Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-08-02
PAYING OFF IN BANK CHECKS.
One Troublesome Practice Lessened by
the war Revenue TAX.

One Troublesome Practice Lessened ny
the War Revenue Tax.
.ssThe war tax has its drawbacks re-
marked the cashier in a large stock
yards concern, 4but it is a blessing to
a man in my position. / never knew
to what extent the habit of making
small bank checks had spread until I
saw a contractor pay off his laborers
one Saturday night in checks. / made
inquiry, and found that it was a COM
mon practice not only with him, but
many others who hired great bodies
of men. The latter didn't like it, OF
course, because they were obliged to
cash the checks at the nearest gin mill,
which meant a loss to them. because
they had to treat contractor who
made practice of issuing small chscks
told me frankly that in the old days,
when it was necessary to face each
check with 2-eent internal revenue
stamp, he made as few checks as pos
sible. The war tax having included
bank checks the habit of issuing small
checks has practically been discon-
tinued. That's why | say the tax is
blessing in disguise. 1t is not profit
able to issue checks for small sums.
There is still another reason why we
now use fewer checks for small
amounts. Expert bank men declare
that the simplest check to raise is the
one calling for an amount below $40.
The percentage of raised checks is IS
on sums below SO. Another reason
for the opposition to small checks is
that they bother the bank authorities.
Some banking institutions will cast
out patrons account should he per-
sist in making small checks. The
cheapening of the registry of letters is
another reason for the suppression of
small checks
Mendicant Students.
Concerning the poorer students OF
Russia the Saturday Review says:
Their mendacity is passive rather than
active. Unlike the mendicant friars,
they never ask, but they know much
will be given them. They know, too
strange fact in a strange country-that
the university is open to all, irrespec-
tive of means or position Thus the
university becomes the poor Russians
golden opportunity, for here. as else
where, there are many posts, for which
graduates alone are eligible. A stroll
through the streets Of Moscow during
term time furnishes abundant evidence
of the popularity of the university. The
uncompromising military blue and
green uniform which stamps the stu
dent, and which he can never, save
under dire penalties, exchange for
plain clothes, is to be met with at
every turn. A few rich students are
caught sight of driving; the many are
on foot
Miss KlumpSe's Good Fortune.
Current newspaper statements con-
corning the will of Rosa Bonheur re-
call the fact that the principal legatee
was, until the last year of the great
artists life, an entire stranger to her.
Miss Anna Klumpke, a young portrait
painter of promise, greatly desired to
paint Rosa Bonheur, and wrote. ask
ing that privilege. Receiving favor
able reply, she at once started from
Boston to Fontainebleau, France, and
entered upon her work. The two
women found themselves in such close
sympathy that Mademoiselle Bonheur
asked her visitor to make her home
with her, and at her death last year
devised almost her entire estate
chateau, park. library, paintings and
priceless manuscripts-to this young
American. The story is a romance in
real life. 1t uaderseores the poets
query: "Who can answer where any
road leads?"