The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-02-17
COULDN'T DRAW HIS OWN MONEY.

COULDN'T DRAW HIS OWN MONGi.
His Signature Had Changed Good
Deal During Intervening Years.
The conversation turned upon early
struggles in life. All of them had
had hard times, but each of them had
managed to start a bank account IN
his first days of earning money and |
to add to it from time to time.
And the only time in my life,
said one of them, that | had money |
and yet did not have it, was when
had worked long enough and hard
enough to feel that was justified IN
making what to me was considerable
of an investment Years before this
| had begun a modest little account
in the - Savings bank. When
first made my deposits they were not
big and they were not frequent, but
kept on making them month by
month and year by year, and in time
they began to count for something.
Il had never allowed myself the
luxury of withdrawing single cent
from that bank, not even when felt
that it would be one of the keenest
pleasures in the world to swagger up
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 to my first savings bank.
| hated to do it 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 beard, and / was
as far from being the boy who had
formerly been there as man well
could be. The first thing was asked
to do was to write my signature.
wrote it as had learned to write ii
in the recent years, with slap dash
rush.
THE teller looked at me scrutiniz
ingly, and then asked me to write il
again. ! dashed off another. He
went off a second time and came back
with little deprecating smile.
1.-The signatures are not the same,
he said.
But. great Scott I'm the same.
/ said.
but how do know that2 he said
with his provoking smile.
You don't expect, do you,
ierked out impatiently, for wante'
that money and wanted it quickly
that I'd write the same hand now a
/ wrote when | was fourteen year
old and made my first deposita'
mo. he said, still smiling
"Wen, I'm in a hurry for tina
money / said CURLY. I've got t
use it right away, and I'd like it rigt
> away
! I'm very sure, he said, that yo
are the man, from the story you tel
g but how do know it9 | can't let
/ man have money when do not kno'
him. and when his signature does NJ
!. agree with the one we have.
Ie "'What in the world am | to dc
II l said.
4 "'You will have to be identified.
rs "'But l haven't time.
40 "'You will have to make it or ell
sign like your old signature-your o
in one, he added with a smile, is
Of good deal better than the one W
u u write now
he But ! had to hurry out and fiji
ry some one who could identify me |
IA fore l could draw the money which
ne myself had deposited. When l hi
ne drawn it my boyish signature W
er shown to me. 1t was round al
rt clear, but a little trembling, al
when looked at it for the first til
he in a good many years, rush
70 memories came over me, and / !
"a called how had felt on the first d
of that / had ever gone into a bank
err, oDen an account for myself"