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Show The Country Banker's Troubles. (Adapted, nud published by request.) H -- Tho country banker's troubles as tbo pebbles near tbo 6ea, H Aro as countless if you'll listen, 1 will untno you two or tbroo. B Far tho loast is not tho man who wants to borrow ilvo or ton, m And to pawn his watch and chain until ho calls around again. M But tho man who makes tho cashier fool like roaohiug for u rook, H Is the man who rushes iu at ton past tliroo o'clock. H Thorp's tho all-important follow, who was uovor known to pay, W lluj; ho'll oifor for ondorsor us n thousand any dny ; K Thbro's tho man wo call rosponsiblo, -who's always on tho dook, To idontlfy u strangor, but will not otidorso bis ohouk. H But tho man who makes tho cashier feel liko roach log for u rock, W Js tho man who knocks upon tho door just after throo o'clock. M T I ' "Thoro's another kind of follow, that is Inter bottor known ; m Clio's tho man who gives a mortgage on tho stock ho doesn't own,! But thcro's 8omo slight compensaton, if you got him started I'lgK, Whou ho sees his game is ovor, and the place lie's going to light.l "But tho man who's with us always, and is such n droadful boio,lj Is tbo mau who calls around jpsl after three or four. W Uo'h worth n hundrod thousand, maybe somo fow hundred moro,p And it's this that makes tho cashier kindly opou up tho door, w I ifWltli n smilo that's not for pleasure, but is forcod from ouo whAj vexed, Wlijjo bohind it thoughts, if spakou, wouldn't mako n proacberfl text. For tho mau who mako's tbo cashier feel liko reaching for a rocP Is tio man who comes around ten minutes after thrco o'clock. I Thoro's tho moroautilo collections, coming in by ovory mall, I Till you think that ovory morcbant in tbo town's about to fnll,"t When you start around collecting sumo uro smull nud somo aK) largo With your mfud bout on tho quarter for collecting that you cBargo; It's a ploasaut kind of feeling but boforo tbo round is ratido, Tho tbormomotor is standing at ouo hundred iu tho shade ' I For tho first man doesn't ouo it, tho tocond isn't duo, Wlillo tho third man hasut timo to stop to run his ledger throBgh , And tbo fourth mau ha, no books at all, nnd has to bunt aroniBl An hour or two to tlud tho bill and when tho thing is found,l That draft is twenty cents too much, and if you'll call again I ; Next week, nnd throw olf twenty cents, ho'll sottlo with you tfcyn, F There's tho man whose note's as good ns gold, though six moutljsoror duo; But bo uovor thinks of paying till you try to bring him throu h, -w By a kindly worded notii'o, wrltton out in bouoved phraso;. I ..Then ho comes iu with a roar, hot onough to fnlriv bluzo. Thoro's another jollv ciivtomor 'bout whom there's nothing ealdj For his name is aways upposito tiio figures made In red. f f, 1 IT Thoro's tbo lifn insurain' agout, nud tho agent selling booksJ Eacli uud ovoryone 1m bankers havo a special kind of shocks. Tboro aro stocks of nil descriptions and Iheio'H been u blocll- or two Sot aside Of every kiiwl at special prices, just tor you. W But thq way to ascerlain for sure, if what they my i truo, vl.. Is to buy somo sbnio and later, try to sell a block or two. JL Tboro nro somo ten thousand troubles, If the truth could all-jho told, That atlliot tho count i iiankcr yet they tuy his heart is colli. A.d I somotlmos wondei how it is, upon tbo other fhore, 1 And 'if When roucblng Un ro bis trqtjblt' wilJTbojv'er; . X 1 i Or ,vbother thai; tonirvtoJo;V Villboilciioqkingo'ii Tiio pano, yyft, III tho morning, whim tii bunk is closed," ten minutes' bofon ton. |