Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-26

using as an improv,sed hospital, Jesus
told me more about Gomez.
The Genera. lives in the hope OF
rescuefrom your country said he,
and your country alone"
Does he imagine our government
Will interfere?" l asked, almost be-
traying my establishment IN my voice.
Yes, he does; and 50 do the other
Cuban insurgents, as the call US here.
The fact that half the supplies and am
munit.c1 of the CUbans come from
your country now strengthens this b.
lief.
Il do not go to the length Of Gomez,
who believes that President Cleveland
VII send one of his men-of-war 10 lie
off our coast to protect our s.ongest
coast towns from Spanish forces" con-
ued Jesus but l think that he will ac-
knowledge us as a belltgerent power
and VIII send ministers here and allow
us to buy openly Of the United States
whatever ammunition we can pay for.
More than that I believe Cleveland
will allow the new republic of Cubt 10
contract a national debt with the United
States, and buy on credit all the guns,
the ships and the powder she may want
Tha. l firmly believe VIII be done and
soon, sooner, perhaps, than you can tel
egraph this news to your home for We
have no telegraph now nearer than Flor
ida that is open to the insurgents"
Are you not speaking mere from
hope than is warranted by reality?' l
asked.
NO am not Nor would you think
so if you could know what l know.
This I'll tell you: There IS now in the
Atlantic Ocean steamer bound for cur
port. Aboard are SIX veterans Of your
civil war, VINO are coming here to drill
our men to fight Campos.
Your warriors are the best in the
world. Your blood doesn't know the
faint of defeat. We have got six men
who were in the front ranks thirty years
ago, and who know fighting tactics.
They are from Maine, from Pennsylva-
MIA, and, yes, from Nav York City her
selfr
Anything more?" I asked.
eyes; rye are getting
Jesus hesitated.
Go on" l said. you can't surprise
me more than you have"
1--WE are bringing down here from one
Of your greatest cities, the very element
the Havana officials are now employ
ing"
Women IS secret detectives?" l ask
ed, jumping to his meaning.
yes, exactly that. From the United
States We shall have women detectives
as shrewd as those that CampOs en-
ploys in his frightened city. They are
experts They VIII live in Havana and
serve us there as spies. They have
been IN your great secret service. They
are cunning as lynx"
But the moral .ssue. Are they not
opposed to doing this work?"
"Why should they be? Is not Cuba
entitled to the work Of experts as well
as any other young nation? Would any
of your detectives hesitate about going
to Scotland on a murder case or your
doctors to France for surgery? We VIII
pay for what We ge.."
By this time the lew wooden building
was reached. 1t is IN charge of the
wives and daughters of the insurgents,
many Of whom live here for safety.
The wounded are brought here to recOv-
er. At present there are only eight sick
men here, being the exac: number Com
ez lost in his late ecounter with Navar-
70 and Valdez, outside Havana, when
Gomez carelesly ra.ded too near the
city.
AS 1 dismounted they came out to
meet me, greeting Jesus eagerly and
Mostly, and me cordially.
in Cuba" said Jesus. as we shook
hands at parting, 1--WE have a saying
which means, VIVA; IS said here is not
told there.
Was this a parting warning to Sc
crecy? l trow not Gomez wants peo-
pie to know how he feels towards them;
and as fer Jesus, l think much that he
said was the product of an excited i'm
agnat,on. nursad by the long lonely air
castle building rides ne takes over the
Cuban hillsi
CONSTANCE MERRIFIELD.