Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-27
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Ills Signature Had Changed Good
Deal DuriHg intervening Years.
The conversation turned upon early
struggles in life. All Of them had
Ind hard times, but each OF them had
managed to start a bank account in
his first days Of earning money and
20 add TO II from time 10 time.
And the only time in my life. y
said ono Of them, that l had money
and yet did not have It. was when !
Ind worked long enough and hard
enough to feel that was justified in
making what 10 mo was considerable
of an investment. Years before this
had begun modest littlo account
in the - Savings bank. When |
first made my deposits they were not
bag and they were not frequent, but
! kept on making them month by
month and year by year. and m time
they began to count for something.
II had never allowed myself the
luxury of withdrawing a single cent
from that bank. not even when felt
that it would DO one Of the kceucst
pleasures In tho world to swaggcr NJ
and draw from big bank some Of
my own money and spend it, ! had
reached the limit which had set for
myself in that bank, and had ceased
to deposit there. | was perfectly
content TO let my money remain
there.
But the time came when was TO
make my investment looked over
all my assets, got ready TO turn them
into cash, and found that | should
have TO go 10 my first savings bank.
i hated 10 do II then. But marched
down and presented myself at the
window. hadn't been there for a
long time had grown up. | had
added to my face a beard. and was
as far from being the boy who had
formerly boon there rs man well
could DO. The first thing was asked
TO do was to write my signature. |
wrote Il as had learned to write II
in the recent years, with u slap dash
rush.
"The teller looked at me scrutiniz-
ingly, and then asked me 20 write il
again. ! dashed oil another. Ho
went OF u second time and came back
with little deprecating smile
" Tho signatures are not the same,
ho said.
"'But, great Scott I'm tho same
! said
"Buthow do know thatf hcsai
with his provoking smile
"'You don't expect, do you |
jerked out impatiently, for wanted
that money and wanted 1t quickly,
that I'd write the same hand now az
] wrote when I was fourteen years
old and made my first depositf
mo, he said, still smiling.
"Woll. I'm in a hurry for that
money, ! said CURLY. I've got %
use it right away, and I'd like it right
away
I'm worry sure, no said, that you
are the man, from the story you tell,
but how do ! know III can't let q
man have money when do not know
him. and whcn his signature does not
agree with the one We have
"'What in the world am l TO dol
said.
"'You viii have to DO identified
"'But haven't time
"'You will have to mako IL or elsC
sign like your old sinaturo-your old
one, he added with u smile. ia d
good deal better than the ono you
write now
But had 10 hurry out and find
some one who could identify mo 10
fore ! could draw tho money which
myself had deposited. When / had
drawn II my boyish signature wa,
shown 10 me. II was round and
clear, but littlo trembling, and
when looked at II for tho first time
in good many years, n rush OF
memories came over me, and | 70
called how had felt on the first day
that had ever gone into n bank tc
open an account for myself New
York Tribune.