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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-28

FOR SALE+1 blk of ground, 2 Groom
brick residences, good location, price
$10.500. Terms to suit purchaser.
Mark Miller, 100 Mesa.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-28

FOR SALE@ broom and bath brick
house, nearly new; price s1,750, N
2 Groom and bath brick houses ST.
500 each, on easy terms. John A.
Happier, Real Estate Mills Building.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-28

AE-New house 6 rooms and
N. Stanton St, on two lots,
A. Happier, Real Estate, Mills
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-28

FOR SALE-Property improved and
unimproved, in all parts of the city.
If you want to sell list with me, l
will advertise your property without
cost to you. Horace b. Stevens, Real
Estate and Insurance.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-28

m TO
Nurse Isl of confinement n III
homework. Call 906 Wyoming
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HELP WANTED-MALE.

FANTED|Good sober man who un-
|derstands horses and cows and will
make himself generally useful APP
ply Hotel Dieu.
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! THE + IRSI
w ES T / NDIAN
! XMAS.
% BY F. a. ODE %.

Is + -
II may ormayno be generally known,
but the first Christmas celebration in
America took place In the West Indies
and IN the very year that America was
discovered. There was not much fes-
tfvity about it, to be sure. for the first
anniversary Of the Nativity IN the new
world found the participants IN a
state Of naind not conducive to merry.
making or cheerful entertainment.
The great navigator. Christopher Co
aumbus, who showed the civilized
world the way across the Atlantic, was
master of ceremonies. and he had lit
tie reason for rejoicing, for on Christ
mas eve, 1892. he bad lost his flag
ship. the Santa Maria. which had run
on a reef on the north coast of Haiti.
Fortunately for him and his crew. the
native Indians Of the island were
friendly. and they not only came to his
rescue. but saved all the wreckage of
bis vessel. which they piled up on the
beach at Guarico. near the present city
of Cape Haitian. The Indian caciuuej
did all he could to allay the grief Of the
Spaniards and on Christmas day
spread banquet to which they were
invited and at which many of his peo-
pie acted In the capacity OF servants.
This was the first Christmas dinner
IN America, and at this aboriginal
spread SO many new and strange ar
t1cles Of food were offered the Span
tards that Columbus made note of
them, so we are enabled to state exact
~ what they were. In the first place,
there was maize, or Indian corn. which
the Europeans may have seen in the
Bahamas. but which they had not eat
en before. In fact, the golden kernels
carried back to Spain by Columbus
from this first voyage to America were
the first that ever reached the old
world. and it was many years after
that before brown bread and '1njun
pudding became at all common on the
tables of European royalty.
b One of the curious tubers offered the
Spaniards that day by the Indian chief
tain In Haiti was the manioc. or cas-
sava. from which the aborfgines made
their daily bread. They were the orig.
inators also Of the cassareep. or West
Indian pepper pot made by throwing
pisces of meat of all kinds into an
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rabbit Saint
white pink yellow.
All Christmas dinners are alike II all
talking
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WRATH ] CRIED, TAKING HER IN M ARMS.

WHAT CRIED, TAKING HER IN MY ARMS.
a life size painted portrait OF my dear,
lost Lizzie. I'd never had the consola-
ton Of a likeness Of her, and seeing her
face, wearing the gentle. kindly smile
Il knew and loved SO well. gave me
such a turn that faintness overcame
me. and dropped on a chair. trem-
bling and with my eyes full of tears.
Then that splendid girl, who had
been standing behind me, put her arms
around my neck and said, You shall
never be alone In the world any more,
dear father!' X 81
g. What" cried, taking her in my
arms. .you-yon my little Jennie! Oh.
Is God really and truly SO good to me
after all? 7" II.
1t seemed impossible. but was true.
When had grown calmer. they told
me how DR.. Bidwell. then practicing in
New York, was with my dear wife;
when she died and. at her request, took.
charge Of her little daughter. BE and,
his good wife adopted her, but always
hoped to find me some time. for her
child heart never forgot or ceased to
love me- and they were too good to
wish US kept apart, and at last Jacks
story told them where I was.
= . sEs II = = So . . @
Still go my way each tenting sea
son. old as j am, for show life gets into
the blood and irresistibly draws one
who has lived It SO many years as &;
but, wherever ! may be, never more
am l lonely or unhapp ", for winter al
ways brings me back to my dear Jen-,
ME. And note this that none Of this
great happiness would have come to
me had | not given the animals q
Christmas. 81
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n'l|aall srn
BY Peter Nc Arthur.

THIS SIGN WILL MEET YOUR EYE.
And there never was Christmas day
Since grandmammas we're young
When children with such happy hearts
Their Christmas carols sung.
And II you visit Santa Claus
This sign will meet your eye:
mo drummers with newtangled stun
Need any more apply,
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TEE FIRST CHRISTMAS DINNER IN AMERICA.
'earthen vessel. where it was preserved
for any length Of time by the antiseptic
properties OF the smanioc.
Christopher was SO taken with the
pepper pot, according to q local tradi.
ton, that he begged the recipe from the
native chef and took it home to Queen
Isabella. but whether she appreciated
the article or not has not been record
ed. Another tuber, the yam, was also
served up after roasting in the ashes,
but it is doubtful if the potato was on
the festal board. thought may as well
have been found in the highlands, of
Haiti as in South America, where it is
said to have been discovered long aft
ser. Anyway, there were several new
fruits, all tropical, such as the guava.
c1stard apple, sapota and pineapple,
and in meats there was a great varie-
ty, for the Indians shot and trapped
the wild parrot, pigeon, doves, agouti,
iguana and the utia, the three last
named being animals indigenous to the
island. W. 8s S..9 l5ss
There was one function at that ban
quet which Columbus may have in
dulged in. though he has left no record
of having been suddenly indisposed.,
and that is tobacco smoking. He had
seen Indians on the coast of Cuba roll
up dry leaves of plant unknown to-
him and after lighting one end Of the
roll inhale and puff out the smoke
thereof with evident enjoyment. But
at this banquet he was astonished to
see the chief and his big men cram
portions Of the weed into q curious
pipe, with branched stem shaped like
the letter z and after inserting q stem.
into each nostril proceed to- fuddle
themselves with the narcotic, to the
great disgust Of the Spaniards, who
had 8 few vices of their own. even
then, but did not smoke. It was only
because they did not know how. but 90.
lumbus lost an opportunity for adding
another laurel to his immortal wreath,
and left to Sir Walter Raleigh the In
PRODUCTION of smoking into Europe 81
century later.
The main object Of this article is to
point out that down in the West In
dies. where dwell our nearest foreign
neighbors, and where we have a tidy
little island Of our own in Porto Rico.
the first Christmas anniversary In
America was celebrated and the first
dinner eaten with aboriginal Indians
As the hosts.
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The Toy Trust.


One gigantic monopoly there Is free.
from attack, and that is the toy trust.
kept a-going by one Mr.. Santa Claus,
aided by about 400 OOO, 600 lusty shout
3ers. Pa and ma and uncle may buy
Christmas gimcracks from smith,.
Jones or Brown. but they won't GO.
down IN the stocking nor up the chim-
.ney fue until s. 9. puts his trademark:
on them. Call It patent right or copy
right or vested right, the grand old fel>
low holds it IN perpetnity. True. 49,
doesn't charge q cash fee for the use -
his name, but be is stickler for alI
the glory there Is In II, add he gets ie
Ii full measure. Every body plays into
the hands Of this trust The consum-
7ers must have the real thing. and the.
dealers and middlemen conspire to
meet the demand. 5s#S
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There was a word or two OF re-
greet from the older ones for the
lamented Samuel, who had been
there last Christmas; then the
group marched single file be-
hind the stalwart Marvin over
the narrow snow. path to the
house.
Floating up from the front
yard came a babel of voices,
and Ralph, the oldest gram son,
a fat, hearty lad, shouted to US
boys, Come and see our Christ
mass" As we rounded the cor
ner Of the house the same tones
cried on, 'fR eady, aim, frey'
and a dozen balls whisked past
our heads from a snow fort
manned by a troop Of boys and
girls in mumers and mittens.
n.
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wanted
little
fed farmhouse,
old" Then
granddaddy until
MY stole hurried the
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unmistakabe
town for the annual snow
bush
geson that somewhere beneath chilling
joyous preparing holiday Winter
to have brighter side than that which Of
tools in
other eptyng bushel into its
Without
grain marked
3SGE
stopped pcked up ears
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:. -..-sS 5. IL
nut kernels. For the cat animals az
engaged plenty of tender. juicy. fresh
beef instead Of tough old horse their
ordinary diet There WASH t much, to
be done for Ilie hay tiers beyond I'm
accustomed oats apples and bran
mashes. but for the elephant got
basket OF fine Grang gees and had baked "a
lot of FATTY cakes such as he used to
enjoy " home in India. The camel
didn't yp;lly deserve any Christmas
but l bought d hatful q: dates for him
anyway
S was getting the stuff in on Safur.s
day afternoon when Jack came around
again with bunch of good cigars for
my ChfiStmaS and it brought my heart
up in my throat that the kind fellow
had though of me SO. for no one else
had since Lizzie died He asked what
the things were for. and | told him.
Maybe y said more than ! meant to. for
my heart was full al the time, and
had no idea of his putting anything in
the paper about the mpnagprip's Christ
mas. But he did. and really when I
read on Christmas morning the story,
he got up was surprised. u 81
Cat animals are never fed on Sun
days and as we let all 80 shy OF break
fast Monday the menagprie's appetite
for Christmas dinner at noon was
sure to. be good Before thar time
came we had a lot of visitors. nice peo-
pie who had seen Jacks story. and
among Them were a fine white beaded
old gentleman who introduced himself
as DIR Hiram Ridwell. and his adopted
danghter-a splendid looking girl.
I Luckily we were in good shape to re-
ceive them Sam wore new suit l
had given him, The cage cleaner were
SO washed and draped up they hardly
recognized each other and | was got
up with as much style as q ringmaster
myself. !. |-.,. Sc.
b Precisely at noon we sprung our
glad surprise on the animals. Ii you
imagine those birds and beasts didn't
notice any change in their bill of fare.
j you are wrong. You never saw such
Joyous excitement among feathers and
fur. They jabbered. chartered. shrek
ed and roared their delight in all their
various modes Of speech. The mon
keys seemed half crazy. and even the
spdate. elephant danced. tapped his
ears like fans and squealed. Only
that mean camel was Indifferent and
ate his fancy dates with sneering
twist Of his nose. as II be meant to
say. "You can't soft sawder me-
The sight of the general happiness
gladdened everybody and none more
than DR.. iRidwell and his daughter,
who staid until all the other visitors
We're gone. talking with me about the
animals apd. as afterward remem-
bered. a good deal more about myself.
Near dark. just when | was thinking
OF going out to a restaurant for my
dinner. DR.. Bidwell came back. and
nothing would do but must 60 with
him to get a glass of eggnog. 5asy
We We're not gone more than half an
hour. but by thtvtime we returned a
transformation had been worked in
my room In the center big table
was set with dinner for four-the best
dinner 4 ever saw. with whole tur-
key. bottles OF wine and all sorts OF
nice things-and when raised my
eyes from 1t they took in Merry
Christmas" in evergreen letters. on the
wall. and in holly frame. facing me,
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rifes
sped meat Uncle led the the
kettles
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wins wife, Jennie, followed suit
In make believe girlishness.
Aunt Harriet, looking, generous
enough to wish that all creation
might sit down to the feast,
whose stages of preparation
were shown by stains and -four
patches extending from her eyes
to the hem Of her apron, said in
kindly reproval, you're here,
but alone, as usual.'' 5.1.i 81
+ Il From the porch we went in
to the family sitting room, and
uncle seemed to cut loose from
his following as he sat down be-.
side Cousin Tidy, whose fresh.
widows weeds lent a somberI
key to the OCCASION. Jim and
Frank gave a hand in choking
Si1onoo RI fhojr 1oo11rnino ciSfor
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a Sort Of Endless Chain.

Christmas comes but once q year
Glad you think so. What with sis
tern and cousins and aunts It has come.
TO me four hundred and forty eleven
times already witt. walters. bootblacks,
barbers and Office boys to hear FROM
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resumed it's thrObbing stiffness
until the load Of bags had been
tied and set in rows. Only this
and nothing more by way Of
ceremony in receiving q Christ
mas guest. Later came inqui-
ries after the folks and the
newest doings in town.
While uncle cast a satisfied
glance ut the bursting haymows,
the sleek horses and cattle and
the rows Of bags Jim and Frank
challenged me to guesses at the
remaining contents of the bins.
s*.t''You will all. have another
guess" chimed in my uncle,
land now let's go and see what's
going on in the kitchen" I no.
ticed for the first time that his
linen was very fresh for a farm
er at work and that the boys
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1 HE HE. AID
AMIN Al MANS
XMAS
BY , H. Connolly.
5oopYR1oHr. 1900. ~ ). q. ooNsE11;Y 8
He prayeth best who loveth best
All things. both great and small;
For the dear God. who loyeth u,

He prayeth best who loveth best
All things, both great and small; lss
For the dear God, who loyeth q,
He made and loyeth all
When the show reached winter quar-.
tiers In Cincinnati. the proprietors were
IN II haste to get away 4. King to New
York and Mr. Lake to his Michigan
farm. The former. who was boss =
said to me: Bill Cripps. you've been
our head animal man only one season.
but that's enough for me to know and
trust you, SO I'm going away with my
mind easy. leaving you in entire charge
Of the menagerie. Keep the bills down.
draw on me when you want money.
and that's all.'',y #s5 Il. \ F
HI said I'd do my best and meant It.
The circus outfit | had nothing to do
with. The menagerie was well housed
The Irish standard., 1900-06-23

that it is safe here to say that this picnic
will eclipse all others in the vicinity, a
week from next Wednesday.
Father Cumnins' lecture on "The
Queens Visit to Ireland at the Mar
garet theater Thursday evening, June
ID, was masterpiece of eloquence and
oratory, and those who heard it are
still congratulating themselves that they
did not miss it. The reverend speaker
has won many friends in Anaconda, and
on last Monday he was invited and went
with picnic party to Butte, where all
spent happy day at Columbia Gar
dens. Rev. Father Cummins will return
to Ireland in July.
Small paper covered books contain
ing the Gaelic alphabet can now be Sc
cured at O'Brien's book store.
New books at O'Bricn's. God" by
Rev. ]. T. Driscoll; "My New Citrate"
"The School for Saints" "Thc Two
Standards.
Mrs. Joseph Dee is spending the
summer in Hancock, Mich, from which,
place she came to Anaconda eight wears
ago.
Gold and silver hearts at 3oSH E.
Park avenue.
The Irish standard., 1900-06-23
Temperance Convention.

The annual convention of the Do
cesar society opens Tuesday at Asso-
citation hall, ZIG Third street N. Sol
emn high mass will be celebrated at 10
o'clock, Bishop McGolrick preaching
the sermon. A select choir will sing.
At an open meeting to be held Tuesday
evening in the same place some of the
foremost Catholics of the Northwest
will deliver addresses. Mayor Gray has
accepted an invitation to speak, and it
is probable that Governor Lind will be
heard on that occasion. Bishop Nc
Golrick, Bishop Cotter, DR.. Hebron
and William Louis Kelly are among
those who will speak. Musical num-
bers, to be given by leading artists OF
the Twin Cities, will intersperse the adj
dresses. The presence at the conven-
ton of some of the most ardent tenn
perance advocates in the West will make
the gathering of unusual interest. The
sessions continue through Wednesday.
The Irish standard., 1900-06-23
A. O. H. Notes.

Secretaries of the various divisions OF
the Ancient Order of Hibernians and
Ladies' Auxiliary throughout the state
are earnestly requested to forward to
this office at as early date as possible,
the names Of their newly-elected officers,
time and place OF meeting, etc., in order
that the directory may be corrected by
July I, or shortly afterwards.
The annual election OF officers in Div,
No A. o. H., Hennepin county, was
held last Sunday afternoon. The follow.
ing were the successful candidates
President, John O'Grady; vice president
j.. J. Regan; recording secretary, FeliS
McNamee; financial secretary, William
Niece; insurance secretary, James
Kelly; treasurer, M. ]. Gill; sergeant at
arms, John Costello; sentinel, +. Need
ham; marshal, p. J. kinane.
Div. No. 4 at its last meeting elected
1. F. Rice, president; George F. Muir
ray, vice president; Thomas Devcry
recording secretary; John L. Gleason,
financial secretary; Peter Mitchell in
surance secretary; ]. +. Mitchell, treas
urer; Joseph McDcrmott, sergcant-at-
arms; William Young, sentinel.
Div. No. 7 A. o. H., OF this city, will
elect officers next Thursday evening.
Div. No. A. O. H., of Duluth, elect
cd the following officers last Sunday
President, F. L. Ryan; vice president,
M. F. Kclleller; recording secretary, J.
]. Fitzgerald; financial and insurance
secretary, A. ]. Beers; treasurer, ]. II.
Sullivan.
The A. o. H. county board of Hen
nepin county met at Labor Temple
Wednesday evening and elected ]. ].
Fitzgerald county president for the next
two years. The attendance was large,
all but two members of the board being
present. The result Of the ballot was
as follows: ]. J. Fitzgerald, "a; M. J.
Allen, II; scattering, 4.
The Irish standard., 1900-06-23
Honor to a Worthy: Man.

Members of the Hennepin county bar
met at the court house on Friday of
last week to pay tribute of respect to
the memory of the late Judge John P.
Rea. Addresses were made by several
leading attorneys in eulogy OF their dc
ceased friend Having spoken of him as
a judge and practicing attorney the
committee on memorial ended by say
ing:
"Above all this, however, stands his
personal character as citizen, gentle
man and friend. Beyond every other
encomium he would desire the simple
tribute of affection which was the light
of his life. Few men lave more richly
earned an honest fame; not one in our
circle has so gently bound us in the
bonds of love- Blameless in walk and
conversation, responsive to every call
of duty, sincere and resolute in devotion
to the right, greatest of all in the gen
tie graces of the heart Upon some
pages OF the record which reveals so
much of sel6shness and strife, let us in
scribe this memorial of one who, in his
service here, and in all his fellowship
with men, so fifty synbolized that high
est virtue which, though it sufferetl1
long, is yet increasingly kind"
The Irish standard., 1900-06-23
MONTANA MATTERS.

Anaconda, Mont, June 21-Thc
Montana state convention of the An
cient Order of Hibernians and Ladies
Auxiliary was held in Butte this week
at Hibernia hall. Div. No. I, Anacon-
da, was represented by VIM. Kellchcr,
T. J. Kelly, Owen O'Ncil, T. D. Flynn,
M. c. Towey, Mrs. James O'Donnell,
Misses Mary Devine, Nellie Bennett and
Annie O'Brien.
The Margaret theater last Thursday
night was the scene OF high class en-
tertainment, the occasion being the first
annual commencement of the Ursuline
Convent. An excellent program was
rendered.
Right Rev. Bishop Brondcl of Hcle-
ma will administer the sacrament OF
confirmation tomorrow morning at St.
Peters church and at ST. Paul's in the
evening.
The members OF the Anaconda Catho-
lie club are preparing a splendid pro.
gram for their picnic at Mountain
View Park on the Fourth of July. This
club is becoming very popular and all
its social affairs up to date have been
so highly entertaining and successful
The Irish standard., 1900-06-23
FROM the CAPITAL.

Mrs. E. E. Cunningham, of Hannibal
Mo-, is spending the summer with her
mother, Mrs. Quinn, Cog Mississippi
street.
Miss Nora Anderson, of Watervillc,
Iowa, is the guest of Miss Jennie Dew
lin, East Isabel street.
DR.. and Mrs. Phillip McKeon, New
Richmond, Wis, were guests last week
of St. Paul friends.
St. Mary's parochial school will hold
commencement exercises Tuesday after
noon at the Metropolitan Opera House.
The St. Paul Tourist club will give
the first of a series of river excursions
tomorrow on the Columbia.
The Ladies Aid Society of St. Johns
Catholic church met Wednesday will,
Mrs. William Darmody.
Miss Theresa Dougherty, of West
Seventh street, has gone to Kansas
City with her sisters.
Miss Viola Cannon and Edward
Reilly were married Wednesday morn
ing at St. Joseph's church, Father Har-
rison performing the ceremony.
The fifteenth annual commencement
exercises of the College of St. Thomas
were held in the hall of St. Paul's semi
nary Tuesday. A fine literary and mus
ical program, including several orations
ool kha nh Nno. .1okv
was presented by the students. Pierce
Butler delivered the address. The exer-
cises were presided over by Bishop Nc
Golrick. The total number of students
at the College of St. Thomas during
the last year was 10. There are IS in
the graduating class, as follows: Class
ical department, Henry William Bend
zick, Timothy Dominic, Francis Crow