Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — The Cashier Who Had No Emotion. [ARTICLE]

The Cashier Who Had No Emotion.

On a suburban theater train the other night a little party were talking of pathetic scenes upon the stage and how they were variously affected by them. “For my part,” said a dapper young man, “I never yet saw anything on the stage that could moisten my eyes. I leave the crying to little 'boys and women?’ “Oh, you do, do you?” replied a bluff old gentleman, an office!’ di one of the railroads; “every time I hear a young man talk as you do I feel like telling a little incident that once came under my notice jn New York City. A party of us sat in a box, ‘Hazel Kirke’ was the ‘play. None of us had ever seen it. I shed a tear or two quietly and unobserved, but rough old Gen. Mcßae cried like a baby. He was president of the Georgie railroad then, and in New York on business. He was a regular martinet in his profession, stern and unrelenting. He was an old bach- ■ elor, too, and so far as is knowmnever had tender feeling toward wonmn or kin. He had lived a life solitary and absolutely unsentimental We were allqsurprised to see such emotion in such a man, but none of us said anything except young George ~ of Atlanta. He laughed at the old General’s weakness. “ ‘Can you witness such a scene as that with dry eyes?’ inquired the General with all his sternness of manner and speech. “ ‘Why, of course I can. I could laugh at it even as I laugh at you? “ ‘See here, George ——said Gen. Mcßae, with great earnestness, ‘you are a cashier of a bank in Atlanta. In that bank my company has many thousands of dollars deposited. Immediately upon my return home every dollar of our deposits shall be withdrawn. You may be'an honest man, but Ido not feel safe with our money in an institution where one of the responsible officers talks as you talk to-night? “Upon his return to Atlanta the General did as he promised. And luckily, too, for in less than six months the bank was minted by 1, a heavy embezzlement by its cashier.”— Chicago Herald. -