Show AN IDOL OF HAVANA AN interesting STORY OF A BRAVE CUBAN WOMAN 1 I 1 am a cuban and I 1 love cuba yet the extreme neat beat of some months of each year is unbearable you remember the entrance to havana harbor Is guarded by morro castle the garrison numbers about three years ago last june the temperature rose beyond all previous records and the suf fering was intense the authorities were dreading the possible invasion of cubas deadliest scourge yellow fever news dame came to the city of the brea breaking klog out of the fever at the castle immediately seeps were taken for the complete isolation of the fort no boats wore were allowed to land from the infected locality and none done was brave enough to venture the casting of their lot with the garrison at sunset each day we watched the gates open and tile the funeral cor t beges teges S WI wind d their way down the hill hil to t the eje e litt little n e garrison cemetery we listened for the tee volleys of salute their number denoting how bow many brave fellows had bad succumbed that day one evening as we apathetically gazed across the water a boat a shot orth forth from the pier of havana it was 1 loaded to the gunwales gunzales gun wales with provisions SIO and medicines aud none in ahat that crowd crowd needed to be told its destination our eyes then sought the guider of ef the little craft and to our horror saw the sole occupant was a woman then a universal shout of protest came too late she paused an instant from her rowing and silenced our murmuring mur murmurings murmur murin ings S S with a wave of ef her small hand I 1 BIB am alone she said all ail havana not one regret will follow me better that I 1 should go than a life upon whose tenure hangs the fate of others goodby good by we strained our eyes across the water watched her strokes grow slower and slower as the awful heat sapped sa ped her very life and finally pause exhausted exhausted ext austed beneath castle morros walls those faithful souls brave and constant to the last ref refused used admission though we could feel the hunger and longing expressed ex in their long suffering eyes at it length faint resistance ceased they eagerly came down to the welcome boat fairly lifted their angel aneel of mercy on waiting shoulders and followed by others bearing the medicine to which many fellows will owe their lives are lost st to our view within 4 the he 11 castle walls the first effect we noted was in the reduction in the number of salutes over the soldiers graves then one blessed morning when a breeze all but cool came straight from your northland the distress signal was hauled down and again the royal flag of spain floated proudly from the battlements tle ments denoting all was well within instantly the bay was dotted with boats wo we flocked flecked to the castle and exchanged congratulations with the governor and badly decimated garrison we learned that undoubtedly not a life would have been preserved had it not been tor for the brave maidens timely succor now new there fedt gentlemen le Is IS sid aa incident of a 9 laud land of seat heat but what became of the girl giell anxiously inquired the long islander she Is the happy wife ot of the governor of the castle and is the idol ot of all havana nashville american |