When the fair and just demand is presented to our Government, there is no doubt it will be settled without delay.

Mr. John W. Foster has been sent to Europe to try and settle the seal fisheries dispute.

He first went to England, but did not meet with success there, so he journeyed on to St. Petersburg, to see if Russia would not help us.

It is said that he has secured an agreement from Russia and Japan, whereby they promise to close the Bering Sea seal fisheries for a number of years.

With this agreement Mr. Foster hopes to convince the British Government that such action is necessary, and obtain England’s consent to the measure.  Closing the seal fisheries means that no seals will be caught for a certain period.

It is said that the seals are decreasing every year, and that unless something is done, there will soon be none left in the Bering Sea!

GENIE H. ROSENFELD.

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Many weeks ago, when the rumors of trouble in the East between Turkey and Greece caused us to turn our attention to these countries, we found that we knew very little about these people, and it was necessary for us to read about them; then THE GREAT ROUND WORLD published the story of the “Ottoman Empire in Europe” and afterward the relations existing between “Crete and Greece”; but these accounts were not sufficient by themselves; we had to go back further still in order to understand how all of these things came to be; a step taken further into the almost forgotten past increased our interest and led us back further still, and finally the story of “Ancient Greece” was told.  Even this was not sufficient, and we have now made up our minds to begin as nearly as possible at the beginning and tell the story of the great-great grandfathers and grandmothers of these interesting people.  This story will be told by Mme. Ragozin, who has spent so many years in studying the history of these ancient times.

The first part of this story of “The Great Round World, and the People Who Lived On It,” is given in this number.

LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.

     DEAR EDITOR: 

     I was ten years old on the 29th of May.

     I think THE GREAT ROUND WORLD is fine, and wish it much success.

     I wish it was thicker, so I could read more at a time.

     It’s too bad about Greece and Turkey’s war.  Do you think there is
     any chance of Greece winning if the Powers stop their foolishness?

     My big brother (who is six feet three inches) was down in Jamaica
     for a while, and saw a Cuban filibuster and knew the captain of it.

                                                MEREDITH D.
     GREENWOOD HILL, POTTSVILLE, PA.., June 7th, 1897.

DEAR MEREDITH: 

It is very difficult for us to tell anything about Greece and Turkey; many people think that Greece is entirely out of the whole matter, and that if the Powers want Turkey to give up Thessaly they will have to fight her and force her to do so.