The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-03-18

display of fire works and two balls,
one for the colored people and one
for the whites. My young Lieut..
friend, spoken Of above, who by the
way IL only 70 years Of age, made
an eloquent speech and was loudly
cheered by the large crowd. His
speech was full of vim and vigor,
yet showed good judgement. Our
sentiment was that the Cubans
must now join with the good Spa
iards who live here, to make their
island place of peace and comfort,
When he shouted dong live the
Americans" mighty shout was
sent toward heaven by the assem-.
bled Cubane.
A large picture on a transparency
was also one of the features of the
fire works. 1t showed the black
haired Goddess of Liberty" Of Cuba
guarding the Cuban flag In front,
and behind stood Liberty Enlight-
ening the Word" with the Amer
lean flag in the upper right hand
corner. / wrote this to show that
the feeling here is one of the great
est friendliness toward America
and Americans, and will continue
that way if America lives up to her
promices, which I believe she will
do, These people will SOON learn
that they are not dealing with a
nation of thieves and oppressors
and that what we mean to do, is
only to help them establish stable
and permanent government.
Sam Jones says there are good,
true and patriotic men in the Amer
lean army, but they are not on ext
bitiOn like the other fellows, and
that is true with the Cubans. The
sensational writer's try to keep the
good and true that is in the char
acter of these people in the back
ground and hold up only the worst
sides to the American public
There are crimes committed here
as in all parts of the world, but
when one considers the terrible
condition in which these people
have been for years, it is a wonder
that all of the goodness has moi
been ground out of them.
There is a family lives within {
few, yards of our camp and they are
all the time doing something to ado
our comfort. The name of the maj
of the house is Alfred Legion. On
of our boys, John Webb, of Tucka
leechee, was slightly sick for few
days and every day they woult
bring something cooked nicely, O
some fruit for him.
| The boys have with me her
have conducted themselves admir-
ably, no drunkenness, no boisterou
conduct and / think that is on
reason we are treated so nicely
The boys are such good soldier
that all that is needed for them
10 know that l want q thing done
or do not want it done and tina
settles the matter. I love them ey
ery0ne and never can / do to
much for them. They 1 kno,
would "stick to me" through thicI
and thin and / wouldn't want
Drawer crowd, because it cannot b
found anywhere.
Tunas is a town of between fou
and five hundred Inhabitants, SUI
pose. 1t is situated right on tn
sea and before the wars was a yer
+ important port, many thousands {
dollars worth of goods goin
, through here. Our little camp
, situated at the end of one of tn
principal streets. The head qua
, ters tent is situated at the end {
, one of the principal streets.i
, The headquarts tent is 81
uated just inside of an old SPANS
, breast works, which faces the sc
and in which Spanish Lieutenar
r and another man was killed. The
> other tents ale arranged as the
were in Knoxville, except the spat
: between them is not SO great. tt
5 sea comes up to within eight or te
) feet of the breast works and tt
I constant "swashw "swash!w of Ii
1 restless ocean is as lullaby whic
y gently soothes us to sleep ever
t night. Every evening the su
r slowly sinks down, and nature
9 def painter as he is, he beautiful
1 tints both sky and sea. The graz
! dure of the picture of his paintin
q can never he eOualed bv the har