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GOVERNMENT NOTES. Th - .«.". .H00.0u0.000 bond issue of t.is year is named "The Liberty Lena of 1!»17" be canst it is to be a loan from a free pespSB to be used in free ing the world. It is a loan of liberty loviag people to be devoted to the establishment of liberty in Europe and on the high seas. It is the loan sf the, great democracy of the New World to redress the wrongs and support the cause of the democracy of the Old. Every American who loves America and is jealous of Americas honor, should subscribe lo the Libert; Loan Pond tome. The real success of the loan is to be more determined by the number of A Still HIS participating in it than by the amount subscribed. The spirit of the nation is going to be banged abroad, especially by cur enemies, more by the number of its American men and women, who support this bond issue than by the mere amount of money subscribed. Lilierty Loan Ponds of the first issue of ,000.-000,000 are to bear date of June 1.1, 1917, and to run for thirty years, except that the government reserves the right to pay them fifteen years after date. If this right is not exercised by the government fifteen years from date, the bonds will run the full thirty years. These bonds bear interest at 3/i per cent per annum and the interest is payable semiannually on the fifteenth day of December mid the fifteenth day of June in each year. There are two kinds of Liberty Loan Bonds. Bearer Ponds are to be issued in denominations of $"•0, O0. 00 and .0*0. These Pearcr Ponds, which are made payable to the bearer, have interest coupons attached, which are detached by the holder when the interest installment they represent are due, and can tie cashed at any bank the same us a PniteU States Treasury note. Registered bonds are to be issued, which are registered as to both principal and interest. In denominations of 00. 1917.sh00. ,000. ,000, 0,000. 0,000 and 00,000: checks for the amount of interest due will be mailed I out semiannually to the holders of these registered I bonds. Applications for bonds should be transmitted 1 , through the subscribers bank, trust company, or other agency acting en his behalf, or it may be filed direct with the Federal Reserve Bank of his »| district or the Treasury Department at Washington.
