The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-08-04
ED. MORARITY
Heard FrOm.--One of LO-
gan's Boys Has Expert
ence in Cuba.
TAPPING WIRES
With Gomez Chief Of Staff.-C&pture
Imprisonment and Escape.

The following are portions OF a
letter to Tim Morarity here, written
by his brother Mr.. Ed. Morarity who
left Logan years ago and has seldom
been heard from until now. We are
under obligations to Mr.. Tim
Morarity for the same. The letter
speaks Eds. experience:
FERNANDINA, FLA, July Is,
DEAR TINT is indeed gratifying
to a weary sojourner such as / to
receive such a letter as you favored
me with few days since. l cannot
begin to tell you the many tender
recollections it aroused within me
1 seemed to live over again the many
happy years gone by. There are
some scenes and memories that are
always passive and delightful, and
the ones 1 have always retained of
you are gay and Jolly.
The knowledge that our dear old
mother is still with us, is one of the
greatest pleasures 1 have experience
ed in years. Tell her, Tim that 1
have never forgotten her for an in
stant Among all the varied scenes
and changes of my life, in offering
up my feeble petitions to that Power
above, in Whom 1 have always
trusted, have never failed to COM
mend her to His care, and my con-
slant prayer in future shall be that
He may yet afford her an unclouded
stretch of many happy years. She
can never imagn how tenderly /
love her, or how often 1 regret that
circumstances or fate has regulated
my destiny in such manner as to
prevent me being source of home
pleasure to her in her declining
years. But fate is fate, Tim, and it's
tide cannot be turned by either you
or L. ***# What in the world made
you think had probably gone with
the Spaniards? No, indeed, L was
with Gomez and Garcia. and shook
hands with Maceo just three weeks
before his assassination. My princi-
pal duty was tapping the govern
ment wires and stealing dispatches,
for which 1 have often been com.
mended very highly by many of the
insurgent leaders, who always
thought me an Italian. Was captur-
ed twice and lay three months in o
spanish fortress in the District of
PInar del Rio, escaped through the
assistance of a Cuban sympathizer
and to-day have evidence of that
nights conflict-a stab in the side
and several other scars, bu. he and
two more are "over the harber.' In
order to tell about rollicklng and ad-
venturous life led by me, 1 must first
feel in mood for so doing, and to-
night must confess do not feel
that way. You cannot understand
the memories that crowd around me
as 1 sit here writing you.
| You ask me about my financial
standing? Well, 1 am not heavy
enough to be quoted in Bradstreet,
but have my salary which is only
$500 per month, and good ward
robe. will tell you all about Cuba
when write again, for do not
feel like it tonight. never received
any letters while in Cuba; all mail
went through government cOnsors
and I guess all were destroyed. The
picture l sent Joe was taken in Cubs
and carried to the U. S. by a news
paper man from Alabama some
where. Write to me again, Tim, bu,
do it when you have plenty of time
so as to give me all the news about
people / know, am heartily glaC
that you have a good job, ard what
ever you do, do not go to war unles!
as an officer. was aid-de-camp OF
Garcia's staff for sometime and know
whereof I speak. Give my love tt
all, and until hear from you agail
believe me as your grateful brother
ED. J. MORARITY.