Show ONE ONE SMALL BOYS OY WORK WOR VvO ow xen haired nus n Ruined a Bank and end j Got S Even for Being Beig Discharged From a a C calm impartial l survey of my own early eb youth as us weIl as from a close and careful study o ot of cose Since 1 I became beme grown go u up I 1 thought until about six months ago that I 1 Dad nad a pretty comprehensive Idea bi t r be innate of or the average small smal boy by but the actual et possibilities tot for fo potential deviltry existing a In the t e frame trIe 01 ot a t small boy b were wr 1 t confess con something 1 e that I 1 Ha not fully apprehend until they were borne bre In iu upon me In I a stunning audi and disastrous way at the te time tm 1 I mention about six month al ago said sid a a noted Minne SOUL sota t man of or who was in I Washington not recently w UA A bit more mor than six years a ago a savings bank in which I was ws heavily hea u Interested was ws started in Ia a pros pr nerous Minnesota ot town sown t the tit population of t which as a well as a the 1110 to population oj of oj the te outlying country for perhaps a hundred hunde miles mUe around arund was WR and is 15 composed very l ot ci QI hustling ve le savings bank was wa a a from the first day dy that Its lii doors door were wee opened It I was as the tho first institution ot or its is kind kin In the tho to field and the money came ce pouring In Inn 5 n fast f t that It could hardly hanl be counted counte The Tha Th stockings and ud tobacco tob o Jars jr and disused stovepipes sto and old trunks and were emptied by oy the thrifty Scandinavians empte te wo who had hud been ben hoarding hoar their savings for years as soon sving yer a son a II ls the banK began business and literally thousands o 0 of accounts chiefly tY with these Industrious people thousand from the t north of or Europe were opened during the first month Never lever 11 eve did Id a a savings bans bang baK begin business more mont Mid And d the bank bak went Vent right fight on thriving There Thee were a number nuber of Swedish and Norwegian names on its i list of or directors which bich of or course counted counte for name its it Im ha mediate and continued success s among the Scandinavians Ine banks report last I t year year Indicated indicate that tat It was on onu nt fit nf of Minnesota tI the very soundest Institutions of Its it kind in the th wa state About a year er ago the bank took on as messenger boy bo an allaround utility kid kd a a Scandinavian youngster Alric Arc on a a lad about 12 l years year yea old He was a bright lIveli boy b and ad at first firt he performed d the stunts bright or him well wen and conscientiously He le did so s stunt well wel In i fact fat that Ws il pay nay nay was raised from 3 i to 4 a week Inside Inide o ot of a of months moths a After about abut three months however the boy got the tho ble bir bl head hed all nh al of f a 8 sudden As A the only boy in the tu bank In the town he lie be began an to magino magine that he came camu t Cao pretty near being the whole works or thereabouts and he be swelled up Worse than a newly elected town constable of ot a New N w England village mage He went in for cigarettes and red neckties nep and commenced to part his flaxen flaaen 1 en hair flair In the too middle He began to make googoo eyes at ar tile tho girls and young oung women of his race who came e to th tho bank upon business for their elders He to and soldier lUer in his work The cashier who exer exercised exercised supervision over all aU of the of at the bank warned the kid several times that he was beginning to tomake tomake tomake make a nuisance of himself and recommended him to tu nine down But it did no good Alric Allie went right on a a bigger cranium than over ver until it seemed as if hed h tl have hae to fall fal a victim to elephantiasis sooner or latex later All In all he became about th the most brat that ever eer disturbed a whole office e full tull of ot men He had repeatedly been warned wa d not to smoke cigarettes furtively or otherwise in the bank building One morning directly after atter he had received one of or these warnings the enraged cashier came caine upon Alrie Aide seated with his legs cocked upon his little desk in the tho banks bank s hallway complaisantly puffing smoke into inte JA the face of one of ot the banks best depositors who was Inquiring of ot the boy bo If one of the banks officers was In tn The cashier grabbed the kid by the scruff of his bis coat and yanked him to his fits feet teet Look here you ou whelp how ow long ago this morning was It that I forbade you to smoke cigarettes cl in this building demanded the cashier Alric looking leaking jerked himself loose 1005 from the cashiers grasp rasp after some squirming and then thea he gazed defiantly into the cashiers face Ay smoke ven yen Ay please said aId he to the cashier Oh Ob you ou do do you you ou said the cashier Well eU youre oure fired come In and get your money monc youe e b been fon n a blasted nuisance for some time and the th cashier led lea the way ay into his little compartment Aim Alric following hIm The cashier banded handed Out a full fuU weeks pay to the youngster ter although it was only onh a Wed Wednesday es esNow Now git and quick said the cashier Ay not bay fired you bat r not fire tire me said the bov boy In a low Jow tone of warning to the cashier shier letter Better not fire you hey said the th cashier and P 11 lie took the tho impudent lad by th t the 4 shoulders from front the rear and booted him out aut of the bank Into the street The he run on the bank began the next n morning jt C was in the summer time and long before sunrise the i s 4 hundreds of or farmer farmery from the outlying country began to flock into town in their wagons brawny ered Scandinavians eager for their savings The de living In the town the great majority of them Scandinavians too began to form their line in front of the banks door at midnight By 8 S the hour hourat hourat at which the bank opened for business there were more than 2000 frenzied depositors surging in front of the banks doors doom howling bowling in their excitement and some of the more desperate among them demanding that the banks doors be battered in inThe inThe The amazed bank officials when they arrived at atthe atthe the tank bank and saw the situation tried their best to stop atop the clamor and to send the tho Shouting depositors away assured But It Is as pa hard to get a fixed idea out of a Scandinavians head as a it is to drill a joke Into u a Scotchmans head The depositors were not to be ap appeased appeased or soothed The president of the bank threw open the doors and from the steps attempted to toi tomake make an assuring speech to the swirling crowd No use They swept him off his feet in their rush to get thc first In line at the paying tellers window hanks i B officials v r perceived the futility futility of making an further attempts to stem such a tide The gold and sliver er erand and naper money was heaped up on the tha paying tellers counter and two other tellers were set tp work to help helpIn In the paying off of or the depositors The baying off con continued continued for four days and at the end of that time the bank was virtually gutted Only a bare hundred or so of depositors remained of the several thousand carried on the banks books but a few days before The stand standing ing of the backers of the bank and of the banks bank s officiate officials the in the local papers of the banks annual to the state of things were nothing The bank closed Its doors and they are closed vet with no prospect of their being reopened A month after the bank was closed down on account of th the run another banking Institution was in the town and an the business went and Is s s U going that banks s way Scandinavians win never banks s way Scandinavians win never bank from which they have hare once withdrawn on ae ac account count of rumors of the banks unsteadiness The cause of the run The bank boy as soon as he was discharged mounted a pony that he owned and rode out into the country telling all of th farmers that the savings bank ank was doomed that ne he hat overheard s conversation conversation between the banks president and some of the directors to the effect that the bank ba doors Vere were to be closed at the windup of the next d day business They believed word that he said The fiendish youngster spent the whole afternoon and riding through the country in different to his lie merely out of a desire to get hunk for being fired from his job and when be had aroused farmers he spread the alarm among the townsmen that It lens a boy who caused the run an ft t ruin fn n T Had he be been a man he e could c chim have been Indicted Under the laws of for inaugurating a and would probably have been In state prison b this time ut you cant indict a boy for Iii a and so nothing could be don donto to the nice little Aide But bow hands db itch every time I think ct him |