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Show TROPICAL STORMS IN CUBA. Uownawart of IWIa TWal llrla Witter In CaUtarla A judder, pattering In the tre, i audden darkening In big apota of Ui white ranvaa, and down cme the trop leal rain How it rained! I.Ike wavei breaking, great heavy blob of watei volleying at you like bullet from a machine gun Men who were ten jards from their lent were wet through before they gained ahelter In five minute the camp waa undei waler, on the alopea wero rushing tor ranta on the leela were deep awlrl Ing poola Down the trunka of th tree the waler poured In cataract. I'rora the lower edge of every tent It flowed In a broad atream Tho men, drawing up the corner of their rubber rub-ber blanket o a to keep the flood away from themaclvca and their belonging, be-longing, crouched tinder their tent and ahlered It rained for two hour without atopplng In the Oral halt hour emy man In camp wa wet through o that many of them took off their wet clothe and atood naked In the rain for the remainder of the time. The ami came out again aoon after, hotter than ever, and the damp earth ateamed till the camp wa an open air Mipor bath Hut blaie away a the aim might, the ground never got dry again that day, and at night we turned In ahlerlng with the damp earth atrlklng cold through the rubber ahect and blanket I'lty the poor devil dev-il now who. when they were marching In the aunahlno, threw away tho rubber rub-ber abcel and blanket |