I found there a grateful people. They would bring eggs, chickens, berries and all kinds of gifts, including money, and when told that the Red Cross never received pay for its work, it was hard for them to understand; but as weeks passed, they learned it and tried to help each other as they had been helped. On the first of June the medical distributing department of the American National Red Cross was closed and all the officers were ordered to headquarters, where the field was closed and the president and staff left for Charleston, to repack and ship to the northern district, June 7, 1894. Then came a few weeks at the Charleston Headquarters. Through the courtesy of Mr. Kaufman, his long warehouse (150 feet by 40 feet) was at the disposal of the Red Cross from the time it received the Charleston Committee to the close of its field, with privilege of occupying it as long as they wished. Tents were pitched in this room and Miss Barton and her staff lived there until June 30, when the field was officially closed. Miss Barton and her party went to Washington, leaving Dr. Hubbell, the general field agent and myself. Crops of vegetables and corn, building and ditching were in progress and instruction was necessary, and this instruction was given as follows: Each day we would meet from fifty to three or four hundred people and give them a good practical talk, with about these headings for notes: "Owe no man anything." How to keep out of debt. Don't sell cotton before it is picked. Plant more vegetables, and why. Divide cottages into rooms. Don't mortgage, which was a continuation of the instruction given daily from the beginning of the field. These talks were of much help and the islanders would drive miles to get the advice which they knew was given unselfishly. RELIEF METHODS IN THE FIELD. However brilliant may be the scintillations lighting up the descriptions of the worker who sees a field for the first or the first few times, it is always to the steady-burning flame of the veteran of all the fields from the earliest to the latest, that we look for the steady light, by which we shall see the calm facts, and so far as possible, the machinery that moves the whole. It will be remembered that Dr. Hubbell was the agent of the Red Cross in the Michigan fires of the North in 1881. We saw him in the snows of Russia, and now find him at the Islands. The doctor's reports are always an unknown quantity. They may be but a few sentences; they may be many pages, but never too much. I will ask of him that he give his report independently, and not to me. The various topics which he will touch, render this preferable: DR. HUBBELL'S REPORT.