“‘I have the money ready—£50 for a deposit. I have brought it in money, as, perhaps, you will like it better that way.’ “‘Thank you; I will give you a receipt.’ “‘No,’ he said, ‘you needn’t. I know your countrymen are a respectable lot but for the drink, and I know you will not want to be paid twice.’ “The business was settled, and a friendship sprang up between myself and the old gentleman, which lasted until he died. The arrangements for his funeral were entrusted to me, and were carried out without any of the men employed being allowed to partake of intoxicating drinks. In this way those disgraceful scenes which so frequently are associated with funerals were altogether avoided, and I was subsequently complimented by Dr. Moore, jun., on the highly respectable way in which the arrangements were carried out.” But poor M‘Currey, when he had become well-to-do and happy in his surroundings, had much to do from intemperance in others. His eldest son fell a victim, and so did several members of his wife’s family. One son, who became a teetotaler when his father prospered in the world, unfortunately, in the course of his business, met with an accident in falling from a building, which caused his death at the early age of forty-one. “After providing for his family, he did not forget,” says the _Temperance Record_, “the benevolent institutions of his country. He has left £100 each to St. George’s, Westminster, and Consumptive Hospitals; £100 to the Strangers’ Friend Society, and £600 to the total abstinence cause.” One of old M‘Currey’s converts said to him one day, “You inoculated me into teetotalism, on the White Stiles, Chelsea, at a time when I had not a sixpence. I signed the pledge at one of your open-air meetings there, fifteen years ago, and am doing well, as you may judge from the fact that I have now three houses.” It is thus clear that, in many quarters, teetotalism has not only saved men from ruin, but has made them rich as well. In the career of Mr. David Davies, M.P., we have a remarkable illustration of this fact. He was once a “navvy;” he is now (1878) a man of wealth, and a member of parliament. CHAPTER VI. MONEY-MAKING PUBLISHERS.