For HORSES .. CATTLE SHEEP PIGS POULTRY " Eggs are high In price. keen _ 111 the laying hens busy, buy our ‘I g» Pure 1- POULTRY FOODS Blatohforcfa" Laying Mash. ... u- Blatchford’: Egg Mash. In Blatchford’: Scratch Eood, a1 (mixed grain) t,

This Paws

Baa Never Been Equalied

The Parker Fountain (‘or (0., Limited

Duofold Takes Longer to hi] Because of It! oVtI-Sitt Ink (Lapacuy. Press the Button. re- leaw: and count l0. before you

Remember

Record

WhenYou’re Offered a P811 "as good as thc Duofold"

~ - (our expert iwhohavc 1pm»: will: Parker Dunlaid, i1 hours a do)‘

signed his name tn _ an hour and 3- rmnuree. Witn- out fEfi11iIi§.ll‘3D‘1’(O1d once.

Or tne 311110 ‘note; guests who registered with n Duofoid i: at still writes asllf only one hand had ever use’! n.

pped 1min» -.- H1511 your rel nder not to Ieir-e you: per. tizind when you lay it donvn.

Sold by Sinfinnr-nj. 11'9")‘. Drug and Deparlmznl swrcs

Factory nnri Con» ml 011-114: Tnrnn‘ . ( izrlrin Farlrr-r Lnnr i.) Pencil»- 1o 4mm the pen, = ti;

OVOf-SIZ!‘ $4

ln- n Duofold Jr. as lady Duofw- ~ 5 Same rxvept for sin: \‘"~|‘- in: 111' 111-1‘

Fees»

kinda , WHOLESALE

Limited

CARTER

INSIDIOUS EYE, STRAIN

atchfortfs)

Blatchforcfa Chick Malh. POULTRY SUPPLIES of all and RETAIL. LOWEST PRICES

& CO.,

~ ‘n We ua\o thia adjective ldvll-

odly. ' Buffer-era may have perfect vialon a

therefore do not ouapoet till i:

frpmv Eyoatraln

nd

preaanca of any oya dolom- Tbg motive power of the

antlro human orpaniorn Nerve Energy.

Normal oyaq, “Jo oomputod

utilize about M95

of thll

Norvo Energy, but when Iyo- atraln Ia ppooont, nmuoh lam-

or proportion Hanoo dot

la required. Iva ayao. through

their oo Ion d an oar- ooooloo amount of Norva ln- orpy, may oorlaualy afloat tho

tupotioning or other orgoho the body, and onluoo boom».

only: imiiaw avaa v agtampf

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Notes By The Way

Mr. Micbaud, an Aoadlan Frunoh M. P. from New Brunawiek. ia ro-

Proollafl. I. Oboaear I- IIIdII-

UZICIII outm- no lancer. l- l-

noun-o. , up‘, (bl. u. A. Inollannn, l). l. 0. Louie- Noi York IIIIIlQanltv-Irnn\ I hortlrap 05kg» Ioprnaanhllvv-I. Power

vu- a’. a. awn-m aauq. n. a. Carrie

The GUAIDIAN ' Charlottetown:

Maritime iltationrra. Grafton St. Caner J 00.. Queen Street

A. Brown. Stamp Vendor

htophen Duly. liirhmond Street Hallway Bookatail

Mn. L. Dnnoottr. 28 Spfllll Park Rd.

maybe

nhlullrfl from

the following ajnnta in

Y. ‘I’. Iarply. Prince 80.. Grocery J. I‘. Duly. quron Street

“C C. Wright, Kent Street \Yrol it. Thomas While. I25 Bin: Ave. Fred (Ian-Jet. Great flonrlo Street J. II. Taylor. Grafton litre-at.

TAKING A CHANCE

In the current issue of the Quar- terly Review there is a vcry inter» esting and illuminating discussion on "The Ethics of Gambling" the Provost. of Trinity College, Dub- liu, Dr. J. H. ‘Bernard. I: is not our intention to review ‘his article. but

b y

merely to make a few extracts to indicate its purport. The Writer ilistinguishés sharply betwccn bet- ‘ing on chance. and ibetting on skill or knowledge. There is a wide dif- fi-rtnce backing a horse which we think we have reason for believing to be superior to his competitors and betinig that a coin will turn up "heads" when It is fussed, In the one case we are acting on know-

ledge and caIcu1a:i0n——-or we think

winning is a matter of pure chance.

Simple forms of chance are -to take a tickcz in a lot-

tcry (al-yvays sitpposing

betting

it is hon-

t-uu lic-I-p us here,

i to us. and wc can do no morc. The‘-

tikcs any of thcsc forms. can afford it is there wrong in amusing ourselves by tak lug a chance, ihloncy is a. trust, and l0 spend i

What weirrrcfirying to disccvc i5 whether the {In betting on tho full of a coin, ever

the case lg so stated, It is plain thzt the unethical element In betting I

introducing chance Into his life

pleasure of tossing coins, then w

i‘ In com c. fibllOflfii if ZHIPUHHITIOIH,

being ‘the is

ought price of not fixcd

4 act

W111. imay gflin us a dollar an hour

always recognized.

life.

‘I 111M111 may brInZ? in olher words. ’ tho plea that Is urged In ‘that lg is not.’ unethical at iii-mes to aibandon , the rational orderlnr of mo, and ' to deliver ourselvesmp m (ghnncgg > ovie-r which We have n0 control,

Tit-at is what a man docs who takes a loitery ticket or stakes a coin on the spinning ol’ a wheel. The do fence Mimi. it umuses him I; not a ' sound defence, slthmxgh a very nat- unal ondln some cases. People who Diloe their lives In uninteresting

P01114119 0115M not to be severely

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from the intolerable monotony of’ their lives by staking g quormi _ no! and thou on an desire of pure‘

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1925

We are—but in the other, losing or, l

i.» ily conducted). or to put a sov- ereign into a sweep on the Derby. N0 (lament of skill 0r knowledge We [like the tic-I kct, or drazw the number that fullsi

question huforc us is whether there‘, is any hing wrung in betting that’ If we‘

“nYmmE s-roruzs to come. lct us enjoy the

trying film's luck’!

n’ is any’ “mg ‘wrong King government so-calictl "shipyfng

‘ if we arc prudent enough to kccp C y, our losses within due bounds. \\'hcn

that a man who huts is delibcruir-ly p; [_

If iwe pny, say 25c an hour, for thc [L 1s m“ of, e know what. we are doing and how much our amusement is going to| cost us. We are quite cnviiicd 101 ’ make such payments, havmg regard many Britons in Chilll a-nd Urugu- i m 0.1m;- um] pflm- Claims m, ouriay wli-cn hs visits there fills sum- i But we arc actng as no 1""-

w“, IlhPfO arc fi-nanolcd ‘by British cmp- oufihfrc are finnncr-d by British cap-

alliliii and managed lliy Brlish cit- all, so that it may cost us a doilnriizens- i‘ 1n hour, or on the other band If we

This ‘ls a consideration that is not olwiibhave to do in future is to Chance flllli-SICBITY aibout iwith its an earphone 11- 'D00ii11ar zest 1° ma"? forms uf and small coilof wire and we shall amusement. lls presence exclteslbe able to "listen ln" nit Ottawa. 1111- 111111 1t ministers agreeably toiNew York or London at any street tho distractions of our ‘thoughts f0l"C0illli' or on our own door scp. n time from the serious business of|Ncxt we shall bc seeing things at Why should we not throw an equal distance. wway insignificant sums of money on a hnrmlcss pleasure, such an an hour at. the roulette table or the wheel of fortune, or simllnrgarmc of 111 0111' big cities.

|c0uld ‘be spent for a while on public ' - blaimodlf they endeavour to encapelwonks and "Hm" 1n the m“

y ‘West but and alarm we stimuli -_ 11o burl. tojoyarn-i

the desire to escape from the mono- tony which is common to every i And In evcry class the vice idevtliops the self-regarding ln- istlncts Into hideous and" criminal fpropon ions. It is a menace to the isuccc-ss of any government. of what- politlcal complexion, which does not look ahead before It leaps. [The plea that to play games of baz- ‘srd is a legitimate way of escaping ifrcm the dullness of routine is no gdund. This line of escape is not only dangerous; It is wrong. It Is not in kccping with the dignity of _a rational ibelng deliberately -to in- Ltroduce chance Into life.‘ Could we Kju." ify the universaiiising of the principle which lics bt-hlnd the bct- irlg chance? The question answers 1114611. 11 is ilulic true that the pre- of

class.‘

QVCP

‘rucn- chance adds charm

innocent

i0

I 111-11! y smu semenis. but that is iiiccausc. far from intro-

llllltllillf it voluntarily we arc fight-i lint; Iigainst it and trying to eiimIn-l lszi- its influence by the exorcise of your kcnncst wits.

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EDITOR IAI NOTES

1 The lnrgc dc-lcgatioil l0 Ottawa on IMZITiEiIIIC rights will focus ailcnflnu.

I on our claims

Never mind the Jcremiahs about

homes Of course, last year was ex. ceptlonal in the wide contrast be-

often ha ppencd that

Joads of pots-toes which would havl

ported as making from his place in Parliament the statement that I: cost h's constituents all that they received for from 14 t0 18 bulimia cf potatoes to pay the price of use barrel of flaur. Assuming life to be true of New Brunswick it would be approximately true of the Marl- tlme Provinces generally. 1 The average of 14 to 18 borzels would be 17 and is suggestive of the fact that Ii would have been much more profitable had our potato gmwms devoted a much larger acreage to the gronxh otflwheat and a Jnuch smaller area ta potatoes.

Wth an equal expense for fer- tliioer a crop of 25‘ bushels ‘of wheat per acre might as safely be estimated as a crop of 20b bush- els per are in potatoss, llir a much smaller cost lu p ntlng. cultivating and storing the crop of wheat. .\Iuch money is sent out of this province every year whlci. would be kept at home were our farmers each to produce enough when], u) provide bread for their

inflation» of wheat quotations which could not be foreseen. '

The price of wheat has fallen , cons derabiy of late, but It re- mains to me seen whether It will rise again or fall lower. Ami It ills while. the price of flour ‘81111051. invariably follows sharply any rise in wheat it rcspunds much more slowly when when goes dowzv. There ls something of a world shortage In the wheat crop of 1924. which w ll bc me. as usual by 1111111111311" cd consumption owing to l-he hI511' cr price. Bread is still “the 611111 of life," and seems likely to rule fairly hgh u::-.iI the next Canad- ian harvest is in sight, if n0. 10118" er.

A point that will not escapo the atlention of potato growers ‘s the wiilc (liffcrc: cc in the cost of trau- snortziion by rail bctwccn a\'oi' load of flour and the number oi csrl the same value. High freight rates m iitaie sadly arminst the P0131"

manufactured ‘.0 the same cxteui. and was expensive to buy» It 1B stated that the

and t-onvcirent to use, thu: its ire-

ed

coffiv, and in all the SWLUI cou- coctions now at our command.

taln a great quantity of sugar. and

mm cnanwnwrowu GUARDIAN i

‘SUGAR AND WEIGHT

Someone has been telling us lately that there are more Swill men and women about, than there were a few years ago.

Some of our older folks are pdintiug ou-L that fifl)’ F9815 118° 5mm people were rather rarc- They maintain that It was 11911811511 gycrybcd)’ worked hard in 111089 days. both men and women- T1131 there was some-ailing for ever)" body w dd There were horses and carriages of course, but most peo- p13 walked the ord.. y distances a0 work or to market. ~ Now someone makes a 51151595" lion that sound-s very reasonable. He suggests that Ii. is the tremen- dous amount of sugar used on Ill-S continent. that accounts fur the 1n- crense in the number of stout pco- pl-s. we sce on our slreelfii. 111111 11150 for the general Increase in weight.

The Public Forum

an aoiaaaa u op}- lor ra-

oorroopanlanto of

‘Ibo t

i

leoa not nnooaarrly andaroe the op- laloaa of eorroopoadrnto.

00004-0 BRADALBANE R. R.

Str,-—l would like -to Bay a few words In behalf of our mail courier. Mr. W. W. McRae on Bradalbaue, R. R. No. 1. Complaint iwas mad-e against him ivlthcut any founda- tion, In icgard to the mail service Iwe uvere getting this winter. Whet- ‘tcr ihc critic had any grudge agafnst Mr. Mcllne We are not in a pcsition ‘to know but one thing we will say and that is what no man can dispute that we got Lhe has‘! mail service that we ever bad on Blflfiflibflllfl. R. R., No. 1. ‘We have gct our mall gvery day all wIn-ter; -\ve never lnicscd a day, and that 1s a thing very few mail routes can say, in fact is the only time we en- joyed the fu-II system of a daily

was complained he only had one hsrse a ridiculous statement. as I nm in a pnsi:‘on to asset. ‘that he has thrce and as I consider myself a friir judge 0f horsis, I am quite snfe in saying that Mr. McRfie has as good lznrscs as gver drove n mail rautc; in fact one of his hmscs was m's£¢l in our selfle-

lu the average man and woman past thirty-

Er» former day-i $118111 W“ tween the prlcfs of wheat and luxury The system got all thci potatoes, due to the speculative sugar .1 needed fwlli 1119 518191195

In the vegetables. Sugar was 110l-

wurld usss fifty iimcs as much sugar now as was msed a century ago.

Now sugar is a good food. per- haps 1.1..- cheap-ist a-nd best energy producer‘ in existcuc . It .s so ca-iy

mc-zxlous use is only tu be expect- ' OWOVGJX‘, although insulin now combats diabetes successfully. nevf-rthelcss there Is no question but that most people take too much sugar, as sugar. I rtfcr l0 the amriun; that is used in tcaxmd

Puro sugar candy. and the var- ous chocolate confections all cou-

are nil 200d foods and entrgy pro- duo-rs.

A chocolate bar, or a good tally stick, will oftcr. allay fatigue.

However my pain-t is- that the driy you cut your “box of chocolat- es" you should cu: down cu your‘ vcgi tables. | Furtiur if you put "IDts of 511i!- ar" nu and in cvcrylli 11g. don't 111'] su-rprisi-il if your weight iiucreascs._ Oi course a litilc regula IIEXIJT-i cise would use up ill‘ sugar and:

' fiuc wczitlicr in the passing, I

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carelessly. whether on ibctling or 111g 511111 and all it wants l5 a c0n1-i¢911"'111111'5111°" with 1m extravagant zi-uiusemcnt, is 121-11111911 9110i‘! 10 1111111.’ 11 111 11 1\’111'ih‘av“g m ‘Haw the experience of u-nyg wrong, 13m, we are not deal-her. financially and otherwise. | ing with that aspwrt of the matteul

i It was ratht-r unkind bur. clever [of Mr. Donald Sutherland, M. P.

r.

,t0 tic-scribe W. T. R. Preston. the‘

IIHCXPDTL" as "a harnaclc on Ihc ship I Slate."

t‘ Ottawa cxchan-gns announce the ithcrc of hnilf u dozen P. K .C's engaged (ldbutIn-g ap- bcfurc the Supreme C0urt.|

5 presence

Hpcals en our bar Ls so fully re- presented in thc highest court, all |ulilc debaters too.

The Prince of Wal-cs will find

Most of tile big enterprises

If Ihc "magic cloth" radio ln-

yentlon iprovc praulcablc all we

it iwns time the iwcathcr Improv- ed for the sake of "he unemployed

I A Toronto con-

grower, and the 1110110961 01 3111', cousldcrablc roiluoziutv In the near

The (‘ircus Iias got off to a fly-ifuture is imt bright- Taking 0nc|,._,",““‘,,_,

another and i

President Coolidge has outfitted himself with an electric hobb)’ horse. 0:1 which i0 lake his daily £30m}; _"1‘hg mechanism of this siccd is so arranged that “when mounted thereon thc pus dcntial ride;- py simply touching a button hu-u qr there can slat It in motion aha trotting, cantcring, gallop nig and even a bucking pace. The 0H1- cr day he made a mistake, pushed n wrong button and was violrilily xiii-own to the ground but without being seriously hurl. A membc-r of the [muse Qt Representation thereupon composed a ponu 0n "Cal's il-Iobby Horse" a=ntl insisted on reading It in the House. which was done, nctwIlhstand-slrong 0b- . jectiopg made.

The poem was not of a ivgh or- der of merit but culled forth up- mnrlous lnughlcr. Here are u. few sample stanza-s:

Silent Cal is a more cautious chap

Than the. young Prince, bravo and good.

m, prpflfcil by the Princely mis- 111111.

And bought u horse of wood.

Electric currents fll-I ll-s veins. Instead of thoroughbred blond. So It new-r gives Its rider [1-11118. Or throws him in the mud. ‘tie emsily

The “h tabby-horse."

B0811.

temporary announces that that city's expcditures on relief to un- ‘employed In the way of food sup- ‘plled through who House of industry Jnnd other channels durl-ng the pre- sent month amounts to 866,000. This is the largest amount for any one month In the city's history.

Premier Mackenzie ifi-ng does not ,wiah to offend the Wesvervn Progres- sives by catering to iihg Maryann” so lie cold them ‘iihat no-more mono

In llomerlc days, we will recaLl;

A wooden honsc wlthinthe walls

And discovery of tibe White House

is as -s2lcni as its master;

[t itrols and centers In one spill. The Hockey" urging 11 11161915 I

During the famous S1859 01 Troy, ‘

That. city did destroy-

Twould rniol be very strange. In- _deed, if history shouldrelflfll.

steed Should encompass Cal's defeat.

Floyd Golllno many daya Imprla-

Such construction i119 mid w“ needed imost In the Wesa. Of course bla poi-Meal ilife deposit upon who

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found dead. was the subject of long

iuewapaperl. During ‘the’ aaiite per- Iod twp hundred moo we»! 1111M

nod in a Kentucky cave and mow a

any deapatchoa In ten thousand

Ob "tls a thought brcaiiicil by a On sw-iieet wings u flew l0 Inc,‘

i Acrioss the white sen foam It came. Until It touched a trembling chord I wnkeuod to than gentle touch,

Of thought-land

Then iback upon

Oh blessed though-t I

You fly through spaces Iimitlisa

V,_

In one brief Item on one day only. Mine explosions, are only mo fre- quent and have lose news value at a dist-once. but the world newer loses its Interest. In the damgers encountered by the

In the far North Livinzntone Ini Africa are examples. Thelradven-

incvtnt wright Increase. , i.

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years bsforc and since the W111i (rather than war pricv-s) the 1'11 8-1 in-g of more whoa; and less D0111" 1100s would seem to be a 11111119111 course.

Daily Selections

I FOR

Guardian Readers ’ Q i

-vo-o-oo+oooe+oo-oo+o-o+o+oo FEBRUARY 18, 1925

Father which are in Iieuvcil, l-Iul- lowed by thy uumc.

Thy kingdom conic. Thy will be

(live us this day our dually broad.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead u-‘i nut Into ‘tempta- tion, but dclivcr us from c\‘.l: for thine ls the kingdom, and tlic pow- er. and the glory, for ever Amen.

. MBHIICW 6:943.

PRKYERw-Our Father, for this praycrglvenby our Lord tozlll man Ind, we thankilicr, May wc prove nu-r sincerity In using it by daily. brotherly practices. until the mind of-Cllrisi be fully outs. '

A THOUGHT.

What is the sound bornc ou- lhc wind,

This sense of mystcry,

This spIrit-iouuch tliut thrill

Into ‘the heart of mo?

s2 nils a

friend Into the evening nlr;

Like will echo of a prayer,

On wind o'er iuiird and sen. Within the soul of mo.

And opt-tied w‘dc the door to my dearest. friend Upon that other shore. the wings of though-t ,

That. bridge those miles of fanm, sent a message back to her, The friend 1 Iovc at homo.

that. time or space - Your power cannot control;

While soul speaks unto soul. -—Laura Bedcll.

proportionately

dvenmne/r and explorer. Franklin

exploalniflfp Gorilla millta and

turbo. endurance pad sufferings appeal to ‘the lmeflnot-ion and sym- pw-Q- or all. It yrae time, In Golllno"

dune in earth. as i-l is in licuvcn. i

mcut and was counted as good n horse as ever was foaltd in Spring- ficltl. We should igive crcdfi 1wh8re credit is due. \\'c have a good mall driver and we vrant to keep him, try our best to assist him -ln every u-ny. We reitrat \'i‘i'y ‘much that an outside critic no on the Mall Route a-t rill would mnkc reflections upon the . -vicc ivlicu a uuui is doing hi; inst, unilcr the ‘trying condition of the ivontlier and roads.