To sell youn a hat as we have shapes to wit all faces—$2.00, $2.50 or $3.00. All depends on the quali- Ly, 1's up to you. fn's Furnishings, Hats and DIRECTORS. . Wilber, J. N. Weaver, JW. Bishop, W. T. Goodnow, Seward Baldwin, F. T. Page R. F. Page, Cashier Estates Managed Collecting - E. >. Reynolds, | Estate For sale in Athens, Sayre and Waverly, Fire, Life and Aeciaens Insurance ~ Property Bought, Sold and —~Bxchanged — Loans Negotiated 117 Packer Ave., Phone 230x, Sayre, Pa. aliy INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE. Negotiated, Insurance , Houses Rented, Rents , Taxes Paid. the thing tor Bath PURE ITE CASTILE SOAP Perla Brand.” nts a pound, 4 pound bar, 65 cents. Baby’ s L. GILLESPIE ON DRUGGIST. ASKS ABOUT MUTUAL Treasurer Cromwell Drawn Oat by Inquisitor Hughes. WHY MILLIONS DRAW BUT 2 PER CENT Tells Armstrong Investigating Com- mitter That Nig Insurance Com- pany Cannot Be nn Retailer of Small Loans, NEW YORK. Sept. 15 - Inquiry of the special legislative esmimittee on In surance In aklermanic chambers confined to a farther investigation into the affairs of the Mutual Life lusur ance company, (hitef Inguisitor Hughes having calles] at the Frederick Cromwell, the fre that « pany, who had testimony follow el by buckle Bros, was ontsel of ml given consider was Hiet already Ar Cromwell N. Jarvie of Ar Charle= I Hepder of Henderson Bros ind alsa by George F, Baker, poe it of the First National hank, all three of thase were miemibesds of the finance of the Mutual Life Insurnnee colipany Mr. Hughes hours In trying to ascertain it wos that the Mutual Life it bousht large blocks of raliroad securd ties did not go direct to the instead of having to join in with some syndicate, aml he apparently not able to understand why the Mutual Life left many millions on deposit with the Natienal Bask of Commerce draw ing - interest when money on call was freyuently as high as J and 4 per cent Freasurer Cromwell and the three other wembers of the Mutual's finance committee te the juvestiga tors that the Insurance could not go direct to the railroad cowpanies for its securities hecanse when a com pany issued a big amount of bonds It wanted to wholesale them through some concern which would undertake to dispose of the entire lot. The In surance company, be said, could not afford to tnke an entire Issue, and the rallroads would got do business direct | unless the underwriting concern would take the entire issue Other witnesses showed that unless the issue of securities was to be very small the insurance company could not take the lot It wine even shown that when the Mutual wanted to go direct to the lllinols Central road for its securities, Presi dent Stuyvesant Fish told the insur ance men plainly that the railroad could not sell to the lnsurance cow pany direct because the railroad com | panies always needed the assistance of the bankers to float big loans. It was the testimony of all the members of the finance committee that the syn. | dicate method of bpylug securities was pot only the most profitable, but the only practical way - Each member of the finance commit- | tee sald that he had never been In a syndicate which had sold securities to the Mutual, but that they had been In syndicates of which the Mutual was one of the participants. It was ex. plained that the reason why the Mu- tual bad to deposit many miilions at 2 per cent was that it hadn't the ma- chinery for lending money at retall. The finance committeemen testified that the insurance company did not have the machinery to put out a lot of small loans on mortgages from Seattle to Atlanta, but that the trust company was io a position to make a specialty of that kind of business. Mr. Cromwell testified that the rea- son why the Mutual kept an average | of §7.000000 on deposit with the Na- tional Bank of Commerce from Jan 8, 1005, to June 6, 1005, was merely that | it was necessary for the insurance company to store up big sums in swine bank to offset large syndicate pay | ments and also that even wilen po large payments were to be met and | even when call money was 3 and 4 per cent it was more profitable Io the! long run to let the bank handle a lump sum of many millions, for which! it paid the Mutual 2 per cent flat, than it would be for the insurance com- pany fo try to peddle out the millions | in many small call Joans, Mr. Cromwell denied emphatically | that it was because the Insurapce com- pany controlled the bank that it kept ou deposit in the bank unnecessarily large sums merely for the purpose of letting the bank make a big profit by | getting a jot of Insurance money much | cheaper than the market rate Intnes Irs san let hoon mse men committee halt three and a why spent wien railroads iso was only per cent explained company entire alice, Nizon's Condition Alarming. WESTFIELD, N. Y., Sept. condition of 8. Fred Nixon, speaker of | the assemably, Iwcame serious again yesterday. Frequent attacks of nausea | left him very weak. Dr. Wiliam Ant of New York, a specialist on uppen i dicitls, arrived Lere and held a con-| sultation with Dr. Rod, the family | physician, and Dr. Smith of Ruffalo, | Owing to heart trouble an oporation will be performed only as un last resort | 15 ~The! Norway Yields, Averting a War, COLOGNE, Sept. 15. The Gazette's | correspondent at Christiania mye: | “War lias been averted at the eleventh | hour. Norway bas given way on the | fortifications question. The historical | strongholds of Kougsvinger snd Fred | rikstad will remain lotact. The oth. | ers whl he razed. Forelgn powers In| fluenced Sweden jn the direction of | peace.’ Little Change In Komura's Condition | NEW YURK, Sept. )5—There has | “at Bite ange in the Sandi tion DEATH OF MAYOR COLLINS. Boston's Chief Esecutive Passes Avay Suddenly st Hot Springs. BOSTON, Sept. 15 — The death Mayor I. A. was anhounced here by Curran, secretary to the mayor egram received by Mr reported the sadden chief, M demise ago for Hot Svring ly needed rest by his olde Pan! Collinge. When the in mows! health he startodd Hh parently The their mayor shock to the mayor death tremendous ns of Boston. May or Collins was rezunded here as one of the last members of the so called school national life The hich he vas hell a2 a nn was chhiagesd by the af held by the not too muct Republic Boston the of the news of the s=mdden CAMs Ax § Ciiizs ‘old ih Evie respect ticunl fection in uw figure in of Baston that Democrats was which he was among people is to =ay vid mayor greatest ans alike in esteemed as one vie life of the ntne cireul men in her « The quickly the cits sation heard on freely Mayor Collins was one of the le Democrats of the He in eon from and United States « don from 18431 masors demise ites] throughout profound of grief and tributes were ews rene Hid Cau i a Express all spoke sen Ons were sides, ding country [SKN otis ores general NEW DISCOVERY BY LOEB. Another Step Made In His Work of Producing Life, CHICAGO, Sept. 15 —A dispatch from Ran Francisco says Professor Jacques Loeb of the University _pf California has just made public another step In bis of producing life by ficial methods He found a for the ap pearance of the fertilization membrane work has reason and starfish eggs Leen penetrated hy the that accomplished elements driving out in the which prevents tion Professor Loeb found that the mem brane is the result of extersion of sub- noes from the og I lifts it up from the fluid lying the egg and the membrane and appears to contain sub- stances which when in the ege prevent It follows that any chewical which drives ont these sub stances will release the vital mechan. ism and produce artificial life after they have element. He fertilization “of the by the active substance fertiliza- active annonces ogEs is some or exes =! w= the surface. This makes ap between its developme nt FINED $300 FOR FLIRTING. St. Louis Ralirond Clerk For Inviting Womna te Drink. ST. LOUIS, Sept, 15 Harry 'eyton, a Missouri Pacific rall- road clerk, was fluad $5 in a police court here on a charge of having at. tempted to firt with Mrs. A.W. Ecoff and anvosiog her at the Union sta- tion. She {8 twenty-five years old and is a woman of gol appearance. “I had gone to the Union station, ' she sald, ‘to meet uy husband, who was com- ing into the city from Ferguson, Mo. “his man accosted me ing me to ‘go over to Pine street and take a drink’ to weet my husband and asked bim not to speak to me again, but be pers He was very offensive” Peyton testified that Mrs. Ecoff had first accosted him and that he had lift ed bis hot and passed on. that Le had at’zapted to flirt. is twice, Broker Charged With Fargery, BOSTON, Sept. 15 Harry Clifford a well known resident was arrested by Boston bureau Inspectors from the of erlininal investiga- Accord B. trust companies, other corpora- individuals clalm to have fost a total of £75,000 through transac- tions with Brown. Brown Is forty- | five years of age and resides at 30 Na- | ples road, in the fashionable of Brookline, He Is a member of sev eral clubs Watts, Fruit and Blossoms at Same Time, WILKESBARRE, Pa. Sept 14 crabapple tree owned by near here. has ripened while the oth with blossoms. He explains it by sasing that two weeks ago be bad burned some heaps of rub- Lisl close to the tree The that side withered and fell off { ago, however, small buds began to ap pear, nd two days age these develop | ed into blossoms, leaves on Camden Hepublicans Same Tieket, CAMDEN, N. J, Sept. 15 The Re- Nominatious State assemblymen, Henry 8. RBeovel, Theodore RB, Gibbs and Samuel J Jones; sheriff. Frank C Boomers, county clerk, F. F. Patterson, Jr; register of wiils, Edward Dela croix, county ticket made as follows lam J. Bradley; Christian Endeavor Growth, BOSTON, Sept, I5--The quarterly {report on the progress of the Christian Boelety of Christian Endeavor, made public, records advancement in Chris. Han Western Continent. SECURES CONCESSIONS. MACKAY Announces His (ampany Has Been Given Right to Inter Japan and China=\rgotiations Hegun Under Mohiniey. NEW YOURK 1h way Through lii= been Net the wo te connect the by with the Clarende western canptinent direct sulun fines ad Chibua af the mpaany telegy s Japdn president fie Cal Arise pli Ciipires of H. Mackay Commercial Pac made the company has seourald Yoko! Tenlay ile co ont the has Hotinoen that his HUCr=sirs is to cniter nd Rhy step COE ess) aa, Japan the last negotia hai China in a series of diplomat tions which were begun at the P're