oming or going of every
parcel is registered upon it. There is a dead-letter office, and the
lists are published monthly at the presses of _El Cubano Libre_.

The workshops are under charge of foremen. These shops turn out all
kinds of roughly made but substantial leather goods, such as shoes,
boots, bags, saddles, straps, and belts. Gun shops, powder factories,
and cartridge factories are said to exist on the island, but I never saw
them. The making of other metal articles, such as cooking utensils, is
in its infancy.

The Cubans are struggling hard to form some sort of a school system. The
"little press in the woods" was just printing a little primer, written
on the fields, to be distributed among families for the tutoring of
children when I left the printing establishment last January.

The medical posts and stations are under military order, and are purely
provisional. The post of El Mate, in Jiguani, I found in charge of Dr.
Farrel, a graduate of a medical institute in Spain, and Dr. Rafael de
Lorie of New York. This post is tolerably well stocked. It contains
about one hundred pounds of antiseptic plasters, tablets and gauzes,
10,000 quinine pills and powders, thirty pounds of drugs, ten pounds of
narcotics, and fifty quarts of tonics.

Like the whole military system of the Cubans, this post has an
objectionable management, subject only to the orders of a few
officials, so that it does little practical good, and many persons are
dying for want of proper medical attention.

I have told in this article what I have seen during four months of
constant travel among the insurgents.

When it is remembered that the Cubans have spread the rebellion over
more than two-thirds of the area of the island, and have carried into
effect, for their purposes, a provisional form of government
successfully in the time of war, it is reasonable to suppose that they
are capable of rearranging their government and maintaining it in time
of peace.

A NOTED AMERICAN PREACHER.

BY DUNCAN McDERMID, M. A.

It is interesting, while it is said that preaching is losing its ancient
power, to find here and there a preacher whose influence is increasing
instead of diminishing. One of these is the Rev. Minot J. Savage, D. D.,
of the Unitarian Church.

The writer desires to call attention to the two essential conditions of
this preacher's influence and popularity. This will be instructive not
only to the public, but to the clerica