The Newtown bee., 1900-01-26
been suffering with a severe cold the past few weeks, is much better.
Tidings From Cuba.

HON SAMUEL SHERMAN WRITES TO THE
 BEE ON THE OPENING DAY OF THE NEW YEAR. Dear BEE: Since our last communica. tion to your busy hive, another year hal rolled off the list Of departed days of the thirteenth century and we have now en. tered upon the twentieth one of the Christian era. Who would have supposed that when your little BEE began to buzz it would have outlived the century oi it's nativity and entered upon the next hundred years of its existence with more Vigor and vigilance and virtue than eyer before and that it's patrons should have increased with the flight of time in num- bers and in admiration almost equal to, but never surpassing, it's deserts. Who will dare to say after this that merit in "this naughty world" of ours does not sometimes meet with it's own reward ? May its shadow never be less" is the new years wish of your pilgrim penciler in the Tropics.
 Last week we received a telephonic invitation from Maj Charles A. P. Hat field to designate the time and place where an army carriage and ambulance could met us and our friends in the city to take us on visit to the encsmpment of our army of occupation in this vicIn- ity before it's removal to its new grounds still nearer, which was contemplated and oYdnrp1 Rnr fho first uynnb oF tha t1a urI year. We telephoned the commandant In reply that our party of ten persons of both sexes, two men, one Cuban and one American and the remainder composed of ladies and children would be pleased to meet their escort at Don Pablo's at o'clock, where we would assemble to &C., cept the polite and courteous cffsr. Ac- cordingly at the time and place proposed a large and commodious ambulance drawn by four magnificent mules, i'm ported from St Louis, appeared in wait- ing for us and was delayed 8 few min utes for the Senorita Sanchez, the ac. complished sister of the first mayor of the city, since the war, who was escort ed by the chief of police. Mrs Samuel Sherman of Brookfeld. Conn.,, and her little Cuban-American wards, her sister and niece, the wife and daughter of Don Pablo RGura, and three young lady friends of the family, who did not speak the American language with fluencY, but who were very efficient in the expression of that universal language of sparkling eyes and beautiful forms and sylphlike figures and which Is unde rstood by aH without the aid of any alphabet and Don Roberto, mounted on his own prancing steed, as an escorting attendant and who was familiar with the way to the en campment, which was reached little before II o'clock. When Lieut. Stockle and Commissary Bigelow, and theil wives, whose pleasant acquaintance wt formed as fellow passengers on the steamship that brought us all to these shores, including the young daughters ot the respective officers mentioned, whs were coming to meet their husbands anG fathers in the army most cordially vel comed us, after the introductions ha( been completed of those members of oul delegation who were not already known we were all received in the commandant'
 commodious tent and at once proceeded to hold military, civil and social coun cil, not of war, but of peace, to determin' Tn what manner we would map out ou