THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



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School No. 35 of Camaguey, Cuba, off for a day's outing. 

 Los discipulos de la ESCUELA NO. 35, DE CAMAGUEY, CUBA, saliendo para un dia depaseo. 



THE GUAJIRO OF CUBA TO BE TAUGHT AGRI- 

 CULTURE. 



Agricultural stations for the instruction 

 of the poor guajiro are needed in Cuba. 

 Little does the rural inhabitant of Cuba 

 know of physical laws nor of new methods 

 of cultivating the soil. His implements are 

 primitive, indeed; their counterparts are seen 

 in the Far East, and oxen are yoked much 

 in the same primitive fashion, with rings 

 and with cords passed through the car- 

 tilage of their noses. 



Schools are wanted, but of what good 

 are schools without proper means of reach- 

 ing them. Therefore, Governor Magoon's 

 schemes and plans for new roads and for 

 improvements for the Island make him a 

 publiq benefactor. The guajiro is illiterate 

 and ignorant, and little does he know of 

 new methods of cultivation or of laws which 

 govern nature. The almanac is his guide, 

 and he thinks that is an infallible oracle. 

 If he cannot read, its pages remain a 

 sealed book, but if he has a smattering of 

 knowledge he consults it daily. Modern 

 machinery and agricultural implements 

 have been put into operation on many Cuban 

 estates and the poor tobacco farmers are 

 obliged to sell their patches of land, un- 

 able to compete with capitalists. Yet he 

 is contented with his lot. Abstemious, tem- 

 perate, frugal, he subsists on the product 

 of his vegetable patch, seldom eats meat, 

 and his chief diversion is a country dance, 

 called the zapateo. He is a ready versifier, 

 and fond of music. On moonlight nights, 

 strumming on a bandurria, a sort of banjo, 

 he serenades his ladylove with verses of his 

 own composition. Illiterate and untaught, 

 yet he is shrewd and quick-witted. The 



guajiro is hospitable, and however hard his 

 lot, however limited nis means, yet he 

 always regales every visitor with excellent 

 black coffee, and is kind-hearted. The 

 women in the rural districts are very shy 

 and bashful. As a rule, they are virtuous 

 and faithful. 



FOR TWELVE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FOR CUBA. 



The Cuban government, says the New 

 Orleans Planter, is anxious to encourage 

 satisfactory immigration into the Island, and 

 its recent appropriation of $1,000,000 for 

 that purpose is commanding the attention 

 of Cuban statesmen. The present Amer- 

 ican intervention may disturb the arrange- 

 ment, which was made before President 

 Palma surrendered his control of the gov- 

 ernment. As shadowed out preliminarily, of 

 the $1,000,000 appropriated $800,000 were 

 to be used to transport families from the 

 continent of Europe and from the Canary 

 Islands, and $200,000 for transporting single 

 men from northern Europe and northern 

 Italy — Chinese and West Indian negroes be- 

 ing barred by the limitations of the law. 

 The Cuban Secretary of Agriculture esti- 

 mates that the Island can support a popu- 

 lation of 12,000,000, and he believes that 

 with proper immigration laws such a popu- 

 lation can be reached within a few years. 



RECENT APPOINTMENTS. 



Two important appointments have been 

 made lately. Gen. Julian Beiancourt nas 

 been made chief statistician of the treasury, 

 and General Monteagudo has been appoint- 

 ed second assistant director of the census. 

 Both belong to the liberal party, and Gomez 

 counts Monteagudo among his followers, 

 while Betancourt is a partisan of Zayas 



