Amador ledger., 1907-07-05

peared. Van Wrinkle was shown into
the presidents private office and re-
ceived with suspicion. Not daring to
give the Rip Van Wrinkle story, he said
he had gone to see the world. He
asked for a position, and there being a
vacancy in a department where large
sums were handled he was appointed
The salary was $500 a year.
Eight hundred a year for guarding
millions" exclaimed Van Wrinkle.
. "All that's changed, Walter. We
don't need to rely OH our employees
honesty now; we insure it."
ENSURE it?'
Eyes. A company for a premium
takes the risk"
"And do you mean, friend of my boy
hood, to insure me?'
"As president of the bank l can't
help doing so. It's rule made by the
directors"
'Then If l come In here to work for
you l am at liberty to beat the bank If
Ican?"
Certainly"
do you refrain from beating it be-
cause of your integrity"
I'D be fool to beat it-illegally"
81 see."
Sorry can't do any better for you,
Walter. You should have stuck to
business as 1 have instead Of roaming
all over the world"
Let me ask you one question, Dick"
$50 ahead.
"Are you an honest manW
Trimble put his lips to Van Wrinkles
ear and whispered: "Only in small
things, not in big ones; no petty lar
ceny for me. This is between me and a
friend of my boyhood."
Its taken you years to learn to be
dishonest. I've learned it in one day.
see it's become the fashion"
"You might as we'll wear a plug hat
made of beaver as to be hOnest-that
Is, what we used to call honest"
II see. When shall go to work?''
Tomorrow, if you like"
When Van Wrinkle appeared at the
bank the next day he found a photo
grapher there. President Trimble came
out of his private Office and said:
you'll have to be photographed,
Walter"
what for?"
"Oh, the rule is to have photograph
of all our employees. They're easier
caught if they light out with the funds
of the BANK
"a sort of rogues' galleryY
cts for those who become rogues.
Most concerns get their clerks together
occasionally and photograph them in
groups. Makes the boys feel their i'm
portance, and the concern has the gal
lery. But we don't stoop to that We
take picture Of every employee be-
fore he begins work"
, ,''Is there any more of this sort of
thing to learn?"
Eyes; one. You'll have two weeks
vacation during the year-two vaca-
tons Of one week each at six months
interval"
II don't want any vacation. lost
forty years by my last vacation"
"But you must take your vacation"
"Why soT'
'That we may have an opportunity
to examine your accounts"
poor dog Trusts dead indeedr' re-
marked Van Wrinkle, with sickly
smile.
Better dead than dying. Give me
community of honor or one of ac-
knowledged roguery."
"Is there any community in Ameri-
ca where our former standard still ex-
ists?
'Not in commercial life"
"How about the army?"
"There's a good deal left there, be-
lieve"
every well; I'll go there. I'm too old
to enlist, but 1 can become a mule
driver, and that's better than making
money under the rogue system"
And he did. OSCAR cox.
Very Much Settled.
An elderly woman, on being exam
ined before the magistrate of Bungay.
as to her place of legal settlement, was
asked what reasons she had for sup
posing that her deceased husbands
settlement was at st. Andrews.
The old lady looked earnestly at the
bench and said:
He was born there, he was married