Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-09-18

resolutions setting forth that whereas your
valued and trusted employee, John Smith,
by the receipt Of legacy from q deceased
relative, has been relieved of the necessity
Of further service, resolved, that you part
with him with extreme regret, etc.-if you
do this, / will bring back S125, 600 and con-
tent myself with the other $125, 900. The in
terest will make up a good part of the loss
to me.r
1t was hard to give up $l25, 600 and hitch
it to a set of resolutions complimenting the
thief, but it was choice between getting
half the loaf or nothing. Was the satisfac-
ton of sending him to prison for eight and
a half years worth $15 600 year to theml
They figured on it and agreed that it wasn't.
They accepted his proposition, drew up the
bond and signed 1t.
"You can get the resolutions IN shape by
tomorrow" he sid, "and have them ready
when bring the money 1t would scarce
ly be delicate for me to be present when
they are adopted"
Couldn't you bring it to-day, Mr..
Smithl'' asked the president, in a perspira-
ton.
mo, l haven't time to go after it. The
work at my desk always keeps me busy un
til the hour for closing the bank. You will
have TO trust me till tomorrow, and as by
signing this bond you have committed your
selves to the compromising of a felony,
guess l can trust you-even as purely
business affair"
They were all on hand early next day.
Smith, the cashier, said mot without some
surprise at hearing the president inquire
for him as "Mr." Smith), had gone out TO
get his lunch. He was asked for half -
dozen times before he came. Every fety
minutes the door of the directors room
would open, perspirlng face would be
thrust out and Smith would be inquired for.
Then the face would be withdrawn and the
directors would fall to discussing whether,
after all, Smith hadn't taken their bond and
given them the slip. At the stroke Of twelve
the door opened, and Smith walked in. He
picked up the resolutions, read them with
approval, and with THANK you, gentle
men; this is handsome he handed pack
age to the president, saying:
"Here's your money"
Then he took his former stand by the.
mantel-piece, and watched their eager faces
while they bent over to count it. A hundred
crisp 81, 900 bills-then S25, 900, some of it in
smaller denominations-S25,0 900 more yet
and then, to their amazement, another 100
81, 900 bills.
''Why, it's all here-you've brought it all
back"
81 never meant to steal it," said Mr..
Smith, coolly. 81 made you believe l did
merely to convince you that you were con-
Quoting your bank on the wong principle,
in keeping a man on a starvation salary
with fortune within his grasp l wanted
to make you understand that there is some
thing more in the relations between a bank
and its trusted employees than cold business.
suppose you have no further use for me.
am ready to turn over my books as soon
as you name my successor. He will find
them all right. Good-day."
He walked back to his desk. Pretty soon
they called him in again, and the president
made little speech. He said the lesson
had been an unpleasant one, but they were
disposed to take it in the spirit in which it
was given. Perhaps he was right. They
had no desire to punish him, but-here he
hesitated and stammeree little-they were
slso unwilling that is to say, they had no
desire to keep financier of his capacity in
the humble place in which he had hitherto
been employed. Therefore, one OF their
number, Mr.. Wilkins, who was the agent
Of an insurance company, at salary Of
four thousand dollars a year, had decided
to resign that position, and would have Mr..
Smith appointed his successor. Meanwhile,
Mr.. Smith could take a vacation Of two
weeks.-Pittsburgh Times.