HE NEVER SHED A TEAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 85, 18 April 1885, Page 5

HE NEVER SHED A TEAR.

Tho Reason a Bough Diamoh- Di-o*. His Balance from a Banlr.

Ox a suburban theatre t.airi' the other nigh. a littlo party wero talking of pathetic

scenes upon ):ho stage, and how tihfly were variously affected by &e_i.

" For my part," said a dapper" yOung 1 man, "I novor yot saw anything on th_ , stage thai cou-ol moisten my eyC. I leave i the crying to littlo bitfi ond w.mon." ; "Oh, you do, do you?" repl..:. .. bluff old irentleman, an officer of one of the ___ff- j roods j " -r.-O'1? time I hear a young man talk as you do 1 ;ct- _>c telling a little incident that onco came usiclir ttty' notice in New York City. A party of (is *M_ m a bo::. ' Hnftcl Kirko ' was tho play. None of us had ever s.. > _.. I shod a tear or two quietly and unobserved, but rough old Uonoral Mcßae cried liko a hfj. Ho was t'rosiclent of tho Georgia Railroad thsn, and in Now York on business. He was a regular martinet in his profession, stern and unrelenting. Ho was an old bachelor, too, and, so far as is known, novor had tender feelings toward woman or kin. ?_> had lived o life solitary and absolutely nonscntiffic..a!. "Wo wore all surprised to soo emotion in a'uif. a r_n_, but nono of us said anything except youn£ . corgo of Atlanta. I to laughed at tho o.'d -*or>ornlweakness." " 'Can you witness such a scene as that with dry eyes ?' inquired tho General with all his old sternness sf manner and speech. " ' Why, of course I cai.. I could laugh at it even as I laugh at you.' "Soo hore, Gcorgo ," said Gciii.d Mcßao, with great earnestness, "you aro cashier of a bank in Atlanta. In that bank my company has many thousands of dollars deposited. Immediately on my return homo ovory dollar of our deposits shall be withdrawn. Yen m'oy be an honest man, but I do not fool safe With onr monoy in an ; institution whoro one of tho responsible • officers is a person who talks as you talk | tonight," | Upon his return to Atlanta tho Gonoral did as ho promised. And luckily too, for ' in less than six months that bank was ' nearly ruined by a heavy embezzlement by I its cashier. i