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trip he was out thirty-six hours, and
on his second four days, leaving his as
sistant in charge of the office.
All reports concur that he devoted
himself with untiring zeal and self
sacrificing spirit to the relief work,
which was purely voluntary and no
part of his official obligation. Work
ing in disease-laden hospitals and in
an infected office, he became an easy
prey, and was swiftly carried off by
yellow fever, giving his life for his
country as distinctly as if he had fallen
on the field of battle.
Fidelity to duty and courage and for
titude in the presence of danger are not
monopolized in any calling. The cases
which have been cited and which are
only illustrative of many Others will
suffice to show that these qualities are
exhibited in all branches of the postal
service. The railway mail work is
especially hazardous, and its history is
a monument of splendid devotion.
It's dangerous character is exempli-
fed in the fact that within ten years
seventy mine clerks have been killed
and 1,7SO injured by accidents while
they were at their post of duty. Sure
ly there are heroes in the postal serv-
ice, and they well deserve grateful
commemoration.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

John B. Harris in a wreck about the
anne time near Silver City, Iowa.
With great effort they put out the fire
in the mail car and saved the mail
They then turned to their unconscious
chief and succeeded in getting him out
of the car and into the hands of the
local surgeons. Next they transferred
the mail to another car, and went on to
Council Bluffs.
Arriving there late, worn out, but
with no chance for rest, they remained
on duty, and started out on the return
trip with not only the regular mail but a
large extra mail from Manila. A crew
was sent to relieve them, but the extra
mail called for extra men, and, rather
than bring in any unworked mail, they
kept on at their labor until they reach
ed st. Louis. N
They were continuously on duty for
thirty nine hours, and, especially in
view Of the nervous strain on the
wreck, their action showed q conscien-
tious fidelity of the highest order. Such
instances might be multiplied almost
indefinitely, but these will serve as
examples.
The winter. service in Alaska is full
of hardships and danger. In the win
ter of 1899 two carriers started with
the mail from Juneau on the route to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14
J4eroes Of the Postal Service.

livious of his frightful condition. i'm
mediately called for his registered mat
ter. The trainmen sought to dissuade
him and keep him quiet. But he in
sisted, and was only content when the
registered mail in his care was brought
and laid beside him on the grass.
After an operation he recovered suf-
ficiently to resume work, and took up
the same duty in which he had shown
such resolution and fortitude. This oc-
Cured twenty-six years ago, and Mil
Ter today is superintendent of mails in
the Des Moines postoffice.
What could be more heroic than the
conduct of Postal Clerk c.. o. Lidfors
in an accident on the Southern rail-
way, April 5, 1900? A fire next to the
track near Ridgeland, S. c., warped
the rails, and when the train UNDER
took to pass, the tender and the postal
car were derailed, caught fire and were
completely destroyed. The postal
clerks stayed at their post, worked in
the car after the glass in the windows
was melted and one side had fallen out,
and succeeded in saving every piece of
mail.
OF the same quality was the heroism
of Postal Clerks William A. Cooper and
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interpret Jesus Christ in terms that
look to the larger social hope of a
kingdom of God coming on earth where
there is neither poverty nor riches, that
minister would certainly recognize a
marvellous opportunity.
This but calls the attention of church
people to the growing fact that it Is
time for serious thinking on their part.
Let us know the reasons. Let every
churchman ask himself these ques-
tons:
Are the wage-earner and his wife
welcomed as eagerly in our church as
are the banker and his wife?
: Is the coal miner sought out as
eagerly when he comes to our town as
is the lawyer, fresh from college, who
with his cultured wife would make
such valuable addition to our church?
Has the wage Garner representation
in the management of our church? /
do not mean in the mission churches
placed in sections of the city where
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of finance and commerce must give at
tention. 1t has been shown conclu-
sively by the president of the largest
bank in the West that the branch sys-
tenn of banking is the solution of the
increased earning capacity of banks.
While the Canadian branch system
would, in all probability, never be a
success in this country, a great many
advantages would accrue by a closer
utilization between banks in different
centers, and we know this is being ac-
complished at this time, not by means
of brass bands or newspaper editorials,
but by an interchange of stock between
the stockholders and directors of diff
ferent banking institutions. The effect
Of this will be seen during the next
panic, when the community of interests
banks in New York, Chicago, Balti-
more and other centers will be in posi-
ton to render aid to the bank needing
it. AS yet 1T is cloud on the horizon,
no larger than a mans hand, and yet
if the plan works as 1t has in other
lines Of business, 1t will soon grow to a
size that will attract the attention of
the whole business world. Economy in
administration, efficiency in service and
the survival of the fittest is the hand
writing on the wall that the banking
fraternity must recognize, and the
sponsors of the community of interests
plans are working on this basis.
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Ginhood's Responsibilities.

sibilities, and these responsibilities
have moulded the modern girl. Re-
sponsibilities are in the air. The girl
who goes out into the world at all
meets them at every turn, whether she
will or no. Why it is a responsibility
nowadays to live, to keep up with the
times. Indeed, of all responsibilities
know of, barring always those of wife
hood and motherhood, the responsible
ity of being modern girl seems to me
the greatest. The modern girl has
ideals to attain, possibilities to reach,
duties to fulfill, that her mother and
grandmother never dreamed of. Her
possibilities are as much advanced
over theirs as automobiles are advance
ed over stage coaches.
How is she to make the best of her
opportunities. then? How is she to fill
fill all her high, fine possibilities?
That is a question that is or ought to
be near to the heart of every girl. BY
following this question out in all it's
details I want to help girls answer
that question. BY dealing intimately
with those things which involve her
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

ings that many a girls girlhood be-
comes mere day dream time, with
all it's richest opportunities unused.
Today Is undoubtedly the day of
girls and girls responsibilities. Never
before in the history of the race has
girlhood been such a rich time and so
full Of possibilities. Compare the old
fashioned, helpless girl of long ago
with the keen-faced, clear eyed girl
of today, who goes about in our great
cities earning her bread, making her
way, seeking her happiness, making
her own decisions, asking advice of
few, and who, in many cases, is the
mainstay of others. Her father finds
her a helpful comrade, her mother
thinks her advice worth seeking, her
girl friends go to her for sympathy,
her men friends depend upon her
friendship and good judgment. What
has caused the shrinking, fashion
ed girl to bloom into this capable mod
ern sister of hers? Shall I tell you?
Well, then, nothing more or less than
responsibility. New conditions have
brought about countless new respon-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14
By Margaret Churchill.

is lacking in the best qualities of her
sex who does not love to have lit
tie child take hold of her hand trust
ingly for help, and look up to her for
projections; who does not love to have
the aged depend on her young strength
and cheer, or who does not feel a
warmth of welcome to those of her own
age who come to her for sympathy
The girl who is most a girl and who is
going to be most a woman, is the one
who is most ready with her sympathy,
who has most thought for doing some
thing for others. Since the world be-
gan women have possessed the inalien-
able right to minister. 1t is woman's
right and heritage to love and to COM
fort, as it is a mans right to protect
and govern.
Get someone to love, then; someone
in your life who needs you, and is bet
ter and happier for your loving SYM
pathy. Who shall it be? The sensitive
girl need not go far for the answer to
this question. 1t may be a little child,
who spends good many lonely hours,
and to whom your kind words, your at
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closest interests, by discussing those
things which are Of daily Importance
in her life and character, let us try to
find the best way of getting the most
out of girlhood. We all want to be
fine, earnest women, with woman's
wide privileges and rights and happi-
ness, and believe we cannot be this
If our girlhood falls entirely short of
it's rights of fullness and happiness
Few girls realize that the little daily
things more than the big events are
moulding their lives. Our lives are log
ical results; not just detached and err
ratio happenings. What your girlhood
is now is the prophecy of what your
womanhood will be. So many girls
mean to be all sorts of fine things when
they get to be women. The important
thing is to be all sorts of fine things
while you are girls. 1 wish every girl
could live her girlhood up to the full
with happiness and work and love.
have chosen the subject of RESPONSE
bilities this month because l believe 1t
to be one Of the most important sub
jects in a girls life. I believe that
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tention, your interest and patience, and
an occasional fairy-tale or two, or a
word of praise or encouragement, are
like water to thirsty young plants; 1T
may be an old person, to whom your
young cheer and girlish courage may
be sunshine through no one guesses
how much twilight gloom; 1T may be
some girl Of your own age, whose re-
ticent, shy nature shuts her away from
much companionship, and who there
fore values your thoughtful sympathy
more than you can possibly guess; 1t
may be some man struggling along
among harsh and unlovely conditions,
to whom your bright courage and faith
and your trust in him may be just the
inspiration needed to keep his life
strong and free from encouragement
and final failure
Let any one of these things I have
mentioned become loving RESPONSE
bility in your life, and your girlhood
will be enriched and, broadened and
beautified by it. Such things prepare
the way for noble and broad woman
hood.
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By the Rev. George c. McNan.

only the laboring classes live, but in
those churches where all could come.
If the wage Garner has no part in
the management of our church, are we
not forgetting the lesson of the revo-
ADMINISTRATION and government with
out representation?
If the wage-earner or his wife have
no recognition in the management Of
our church, why should they go to a
church where the men and women of
the cultured and commercial classes
monopolize, dominate. direct and die
tate?
Do We ever and always give the man
with the worn-out clothes, who has the
CRIME of six days buried into his flesh,
as much consideration as we do his SUI
periors? Why, then, do we fall to see
him at church on Sunday and why do
| we find him seeking other places on
Sundays?
If these questions, answered fairly,
| do not open the eyes OF the church
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Are the Poor Oelcome in the Churches Z

I have often beef asked point blank
why the different classes should not
separate for religious services? Why
should the mistress and her maid and
the manufacturer and his men go to
the same church when their tastes are
so different? I have not reached the
point where I haKe learned that re-
demption from sin and growth IN
grace were essentially matter OF
taste, requiring different bill of fare
Maybe it's coming, maybe it has come.
that to meet the taste of its patrons
the gospel train must have a jim
crow car added to Its equipment.
But if 1000 men who are doing the
worlds work that must be done TO sus.
tain national life, and the wives OF
those men who are bearing and bring
ing up the boys who are to fight the
country's battles for patriotism and IND
bread-if these people should go forth
and with their own money build a
church and ask minister to come and
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have a private exchange of it's own,
with one person whose entire work
was to make connections with the diff
ferent departments, each of which has
to have it's own phone.
In the clerical department there
have been even more changes in
methods than in the executive depart
ment. A young mans first duty on en-
tering a bank was to learn to copy let
tiers. Today. copy books are almost I'M
known in progressive banks. Mani
fold copying systems have eliminated
their use and at the same time been
a wonderful time saver. The element
of time is a more important factor in
banks where each days work is COM
plete in itself and where placing the
mail on the first train is not only i'm
portant but in many cases absolutely
necessary.
A young man formerly spent much
time and vitality learning one Of the
most important RS known to the bank
ing world, namely, arithmetic, and
especially that portion which treats of
addition. To the initiated only will
ever be known the amount of figures
required to be added, and added COR
rectly, in one day in even a moderate
ly sized city bank. Then only the ex-
pert clerk could attempt to manage the
clearings and balance with the teller.
Today by means Of the registering and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14
Gpoludon in Banking Methods.

providing he had on his winter clothes,
a possible inspection of the plant, that
he was fortunate to escape with only
his feet frozen. Today in all banks Of
ficers make 1t their business to treat
the public courteously, and, as rule,
are accommodating and painstaking
men. Not alone is the public made to
feel at home when they chance to en-
ter the bank, but the old tradition
that 1t was unprofessional for
banker to visit his customers at their
places of business or to solicit an ac-
count from those who were not his
customers, is entirely forgotten by
many. 1t is no uncommon thing for
some banks to have an officer who de-
votes most of his time to visiting his
banks depositors, and these men are
careful not to offend their neighbours
customers by sighting them on their
official rounds.
In place of the hand-written letter
of the cashier, the heads of the de-
partments in banks dictate the letters
on matters pertaining to their depart
ment, and the cashier or assistants
sign them. Where ten letters were
written by hand, as many years ago,
100 are now sent to his desk for in
spection and signature. Then bank
had one telephone and the clerk who
worked nearest to it answered it. To-
day the same bank would have to
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checks drawn upon them and sent to
the cities in payment for goods. The
cost to the city bank in clerk hire, sta
tionery, postage, to say nothing of loss
of use of money, In handling this bust
ness is very large. Some idea of the
expense entailed may be gained from
the fact that savings bank in Min
neapolis whose deposits are ten mil
lions, requires only ten clerks to ham
die it's business, while the commercial
banks who handle these miscellaneous
deposits require from forty to fifty
clerks to handle the same volume of
deposits. There are different plans
proposed to overcome this large expen-
diture.
The Boston plan is to have a central
clearing house, to which all the banks
in the organization shall send their
checks, and the arrangement is made
to have all checks sent from thence di-
rect to bank In the town on which
they are drawn, the bank receiving the
same to remit the clearing house in
Boston at par, the clearing house in
turn distributing the proceeds to the
banks to which it belongs. This has
worked successfully. OF late another
solution of not only this problem, but
of the waste and loss of earning ca
pacity in the capital and deposits of
the bank, has been, proposed, and it is
one to which every thoughtful student
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ea
people in our average American cities
and towns, let them put the clothes and
the life Of the men who work in steel
mills all week on their backs and go to
church in a strange city.
Personally, I have tasted something
of the bitterness of the wage earner's
situation. Because my clothes were old
and worn have been given the back
seat and hidden behind posts and pill
lars. Yes, I have been taken as
thief, and led out. Quite to the other
extreme, but equally as offensive, |
have been petted, as it We're, because
I was so heroic as to go to church, as
nice little man.
] make no railing accusations. 1t is
not the fault of the minister. 1t is his
misfortune. The church Is cursed to-
day by the spirit of caste that is the
outgrowth of educational ideals that
the great object of life and education
is to learn the trick of lodging the
worlds rough work.
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so, in fact, that for the good of young
people in his mission Sunday school
he advised them not join the parent
church that supported that school. 1t
was the fashionable church of the city.
1t had good music, q paid choir and a
good preacher. Some insisted that
they wanted to join, and they did, but
they were gone in a half year. What
was the reason? do not know what
was the reason in this case, but this I
do know, after leading the life and ac-
cepting the lot of wage Garner for
four years. know there is a growing
conviction on the part of the wage
Garner, or he may be bluntly told so,
that he would be more comfortable in
some little frame mission church that
has wheezy organ that was perhaps
long ago worn out by the parent
church, that has scant strip of car
pet down the center, and whose light
comes in through cheap, plain colored
glass.
Is it not fair question whether the
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NHE question in nutshell is
this: Has the wage learner
and his wife-he with his
grimy hands and worn
clothes, and she, with her
hands swollen with dish and clothes
washing, and her wearing apparel
hardly what the fashionable expect
churches in the average cities and
county seats? 1t was not long ago
that 1 went to an Indiana town where
there was a great deal of complaint
that the laboring people were getting
far from the. church, and found in
that city of $4,000 that the leading ae.
church had not solitary wage-earner
m its rolls, though that town was es-
sentially town of wage earning peo-
ME. What was the reason?
In another Indiana city the pastor tor
that IN spite of all that he could do
or wish, his church was unconsciously
but actually a class church, SO much
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mission church in our modern cities is
not the largest fraud ever perpetrated
In the name of Jesus Christ? 1t may
be that the workingman will go to hell
if he does not go to the mission
church, but he reserves the right to
go his own way. Matthew XIV. sug-
gests a possible misunderstanding of
routes.
This protest Of wage earners and
workers generally and their plans
raises the question whether or not
some of the churches are really
churches or are only social and ethical
clubs.
On the day after Easter, 1902, the
Boston papers, speak of Boston, for
was working there then-had large
space devoted to the remarkable
gowns worn by fashionable women in
the leading churches Of Boston. The
paper handled the services exactly as
they would a ball. Did the common
people hear Him gladly on that day?
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HE same forces that are at
work in all lines of bust
ness and all professions,
tending to minimize or

HE same forces that are at
work in all lines of bust
ness and all professions,
" tending to minimize or
=. eliminate superfiuous work
and thus save time and money, have
been especially busy at banking meth
DDS and traditions during the past ten
or fifteen years. These changes are as
apparent in the executive or Official
department of bank as in the clerl-
cal or workshop department.
Some ten or fifteen years since the
president of a bank was very apt TO
be a retired successful merchant,
whose gray hairs and wealth gave his
bank standing in the community. The
cashier was the executive head of the
institution, and, to use an expressive
phrase, ran the bank" He kept all
the information concerning the credit
and standing of his customers in his
head, and did not bother himself about
the financial reputation of other than
his own customers. He opened all the
mail, wrote all his letters by hand, at
tended to the making of par lists, hir-
ed the boys. showing them personally
the manner in which he wished the
work DONE In the few years that have
elapsed since then the wonderful
growth of our industries and COMPETE
ton has wrought a marked change in
all of this.
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nouncing against his timepiece word
of positive SANDER. That other wag
who is ever on hand to rebuff such
boasting with the mock solemn affir-
nation that, though the sun may vary
his watch will not, is, if he has really
good watch, speaking more nearly
what may be termed literal truth. One
Yankee Matchmaker, indeed, was bold
enough several years since to go into
the public prints with an eye-catching
cartoon wherein his watch was geared
to the center of the solar system, ac-
companied by the words, at runs with
the sun" But it is a fact-either with
or without significance-that this in
strument was the cheapest watch ever
offered for sale that laid any sort of
serious claim to merit as time
keeper.
No maker of very fine watch would
care to say that it keeps time with the
sun. If it did this it would be wrong
just 361 days out of the year. That is
to say there are only four days in the
year when the sun crosses the meri-
dian exactly at II o'clock-April 15,
June IA, September 1, and December
"a. On all other days he varies from
a fraction of second to nearly sixteen
minutes on both sides Of the dot of
noon.
OF course not many of our early
forefathers-those who found it out
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N HERE is a heroism of civic
duty as thrilling and shin
ing as that of the battle
field. Danger tries the soul;
it comes sometimes where
least expected, and the higher
qualities of human nature which 1T
tests are not limited to any class or
field.
Examples of physical bravery and
moral courage are found in every
realm of activity. The engineer who,
coming upon sudden catastrophe,
stands at his post and sacrifices his
life to save those committed to ms
care, the sailor who goes down after
he has landed his last lifeboat, leaving
no chance for himself, is as true
hero as the most daring soldier that
ever faced the lannon's mouth.
For the most part the postal service
is prosaic. 1t is as much a part of our
every day life as the air we breathe or
the water we drink, and generally 1T
has little more romance.
We can point out that every min
ute of every day and night puts 1880
new messages in it's care; we can show
that every year it handles three and
a. third billions of letters, and that the
mistakes in handling are only one in