BANKS AND BANKING


During a financial panic, a German farmer went to a bank for some money.

He was told that the bank was not paying out money, but was using

cashier's checks. He could not understand this, and insisted on money.



The officers took him in hand, one after another, with little effect. At

last the president tried his hand, and after long and minute

explanation, some inkling of the situation seemed to be dawning on the
br /> farmer's mind. Much encouraged, the president said: "You understand now

how it is, don't you, Mr.. Schmidt?"



"I t'ink I do," admitted Mr. Schmidt. "It's like dis, aindt it? Ven my

baby vakes up at night and vants some milk, I gif him a milk ticket."





She advanced to the paying teller's window and, handing in a check for

fifty dollars, stated that it was a birthday present from her husband

and asked for payment. The teller informed her that she must first

endorse it.



"I don't know what you mean," she said hesitatingly.



"Why, you see," he explained, "you must write your name on the back, so

that when we return the check to your husband, he will know we have paid

you the money."



"Oh, is that all?" she said, relieved.... One minute elapses.



Thus the "endorsement": "Many thanks, dear, I've got the money. Your

loving wife, Evelyn."





FRIEND--"So you're going to make it hot for that fellow who held up the

bank, shot the cashier, and got away with the ten thousand?"



BANKER--"Yes, indeed. He was entirely too fresh. There's a decent way to

do that, you know. If he wanted to get the money, why didn't he come

into the bank and work his way up the way the rest of us did?"--_Puck_.



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