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Show ELEUTEMO HETANCES HC MAY DE CUBA'S PIRST PRESIDENT. ReWnlUt, l'IilUnttiritiM nad ratrtnt lloosht " ! I'ky MuMlh arr jihm Mmi. nim a wm ii Aalonouil.t. (Special Letter) lrt.-rti I.Ut'TKItlO nn-K nn-K UC P-1 ., TANCHfl. the great ST -j sfT "V tCil '"l oculist, bsch- u I ia ufi e,or ot eltnt' anJ Vf Vt rtiot arts, and doctor Xj flfa mil of medicine, whose DjulyM("" name haa been A KftjA mentioned recently Q&Wx&th? po"Ulr th nr,t vL president of Cuba -""" K&fjfi Libre, Is as distill--" gul.hed in letters as he Is In science, but Is distinguished more than all for hla long and persistent persist-ent personal warfaro agalnit Spanish dominion In tho Weit Indies. Though he Is a native ot l'orto Itlco he Is reverenced rev-erenced for his devotion throughout Cuba aa alnrerely as In his native Isle. It all happened in this wsy: Iletances waa born 73 years ago In the little town ot Cabo-Itojo. near Mayaguei, l'orto Itlco, which the United States troops captured with such sclat some weeks ago. He was a dsllcato boy, and In another place than that land ot soft sea breezes might Tiave had email chance ot riving Ills fslhcr, who wns a man of means, had him educated by a prlvato tutor, who took so good care of blm that nt the age of 14 he waa sent abroad to complete his education. He studied In Toulouso until he was graduated with tbe drgrr of I). A. nnd n. B. Then ho went to l'arls, where he waa graduated In medicine with honor. Whllo be was nbriKid he had time for considerable travol and observation ob-servation outside of bis regular college and unlrerslt) work, and he visited thoio countries In whose language, literature, lit-erature, actenro and art his studies led htm to bo Interested When he had received lit degree In medicine he returned to Mayaguex to practice. He made a speclst study ot dlieaiM peculiar to. the country, nnd oon tho fame ot hi marvelous stir- DK. UETANCK3. gery spread over the wholo Island. He had hla prlvato hospital, wberu tho rich pld well for treatment, but tbe poor he treated without charge. Young, charming ot address and brilliant, the older practitioners were not altogether without envy In thslr regard fur him. Another thing, too, attracted attention to lletancee-not to hla advantage. He did not believe In slavery, and In those davs slavery was general over ths Island, and tbe Spanish official made much directly, or Indirectly, by the tralnc. Iictancc did not preach against slavery, but It waa bla custom tach month to buy a baby slave and then to present tbe Infant' In-fant' freedom papers to tbo child's mother. Naturally the authorities noticed this, and although at first they may bavo regarded It aa nothing more than a harmless eccentricity, they grew suspicious, sus-picious, and when somo ot the Jealous physicians, who would not "have been sorry to have Iletance out of tho way, suggested that he would bear watching, the Spaniards set sple to observe him constantly This annoyed Uotance exceedingly, ex-ceedingly, and, ere long, became Intolerable. Intol-erable. I'roteat was of no avrll, and one moro Instance ol Spain's lack of foresight discovered Itself: for tbo man who, until thl treatment was received, re-ceived, had been her friend became the native who haa dono moro than any other to bring about the final downfall ot her rule In the western hemisphere. When Iietsnce bad convinced him-self him-self that persecution waa Inevltable.the Bpanlsh official character rovealed It-self It-self to him, and much that had escaped hi notlco beforo he now saw clearly In Ita truo light He recognised that is long as Spain ruled l'orto Rico tha prosperity of the Island would be hindered hin-dered He determined to atudy tbe affect af-fect of Spanish dominion on tbo other Islands, and to do this h mado most thorough tours nt Investigation, visiting visit-ing alt the West Indie and studying condltkmi , wty where with the great; est car :i did nol iar ds his medlcii wiuV hnwevtr, but prsetlaed continually in llaytl. among tbe rrench .puk'tm part of the population he but an iieclelly large number ot pstleim Mr iraieled abroad also, and In tbi I nil I Use studying the political, polit-ical, " in nml ruinnmlc condition on the IV i, i i mi,) (omparlng them with n - i Mninlng In other countries coun-tries it nn he settled In l'arls, whr f I wim Hip accredited representative represen-tative ! ii,i Cubans during ths revo-lulli'i revo-lulli'i ..f ishi 7s and ngaln'm the recent re-cent i I n on Indeed for over a general' gen-eral' n ': tins hern the recognised heal .f 'I,,, anil Hpantth West Indian- While riilns these, things he estab-llsbei estab-llsbei reputation all over Kurops aa a Helen t and also csme to bs ac-knowMk ac-knowMk I one of the mnit ezpert oeullit in Paris, even In ths world Kven Ihe riinlarde arc among his patients pa-tients , bat made as much money n Hi, famous American dentist, Dr nvsim nn.i has given continuously large sum- to aid Iniurgenla wherever wher-ever Ihev have been at war against Bpsin In ti'e nf being continuously concerned con-cerned with ploia and revolutions, hs Is a man nf gentle manners and lovable lova-ble dl'ixislllnn Ills flpanlih patients feel setiiion for him, and sems profess their love for him openly, though hs has given their country so rauoh trouble |