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'Development of the National Spirit ~ In Camada, Slowly, but surely. Canada is becoming conscious of her real self, 'she is awakening by degrees to a sense of her rightful place in the 'great community of nations. As a Confederation the Dominion now. has nearly forty years of splendid achievement and advance- ment to her credit; and she is be- ing seized by a sense of her destiny. She is getting out of her leading strings; she is coming into her own, } Of all the forty-eight colonies of the Empire, Canada takes the lead in many important respects. As to area the Dominion contains one third of the whole British Empire. Our flag floats to day over a feder- | « ated territory three thousand five hundred miles in length from east to west, and one thousand four hundred miles in width from south | to north, a territory larger than Australia, nearly twice as large as Britain's possessions in India, and thirty times the size of the United Kingdom. Nor is it simply in area that ours is a great land. Canada is posses: | « sed of marvellous natural resour- ces, resources of untold value that far outrun the ordinary conception of them. Our grain fields yield a hundred and twenty-five millions of bushels annually. Canada has the largest and most productive wheat field in the world, and with- in the next quarter of a century, atthe present rate of development, the Dominion will be able to sup- ply all the wants of Great Britain three times over. Our forests yield eighty millions of dollars a year, and our fisheries are worth twenty millions more. Our mines are only now beginning to be opened up and are a surprise to the world. = Practically all the valuable minerals are found within our borders. Canada already ranks fourth among all the gold- producing countries of the world, and she has the greatest nickel de- posits that have ever been discov- "As an important factor in the commercial world, too, Canada is pushing to the front. Our manu- facturers have now an invested capital of five "hundred millions: and. they. are exporting. thirty ~sillions worth of manufactured : ae of the Cth is dn nearly six millions, and it is being increased at the rate of one hun-| irty thous | 'dred and twenty or y > she is requiring ha heard when treaties touching her {affairs are being 'framed. 'She is 4] *{ prepared to assume more aud more: By | respousibility regarding lier own defences. - She has said to- the Home Government. *' You may.|| withdraw your forces from Esgui- malt and Halifax and we will 'man these fortresses ourselves." She is discussing the enlargement of} | her' mércantile marine, as may be seen by the resolution "passed by the Navy League in Toronto, which. we publish. in another column. These, and many other similar in- cidents, emphasize the fact that Canada is rapidly rising to the status of a nation in the Empire, and is already auticipating an im- perial federation under the old flag, in which relation she will fully sustain her place and part. Cory OF RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTER OF THE Navy LEAGUE, ToroNTO BrANCH, 117TH Dc. A.D. 1906: 'That it is not consistent with ** the true interests of Canada, '"either from a political or from '"an economic point of view, that '"we should continue to neglect all preparation to take our part '"in the Naval Defence of the '! British Empire, and that it is a "duty we owe to ourselves, to our floating commerce and to * Empire, that we should lay the '* foundations of a broad National * Maritime Policy, in which Naval '" Preparation will go hand in hand 'with the development of a Cana- '"dian Mercantile Marine, with the encouragement of the Canadian ** shipbuilding industry, and with 'securing for Canada her fair '"share of the world's maritime '! transportation." REPORT OF THE THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CANADIAN SEED GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. This is a valuable report of g6 pages containing interesting read: ing for farmers. The report con: tains a summary of the business transacted, a reprint of the Consti- tution, By-laws and Regulations of the Association, the metheds of keeping records of registered seed, the names and addresses of 'seed growers who are producers of registered seed, and instructions as to the methods of growing and selecting seed 'grain and 'other seeds of various kinds. Part 111 of the report contains papers and addresses by the fol- lowing persons :--Dr. James M. Robertson, manager Macdonald Agricultural College, Ste Anne'de Bellevue, Que.; Hon. Sydney A: Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, Ottawa ; Hon. W: R. Motherwell,' Minister . of - Agriculture, Regina, | - 'on "Wheat Growing in the Cana dian West" ' Profi R. Harcourt; | :|O.A.C.; Guelph, 'The Relations between Sail Conditions and Crop Improvement" ; Dr. Charles E.| : Saunders, Experimental Farm, | : Beat 5 i 30 28 6 P. Albert 48:41 1 '81 é¢ 30 7 Cedar Ck 52 646 0 37.20 34 30 8 Manch'tr 39 53 34 34564774 43 37601 9 Saintfield 23 25 EE 45 a 2318 Total votes for eeve=C Crozier 375, Ioltby '293. v= For Deputy Reeve--Lambe. 38, Mclntyre 324: 1: For Cornelissen' "308, Leask 397, Mark-33s, Thompson i 299. DECLARED" RLECTED: » Wight Crozier, Reeve," majority ; Thos. Lambe, 'Deputy; ma- Bi 4; James 'Grahdtn, Alex: Leask and John Mark," Coutcil- lors W.:F. DoBsoN, Tp. Clerk. Manchester, Jan. 8th, 1977, Established 50 Wheoping Cough, Croup, Bronchitis > Cough, Grip, Asthma, Diphtheria Cresolene is a boon to Asthmatics Does it not seem more effective to breathe in a remedy to cure disease 'of thie brea organs than ta take the remedy into tha sto 1t cures use the airren ongly aif Ey rea, i ing P ppd d eed eis kn ev Vin, an Rh Sovalitie 08 with pmali ment. Sittings of the- Division Courts] - OOUNTY OF ONTARIO" ! 90 o fis +. WHITBY Clerk, D.C. D.C. Madompel an, an, oth, CRED ast, Mar, bi] ih 0d TM sth, Ho Dec 6 a, pti ty Jan. oth, Feb, 4th, priv th, Mach nell h, wy fry ron July's Ri I PRE No. a bs Conta 2 Jan in Mac i Mas ol ou i Alan) "PORT pdapide * Berr--Jan, th Fi Mar. 38. I UXDRIDOR Cie, Jou pry Nov; foe oh lay iin 5 "Cn Re py Sept, Mar. & ov. a, Joa.» 6. BEAVERTON--Clerk, LX re » Malai BEA re Graduate of Royal College of Bi ta Surgeons, Toronto. x "Office Hours-=g a.m. to 6 p. AL Also'open Saturday evenitigs. Offices over. Rose & Co's Store, Rees St, Port Petry. : 9 3a; 103 in {| pply 40. Mrs. 2 Ho) A ET Miss Nora k. for "Téadber 'of Pino! and Mheory | Pupi's prepared for; the Toronto Conservatory = of | Music. ~~ Appoint- ments may be made at the residence of Mrs'Jack or Box 338 Lindsay. New Boag House Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hughes have furnished and opened a first: class Boarding House on: Perry St., four doors south 'of Vickery's planing mill, and are now prepared to accomodate both permanent and transient boardets at reason able rates "Meals only will also be furnished at fifteen cents each: seencess .. EYES... Eye comfort is only possible when the glasses are perfectly fitted, Py Be UKE 0 = Refracting Optician a1 King St. West, Toronto. Watchmaker and Ji wien [Setiool Books and Staionery y You Can't Do Better So keep right on buying goods at Monet' Ss Canned Peas and Cort cfietin 3 cans for hac Tomatoes . STi Prenste vey rpSECER 10¢. "A new wv lot of Hor ath Socks th in. We have. feduced all our Underweat. Now is. the. time to.