El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-17

and slaughtered the SpanldluS ms
sheep. Weyler ran away, leaving 900
of his men slain. Soon thereafter
Maceo attacked with great success tie
San Quentin battalion, and won a
maio generalship. His promotion adj
ded fire to his am bitiOn, and he fought
many bloody fights at Baragua, at San
FELIPE, Sabana, HatO del Medic, Cayo
Rev and Miranda. At CayO Key Maceo
was sho5 through the lungs, but es-
caped and recovered. After his
recovery Maceo adopted new methods
of hurting the Spaniards His brother
Jose had meanwhile grown up to man
hood and Joined Antonio Between
them they conducted a campaign that
bled Spain to the heart. They marched
through the country, and left ruin and
desoatlon behind them. 1t has been
this method that has caused Spain her
deepest sorrow in the present revolu-
ton.
In the midst of his wrecking eXpedi-
ton Maceo was panied to learn that
the Cuban leaders had signed a treaty
of peace with Spain. He refused TO
accept the situation and Continued his
rounds of destruction. But the back
bone of the rebellion was broken and
Maceo consented to put away his sword
on condition that Spain should turnl' d
him war ship to carry him and his
officers to Jamaica. General Campos
accepted the offer and Maceo retired.
But it was not to rest. HIS proud
spirit was not broken, and in his
retirement he nurtured his scheme ef
vengeance. He gave up bis whole
time to the study of war. He bought
books of all kinds treating of war and
devOured them. After two months
residence in Jamaica he landed in
New York iucognito. He made his way
to West Point and there became q
hostler No one dreamed that the
ready and willing dark skinned labor
ing man with the burning eyes was the
hero of the Spanish revolution. The
cadets liked him, and would nave
worshipped him had they known his
history. But he was secretly the most
attentive student at the academy, and
eagerly devoured all the books the
students gave him.
Leaving West Point he returned to
New York and sailed for Costa Rica
with library of books about the war.
For ten years he studied and dreamed
and ira ned his veteran com panions. In
1888 he began to plot the present re
volu:ion. Going to Santiago, disguised
as muleteer, he was becoming active
when Spain learned of his presence,
and he was force to flee. He returned
to Costa Rica and there opened cor
respondence with the leading Cuban
patriots in other parts of the world.
General Gomez, in San Domingo, joined
him, and in short time Cuban juntas
were organized in almost all the big
cities in the United States. Early in
1895 the plot matured and the ne VS. was
flashed over the wires to all parts of
the earth that the Cubans had risen.
Maceo was still in Costa Rlca. In
February, Antonio Maceo and his broth
err, accom- panied by sixteen veterans.
sailed for Cuba. Within few weeks
Maceo had recruited an army of 1000
men, and was once more on the track
of the Spaniards. He met the forces OF
Spain at Yataras FIlipinas, Cristo and
Jarabenca and routed them.
MaceO has been the most striking
figure in the revolution. Laughing at
Weyler's trochas, he has desolated the
island and has died its soil with the
blood of the oppressors. He crossed
the Canto river and whipped VALDEZ at
Chapana, Holguin and Moscones. He
pushed further west and defeated
Exchange at Puerto Padre. Leaving a
train of ruin behind him, he broke the
trOcha of JucarO, routed the enemy at
Maltiempo, Coliseo, Paso Real, and
Calimete. and at last won his way to
Pinar del Rlo.-San Antonio Light.
Chinese Telegraphing.
All the principal cities of China are
now connected with each other and
with Pekin, the rapital, by telegraph.
Telegraphing is, however, a laborious
and lengthy process and very expensive.
The line does not pay for itself and is
heavy drain on the state treasury.
The dispatches are, of course, sent in
CHR csc, for not one native in a thou
sand has an inkling Of any language
but his own.
AS everyone knows, the Chinese
language has no alphabet. there being
sign for every word, hence It was ut
terly impossible to invent Geographic
code that was practicable. The diff
Guilty was obvlated by inventing a
signal for each of the cardinal mum bers,
and code dictionary was compiled
where every number. from l to LOCO,
stood for some Chinese character.
The sender does not have to bother
what the message means, but the re-
ceiver has to translate the message into
Chinese before he forwards it to the
recipient.
The Chinese system has its great dis
advantages. The written language is
entireiy different from the spoken one
and men of sufficient education to re
ceive and translate messages are not
looking for jobs in a telegraph Office,
so the government recruits its employ,
with great difficulty. The Chimes
merchants do not have bus
ness relations all over the country as
do our merchants, and the telegraph
business is rather dull.
The public is not invited to buy stock
in the line and if it was no one would
invest with a view to dividends, for tie
receipts 90 not equal the expenses. A
stumbling block in the way of introduce
ing railroads more extensively is that
the trains have to he dispatched by
telegraphic orders, and this will be i'm
possible, as the Chinese government
will not employ foreigners and the
Chinese of the literary class, the only
class that has enough education to
take these positions, would Indignantly
refuse to become trainmen.
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