The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-10-25
NEW YoYK NEWS LETTER.
Concluded From Second Page.

illustration Of the truth that there is nc
bigger fool on this earth than fast
woman who has charmed victim unit
he is putty in her hands. None Of thi,
class OF women seems TO know enough
to limit her demands upon her victim
sufficiently as to give him a chance tc
keep 1t up. They push their plundering
at such brisk rate that they leave their
prey no chance Of escape from utter
ruin, and when that is reached their own
stream Of gold is suddenly and irrepar.
ably cut off. II the charming Mrs. Hart
had been content to let Willie steal
moderately he could have kept IL up
probably for many years without dis
turbiDg the bank directors slumbers.
II is said the Seven Sleepers were all
directors OF banks.
OF course all the bank clerks in New
York have been talking about the case,
one OF them said; Chow do bank
directors expect clerks TO be honest
when a great temptation synchronizes
with a golden opportunity Bank clerks
get less than miners about whom such a
hue and cry has been raised, and they
are expected to dress we'll and live well
as becomes their position in Society"
Here is the United States government
giving notice that its civil service ex-
aminers will test the qualities of would
be eligibles for the position Of money
counter in the Philadelphia sub.
treasury. He will be expected TO count
millions Of dollars every week-on the
salary Of 5000 q year--Sl7 week %
The most novel affair that has turned
up lately in business circles ia that little
transaction in which a cotton agent was
engaged, in which to save 50 expressage
he risked 5000 without recourse. He
drew $4,000 in currency to send to
Savannah. BY his direction the bank
clerk made package of IL and wrapped
it securely in strong paper and sealed il.
BY direction of the cashier the bank
clerk did not obey the customer 8 req uest
that he write 5000 ON the face OF the
package, 30 the cotton agent did
that himself, and saved IS expressage.
But 10, and behold, when that
package got to Savannah il trans
pired that he had told the truth
when he meant TO tell lie, for there was
but 5000 in the blamed thing. of
course the express company won't pay,
for their receipt calls for only 50. 900.
But where did that 5000 goP The
bank clerk might, under certain
have, taken it. II it was his
business TO seal up many packages, he
could have lunwrapped the package In
question, taken out $1,000, and let the
package with its false mark unchanged
and so far as appearance was concerned,
untouched, as the writing would have
been the cotton agents. But that would
have required the clerk not only 10 be
dishonest, but to be- gifted with re.
quick faculty Of seizing an op-
The man at Savannah, know.
ng what the contents really were, could |
have taken ont the $4,000, put away |
5000, and claimed that the package
contained only 5000. But as he has no |
-ecourse against the express company for
my amount ovei the sum his sgent, the
shipper, stated in his own handwriting
VAS In the package, what good would the
abstraction Of the money DO him? Pos.
IDLY some express OH 'ial on the route
nay have had an Nray apparatus and
zen through the package and concluded
o correct the error into which the shin.
Der had fallen. The whole case certain.
Y seems to present. a problem that may
yell claim to be second cousin Of the
)hinese puzzle.