The evening times., 1898-06-18

| for the service, as she is thoroughly
familiar with sections of the western part
| of Cuba.
No man could ever reasonably ask to
see a more lovely picture of femininity
| than Senorita Masso presented last even
| ing when called upon by a Globe reporter.
The senorita appears to be eighteen or
twenty years of age. and talks Of the
| excitement of her army life with the en-
thusiasm of youth but in rather broken
English.
When asked what could possibly impel
her to risk her neck by going to Cuba
again. she reminds the questioner that
her fathers murder is yet to be avenged
that she is a dead shot. and although
she does not know the murderer's name,
she saw his face and could. If necessary,
pick him out of n thousand.
She Is petite and slender. and has the
most perfect type of patrician Cuban
beauty-features of classic mold. eyes
of enhancing depth and brilliancy, and
luxuriant black hair. worn something
after the style Of La Merode''-though
without the severe and rather monOto-
nous simplicity affected by the Partisan
beauty.
Her gown of the most fashionable cut
was Of the richest silks and beautiful
coloring.
Here are some OF the facts regarding
her life as related last evening by herself:
She was born near the city of Pin@r
del Rio. in the west Of Cuba, where her
father owned a tobacco and sugar plant
alton that made him wealthy and "a
tiuential citizen.
Although n non-combatant, he had n son
in the Cuban army. The young man.
whose Maine was Valentine, was killed
about TWO years ago.
Because of his sons service in the cause
of his native land. or for some other rea-
son. the Spaniards entertained grudge
against Senor Masso, ana anyone familiar
with present history of Cuba knows what
that means.
1t meant that early one morning the old
man was called from his bed by a party
of Spanish soldiers. and when he went to
the door he was stabbed to the heart by
the officer in charge of them.
The house was then set on fire and the
poor girl. now a defenseless orphan. her
mother having died some years before
and her only surviving brother being far
from home, fed to the nearest insurgent
camp. where she joined a little corps of
army nurses.
While thus officiating as 4 ministering
angel. she came across a dying soldier.
who had a bullet in his breast. In the Vi
cinity Of his heart.
The girls beauty and gentleness SO
touched the dying man that he ques-
toned her somewhat about her life, and
learning that she had been brought up
in Pinar del Rio and knew almost every
foot of ground between there and Ha-
vana, he told her he was the bearer of
important dispatches for Gen. Maceo.
and he begged her to see that they were
delivered.
She promised to do so, and, by his d.
rection. thrust her hand inside the bo-
Of ~ iaYt
which were written on very soft, thin pa
per. .t....
The disposition which she made of them
shows her TO be Very clever young
woman. Rolling them up in the folds of
a handkerchief, she tied the handkerchief
around her head, as if she were suffering
from headache, and then. securing
horse. set out upon her journey to Maceo.
who was 100 miles away, and on the other
side of Weyler's famous trocha.
Her knowledge of the territory enabled
her to pick out one of the weak points
of the trocha, which was in the midst
of a miasmatic swamp where the Spanish
dare not remain. even to do guard duty.
At that point she crossed the trocha
with the greatest difficulty, the horse
alternately floundering in the fever
breeding swamp and stumbling into the
bitches and climbing over the logs that
form the barrier of the trocha.
Reaching the city of Palacios. she
boldly approached the Spanish sentinel at
the gate. after concealing her horse some
distance away, and, after stating to him
that she had walked a long distance
from the country, and was suffering from
hunger, she was allowed TO enter the
town to beg.
Having SECURED some food. she re-
turned to where she had left her horse
and. mounting him once more, made a
detour of the city and bept on toward
Havana.
In the city of San Cristobel she was
able to secure food in the same manner
as at Palacios. She was three days
reaching Maceo's army, from the day
she first set out. the journey being full
of hardship and peril, as much of 1t was
through a wild and mountainous country.
When she reached Maceo's camp the
general, himself. was not there but, when
by the sentry. she told her
errand and was conducted to Maceo's
chief of staff, who relieved her of her
dispatches.
She heard later that two days after
she delivered the dispatches, Maceo took
his band of patriots to the west of the
trocha and had fight with the Spaniards
that resulted disastrously for the latter.
When Rosa found Maceo's men they
vana, the girl set out to walk to the capi-
tai. and by good fortune reil in with a
woman having a wagonload of vegeta-
bles. which she was gong TO Havana to
sell.
The woman took Rosa along as her
daughter. and thus she passed the guards
at the city's gate. with no trouble at all.
After she had been in Havana a few
days. however, she became convinced
that she was suspeced and was being
shadowed, and she seized the first op-
portunity to escape to tnis country.
She says that at present she is engaged
in nothing more serious than visiting diff
ferent American cities solely for sight
seeing, and she is chaperoned by a mid
dle-aged woman, said to be Mrs. White,
of Atlanta, Ga.
Too Great a Feat.
(From the Detroit Free Press.)