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WOMAN HAS CR BANK IN SI Charming Girl Presides County Bank?Thin Know More On letter-heads of the Lee County ] 1 State Bank of Lexington, Texas, Miss J i Minnie Hester is modestly called j i "Asst. Cashier." But that does not j ] tell the whole story, says the New : 1 York Evening Post. Actually, shej ] is paying teller, receiving teller, [ ] cashier, general ledger bookkeeper, and customer's financial adviser. 1 The president of the Lee County Bank j' is active, in that "he passes on all | loans made," but Miss Hester as- j sumes all office detail, with the help 3 of a bookkeeper, also a woman, and j no man works behind the counters : * ' in any capacity whatever. ] Banking hours begin between $ < and 9 a. m. in Lexington and close 11 during the dull season at 5 p. m.,! < but during the busy season, whicn is:; in the fall of the year in that agricul-! tural region, she just locks the safe I, | at closing time each day and keeps, ( 4 on irking until dark. I? Not having a man chief, Miss Hes- ] ter has the responsibility of keeping j < up the bank's reserve, and her weath- j er eye is always out to see that 10 11 per cent, of her deposit account is in cash in her vault, and that 25 j j per cent, is with her reserve agents, j ] As general ledger bookkeeper she , handles the accounts with city corre- '. spondents, the profit and loss ac- j count, the daily cash account, the amount of notes outstanding, total , of deposits, etc. As acting chief she j, must keep watch, too, on the col- j k lections, which come in by every mail, j ( These she enters in the collection j register and mails out notices to the 1 J persons on wnom uraits ai c mauc. . ( Then she must watch her bills re- j' ceivable and see that no note runs I past due. i( "In fact," to quote Miss Hester herself, "I must be on the alert every j' moment to see that the inside work- j ings of the bank are in good order ! and kept well oiled; otherwise a cyl-11 inder might blow out, an explosioni would occur, and great harm would '! be done?in other words, a bank ex- : 1 aminer would be sent out by the j1 banking department to close our j our doors." ' Problems She Must Meet. ] She has found that a woman can't ( be a banks in a country town with-^ ] out ha'-iiig to meet a. i solve the j, country banker's prob ems. Chief j. among these she names overdrafts i and past due paper and collections, t To the farmer she awards the palm !, as being the satisfactory customer . from the bark's point of view. As she has found him, he understands banking requirements fully, expects to give security three to one when he borrows, and pays promptly when his paper falls due. j Her troubles lie chiefly with cattlemen and small merchants. So far as - -a j-i the cattleman is- concerned, me ex- j planation is that when he has corralled the animals he has bought, he unexpectedly finds other bunches that he is no more able to resist than a woman can resist a bargain counter. | ' And then when Miss Hester posts j him up that evening, his account i goes red by a hundred or two, and she goes home somewhat solemn.' Past-due paper is a point on which she has to be careful. State and national banking laws are rigid on 'this | matter, and, besides, she has her ; own convictions that a surety should be protected. Her collection depart- J ment, she thinks, gives her more j trouble than all the rest of the bank ; together, being expensive and annoy- j ing. She has had some close calls | 5 ? ^ ^ P /1a on/1 Ar o 1 cr Vl f in lilt; IliClllCl U1 ucuiauu v?i | drafts, and it "makes me shiver to ( think of them," she says. Besides her work as executive of the bank, she is galled upon to be the bookkeeper of every business t man in the county, to a certain extent. To illustrate, the hog and cattle buyers who ship carloads to market keep no record of their transactions except the account she has of j their deposits and checks, and their j profit and losses are figured out by taking the difference between the two. Concerning the personal relations that are established, she says: "It is right pathetic how perfectly dependent some people become, who learn to depend upon me to attend to all their business, figure up the; interest due them, and see that their legal documents are properly drawn. tv./-,,./-, o olmncr ns- mnnv mp?n in JL IICI U ?. I Uiiuvw the number as women. They have never made business a study, but are honest, hardworking tillers of the soil and depend upon their banker to look ; after their business." , Where Women are Handicapped. Women, she thinks, have been "unjustly treated all these years by | not being taught even the first prin- j ciples of business." She considers | ARGE OF PATE OF TEXAS. Over the Destinies of a iks Women Should of Business. that every woman, rich or poor, should know something about business. Experience and observation have shown her the unlimited disaster that can overtake the widow who has been left a nice competency for -My J - "U : 1 J T i.'U ~ ~ uerseir anu ciniuieii LUC mail was "a good provider," but didn't believe in "pestering women with business matters." "So often," says Miss Hester, "such a woman will not have the remotest idea how to invest her surplus money to the best advantage, nor how to take care of the property left her and make it increase instead af decrease." It is in these cases that the woman banker may be au effective counsellor and business agent. When women get fairly into business they apparently show the same disposition to let themselves be consumed by it that men do, and the banker of Lexington is no exception. 'The bank work engages my whole attention," she admits. "It has utterly become a part of myself. After work hours or on Sunday, when I meet certain people, I can scarcely refrain from speaking to them about some business transaction that we are to have together next day." As to social features, she has little, ''compared with other women who go out every evening. I learned long ago that business and pleasure do not go hand in hand. This being a. quiet little town there is only occasional opportunity for amusement, r attend Sunday-school and church services, and when a good lecture or musical troupe comes to town, I attend these with pleasure," but most 3f her evenings are spent with books and magazines. v Before she became a banker, Miss Hester was a school teacher and later a stenographer. That her trend toward business may be inherited is suggested by some further testimony from her concerning a woman's lack Df business training and consequent helplessness when the management af resources devolves upon her. "Our family has been more fortunate in that line than some others nf whom I know, in that we have bad a sensible, economical mother, who, upon the death of my father, many years ago, did not give up and grieve her heart out for him, but kept her sorrows to herself and assumed the responsiblility of keeping the business going which he started, and succeeded so well that to-day the estate is worth more than it was dft his death." From the viewpoint of the sociologist, she offers in evidence an interesting conclusion. "I have no desire whatever to get married," she confesses. "I can not assign an/ reason for it, unless it is that just coming in daily contact with men and studying their ways has made me feel that I do not want one for a husband." ANOTHER ARREST. Henry Brown Charged With Being Accessory to Gosnell. Campobello, May 17.?A sensational chapter was added to the charge of arson against Allendar Gosnell, charged with the burning of W. J. Gibson's home, when four children lost their lives January 28, when Henry Brown was arrested this afternoon, charged with being accessory to the charge of arson. Brown is said to have confessed to a local magistrate and B. A. Wharton, deputy insurance commissioner, who has been working on the case for some time, saying that he was present when Gosnell fired the hous-e. Brown is said to have made other statements as to the alleged crime. Brown was arrested by Constable Caldwell three miles west of Campobello and was at once hurried here, where an early train was boardecj for Spartanburg by the constable with the prisoner. Gosnell is in jail at Spartanburg. Brown is about 35 years of age, He was employed on an adjoining plantation to that of Mr. Gibson, where the horrible tragedy of January 2S occurred. Citizens of Campobello did nol know that Brown was arrested on the charge of being an accessory, bul thought he was being taken in charge as a witness, and the fact that he is charged with participation in the alleged crime was not known until after he had been taken to Spartanburg and lodged in jail. Considerable excitement and the most pronounced interest has beer manifest ip this community since the arrest of Allendar Gosnell Wednes day. BANDITS MAKE BIG HAUL. Daring; Bobbery of Express Car on Queen and Crescent. Hattiesburg, Miss., May 15.?A rich haul, variously estimated at from $35,000 to $200,000, was made by two masked bandits, who early this morning held up the Queen and Crescent Xew York Limited train No. 2, near Oklahoma, a flag station eight miles south of Hattiesburg, and blew open the safe of the Southern Express car. Express officials tonight deny that the sum obtained aggregated anything like the latter figure, but declined to make any estimate of the loss. The bandits, who are believed to be the pair who held up the Mobile and Ohio train, at Corinth, Miss., in February, made their escape and tonight were still at large. When Sheriff Bennett, of Perry county, reached the scene of the hold-up with bloodhounds about dawn, the trail of the robbers was taken up by the dogs. This led them to the junction of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad and a tap. line road, where the trail was lost. It is believed the men boarded a freight train at this junction. Four men are reported to have been seen leaving the freight train when it arrived at Hattiesburg a few hours after the hold-up, but the authorities here have been unable to locate the suspected quartette. The safe in the express car was locked with a time signal lock when the train left New Orleans last night and there was a guard in the car in addition to the regular messenger. It is said there was one package of money representing the payroll of the Alabama and Vicksburg Railroad at Meridian and about twenty^ ~ ~ 1 - -rv ? ^ C AVf live pacftctges ui muuc.v tcpicscubiuB the remittances of agents of the express company at points along the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad. In addition to these, there were two or more sacks of silver, containing one thousand dollars each, other packages of currency and several packages of jewelry, valuable stock certificates and bonds. The hold-up of the train was affected in a true wild Western manner, but notwithstanding a generous flourishing of weapons not a shot was fired. The passengers were not molested. When the train was passing the flag station, Okahola, the two mask, ed bandits climbed over the tender, and with drawn revolvers, called out to Engineer Maher and his fireman, "Obey orders." The engineer immediately threw on his brakes, saying, "I'll stop right now." "No," said one of the bandits, pull on arouifd the curve and stop when I tell you to stop." After the train had turned the curve above Okahola, the engineer was given the command to stop and complied promptly. With guns pointed at their heads, the engineer and fireman were marched back to-the baggage car and - - j J tne iormer was oruereu iu uau mc i express messenger. When Messenger D. A. Gray, of Chattanooga, stepped to the door of his car he looked into the muzzle of a pistol and did . apt hesitate to obey the orders to get down. FOR ORDER IN DENMARK. Mass Meeting Held Following Petition from Women. I Denmark, May 17.?A strong petition, signed by practically every woman in town, called the citizens to gether Wednesday afternoon to *a ) mass meeting in the K. of P. hall for the purpose of getting an expression : from the present town council re lative to the suppression of the* blind , tiger liquor traffic, gambling and i general lawlessness which has been . going on for some time and has rel cently reached large proportions. The ^ wIm'aV. wno rtra1 1 ?"> tton HoH I III tit? Llli.g, W JLLIUU W ao VY^ll uuvuuvu, . was opened with a prayer by Rev. ; T. E. Morris. J. Z. Brooker was then > elected chairman. Rev. S. W. Cox ; represented the ladies in a forceful [ manner. Stirring speeches were . made by W. S. Cooper, R. C. Hardwick and J. Arthur Wiggins, urging > the citizens to bestir themselves and . formulate plans for a thorough en, forcement of the law. So far the council has taken no action, but the i meeting has created a good deal of ; interest, and it is hoped that better order will be kept. ; CAT COSTS LIFE OF BOY. ' Pet Took Child's Breath, Causing Death by Suffocation. : A pet cat that was much attached i to Jonas Kulieszus, eight years old, : of this city, is blamed for the death ? of the boy, says a Wilkes-Barre, Pa., ; dispatch. Physicians believe that the - cat was on the breast of the boy. - and while he was asleep took his breath and brought death by suffocation. i The boy was asleep, while other i members of the household were near. - - 1 1 ~ e ,-n? 2 rte Slioweu liu sigu U1 unices. >v ncn - his mother went to arouse him it was discovered that he was dead. USE DYNAMITE FOR BANDITS. Last^Two of Desperate Gang Kille Near Paris. Paris, May 15.?The career of th last of France's bandit gang wa dramatically ended this morning when, after an eight-hours' battle its leader. Octave Gamier, and hi confederate, Yallet, were blown up i an explosion of a small villa at >sc gent-Sur-Marne, where they ha taken refuge. They were shattered by shots c dynamite, their house fell in whe melinite was exploded under it walls. The police found Garnie dead and Vallet dying. Five police men were wounded in the battle. Undaunted ard for hours unharm ed by bullets and dynamite, Octav Gamier, the rebel leader and las of the notorious bandit gang, whic has terrorized Paris, was fightin desperately for life at midnight, wit his confederate Vallet. Resist Stubbornly. All the forces for the protectio of society had failed to dislodg them. Several thousand police, ger darmes and zouaves tried for hour to shoot the bandits or blow up th >\n i 1 /I iw rr -nri+V, ovni/lourae Hll f fVimiP* U UHUH15 V> 1 LII Win. IIAWHO the villa was badly damaged by dj namite, the bandits for hours mira( ulously held their own and showe no signs of surrendering. Unlik Bonnot, whose refuge was dynamite at Choisy-Le-Roi, Garnier made hi last stand in a house hidden by fol age and surrounded closely by othe buildings, rendering an assault diff cult and dangerous. Bonnot and Di bois fought in a garage, which coul be approached from all sides. "Demon Chauffeur." Bonnot, the "demon chauffeur, was remarkable for his skill at th wheel of automobiles. Garnier J io /*i 1 i r* /x T_T /-> ri'Anf C" ayeuuuLjr waa ui^suidc. JLJLC; a far as to mutilate his eyelids t change his appearance and by resor ing to every scheme exploited in d< tective fiction he succeeded in eva( ing the police dragnet, which ha been spread over Paris and the sul urbs. Garnier's mistake came in tryin to negotiate stolen securities at branch of a big banking hous whereby he and his companion Vallet and Vulllemin, were traced t Nogent. All three, who were deci< ed blondes, dyed their hair jet blacl Tracked to Fair. An indiscretion by the woma Vuillemin, to-day enabled the polic to fix their lair to a certainty. St went to a public pump to get drinl ing water, where she was met by Parisian woman. Vuillemin, who of Basque origin, carried the jug < water on her shoulder, after the cu torn of the country. The Parisiai struck by the picture, stopped h* and exclaimed: "How beautiful you are madam You should pose for a portrait." Then the Parisian, with a woman penetration, decided that her ha was dyed. The comments and ii quiries put the police on the track. Crowds Hamper Officers. Again, as in the case of the battt' at Choisy-Le Roi, the efforts of tl police and military were great] liamnowH hv thft VflSt Crowds. A tempts were made to blow up tt building by throwing dynamite car ridges from the adjacent viaduct an a perfect hail of bullets was throw into the house. The"" authorities telephoned f( melinite, and after the arrival of searchlight, a quantity of the hig explosive was placed against tl lower wall of the villa. At the coi I cussion more debris was hurled sk; w-ard. The explosion left a yawning opei ing in the villa, through which pi lice dogs sprang while the police ar troops sent volley after volley < bullets into the ruins of the buildin; Rush Into Ruins. Some of the bullets riccochette from the bricks, while others emerj ed on the opposite side, the result < which was that two policemen wei wounded. Then an armed fore holding torches, rushed into tt ruins and discovered the two bai dits on the floor in a room. Gamier was entirely naked, sa\ for a few tattered rags. He appea ed to be dead. Vallet was dead ( dying. The crowd, now wildly ei raged, rushed up and tried to seij the bandits. With great difficult the police drove them back an placed the wounded men in autoni' biles. Again the mob attempted 1 tear the desperadoes from the troop Hundreds surrounded the prefect < police and with cries of "Viva Li I pine!" tried to carry him off in tr umph. Upon a warrant sworn out by owi j er R. R. Myrick, of the store buil< j ings burned in Allendale 011 the 6t instant, .Mr. Sharfsin and Louis He] ! ner, uncle and nephew, were charge with arson, arrested and bound ov< for trial in the court of general se sions. The preliminary examinatic was held by Magistrate Best, < Kline, Judge W. K. Braonam, 01 ^ lendale, * being unwell.?Barnwe People. a NOTICE TC . THE PUBLK * n . hen in need of Farming Impled ments such as f Corn Drills, Stalk n Cutters, Disc Har= s rows, Grain Biud= I ers, Mowers and Rakes, Gasoline t- Engines, J. I. Case, e Road Machinery, it h and a h General Renair Shfti see ! D. J. DELI ? BAMBERG, S. C h ITCH "Hunt's Cure" is absolutely i ? anteed to cure Itch, Eczema, 1 worm, Tetter, or any Skin (e ease, or purchase price cheei s refunded. 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