George Miles White

Copyright, 1905,
By B. F. SLEEPER, Westminster, Vt.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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While paying the penalty of a last misdeed, Iresolved that no more of life’s precious years shouldbe spent in sowing to the wind and that my life’ssun should not set in eternal night; and I have beenable to keep my resolution. In the awful momentsof lonesomeness in the prison cell, I conceived theidea of publishing my life history in so far as I couldmake it interesting to the financial world and generalpublic. Many hours of solitude, while othersslept, I devoted to rummaging through the past insearch of facts, dating them from the innocent daysof my young manhood and resurrecting them fromperiod to period, until I succeeded in compiling alife history which, I sincerely trust, will prove notonly a helper to those who have the care of greatsums of money devolving upon them, but will alsobe accepted by those tempted to depart from thepath of rectitude as a warning not to be lightlyregarded.

I have endeavored to be accurate in my treatmentof each part of this history, and if there shall bevidiscovered an error here and there, kindly, dearreader, attribute it to a lapse of memory. I keptno record of events, for in leading the life of atransgressor it is not conducive to safety; so I havebeen forced to depend solely upon my memory,which, as it dwelt on the past, soon became aliveagain with old scenes. Acts long forgotten returnedto me clothed as they were more than twoscore yearsago, and I found myself living over the bright days,the dark days, the days of wealth, and the days ofpoverty. I started to write a small book, but factscrowded upon me until I have been enabled to issuea volume of no mean proportions.

G. M. WHITE.

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