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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 272, 10 August 1908, Page 8

' The capitalist is a cow who has only got to be milked as occasion requires, in order to make everyone happy and convert the murky sciences of economics and national finance into the simplest of nursery pastimes, says tho Socialist's dictionary.—-"Pall Mall Gazette." ■ The Government of the Windward Isles - aro carrying out improvements in the fortifications. A new fort is being erected commanding the harbour approaches to St. Lucia, and guns of a modern pattern aro being installed. Tho Canadian Government has decided to grant a cash subsidy to and to guarantee bonds of the Canadian Northern. Railway for tho construction of a lino to Hudson Bay, the Government retaining tho control of tho rates. It is quito wrong to suggest that Great Britain has no Army. Did she not ship to tho Transvaal a fow years ago 200,000 men? Slio is tho only nation, thanks to her immonso fleet, that can land, at ; ono time, 100,000 men.—" Roma," Naples. The Importation of Plumage Prohibition Bill would do incalculable harm to the millinery trado. It affords tho birds no protection whatever, but merely forces the trado into foreign markets. It is a quixotic proposal that British traders should cease dealing- in plumage and resign tho trado to Franco or Germany.—"Drapers' Record." There aro certain schools of politicians -in all countries who must have a bogoy, someone who is going to invade, somcono who is animated by a deop-scated, implacablo hostility which cannot bo . appeased. They do groat mischief, and, oven if they do not inflame passions to' the point of war, they cause enormous expense.—"Westminster Gazette." The gospel of travel is tho gospel that most people need. No one has so narrow a vision as the stationary. person. Show me'a man who has never been outside of his own borough, and I will show you a mass of incurable ignorance; and the more glib he is the more wordy and confident, the more ' incurable is his pitiable condition.— "Canadian Courier," Toronto. An important advertisement respecting the proposed reconstruction of the National Fire and Marine Insurance Company appears in another column.