New-York tribune., 1907-11-03
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

ut is remarkable" said old bank emplOye.
'how few people keep their bank accounts abso-
lutely correct At ordinary times this failing IS
not conspicuous because books usually bal
when there is still credit TO the depositors
account. When the balanced book Is received with
the vouchers the usual discrepancy IS found after
much labor In an omitted entry. either deposit
or check in the form of error in addition or
subtraction The thing is usually settled at homo
without our help. But when lot of women go TO
q bank. each one with n check already made out
representing her balance. then look out. Fortu-
nately l have had no experience In that way. but
know that not one woman in ten-and l
charitable with the igure-keeps her book cor
recty, and many women keep no record at all.
We have depositor who used 10 receive
overdraft notice regularly every month. Now. by
an arrangement with her. give her notice
when the balance nears the 800 mark. Men laugh
at the women for their failure to keep their bank
accounts right, but except when bookkeeper does
the work for them they are nearly as bad"
said mGheF ,s 9sr to
whip you when he comes home tonight
don't do that m9theF t,G said tho LAD
Inquirer.
did you ever wish to reward any one for not
finding your property? Probably Not. But I
in that position" said guest at uptown hotel.
1T Ike this The Wall Street scare got up
my way and I frightened for fair. l heard
the folks at tho store tell how stocks would con-
demntion bowwows. I slapped my securities in
a bag got train and came here sell out,
get my cash and get rid Of worry. First thing I
did when came to town was to go to hotel
tho station and get breakfast. Then I sat
down in the lobby with my valuable bag on a
chair next TO me and looked the paper.
Things looked worse than ever 10 me and I made
q rush for the telephone to talk to my brokers'
was told they were busy and busy It for
ten minutes. At last I got them, and Just
in the midst of conversation when remembered
that had left the bag with all had in the world
in IL on chair IN the crowded hall. I dropped
the receiver. past the telephone attendant and
when reached the spot where had been sitting
there was tho bag just had left Il, with a
man reading a newspaper each side Of IT, I'll
never forget those two minutes. On my way down
town later I thought II all over and concluded
that each OF the two unconscious guardians of my
little fortune thought the bag belonged 10 tho other
If they thought of 1t at all II some one had
walked away with IT I know what the verdict
would have been: Served him right for losing his
head 4"
1T is pity that there are so many people who
Yes" answered Miss Cayenne, 'but think how
Inuch worse II would be II we had to accept all
ton Star Sta p''''''''S ''uo =" A''iiS-
The International Anti-Gambng Association
which halls from Chicago and New York, has
begun operations in London The founder of the
association is a j. Z. Quinn, who. in unregen-
eratS Gays, was n BaIuDler IN America. In his
travels on the banks of the Mississippi and over
the Rocky Mountains he learned many tricks of
the professional gambler and. having decided
many years ago TO forsake his old paths he is
devoting himself TO pointing out TO callow
youths and hardened gamesters the dangers that
exist in "the profession" He starts on the as
sumption that professional gambling IN all parts
OF the world is crooked. that in addition to the
heavy odds that favor the bookmaker and
banker they have other means by which thew
car fIDfa w tba
sumption Mr.. Quinn has taken TO London s. 900
worth OF gambling machinery, roulette tables Slot
machines and so forth. and be is prepared to
show by practical demonstration that there are
wheels within wheels in all these machines
did your case go by default sam?"
Plain Dealer.
Russia has completed the great steel and concrete
bridge across the Oxus at Karki. on which II has
been busy since the autumn of 1906 This
bridge Is the last and principal link In the new,
strategic railway which is being built between the
great city of Samarkand. In Russian Turkestan
and the little village OF Bosaga. on the Afghan
frontier. and the rails are laid which
will be in few months. the Gear will be able
should he so wish, TO mass million men upon the
borders of this debatable territory Another of
these strategic railways has also been recently
completed from the Caspian to Penjdeh by way of
Merry. These trunk lines have bean constructed
secretly.
she-I always think OF motoring as the poetry
of notion"
II becomes blank yerse"-London Opinion