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A TEEToTALLER's PoRK BARREL BANK
A teetotallar at Fitchburg, who has been on the
pledge for three years, has written letter to
the Worcester Cataract in which he gives
the following account Of his financeering ope-
rations: .af 'ssf Fsa*t


Since have taken the total abstinence
pledge, | have been unexpectedly promoted. l
have become the President, Director, and Ca
shier Of Savings Bank. That bank is a true
old Berkshire When get alittle money,
purchase a little grain, and forthwith make a
deposit in said bank. The investment is very
profitable. The Directors meet once year.
Last fall we found in the vault 1887 sterling,
and gave my wife check upon the bank, and
il has never failed discouniing to this day. We
have no fears that it will suspend payment,
and now advise all my men through the land
to walk up and sign the pledge, and have a
bank Of their own, for the dividends are al
ways sure. Thus it is that pork barrel is bet
ter than rum barrel--and pork and happiness
ispreierable to poverty and miseryl'