[Illustration:  A Michigan bank cashier, E. Newell, writes this signature.]

[Illustration:  This is the signature of Common Parse.]

[Illustration:  This is the way H.G.  Nolton writes his name.]

[Illustration:  This was the original freak signature of the country.  It will be recognized by every one as F.E.  Spinner.]

[Illustration:  F.S.  Watts, teller in an Iowa bank, is not afraid to use ink.  He says this signature has never been counterfeited.]

[Illustration:  This stands for Lloyd Bowers, a well-known Kansas banker.]

[Illustration:  R.J.B.  Crombie, a Canadian banker, has a signature that is certainly freakish.]

[Illustration:  Tom Randolph, president of a Sherman, Texas, National Bank, thinks he is a good writer.]

[Illustration:  W.D.  Mussenden, an eastern banker, thinks any man ought to readily read his writing.]

[Illustration:  C.W.  Bush, president of the Bank of Yolo, Woodland, California, makes these marks and they are good on any check.]

[Illustration:  W.O.  Cline, editor and publisher of a Chicago paper.  This is one of the most unique signatures in the United States.]

[Illustration:  A B. Ming might write worse but it is doubtful.]

[Illustration:  W.P.  Hazen, a Kansas banker, has written this signature so many years he thinks it ought to be legible to any one.]

[Illustration:  This is the very complicated signature of Hugh Harbinson, a well-known Connecticut business man.]

[Illustration:  John Mohr, Jr., thinks this is a plain signature.]

[Illustration:  Jas. V.D.  Westfall, formerly a well-known New York State banker.]

[Illustration:  F.C.  Miller, Kansas banker, wants this to pass current as his name.]

[Illustration:  Louis Houck, historian, Cape Girardeau, Mo.]

[Illustration:  Tams Bixby, General Manager The Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minnesota.  This is certainly a unique signature.]

[Illustration:  J.W.  Dunegan, Cashier First National Bank, Marquette, Mich.]

[Illustration:  This is known as the “Turn Around” signature.  This was furnished us by the president of one of the largest banks in New York City.  It is one of the most curious of signatures.  Turn it around.  It reads the same both ways.]

[Illustration:  P.B.  Elder, formerly a Pennsylvania bank president, known as the “upside down” writer.  Turn it around.]

[Illustration:  John R. Dixon, a well-known Chicago business man.]

[Illustration:  Peter White, President First National Bank, Marquette, Mich.]

HOW SOME CELEBRATED WOMEN WRITE

[Illustration:  In this signature of the “divine Sarah,” the flourish peculiar to most actresses, which indicates love of admiration, is very remarkable.  We have also, in the return of the curve of the letter “S” the sign typical of egotism; in the peculiar form of the letter “B,” we have originality; in the heavy down strokes we have sensuousness; and in the angular forms of all the letters, strong will.]