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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24
FAIRIES KEEP CHRISTMAS.

a fairy woke one winter night
And looked about with chances bright,
IL think / will arise" she said,
Gar d leave my comrades in their bed,
And 1 will go abroad and see
How mortals fare" So full of glee
AT such wild dsriny, forth she went
On bold Investigation bent.
The air was cnill: the moon shone
bright
As ever on a summer night.
The ground was covered deep with
snow,
And trees stood leafiess, row on row.
The fairy shivered In the wind
And said, The friends l left behind
In their deep slumber happier are
Than l who rashly roam SO far"
Yet on she went and sought the town,
And in amaze went up and down
Such lights, such music aud good
cheer,
As grace no other ii ne of year:
Such happy faces everywhere,
Sucn glad relief from fret and care,
And homes SO gariauded with green,
As ne'er before the elf had seen!
81 thought the world was dull and
drear
In winter time" said she. "Oh, dear!
/ wish my comrades only knew
How bright it is how fresh and new,
In its white dress; how every street
Is all alive with bounding fee:;
How people laugh and sing and play
It surely is some festal day.!
Through street and house and church
and store
She fitted, wondering more ar more
At all she saw and all she heard,
Hoping for some eolightening word,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24
CHRISTMAS TROTH,

The old gray bell in the old gray
Is ringing so gladly across the town,
And the red, red dawn, like a shaken
flower,
Scatters the Christina glory down.
Oh the light Of the sacred morn
OF the day when the dear Lord
Christ was born.
Oh the sweet of the winter air:
When its Christmas, Christmas
everywhere!
Let's HE away to the church, my lad,
To the de ar, gray church where the
candles shine.
I'd breathe pray er while my hearts
SO glad
I'd catch prayer from these lips of
Love, love, love-and it's Christmas
day,
And thou and 1 in the churc Oh to
pray!
Sweet the bowling, and blest the
For Us Christmas, Christmas
everywhere.
Dear Lord, what q gift thou hast cent
US twain
To pledge our troth on thy natal
day!
Oh Joy that is almost as keen as pain,
Here where the candles burn SO
white,
Here where the holly glistens
bright.
Make the heart of the love we bear
Christ-like always and every here!
-Harper's Bazaar
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24
ANTICIPATION.

Now ia the time for mending socks,
Breaking old toys and burning blocks,
Looking the stockings DER and DER,
In search If The long est pair unwore,
Counting the days f, ON morn till night,
To see if the time is passing right,
Dropping dear Santa Claus note,
That we want a dog, and cart, and goat;
A buggy and doll that bats her eyes,
And puss that looks so very wise;
A hobby to ride on q rainy day,
And game for winter evening play;
A wooden stove with tin outfit,
And set of dishes to match with it;
A drum and horn to tOOt and blow,
And q sled to coast on the coming
snow;
And hundred things we can't recall,
Contained in our annual yuletide haul;
A kiss from the girls and a hug from
the boys,
Old Santa is promised for all these
toys.
Surely the time lie drawing near
When the dollars and dimes will disap-
pear,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

When on a banner carried by
She saw these words uplifted high:
"Rejoice, o earth, be glad and gay.
1t is the blessed Christmas Day"
Away she sped DER town and hill
And field and wood and frozen rill,
Unto a cavern. " arm and deep,
And woke her comrades from their
sleep.
"Arise!" She cried. "Oh, come away!
The world is keeping Chr istmas Day"
nd ever siuce wtea birth bells cb ime
The fairies help keep Christmas time.
Lillian Grey in Boston Tt ansc ript.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

Alone, from out the stubble, piped the
qusil,
And c-oaked the crow through all
the dreary gloom;
Alone the pheasant, drumming In the
vale,
Made .echo to the distant cottage
loom.
There was no bud, no bloom upon
the bowers;
The spid ers moved their thin shrouds
night by night;
The thistle-down, the only ghost OF
Sailed Slowly by-passed noiseless
out of sight.
Amid all is, in this most dreary ar,
And where the woodbine shed upon
the porch
Its crimson leaves, as if the year stood
Firing the floor with his inverted
torch:
Amid all this. the center OF the scene,
The white-haired matrOn, with
mouotopOus tread,
Piled the swift wheel, and with Ter
jOyOu mien
Sat- like a fate, and watched the fly
She had known sorrow. He had walk
ed with her,
Oft supped and broke with her the
ashen crust,
And in the dead lie ives still she heard
the stir
OF his black mantle trailing in the
dust.
While yet her cheek was bright with
summer bloom,
Her country summoned and she gave
her all;
And twice War bowed to her his sable
plume
Reeave the swords to rust upon the
wall.
Regave the swords, but not tho hand
that d: ew
And struck for liberty the dying
blow,
Nor him who, to his sire and country
true.
Fell mid the ranks of the invading
foe.
Long, but not loud, the droning wheel
went on,
Like The low murmur of a hive at
noon.
Long, but not loud, the memory of the
gone
Breathed through her lips low and
tremulous tone.
At lsst the thread was snapped; her
head was bowed:
Life dropped the distaff through her
hands serene;
And loving neighbrors smoothed her
careful shroud,
While death and winter closed the
autumn scene.
IT. r. Read.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24
No. 3O1.-Added Heads.

No. 3O1.-Added Heads.
1. Add a head to "a CONCEALED SUBJ
stance" and have a grain.
2. Add head to IAN instrument used
in the manual arts" and have ga little
form consisting of a board with three or
four legs"
8. Add head to a kind of boat and
have a certain bird.
4. Add a head to "a boy" and make
him "happy."
8. Add a head to "anger'' and have q
"thread of metal"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

A Curious Gravestone Verse.
As walked by myself talked to myself
And thus myself said to me,
Look to thyself and take care of thyself,
For nobody cares for thee.
So I turned to myself, and answered myself
In the selfsame reverie,
Look to myself or look not to myself,
The selfsame thing it will be-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24
No. ees.-Four Word SQUARES.

1. A precious metal. g A state. 8. A
wild beast. 4. Completed.
1. Loose or lax. 2. Soon. 8. A token
4. A joint of the human body.
1. A luminous heavenly body. 3. Gen.
tle 8. An expression meaning $50 be it. -
4. To tear asunder.
1. A fruit. 2. knowledge. 8. Vessels
of various forms. 4. A space between
threads in q net.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

To be swallowed up in din and noise
OF tots aud grown-up girls and boys;
Fer CHI istmas day il full of cheer
How could it be, and not be DIT ar?
w, K StaleV
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

Each of the seven small pictures may
be described by a single word. When these
words have been rightly guessed and
placed one below another, in the order in
which they are numbered, the initial let
ters will spell a name borne by two famous
Americans.-St. Nicholas.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24
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No. 294.-Numerical Enigma.
My whole is composed of 81 letters,
which is from one of Saxes poems.
My 4s, 8, II, 81, 81, 45, SO, is a kind of
rock.
My IS, "a, 80, 1, So, 10, is flower
My "a, 26, IL, 40, So, 10, is a reptile.
My 80, 3, AZ, SO, 1S, means hard.
My IA, 80, 80, 81, 33, is retreat.
My II, 56, 49, 10, 81, is to burn brightly.
My II. 50, 8, 81, Is, A, is to annoy
My %, 43, %, "a, z, 30, is spice.
My 6, 1, 9, 3, is used by firemen.
My 90, 20, SO, 43, 3s, 81, is place of
worship.
My SO, 40, 50, 46, II, 1, 20, IS, Al, is to
aggravate.
My 90, 81, 25, 16, "a. So, is to prevent.
My 81, SO, 81, 40, 81, A, is gentle.
My SO, 40, 8, 81, 40, 81, is a fine cord.
No. &95.-HoIlOW Diamond.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24
SALONS WANTS.

I doesn't want mutz for Trismas, nam.
ma,
Not many fngs for de trouef;
Ust a nice little sled, all painted up
An new book of Old Muzzer Goose.
sike some more blocks, and one of
zose clocks.
AT you wind up an goes ling! ling!
ling!
An fer doggie collar, it'll ust cos a
An for kittie q nice hammick swing.
II you peez, like zen, some tin SOL
wiz boo suits, some cars and boo sox;
An enjin at toots! and gun at will
shoot.
Ana funny ole Jack tn-a-box:
An l wants new tie, AT you ties wiz
four hands.
Ike papa wears down 500 de town;
An for DINER, besides turkey, pud-
| din and pies,
Some do'nuts all done nice and bloun.
Eat amt many fngs, now Is dey, nam.
mar
An zeir mos for de kittie an dog,
But III slke anything at you give me,
| mamma,
'Cept Massey ole Trismas card.
| Il. 81. A.
"Christmas is getting too expensive
for me-" said GROWER.
60 T sn't half as bad as New Year's:''
said Hicks.
"New Year's2" demanded GROWER.
1.-The bills come in,'-Hssper's Bazaar,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

Teh steb TO hppretso of het tuufer 81 eht
slap.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

THE following has been pronounced
by the Westminster Review to b. uu-
questionably the finest American poem
ever written).
Within the sober realm OF leafless
trees.
The russell year inhaled the dreamy
Like some tanned reaper, in his hour
When sli the fields are lying brown
and bare.
The gray barns looking from their
hazv hills
Ger the dun waters widening in the
Send down the air greeting to the
Ga the dull thunder of alternate
fails.
All sights were mallowed and all
sounds subdued:
The hills seemed farmer and the
stream sang low,
AS in dream the distant wCodman
kewed
His winter log with many a muffied
blow.
The embattled forests, erstwhile armed
with gold,
Their banners bright with everymar-
tisl hue,
Now stood like some sad, beaten host
Of old,
Withdrawn afar in Time q remotest
blue.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

so Cent. a Number; $500 a year.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

North American Review. N. Y.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

On slumberous wings the vulture tried
his fight;
The dove, scarce heard his eighiug
mates complaint;
And, like star slow drowning in the
light,
The village church vane seemed to
pale and faint.
The sentinel cock upon the hillside
Crew ,hrice-and was stiller than
before;
Silent, till some replying warden blew
His alien horn, aud then was heard
no more.
Where erst the jay, within the elm's
tall crest,
Made garrulous trouble round her
uufledged young,
And where the oriole swung her
BY every light wind like censor
swung;
Where Gang the noisy martins of the
The busy swallows circling ever
Foreboding, as the rustic mind believes,
An early harvest and q plenteOus
year;
Where every bird that walked the ver-
nal feast
Shook the sweet slumber from its
wings at morn,
To warn the reapers of the rosy east
All now was songless, empty and for
lorn.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

No. 297.-Missing Words.
One letter from each of the missing
words in order will form the last word in
the third line.
The roses bloom sweet perfume,
But - their petals cast.
Our friendship - with happy ~~~>
But goodb - at last.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-24

The first slant of four, a celebrated city;
the second, an important part of a potato;
the third, mineral in common use; the
fourth, the god of thunder. The four large
stars represent word meaning "repose."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-29

VIII seek 60 Found In 0reenland :
Base for kxpIoratton.
The steam sealing bark Hopes with
Lieut. X. h. Peary and party on board,
bound for Northern Greenland. left Bos-
ton at daybreak Monday, fully equipped
for the voyage. The work OF provision
ing the vessel was completed only short
time before she sailed. The object of the
voyage is to establish settlement at a
remote northern point In Greenland which
shall be used as base Of supplies for an
expedition to search for the north pole
under Lieut.. Peary in 1898. To this end
a party of Eskimos will be established at
the new settlement and will during the
next year be engaged In making prepara-
tons for Lieut.. Peary's expedition. The
Hope will make direct for Sydney, q. b.,
where she will take coal for the, remainder
OF the voyage. The ship will skirt the
coast Of Greenland, dropping the scien-
tifc parties at various points and taking
Lieut.. Peary to Whale Sound, where his
plans for establishing a settlement will be
carried out. The return voyage will be
begun, 1t is expected, In about five weeks
after the Hope arrives. and the parties
will be picked up on the way back. While
Peary Is in the north a Belgian expedi-
ton will explore the antarctic circle and
endeavor to locate the south pole. The
expedition expects to reach Grahamland
about the middle of October, the begin
ming Of the fine austral season. The
greatest latitude which has ever been
reached in the antarctic zone Is 7S de-
grees, reached by Sir James Ross. If the
north pole is hard to reach, the difficulties
surrounding the discovery Of the south
pole are innumerable. Phenomena occur
there which no human being has yet been
able to account for, and continents and
mountains appear and disappear in
twinkling; fogs and sunshine alternate in
startling Tapidity. This much is known
of the south pole. Nobody has got nearer
than 100 miles of it; mountains exist,
some Of which are active volcanoes; no
human being lives farther than SO degrees
and no quadruped beyond GO degrees. 1t
is land Of mystery and wonder.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-29
stem on the Moving Train.

Passengers are to have an opportm-
ity to board and leave trains which are
I'm motion at the Paris exposition of
1900 by means of a new system devised
by n French civil engineer. The idea
was suggested by the moving sidewalk
of the worlds fair. The outer circum-
ference of circular platform Is to
travel at the same rates as the passing
train. There will be no danger upon
entering the platform from n staircase
In the center. where the speed is com
parativcly low. In advancing toward
the edge the increase is gradual and
anticipated. The station attendant
overlooks the entire platform from n
tower In the center, and should there
be n heavy crowd he causes the train,
by means Of switches, TO run around
the station. allowing ample time to dis
charge and take on all passengers. II
Is proposed to work trains and plat
forms at speed Of seven and one-half
miles an hour.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-29

Trouble IL widespread.
The coal strike Is extending and bids
fair to involve all the miners In the soft
coal mines from West Virginia to the
Mississippi. In the Panhandle district In
Pennsylvania sensational developments
are expected. The men are beginning to
feel the rangs Of hunger and want and
are In n condition bordering on despera-
ton. A Pittsburg dispatch says: Organ
izers have been secretly at work among
miners Of the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal Company for several days. One
Of tEol, was served with an injunction to
remain off the company's property and
leave the men alone. He said he had been
at work among the miners Of Plum Greek
and expressed great hopes of being able
to have them join the general suspension.
AS near rs can be learned concerted
effort will be made in the near future to
bring out the men at Turtle Greek, Sandy
Greek and Plum Greek.
The officials feel that in order to make
the strike success these miners must be
brought out. They admit they have diff
cult job OIL their hands, as De Armitt's
men seem determined to remain at work.
The mines are running to their fullest
capacity and are supplying a large guam
tity Of coal to the trade. Much coal was
offered at $1.25 ton. Slack took big
jump and sold for So cents a ton. Before
the strike 1t was sold at 40 cents a ton.
There are hundreds Of tons of slack coal
at the mines in the Pittsburg district, but
the miners officials will not permit any
Of 1t to be loaded
A number Of strikers interfered with
men who were loading from barges into
cars coal that had been purchased by w.
II. Simmons, dealer from G. lutte e.
Co. The men were compelled to quit
work. Miners Secretary Ward disap-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-29
News of the Strike.

Wheeling, w. Va.-The miners employ
ed ia the works of the Glendale Coal Com
pany, eight miles below Wheeling, have
gone out.
Paua, IM-All slack loading has been
discontinued and the miners remaining in
Pana are patiently awaiting the end of
the industrial battle, hoping for better
wages for their work.
Steubenville, O.-The Dillonvale and
Long Run miners held n monster meeting
in the school house yard at Long Run and
voted unanimously not to work stroke
until they got their price.
Jefferson City, Ao.-The coal miners
strike in the East has increased the bust
ness Of the Missouri mines. The labor
commissioner Office reports q general
demand for men in the coal mines of the
State.
Rock Island, Ill--The miners in the
employ of til. Goa, Valley Mining Com
pany ut Gable and Sherrsrd villages have
Joined in the general strike. There are
225 of them In oil, and the company's
shafts Mt both places are now idle.
Spring Valley, Ill.-The first supplies
in aid OF the Spring Valley miners were
shipped in here this morning, consisting of
-four, coffee, sugar and tobacco. They
came from some of the big Chicago mer-
chants. Money was also sent for the same
purpose.
Terre Haute, Ind.-The mipers are
learning every day of the action Of unau-
thorized solicitors for relief funds. Near
ly everywhere the regular committee goes
it finds that SOMEONE has been ahead Of
it. Complaints of distress from the min
ing camps are increasing.
Mascoutnh, Ill.-At a meeting an off,
cial report was made that sixty-seven out
of the seventy-eight mines in the Belle
vile district were closed, and that the
balance will be compelled to remain idle.
by force IL necessary, for the miners are
in au ugly mood and trouble is expected
to re-ult should any attempt at resistance
be made.
Elkhorn, w. Va.-The only signs of
any of the miners coming out on the Nor
folk and Western road in the immediate
future lie at the switchbdck collieries.
Here little dissatisfaction has manifest
ed itself, but otherwise oil the mines are
running to- their fullest capacity and OPP
orators and miners are on the best of
termA
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-29

in some Of the actions and In ut least one
battle with the Chinese army at Shang-
hal. In 1856 he was made passed mid
otipman and detailed for service on the
Meirimac. In 1868 he was attached to
the Nantucket, and he participated in the
attack on the ironclad feet in Charleston
harbor on April z, 1858. After the war
Lieut.. Beardslee, for that was now his
title, commanded the gunboat Aroostook.
Subsequently he was transferred to the
command Of the steamer Saginaw Of the
Pacific squadron, and later to the COM
mand of the steam sloop Lackawanna of
the same station. In 1869 he was COM
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-29

Southwestern Railroads Ignore tn
Interstate Com missiou.

Southwestern Railroads Ignore the
Interstate Com missiou.
= All the southwestern railroads are re-
consigning grain from Kansas City to
Texas local points at the balance of the
through rates, despite the recent decision
OF the Interstate Commerce Commission,
which practically dealt death blow to
the reconsignment privilege at Kansas
City. The full text of the decision has
been received by shippers and railroad
men, and they agree that 1t does not APP
ply to grain shipments to Texas points.
1t affects the reconsignment Of grain,
they say, ut the balance of through rate to
Chicago and the Mississippi river, but this
privilege was withdrawn by the railroads
last November. The Missouri, Kansas
and Texas and the Missouri Pacific roads
agreed to handle grain to Texas Mt Kan
sas City, No., in the old way. They con-
slider that the decision of the Interstate
Commerce Commission is only an opinion
and must be followed with an order to the
railroads to abolish reconsignment priv
ileges before it can become effective.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-29
SAY SPAIN wEARIEs OF WAR.
Cost of Cuban Struggle in Men and
Money IL Uncomfortable.

Cost of Cuban Struggle in Men and
Money IL UnendurabIe.
Among the passengers who arrived in
New York by the steamship Gascogne
from Havre were Antonio Bravo, a Gu
ban provincial deputy, and Leandro G.
Alsorta, editor Of La Paz, Madrid news
paper. Both men were political prisoners
in Spain and together they escaped to
France, where they boarded the steamer
for America. Senior Bravo, speaking
about public opinion in Spain regarding
the Cuban war, said: 1.-THE mass OF the
Spanish people are Disguised with the out
look in Cuba. They begin to realize the
uselessness of prolonging war whlcn
has cost the Spanish nation about oo,ooo
men and over $2OO,O00,O0O. Public men
In Spain begin to voice the popular sen
timent. ri Margall, the venerable leader
of the republicans, and Francisco Siiveia'
the leader Of the conservatives, were IRAN
ucally appiauded in recent meetings wneh
they pointed to the ACCESSIBILITY OF letting
CUBA 20. Those who have contributed a
large share of blood and cash in the pres
ent struggle long for a conflict with the
United States in the hope that IT would
afford Spain an opportunity to withdraw
her troops from Cuba" Senior Monet y
Prendergast, the liberal leader and former
minister, delivered brilliant speech at
Saragossa on the Cuban question. He
violently attacked the policy Of the Gov
eminent, especially its methods of cam
paigning in Cuba, and declared that au-
tonomy must be proclaimed. Autonomy,
he said, "for Cuba is as much a necessity
of Spain as of Cuba"