Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-27

liverance. The network OF clubs and
leagues stretching from New York
down to Tampa and Key West Is per-
feet. II has been woven patiently and
with consummate art. There is not a
weak spot In It. Jose MART has taught
his followers how to wave II.
Is Marti with Maxine Gomez In
Cuba? Is asked. hardly think so.
Marti's sword is hlh pen. weapon
that VIII do more for the cause than
many swords, perhaps. Once, fiVe of
six years ago, 1t was my privilege to
be pupil Of this remarkable man. Al
that time he had just resigned several
important and lucrative South Ameri-
Gun consulships rather than desert the
Cuban cause. and was quietly pursuing
life as patriot and teacher. The cosy
office now occupied by the revolution
airy paper, Patria, at 100 Front street,
was then his headquarters and the
scene OF many exciting patriotic meet
ings. Pupils like myself who studied
there with the maestro" as he was
affectlonately called. can never foget
the place | never saw another room
so full OF books. There were Rhelves to
the ceiling, and movable bookcases and
tables and chairs loaded down with
books and magazines and papers. All
languages were represented In that
precious collection, which had not a
single worthless volume in It, Tl,a
maestro was stlll young, not tall nor
strong locking. Pale, with refined fea-
lures and slightly almond-shaped eyes.
he seemed the typical poet-exile from
SUMMER lands. Sensitive and easily
| moved as a woman, 0ffcctionate with
friends, courteous to strangers, and al
ways ready to give Information wheth-
| err II was the question OF the best part
OF South America to immigrate to, or
where to md pipe TO drink mate tea
! through. important and trivial people
1 We're all kindly treated,
| Nfartl was an easy writer but n
painstaling one. He used to work fe-
verishly away for hours over single
| article, whether intended for publica-
| ton or discourse. His cheeks would
take on n brilliant flush, his eyes would
| CLEAN, and his entire frame tremble
with excitement as sheet after sheet
| slippd from under his hand. No one
who evr heard Martl as orator before
| the wild crowd OF his countrymen and
| sympathizers assembled In Hardman
hall on memorable 10th OF october
could ever forget the eloquent fow OF
thought, the FIRE, the poetic imagery,
the insistent cry for liberty.
MART was n busy man; besides earn
Ing his bread as n teacher he must also
teach others as a labor OF love l re-
member . class OF fine young fellows
that used 10 meet In Nnurth street
At their head was Rafael Sierra, n
young Cuban negro. quite black; a fell
low Of great talent. In the class were
| Cubans, Puerto Elcans and others.
The maestro took more delight In In
structing these eager and earnest
young men than In all the adulatlon Of
the fashionable clubs that sought him
as notable speaker and thinker, Mar
tis literary work has been considera-
BILE. His TRANSLATION into Spanish ot
Helen Hunt Jackson's Pomona" his
own poems. "Ismaelillo'' and "Ve>soa
Sencillos." place him In n high rank.
Marti has been spoken Of as possible
| president of the Cuban republic. lie
would be no unworthy figure at the
head Of n new nation; But at present
where ia MART, and where is the re-
doubtnble the faithful. the lnvincible
| Maxine Gomez? II they, too. have
landed In Cuba, the end OF the strug-
gle must be at hund.--Cecil Charles In
New York sun.