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Show DAY OF THE ROLLING STONE. In that place called Monte Carlo every time the wheel turns and the ball rolls into its place it marks a fresh condition con-dition of the game, an absolutely new chance which has nothing whatever to do with anything that has gone before or is to appear in the future. Each spin is the year 1 of the bank. Therefore the bank wins. America has appreciated the year 1, and that fact has not been unconnected with Yankee success. You will find that a man loses money as & farmer, a mechanic, a book canvasser and suddenly sud-denly rises to wealth as a builder. The peg has found the hole at last. An Englishman, unappreclatlve of the year 1, would have been chained to failure fail-ure by the precedent of centuries. He would have argued that he had always been a farmer, that his father was a farmer and his uncle a dairyman. Therefore it was plainly impossible that he could ever make money as a builder. In conclusion he would have auoted you that falsest of all false proverbs, "A rolling stone gathers no moss." I say "false" only in the English application ap-plication of the ancient proverb. For otherwise it is an up-to-date motto enough. The rolling stone of today remains re-mains polished and fit for business. The stationary stone is liable to accumulate uch a quantity of moss that it Is only fit for a cushion to be sat on by all and sundry. There la. in America today an exemplification exem-plification of the principle of the year 1 In a newspaper proprietor with some 80.000 a year to his credit. Until he was over 50 years of age he was a farmer and not a very efficient farmer at that. Then he started his paper and away he went on the road to success. How many of our farmers could change their trade after 60? London Express. |