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Show Secret of Yankee Success In that place called Monto Carlo overy time tho wheel turns and tho ball rolls into its placo It marks a fresh condition of tho game, nn nbso-lutply nbso-lutply now chanco which has nothing whatever to do with anything that has gone boforo or is to appear in tho future. fu-ture. Each spin is tho year 1 of tho bank. Therefore tho bank wins. America has appreciated tho year 1, nnd that fact has not been unconnected uncon-nected with Ytinkco success. You will find thnt a man loses money as a farmer, a mechanic, a book canvasser, canvas-ser, and suddenly rises to wealth as a builder. Tho peg has found tho hole at lust. An Englishman, uuapprcclativo of the year 1,' would hnve been chained to failure by tho precedent of centuries. cen-turies. Ho would havo argued that ho had .always been a farmer, that his father iwaB n, farmer and his undo a dairyman. Therefore it was plainly impossible that ho could over mako money as a builder. In conclusion ho, would havo quoted you that falsest of all false proverbs, A rolling stone gathers no moss." 1 say "false" only in the English application vof tho ancient proverb. For otherwise it is an up-to-dato motto enough. Tho rolilng stone of today remains polished and lit for business. Tho stationary stono is liable to accumulate ac-cumulate such a quantity of moss that it is only fit for a cushion to bo sat on by all and sundry. There is in America to-da an exemplification exem-plification of the principle ot tho year 1 in a nowspapcr proprietor with some 80,000 a year to his credit. Until ho was over 50-years of age ho was a farmer and not a very elllclent farmer at that. Then ho started his paper nnd away ho went on the road to success. suc-cess. How many of our" farmers could chango their trade after GO? I,ondon Express. '' |