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THE ATLANTIAN
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This Bank Treats
Everybody Right
cut is our constant effort to extend
courteous and considerate treatment to
every customer of the bank. We pro
vide every facility that will render the
transaction of business convenient to
those who deal with us. Small ac
counts are welcome and will receive the
same painstaking attention as big ones.
Capital ....
Surplus and Profits
$600,000
890,000
A Department exclusively for Women
and a Department for Savings.
We shall be glad to have your business.
Fourth National Bank
A BEAL PHILANTHROPIST.
Gcorgo Adc was talking about bis last
visit to London.
‘ ‘ I like to knock about London alone, ’ ’
he said, “studying the places of histor
ical interest; and at this kindly Christ
mas season I remember with particular
pleasure a good deed that I performed
at ono of London’s historic landmarks
for a Chicago woman.
“It was a rainy fall day, and I satj
over a beefsteak pudding and a mug of
bitter at tho Cheshire Cheese in Meet
street.
‘' The ' Chicago woman entered, Bos
well’s Johnson’ in her hand. The Ches
hire Cheese was, you know, Johnson's
favorito tavern, and the woman had been
told that tho great man’s autograph could
still be seen penciled on one of the walls.
“Tho waiters told her they knew of
no such autograph; but tho woman, with
dauntless Chicago spirit, began a long,
long search, upstairs and down.
“While she was upstairs, a warm glow
of bonevolenco suddenly rose up in my
breast, and, taking a pencil from my
pocket, I wroto with qur.int eighteenth
century fluorishes on tho wall behind me,
‘Sam Johnson.’
“Tho woman on her return from up
stairs spied tho autograph and was over
joyed. Is it not amazing how much hap
piness wo can give to others by these lit
tle acts of kindness!”
Frank—“Let’s go to the baseball game
today. I have engaged a box.
Helen—‘ * Oh, how lovely I Tho pitcher’s
box!
THE BACHELOR’S LOT.
Gcorgo Ado was showing a reporter
over his luxurious apartment at the Chi
cago Athletic Club.
‘ ‘ Wonderful, superb! ’ ’ Such were the
reporter’s ejaculations before Air. Ade’s
rugs and pictures.
At tho end of the inspection, in an
swer to an enthusiastic compliment on
his taste, Mr. Ado said with a laugh:
“Married men have better halves, but
iwe bachelors have better quarters, eh!”
J. LEE BARNES,
Member of Yaarab Temple Shrine.
He Will Attend the Dallas
Session of the Order.
THE GREEN HAND.
“President Mellon of the New Haven
system allows neither wrecks nor investi
gations to dampen his humor.”
Tho speaker was a Boston railroader,
lie continued:
“I made a pretty bad mistake last
week, but President Mellon, ainid all his
business worries, took my fault good-
naturedly. He just said I reminded him
of a new brakeman on the Sunapee line.
‘ ‘ This brakeman, the first day out,
had his duties explained by the conduc
tor.
" ‘You see,’ the conductor said,
‘when I call a station’s name—Concord
or Boston, or what not—you must call
tho same at your end. Understand?’
“ ‘Sure,’ said tho brakeman. ‘Sure,
Mike. I understand. ’
“So they started off, and tho first
stop was Sunapee.
‘ ‘ ‘ Sunapee! ’ roared the conductor, as
tho train slowed down.
“An instant later, poking his head in
at the rear door of tho car, the brake-
man roared:
‘ ‘ ‘ Same at this end I ’ ”
WE’RE ALL ELIGIBLE.
Woodrow Wilson, on the steamer Ber
mudian, showed his modesty and his in
telligence in many a witty saying.
Apropos of the criticism always meted
out to tho occupants of high places, Mr.
Wilson said one day:
“The man who couldn’t fill a position
of eminence better than tho man who
actually holds it has yet to be born. ’ ’
C. H. MASON,
Who Was Re-Elected Chairman of
the Police Board at Its Last
Meeting.
WHAT A RELIEF.
An Englishman who was paying his
first visit to this country was not very
familiar with tho slang words often used.
Ono day while riding on a street car he
was attracted by the extraordinary ap
pearance of a baby in the arms of a
woman who was seated opposite him.
He kept watching the child constantly,
and the mother, growing angry, suddenly
leaned over and hissed:
“Rubber!”
“Thank the Lord, ma’am,” said the
Englishman, much relieved, “I thought
it was real, upon my word! ’ ’
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