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Show : MADE SOME GRAVE BLUNDERS k Embezzling Banker Admits He Over looked Missionary Fund and Property Prop-erty ef Orphan Child. Toe embezzling banker's friends were congratulating him. "How In the world did you keep It up so long without being discovered?" they asked, breathlessly. "My friends." came an anguished voice from the other side of the bars, "I am unwprthy of this laudation. I have been guilty of grave tactical blunders. 1 failed to have myself elected Sunday school superintendent, and I did not show myself at prayer meeting more than once a month. I could have landed a $700 missionary fund, but heedlessly I allowed It to slip through my fingers snd go to another. an-other. "Besides, I might have become tbe guardian of some poor, dea millionaire's million-aire's child. I am IIMeservlug of your well-meant, but misdirected, praise. My work has been coarse and amateurish. ama-teurish. Indeed, or I could be free this evening to join you In our trl weekly 1 poker fest. Woe. woe Is me!" And they left him weeping bitterly. 1 H. M. Slivers, In The Sunday Magazine Maga-zine i |