Show ThoO lil man alan cured ern em it appears that la in this bank the clerks were frequently compelled to ask tho the paying teller tor for a little financial assistance between pay lays days and lie he being of 0 a kindly disposition cashed their due bills carrying the paper in the drawer as so eo much cash at tho file end of the month the advances were deducted from ti tho to salaries of those favored these pieces of paper were professionally known as bi lakes it so happened on oil ono one occasion that the bank examiner paid his official visit when there were in the drawer snakes amounting to about and the paying teller was compelled to confess that he often advanced money to the clerks in this manner its a bad practice said the examiner tor for it encourages extravagance and is 13 liable ta got get you yon into trouble with the board I 1 I 1 soon after his departure the cashier casbier a venerable gentleman since deceased approached the paying teller and asked what was meant by the term snakes which ho he had overheard used in the conversation with the examiner there was nothing not liing left nut lim but to explain the whole matter which he did by telling how bow the young gentlemen in the bank had gotten behindhand in their finances and were forced to ne negotiate short loans each mouth and this is really the condition of our young men remarked the cashier ill 1 I am sorry to say yes how much of this paper is there la in the drawer about 11 so much as that let me see the paper io the tha little due bills were handed banded him and he walked into his private office in a few minutes he came line ont with a check inbi in his band shand it was his personal check for the full amount of the snakes said be put tills this in the drawer I 1 will give these young men a chance and he tore into small pieces the numerous due bills I 1 they are now free and let them keep so dont advance any more money hereafter I 1 awill will loan it out of m my y private funds what they owe now is canceled it took about five fire minutes tor for this little affair to be known in the bank and every man in the place at once proceeded to grumble to himself because he ha did not have a snake in the drawer at that particular moment philadelphia bulletin |