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Show Delay in Banking Check Costly to Cartoonist In these da.vs when every one is talking about the dearth of prosperity prosper-ity in this country, there is food for thought in the story of the cartoonist cartoon-ist who received a three-figure check, but was so busy reading n book at the time that he forgot ail about it and left it between the pages. Some time Inter the artist married a widow with a sou, and the boy, browsing through the books one day, found I he check. Not only did he find It. hut he deposited it. But in the meantime the firm that had mude out the check had transferred its funds elsewhere and the check came hack "No funds." Of course the firm made the check good but Informed the artist that inasmuch in-asmuch as he had so much money he would, in future, have the price of his work reduced 50 per cent. Los Angeles Times. |