Life — August 4, 1904 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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YOUNG man entered a savings bank in Chicago recently and handed the paying teller his book, on which appeared a credit of one hundred and sixty dollars. “I'd like to draw it all out,” he said. The teller looked the pages over carefully. “What was that forty-five dollars you depos- ited yesterday?” he asked. 0 New York checks.” “Sorry, then, but I can’t pay that till the checks come back—in about two days more. T can give you the hundred and fifteen, though.” “But I've got to have it all. I’ve just been ordered to Portland, Oregon, and I must go to-day. I didn’t know it yesterday, or I wouldn’t have made that deposit. I absolutely must have that money to-day.” “I'm sorry for you,” said the teller, “but I have no option. You may be honest, but you must understand that that is a very old game which has been tried on us time and again. | The checks from New York may be worthless, We must have security till return on them is made.” Argument did no good, and the young man, angry and disappointed, pocketed without counting the hundred and fifteen dollars which the teller handed him. Two hours later he counted the bills in a ticket office and found that he had fifty dollars too much. The teller, while talking, had put down a fifty-dollar bill, and absent-mindedly counted one hundred and fifteen in fives and tens upon it. The young man went directly back to the bank. “As I understand it,” he said to the teller, “you allow I may be honest, but you can’t risk | forty-five dollars on it?” | “That is the case exactly.” | “Please count that pile of bills and compare | it with the book. That is just as you gave it} to me.” The teller started to say that he could not rectify mistakes after the depositor had left the bank, but changed his mind and counted the bills. He looked — the depositor, then slipping the fifty-dollar bill in the drawer, counted out | forty-five in fives, and put it out through the slide. “Officially,” he said, “I suspect you of play- ing a very old game on this bank. But person- ally I reckon you are all right. There’s your money.”—Youth’s Companion. POLICEMAN, with a more than usually | broad and expansive sole, had just passed a little terrace house, with a bit of gar- den in front and a couple of saucy women at the window, when a little boy ran after him. “Hullo, kiddy!” said the copper Lothario genially, thinking there might be an opening, “want to know the time, ask a policeman, eh?” “No,” said the kid, with a glance round to see that his retreat was open, “mother sent me out to ask if you would mind walking up and down our path for a minute or two; it’s just been gravelled, and we ain't got a roller.” —Sporting Times. The Best Social and Business Register is the Telephone Directory. MEW YORK TELEPHONE CO. 15 Day Street. The Best Guide to World’s Fair ‘The handsome publication which the Grand ‘Trunk Railway System has issued descriptive of the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., has been very much admired by all who have seen it, and the Company are deluged with requests for copies of the pub- lication, The book is a very useful one, giving as it does a brief, though comprehensive description of the $50,000,000 Fair, including the best maps of the World's Fair Grounds, the City of St. Louis, and the Grand Trunk Railway System, showing varia- ble routes to and from the “Ivory City.” No ose should miss securing a copy. which will be sent oa receipt of four cents in stamps, Frank P. Dwyer, Eastern Passenger Agent, Grand Trunk Railway System, 290 Broadway, New York, N. Y. HAY FEVER CAN BE E CURED acpontive cave for Hay ‘This remedy is Serbred. for ‘sate fo anyone in tke U. 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