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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval Of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid.
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs ia for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Go. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute If offered.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
Food Is Their Cry.

Famine has clutched the iron belt of
Michigan and Wisconsin in its freezing
fingers. On the Gogebic range, in the
heart of which Is located the once
thriving towns of Hurley, Wis, and
Ironwood, Mich, business OF every
kind is paralyZed, and starvation con-
fronts the community. More than
$4,000 human beings, absolutely de-
pendent upon the iron mines, have six
long months of weary winter before
them, and in that lapse Of time there
seems no possibility Of cents being
earned. OF that number possibly 1900
all told have accumulated sufficient
means to carry them through until
summer But this class includes only
those who are engaged in the business
OF buying and selling. The miners and
laborers and their families must either
have food and clothing from charita-
Bile world outside the Gogebic district
or they will perish with cold and hun
ger before spring buds the trees.
Throughout the entire iron and lum-
Der districts Of Michigan and Wiscon-
sin, embracing an estimated population
VI 1Ab,vbu pSloOlloi bllC NlllOl lhhuobl lOo
upon which the people depend for
bread have been cut off or suspended
practically since May. lnall the differ
cnt iron and lumber districts suffering
has been entailed to q more or less de-
gree, and the outlook for the next six
months is ominous. None of the iron
mines which form the Lake Superior
district, including the Vermilion and
Mesaba ranges in Minnesota, are now
doing more than working force suffi-
Gent to keep down the water in the
pits. The miners who are thus en-
gagged work for wages that represent q
cut of more than so per cent. of what
they were last winter.
The Chicago Inter Ocean recently
cent out a special correspondent, ac-
companied by an artist, to ascertain
the exact condition of affairs. We re-
produce some of the illustrations here,
and, according to the report in the
Inter Ocean, accounts of the prevail
ing restitution have not been eXagger-
ated. Business is at standstill, the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
Don,ts for BoYs.

Don't gamble.
Don't drink whisky.
Don't cultivate bad habits.
Don't ever be unkind to your
mother.
Don't think it smart to dlsobey
your father,
Don't talk when you should listen
to older people.
Don't ever talk unexpectedly
about girls or women.
Don't initiate a man who is not as
good as you wish to be.
Don't use bad language before
ladies and old men; don't use ii
at all.
Don't indulge in vulgar converse
tion.
Don't try to be too good. Be a
boy; but be manly boy.
Don't neglect your opportunities
for securing an education.
Don't always be making good reso-
buttons, and as often breaking them.
Don't go wild after some other
boys sister when you should go with
your own.
Don't excuse yourself because you
are better than the worst of boys you
can think Of.
Don't treat any girl in way that
you would not like your sister treat
ed by other boys. Elk.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11

several miles and, not being accus-
toned to the work, can make hardly
so cents day. Although the city
could little afford the expenditure 400
men were employed in street improve
ments before the snow fell, but that
occupation is now gone. The typhoid
epidemic cost the city $1,000 and the
county like sum, and the merchants
have given credit as long as they were
able, For some time, in fact, they have
been receiving county bills in payment
for provisions, but now they have an
nounced that they cannot pay their
own bills in county paper, and the
Mayor has been obliged to call upon the
outside world for aid.
Hate to Become Paupers.
Naturally people who have property
of their own are reluctant to accept
charity, but they cannot eat their
furniture or houses. There are q few
impostors, but there are more whose
pride prevents them from receiving
what they need. One old man was
seen to be terribly agitated at the
distributing department. He would
VAIN away anu GHeu return anu JnlS ne
repeated several times. When asked
if he needed any help, he admitted that
he did. "The old woman and me could
get through all right" he said, IF
had to steal; but it's the children. "
Finally the old man took away portion
of provisions, still bewailing that his
children must see their father come
upon the town. The States of Michigan
and Wisconsin are responding to the
call for help. Grand Rapids sent two
car loads OF flour, Lansing one, and the
smaller towns in both States are giving
benefit entertainments and otherwise
contributing for the destitute.
The Womens Relief Association is
doing noble work, and the task of
distribution is being done orderly and
Systematically. Every one aided has a
page in big book on which is written
what is given him, and on the opposite
page is written some account of his
circumstances. So reluctant are the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
Robin Hoods Pennyworth.

Everybody has heard Of Robin
Hood, the famous outlaw of Richard
the Lion-Heart's reign, who befriend-
ed the poor and relieved the rich of
some of their ill-gotten wealth. In
helping himself to the property of
other folk, it is needless to say that
he paid very little for it. He was
therefore able to sell the stolen goods
at a cheap rate, much below their
proper value Hence arose the prov
erb about selling Robin Hoods pen
nyworth;" or, in other words, buying
great bargain. Probably neither
the forester nor his merry men ever
stayed to consider the right or wrong
Of the many transactions in which
they took part
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11

people have no money, no clothing, no
credit, and with the thermometer reg
istering 10 degrees below zero and two
feet OF snow on the ground, the pride
Of the inhabitants yielded and they
have appealed to the State and the
country for assistance.
Lately % Forest
Seven years ago this tract of country
was forest. About that time iron was
discovered in the mountains, mining
seemed profitable, and the city OF
Ironwood grew as il by magic, until it
now has a population of about 5000.
Across the river in Wisconsin is the
village OF Hurley; seven miles east of
Ironwood Is Bessemer; and six miles
beyond is Wakefield. To the west of
IronwoOd are several small settlements,
where mining shafts now lift their
heads like ghosts. They are not
worked any longer. All are as silent
rs the grave. Most of the inhabitants
have gone there within five wears.
Some are American born, but there are
more Poles, Scandinavians, Germans,
Irish, Firms, Cornishmen and other
foreigners They had almost nothing
when they went there, but work has
been abundant, wages fair, and the
people have saved snug little sums in
some instances, which they invested in
their homes. There were several
building and loan associations, and al
though some of the houses are cheap
enough affairs most of the miners had
paid wholly or in part for what they
were proud to call their own.
When the hard times began the
mines in the smaller towns shut down.
Some Of the men left the peninsula,
but more went to IrOnwood and Hurley
where operations still continued. One
by one nearly all the mines in Iron
wood have now closed and although
most of the unmarried men have left
the place, large population remains
which cannot get away. The people
cannot borrow money on their furni-
ture, their houses + their lands, and
are perforce obliged to depend on the
generosity of outsiders for their liv-
ing.
Nearly 5000 Are Destitute.
There are 5000 persons at Ironwood
and Hurley, 1000 at Bessemer and 500
at Wakefield who can do nothing to
support themselves for months. Some
Of. the men have gone away in search
of work which it is impossible to find,
leaving wives and children on the
mercy of their neighbors or the town.
Many of the children are kept from
school because they have no shoes or
stockings to wear. They walk around
either in their bare feet or with the
legs wrapped in pieces of old clothes.
During the summer and fall one-tenth
of all the inhabitants of Ironwood were
stricken with typhoid fever. Many
have died leaving families who can do
nothing to support themselves, and in
mining. town there is the usual num-
Der of,orphans and widows whose hus-
bands.haYe persisted in some casualty.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
Wanted Her Share.

A coming wedding in a Northern
New York town is to be carried out
with considerable pomp and cere-
mony, as BELTS the striking beauty
of the bride to be. Her small sisters
of 8 and 10 years of age are to be the
bridesmaids, and the other evening
were being drilled in their parts,
when the baby of the family, Miss
Dorothy, aged 8, slipped down from
the seat where she had been soberly
watching the proceedings, and, cross
ing the room, pulled her mothers
sleeve. Mamma" she said, q want
to be in that parade, too"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11

and then 1900 more will have to be
supported. Throughout the Northern
Peninsula the outlook for the long win
ter is dark one.
The investigating committee visited
Bessemer. This is village of about
5000 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom
have not had square meal for fort
night, although they profess to want
work more than they do food. The
men openly talk of forming the unem-
ployed in a body, and marching to the
large cities and getting food by force if
it is not otherwise given, This prom
ised trouble is aYerted by the shipment
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11

of provisions now being received from
Michigan. Wakefield is mushroom
town with rude frame shacks for the
men to live in, and the men and women
who sit in these frail structures to keep
company with empty flour barrels and
larders feel 20-degrees-below-zero air
whistling through the wide cracks.
We're it not for the snow which they
have piled around their homes their
suffering from the cold would be ter
rible. &
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
August
Flower

l am Post Master here and keep
a Store. Ihave kept August Flower
for sale for some time. think it is
y splendid medicine" E. A. Bond,
P. M, Pavilion Centre, NY.
The stomach is the reservoir.
If it fails, everything fails. The
liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the
heart, the head, the blood, the nerves
all go wrong. If you feel wrong,
look to the stomach first, Put that
right at once by using August
Flower. 1t assures a good appetite
and good digestion. O
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
Too Elaborate Toys.

1t is said by a Frenchman that the
indulgence of the American children
in so many toys of mechanical per-
lection does less to stimulate the i'm
agination than simple contrivances
that leave something to the inven-
tion Of the child. The doll that will
talk and cry, the train Of cars that
has only to be wound up to make it
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11

people to receive help that house to
house canvass has had to be made in
order to find out who were really
needy. One man who had nothing but
small supply of flour in the house
insisted that they did not need pre-
visions and he had large family. In
fact, all the families are large, few of
the married couples having less than
three children, and many having ten
or twelve. Some are very frugal, and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
what Shall 1 Touch ? "

In this game the first player is
placed in the center Of the room and
blind-folded. But before he is blind
folded he is told to look all about
him and notice all the things in the
room. After the handkerchief is
tied over his eyes he is told to turn
around once and then to say aloud
what he expects to touch by walking
straight forward with his hands out
stretched. OF course, it is great fun
to see him go and touch the table
after he has said he expected to
touch the rocking chair,
He may "look" and then be blind
folded again, he may try three times
to touch objects, turning around, Of
course, each time Each little player
III turn has three "tries." After all
have tried if it is party, there is
generally a little tray of cakes brought
in, and those players who have
touched the objects are expected to
have all frosted cakes full Of plums;
the Others have little plain cakes.
Most grown people would get little
plain cakes
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
Very Objectionable,

WY
81 wish folks wouldn't pat your head
And say good little boy;
b'lleve they do IL just TO SEQ
How much they can annoy
VI wish that when you come about
They wouldn't always say
That little pitchers have big earsi'
And motion you away.
III wish they wouldn't say you must
Be seen, but never heard;'
OF all the foolish. silly things,
That Is the most absurd
VI wish they sometimes wouldn't ask,
How far you've got In school;
And II you've learned TO read and write
As though you were fool!
~ wlsh-but it's no use TO wish,
When folks don't care pin
What's going TO rifle fellow up,
Or what would tickle him.
Now York Journal
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11

go, the dancing bears and the good
sized houses that aim to be exact
copies OF those in which the little
lad or lassie llve-do they indeed
make children pretend" or imagine
less than when the little girl must
talk and cry for her doll and the
boy must not only be steam engine
but whole train Of cars, or a tribe
Of IndiAnS2
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11

"Oh, mamma, look here" said a
little visitor in the country, who had
got her eyes on potato bug for the
first time. What is it, dear?" "a
funny kind Of fly with a tennis
blazer. Vogue.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
He bought It Cheap.

Uncle (who is very close)-Freddy,
here's a nice knife l bought for you
to-day. Freddy-Thank you. Who
is selling out?
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them to drive in harness He says
they pull little boat which he has
built for himself through the water
very rapidly, and that he is going to
make balloon like that shown in
the picture. But perhaps that won't
work.
DR.. Mcbride writes to a st. Louis
paper:
LAST winter / made Of light, we'll
seasoned wood a little frame with
steel runners-a tricycle. sleigh--and
made mile and quarter per min
ute on the ice, riding in a circle.
The feeling Of going at that rate
through the open air is something
grand and wonderful. The wind
whistllng by your ears like tornado,
causing the tears to flow thick and
FAST made 1t necessary for me to use
a glass over my face to keep from
freezing"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11

that operations would soon be resumed
in tho mines. Therefore they did not
move away, and now, although they
have no food, they have an abundance
OF frewood A few men are employed
in the woods, but they have to walk
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
one man said he had $50 which would
edo" him for the winter.

Facts Not Exaggerated.

Facts Not Exaggerated.
The first appeal for aid was made at
Lansing and Detroit, An investigat-
ING committee was at once sent up to
the range and they found that the
facts had not been exaggerated in the
least. 1t is thought that $3.50 per
month will be enough to keep each per-
son through the winter. The railroads
have agreed to put down supplies at
Ironwood at minimum rates, and the
Armour Fork Packing Company. at
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.
THIS is THEIR DEPARTMENT OF
THE PAPER.

Quaint Sayings and Cute DoIngs of tho
Little Folks Everywhere, Gathered and
Printed Here for All other Little Ones TO
Read.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
One Boys idea.

Minlster-Tommy, what is happi-
ness? Tommy (promptly)-It's when
you're eatin'.-Truth.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11

The owners Of the lumber districts
allowed the miners to chop a winters
supply Of wood during the summer,
when they had nothing else to do, and
all summer they cherished the hope
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11
HUNDREDS NEED HELP
PtTlFuL DEsTlTUTloN ON THE
GOGEBlC RANGE.

Northern Michigan and Wisconsin stric'Nn
with Famlne-ThOusands OF People Who
Must BE Supported All Winter--Soenes mt
Hurley and IronwOOd.
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A Funny Team of Goose.

j" "1"I H'"II VI NVV7V'
Isn't this a funny team Of geese?
1t belongs to man in Orange, Va,
named Dr. Mcbride, who caught five
wild geese and "broke" or trained
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-01-11

people have no money, no clothing, no
credit, and with the thermometer reg
istering 10 degrees below zero and two
feet of snow on the ground, the pride
Of the inhabitants yielded and they
have appealed to the State and the
cOuntrv for aasiatanoa
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-25
DOCTORS IN MEXICO.
It Is Splendid Place for Business Ii
Man Knows tho Ropes.

It Is Splendid Place for Business Ii o
Man Knows tho Ropes.
An American doctor who has taken
up his residence in Mexico is now in
Houston. Tex, visiting his former
friends He has become somewhat
Mexicanized in his dress and other
wise.
"How do you li'+e it in Mexico?''
asked one of his friends.
Its fine country for a doctor"
Il shouldn't think you would like to
cast your lot in such an out-of-the-way
place"
II know there are objections to an
American living in Mexico. but, as l
said, for doctor it is the best country
in the world"
''How sop
"You see, if you manage things right
you are never blamed. no matter
whether the patient gets well or not "
How do you arrange it?'
Very simply. If patient is sick,
no matter whether he is seriously i'll or
not, always tell his friends to send
for priest and have him prepared for
death"
but how does that help you?"
In this way: II the patient dies
every body says: What good doctor
that American is; he knew from the
very start that the patient was going
to die, and how considerable the doctor
was to send for a priest and have the
poor mans spiritual interests looked
after"
But suppose the patient gets well.
How then?"
IF the patient RECEIVERS his friends
say: What a capable physician that
American doctor Is. The poor patient
was in the last extremity; the priest
had even been called in to prepare him
for death. and yet the American doctor
saved him. So, you see, in either event
I'm solid with the people, and conse-
quently 1 have a splendid practice. =
Texas Siftings.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-25
The Secret of Attractiveness.

A certain plain girl whose eyes are
almost deformity, because they have
no sockets, and whose complexion is
unpleasantly muddy. is in constant de-
mand by her own sex, and the most
popular woman of her set with mascu-
Unity, while her handsome younger
sister-h has to take up with the leftover
in companionship. One who is under
the spell of the plain daughters charm
explains the fascination as the simple
art of being perfect listener. I'VE
all, he says, ''old and young. male and
female. like to talk, and she has the
knack of leading us gently on to ex-
press our opinions, with the closest in
terest in every word" Every girl will
admit that she would rather be popu-
lar than be president, and yet how
many will clutch at this key to certain
attractions? Few will think even that
it is worth the cost of the precious
privilege known as holding the floor
when the tailor-made miss exploits
herself and discusses her conquests---
N. Y. Recorder.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-25
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

| Feather Cake: Two cups sugar, one
half cup butter, two thirds cup milk,
three cups -four, three eggs and three
teaspoonfuls baking powder. Flavor
with lemon or vanilla. This is de-
side.
Maryland Oyster Stew: Drain the
liquor from five dozen fresh oysters and
put it on to boil in a saucepan; rub the
yolks of three hard-boiled eggs, q table,
spoonful Of -four and teacup of butter
together; add to the liquor, with tho
juice of q lemon, the oysters. pepper
and salt. Let boil up once and serve
Harper's Bazaar.
Fried Chicken with Cream Sauce:
Cut two chickens in pieces and sprin-
kle with pepper and salt about an
hour before dinner. Beat two eggs,
dip each piece in this and fry in hot
lard. Boil up a cup and half of
cream or rich milk, and add spoon
full of butter rubbed in, spoonful Of
Hour with little salt Stir constant
~ till it boils again. Lay the chick
ems on hot dish, pour the sauce
around them and serve.-Boston Bud
get.
Cranberry Shortcake: Mix into
pound OF self-rising flour half-cupful
OF shortening. Add by degrees about
pint of cold milk. Stir up with q
knife as quickly as possible. Turn the
paste on Toured board, dredge with
Hour, roll it out to the thickness of
half an inch. Bake it in rather quick
oven. 1t is better to make it into two
cakes about the size of breakfast
plate, rather than to bake it in one
sheet. When done slip knife around
the edge and separate the cake in two
by pulling it apart. Butter it, spread
with sauce number two, either hot or
cold, sprinkle with sugar and serve
plain or with cream. Good House,
keeping.
Nut Pudding: One cup each Of
suet. molasses. sweet milk and Sc
lected raisins; the meats from pound
of English walnuts minced fine; four
ounces of chopped figs, one nutmeg
grated, a teaspoonful of salt and one Of
soda; two and half cups of flour; mix
like plum pudding, steam two and q
half hours, and cat with the following
cream sauce: Beat to a cream half q
cup OF butter and one of powdered
sugar; whip a cup of sweet cream and
stir into the butter and sugar; put the
whole in double boiler over the fire
and stir until it looks foamy and
smooth. This is, of course, too rich q
pudding for daily use, but for 'once
in awhile pudding" it can not be ex-
celed.-American Agriculturist.
Plain Pie: One bowlful of chopped
meat, two bowlfuls of chopped apples,
one cupful of sugar, two cupfuls of
molasses, one cupful of currants, two
cupfuls of jelly, spices of all kinds.
Add raisins to each pie. If you haven't
meat or apples, and still would have
the pie, try a mock pie. Gather up
scraps of cake and crusts of bread, and
soak over night Mash very fine, add
a cupful of jelly, one-half cupful Of
vinegar, one cupful of molasses, one
cupful each of currants, and chopped,
seeded raisins, and all the spices avail
able. A large tablespoonful Of cocoa
makes it richer and darker. A table,
spoonful of butter should be added.
Thin with juice from any canned
fruit. Bake in two crusts. Ignorance
will pronounce this a very good mince
pie.-Housekeeper.