a_ 719
Balloons for War Purposes 720
Taking Photographs of Battles 720
Use of Kites in War-time 721
New Armor-plate Contracts 722
Privateers for Spain 723
Hawaii 724
News from Spain 724
Lieutenant Carranza in Trouble 725
News from the Philippines 727
Postal Service in War-time 730
European Powers and the Philippines 731
Cable-Cutting and International Law 732
Riots in Italy 733
The Leiter Wheat Deal 734
News from West Africa 735
War News 736
LATEST NEWS 738
The Flag 742

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[Sidenote: =With the Editor=]

We wish to call our subscribers' attention to our new binders for THE
GREAT ROUND WORLD. During the past year we have received many requests
for missing numbers, also suggestions that some sort of cover or holder
should be supplied, in order that numbers might be kept together,
constant reference being made to back numbers, the loss of one causing
much inconvenience. After giving the matter careful study, we have at
last succeeded in making a handy case, in which the numbers as issued
may be inserted. This case is strongly bound in cloth, with a handsome
design on back and sides; the copies of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD can be
inserted without mutilating them in any way, and be kept clean and in
condition for binding.

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Letters

EDITOR OF THE GREAT ROUND WORLD.

I am very much interested in the war, and would
like to do something for my country. Could you
suggest something that a little girl could do?

Respectfully yours,
ALMA D.

Other boys and girls are gathering illustrated papers, periodicals, and
books to be forwarded to the soldiers and sailors. You can help in this
way.

EDITOR OF THE GREAT ROUND WORLD.

In your issue of April 21st, you speak of the
Russian officer Milutine having said that no
Christian had ever succeeded in entering and
leaving Mecca before his doing so. Sir Richard
Burton distinctly states that he was