Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
Her Snowfall By MOLLIE k. WE1HERELL Copyright, 1910, by American Press
 Association.

yGInS WOtueu WHO uaulilleE on type writer keys all day. go to bed as soon } as they get home, arise in the morning and begin hammering at the keys again. The only hope she had for any thing better was in saving from the meager salary received, accommodating pecuuiary snowfall and letting it
 roll and roll till it was a great mass. But the snow was very thin and dry and cold and wouldn't pack. Again and again she thought she had her ball started, but 1t fell to pieces. She cal } culated ahead so far as she was able in the matter of necessities, but just when she expected to put something sizable into her savings bank her } shoes would give out or she would need a winter coat or some other arti- } cle of clothing, and so it was a long while before she had got together even hundred dollars.
 Then her snowfall began to pack, and at the end of another year by dint of the severest parsimony she had doubled her capital. But just as she was feeling elated that she would be in receipt of $S a year which she
  taken i'll, and nearly $50 of her say ings were paid out for doctors fees and medicines.
 As soon as the plucky girl was we'll she began again, and in another six months her snowfall had recovered what it had lost. From that time forward she did better. She not only received an increase of salary, but her funds were paying interest. There were backsets. of course, but when the semiannual figuring of interest came round and she looked at her to- tai it was always increased till at length she had got together thousand dollars.
 The receiving teller of the savings bank where she kept her funds was a j nice looking young man, and always when she made q deposit he smiled at } her and had something pleasant to say.
 } One day there came a commercial panic. Prices went down, down, down, till securities could be bought in many cases for half their intrinsic value. One day when Eleanor went to the bank to make q deposit her teller } friend said to her:
 "There is an opportunity just now } for you to make some money. Take what you have in here and buy few shares of some kind of stock. Choose only what is regarded as sound, pay } for it out and out and put it away" He gave her q list of shares he con sidered good and the address of a bro ker. The result of this advice was that she put all the money she had in the stock of a corporation which could be bought so far below par that she held what represented four times what she had paid.
 Several years passed. The panic } was over, and securities has reas- sumed their normal value. One day } Eleanor concluded to sell the shares she had bought during the panic and put the money back in the savings bank. She knew nothing of banking,
 so when the broker offered her his check she asked for currency instead. He sent out the check, got 1t cashed and paid her forty-five hundreddollar bills.
 She went to the savings bank flushed with the thought of meeting her teller friend, but on reaching 1t saw another face at the window She was told that the former teller had gone to the -th National, around the corner. The clock in the savings bank stood at five minutes to when Eleanor started for the tn National bank and at two minutes of when she reached the receiving teller's window. On see ing Eleanor his face lighted with a smile but when she laid down her treasure his expression changed. "Youre too late to deposit that to- day" he said.
 "Isn't the closing hour 3 o'clockT she asked.
 "Yes, but I'm too busy to attend to it today"
 Heavens! What can I do with 1t? I shall be robbedw
 "Very well, I'll take 1t, but l haven't time to make a deposit ticket for you or give you a bank book. Come to- morrow"
 He took the money, and Eleanor saw him put it in a safe Then the next uGDOSllOI lOOh uIo lbiatSN anu AiI h1Ahs When the window was closed it was 3 o'clock.
 The next morning Eleanor heard people talking about the failure of a bank. Her cheeks blanched when she learned it was the institution where she had put her snowfall. She hur- ried to the place, found the doors closed and a crowd of melancholy people standing about. Oh, the misery of that moment! Hot tears were start ing from her eyes when she felt tap on her shoulder. Turning, there stood her teller friend. Putting his finger } to his lips and walking away, he gave her a look that told her to follow him. She did so, and when they were alone he said:
 Five minutes before you came to the bank with your money yesterday ] the directors decided not to open to- day. I was told to give out no in-