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The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20
THE CHlLDREN'S DAY.
Regardless of Past Troubles Make Christ.
 mas n Happy One for Them.

Regardless of Past Troubles Make Christ
 maS Happy One for Them.
 Whatever may be our circumstances, let us endcavor 10 make this Christmas day as merry anu joyful to ourselves and those around us as possible. If absent ones are thought of let the n be remembered with gladness. If re- verses and sorrows have come with the year just ending let us bury them on Christmas eve. To the discouraged let us be healthful and lifc-giving stimulant, ever mindful of the power of sunny and buoyant example. Let us make cur crosses seem as light as possible to those who love us. Let trowns be buried in smiles just for a day-thc mcrr;cst, happiest day of all the year. Try the panacea of laugh ter upon the sick-bctter thGn all the medicines ever invented Wherever there exists sorrow let us try, even if we can do ever so little, to wipe it away for the day. If ingratitudc has come to us let us believe that there must exist cause of which we know not. If the spirit of unforgiyencss has come to any of us let the Christmas joy soften our hearts. h mercy think of our enemies, never forgctful of the fact that life is too short to harbor ilI feelings No matter what we have borne during the year, or what we feel we may be called upon to bear during the year to come, let us be merry on this an niversary of the natal day Of that Christ who will mend every wrong, who will set all things right. though His ways are not our ways and His blessings are slow in their coming. And whatever may be our own trials let us not for q moment show them to the children of our homes. Christmas $ their day. If it be not for us it is cruel to take it from them. Before them, at least, let us carry tic smile: let us be young again if but for 2 day, renewing our youth in the games ana romps we can all give to the little hearts which came from our hearts. And in the innocent pleasures of child hood, perhaps, we shall forget the world, and thc hard side of our lives. Then, perchancc, will the lesson come home to us that whatever our trials, whatever our crosses. we are kings and queens of happiness in the pos session of home and children. For wherever true love exists and rcigns there will always be happiness. The happicSt hearts are never far off from q home filled with the love of good wife and the merry laughter of chii- dren. And may those two greatest clements of life be found in every home into which these words shall penetrate, carrying with them the mcrricst and gladdest of Christmas greetings from a heart which, if il could, would bring joy to every being in the uniVcrse.-Ladies' Home Jour nal
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20
THE TUG OF WAR,
The Beef Combine to Lock Horns with tl,s \ Sugar Trust-Gresft win Meet Greek.

The Beef Combine to Lock Horns with tlss
 Sugar Trust-Gresft win Meet Greek. CHICAGO. Dec. 13. "A. Post Washing. ton special says: Word reached here that the vast cattle interests of the west, representing an invested capital of not less than $500, ,O00,0OO are about, to grapple in a death struggle with the sugar trust, and that the direction of the fighting is to be lodged with F. D. Armonr, Nelson Morris and Swift. the Chicago kings of the meat trade. The United States is to be the battle ground and unless the programme miscarries the encounter between these colossal interests will furnish the crowning sensation of the short session of congress. Free sugar is necessity to free exportation of meat products to the great consuming markets of Europe The imposition of a duty on sugar was promptly met by the raising of an embargo against Americans beef by Germany and Denmark, and the spirit of retaliation is being en- couraged by other foreign nations with menacing heartiness. The merits. of this question have been pretty thor oughly canvassed, and mention is onIv required in this connection to empha- size the point that Germany has indi- cated clearly that she does not propose, to reeede from the position taken with regard to American meats until the dis crimination against the beet sugar in. terests of the German empire is re- moved. German commercial intrigue is flaming the flame of hostility throughout Europe toward American meats, and renewal of the old vindic- tive and general warfare against the, American meat products on the part of the old world nations is not only threatened, but felt to be imminent The American meat trade with foreign countries approximates Sl5O OOO, 900 a year and anything that threatens that mighty business in vital or important way instantly touches the pockets of one of the most powerful and fighting combinations in existence.
 The cattle raisers are in state of perpetual warfare with the great packing combinations, but in the pres ence of common enemy a community of interests is at once formed and united front presented. Therefore, the cattle raisers, the cattle killers and the meat distributors are pooling their issues and preparing to remove the cause of irritation that is disturb ing their established trade. The duty on sugar being that cause they will lombard the trust.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20
Nebraska School Fund.

OMAHA, Neb., Dec, 1S-Hard times have struck the state school fund. The December semi-annual apportionment of the state is made on the certificates of the amount of revenue collected by the state treasurer. The certificate has just been made out and the Total fund available is found to be S215, ,069 O2> This is almost $loO,OOO less than the appertionment made iR June, and SA,ooO of this deficit is a deposit in a bank at Kearney which has failed Fifteen counties have paid no taxes to the state treasurer since June. This ls fair way in which to gauge the effects Of crop failure.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20
Toms View of It
Now, what do you guess? But you could not


 What Santa Claus did last night: He filled our stockings up to tho brim,
 Packing them hard and tight; And the dear old fcllow-would you believe? He planted Christmas tree And hung it thick with beautiful things
 For Tommy and Ruth and me. Tops and trumpets and drum and sled,
 Marbles and bat and ball, A shining locliet and picture books,
 And a curly-haircd, brown-eyed doll; Oceans of nuts and candies-Oh
 If you had been there to sec All the treasures that Christmas brought
 For Tommy and Ruth and me Tommy gazed, with sober face,
 Then lifted his head to say: There's plenty of boys and girls, IlsnoW, Who haven't gift to-day. Why did he bring so much to us?
 There's more than enough for three; It isn't fair that so much should be
 For Pollyand Ruth and me. "'Tis easy guessing. The dear old saint
 Has piled up his treasures here To give us three glorious chance
 To share in his Christmas cheer; So, with lovingest hearts and open hands,
 We'll try our best to see How quickly We can divide them all
 Polly and Ruth and me" Golden Days
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20
Tho Meaning of the Day.

And now once more comes Christmas day. Once more, borne abroad on the words of simple-minded shepherds, runs the story. God and man have met in visible, actual union, in a life which is both human and divine. . . Lift up yourselves to the great mean ing of the day, and dare to think of your humanity as something so sub- Timely precious that it is worthy of being made an offering to God. Count it a privilege to make that offering as complete as possibles keeping nothing back, and then go out to the pleasures and duties of your life, having been truly born anew into His Divinity, as He was born. into our humanity on Christmas day.-Phillips Brooks.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20

Later in the day. he met Mrs. Maynard and conquered his modesty enough to hold quite Q long conversation with her. It was observed, too, that he as- sisted her on the stage when she smil- ingly bade adieu to the camp, and waved his hat enthusiastically as the drivers whip cracked and the vehicle bowled away.
 A few mon shs later at their old home in the east, Midget said to little playfellow:
 ''I'm going to have new papa pret- ty soon."
 ''VTho?" her companion asked.
 Big John Santa Claus. I don't know his other name yet"
 GAIT. JACK CRAWFORD.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20
THE FEDERATION OF LABOR.
Various Committees Samed-BOycotts In- dOrsed-Gomper's Election Likely.

Various Committees Samed-Boycotts Inc
 dOrsed-Gomper's Election Likely.
 DENVER; Col, Dec. 13.-At the second days session of the fourteenth annual convention of the American Feder- ation of Labor this morning the execu- tive council reported the following boycotts by local unions indorsed by that body: Rand-McNally Publishing Co.,, Chicago, Washburn-Crosby Co.,, Minneapolis. Myer, Johnson & Co.,, cloak manufacturers of New York; Schultze Furniture Co.,, of Grand Rapids. Mich; Pfaff Brewing Co.,, of Boston; Western Wheel Works Co.,, of Chicago; Brewers association of St. Louis; Clothing Manufacturers asso- citation of Boston; Meske Bros, tin manufacturers of St. Louis.
 A resolution by Vice President Me- Guire deploring the introduction of re- ligious issues among the working peo- pie and reafiirning as one of the car dinal principles of the trades union labor movement that the working peo- pie must unite and organize irrespec- tive of creed, color, sex or nation ality was adopted. A motion to make the consideration of the political pro- gramme a special order for Thursday morning at 10 o'clock was amended by substituting Friday morning and passed. 1t was decided to invite Gov. Waite to address the convention and President Gompers expressed himself in hearty sympathy with Gov. Waite. The reelection of Samuel Gompers as presidentJof the federation is consid+ erad almost partaiD
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20

one whom she mourned, John started on q tour of the saloons and gambling houses of the camp. Quietly he told the story to the listening groups. "A woman in distress?" That was enough for the generous warm-heart- ed miners congregatcd in the various places, and the canvas bag John car ricd grew more and more corpulent in proportions as he went his rounds. Gold, silver and greenbacks came into the fund from willing hands, and when at nine that night the tour was com pletcd, the bag seemed almost burst ing with its load of treasure. Return ing to the hotel with few compan- ions the miner had q consultation with the landlord, which concluded with the latter saying, bluntly:
 "Yes, take knife an slit the or nery thing. I kin have piece sewed over the hole"
 During the early hours of the night men moved softly about tho hotel of flee whispering mysteriously, or sat near the stove discussing some matter in low tones. The landlords wife had gone to the lady's room, ostensibly for womanly chat, but really on a mission at Johns request, and when, an hour later, she silently glided into the office score of rough miners sur rounded her.
 "She is just going to bed," the wom. an said. "The poor creature is tired and all worn out, and induced her to take a small dose of laudanum. She will sleep like top. The little girl is sleeping soundly, and I assisted the mother to place the few cheap pres ents she had purchased in the little stockings hanging ou the back of a chair near the bed. The woman took hers off just before l came away, and they are lying on her shoes near the foot of the bed"
 Along after midnight, had not Mrs. Maynard been securely locked in the arms of opiate-induced sleep, some very mysterious transactions would have met her eyes. She would have seen honest old Johns bewhiskered face at the opening thus made, his head cautiously enter, and his keen eyes peer around in the dim light which came through the window from the winter moon. Then she would have seen his burly form come noise lessly through the opening, move eau. | tiously to chair and remove there. from the tiny, present-laden stockings She would have seen the great form stoop and would have heard the searching fingers moving over the floor, and then have seen the miner assume Q half stepping attitude, and move away grasping the baby stock ings in one hand and pair of much larger dimensions in the other. But she sweetly slept on, unconscious that her room had been invaded by "a warm l hearted representative of Santa Claus
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20
HOG CHOLERA REMEDIES.
Results of the Investigations of the Bureau
 of Animal Industry.

Results Of the Investigations of the Bureau
 of Animal Industry.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-A bulletin. has been issued by the agricultural. department giving results of the. bureau of animal industry's exhaustive investigation of hog cholera and swine plague. The same agents are found to- be effective in the destruction of the germs of both. Both are spread by inr fectionl and their course varies from one day to three weeks.
 The most efficient virus remedy tried by the governments agents. is, the fol- lowing: Wood charcoal, sulphur, sodt- um sulphate and antimony sulphate, one pound of leach; sodium chloride, sodium. bi-carbonate and sodium hyp0- .sulphite, two pounds of each.. Theseare to be completely pulverized and mixed. The medicine may be used also as a preventive of these diseases. To in- sure successful treatment the animals should be kept in dry and comfortable quarters. Five or six months should be allowed to elapse after an outbreak before new hogs are purchased Or any of the old herd are sold.
 The report recommends, a rigid quar- antining of newly bought hogs and the prevention of their joining those already on the farm Cor at least siH weeks. During the warm months of the year the swine should have plenty of young grass or clover. The losses from these diseases are from SlO, ,OOO. 900 to S25, 1000, 900 annually.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20

"A watch, a real gold watch, little tcenie watch, and it's running"
 "A what, Midget? Why, child, is your brain turned? Santa Claus never brings gold watches to poor children" !"
 "Oh, he did, mamma, he did, he did. and there's something in your stock ings, too"
 ''In my stockings? Why, my darling, arc you crazy?"
 No, mamma, it's real watch, and it is ticking. Just look"
 She ran to the bed with the treasure in her hand. Tho mother took the tiny time-picce, and her eyes opened wide with wondcrwhen she found that Midget's words were true.
 "Here are your stockings, mamma, and they are so heavy I can hardly carry them. I just believe I did see Santa Claus, and wasn't dreaming at all"
 The mother reached for the stock ings, and when she felt the weight and it flashed across her mind that they were freighted with money, she held her breath in astonishment. She poured the treasure out on the bed. Gold, silver and greenbacks, wealth she had never dreamed she would pos scss, and in the shining heap lay her wedding-ring, with a note attached. Opening the paper, she -cad:
 Madam. When you Think sandy Claws forgits peepel that's in trouble, You ar off yure base, fur He nose his biz, and so dus Big John, even if he doant want you to no He done This, and rite it an Slip it in unbenone to Him, for he Herd you and yure babby talk an node your trubble, an the boys node Thare biz, too. Big John is the oanly sandy Claws in this Here camp. yures, The proprietor"
 Scarcely knowing whether she was waking or dreaming, the woman has, tily arose and dressed herself, and taking the little girl by the hand went to the hotel office. The moment they entered Midget cried out:
 "Oh, mamma, there's s the Santa Claus I saw in my dreaml That large gentle man with the whiskers Wasn't it you, sir?"
 The big fellow attempted to run into the street, but the landlord caught him and pulled him back. He blushed like schoolgirl as he faced tho wondering woman, and blurted out:
 "Ma'am, don't mention it, if you please. Me an the boys found out you was in trouble, an we just got together an pulled you out as Christians had ought to do"
 Its jest like this, ma'am," the land lord said. "John, 'yar, is big, bash ful feller when thar's woman in sight, an he made us all swar we wouldn't never let you know whar' the lift came from. It's all right, ma'am, and you kin pack up an go to yer friends jest as soon as you want to, an in year you'll forgit you ever had a bit O trouble in yer life. We're all only too happy to make you a merry Christmas, ma'am, and we all hope you may have many more of 'em."
 70, sir. how can ever thank you for this" she said, addressing John. 'I was indeed in great trouble, and"
 But he had escaped from the door and ran blushing down the street
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20

n tour through the mining towns had gone to pieces. The manager had fled, and Mrs. Maynard, his leading woman, known on the bills as Miss Etta Baker" sat in the cheerless min ing camp hotel, her eyes rcd with weeping and her brain almost dis tracted. Her trunks, with others, were held in the stage office for the fares of the company from the last stand, her purse was empty, and she trembled at every apprc aching step, fearing 1t might be that of the rough-speaking landlord, coming to give her notice that she must vacate the room.
 Mrs. Maynard was widow with one child, sweet little flaXen-haired cherub who had childs part in the play. Her late husband was an ap- parently well-to-do man, and at their home in an eastern city they lived in peace and plenty until the dread de- stroyer, pneumonia, left her a widow at the age of twenty-one. After the funeral of her husband she learned, to her consternation, that his debts large ly outweighed his property, and ere the first great grief over his death had been blunted by the hand of time, she found herself homeless and penniless. In the days of her girlhood and early married life she had taken promi- nent part in amateur theatricals, and the talent she displayed in that line had excited favorable comment and had gained for her merited recogni- tion in the columns of the city press. When left alone in the world and com pelled to labor for the support of her self and little daughter, her thoughts naturally turned to the stage, and she soon found herself enrolled as mem Der of company bound across the . continent on n California tour. At Denver she was taken i'll and the com. pany was obliged to leave her there and when, after long battle with mountain fever, she regained her strength, her money was exhausted and she was without employment Then it was that an irresponsible manager secured her services, with the result above stated.
 The weather was bitterly cold, and the small sheet-iron stove in the room occupied by Mrs. Maynard and hel daughter seemed incompetent to bat tie with the keen temperature whict penetrated the thin walls of the rough structure dignified with the name ''The Cosmopolitan Hotel" The par 'tition walls which separated the diff ferent apartments were of canvas stretched on infrequent joists, ant reaching but little higher than tho head of person standing erect
 Midget" as the wee mite of 2 daughter was called, sat near the stove with ashawl thrown about her delicate shoulders to protect them from the cold. Looking up into her mothers fearful eyes, she said:
 Mamma, please don't cry so much for it makes me feel awful bad to set your tears. am sure God will no forget us, for I prayed every time woke last night for Him to take care of us, and after prayed always fel so good and happy, just as if hac
 heard Him whisper to me that H.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20
A Possible. ExplanatIon.

Dimples Examining her new Christ mas dolD-Buddy, how do you s'pose Santa Claus got pieces just like mammals wrapper to make dollie's dress?
 Buddy-I don't know less maybe Mrs. Santa Claus buys remnants Harper's Young People.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20

anywhere;
 Within our hearts they blossom gay,
 And shed their fragrance free and far; 'Tis always so on Christmas day,
 In memory of His golden starl The race of man had waited long
 To sec that lily in tho sky To hear the perfect angel-song,
 "Of peace to earth and praise on high.' Oppressive night of Egypt lay,
 Till with it's glow loves star arose; In hope and cheer of Christmas day,
 Tho ycarning centuries found reposel Twas liko tho change the morning brings, Awaking men to duty bright; Twas like the song the bluebird sings or lovely spring and her dellght Twas like the coming of the May,
 Refreshing age, rejoicing youth So beautiful was Christmas day
 In it's creative hope and truthl The Heaven and earth VIC know are ono; God cares for earth as worlds aboye Wherever stars in peace look on,
 There shineth His abiding love; But nearer to our hearts there lay A longing for tho Man Divine, And so there came the Christmas day, And in the east His star did shine What tender tones of kindness sweet,
 We speak because of His new birth; In happiness tho virtues meet
 To tell His story to the earth; Good will and peace have ample play, Naught seems our paradise to mar, Because it is tho Christmas day,
 And all the world beholdS His star! Our children shout and dance in glce; Surprises sweet await this moTn Like ships across the summer sea,
 Good gifts to them and us arc borne: The holly glistens with its spray,
 The mistletoe makes mirth and cheer It Is glad-heartCd Christmas day,
 The uerrieSt day of all tho year! William Brunton, in Good Housekeeping.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20

-"Now, Tommy, you must remem, Der that it tS more blessed to give than to receive" "Yes, know, mann, ma," said Tonamy. "But ain't self ish. "-Harper's Bazaar
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-20
Ills ExcuR0

'You expect me to laugh at that Christmas jokeP Why, it's as old us Joe Miller"
 "Yes, but 80 is Christmas. "-Judge
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-04
HOneSdale.

Five of the medals to be contested
for at the race meet Of the Maple City
wheelmen Oct. 4 have been received,
and will be placed ON exhibition in the
windows Of G. F. Spencer & Co.
Thomas Finnsrty and William Clark
left for Niagara yesterday. They will
enter the Niagara university.
James Ryan and John Finnerty,
delegates from the Honssdale lodge.
left for Philadelphia yesterday to at
tend the convention of the Catholic
Mutual Benefit association.
Miss Lizzie O'Neill, daughter OF Ex-
City Comptroller O'Neill, Of Jersey
City, and Miss Jennie Reilly, of Jersey
City, are in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. U. G. RidSway have
returned from their wedding trip and
are living on Upper East street
Martin O'MaIley. Of the Scranton
Truth staff, will stake charge of the
Honesdals Office for short time.
Hon. Charles L. Hswley, Of Scran-
ton, Prohibition candidate for gov
srnor. will give an address in the court
house this evening on the political
phase Of Prohibition. 1t ia hoped that
u large audience will be in attendance.
The Maple City wheelmen have re-
ceivsd their charter as a league club.
On account Of the low water on the
Delaware and Hudson canal at the
lower end Of the canal boating has
been stopped There lie enough water
at Honesdsle to load the boats here,
when all traffic will be stopped until
there is o heavy rain.