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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-19
LEMON ID and
"WM. NELSON CROMWELL.

The Produce Exchange Trust Com
PAM was organized a couple of years
ago with a capital of 81 $685. 900 and had
a reported surplus and undivided prot
its at this time of over s $500, 900. It's
business was chiefly with merchants,
tradesmen and corporations in its i'm
mediate vicinity and it was also sup
posed to do some of the banking bust
ness of the Standard Oil Company. 1t
had been designated by the banking de-
partment of the State as a legal depos-
tory for State moneys and municipal
moneys as well as for the funds of saw
ings banks and State banks. The Of
fcers of the company are, President,
Turner A. Beall; Vice Presidents, Ed
win Gould, Thomas A. Mcintyre and
S.. d. Scudder; Secretary and Treasur-
er. S. l.. Chamberlain: Assistant Sec
retary-Treasurer, William Laws.
The trustees of the company are
Charles P. Armstrong, Amzi B. Bar
Der, Frank Brainard. Turner A. BeaIl,
George r. Bidwell, Charles A. De-
shon, A. Goepel, Edwin Gould, N. r.
vine KeyserA Edward r. Ladew. Henry
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-19
TRUST COMPANY CLOSED.
Placed in the hands of a Committee
to Examine it's Condition.

Placed in the hands of a Committee
to Uni it's Condition.
NEW YORK, December 18.-The
Produce Exchange Trust Company, of
this city, has closed it's doors.
A notice upon the door says that the
company has suspended payment pena-
ing an examination of it's books.
The officers of the company declined
to see anybody or to give anything for
publication beyond this supplementary
notice that was posted on the doors
some time after IL o'clock:
1.-The immediate cause of the suspen-
sion of the company is it's inability to
convert it's securities into cash in time
to meet the sudden and abnormal de-
mand made upon it. A statement of
the company's affairs at the close of
business Saturday last in round figures
is as follows"
Assets-Cash on hand, $11S,0 900; cash
in Western National Bank, $685., 900;
cash in National City Bank, 500, 900;
cash in First National Bank, Jersey
City, SIPS, 900; cash in Standard Bank,
$269, 900; New York city bonds, $780,
900; other bonds, $3.50, 900; demand
loans, $685., 900; time loans, 1888, 600;
bills receivable, $S47, 900; due from
banks, 100000; syndicate loans,
S4,423, 500; total assets, s11, Ills, 500.
Liabilities-Capital and surplus,
5 1000, 900; individual deposits, $685.
900; trust funds, S21, 900; due to banks,
S3,7 900; total liabilities, s11, 649, 600.
The notice posted on the door of the
company's Office reads:
1.-The board of directors of the Pro-
duce Exchange Trust Company has
deemed it to the best interests of its
depositors and stockholders to suspend
payments pending the readjustment of
its affairs. The following special COM
mittee, Edwin Gould, c. P. Armstrong,
George R. Bidwell, Edward A. Maher
and Frank Brainard, has been appoint
ed by the board of directors to take
charge of the property and affairs of
the company. and are in possession
thereof for the board of directors.
(Signed)
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

The Filipino is artistic and his cloth
ing is clean-two tremendous strides
toward civilization. The men do clev-
er work in wood, silver and brass.
Their old war knives are highly embel-
lished. Their pottery is often pictur-
esque, and the clothing of the women,
made of the Indigenous fiber that
abounds throughout the islands, is pic
turesque and has a jaunty, attractive
style, which their straight forms and
exposed shoulders carry off well. the
fiber is often woven as finely as silk,
and some of the drawn work OF the
Filipino lace-makers is most exquisite
and expensive. | have seen single
handkerchiefs which could not be
purchased under $500. The Filipinos
love jewelry, and some of the crude
settings contain magnificent pearls,
found along the shores of the islands.
The women, as a class, are attractive
many are really pretty. While es-
chewing shoes, gloves, and hats, they
often wear dresses of the finest texture
beautifully embroidered and made with
a flowing train. Both sexes love
music, and the Filipino music is not
the wild banging Of tom-toms and the
beating of cymbals and drums; nor Is
it the squeak of the two-stringed
violin and the pounding of sticks at
tune, as with the Chinese and Japan
ese; but it has melody and air, for the
Tagal plays all the instruments of the
European and outplays him on many.
Aguinaldo's band of sixty pieces Is one
of the finest on the island.-Edwin
Wildmans Manila Letter to Leslie's
Weekly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

An odd and pretty conceit is the put
ting of big bow of gauze or the
same fabric as the frock just at the
front of the low-necked bodice. The
bow is bordered all around with
quilting of ribbon, gauze or lace. 1t is
tied with short loops and ends that
come just over the waist line. Over
the knot in the center there is fasten-
ed miniature or other big fancy pin.
Often, to give a scarf effect, the piece
of gauze is arranged to outline the low
neck, having both sides finished with
a quilting to correspond with the bow.
But more often the bow is separate
affair pinned on just at the bust. For
a slender figure this is very fetching,
but the plump, shortwaisted woman
should not attempt it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
Crystal Is Popular.
Weekly.

Crystal charms are quite a popular
engagement present, either from men
to women, or the reverse, for it is the
fashion nowadays for newly-en-
gagged girl to remember her fiance with
some dainty gift The charm which
the sentimental girl most often selects
Is heartshaped pendant of crystal set
with a gold band and bearing her own
monogram on one side and her lovers
on the other And the charm the en-
gagged girl most often receives is a
curious affair, made up of two crystal
circles about two inches in diameter,
between which are pressed real flow
ers, two or three violets, a tiny spray
of forget-me-nots, single primrose
or a stem of lilies of the valley. Tie
circles are bound together with bands
of gold, silver or gun metal and worn
suspended from watch chain, fob or
chatelaine. Naturally the girl feels
that there is a great deal of sentiment
bound in with the pressed posies.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
Walking Fish of the gndian Sen.

The walking fish" Is a very odd.
grotesque-looking creature, which ap-
pears rather to be the composition of
human ingenuity that being actually
existing. It is native of the Indian
seas. In this fish the carpal bones.
that is, the bones which represent the
wrist in man, are very greatly length
ened, and at their extremity are placed
the pectoral fins, which are short, stiff
and powerful, the pointed rays re-
sembling claws rather than fins. These
prolonged fins enable them to walk
along wet ground almost like Quadru-
peds. The Doras, a South American
fish, is known to travel overland in
quest of fresh waters, when its pools
are dried up by the suns heat. DR..
Gunther tells us that these journeys
are occasionally of such length that
the fish spends whole nights on the
way, and the bands of scaly travellers
are so large that the Indians who hap
pen to meet them fill many baskets
with the prey thus placed in their
hands," The climbing perch is an
other peculiar fish, which is in the
habit of leaving the water for the land
and climbing up some of the trees
which are found near. This it does by
means of Its tail and spjny fins.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
Animals at PLAY.

Cats delight in racing about, but not
so often, l think in circles as dogs do.
They prefer straight lines and sharp
turns with the genuine goat jump.
This sudden flight into the air, which
appears to take the place without the
animals knowledge or intention, can
not here be preparatory to life in the
mountains, but the cat finds the high
jump very useful, not only in bouncing
on its prey but in escaping it's hered-
itary enemy. Brehn records a move
ment play of young chamois When
in summer the young channels climb
up to the perpetual snow, they delight
to play on it. They throw themselves
in crouching position on the upper
end of steep, snow-covered incline,
work all four legs with a swimming
motion to get start, and then slide
down on the surface of the snow, often
traversing distance of from 100 to
$50 meters in this way, while the snow
flies up and covers them with a fine
powder. Arrived at the bottom, they
spring to their feet and slowly clam
Der up again the distance they have
slid down
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

Of their case, and, although the full
strength of the Chicago Federation of
Labor and the Allied Printing Trades
Council was brought to bear, they
failed. The Stationary Engineers
Union has fought strenuously for
some time past to have the engineers
and firemen in the employ Of the Daily
News and Record working under fair
conditions, and have met with a fiat
refusal to consider them in any way.
All efforts on the part of the Chicago
Federation of Labor and the Allied
Printing Trades Council of Chicago for
a settlement of the questions at issue
with the Chicago Daily News and the
Chicago Record have proved futile.
Therefore, owing to the unfair condi-
tions existing in the different mechan-
ical departments of said papers, or
ganized labor, it's friends and sympa-
thizers, have decided to withdraw
their patronage from these papers.
The following table will give COM
rarison of the Daily News and Record
offices with other newspapers of Chi
cago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

Four churches in New York City
stand upon ground which is worth
twelve million dollars. Thirteen other
churches rest upon real estate valued
at seven million dollars, or more than
half million each, and these churches
are all Protestant and nominally
evangelical. Trinity church alone rep
resents an investment of $5,OOO,OOO. We
are by no means envious OF these
most Christian congregations, but for
a long time we have been trying to
estimate how many years it would ad-
vance the kingdom of God in its COM
ing if these churches would distribute
nine-tenths of their hoardings among
home and foreign peoples who are sit
ting in chains and waiting HIS
appearing. Will a man who has five
talents and wraps four of them in
napkin still be called a Christian?
How about church?-Ram's Horn.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

Let fifty small oysters come to a
boil in their own liquid. Skim and
strain. Season the oysters with three
tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one of oil,
one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-eighth
teaspoonful Of pepper, and place on ice
for two hours. With sharp knife cut
up pint of celery, using only the ten
der part and when ready to serve mix
with the oysters, adding about one
half pint of mayonnaise dressing. Ar
range in salad dish. Pour over an
other one-half pint of dressing and
garnish with white celery leaves.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
Imperialism.

Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for
crime, whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted, shall exist within
the United States, or any place sub
ject to their jurisdiction"
Those words are found in the con-
stitution of the United States. They
possessed serious relevancy thirty
years ago, and they may, again, be
invoked in behalf of liberty. 1t would
be startling statement If it were
said that there are slaves under the
American flag today, but that remark
is practically true. There is in ex-
istence in the Hawaiian islands a sys-
tenn of contract labor that is, in fact,
slavery. Ignorant laborers are brought
from foreign lands under contract to
work on the plantations. If they tire
of their task and refuse to work, they
are sentenced to Jail, as for the COM
mission of a crime. These laborers,
during the period of their contract
are as much slaves as the negroes
who used to feel the slave drivers
lash on our own Southern planta-
lions. Our new island possessions af-
ford the ideal opportunity for greedy
masters to place in bondage the poor
and ignorant. 1t should be the first
duty of our government to bring uni
versal emancipation to every sunlit
island where our flag now flies.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
Washington Cake.

Three quarters pound butter, one
and one-half pounds brown sugar, six
eggs, whites and yolks beaten sep
arately, one pint sweet milk, one and
three-quarter pounds flour and two
teaspoonfuls baking powder. Three
quarters pound currants, washed and
dried, one-quarter pound raisins
(stoned), one-quarter pound citron,
sliced, one grated nutmeg, one wine
glass wine. Sprinkle fruit with part
of flour. Cream the butter with the
sugar, add beaten yolks, wine, milk,
nutmeg and -four and whites of eggs
alternately. Put in fruit last, mix we'll
and bake one and three-quarter hours.
An old and excellent recipe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
FOR WOMEN AND HOME.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS
AND NATIONS.
The Fashions of the Day-Dark Purple
Cloth for Afternoon wear-Craxe for
Big Bows-Tho Correct walk-Cook-
Ing Schools.


It's Sweet, good-by." when pennants fly
And ships put out to sea;
It's loving kiss and a tear or two.
in an eye of brown or an eye of blue
And you'll remember me,
Sweetheart,
And you'll remember me.
It's Friend or foe?" when signals blow
And ships sight ships at sea;
It's clear for action and man the guns
AS the battle nears or the battle runs
And you'll remember me,
Sweetheart,
And you'll remember me-
It's deck to deck and wrath and wreck
When ships meet ships at sea;
It's scream of shot and Shrek of shell,
And hull and turret roaring hell
And you'll remember me,
Sweetheart,
And you'll remember me-
It's doom and death and pause q breath
When ships go down at sea;
It's hate is over and love begins.
And war is cruel whoever wins
And you'll remember me,
Sweetheart,
And you'll remember me.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
Tough steak Good for the Teeth.

From the Boston Transcript: Now
speaks and says that the loosening Of
perfectly sound teeth is caused by lack
of exercise. He says that our diet is
composed of too many dishes like GRO
quette and that as little mastication is
necessary for the digestion of such
food the gums do not have brought to
them blood sufficient for their nourish-
ment. So, when hereafter your beef
steak isn't all you think steak should
be in the way of tenderness, don't
grumble; just feel glad of it and let
your mind dwell on the good that your
teeth are getting in the way of exer-
else.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
Unfair Newspaper Omces.

The Chicago Federation of Labor
and Allied Printing Trades Council
have issued the following address to
the public:
Organized labor for a number of
years have used all fair and honorable
means to bring about a more satisfac-
tory condition of affairs in the Chicago
Daily News and Record offices, and
have finally met with fiat refusal
The publisher Of these papers, flushed
by the eminence attained through the
patronage accorded him by the people,
has steadfastly refused to consider
their just claims. The present situa-
tion is but the logical outcome of an
effort on the part Of the publisher of
the Daily News and Record to do
everything in his power to stop the
growth of trades-unionism. The CEN
trial labor bodies have taken up this
matter, to settle once and for all the
right of the workmen to decide on
living scale of wages.
The different organizations directly
involved in this controversy have per-
sistently endeavored to advance their
cause, and have sent committees to
look after their interests, among them
being the Web Freshmen, represented
in the Allied Printing Trades Council.
Theirs has been grievance of some
ten years standing. The Web Press
Assistants have also used their best
endeavors. The Photo Engravers find
a stone wall confronting them in their
attempt to organize the forces of the
Record and News. The Mailers have
tried and failed. The first attempt
some six years ago, having proved dis
astrous to the organization. The
Stereotypers finding their position in
tolerable, sought TO change the con-
ditions, but with the determination to
stop any advance of the trades union
movement within his domain, Victor
+. Lawson has completely wiped out
the Stereotypers Union in his plant,
filling the positions held by Chicago
men by importing non-union help, an
element not to the credit of any COM
munity. For the past two years the
Linotype Machinists have used every
sndeavor to bring about settlement
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

To test tea take a pinch in a glass.
pour upon it little cold water and
shake it up well. Pure tea will only
slightly color the water, while a strong
infusion is quickly got from the adul-
terated or painted leaf. Now boil both
separately, and let them stand until
will be most marked. The false tea will
become still more strong after long
standing, but will remain transparent,
whereas the pure tea will become
muddy or milky. This last appearance
arises from the fannie acid, which is
natural property in pure tea, but
which in artificial tea is entirely alb
sent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
A Correct Walk.

Hip movement must be in the
lengths; hip movement in the
"breadths" is not only bad form, but
vulgar and inconvenient, as, for in
stance, in crowd and in rainy wealth.
er, when the swaying figure carries an
umbrella that pitches and rolls like
sea-beaten ship. Step in the lengths"
that is, forward and in as straight
line as possible. Do not turn the
toes or the knees out. The idea is to
glide alone on an imaginary chalk line
and not interfere with other pedes-
TRANS. Keep light feet. Try to have
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

Shk Drcss NAaue from SPIDER Webs
One of the curiosities of the Paris
exhibition of 1900 will be a silk dress
made entirely Of silk manufactured
from the spiders web. This silk was
made in Madagascar under the direc-
ton of the Jesuit, Father Cambue.
and will not be exhibited merely as a
curiosity, but in order to show the
practical use to which the big Mala-
gasy spider, known as the black spider,
may be put. Father Cambue has been
devoting himself for the last two
years to solving the problem Of util-
izing the silk spinning capacities of
the spider. He has found in the NAL
agasy black spider subject of prac-
tical usefulness, and he has already
colony of spiders spinning the cocoon.
The silk is much finer and lighter
than ordinary silkworm's silk. Father
Cambue says that the black spider is
not at all pleased when put to spin
the cocoon, but that when well fed
and supplied with plenty of drink, it
can spin a really enormous quantity
of thread. The spider is very fond Of
native brandy, and spins best when
thoroughly drunk. When the cocoon
is complete, the spider dies, but this
is not of much Importance, for the
power of reproduction of the race is
enormous.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
Wedding Fruit Cake.

Two pounds raisins, stoned, two
pounds currants. one pound sliced cit
ron, a few figs cut in small bits. Pour
over this one goblet sherry and port
wine and one-half goblet brandy or
whisky. Let stand over night, and in
the morning pour off what liquor has
not soaked into the fruit. Mix one
pound butter creamed, one pound
sugar, yolks of twelve beaten eggs,
two tablespoonfuls mace, one table,
spoonful cinnamon, two grated nut
megs, one pound of Drowned flour and
whites of eggs added alternately. Dis
solve one teaspoonful soda in a little
water, add just before putting in the
fruit. Mix with the hands. Bake
slowly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
COOKING SCHOOL.

AmDer soup
A large soup bone 1.-TWO pounds, a
chicken, a small slice of ham, an onion,
two sprigs of parsley, half small car
rot, half small parsnip, half stick Of
celery, three cloves, pepper, salt, gal
Ion of cold water, whites and shells OF
two eggs and caramel for coloring.
Boil slowly for five hours beef, chick
en- and ham; add the vegetables and
cloves to cook last hour, having first
fried the onion in little fat. Strain
the soup into an earthen bowl and let
remain over night. Next day remove
cake of fat on the top; take out the
jelly, avoiding the settings, and mix
into it the beaten whites of the eggs
with the shells. Boil quickly for half
a minute, then pass through a jelly
bag.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
1aoUBLES OF THE POOR,
Food and Clothes Arc Possible but Rent
Worries Them.


Worries Them.
III you own the roof over your head
you don't know what real trouble is"
said the factory hand to the New
York Times man. ~0f course folk
have got to eat a7d they've got to
have clothes to wear. but it isn't the
thought of that that's always hang
ing over their heads, and making
them work themselves to death when
they've got work and fret themselves
to death when they haven't. Every
now and then we see something in the
papers showing how easy it is for a
poor widow Tor worse than widow to
Iced herself and family of children
on 20 cents day, and If the woman
mas got good judgment and under
stands marketing such stories are not
SO far wide of the mark Oatmeal and
potatoes are cheap and there's odds
and ends of meat and bones that may
be had for next to nothing that will
make good soup. AS for clothes, all
poor folk who try to keep themselves
looking decently know how far con-
trivance will go in making them hold
out Skirts may be turned inside out
or dyed when they are faded or spot
ted and there's lot of wear in the
secondhand shoes that the cobblers
sell cheaply. OF course we'd all
rather eat the best steaks and wear
silk and velvet, but it is not having
to do without them that keeps folk
awake at night. 1t is the rent. That
goes steadily on, no matter whether
you are lying around idle, and it is a
happy day for tenant when the land
lord can be talked into bringing down
the rent by a dollar. Not that all
landlords are hard-hearted, as some
folk seem to think. Landlords are just
like all other men, some being better
and some worse. Now, there's a poor
woman who works in the same place
with me-a widow with two children
and she lives in one Of the toughest
neighborhoods in the city. Well, last
fall, when that woman was too sick to
go to work, she got $18 behindhand
with her rent, and found out afterward
that the man whose business it was
to collect it had been paying it out
of his own pocket right straight along.
The house belonged to a family in
which there were some minors, and
so all expenses and revenues had to
be accounted for to the family law
yers, and that was why the eldest
son, who collected the rents in per-
son, could not remit the widows Sc
a month, as his father might have
done; but all the same he wasn't 60
ing to see her turned out on the street,
knowing her to be good tenant OF
course she began to pay the money
back as soon as she got to work again,
but 1t was a great help, his advanc-
ing it, for if it hadn't been for that
she would have had to part with her
sewing machine, which she had just
finished paying for on the installment
plan. AS long as she can hold on to
that machine there is no great dan
ger of her starving unless she is too
sick to hold her head up. There is a
benevolent society that, when she is
laid off from the shop on account of
work being slack gives her four wrap
pers a week to make at so cents apiece
and pays for them in provisions"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

appliQued designs of black lace. The
edge Of the squares is trimmed with
rows Of black velvet and flowers en-
broidered in several shades Of violet.
The outer skirt is also deliberately en-
broidered in flowers to match the cor
sage, and toward the hem opens grace
fully off plain, purple skirt. A black
satin band encircles the neck. The
ruche and jabot are Of cream lace.