But he is a Russian.  And he has settled himself in the seat of his ancestors, evidently with a stern purpose of carrying out their despotic policy.

Small matter is it that King George of Greece is his mother’s brother.  Small matter that the young Admiral of the Greek fleet is his cousin and loved companion, whose quick, strong arm and ready courage saved his life in Japan five years ago.

He will not be swerved by personal influences from the course demanded by Russian interests.

The Emperor of Austria has no family ties, no personal feelings to sway him; and he is the natural ally of despotic Russia and Germany.

With these three men, lies the fate of Greece, Crete, and perhaps the “Eastern Question” to-day.

Will they meet the other three States half-way, and effect a peaceful compromise?  Or will they carry out the threat of the German Emperor, and, in the words of her own brave Prime Minister: 

"Wipe Greece off the map of Europe"?

Now this is the story of the Greek and Cretan troubles of which every one is talking in Europe and in America.

Some time it will be printed in grave-looking histories, and will perhaps seem very dry and dull to the young people who have to commit to memory the strange names of men and places, and perhaps, the dates of great battles fought!

It is your privilege to read this thrilling story from day to day, as it unfolds.

The European and Cuban despatches which your fathers and brothers eagerly read and talk about at breakfast every morning, are history.  Not dried and pressed between the covers of a school-book, with all the life and spirit taken out of it; but history warm and palpitating with life; telling of things which happened yesterday, and are happening to-day, and which we all fear or else long for to-morrow.

Every American with the blood of a patriot in his veins is longing to hear to-morrow that Cuba is free, and that Crete is safely restored to the arms of Greece.  This will happily close two of the most thrilling chapters in the history of modern times.

MARY PLATT PARMELE.

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=THE=

=Great Round World=

=AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT=

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VOL. 1 MARCH 25, 1897.  NO. 20

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JUNO.

Juno was the cat.  We all knew perfectly well that there never had been such a cat as Juno.  Not that she was so fine-looking, or so expensive.  She would never have taken a prize at a cat show, unless it might have been the booby prize.  She was the very plainest kind of a brindled cat, and she wandered into our house from the street during her early kittenhood and calmly established herself in mother’s work-basket.