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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1904)
TIIE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE. November 27. 1!KH. t I f i. !! 1 1 ! I! Omaha Men Who P DUQDAI.E, MERCHANT8' NA TIONAL BANK. IOHT vouni men M this city. El sooner or later, handle nearly ail I tha mnnev that naaaea Into circu lation In Omaha. Nearly every cent swept back and forth In the restless tide of commerce is handled by the paying; teller of the bank at some time In the life of the coin or the bill which serves as a medium of exchange In the business transactions of the city. If any one of these men should attempt to count this a cent at a time the wealth which passes through their hands In the course of a year It Is highly probable they would grow gray-headed and pass Into the grave at the end of a lifetime with the task un accomplished. The average person, perhaps,' has very , little knowledge of the bank teller, yet the paying teller la really the heart of the financial world. He is to the commercial world what the heart Is to the body he keeps the blood of commerce, If so It may be called, moving and while the circula tion would not exactly stop If these men were suddenly removed from their positions they are one of the most Important organs of the commercial organisation of Omaha. They are the floodgates that stand between the world without and the treasure boxes within, and they sec to it that this great (financial machinery moves evenly and ac curately. .... i There are other tellers through whom this ceaseless tide of gold and silver surges in Its flood to and from the coffers of the bank, but through the paying teller It pusses on out again to fire the ambitions of men, to encourage them to new en deavor, to Inflame them In the feverish, everlasting rare for wealth, to goad them on In the avaricious battles for gain that are being fought In tho arena of commer cialism. , flees, the Swirl ITnmoved. From his position behind the barred win dow In the bank, calm, quick, unerring, tn " paying teller watches the'fcverlsh contest; lie gets a glimpse of the schemes, the pro jects, plans, the hopes, fears, ambitions" In fact, the very heart-throbs of those who are battling for success, for distinction, for riches, for fame. From the bars of his window, he sees the mad swirl of human passion and ambition as it eddies and flows, Wonderful . ,14 'V t Vl'K't t. J.- '.viSJ-i.; i ' A NEAR VIEW OF ONE OF THE . V 1 .. . I ... J. 11-.. " -at-u vi Kiim iiiuvi iiiicrcBiuia; vunoa yavuig, miiuu iiiaicea Bireei driving a pieas I In this country Is that of the Red ure. Add now to these the sixty-five w "wt ui, wmilii wbw South Dakota and , runs almost duo, north for more than 200 miles before entering British territory. Here It continues for fully another 100 miles and then loses Itself in Lake Winnipeg. Thence Its waters pasa through the lake and down the Nelaou rlvtr to Hudson bay. The val ley of he. Red river Is broad and quite lovel for the greater part of Its course, and t) the soli Is rich, It Includes some of the finest farming country In the world. Here we are beyond the general growth of corn, but wheat, oats,, barley and hay are grown 1q enormous quantities - About, midway In the -course of the Red river In . Canada Uea the city of Winnipeg, with a population of about 75.000. It stands on the alto of old Fort Garry, a fragment pf whoa wall is preserved In one of the , city, parka At this point the river Is a , good .stream, about 100 yards across, and of sufficient depth to float river craft of considerable tonnage. Thirty yeara ago It was a trading post of 100 or so people, but now t la a bustling modern city, wltb fine buildings and well paved streets. Its Im mense elevators and flouring mills indicate Its commercial importance, while Its Parlia ment houae and other public offlcea prove It political Importance. It la apparently a well governed city and certainly ' the offl ciala have shown much wisdom, for the city haa parks aggregating TOO acres of ground, besides fifty miles of parked boule varda It baa fifteen miles of fine asphalt A Kick that HERE are people who maintain that Mr. Paah, the architect, li grossly untruthful, but I do not bolil with them. The gentleman Is merely entbualaatlo and iroaglna- . live, and .his geoee, not content with being wans, Insist on being roea. He went out to supper one night not long ago with bis friend George and a capitalist 'whom he hoped to have for a friend. It was George's party, and George begged Mr. Dash to con fine bis twlk to yea, yta. and nay, nay, and o not prejudice the desirable capitalist. "Now, when you begin to exaggerate," said George, "I'm going to kick you, and ha you feej the weight of ray foot for heaven's sake whittle your story down." Mr. Dash promised. All went well till. Ife the mellow time after the supper, the capitalist began to talk of his stoeji farm. O. A. 1IEIQT"F8T, COMMERCIAL NA TIONAL BANK. a golden current Into the affairs of the world. He Is part of It, yet takes no part In It.' He simply regulates the current. He see to It that the outflowing ctreara of silver and gold Is not too large. He guards the bank against mistakes. He pays out the wealth that Is spread on all sides of him In maddening piles of white, yellow and sreen. Mistakes? The paying teller Is not there to make mistakes. He must not make them. He is not allowed to make thein. Other men can make mistakes, but the paying teller, never. Other men can rec tify mistaken, but the paying teller cannot correct them. In other fields, In other lines of commercial life, you look with admlra tlcn upon the men who make few If any mistakes. The paying teller Is there to see that "no" mistakes are made. The world at large, that Is that part of the world which has no buslnes with banks, except, perhap. to occasionally leave a small part of its savings wi h the receiving teller, knows of only one officer that Is the cashier. Sometimes it also occurs to them that there Is a person con nected wl h binki that they call the pr al dent, but they view him from the -. me distance and from the tame levels that the subject views the king. They may kr.ow he Is there. They have a me ,tal picture of gray hairs, gold eye-glasses, fine clothes and a gold-headed cane. That Is the man they picture. But he Is out of the reach and thoughts of the average person. They know, perhaps, a bank must have a presi dent, but he Is not the man they do the business svlth. The receiving teller rnd the paying teller, particularly the paying tel ler. Is the only man they are brought 1n contact with. Cashiers Sometimes Go Wrong, In cities smaller than Omaha the cashier often Is the only ' functionary that ap peals to the masses. He Is the man who takes the money when they hive it to place on deposit; he is the man who l ay It back when they decide to take It out. Sometimes the cashier of the bank, aft?r years spent In the Sunday school room and at the bank window with Its riotous dis plays of treasure, renounces allegiance to the United States and goes away forever to a country that Is a till yoked to a Progress Being Made by Our Neighbors to '.::'' ';:jlj4z. 'A l- HERDS OF FINlj CATTLE. 1 . 1. 1 , . . , . . yiiuit;iicB, ma riKllieeu puuuu suiiuuis ana the eight colleges and it will be seen that here In this Manitoba city there Is an energetic, wideawake, Intelligent people. It Is rated as the third city In Canada, and Is the capital of the province of Manitoba, "a- territory with an area about equal to that of Iowa. - ' The Dominion Hxpoaltlon. It was my good tortune to be In Winnipeg In July while the Dominion of Canada ex position was In progress, as It gave me the opportunity I wished to see much of what the Canadians are doing, all within the pace of .a few acres of ground. First of all, I was struck by the fact that the Canadians are favoring the borne produc tion of just as many things as possible. They are building up their "infant Indus tries" In a most patrlotlo way. Every where throughout the grounds I saw the neat signs In gilt letters on a white ground, "Made In Canada," and I can assure the readera of The Farmer that I did not know that the Canadians made so many things. The first we know these Canadians will have their Industries so firmly established that they will be Invading our markets, for It muat be remembered that these peo ple are largely of the same blood aa we are, and they show the same Yankee wit and ability to "do tilings" that has helped us to gain our present commercial ad vantage. It will be well for our economists to keep an eye on Canada, for unlesa I am Spoiled a Story Thla reminded Mr. Dash of his second cousin's farm In Pennsylvania. "Joe has one of the finest barns In the county." he aald, warming to his tale. ' "In deed, It's one of the finest In the state, or In any state. It's 400 feet long" here George delivered a well aimed kick "and ' and six feet wide." Naturally, next day "there ytrere mutual recriminations and back talking. "You've killed yourself lth that man y now for keeps," sneered George. ."Four' hundred feet long and sIxAeet wide!" "ft was your pigheadeivtomfooliahness la kicking me at the wrts time." Insisted Mr. Daah. "You spoil. J it all. If you'd kept your feet to yourf I'd have made a well proportioned barf of It, anyway." Washington Post. Handle CHARLES F. GRUENINO, UNITED BIAItS AHUAli DAN t monarchical form of government. This happens, as a rule, only where the bank cashier Is receiving teller, pajing teller, discount teller and exchange teller, all at the same time. With all these responsibilities to shoulder and all these burdens to overcome In a bank where the safe door Is always open except at night, witb all these things to contend with, la It any wonder that the pale, overworked man, bent under the re sponsibilities he Is carrying, breaks down under the weight and In the stlllr.ess of the midnight hour, puts the gold and sliver In one bag, the greenbacks In another and then takes, the late train for, Canada, where he can bury the stuff? Ths only wonder Is so few, so very, very few give up to the temptation. , Everybody could not be a cashier In a country bank. The nervous strain of go- Some Quaint A Bleued Relief. TnrMTVP.VP TTn crl laVi lrirvmi T V I once congratulated an old woman ' sV I n her hrivrrv In fls-htlna her way to church against a terrible tempest, but received the discon certing reply: "My husband gets so crosa gralned after meals that I have to get out of his way, so I might as well go to church." . The Arab Swr, All Achmet. an Arab, was a witness In the New York court of special sessions last week. He refused to take the Chris tian onth, saying he would swear as be comes a member of his race and faith. He was allowed to do so, and this was the oath he took: "I swear by the beard of the prophet, by the kasha, by the 'black stone and by my harem to tell the truth, all of the truth and only the truth." Chinaman as Foot Ball Player. When Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, Chinese minister to Washington, was a student at Amherst he gained much fame as a base ball player. His two sons, Ardl and Arlu, seem to have Inherited his fondness for athletics, but they take to foot ball espe- greatly mistaken they are the people who will compete with us most keenly In the not distant future. Machinery, tools, lm plementa, furniture, musical Instruments, Iron and steel goods, wooden ware, cloth, clothing, prepared foods, medicines, etc., were shown in great abundance, all bearing the sign "Made in Canada."-The Canadians re to be complimented upon their energy In building up so large a manufacturing Industry. , The Agricultural Exhibit. The agricultural exhibit Is one lof the most interesting . and Instructive on the grounds. The Dominion Department of the Interio: has a fine exhibit of grains and grasses, Including a forestry exhibit. The exhibit of grains and grasses Is most com plete, and l a revelation to those who tire not acquainted with the possibilities of the Canadian farms. All the samples shown were grown In Manitoba and the terri tories. The grains include oats, rye, barley, spelts, millet, flax, of which attractively arranged samples range the walls, while multitudes of sacks are piled upon the floor. Every sample Is clean and well se lected, and constitutes a remarkable evi dence of the fertility of the Canadian plains. ' In the section devoted to grasses are shown many varieties, Including bromo grass, clover, alslke, alfalfa and many wild grasses. The government forestry exhibit Includes nearly every known wood in digenous to western Canada. Here are ,amples of the woods In the native state, as well aa manufactured, accompanied by specimens of the leaves of the different trees neatly pressed and labelled for tho benefit of the visitors. The exhibit In cludes specimens of maple, ash, elm, bass wood, oak, birch, poplar, Cottonwood, balm of Glleod, alder, willow, tamarac, pine, fir Champions of the "IT 9 FOOT BALL I Many Millions of WALLACE O. ' SHANE. OMAHA , TIONAL bank. Ing to the office every, morning at o'clock and watching .the gold ; and silver coin stacked up on each side wowld be too much for some people. If fit dld-4iot drlvtf them" to the grave, sootier or .later It wouIdWive them to a foreign (country where .rest and recreation coultf be obtained In some'qulet land far away 'and .where they could not be disturbed by the petty affair of' life. ttfrt ssrat f( Commerce. ' In th modem bank of a city the size of Omaha ' every 'safeguard Is " thrown around the funds of the Institution, boh for the safety of the depositor and of the bank. The paying teller Is one of thess ' safeguards. ' He fills a position requi.ing the highest Intelligence. Is a position that requires men with quick brains and quick fingers. It needs men of high character; men who are politic, men who can deal Features of peclally. - The boys, H and 12 years old respectively, put In an hour or so every day westllng with and kicking , a foot ball around the legation lawn snd Into adjacent lots. Their-arrangement for the protec tion of the queue is clever. Tightly braided. It Is tucked down tinderneath the sweater, or If a shirt waist happens to be the -style of the hour, 'Inside the shirt waist. Thus the danger of being tackled by the luxuriant growth- of hair la re duced to a minimum. A Bllsalon that Failed. Not so very long ago a certain alderman who was running for re-election to the board called upon Mayor Collins of Boston and tried to make the general say "yes," but the general wouldn't. "But, Mr. Mayor." expostulated the alderman, "don't you give me the credit of knowing some thing about , thisT Do you think I am an Infant?" "Yes, I do," responded the mayor, "and you ought to be spanked." Relarnlna; Monarchs. .Although the king of Denmark recently passed his eighty-sixth birthday,' and Is, therefore, twelve years older than the em peror of Austria, yet the former has reigned only forty years, against the fifty- and oak. The purpose of this exhibit was to show just What Canada Is capable of In the way of supplying woods of the highest grade for building and' ornamental pur poses.; , ' ' ' Horticultural Exhibit. In the fruit exhibit the leading, and prao tlc'ally the only showing, was made by the British Columbia government. The exhibit was most attractively arranged and as a sample of what the coast province can do In the way of raising fruit proved a revela tion to visitors from California and other fruit growing regions In the United States. Cherries led with half a dosen varieties, all of superior slse, color and quality. Fruit ing branches of cherries were shown with the fruit so thickly clustered that the wood could not be seen. The exhibl' Included strawberries,, gooseberries, etc. Of pre served fruits there were apples, pears, plums, peaches, apricots, grapes, currants, quinces and crab apples. The Winnipeg muk t gardeners made fine exhibits of gardan vegetable, wh ch testify to the productiveness of the soil of Manitoba. In the "Rogues' Gallery"; specimens of almost every epe lei of weed were shown. Including ragweed. Can adian thistle, perennial sow- thlrtle, Rus sian thistle, cocklebur, gumweed. silver weed, pigweed, shepherd's purse, false tansy,' dragon head, marsh cress, mus tard, stink weed,' false flax, etc. Live Stock Exhibit. I spent somo time gong through the buildings In which the live stock was shown. I was greatly pleased w th the neatness of th se buildings and their ar rangement for the convenience of visitors. There was a good showing of swine. In cluding more of the white breeds than we find In similar exhibits In Nebraska. Nebraska Intercollegiate W'"!. f.r, V TEAM OF DOANE COLLEGE, CRETE. NA JOSEPH W. PETERS, CITT SAVINGS BANK. v with Napoleana of finance as well as with the privates of . Industry. They are up against all sorts of propositions. .They have to act as 'fast as they think.' One of the most common troubles with which they have to deal Is In the matter of Iden tification. Strangers who ought to know better, ask the paying teller to cash checks when they know or ought to know that It Is one of the fundamental rules 'of all banking Institutions not to cash checks for Strang: rs unless they are satisfactorily Identified. Often the man who does the Identifying Is not much of an Improve ment over the stranger who s eks the favor. Here Is where the paying teller's Judgment comes Into play. Combined with his other accomplishments must te an unerring ability to read faces, to judge the value of the identification to be mide Current Life five the Austrian king has occupied the throne. The prince of Montenegro, as a matter of fact, occupies second place among monarchs In point of length of reign, having been forty-four years on his throne, and the king of Greece, though only 68 years of age, has reigned for forty one years. Thirty-eight years have passed since Leopold became king of the Bel gians, and he Is now 69 years old that is to say, six years younger than the king of Sweden, who has, however, only been king for thirty-one years. Trefer Farmlnar to Preaching. Every Monday afternoon about o'clock a group of Lutheran ministers meet In a quiet cafe near the New YoIk postofhee and discuss parlshlonal affairs, meanwhile de corously sipping a glass or two of lager, and maybe smoking a cigar. Dr. Rlchter,, pastor of St. Peter's German Evangelical church In the Bronx, is a regular attendant at these gatherings, which last for an hour or two each week. The doctor has eIx strapping sons, but he does not think any of them will go Into the ministry, there be ing no Inducement In this country, he says, for a young man to take up the profession. He wants them all td become farmers. It must be remembered that awlne and corn go together, so we need - not look for such a development of t!iee animals in ' a country which grows little of this great swine food, ' and yet the Canadians havo no reason to be ashamed of their hogs. ' I was much pleased with the fine Show ing of sheep made by the great farmers of Canada. There can be no question as to the future of sheep growing in Canada as Judged by this exhibit. The animals are largo, vigorous and well grown and are mostly of the longer-wooled varie ties. The cattle show was Immense, and the animals well developed and In fine order. Shorthorn, Holstelns, Herefords, Aberdeen-Angus and Ayrshlres were the piln clpal breeds shown. Here again I must remark upon the neatness sl own In the care of animals. It was a pleasure to go through the commodious quarters as signed to them. There was no p. eking of one's way through straw and filth, but everywhere the visitor walkid between a double row of pens on a covered plank walk and pasred from building to builJlng on si mi ar w..lks. Canadian Horses. The show of horses was one of the finest I have seen anywhere. ' Stallions, mares, colts, geldings of many bre da were shown In profusion. . Their etal'a and sta bles were arranged In a double row w th a covered plunk walk between for vlslt oroa. I noticed with approval the' pre dominance of the uneful rather , than Uie sporting horses. There was , much mo-e Interest apparently in the breed which are capable of doing something than In those which are of value chiefly for racing pur poses. The Lord has doubless ma'e noth ing In vain, and to I suppose th "Dan League for 1904. Vi 0) 3sVV '"Is Neb. ! : i f ' Oh.' ' . I Dollars Each Year W. E. BHKPAAV, TIONAL BANK. NEBRASKA NA- and to Judge the value of the check he Is about to cash. "Ony a few days ago," said the paying teller of one of the Omaha banks, "a man from down the country came In with a check. He was a stranger and there was no reason to suspect that he was not all that he represented himself to be. He had a good countenance and he wore good clothes, but of course I could not act contrary to the rules of the bank. I ex plained to him he would have to be prop erly Identified. This made him angry. He told me he was a minister of the gospel and that his word as to his own Identity had never before been questioned. I tried to explain to him that the check was made payable to a certain person and that 1 would have to be satisfied that he was the person. I explained to him I did not doubt his word, but that I must have the proof I asked for. 'Supposing you should lose the check and some one else came In here to have It cashed; what excuse could I give for not refusing to cash the check T He could not see the point, and after some sputtering went out, apparently satisfied that my action was the result of an ex hibltlon of contrariness." "Women are usually more difficult to do business with than men," said another banker. "They are not familiar with busi ness methods and often It is difficult to make them understand. "A woman came In here the other day and became- angry because I told her her acount was overdrawn. "'Why,' she. exclaimed, 'there are two more b.ank checks In my check book,' and I couldn't make her see that if she had a check, book full of blanks It would not necessarily Indicate that she hud funds in the Institution.. She went out prepared to begin an action against the bank to recover funds which she apparently be lieved had In some way been perverted because her book had a few more blanks. "It Is difficult to get a woman to list her deposits on a deposit slip. We invariably have to- make them out. The average woman either won't use a slip, or else doesn't seem to be able to understand how to make one out. All she has to do Is to put down the amount of the deposit oppo- ; - 3a ' "'. " -.':. . .. '.: A COLONT OF IMMIGRANTS Otf THEIR WAY TO TAKE POSSESSION OF SOME OF, THE UNOCCUPIED LANDS. , , Patches" among horses have their place, yet I am sure that a good, hone -it Cliie dale or -Percheion, a sure-looted saddle horse, or trusty carriage horse, or even a docile family pony. Is of more real worth than- all the fast hordes ever brought to a fair. Fast hore.,, like fust people, may attract a gooj deal of nt tention, but they do not help tht com munity "to any appreciable tx ent. So I think the Canadians are wise In placing the emphasis upon their flue, big work ing horses. Many other features of the exposition wer as suggestive of progress as tbt.se given above, but I have not spce to take them up. it was a magninceiit allowing, and not only Winnipeg may feel proud of it but the whole of Canada as well. A cosmopolitan character of the capi tal city of Manitoba la ehown alsi by tne fact that while the exposition was ex ploiting .the material sidd of Canadian life, the Dominion Teacuers' association was holding Its annual meeting In the same city, with hundreds of teacher In attendance. I was not abie to be preieut at any of Its sessions, but from conversa tions wlih some of thoe who did attend I learn that the proceedings were of a superior order, and that the ulicussiona were characterised by breudth of view aa well as scholarlinest. The Cai.adl.ins do not propose to be left behind In the ducational race. . Rich Farming Country. Leaving Winnipeg the line of the Cana dian ' Pacific railway runs westward for 1 more than 800 miles across a rich grating and agricultural region. For some dis Some Oddities in TrT) VT ln,iM -nup a IllcC Of 2 I lath, a cuff and half a dozen a aV I ,.,l,i ..i.wtu huna above a certain bank clerk s desk In till Htv "My collection of quer checks," the " young man said. ."Each of those things la a: check. Each was duly honored. Each has a atorj" "I have been collecting queer cheeks for three years. That piece of lath aturted me. 1 A bank honored the lath for 1230. It wus , nuido Into a check by the owner of a saw null, who waa out at the plant with his aim, thirty mllea from any house, and totally without paper. le alone a cheek book. The money was needed to pay off the hands. The saw miller wrote on the lath Juat what a cheek correctly drawn haa on It, and he sent his son Into the bank, to get the money and to explain. The lath check was hon iv r- jf.'': D. E. ' LARSON, FIRST NATIONAL BANK. site the printed words gold, sneel. bills, etc., and add up the amount, but she won't do It. As a Yule, she don't seem to grasp the Importance of this fomallty, which we need as a check against mistakes. "Men themselves often show tgnoranoa of banks and banking methoda SHU they will take the trouble to ask and find out. Many intelligent people do not understand what a teller Is. They see the sign over the window, and If It says 'paying or "re ceiving' they have mastered enough knowU edge of the duties of the teller to transact business and that Is all they rare to know. "The paying teller pays out the money to those presenting claims through checks and otherwise. He should be a man of good judgment, quick to decide the genu ineness of the draft presented and he must Judge as to the knowledge the identifying party has of the party Identified. He must be courteous and affable, but always ready to say no rather than Involve the Institu tion in a loss. "The receiving teller receives the de posits from customers. He must be an ex pert judge of money and able to distin guish at a glance, good money from bad whether It is In the shape of coins or Ml s. In most banks It Is compulsory on the part of the depositor to make out his own de posit slip showing the amount he wishes to deposit. This slip la used as a check against errors. In one of the banks recently money was paid out durtng the temporary absence of the paying teller. In a short time the cus tomer came back and said: "Do you rectify mistakes here?" "No, sir," wan the prompt Teply of the man at the paying teller's window. "But" "Can't help It,'" was the quick response of the man who had cashed the cheek. You must see that the money Is correct before you leave the window." "All right," was the final remark of the departing customer, who had tried vain lessly to explain, "God knows I tried to be honest, but the money will come handy." "What do you mean," gasped the sub teller, light beginning to dawn. "Mean, why, you gava me ISO too much, that's all." the North ' tance the surface is very level, but thla Is followed by a more or less r 11. ng coun try. We toon pass into ti e gre.u grain region of Manitoba and Asiuiboia, aa la shown by the abundance of elevators along the line of the railway. Bian on, (population, S.400) nearly 150 miles veit of Winnipeg, Is one of . the greate st grain markets In the region, having no less than eight elevators. That the ie pie are iros perous la Indicated by the g. od bul dings to be aeen everywhere. 1 was struck by the entire absence of sod hous a along , the whole line of this railway. The houses are for the most part neat frame Htrue-' tures, and now and then they are of brick or stone. For 400 miles there Is th evidence of prosperity, until we oome to the western limits of the present settle- . ments, near Moose Jaw. There is much fine land yet unoccupied In western Assiniboia, Iho country la somewhat rolling and Is quite treeless. In places there are numerous ptnds with surrounding meadows of tall g a a, while further west the ralnlall Is le s and the grass la thor er. We gradually pais Int the "short grass" grazing country as we. approach the higher lund adjacent to the foothills of the Rocky mountains. Cat lie and horses are now bred to some extent upon these western plains, as they are upon the high plains In western Ne braska. There la yet a vast amount of good land in this region awaiting tbe coming of the farmer and stock grower, and it Is only a question of t.me bfora the white covered wagons 6f the immi grants will appear in great numbers upon the horizon. CHARLES E. BBS6ET. Bank Checks ored after some discussion among the bank's officers. "The cuff check was drawn by an actor who had become, slightly- Intoxicated, got Into a flrht and -been- arrested.' Ho was treated cavalierly In his cell, but they wouldn't give him any paper, and he bribed a boy to take the check to the bunk. The buy got the money, and with it the uctor paid his fine. Otherwise he'd have been Jailed for ten days. Thus a cuff chee k may be said to have saved a man from prison. "The check written on that linen collar won a bet of 5. A man bet a woman that a check made on a'collar would be cashed, and. of course, he won his bet. "Your bank. If you carry a good account, will honor tbe most freaky checks you can draw up. In such monkey business, though, I won't encourage you." Philadelphia Press. 1 l