The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-18
STORIES TOLD OF STATESMEN
Lewis Felt as Though the Bank
Was His,


kissed whiskers," ex-representative from
statesman, philosopher and poet, but he
is not much of fnancier. At least he
wasn't a few years ago, before he ems
tered congress. He tells the following
story at his own expense:
when l opened my first bank account
not SO very many years ago l didn't
have much idea of how banks conduct
ed business. I made a deposit Of a few
hundred dollars, was given a bank book,
which showed the amount of money I
had to my credit, and a check book.
Upon returning to my office carefully
placed the bank book in my desk and
forgot all about it. I carried the check
book in my pocket for convenience sake.
1t was a new sensation for me to draw
checks. l was like child with a new
toy. When I needed money, or anybody
else wanted some, all had to do was to
go down after the check book was
the proudest man in all the state OF
Washington. I imagined that my bank
account was as long as that Of J. Pier
pont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller. or
the moral law itself, for that matter.
Finally however, I found that I had
overdrawn to the extent OF $3.50. I
didn't really know what it meant or
what to do. What do you suppose dill
do? Well, I'll tell you. walked into
the bank with the notice of overdraft.
drew a check for the amount, handed
both to the paying teller and started out
of the bank. I was called back and mat
ters We're explained to me, much to my
humiliation. Since then I have kept a
little closer tab on the stub end Of my
check book"
| Gen. John M. Wilson, who recently re-
tired as chief of engineers, as a very
courteous gentleman, and in office hours
especially expected to be treated with
that Difference by visitors that he ac-
corded them. One day Attorney Hig-
gins, then a United States senator from
/ Delaware, who is not exactly q Chester
field, dropped in to see the general on
official business. He entered with his
high hat stuck carelessly on the back OF
his head, and, without troubling himself
to remove it, fell into chair and opened
up the conversation. General Wilson
was much perturbed by this familiarity,
and made no pains to conceal the TACT
Finally he pressed his finger hard on the
electric button. and his messenger ap.
peared.
William" he ordered, sharply. bring
me my hat
When William reappeared, the genera
put the hat on. cooked it savagely over
his left eye, planked both feet on hi.
desk and continued to talk.
Senator Higgins appeared totally un-
;, aware of the significance of these pro-
ceedings, but General Wilson was no,
= WITTY hit <AA tos
rose to go the army officer touched the
senger. saying:
civilian, you may hang 1t up again
; I don't suppose I'll have any further ust
for it today until go home"
It is only fair to Senator Higgins t.
!. state that even this pointed remarl
!. seemed to fail to make any impression
on him.
pap" Fender has been a doorkeepel
: at the white house for upward of fort,
years, and he is writing a book on hi
experiences there. He is the man who
assisted President Lincoln to his car
riage on the night of the assassination
at Fords theater, Washington, 36 year!
ago. Fender also assisted President Gar
field to his carriage on the morning thu
latter was shot at the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad station. by Charles ]. Guitea:
The other day a Hebrew was visito
at the white house, and Pap" Pende
was showing him through the building
! Pap is very fond of telling people ho.'
long he has been employed at the execu
: tive mansion. When ne informed hi
Hebrew friend that he had been Their
nearly forty years the latter, looking a
him in great establishment, exclaimed:
"And you don't own it yet?"
: A looking. one-armed gentle
: man. wearing the SLOUGH hat that de
= notes the southerner to the manor born
t was entering the Arlington last week
? when he came into a head-on col
: lision with a dapper. bewhiskered gen
: tleman who was making his exit at
h 2:4O gait. As each rccoiled from the i'm
pact. profound excuses We're made. an
4 nothing would content the southernel
: who insisted that he alone was at fau!