p. 561 | Whisky and the Two Workmen

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 13, 1883

Whisky and the Two Workmen

POMEROY'S Democrat tells the following unique story: Some years ago we had in our employ a man who several times a day ran out of the office to buy a drink of whisky. Every time he went out the cashier was instructed to drop ten cents in the drawer to our credit. At the end of seventeen months the man who had gone out so often had drank himself out of a good situation, and the drawer when opened was found to contain $409, which we loaned to a young mechanic at seven per cent. interest; he used it to purchase a set of tinner's tools. On the 15th of February, 1876, he returned it to us with interest, saying in his letter that he had a wife, two children, and property worth $5,000. The other fellow is a bummer hunting food.