibilities of observing the
stars were greatly increased, but they were close students
of the science themselves. Mr. Alvan G. Clark,
in particular, made several important discoveries,
having found no less than fourteen new stars.

We told you about the Holland, the new submarine
boat which has just been launched at Elizabeth-port.

It will interest you to know that she has had a partial
trial, which has proved very satisfactory.

While she was still at the wharf an attempt was
made to submerge her. On the turning of the lever
she sank, inch by inch, until only her tower was out
of water.

A day or two after she was taken for a spin down
Staten Island Sound.

She attracted a good deal of attention among the
seamen, who looked rather askance at the strange
cigar-shaped craft that shot through the water.

From all accounts it would appear that her crew do
not regard her with very much favor.

It is said that the swish of the waters against her
sides can be heard very distinctly in the engine-room,
and that the crew feel somewhat nervous about her
seaworthiness.

Several of these fish-like boats are being made just
now. One has just been completed in Wisconsin, in
which it is hoped to explore the bottom of Lakes Michigan
and Huron.

Like the Holland, this boat can move on the surface
of the water or dive beneath it at will. But this
vessel is arranged with a view to remaining under
water for a whole day without causing any inconvenience
to the inmates.

This is not the only kind of curious vessel that has
been built lately.

A ship has been devised, and is said to be actually
building in Toronto, Canada, which is intended to roll
across the Atlantic Ocean.

The description of this boat says that it looks exactly
like a long gas-pipe. It has neither masts nor funnels,
but is made of two cylinders, one inside the other.

The outer case revolves, and is fitted with paddles
to propel the vessel through the water. It is claimed
that by this means a very high rate of speed can be
secured.

The inner cylinder is so arranged that it remains
stationary, and in this are the cabins, staterooms, and
engine-rooms. Both cylinders have openings at the
ends, and it is through these openings that the fresh
air is communicated to the staterooms.

Between the inner and outer cases are compartments
for the cargo, which revolves with the outer cylinder.

It is claimed that this ship will make the trip from
Liverpool to New York in forty-eight hours.

The boat is to be completed in a few weeks, and
then we shall see for ourselves how much truth there
is in this startling assertion.

G.H. Rosenfeld.

NEW BOOKS.

We have received two very attractive books from
Ginn & Co., Boston.

“Short Stories from English History,” by Albert
F. Blaisdell (price, by mail, 50 cents), is a collection
of very attractive stories of English history, and a book
that our boys and girls will be much interested in.

“A Few Familiar Flowers,” by Margaret Warner
Morley, author of those charming books, “Song of
Life,” “Seed Babies,” etc., will prove most useful to
any one who wishes to study in detail the familiar
flowers. Price is 70 cents by mail.

To any one sending us

These watches are made in one of the best-known
American factories, are not clocks but
real watches, and are warranted to keep time
accurately.

TO ANY ONE SENDING US

NEW…. SUBSCRIBERS

Lawn Tennis Set

TWO BRIGHT LITTLE BOOKS

For Our Brothers and Sisters

Mary Catherine Judd has rewritten some of
those fascinating old fairy stories and put them in
a little book called Classic Myths, price 50 cents.
Some of the stories are:

A book of the same kind for our very small
brothers and sisters is Skyward and Back, price 30
cents, post-paid.

The little stories in this book are old favorites,
and were selected by other boys and girls; some
of them are:

TO ANY ONE SENDING US

Messinger Bicycle Saddle

WITH SPRING ATTACHMENT

The Messinger Saddle is made of woven
rattan, covered with felt
and leather, and is elastic,
healthy, and comfortable.
The spring attachment is
so arranged that the saddle
yields to pressure on either side or both at once,
thus overcoming all jar and vibration.

TO ANY ONE SENDING US

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New Subscribers

we will send a

Lambie Book-Rest

A VERY USEFUL AND CONVENIENT THING

And for 5 Subscribers a

Lambie Dictionary-Holder

patent applied for

The Latest Thing…

Scientific Box Kite

Scientific kite flying has attracted the attention of the world. This
kite is the invention of H.H. Clayton, Chief Observer at Blue Hill
Observatory, near Boston. It is used at this and other weather stations
for sending up instruments in making observations. Kites of this type
have attained the wonderful height of 9,200 feet, nearly two miles.

Anybody can fly this kite. It goes up straight from the hand like a
bird. Will fly in a moderate breeze, and yet no wind short of a gale is
too strong for it. It is made of strong, selected wood, and the finest
cotton, in red.

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