The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18
COUNTING MONEY
 AT BANK WINDOW
Is a Most Frustrating Business
 Says Newton NeWkirk
EXPERIENCE IN BANK
An Indiana Man Gets Gold Pieces for Nicl<eIs-No such Luck for
 One Newspaper Man
Newton Newkirk in Boston Post.

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 The other day out in Indiana a gen tleman dropped into the First Nationa bank, threw down a two-dollar willie under the paying teller's nose and asked him for the worth of 1t in nickels. Ths P. T. showed out a roll of coins done III fin paper hollered Next" and the mar who had come after change passed into oblivion.
 At the "count-up'' at the bank that af ternoon it was discovered that the payina teller Instead of giving the man two dol lars worth of nickels had given him g Boll of s5 gold pieces. amounting to s2oo whereupon consternation reigned su- preme. The bank president jumped on the P. T. for making such a blundef and all the P. T. could say was, T didn't know it was loaded-with 8 gold piecesr' strenuous effort has been made to find the man who got the s5 gold piece. but so far he has not been located. Evidently he has not done much brag- ging and boasting publicly in Shelby, and the chances are he will not.
 Well. some folks have good luck and scme don't Now it is just like piker, who doesn't need the money, to go into a bank, slam down s2 and get $2oo in return for it, but nothing like that ever happened to me. l either get the exact amount in return for my money, or am the victim of the short change racket. never yet eopped a 220-to-1 shot in a bank If l could do that every time I know of some banks that would go broke before long.
 Its my experience that getting money changed in a bank for something just as good is risky business. Generally there is a little drinky sign posted up near the cashiers window which says: Please count your change before leaving the windowr' but what good does that do? Suppose a man were standing in front of the chashiers window, painfully and laboriously trying to count bunch Of S1oe bills with 1s people and one large, brutal, husky-looking man standing in line behind him. 1 can't even count 20 sl bills under those circumstances.
 His strenuous Time
 tried it once. not so very long ago. I gave the cashier two tens and liver and asked him to kindly skin me off 70 s.wunners,' all new, clean money There were five people backed up behind me and there was l trying to count the money without making an error. got up to S11 once when the cashier beetled his brows at me and yelled, ''Next3' Then I lost count and had to begin all over again. The second time I got IF to s13, when a sweet young girl right be- hind me. who held a check in her hand which she wished to get cashed, sighed deeply and murmured impersonally in my ear: 'Oh, dear me, I wish this pikei would get his scads counted and beaf iti'
 Of course that threw me off again an{ I had to begin all over. and I had no counted but s4 before the other people in line began to make unpleasant re marks One man said: "Why don't vol take it home and count it2" Another said: "Butt him out-he's blocking th' line" Another asked: Here. there, Bo have you got a lease on that winder?' while another voice piped up: He doesn look as if he could count up to more than 10i''
 Then another pleasant voice remarked ''Take your time, Bill-there are only l of us waiting now, and more coming!' Finally the cashier said: There art other people in line and you will do th' bank a great favor if you will step alone lively
 Of course when the cashier said tha I gave way to what seemed to be th' popular sentiment of those behind me and went over to a desk in the bank tt count my money uninterrupted. To dt this was against my better judgment be cause the sign plainly said: Pleas' count your change before leaving thu window"