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THE TELLER’S TRIALS Some Feminine Eccentricities Before His Window. “Many amusing as well as trying in cideuts happen at the teller's window every day, and a bank teller must be a born diplomat as well as a careful business man to be able to cope with the situations in which lie finds him self placed, especially when dealing with women,” said the obliging man behind the window grating the other day. "All sorts, kinds and conditions of people follow each other in rapid suc¬ cession In front of our window, and where w& have to use tact in dealing with people whose experience in bank ing methods has made them careless as to their own interests or the bank’s, we have to keep a sharp lookout all the while to prevent any one of the numerous sharpers from taking advan tage of us. Most of the well-known sharpers, however, are carefully de¬ scribed now, and their methods are all on record, so that if one of the old ones try It on us it is a pretty difficult thing for him to make away with it. There are new ones coming out all the time, though, and they are the ones that tax the shrewdness of the teller to the utmost, for the sharpers know that it takes something pretty smooth In these days to get- by the modern teller. But besides the occa¬ sional joker who comes In and asks me to give him two tens for a five, I haven’t had a single experience with a sharper for the last six months—let me rap on wood," he hastily said, as he realized that his last statement had been somewhat of a boast. “Is there any one class of people Tv ho give you especial trouble?" asked the interviewer, sympathetically. “No,” said he, smiling, “it Isn't a matter of class at all. It is wholly a matter of sex. I don't know why It is, but women are notoriously the worst offenders against the banking rules. It is most likely that a great many women have had little or no experi¬ ence with business affairs, and they have hard work learning them. Don't think for a minute that all of them are that way, for some of our largest cus¬ tomers are women—business women— and for shrewdness they are hard to beat. But the average woman, when she has any money in the bank, is like a sailor on land. a Not very many days ago a young woman with the gold band still new on the third finger of her left hand, came into the bank, looked around carefully, went over to the desk in the corner and began to write some¬ thing, Presently she finished and made her way over to my window, then very daintily she handed me the pink check that she had been making out. I didn’t remember having seen her before, and so I looked at her a mon>nt longer to see if I could place her before I looked at the check. Then I really did get a shock. The name signed at the bottom of the check was that^ of a prominent, busi¬ ness man around town whom I knew well, and who had recently taken to himself a wife. The check was made out in the right order, but the name signed was surely never written by him, so I asked the lady, ‘Who signed this?' i " ‘Why, I did.’ answered she, with a blush, but no signs of hesitancy. That took me hack for a moment, for I had never had any experience with a per¬ son quite so nervy before, but then she went on, ingenuously: “‘You- see, we were married a cou¬ ple of weeks ago, and as Jack has al¬ ready told me that everything that is his is mine, too, I thought I would draw some of his money to shop with today.’ “This was a poser and no mistake. I knew that she would never under¬ stand if I tried to explain all the de¬ tails of (he banking business, and that Jack would he In for all sorts of trou¬ ble when he got home that evening, so I just went into the next room and called up her husband, who bad an of¬ fice only just around the corner, and told him all about it. He had a good laugh about it over the ’phone and then hurried around to the bank. He arrived before his wife had begun to get impatient about the money, and, pretending innocence, asked her what she was doing there. “Of course she told him all about It. and then, after , telling , her that , there might sometimes be a little trouble about her getting money that way, fixed her up with a little bank account of her own to check ^gainst as she pleased. 1 She went out as happy as could be, but we might very easily have caused them considerable trou¬ ble and lost a good customer, if we had not been awful careful. “Not quite so cheerfully did the troubles of one girl prominent afteV in the younger set turn out her father bad had to leave town on business. He deposited the money for her allow¬ ance for the time he would be gone, and showed her how to make out her checks, and told her to be very ful how she made them out, and also to be sure and not overdraw her count. She promised to be careful— j go checks far so began good—but to in a in few with days alarm- her come j ing frequency. They were all made i out in perfect form, and there was no doubt about her signature, so there was onthing for us to do but pay them, She had run her account down pretty low. when one day she came in her¬ self with a check to be cashed. It was a large check, and I thought that it wouldn't do any harm to say a few words about how near she was to overdrawing her account. I did so as carefully as I could, and she turned i her face toward me full of amazement, ‘ ‘What.?’ she sa i U. ‘I. about to over draw my account? Why, this is the very first check 1 have drawn. There must be a mistake somewhere. You must have mistaken me for someone else, * 9 “It was my turn to be astonished, for if we really had made a mistake, as she said, it would be a pretty big mistake. So I asked her if she would mind waiting a few minutes until I could get the checks that we had cash ed. She waited, and I hurried through the book and found the checks in a very short while; for I was beginning to feel rather pale, I tell you. “ ‘Why, where did you find these?’ she asked, Innocently, as I laid them out before her. “‘Do you recognize them?’ I asked, feeling rather relieved. “ ‘Why, yes, Indeed,’ said the fair one, not at all abashed. ‘These are the checks I wrote out just for prac¬ tice, and I thought they had all been burned up.’ “What would you do in a case like that? When I explained to her that we had cashed the checks, as they had been made out in regular order, and that she would have to stand for it, she was perfectly furious and insisted that as she had only made out the checks ‘for fun,’ that the bank ought not to take her money. “Of course, we couldn’t do anything like that, and so she departed In a rage, saying that she was going to tel¬ egraph her father and he would sure¬ ly do something awful. “Her father did try to make trouble for us, too, but we managed to explain it more to his satisfaction and we fi¬ nally discovered how the whole affair came about. It seems that the young lady had a maid who, when she was given the checks to throw out, had recognized their value and had at once made use of them; then, seeing that she was in danger of getting into trou¬ ble over it, had quietly disappeared leaving no trace. The girl had been identified a short while before by the cashier, so that was all right, and I glanced over the bunch of checks which she handed me. They were mode out right, but every one was made out to helf. Wonder¬ ing why she had taken the trouble to make out so many when one would have answered the purpose just as well, I made bold to ask her. ‘Make out one check?’ Why, the idea had never entered her head, She had made out a list of the various things she intended to buy while she was o^it shopping and so what was more natu¬ ral than that she should write a check for the estimated cost of each, article. “I tried to explain to her how easy the other way would have been, but I couldn’t seem to get her to catch my idea. Finally she got angry with me, and left the window in high dudgeon, crying, ‘Now you’ve mixed me all up, and I think you are < perfectly horrid.’ “I. was running into hard luck that day, for right, behind her was a lady whom I had never seen before. Yes, I have a very good memory and rarely mistake a face once it has been presented at the window for identifi¬ cation. But this one was a perfect stranger to me, and when she present¬ ed a check on an out-of-town hank I knew that I should have to refuse her. She seemed to be highly insulted at my refusal to take her word for who she was. I replied that personally I would be only too glad to take her word, but that the bank as an institu¬ tion could not very well afford to do so. “ ‘Why, I have all sorts of letters and cards with me to show that I am Mrs. ,’ and then she brought out her purse, and took out some cards and handed me one. I took it and glanced at-the name. It was not the name on the check, however, and I mentioned the fact to her. “ ‘Why,’ she began in confusion, as j if ‘why* she 1 had have just i list thought been married of something, again; I 1 !iat * tor ® ottei1 ,liat tbe clieck was in 1 my former name, but you see that J check is alimpny from my former hus¬ band, and he always uses the other uairie.’ “But she couldn’t get over the fact that I couldn’t cash the check for her. And saying that I was not a gen¬ tleman, she left.”—Washington Star. How it Happened. “True, the night was dark, but he # appeared to jump deliberately in front of the automobile.” “Force of habit. The poor fellow an actor, and naturally dived'for j the spotlight.’ Kansas City Journal, PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT DIVERSIFIED FARMING • ♦- Mixing a Track Fertilizer. Fish scrap has about the same per¬ centage of nitrogen as cottonseed mpal, no potash, and more than twice as much phosphoric acid as the cot¬ tonseed meal. The meal will have nearly two per cent, of potash, which ^he ECra P lucks. But in making a mixture of acid phosphate and pot¬ ash you will not need this additional phjpphoric acid, and can get more potash in the meal. But if you use the muriate of potash to make I a fertilizer mixture, you will not j need the potash in the meal, and It is probable that if you use sbeh a low grade article for pot¬ ash as kainit it would be better to use the meal as an additional source for potash. Your soil needs a good percentage of potash, and it is diffi¬ cult to get a large percentage in the fertilizer if kainit is used. For truck purposes I have found that the following is an excellent mixture: Acid phosphate, 900 pounds, cotton¬ seed meal 600 pounds, nitrate of so¬ da 100 pounds, and muriate of pot¬ ash 400 pojunds. To get the same percentage of potash in kainit, you would have to use nearly 1600 pounds. It is cheaper to get potash in the muriate than in kainit, as you need to buy so much less. Kain¬ it is a poor article for truck crops, especially near the sea, where you have salt enough already, and kainit is mainly salt, while the muriate is half potash.—Professor Massey. Southport Globe Onions. Connecticut’s famous Southport Globe onions stand unsurpassed among popular Amerlccan varieties of the onion. They are in high favor in some of the finest commercial onion growing districts of Ohio and New York and during a few years past have made a steady advance in standing everywhere as a highly bred, perfect onion. Eastern onion growers use the red and white Southport Globes to produce the exceptionally i W V n m m ■ Southport White Globe. large, solid, beautifully formed bulbs that bring top prices in New York City markets. Besides the two varieties named, there is a yellow Southport Globe that resembles the others in shape and general character, but is of a rich yellow color. The white is one of those beauti¬ fully white, perfectly globe shaped onions that take the eye and bring highest price in any market. Its skin is thin and paper like, the flesh fine grained, crisp and mild flavored. Add to this that it is a tremendous crop¬ per, and it represents almost an ideal product in its line.—Weekly Witness. The Home Grounds, The home grounds may be com¬ pared with a picture in which the lawn forms the canvas, with the house the principal centre of interest. Viewed in this way the house should not be hidden behind a yardful of trees, but should, at least, have the front facing an open stretch of lawn. Trees, if planted near the house, are preferably placed at the side and rear, so as to form a setting and a b/ 3 kground for it. The usual prac¬ tice of planting several rows of trees running from the front of the house to the street is only conducive to monotony in effect and furthermore it is very difficult to establish and maintain a lawn under such circum stances. , The most appropriate places for large trees are along the boun- j daries of the grounds. The most j pleasing way to place them is not > in straight lines, but in groups, with j lower-growing kinds in front and to ward the centre of the grounds. A stronger massing of trees and tall shrubs may be used in the prop er position to shield the house from the prevailing winds. By using a variety of trees with tall shrubs next, and smaller shrubs in front, a most effective wind break may be formed, and by planting the latter in irregu lar groups a much more pleasing effect is possible than where all are ' placed in formal rows. Evergreen trees are most desirable on the north and west, because of their effective wind-break qualities in winter. They are not suitable trees for the south side of a house or in front of windows, In winter the sunshine should be given a free chance to enter the windows and thereby greatly add not only to the cheerfulness of the rooms, but also to the lowering of the fuel bill. The smaller shrubs and flowering annuals are best placed in the cor ners bv the porches, along the base of the house wall and in frant of the larger plants at the sides of the lawn. Groups of such plants on either side of the entrance gates are usually very pleasing.—Southern Cultiva tor. How to Cultivate Sweet Potatoes. The .first thing is to select a smooth piece of land not too rich, commencing not later than March and keep it well plowed and dragged until time to transplant the slips; in dragging with a split-log drag with the split side down. Next, lay off the rows three and a half feet wide; avoid turn rows as much as possible; list with a turn plow and follow with scooter in same furrow. Drag off list with light poll before setting out slips. Set out the slips sixteen inches apart. Use a sack of good guano per acre, Do not use any top dressing as it makes the vines root too much in the middles. Run rows so as to have a little drain to avoid the covering up of the vines and preventing them from taking root in the middle, Cultivate shal low and fast and lay by early, using a small turn plow and an eighteen inch scrape in laying-by. About the middle of October is the time to dig and put away potatoes. In determining when the potatoes are ripe, cut one and let lay in sun a day; if the potato dries white it is ripe. Dig when the ground is dry; hill up and cover at once. A very important thing is not to pull off the small strings as it sometimes makes the potato rot. Avoid bruising the potato as much as possible, by using sacks in the bas¬ ket you carry the potatoes in. Put coriistalks next to potatoes, a little dry grass, just enough to keep the dirt from running through to the potato, then put on dirt nearly on top of hill and spread sacks over top with dirt on edges. Stay in this way until cold weather and then fin¬ ish covering. Judge for yourself the thickness of the dirt. Another very important thing is the sheltering of the hill. Now the way to have your cornstalks is to cut them this winter and “put in a dry house and use them next fall. In this way I have always been success¬ ful in keeping my sweet potatoes.— W. J. McDaniel, in Southern Cultiva tor. Put a Crop Between Clover and To¬ bacco. There is a prejudice among the growers of bright tobacco against either clover or peas preceding to¬ bacco, while growers of dark tobac¬ co in Virginia depend almost entire¬ ly on clover to make their tobacco. And yet even the growers of bright tobacco value a soil that has a good deal of humus in it and will clear up a pine thicket to get this. While clo¬ ver immediately preceding bright or mahogany tobacco may not be advis¬ able, I would nevertheless use crim¬ son clover and peas, too, in the im¬ provement of land for tobacco, but would always pdt another crop in be¬ tween these and the tobacco. I sup¬ pose that in your section you grow the mahogany leaf, and in that case I would not advise you to sow clover this fall on land to go in tobacco next spring. But I am' sure that by a good rotation of crops and the im¬ provement of the soil through the use of legumes you can increase the amount and improve the quality of your tobacco. If I could not do this I would drop the tobacco and grow crops that would let me improve the soil.—W. F. Massey. Soda on Millet and Corn. it may pay to scatter seventy-five to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda on the millet after it is up and when it is dry from rain or dew to prevent scalding the leaves. I never have used a plow in the corn field for many years and never used nitrate of soda on corn, and do not believe it will pay. Corn should be planted on a well manured clover sod. Then the winter grain following will need only acid phosphate and potash, to be followed by peas and crimson clover and then back to the corn with the clover and manure.—W. F. ; Stay on the Farm. It requires a strongeh head *and a stronger heart to take charge of farm than to go to town and become a part of the machinery. If are a weak-minded’.young man, have not the courage to do a woi-k, it will of course be for you to go to town and be a in one of the little town machine You will be soon forgotten and your failure will scarcely noticed.—Farm and Market. OPEN DEALING IN PAINT. Buying paint used to be li the proverbial buying of a .. Pt* . In poke. #» Mixtures In whirl) chalk, t ground rock, etc., predominat "ere marked and sold as ’•Pure White Lead,” the deception not be; parent until the paint and th. n,,, Ing were paid for. Th,is deception i still practiced, but we have ) ned to expose It easily. National Lead Company. th< !Hre. est makers of genuine Pure White Lead, realizing the Injustice thr "’33 being done to both property owner* ,and about honest to make paint paint manufacturer's,* buyim They now first famous adopted “Dutch-Boy a trade’murk’th« 9 p a . nter,* # and put this trade mark. fts a, gij ar anty of purity, . on every package o* their White Lead. They then set about familiarizing the public with the glow-pipe test by which the Puri¬ ty and genuineness of White Lead may be determined, and furnished a blow-pipe free to every it. one who would write them for This ac¬ tion was in itself a guaranty of the purity of National Lead Comrianv’a White Lead. As the result of this open dealing the paint buyer to-day has only him¬ self to blame if he is defrauded, For test outfit address and valuable bookiet Com" on painting National Lead pany, Woodbridge Bldg., New York. One idle man can keep several per¬ sons from doing the work they want to do. REMOVES CORNS WITHOUT PAIv, Abbott’s east Indian coax paint removes corns, root and all, without cutting or burn¬ ing and leaves no soreness. It cures soft corns between the toes, bunions or sore callous spots. It cures all quick and per¬ manent. Get it at your druggist or send 25c. to The Abbott Co., Savannah, Ga. Hot weather suggestion—Get your best girl miffed, then there will be a coolness between you. Hicks' Capudine Cures Headache, Whether Strain. from No Cold, Heat, Stomach, oi Mental Acetanilid or dangerous drugs. It’s Liquid. Effects immediately, 10c., 25c., and 50c„ at drug stores Old Schoolmates of Theirs. A conductor sent a new brakeman to put some tramps off the train; they were riding in a box car. The brake man dropped into the car and said, I Where are you fellows going?” “To Atchison. »» “Well, you can’t go to Atchison on this train; so get off.” it You get,” same the reply, and as the new brakeman was looking into the business end of a gun he took the ad¬ vice given him and “got. ' • He went hack to the caboose, and the conductor asked him if he had put the fellows off. H No,” he answered, “I did not have the heart to put them off. They want to go to Atchison, and, besides, they are old schoolmates of mine.” The conductor used some very strong language, and then said he would put 1 them off himself. Ha went over to the car and met with the same ex¬ perience as the brakeman. When he got, back to the cabocse the brakeman said, “Well, did you put them off?” “Naw, they’re schoolmates of mine, too.”—Washington (Kan.) News. Yield of an Indiana Honey Tree. The first “bee tree’’ found in this part of the State for many years was discovered yesterday near Merom by James Edmondson, a Terra Haute man, who, with a fishing outfit, is floating down the Wabash River. After cutting down the tree and smoking the bees out, Mr. Edmondson got thirty pounds of fine wild honey.— Sullivan correspondence Indianapolis News. FRIENDLY TIP Restored Hope and Confidence. After several years of indigestion and its attendant evil influence on the mind, it is not very surprising that one finally loses faith in things gen¬ erally. A N. Y. woman writes an interest¬ ing letter. She says: “Three years ago I suffered from an attack of peritonitis which left me in a most miserable condition, For over two years I suffeied from ner¬ vousness, weak heart, shortness of breath, could not sleep, etc. “My appetite was ravenous but I felt starved all the time, I had plenty of food but it did not nourish me because of intestinal indigestion. Medical treatment did not seem to help, I got discouraged, stopped medi¬ cine and did not care much whether I lived or died. “One day a friend asked me why I didn’t try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking coffee and use Postum. I had lost faith id everything, but to please my friends I began to use both aud soou became very fond of them. “It wasn’t long before I got some strength, felt a decided change in my system, hope sprang up in my heart and slowly but surely I got better. could sleep very well, the constant craving for food ceased and I h av - better health now than before the at tack of peritonitis. “My husband and I are still using Grape-Nuts and Postum. •‘There’s a Reason.” Battle Name given by Postum Co., Creek, Mich. Read, The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. . Ever read the above letter? A J,e ‘ v one appears from time to time, They are genuine, true, aud full of human interest.