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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY;' FEBRUARY f, 1907.
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BOROUGH OFFICERS.
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Member of Congress Joseph C. Sibley.
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Assembly W. D. Shields.
President Judge Vi . M. Llndsey.
Asuocxate Judges V. X. Kreitler, P.
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Federal Judge Holds Law Does
Not Invalidate Contracts.
Jury In Thaw Trial Negro to Gel
Plum In Ohio Job For Ex-President
Cleveland Several Sage Gifts Con
ference on Japanese Question Da
vis' Action Approved. " ,
Judge Walter Evuns, In the federal
court at Louisville, Ky., has overruled
tho demurrer of the Louisville & Nash
ville Railroad company to the equity
petition filed by Erasmus L. and Annie
M. Motley, lu which the latter sought
io enforce a contract by which the
railroad company agreed to issue an
nual pusses to each of the plaintiffs
during their lifetime.
The court says that the act of June
29, l!)oG, known us the railroad rate
hill, under which the railroad company
declined to Issue the passes agreed,
in January, 1007, should be considered
precisely as If, In its general language,
there was an express exception ex
cluding from its operation the com
plainants' contract. In no other way
can the vested contract rights of the
complainants be preserved.
The general tenor of the opinion Is
to the effect that congress did not in
tend to annul any previously made
contract founded upon good consider
ation. The court says, further, that
the passes Issued the Motleys, while
called "free passes," were not so any
more than a ticket bought and paid
for. The demurrer of the railroad com
pany, which was argued by Colonel
Henry L. Stone, was based on the re
bale law, which prohibits the Issuing
of passes, the railroad taking the posi
tion that this law ended its contract
with the Motleys.
Jury Completed In Eight Days.
The Thaw trial Jury was completed
late on Friday. The selection of the
12th juror, Bernard Gerstman, came
as a complete surprise at the end of a
long aud tedious day the eighth of
the trial and immediately after he
had been sworn Justice Fitzgerald or
dered an adjournment of court until
10:30 o'clock Monday morning.
In announcing that the Introduction
will not require more than one session
of the court, Mr. Jerome Is evidently
of the opinion that the cross-examination
of life state's witnesses as to the
mafn events associated with the trag
edy will not be very extended.
The Jury complete Is as follows:
Foreman, Doming B. Smith, aged 55,
retired manufacturer, married.
George Pfaff, 34, hardware, married.
Charles H. Fecke, 43, shipping agent,
married.
Oscar A. Pink, 40, salesman, mar
ried. Honry' C. Harney, 50, pianos, mar
ried. Harry C. Brearly, 33, advertising
agent, married.
Malcojm S. Fraser, 40, salesman,
married.
Charles I). Newton, 65, retired rail
way official, married.
Wilbur S. Steele, GO, manufacturer,
married.
John S. Dennee, 38, railway freight
agent, unmarried.
Joseph B. Bolton, 57, clerk married.
Bernard Gerstman, 3G, manufactur
er's agent, married.
Negro to Get Plum In 6Mo.
President Roosevelt will appoint a
negro to federal office In Ohio. The
man selected is Ralph Tyler of Col
umbus, and he probably will be given
the placet of surveyor of customs at
Cincinnati, the home of Senator For
aker, who has been fighting the ad
ministration In the Brownsville mat
ter, taking the Bide of the discharged
colored soldiers.
The president has been Impressed
by the professed friendship of Sena
tors Foralter and Dick for the colored
race and believes that they should
have opportunity to show this is a
concrete way. It Is understood that,
appreciating the strength of the pres
ident's position, the Ohio senators will
not oppose Tyler's confirmation.
At present New York Is ,the only
Northern state in which negroes hold
federal office. On numerous occasions
in the past the president has desired
to appoint negroes in othr Northern
states,' but has been deterred by the
opposition of Republican senators and
representatives from those states.
. G rover ClevelandWialrman.
Grover Cleveland, ex-president, has
been elected chairman of the Associa
tion of Life Insurance Presidents at
the meeting of the executive commit
tee of that organization in this city.
Mr. Cleveland's election was unani
mous. He has accepted the position.
The Association of Life Insurance
Presidents, 'which was recently organ
ized, is composed of the executives of
the principal life insurance companies
of this country. The object of or
ganization is to co-operate for RlHdnds
of reform which," the members claim,
will Increase dividends to policy hold
ers. Mr. Cleveland will also act as
chief counsel for the association.
Agreement For Eight-Hour Day.
Following two private sessions on
Saturday iu Pittsburg an agreement
has been reached between the United
Typothetaa of America and the Print
ing Pressmen's Union of America.
Tho agreement is for five years, tho
first two years being for a nine-hour
day and the succeeding three years for
an elaht-huiir day. It is said the agree
ment will increase the cost of press
work 22 par cent. . Over 150 delegates
from all parts of the United States
were in attendance representing 10,500
proxies. When a vote on the working
agreement was taken It stood 7,000 for
aud 3,500 against.
Public Bequests by Mrs. Sage.
At the annual meeting of the Alum
ni Association of the Rensselaer Pol
ytechnic Institute, held at the St.
Regis hotel In New Ycrk Friday night,
announcement was made of the gift
by Mrs. Russell Sage of $1,000,000 to
that Institution.
The announcement was made by
Dr. Palmer C. Rlcketts, president of
the institute, who read a letter from
Mrs. Sage announcing the gift.
Announcement was made Monday
afternoon of a gift of $1,000,000 by
Mrs. Russell Sage to the Emma Wil
lard seminary of Troy, an dalso of
$250,000 to the international commis
sion of the Young Men's Christian as
sociation. Injunction Against Letting Contract.
Bids for building a new Chautauqua
county court house at Mayvllle, at a
cost of $133,000, were opened at May
vllle. As the committee was about
to let the contract, Its members were
served with a complaint iu a suit for
a permanent Injunction brought by
taxpayers of Jamestown and vicinity.
The authority of the committee to let
the contract Is attacked on legal
grounds, but the protest which led to
the suit Is based on current charges
that the passage of the resolution of
the board of supervisors under which
the committee is acting was procured
by bribery.
The Week In Congress.
The time of both the Benate and the
house this week will be taken up with
the consideration of appropriation
bills. In the senate the Indian bill is
now under consideration, while the
house has the river and harbor bill
under way. Several days will be re
quired to dispose of each of these
measures, and when they have been
voted upon the senate will take up the
army hill, and the house the naval bill.
These four measures will practically
monopolize the time of the two bodies,
as there are many provisions In each
of them over which there is wide dif
ference of opinion.
McClellan's Motion Denied.
Justice Leventritt has denied the ap
plication of Mayor McClellan to set
aside the service of summons and com
plaint In the quo warranto proceed
ings brought by the attorney general
In the matter of the recount of the
ballot3 cast at the last city election.
Justice Leventritt granted a stay of
proceedings in the matter until three
days after Justice Fltts of Albany
hands down his decision in the motion
of prohibition against Attorney Gen
eral Jackson.
Fined For Accepting Rebates.
Judge Holland In the United States
district court at Philadelphia has
imposed a fine of $3,000 upon the
Camden Iron Works company of Cam
den, N. J., which was recently convict
ed of accepting rebates on a shipment
of iron pipe to Winnipeg, Manitoba,
over the Philadelphia & Reading and
the Baltimore & Ohio railroads to the
great lakes and thence by the Mutual
Transit company of Buffalo which op
erates a steamship line on the lakes.
Lumber Bark Sunk by Steamer.
After battling with head winds
and heavy seas for 17 days and when
within a few hours of her destina
tion, Norfolk, Va., the bark Charles
Loring, carrying 380,000 feet of lumber
from Savannah to New York, was run
Into and sent to the bottom by the Old
Dominion steamer. Seneca Saturday
night four niiles off Sea Girt, N. J. The
collision occurred in a dense fog. No
one was injured and no lives were
lost.
Conference on Japanese Question.
A conference between President
Roosevelt, Secretary Root and the
San Francisco board of education,
which Mayor Schmitz will attend, will
be held In Washington on Friday or
Saturday to discuss the Japanese
school question. It is understood that
the president will endeavor to Induce
the board to rescind Its action exclud
ing the Japanese children from the
schools.
Admiral Davis' Action Approved.
In unequivocal terms President
Roosevelt In a letter approved
Admiral Davis' entire action In con
nection with his visit to Kingston, Ja
maica, to render aid to the stricken
city, ani In addition requested the sec
retary of the navy to express to Ad
miral Davis his heartiest commenda
tion of all that he did.
Capitol Probe Bill Signed.
. A resolution calling for an investi
gation of the expenditure of $9,000,000
for furnishing and decorating the new
state Capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., which
passed the house Monday night, was
adopted by the senate Wednesday and
signed by Governor Stuart.
Cadets Go to Jamestown.
Secretary of War William H. Taft
has given authority to the superintend
ent of the West Point military acade
my to take the entire corps of cadets
to the Jamestown exposition. The
date has been left to the discretion of
the superintendent.
Senator Dryden Withdraw.
United States Senator John F. Dry
den of New Jersey authorizes the an
nouncement that he has withdrawn his
name as a candidate for're-electlon to
the United States senate, owing to ill
ness,. , ' ' .."
THAW CASE PRESENTED,
Defense Replied With a Plea i
Hereditary Insanity.
Story of Man's Insanity Promised
From His Mother, His Wife, Hit
Relatives and Physicians Thaw'i
Demeanor During Testimony of Hli
Victim's Son Eyewitnesses Called.
New York, Feb. 5. The state laid
tare Its case against Harry K. Thaw
yesterday a bald, unemotional story
of the shooting In the Madison Square
Roof Garden, lejivlng the motive to be
nferred from the act and the de
fense replied with a plea of hereditary
Insanity. It was asserted that Thaw
in slaying Stanford White believed he
was acting aH an 'agent of Providence,
that real or fancied wrongs committed
bgalnat him by the architect and form
er friend of his wife seethed In his
brain until at last there came the ex
plosive Impulse to kill.
When the act was accomplished,
Thaw made no move to escape Its
consequences, hut holding the fatal
revolver aloft, he stood an If mutely
proclaiming to the world: "The deed
Is done; It was right; it was not
wrong."
Thus Thaw's counsel outlined his
case to the Jury, after the prosecution
hud occupied less than two (lours of
the morning sitting of tne court In re
lating through eyewitnesses the nar
rative of the tragedy. When the de
fense had interposed its plea and out
lined its case an adjournment was
taken.
"You will hear the story of this
man's insanity," Attorney John B.
Gleason for the defense promised the
jury, "from his mother, from his wife,
from his relatives aud from his physi
cians. You will judge him by his acts,
by the heredity and stress which en
tered into his madness, and when you
come to Judge him you will say to
yourself that his act may have been
one of Insanity, but It was not one of
crime."
Mother and Wife Excluded.
That Thaw's wife was to be one of
his most liti jMji'taii t witnesses has long
been known; that his mother, Mrs.
William Thaw, of Pittsburg, was to
take the stand only became known
postitively wheH the court excluded
from the court room all witnesses save
experts. Thaw's mother at the com
mand left the room after a moment's
hesitation. She seemed unwilling to
be parted from her son lu the hour of
his need.
His wife, too, reluctantly left the
room, bestowing a last radiant smile
of courage and hope upon her prisoner
husband. May Mackenzie was the
third of the women who have been
dally la the Thaw party to leave the
court room. Thaw seemed dejected.
Many times last week during the dull
days of selecting a jury he turned
to his wife for comfort and found her
ever ready with a quick responsive
smile. Now that the serious work of
the trial was to begin he was to be
denied her presence.
During the opening address by Mr.
Gleason in which he entered the de
fense of Insanity Thaw sat with
flushed cheeks, which at times ho
covered with his hands, and with
downcast oyes. He seldom looked up,
just a fleeting glance now and then
at the man who was making the first
plea for his life and freedom. Never
once did his eyes wander to the jury
box where the 12 men, with grave
faces, listened Intently to every word
of Mr. Gleason's somewhat lengthy
speech.
There was another period during
the morning session when Thaw
again looked only at his hands, clasped
before him on the table. , This wa3
when Lawrence White, the 19 year old
son of Stnnford White, was on tho
stand as the first witness for the pro
secution. Young White, who Is a Harvard stu
dent, was not a material witness. Ho
was with his father at dinner the
evening of the tragedy hut left hlra be
fore he went to Madison Square Gar
den. White was alone, It was testi
fied, when Thaw approached slowly
from behind, wheeled, faced him and
sent three bullets into his brain and
body.
Thaw's counsel told the story of the
jriioner's love for the girl he made
his wife. He met Evelyn Nesbit in
1901 and then and there began in him
an honorable regard and love for the
girl. He Jold her mother of that
love. The girl was In a precarious
condition following a serious opera
tion in a sanitarium and Thaw sug
gested to her mother that Bhe take
Evelyn abroad to recuperate.
It was arranged that Thaw should
accompany the two as the avowed
suitor of Miss Neshlt.. In 1903 he
asked her to marry htm and she re
fused. "The reason for this refusal you will
hear from her Hps," announced Mr.
Gleason. "Suffice It to say the reason
had to do with an Incident In her life
with reference to Stanford While."
Foundation For Insanity Plea.
Thus laying the foundation for the
plea of Insanity, the defendant's law
yer declared brain disease laid hold
of Thaw some three or four years ago.
He snid that there have been many
instances of a person .being insane
upon one subject and that alone. Mr.
Gleason cited instances of temporary
insanity evidenced by a single act.
"We will not base our plea, however,
upon a single net," he wpnt on. "It.
will he shown that there was Insanity
on both bides of this defendant's fam
ily. ' Heredity has made us what we
are, heredity has mude the living
world. Our case is far removed from
the much discussed defense of emo
tional Insanity. You must disabuse
your minds of all you have read In the
newspapers and especially of the Idea
that has gone abroad that we are to
rely upon some higher or unwritten
law.
"We rely upon the constitution and
laws of the Imperial state of New York
and upon them alone. You will under
stand this man's Insanity. It will
not require experts to tell you of It.'
It Is within you to judge him and you
will say from the evidence that when
he killed Stanford White he was an In
sane man."
He declared that Thaw labored un
der the delusion that his life was al
ways in danger when he was In New
York city and that he believed threats
had been made to kill him. This ac
counted for the fact that after Jan
uary, 1!)(H, he always carried a pistol.
He had placed It In his overcoat pock
et the night he went to the Madison
Square Roof Garden. There he turned
suddenly and saw what he thought was
a demon -glowering at him. The Im
pulse came. He felt that to kill White
would be an act of Providence and so
believing he set deliberately at his
task.
It was the work of an Insane man,
Mr. Gleason said the delusion of a
disordered brain.
Mr. Gleason Twice Interrupted.
Counsel told the story of Thaw's de
fease in a conversational, way as If he
were taking every Juror Into his con
fidence. They listened Intently. Mr.
Gleason was twice Interrupted by Dis
trict Attorney Jerome on the ground
that he was arguing the case from the
evidence instead of plainly stating
what the evidence was to be. The
Interruptions caused Mr. Gleason tc
repeat in some Instances, but his re
marks did not seem thereby to lose
weight. .
In adopting a culm dispassionate
manner in addressing the Jury, Thaw'e
attorney followed the example set by
Assistant District Attorney Garvan,
who opened for the prosecution at the
beginning of the session.
The rumor that there were to be
further changes in the Jury box were
not down until Mr. Garvan actually be
gan speaking. It was said that Dis
trict Attorney Jerome had brought all
the pressure and persuasion at hit
command to gain consent for the re
moval of one or, two of the men, but
Thaw's counsel resolutely and suc
cessfully resisted all pleading for a
further revision of the trial panel.
.Mr. Garvan in telling the story of
the alleged murder occupied less than
10 minutes and the prosecution's en
tire side was kept within two hours.
Except young White and the coro
ner's physicians who performed the
autopsy and described the wounds In
White's body the only persons called
to the stand by the state were five
eyewitnesses. They were cross-examined
briefly by Attorney Delphin
Delmas of the defense, who for the
first time participated actively in the
proceedings. Witnesses told nothing
that has not been known to the read
ing public ever since the night of tho
tragedy. They related the deliberate
way In which Thaw approached White,
faced him and fired. They reputed
Thaw's assertion "He ruined my wife,"
and Mrs. Thaw's remark to her hus
band, "Yes, hut look what a fix you are
In now." To this last remark Thaw
replied: "Dearie I have probably saved
your life." It was brought out that
Thaw looked back at his victim as he
walked away "with a staring look In
his eyes."
Garvan's Outline of State's Side.
Mr. Garvan's outline of the Btate's
side was of the briefest. He told of
Mr. White (lining at the Cafe Martin
with his son and a college mate of the
latter the evening of the tragedy. He
related how White went to the roof
garden on Madison Square Garden to
see the initial performance of a sum
mer' musical comedy called "Mum
zelle Champagne" and then related in
simple unemlielllshed language how
he was killed.
"The people claim," he continued,
"that It was a cruel, deliberate, mal
icious, premeditated taking of a hu
man life. After proving that fact to
you we will ask you to find the defend
ant guilty of the crime of murder In
the first degree."
it was not until after Mr. Garvan
had Bpoken that the prisoner's wife
;ind mother were barred from the
room under the rule excluding wit
nesses, t Mr. Garvan s poire so low that
his remarks could not be distinguish
ed from the jury box. Mrs. William
Thaw and her daughter-in-law both
heard distinctly, however, from where
they sat. They evidently were pre
pared for a much longer ordeal and
seemed surprised when the young as
sistant to Mr. Jeromo finished.
- It Wasn't Filled.
A physician well known on ths west
side when passing a bouse where he
knew n colleague of 1ri had a patient,
was surprised when the woman of
tl'p botii-e neeosted binv from the win
dow and asked him to step In und see
her sick son.
"But Isn't lr. X. attending your
son?" asked the physician.
"Yes." replied the woman, "but lr.
X. seems to have his mind mule on
l-dil estate than on hi patient. The
druggist said hi' could not till hi
prescription."
The physician entered the bouse and
diked for the presc ription. The wom
an produced a sheet from lr. X's pad
on which was written:
"Bricks. .VUKKi.
"f'en.eiit. ."O Mils."
!M X. has lost a patient." Chicago
Inter 0-pnn.
POINTED ! PARAGRAPHS.
Summary of the Week's News
of the World.
Cream of the News Culled From Long
Dispatches and Put In Proper Shape
For the Hurried Reader Who Is Too
''Busy to Read the Longer Reports
and Desires to Keep Posted.
Methods and policy of the Standard
Oil company were vigorously assailed
In the interstate commerce commis
lion's rejKirt to congress.
Encouraging results have been ob
tained at the lepers' settlement in
Hawaii by the use of extract of eucal
yptus In treating leprosy.
It Is reported from Rome that the
pope has changed his position toward
Frauce .and will admit of public wor
ship under the supplementary separa
tion law.
Attorney, C-eneral Jacksm attacked
the constitutionality of the reappor-,
tlonmeut act in the court of appeals,
and it was defended by former Attor
ney General Mayer. .
, Thursday.
Carnation day, In memory of former
President McKinley was generally ob
served throughout the country.
The second special panel was ex
hausted In the Thaw trial with only
11 jurors selected, and another panel
of 100 talesn.en was ordered for
Thursday.
Bret Harte's daughter, Mrs. Jessa
my H. Steele, Is iu Portland (Me.)
almshouse, trying to revise, and sell
the manuscript of one of her fathqt's
stories.
French bishops propose that the
government lease the church buildings
to the ecclesiastical authorities, rent
free, and Paris papers urge acceptance
of the plan.
Frederick C. Stevens, superintend
ent of public works of New York, will
be the nnnclal backer of William J.
Oliver, who expects to get the contract
for digging the Panama canal.
Friday.
Representative James W. Wads
worth defended the meat inspection
bill in congress, as answering the pres
ident's attack on him last June.
In the French chamber of deputies,
M. Clenienceau, premier, declared the
bishops' proposal for perpetual leases
of churches was unacceptable.
Three more Jurors in the Thaw trial
were summarily excused by the court
and three more w -re accepted, leaving
11 Jurors in the bi.x 5n adjournment.
Secretary Loeb says all bids for the
Panama canal construction may be re
jected and the work done by the gov
ernment, under the direction of Chief
Engineer Stevens.
Establishment of free ports with ad
jacent areas of several thousand
acres where goods for the export trade
may be manufactured Is advanced by
Secretary Shaw In a speech lu Con
cord, N. H.
Saturday.
Bernard Gertsnian, the 41st tales
man examined Friday, was accepted
as the 12th Juror in the Shaw trial and
court adjourned till Monday.
- A representative of the Dupout
Powder company in Washington de
nied that his company monopolized the
manufacture of sniokeleBs powder.
Theater combine Is Indicted lu New
York as a trust, conspiracy and re
straint of trade being alleged, and ex
tortionate methods employed are re
cited. Differences of opinion between M.
Clenienceau, premier of France, and
M. Biiand, minister of education, over
the bishops' proposals may wreck the
cabinet.
M. Stolypin, premier of Russiu, has
Issued a circular to governors gen
eral, governors and prefects emphasiz
ing the government's desire to co-operate
with parliament lu a friendly
spirit.
Monday.
Edward P. Hippie, brother of the
late Frank K. Hippie, head of a defunct
real estate trust company of Philadel
phia, committed suicide.
Public Interest lu the Thaw trial In
New York centers on the story the
artist-model wife of the prisoner is ex
pected to tell on the witness stand.
Captain Richmond P. Hobson'B
story of an "ultimatum" from Japan
to the United States on the San Fran
cisco school matter' was declared un
true In Washington.
Discontent in the British navy und
the reduction in tho size of the army
arouse alarm in England in view of
Viiat is believed to be the menacing
attitude of Germany.
Republican leaders In the New York
legislature decided to pass one bill for
a recount of the mayoralty votes in
New York city and another providing
for recounts In future elections.
Tuesday.
The house will pass the senate bill
granting service pensions to veterans
of the war with Mexico and the civli
war.
The stale superintendent of Insur
ance has finished his annual report,
declaring that the laws passed since
the Armstrong Investigation Insure
safe methods In tho future.
The presence of the police alone
prevented a riot at the Church of the
Holy Apostles. Paris, where th
French Apostolic church was Inane
united with the aid of Archbishop VII
atto, head of the Independent Catholic
movement In the United Status.
rirklnK rranntn.
The seeds of the peanut are planted
like beans, and vvbeu the vines have
come up and the nuts are ready for
harvesting the farmer takes n culti
vator especially made for that pur
pose and starts dovvu the long rows.
On either side of this cultivator are
two long knives which sink into the
ground sullieiently to cut the taproot
of the vine. The same process g gone
through with on the other side of the
vine. The main root being thus sev
ered and till! ground loosened, the
vines are lifted Into shocks like corn.
They are cured by allowing them to
stand in the sun for about ten days,
when a colored woman and children
arc sent Into the field to pick the nuts
from the vines. Ail uverage picker
will pick about five bushels a day, for
which he is paid at the. rate of 10
cents n buslieL
MiUerlnl For V.kkh In a Man.
(iermaii scientists announce that the
material for a man weighing 1.T0
pounds can be found in the whites and
yolks of l.'JiiO beus' eggs. Reduced to
a Unlit, the average man would yield
ninety-eight ruble meters of Illuminat
ing gas and hydrogen enough to fill a
balloon capable of lifting 155 pounds.
The normal human body has in it the
iron needed to make seven large nails,
the fat for fourteen pounds of candles,
the rarliou for sixty-four gross of cray
ons a:ul phosphorus enough for 820,
hki snatches, out of It ctm be ob
tained, besides, twenty teaspoons of
salt, lil'ty lumps of sugar and forty-two
liters of water.
I.e;tjll!ltf Atltlinrily.
"Mister." said the sad faced Individ-"
u.-t! v.'ii had sneaked in the liig sky-si-rape".,
'ran I sell you the great 'Eu
r.vcloi'i'iiia of Spurting Events?' "
"Nope." replied the busy man. "We
have o:;e encyclopedia of sporting
events already."
"That mV Where do you keep It?"
"Why, .we try to keep him on that
Html 'over there, addressing envelope.
I mean the oilice li i.v. mid he is mi en
cyclopedia "ii everything from a game
of skhhlu.i to the Olympic gaines."
Chi.'ao Ne-.vs.
S,-rvd Her KlRhU
"Why. Bill, what's the matter with
you? You lurk down In the mouth."
"Weli. T'etcr. I dure say if you'd
lieen tlin ugh what I have, you'd look
bad. too."
"What's the mattery"
"Well, yon J;novv Sarah Sr.lvcls,
don't you, PeterV"
"Yeo."
"I discarded her last night."
"You did! What for?"
"Well. I'll tell you. She said she
wouldn't marry me, and I'll discard
any girl that would treat me In that
manner." Exchange.
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Interest will be compound
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Deposits made on or be
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month, will draw interest
from the first day of said
mouth.
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fore the 15th day of any
month, will draw interest
from the fifteenth day of
said month.
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