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rle ; V The two_Vmost important Witnes- ses were Thomas Ledeouceur an.d H. Payette. These young men swore that on several occasions Barry had threatened to burn Playfair out, and on one occasion Barry said to Pa- yette he would burn Playfair s house, his lumber and his yacht, and that he would do it by. soaking T385 with oil and placing them .under the porch or verandah. As Barry elected to be tried before the _County Judge and a jury. the Mag- istrate considered the evidence suf- cient to commit him to Barrie for trial. The court room was packed to the doors, and much interest was ken in the proceedings. Payette f:t'0r_ that the evidence he gave at '_l2il'l1`F Plzlyfzlir told. of_ having dis- covered the me at midnight on July 8un(ler the steps at the back of his residence. A rag saturated with oil,l which was produced in court. was found burningz. but the re` had not made much headway when discov- cred, Captain Kennee gave evidence relating to Barry working on Play- lair's yacht and leaving of his own accord. and afterwards entering an action for wages not due him, which case was thrown out by the court. Barn . was annoyed at losing the case, and called Kennee a rogue,~ and said, There are more ways of killing a cat.than choking it with butter. \.tb\v }`,.U\_\,\,uIll 1 J .. any nu _ D. swore evxdenct; Sgenot the inquest on the 9th "155 fsstate- correct; that he made 3 m t men: to screen Barry _0 Conn of his family. Since the inquest on the Midlandl res held in that town on the 9th 1,151,; DetecLi._\'c Gree`r `of Toronto? had been working on the case, with the result that Barry, a young Mid- land boy, was arrested, charged with having something to do- with starting the res at James P1ayfa ir s residence on the night of July 8. A preliminary licaring of the case was taken before Police Magistrate Jac- kel. Four witnesses gave evidence, and some stzlrtlillg facts were dis- closed. \\'. Finlziysoii and F. W. Grant nppearerl for the Crown and; D, 5. Storey for the defence. ` i PEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED ' Id this \ condiio fv caused b -~.. ....u-a vrIL11I\lL D13 UUBIHU by local applications, as they cannot Ttacli the diseased portion of the `it There is only one way to cure d.3f5S. and that is by constitu- na1r_emedies. Deaf-ness is caused Hn_iriflamed condition of the mu- !]>l!s lining of the Eustachian.Tube. hen this tube is inamed you have humbling sound or imperfect hear- 3:3. and when it is entirely closed, thaf.55 Is the result, and unless Inammation can be taken` out lvube restored to its normal f 11, hearing will be destroyed Vf; nine cases out of ten are 3' Catarrh, which is nothing Zbulc8n inamed condition of the WP uvill ,,i . A rv - 5 ` lad Named BarryArrested For Com- i plicity In Arson Cases And Com- 3 mitted To Stand Trial Here. I! THE MIDLAND muss} A_hur Horatio Wee>l !s- E_Ihe[w;"g :for her husband, who!_1_i _:TorontS {to meet on_ her arrivaligzni F. 0 rom England. _ ' h - - . . _1Ta{t e amatxons be_tween Ptes1dgnt- gig,` Said`d ex-Pre_s1dent Roosey:1;`. 5-W Doi to be Strained to the bl', .5,k'." E'"'1. 1 "M , empties the % Who vet? ` M m. Your Grocer Wili Recommend It .33 . otA\ {em One Hundred `Dol- nn-.. - 1'\-_!,---_ I-_.-`__ gi R033 - indlgestit.>"`r_1--x`1'1ucvlf5W"f'9fWpsf._ % -u--4- -4 noun. .5.` SeThe writer of thens-aid"-`article on t1_;"ettw3l1ftolii 890d deal of stress owing ma ters, n - !3'- Danger; of damage and `Reilxiiii mg ;-3`3PtY- Of course there. is the 53 aflgerin going through locks l`%"d "0 m1'. and as to returning light. they have to do so now to a great _extent_. As thewestern busi- ness Increases, however, and there are more vessels employed, there Wm be 3 greater number returning light--and unless a llarge amlount of mY 15 Spent en ar ing t e an- lals all the `way to glonatgeal cthe arger vesses must unoi some- where in "the upper lakes. Now the proposed canal is_ to be of suicient fgpacity. (to taake in a vessel 600 feet _ 113'-an ere 15 no reason` w y It should not be made 7oojfeet, If thought necessary, so that any ves- sel of the largest size on the lakes could go. all the_.way to Montreal or Quebec if required;-but what is to pf:-event tlhe func}>`adi_g ofhvssels at e e mout o `t e 4 renc iver in- to barges built anc_l_a_dapted for the purpose? The facilities for unload- mg lcould feasilgvt.be rn.'liebsuch1gth(ait e arge reig er cou e un oa `- ed in a_very short time by a series of `floating elevators-these appli- ances would, as the contingency. aros, be ready to meet it as. can _be seen in the great ore unloading ports` of the United States. V The State of New York is spend- ing $100,000,000 in. enlarging. and deepening the Erie '7Ca'nal, which even when nished will only.be a large-sized ditch in comparison with the Georgian Bay Qanal; and the reason they are going .to this great expenditure, is to " counteract - as`, much as possible the effect-_ our canal will have on"the up-glaketragleg They: know quite, well and recognize` in a mannerour peple do_-1_1gt seem to` do--fthe great -\po.ssibi_l1_ties - g of business coming_' this ;way '_In' 350. the. c`ana'lf `l1_ere'i s_; b'uilt~;. and ` .New_ York is*quite- alive-fto her"busine_s's.~ `interests. 'It.will ; therefore be -Va; very vimporytant __.;,e9ntes,ta_,,_, between; `Canada hand, the ` United? __State_s 1':?it.Qj- which ".cotgi.'1`tr$'- zwitiz. .dis:e,rt,the g_r,ea_t,-2; eat, porti0n" of..- the: :r9?e"s.t;r1r;.`busan.ess` it would not by any Vmeans absoitb the whole of the freight business between Montrealx and Fort Wil- I. | The writer-says, `Even if built, 'liam, and that freight is originating west of Montreal and the Ottawa River, that is, at Kingston} Toron- to, Hamilton", Ogdensburg, Oswe- go; Rochester, Lake Erie ports and more westerly points would still be carried through the present route." Quite true, therefore by his own showing the canal will not interfere with ` quite. a considerable business, but on the other hand does the writer suppose Canada is going to stand still in her commercial de- velopment, and that all the business he thus speaks of, a mere bagatelle in comparison with that now rapid- ly growing up in the north and northwest, will not affect the ques- one iota ? tion of the usefulness of the canal 3 av,.1etter:..it9 the Financial Post Mr. GeorgefMoberly5 takes up the defence of" the Georgian Bays Canal and urges` that .it-~is needed to prove the -*transpo rtationg facilities between the east and the west. Mr. Moberly is 'replysing=-to_- an. article. arguing against the. construction. -of the canal which appeared in a pre- ;vious issue of the Post. and in the }course of_ his, letter says :- p canal is 440 miles long from Geor- yurrhe `gian Bay to Montreal`, and 346 of : this is free channel from 360 to 1,000 feet and over in width, and of full depth of 22 feet, and over, and there is nothing to prevent a vessel5from going at any speed she chooses. The time of going through the canal, as" carefully calculated by competent engineerswho made` sur- veys and estimates. for the whole `work, is 70 hours and not 2oo-- *w'hich maks -a very considerable dierence. ' ` I can remember being at `Sault Ste. Marie when there was nocanal on either the American or the Can- adian side, and look at it at present where now the Western country, particularly in Canada, is only on the verge of its future expansion,-'-- so that if we want to keep the trade we must be up" and doing and not be satised to sit still and decry such important works as. the Geor- gian Bay Canal, which even _at its best can only handle _a portion of, the vastly. increasing business. 40-51.. ___...4._,_ ~-r 41.- --:_I -._'L:-I- 7o nouns run 440 `VI 1111'. n. Lovermg, by Mr. Harry Gill, who in-- company of Mr. Robt. Ls`-8_th..rda1e was leaving the island to J_01n Mr. Tipping and party on a fishing V excursion in Burrough s Lake, when -they spied a, large eagle overhead. The huge bird Jalighted on apme. stub on the island. The two campers. immediately paddled back, and Mr.`Gill, taking his -shot gun, `stole up on. the bird-, whose attention was taken by the actions of- Leatherdale in the canoe. Mr. Gill got within. easy range_and red two` shots, killing the bird in- stantly.` The bird is a magnicent specimen, measuring 7 it. I in., from . tip to tip -of the wings. Mr. Gill is very proud of his. splendid trophy. It is being mounted by Mr. Suther- land of Orillia.--4Coldwater Planet. 10. s. INTERESTIN lam With cm: Britain Defeated by Ger- many, Where Woilld United State; Get Off%At ? The London correspondent ot `Harper's `Weekly, `Mr. Sydnelz 3Brooks,` (whose journalistic Wm` `is~well-known, and whose observa- }ti0_ns are accepted as especially `worthy `of attention), .writes on ;The Warning of T Germany s Naval Increase, and why it should inter. 3est Americans. yvrv-out llUI~J\rnuJ. It After discussing. various phases Eof the struggle. for naval supremacy [as between Great Britain and Ger- many._ the correspondent` goes on to point out how, the United States is concerned` in the great question `of naval armament. H'e rejects the `generally accepted American idea that one setgof world politics ap- plies on one `side _of the Atlantic `and not on the other. Some Pertinent Questions. l` Has the United `States .an inter- {est in the fact that Germany is now `the -second naval, power in the *world? _ he `asks. _Has she an Jin- terest In the prodigious prepara- itions for war, or for warding off fwar, that are being hurriedly press- led forward `on both sides of the North Sea? Has she an interest in the possibility that supremacy` at sea may one day suddenly pass from British to German hands, and that England may be irretrievably hum- bled and that the `British Empire may be convulsively dissolved? i Hove - Americans ever conceived` themselves mennced by the British command of the `sea 1' Would they be equally satised. if Germany were to occupy the poutaone so long and with ' such gsneral acceptance held I._.vI\_..-..L I! Andn, Thaw any well _.v.------ uw .-`G 5550 "A" `M86. Tmae1:icans: eagl was .shot Mar Bona. rVis_ta-,. the `summer _V home -of Mr. H. Lovcrmg, by Mr. H'ar,1-.y Who in..cm11i`nnu at `Mr... n...1.. vvAl|. I-Ilut-\ul. (lllhb Q3 ya] L [J1 [A]: ]uL1'Q' ductory remarks : _ This. is the fundamental cond:- tion which the -British democracy of to-day have to recognize as re- gards their national security, upon food, clothing, and ho`using--de- pends: that they stand face to face with a nation one-fourth more nu- merous than themselves, and one more highly organized for the sus- tainment by force of a national po- licy. It is` so because it has a gov- ernment more eicient in the order- ing of national life, in that it can be, and is, more consecutive in pur- pose than one balanced unsteadlly upon the, shoulders of a shifting which their economic future-thv.-irl popular majority, A(,_ J___`___,_ ___.2____ _L_--- fl'_.'.v;t_'n[`tl'le frontier, and the Georgian B3-y Can.a1"1v_ill_ supply this import- aii_t `reqmremzent. Co_ntingencies may anse which would make this avenue very necessary. - '- ' v-.. u-opnvnnvuu-nut He quotes Admiral-Ma_han s re- cent? utterance as part of his intro- :_ v PR1, ' " Such KCHCYII Ililiylllbii using by Great Britain ? They are well aware, no. doubt, that the posses- sion of `Canada binds Great Britain automatically to good behavior throughout the Americas. Do they feel condent that they have any. equal hold over Germany? iT.hey have long since, I believe, acquitted Great Britain of all desi s upon the ` Mlonroe Doctrine. ave they returned an equally favorable ver- "A- 94-.-I -`A --an rs` Cnrmnnv? Am- n cquauy Lavuluuu. V. dict in the case of Germany? Am- erican commerce and power are `.1- extricably intermingled rwith those of Great Britain;' the downfall of the British Empire,_ which would be the tinevitabe connsequence of the destruction of British sea-pow- er, would paralyze every..nancial and e'zc.ommercial ~ interest in the United States for at least a couple of decades. .. Would the destruction of German sea-power-_ have any such disastrous and reverberant results? In the scale - of A!m.erica'n. material interests which weighs. the _heavier --Germany. or, Great; `Bl'1t3.ll`l.' In the scale of American naval inter- ests the same question has to be asked and `answered. .Are Ameri- cans more in sympathy with the British or the (German formeof CIV- i'l_ization and _ of government; with Britislr. or ..w_vith `German: ideas and "ethical ~prin cip1es: (With the British `or; vhe~-*German.lan guage. "spirit; and `:..-..:'..43... :1 `.Tm1estiGn'. whether, B'rAi..t.. 9a_st_ to the Scabdfd tizfougli" [its borders?" ' `Iii @- 1v)1ic:-: hnesa, e the ss and edonia ay be using- e1ight- A` Huursmxuvs -:'rROPHY_. COMMAND or sm "*~xug. ` ~- % . . - `w V"ADvANci Thai Unit of xepeeeemuee wan Prob- " ably Run 34,060,? V L Base `of -Representation. For the scal year which ended on March 31st, .the gures are now available. As is well known Que- bec furnishes the unit of representa- tion." `Its xed tepresentation of 65 divided into its total population de- termines the numerical baseiof rep- resentation. Immigration has done much for the Wlest, but coloniza- tion and the prolic fecundity of the French Canadian people have in- creased the population of the Pro- vince of Quebec also. f\ 41, II If I IQUEBEC cxfs smn1Lv| T33; Wihilei the` census proper is en- umerated only. once in ten years, there is a careful check on popula- tion from year to 'year and of late an annual estimate of it arrived at by `guring on the accepted basis of annual increase and adding to it the immigration. `_ sAtceording- to gures obtainable at the Bureau of -Census and Statis- tics,_ those who have been guring out a marked shifting of Parlia- mentary power to the West from the East in the redistribution which will follow the next decennial cen- sus may be `considerably astray in -their calculations. Recently a poli- tician was reported as saying that the West `in the next Parliament would have between thirty. and forty additional members. This does {not appear at all likely in view of [the latest oi-cial gures. _-..- . i `On the 31st of March, according jto the ofcialestimate, the popula- tion of Quebec was -2,154,000, as ;compared with 1,643,898 when the {census was taken in 1901. On the \basis of this total the unit of rep- resentation at the ed of March was 33:139- OJHJ9 Increase in Members. \ Applying this to the estimate of population of the three Prairie `Provinces on March,31s-t, Manitoba twould to-day be entitled to fteen instead of ten members,,Sasl 1. wan eleven instead of ten, and'Al- iberta to ten instead of seven. Next year will see a further -increase in the population of the western -Pro- pvinces, but Quebec also to a lesser degree will have gained, and with it will increase the unit of representa- tion. The general result from pres- ,ent indications will give the West more members, but not at all the number that the optimists out there are wont to predict. Population of 8,000,000. The estimated population of Can- ada on March 31st was 7,489,781. Next June it is expected to be over 8,000,000. Quebec, as stated, has a population of 2,154,034, as compar- ed with 1,648,898 in 1901. Ontario is_ now estimated at 2,687,861, as compared with 2,182,947 ten years ago. Theupopulationof the three Prairie Provinces is now estimated at 1,189,563, compared with 419,532 in 1901. The estimate of the three- Maritime Provinces is 1,060,678., as against 893,953 ten- years ago. Pre- parations are well advanced for next year's census, which will be exceedingly comprehensive in its character. ' Not 'l.ikelyLto seicnguy Affected by:Le_c3n:.3g Rfdistribu- - _ IN PARHAMENTA hungry for fresh territory, the greater centre of international dis- turbance and unrest? Would the rise of a Greater Germany to the power and inuence now owned by ; Greater Britain be regarded by Am- ~er1cans as a happy development or las one that menaced their position and freedom: as a w.orld-power? Losing command `of the sea, `Great Britain loses` everything; the de- struction of the _German navy would no more ruin Germany. than Tsushima ruined Russia. If, there- fore, matters come to a crisis it is clear` that Germany will be ghting for a dominion, and Great Britain for life; Germany for a world-wide upheaval, and -Great Britain for the status. quo. -Wlhich power, under these circumstances, A would make ' the better appeal for American sym- pathies? I pose these questions, but I have no wish to prejudice the answer to `them. I pose them as one who believes that most of them will never require an. answer, for the reason that Great Britain is stronq-`enough and alert enough to face single-handed the crisis . that seems _to be approaching. But if .-{I were an American, I should pose them just the same and, what is ,more, I should try to answer them as dispassionately as I knew how. _There .is every A probability that Great- Britain will survive the `or-2 deal that. awaits her. 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