The Southern herald., 1899-08-18
CASHING HER FIRST CHECK
Who Had Deem Taught to
Tell the Truth.

While on visit to New York not long
ago girl had occasion to cash check.
She hadn't had much experience in such
things, and she wasn't quite sure how
it ought TO be done, but she thought the
best way was to present the document
at the bank upon which it was drawn.
At nine o'clock, the hour at which SUI
burban banks open, the girl presented
herself at the portals of the metropol.
itan institution. The janitor and two
or three scrubwomen were the only hu.
man beings in sight, and the girl knew
enough to know that none of them
could cash the check. The janitor, in
deed, looked much shocked at the sight
of the girl, and in no mild accents told
her to go right away and not to come
around again until-oh, well. not until
II o'clock, at any rate. At that hour
the girl returned, to find the bank in
full working order. She first indorsed
the check neatly, and with an extra
flourish to the line she always drew be-
meath her autograph; then, after pre-
senting it at four wrong windows, she
handed it at what she hoped was the
right one.
Apparently it was the right one, but
Him." said the man at the window,
glancing at the signature, "you-er-
yOu-ah-have you any way of identi-
flying yourself, Miss Blank?" "0h, no,
indeed" replied the girl, sweetly, not
having the least idea what he was talk
ing about. "Er-well," went on the
man, "you know some one, of course,
who can assure us that you are Miss
Blank?" "No one at all" answered the
girl in George ge-Washington-cherry-tree
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speak the truth, and it was fact that
at that time she knew no one in the big
city, save the editor who had just given
her the check. The girl art student,
whom she was visiting, didn't count.
Him said the man at the window;
''oh, we'll" with a scrutinizing glance
at the girl, you probably do most of
your shopping when you come to town
at Els d. Inches, across the street.
They might identify you" 1--WE do all
our shopping in Boston," replied the
girl, who comes from a suburb of the
Hub. never bought anything in .
New York shop until this week"
The man looked again at the check,
then he looked again at the girl. A
queer look came into his eyes. "Ex-
cuse me one moment, Miss Blank" he
said: ''I'll just sec" and he vanished
BY this time the girl was worried
Could it be that he wasn't going togive
her the money? Why, there the check
was, made out in her own name, and
with her own name, that she had writ
ten herself, right on the back of it. Sud-
denly the girl remembered that in her
pOcketbook she had several visiting
cards; they, of course, would identify
her, and, with happy smile, she of.
fered one of these to the man when he
returned to the window. "0h, it's all
right, Miss Blank" he said, without
glancing at the proifered card, and in
tones almost of self-arraignment. "0i
course, it'sall right. Here's the money
counting out the notes-the check was
for $7j-"so sorry to have given you
any trouble. Anything we can do for
you any time, rcmember-good morn
ing"
"Humph!" said the girls father when
he heard the story. 1.-The fellow had no
right to do it. 1t was risky business,
/ don't care who BY the way, was he
young?"
"He-he wasn't so very DID," an
swered the girl.-N. Y. Sun.