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of tiie deputation to the Gove 'and no doubt Shey would ast ¢ Could n't be Done By Edgar Guest, in Ford Times SOME. BODY said it couldn't be done!' But he, with a chuckle That "Maybe it couldn't," Would'be one + : - Who wouldn't be say so tillhe'd tried So he' buckled gh n,. ith a trace of aj On his face, Tt he worried, he bid it He started to sing as 8 he tackled the phed but he That: couldn't be done, and he did. it Somebody scoffed: "Oh, youll never i do that; : least no one ever has dove it? took off his coat and | he took} off his hat, ' chook? which are s om of of al men 'who are oot esses, "the Crown Ho ney 'adjourned the case: indefi- ¢ fide: atity of the guilty party proving | pndiess.--Oshawa Reformer | Carnegie Library at *Brooklin? § Nursey, of the Public Btaries Department was in Brooklin nday to take up the matter' of ing a Carnegie Library there. They have' 5000 volumes in their and now want a good building ensus: Bureau, increased from 'ten dollars and' Seventy-nine cents a head in 1890 to fourteen dollars and ninety three cents in 1906, at which date it amounted to a billion dollars. It would be easy fo pick statistics in other fields that show a larger total = a more rapid gain, but not so easy other equally large invest: 5 that is used for such a small part of the time. A great part of the church property is occupied, at most, ten hours a week; and an important part of the increased investment in sixteen years, represents competitive buildi ne -demonination putting up a finer stricture just because some other demonination has done so. In the sixteen years, also, the num: ber of demoninations. increased from ire 1 and forty-five to a hundred -§ix, embracing two hund- red and twelve thousand church organi tions. The number: of pro- : resent agiosters increased by forty- jer cent. or nearly fifty thous. |. \ber, und 'the average pay po all ioe covered by the report on t was a little over "fifty onth. Skilled 'workmen olive and dress as cheaply but a minister is not. WAR TAXES The incvitable result of war is being felt more and more every day and what the future has in store for us is hard to predict. © Direct war faxes are now upou us, and everybody has to pay--pay -pay! The heaviest burden will fall on the common folk, for they will have to pay such taxes as hit them direct, together with 'the enhanced prices which will be levied by the manufucturer upon the consumer to pay the tax levied upon him as a manufacturer. The most direct taxes come as follows: Upon every letter and postcard a war tax stamp of Lc will have to be paid. This will make total cost of postage on letters 3c, and on postcards 2c. So far as we we know no definite date has been set when this tax will come into gffect. "The prodability is that some time will elapse as special stamps will bave to be printed. Upon all cheques, deposit receipts, and bills of exchange passing through a bank, a tax of 2 cents. The President of Bank of Commerce seems to think that special cheques will be issued by the Government to the bapks. 'I'he man who issues the cheque will pay the tax. Upon all express and Post Officc money orders a tax of 2c. Upon postal notes a tax of 1c, Upon all bills of lading a tax of 2c. '| Upon proprietory or patent medicines where price is 10c or less, le tax, and in addition 1¢ tax for every 10c of retail price. Upon cham: ..pagne or sparkling. wine, every bottle of ane pint.or less a tax: of "2be., and upon each additional pint, a tax of 25c. Upon non-sparkling wine for every quart bottle or less a tax of c., and for each additional quart a tax of bc. We understand that the tax upon wines 1s put into effect ,at once. * Upon all cable and telegraph messages which cost 15¢ or more a tax of 1c is imposed. Upon every railway ticket costing from §1 to $5, a tax of 5¢. For every ticket costing $5 to $10, a tax of 10c., and 5c for each additioual $5 or fraction thereof. Upon every berth or Sleeper 10c, for a seat in the parlor car a tax of 5c. all agricultural implements except reapers, binders, mowers, har- vesters, and ditching machines are subject to an inerease of duty of 74% Tea, binder twine, and settlers' effects, wheat flour, sugar, tobacco; printed books, and the agricultural implements mentioned are about the only things left on the free hist. : This proposed tax list will come up for discussion before Parliament A will therefore be subject to revision, except in the case of wines upon which the taxes is already being imposed. | When the tax is finally settled, we may as well make up our minds that it is there to stay. We have been accustomed to talk quite freely of what the Government can and cannot do, but in point 'of fact the Government can do pretty much as it pleases when conditions such as the present arise. The 'most radical Socialist in Britain would scarcely have given the Government the unlimited power that it now possesses." The most ardent temperance advocate would never have hoped:to sweep. vodka from Russia by one prohibitory law. The war is teaching us what wonderful power for good and evil is vested in the Government, and how little the average man studies 'the forces that make for peace or war, prosperity or adversity. , No Chance of an Areo Raid . Planes Do Not Fly By Night. Aviator McCurdy Explains Why ~ Discussing the possibility of an airship raid from the United States Mr. J. A. D. McCurdy, the Canadian aviator, said in the Toronto Daily id Yt is possible, but not at all probable, for unless the machines were built. secretly for a raid, il. would not be possible to get four high powered machines i in any. town in the United States. Apart from the. To machines 'at the factories and those held by the military authorities, 'only 'about twelve machines in.the United States which could make such a. flight, and these are flying boats. i tisa comparatively easy matter for a person to be deceived as to the sound of he engines. Railiay engines'ilr blowing off steam 'often ) on purposes, and these radiu and could. only fl about 200 feet 'high. For a story of an ar ne. anes are os culty of