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Show PERSONAL MENTION. Thcro are two national banks In .Mount Pleasant, la.. ,ni It has Jut doveloix-d that a majority of the stock In each Is owned by a woman. The men who actually ac-tually manage the enterprise own but a small fraction. ( John Cannaughton. principal keener In Sing Sing prison, has not visited New York city for twenty-nine years, and thcro Is llttlo likelihood that he will ever do so. The reason of this Is that there are In that city a reat number of men who would welcome an opportunity to kill him. In his capacity as prison-keeper for fqrty years Mr. Connaughton haB earned the enmity of many desperate criminals, xnost of whom hate him with an Intensity which would Iniltico them to murder should tho chance offer. 6 Mr. Chamberlain's choice for chairman of his turllf commission Is Sir Robert Herbert, Her-bert, a marvcloilu man of his age. lie Is 73 yearn old. Not many septuagenarians would care to undertake the tusk of preparing pre-paring a new tariff bill In England nrw, but Sir Robert faces the Job with his customary energy and placidity. While In the Colonial office he wan noted an a man who could hardly be Induced lo moke a direct statement of any kind. He would discupfl matte In most animated fashion with deputations or Individuals who might rail upon him. but when they sat down later to consider Just what Sir Robert had said to them they always failed to lerol. loot any dcflnlto remark that ho ha1 made. |