GREAT AMERICAN all rank accountant who taked frequent t spella living in a fashionable town within commuting distance of new york is a gentleman who invariably attracts attention by his long hair strangers always conclude that lie is nothing less than a great lawyer or bank president when a reporter for the commercial advertiser aaker his fellow town men about him he was told the following story one day the gentleman who is one of the beat accountants in the metropolis stopped up to alie pru of the bank by which lie is cm and said he bad decided to resign and that the resignation must go into effect immediately the president was loth to lose so valuable a man and urged him to reconsider alie matter he talked with him for an hour but to no purpose the employed emp loye whose skill as a mathematician was beyond anything ever met with by the officials of the bank has bound to leave the institution ution but absolutely refused to give any reason for doing so the accountant left that day and the bank was obliged to get along as best it could without him ten days later the cashier was astonished on entering the bank to find the accountant hard at work at his old desk the mathematician said good morning just as he had done every day for years before he resigned but offered no explanation the president and cashier let their strange acting employed keep at his work and ask no questions three months later the accountant went into the presidents office again and tendered hie resignation it was accepted and the man was absent for a week or more then he returned the same thing was repeated again and again now it is a standing joke in that bank that the accountant has resigned it is his way of taking a vacation he never stays away more than two weeks