To that dear teacher who urged me to go to school when I was past twenty
years of age, and helped to mold in me the true principles of honor.
To a fine Judge on the Bench whose many fatherly talks to poor
unfortunates, whose feet had slipped from the narrow way, who helped me
to obey and respect the law.
To a splendid intellectual lawyer, one of God's clean home men, whose
guest I have been at many intellectual feasts, to him I owe the
avoidance of the saloon and learned the intrinsic value of sobriety.
To my two eldest sisters, one sister-in-law, and my devoted wife through
whom I learned the desperate struggle and what it means to live clean.
To a poorly paid self-educated minister to whom I am deeply indebted for
the first introduction to my master.
To these in the major part, and a few others, God bless them all, I owe
whatever I am to them, to these dear people I affectionately dedicate
this book.