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The Editor Talks It is a pretty difficult problem to decide decide what is really gambling and what is not. often in "business ventures, so that our readers may have more than & passing interest in a short discussion discussion of this much debated question. Young men especially should be glad for any light oh gambling, for they are so often tempted if they dwell in cities, towns and any other industrial centres. In our opinion there is far too much of the gambling spirit introduced introduced into the schemes adopted in these war times for raising money for Red Cross and other worthy patriotic purposes--"sowing to the wind and reaping (later in life we fear) the whirlwind." It is in this as in many other questionable proceedings, better to "shun the very appearance of evil." * * * * Define the difference between gambling gambling and moral buying and selling, requests requests a reader seeking counsel on the subject. To make his position clear LETTER TO TOMMY ATKINS often raised in prayer. He sat in a front seat, -and usually alone. The story relates that one evening thé Attendants Attendants were surprised to find the poor old man sitting in the pastor's chair at the ; desk. "The pastor, unexpectedly unexpectedly called away, had asked him to lead the meeting. Some looked their disapproval as they entered, exchanging exchanging significant whisperings and head shakings to find - the humble | wood-sawer presiding over the meet-.j ing. But the meeting went on through j song and opening prayer to the topic ^ --the 23rd Psalm, which had been the j old man's'comfort by day and by night for man^ a year. As he developed. the message of the psalm it became a j revelation and the eyes filled that had j glanced haughtily at the bent figure in the chair, and the heads that had nodded disapproval first, hung in shame and then rose in rapt attention. ! The power of God rested upon that j humble man in that hour and those ! he says he bought stock of a corpora- 1 who had haggled with him over the j ■ fractions of a cord crowded about him i after the meeting to grasp his hand. Who were the inferiors there ? His Canadian Pacific Railway Going West Guing East 6.07 a.m. daily 10:46 a.m. daily 18.26 a.m. dailyt " 3.21 p.m. dailyt 4.27 p.m. daily X7.52 p.m. dailvt 7.48 p.m. dailyt 12.57 a.m. daily x North Toronto Station t Except Sunday C. B. Kent, Agent Canadian Northern Railway Going East Going West ^Express 11.59 a.m. 1Ï Express 9 06 a.m. ^Express 6.33 p.m. \ Express 7.40 p.m Y Daily except Sunday. J.T. ALLEN, TAILOR At Rear of Standard Bank BOWMANVILLE J. T. Allen announces that he now makes suits to order at lowest prices. Ladies' suits cleaned and pressed. Gentlemen's suits altered, repaired, cleaned and pressed. pressed. All work guaranteed and prices right. Give the old reliable tailor a trial. WIN 1ER TOURS S PECIAL Fares now in effect effect to resorts in Florida Georgia, North and South Carolina, Louisiana and other Southern States, and to Bermuda and the West Indies Return Limit May 31st, 1917 Liberal Stop-Overs Allowed For full information write to C. E. HORNING,- D. P. A., Union Station, Toronto, Ont. Or J. H. H. Jury, Town Agent, Bow- manville. tion and wants to know now if he offers offers that stock for" sale through a broker would it be gambling. He says the stock is worth five times the price j good work, words and influence were he paid for it. He wishes to know if, the praise of all his fellows in that he would be a gambler in stocks if he church, offered his "share of this stock on the market through a stock broker? The answer given to this conscientious inquirer inquirer is very clear and illuminating, so we shall try to present it .in a somewhat condensed form: "GStnbling, in its true sense, is betting betting on a future action or event of which the bettor has no definite knowledge. You may_bet that it will rain next week or that it will not; or on the result of a horse race --that one horse or the other will win --without knowing anything about the horses, and certainly not knowing which horse will win if the race is a fair and honest one; or that a certain stock will go up in price in the market market or that it will not. All this is gambling, pure and simple, as< you are not jnaking any investment, but simply venturing money with the expectation expectation of getting a good profit if your bet wins/ but losing "your stake if your bet loses. * * * * The difference between gambling as shown above and ordinary business of buying and selling is clearly and unmistakably unmistakably evident. If a person buys a house and lot, and makes a payment he is making a purchase and has then an equity in that property. He may buy it with the expectation of having that property advance in price, so that he will be able to sell at a profit before before he is obliged to pay for the property property entirely--a speculative investment investment really, but this transaction is not gambling. He will have to keep the property if not sold. If he purchase purchase stock of a corporation, no matter matter if it is listed on the exchange or not, and he purchases it outright he is making an investment and is not gambling. He buys the stock and takes it for better or for worse, regardless regardless of whether it advances in price or not. Buying stocks outright may be done for the purpose of realizing realizing a profit on the stocks, but if in his judgment a certain stock has merit and is likely to pay dividends it is an investment and is not gambling^ But buying stocks on margin, as it is familiarly familiarly termed in the stock market, ! putting up a very small amount of money with the expectation of selling at an advance, and making a profit-- this rs really gambling. There is distinct distinct difference, therefore, between speculation and gambling. In a legitimate legitimate business transaction if the seller does not take any advantage of the buyer in the deal no moral law is violated. * * * * It is a good suggestion that we consider consider what lives have influenced us "Before next midsummer I expect to sell my hogs at $16 per 100 lbs,," remarked a lecturer at a. farmers 1 meeting that we . attended the past week. To-day a lady said she was asked 30 ^°nts a pound for beefsteak --a choice cut, of course--by the butcher in her home town. We read in a western weekly paper recently of a farmer who sold a small load of birdseed for $532.07. This may have been a very exceptional transaction. Farmers hereabout do not raise birdseed birdseed for market, but there are so many ways just now for farmers to get rich quick that they hardly know which one to select. His cows are making gold bricks for him while he sleeps, his hogs go rooting about turning turning up gold nuggets, so to speak-- they grow into money so fast. One day last week we accosted a farmer driving into town with a 60 bushel sleigh box of yellow turnips. "What are -you getting for turnips at the evaporator now?" we inquired. With a resonapt voice that betokened satisfaction, satisfaction, he replied, "30 cents"! Think of it, 30 cents a bushel for turnips. "O, thç poor farmer!" * * * * • We are aware that farmers are having a great problem in carrying on their farm operations, owing to unusual unusual scarcity of help. But this is going to be a blessing in disguise on hundreds of homesteads. A country lady visiting in town was telling how well she was getting on with her housework. Being without a general servant, her husband and she had studied how they could economize the housework and had hit on a plan to save many trips a day to the cellar by putting in a dumb waiter. Several other alterations had been made to save labor and so never more will that home require the strenuous exertions exertions of the past. - One other home where it was necessary to go some distance for water for house use, by a little ingenuity and comparatively small outlay of money for piping, water water was carried'lnto the pantry. This works so well that a relative seeing how'easily it was done, by a similar outlay of time and money, planned to introduce water for all his live 'stock into his stables. So the good work goes on on many farms--labor-saving machinery and devices' are taking the places and doing the service in many ways of human agents. Farmers should rejoice that they can lighten labor in their homes so that women may have more leisure. * * * * How very funny that often when for good or ill. All of us -have been ™ an v is thinking atong some particu- lar line some article is come across in a book or^paper, or he hears a conversation conversation that makes him wonder if there be anything in mental telepathy or mind communicating with mind or thoughts soaring around in the air. Here is part of an article enough lige what we hâve been advancing for the author to charge us with plagiarism. All that a farmer has got to do now is to keep half a dozen hjéns laying and the problem of livingyls solved. If he raises two or three hogs also, he is safe in erecting a new bank barn. A more or less influenced by other persons. persons. Who and what were the characters characters of those men or women who helped us to a better life? We ven- 1 ture the opinion that they were not the ; "high and mighty" of the land. Per- | sonally, when a young man and away • from home for the first time to fill a position as a teacher, the man who helped us most to choose the better way was the hired man in the farm home where we boarded. We can never tell how much we owe to that young man, long since passed to his reward, for we know that he was the means of turning us "right about face" and helping us to pursue the path that we are now and often have been glad that we followed. Later in life, whén attending the means of grace in the church of our choice, there was a blind man who sawed wood for a living whose testimonies and prayers have 'many a time done us more good at a prayer meeting or fellowship service than anything said or done by pastor and other persons combined. There is no one, however humble their station in life, but who can and does exmrt an influence for good or evil. N * * * * A story is told in a publication just ; to hand that may well be republished I here--a similar character to the j Blind Michael to which we have re- 1 ferred, he, too, having now gone to his everlasting rest. A certain devoted devoted saint, old, bent of form and shaky with palsy, wearing poor, threadbare and patched clothing, made a meagre j living by cutting and splitting wood from house to house. Although wear- ! ied frofil daily toil he seldom missed . the mid-week prayer meeting, and always always whén the offer was made, stood to testify and his quavering voice was ; Jan. I .thought I would "write you a line, Tommy-- A message of hope and cheer; They tell me your fighting is fine, Tommy, * You never give way to fear; I knew you would honor your name, Tommy, You always were brave and true, You're fighting for RIGHT--not fame, Tom/ny, . <■ We take off dur hats to you. The screeching of shot and shell, Tommy, May often disturb your rest; But coolness and courage will tell, Tommy, And we, know you willdo your best; 1 You are fighting for kindred and home, Tommy, That you may never see agaip; You are writing in history's tome, Tommy, Your name as a prince of men. I wish I'could stand at your side, Tommy, In spirit I'm often there; I feel in my soul a deep pride, Tommy, Because,you are doing your share; y The world in approval looks on, Tommy, And cheers as the fo"e you smite; Bid idle forebodings begone, Tommy, ' He conquers who strives for RIGHT. I know you have dangers to face, Tommy, That matters no whit to you; You always were found in your place, Tommy, When duty was plain to view; The slacker who fears to enlist, Tommy, Is branded a coward to-day, When gone, he will hardly be missed, Tommy*... But you will be honored, ahvay. Our fathers for liberty fought, Tommy, On many a battlefield ; Their rights most dearly were bought, Tommy, They DIED, but would not YIELD; So, fight like the Britons of old, Tommy, For Briton and hero you are; More precious is honor than gold, Tommy, And peace must be purchased by war. There's a better day coming for all, Tommy-- You're helping to bring it near-- When the power of error shall fall, Tommy, And the weak shall have naught to fëar; When men learn the logic of love, Tommy, And love rules the hearts of men, As sure as our Father's above, Tommy, There'll be no more fighting then. 25, 1917. By R. L. Werry, Quebec City, Que. YE GOODE OLDE DAYS? Long good three-year-old fat steer would pay off the biggest mortgage in the country. Half a dozen dairy cows would produce more profit than half the mines in Cobalt, while an average size flock of turkeys, which will hunt their own living all summer, will enable enable the farmer and his family to j spend the winter months in Florida. | * * * * i i This sounds flowery, of course, but farmers around here'have bigger bank accounts and are spending more money --war times and all--than we have ever known, them to do before. Last Autumn we attended a big gathering of country folk, and the great surprise was, to us, the number of farmers who came to that function in their own automobiles. They had horses, to be sure, aplenty, but they have money and they are going to enjoy the pleasures of life as well as the city folk. And why should they not? In addition to the story quoted above j about existing conditions with the day costume ? OL-course you do! ! Do farmers you add to the list of money I y OU n ot appreciate the many messages Contrast Between The Days of Ago and Present Time. Yes, so we always speak of them. But were they really so good, after all? Let us look into the matter. Today Today your travelling is done in a comfortable comfortable train. In goode old days you sat, blue-nosed and benumbed, on a stage-coach, which, as likely qs not, broke down. The gallant highwaymen, we know, is a romantic figure. But would you) | really like to meet him ? In the "goode olde days," if you feasted too well and not too wisely, you might be fortunate enough to find a doctor close at hand, but in all probability probability many miles of snow and slush would separate you from the nearest leech. No telephones! No telegrams! 1 And do you not prefer your present- producing products--butter, milk if near city railways, fowl, bees and the varied products of field, orchard, garden, garden, dairy, apiary,--hay, wheat, corn, oats, horses, sheep and other products "of the farm and remember he ' gets cash for everything he sells, the mys- you receive from relatives and friends, delivered to your door, no matter from what corner of the world they have had to travel ? Naturally! One last point. The "gay dog" of the "goode olde days" did not ask a girl's permission before he kissed her; tery of why every farmer who comes i nor was it a vital matter to him into our office to renew his subscription, subscription, pulls out a roll of bills as big as your rieg (with nothing smaller than a V) is solved. After a long, wistful look at.the object of so much money, the poor printer turns his back on the farmer and his wad, brushes away a few silent tears, and then goes out among the other business men of the town for one who can change a five. But such is life! The money does not seem to be properly divided in this world. The printer has to look for his reward in the "next. GROW FOOD IN SCHOOL PLOTS. Flattering to the Original But Imitations Only Disappoint There "are many imitations of this great treatment for coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis and whooping cough. The.y usually have some sale on the merits of the original, but it should be remembe red. that they are like it in name only. whether he had imbibed too freely or not. { So be satisfied! About the only man who can afford to believe all he hears is the man who caE afford to believe all he hears is the man who is stone deaf. Minister of Education Urges the Cultivation Cultivation of Garden Space. That the value of - Ontario's food production could be increased by $10,- 000,000 by proper cultivation of garden garden plots and vacant land in urban municipalities of from one to nine thousand population, is the statement Hon. Dr. Pyne is making to school teachers and inspectors in an endeavor to "speed up" food production in the ! province next year. | The Minister has-Jssued instructions I to teachers of agriculture and horti- ! culture in the schools to devote their attention to practical food growing next Summer, increasing the space devoted devoted to plants of food value and limiting limiting that given to flowers. "With the same object in view the home garden projects should be enlarged enlarged and extensive use made of vacant vacant lots and other unoccupied areas in .ordef to take advantage of the potential potential labor of boys and girls from eight to sixteen, much of which in the ordinary course of events is not utilized," says the Minister. The inspectors inspectors are urged to enlarge the ^scope of agricultural education and to induce school boards that have not established classes in agriculture to undertake the work, and so utilize school and home garden space. 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