Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-22


 an army to support him and the doc Urine he upheld. The army was from the grandest country on earth and the doctrine was the same kind that made it so.
 DO you remember how the bells in the cathedral rang and drowned out the cheers of the rich and the rabble. How every Cuban patriot barred his head and sank to his knees as Lee rode through the narrow street bidding the lowly to rise to their feet as he did so. How stately and soldierly Lee looked on his invincible grey! It seemed there were not half so many people in all Cuba as lined that dusty thoroughfare that day; evidently the Spanish had not murdered you all. I remember the tears sprang to the generals eyes as a poor. starving reconcentrado stag gered beside his mount and kissed his booted foot. An. the Cuban is & grateful people! The chanting of prayers of gratitude as we passed through the gathering is plain in my car to-day.
  perhaps you did not notice me, but afterWard, sweet thought, you did. How thirsty and hungry l was after the nights ride out from Havana when | entered a small and dingy aInaccn to get a meal and a glass of water.
 'I flush with shame as recall how bad my Spanish was then. but time and association with a Spanish-speak ing people have improved it wonder fully. A great crowd, bent on char acter study of the first Americans to enter that part of the interior fol- lowed me into the little store, and stared and gazed, yes fairly gawlled at me as l seated myself at table. l being an American was equal to the occasion and gawlled back as ] asked for water. That is, I tried to ask for thing but water. What a volume of laughter arose as l butchered every thing having a wsn1blance of the latin language. The proprietor of the place kindly took down a ponderous dictiOn- arv and through this medium we strove slowly but successfully to communicate our thoughts ard also our wants. Just in the midst of the predicament and when our Iabors were hardest. little girl. or what | supposed 10 be a little girl, stepped briskly yet Shyly to my side and in quircd in words of English and in tones sublime:
 May l ask what the gentleman desires Perhaps l may be of some service to you as an interpreter?'
 Need | say who she was? My breath then seemed to leave me as in death. How surprised 1 was to find one who could speak my languag" and so perfectly; need l say how happy was to find her a girl. and how thoughtful 1 was when l perceived that she was approaching woman hood. The round full hips disclosed this secret and when l gazed into those Iustrous southern eyes there Was the light of E'omanhood and not that o1 childhood there. The raven black curIs fell in abundant locks about the shapely shoulders and were lied fast against the oval, wcll-colored face by Streamers from the broad Panama she wore.
 This attractive little woman was Blanche O'Halloran as she informed me with true Yankee simpIicity; the only daughter of stephen O'Halloran, who had gone from an American medical college to practice in Cuba. The mother was d Cuban belle but I knew that dear before you told me, Then you brought your mother to +~ y,e1+ I -I,A be your sister so much alike did you seem. We sat late into the moonlit night, just outside Lees tent, listening to the tales of love and war A~ told In his inimit&hle way.