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Show BANKBALANjCE A ' ' GUIDE TO SUCCESS , A man who became a hard drinker out conquered tho habit finally says in tho February number ot tho Farm and Fireside: "A man's bank balance is the surest sur-est guide there Is to his progress In I tho world, and mine showed I was , not progressing, at all, or even stamping stamp-ing still. I was gradually slipping' i back, and had been doing so ever' since I hit the booro trail. ' "Before, whenever I fell tobrood-ing tobrood-ing on the matter, I'd aiways Iodic for comfort in my faVorlte way, tha.1 Is, by taking a stiff drink of whisky. But thero wasn't any chance for that noV. Tho supply was cut off. I had to faco tho music. "It wa'j mighty unpleasant music too. I couldn't think of any reply to my wife and she went right ahead in giving me what I deserved. "Sho reminded me, for one thing, of a span of worthless horses which I bought at the last county fair. "And you were drunk when you bought them, said my wife." |