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make them. There are always plenty of interpreters, but you can't 

 always trust them. In the cities scarcely any important store is 

 today without someone who speaks English, and the hotels also are 

 adopting it in many places. The better classes are sendmg their child- 

 ren to English-speaking schools, either here in Cuba or in the States. 

 It is expected that during the coming summer a large new col- 

 lege will be erected at Bartle for the higher branches in both Eng- 

 lish and Spanish. Oriente province, in which Bartle is located, is 

 the richest in Cuba, although not developed as is the western end of 

 the island. Any young man with a little capital can, if he gets 

 good land at the right price, come here and if he sticks to his knit- 

 ting in a few years be independent. Living is not expensive, and it 

 takes little for clothes, as you see from the cut, for but few are 

 worn in the countrv districts. 



NOT A GOOD COUNTK.Y 



POR NORTHERN" WOMEN 



AND CHIIiDREN. 



Outside the large 

 cities Cuba at present 

 is no place for wo- 

 men, as it would soon 

 pall on one with any 

 taste for refinement, 

 and it is, in the rural 

 districts, a poor place 

 to bring up children, 

 as they pick up the 

 language quickly and 

 cannot help hearing on 

 all sides the vilest talk 

 imaginable. 



The average horse 

 is very poor, and good 

 horses or mules bring 

 fancy prices. 



The wild fruit of 

 Cuba is of many va- 

 rieties, some of Avhich 

 is always to be had 

 the year around. The 

 game is plentiful, such 

 as deer, quail, guineas, 

 pigeons, wild hogs, 

 etc., and the fishing 

 on the coast and in 



Mr. Miller and Mr. Meenen Examining the Bees. 



