Periodical Work Flourishes in the Canal Zone
OUR periodical work is meeting with gratifying success in nearly every land. Speaking of this work, Brother H. H. Cobban, manager of the Watchman Publishing Association, Canal Zone, Panama, writes:— Yesterday one of the young men connected with our office took eighty-five copies of the Caribbean Watchman, one hundred copies of our Spanish paper, El Centinela, and twenty-five copies of the Signs Monthly to sell. Before evening he had disposed of every paper, and said that had he not run out of English papers, he could have sold more. This shows what can be done on the Canal Zone by one who is energetic and willing to push the work. Of course conditions were favorable yesterday, in that pay-day was only just passed. A week or two later it probably would have been impossible to sell more than half as many papers, as the people who buy our papers are made up almost entirely of West Indians, who usually spend their month's wage within a short time after receiving it. The circulation of our Spanish paper is steadily increasing. Last Friday we received an order for an additional hundred copies for one year to Cuba and another hundred to the Philippine Islands; also about seventy-five new subscriptions from Porto Rico. We now have about thirteen hundred single subscriptions going to Porto Rico alone, and the list is growing month by month.