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The Fordwich Record, 1901-09-05, Page 2A despatch from Washington .saYs: s-Rev. Dr. 'Talmage preached from the following text II. Chronicles ix, 9, Of spices great abundance; nei- ther was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon" What is that building out there glittering in the sun ? Have you not heard ? It is the house of the forest of Lebanon. Kong Solomon has just taken to it his bride, the princess of Egypt. You see the pil- lars of the portico and a great tow- el., adorned with 1,000 shield& of gold hung on the outside of the tow- er-500 of the shields of gold manu- factured at Solomon's order, 500 were captured by David, his father, in battle. See how they blaze in the noonday sun I Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his throne between 12 lions in statuary and sits down on the back of the golden bull, the head of the huge beast turned toward the peo- ple. The family and the attendants of the king are so many that the cat- erers of the palace have to provide every day 100 sheep and 13 oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping and pawing of 4,000 fine horses in the royal sta- bles. There were important officials who had charge of the work of gath- ering Use straw and the barley for these horses. King Solomon was an early riser, tradition says, and used to take a ride out at daybreak, and When in his white apparel, behind the swiftest horses of all the realm and followed by mounted archers in purple, as the cavalcade da.shed through the streets of Jerusalem I suppose it was something worth get- ting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to look at. Solomon was not like some of the kings of the present day—crowned imbecility. All the splendors of his palace and retinue were eclipsed by his intellectual power. - Why, he seemed to know everything. He was the first great naturalist the world ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted the basaltic walks, and apes chattered in the trees, and deer stalked the parks, and there were aquariums with foreign fish and avi- aries with foreign birds, and tradi- tion says these birds were so well tamed that Solomon might walk clear across the city under the sha- dow of their wings as they hovered and flitted about him. fron and cinnamon and cassia end frankincense and all sweet spices to- gether. "Oh," you say "I have not looked at it as such. Thought it was a nuisance. It had for me a re- pulsion. I held my breath as though it were a malodor. I have been ap- palled at its advance. I have said if I have any religion at all I want to have just as little of it as possi- ble to get through With." Oh, what a mistake you have made, my bro- ther! The religion of Christ is a present and everlasting redolence. It counteracts all trouble. Just put it on the stand beside the pillow of sickness. It catches in the curtains and perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens the cup of bitter medicine and throws a glow on the gloom of, the turned lattice. It is a balm for the aching side and a soft bandage for the temple stung with pain. Why did you look so sad this morning when you came in ? Alas for the loneliness and the heart- break and the load that is never lifted from your soul ! Some of you go about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote, "If I had another month of such days as I have been spending, I would be impatient to get down into my little narrow crib in the ground, like a weary factory child." And there have been times in your life when you wished you could get out of this lifes'eileou have said, "Oh, how sweet to my lips would be the dust of the valley !" and wished you could pull over you in your last slumber the coverlet 'of green grass and daisies. You have said "Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be in the tomb I I wish I were there." I see all around about me widow- hood and orphanage and childless- ness ; sadness, disappointment, per- plexity. If I could ask all those in my audience who have felt no sor- row and been buffeted by no disap- pointment—if I could ask all such to rise, how many would rise ? Not One. - Some one could not understand why ad old German Christian scholar used to be always so calm and happy and hopeful when he had so many trials and sicknesses and ailments. A man secreted himself in the house. He said "I mean to watch this old scholar and Chris- `tian." And he saw the old Chris- tian man go to his room and sit down on the chair beside the stand and open the Bible and begin to clock struck 12 he arose and shut his Bible and said : "Blessed Lord, we are on the same old terms' yet. Good night. Good night." Oh, you sin parched and you trouble pound- ed, here is' comfort, here is satisfac- tion' I Will you come and gut it ? I cannot tell you what the Lord offers you hereafter so well as -I can tell you what he offers now. "It doth not yet appear what we shall Oh, home of the blessed ! Foun- dations of gold I Arches of vic- tory ! Capstones of praise ! And a dome in which there are echoing and re-echoing the halleluiahs of the ages ! And around about that mansion is a garden, the garden of Godeand -all the springing fountains are the bottled. tears of the church in the wilderness ansj all the crisess_q of the flocters is -the deep Ink -that was caught up from the carnage of earthly martyrdoms and the fra- grance is 'the prayer of all the saints and the aroma puts Into utter forgetfulness the cassia and the spikenard ,and the frankincense and the worWrenowned spices which Queen Balkis of Abyssinia flung at the feet of . King. Solomon. REFUSE STATE CONTROL. Dominion Alliance Rejects the Proposition, • Prior to the recent meeting of the Dominion Alliance at Toronto there was a good deal of concern among many temperance people in Canada lest the advocates of "state control" should succeed in securing the en- dorsement of that project by the convention. Several prominent mem- bers of the alliance, particularist some members of the Provincial Al- liance of Ontario, had been deceived by the specious statistics given out by the advocates of the dispensary and Gothenburg systems and were believed to be ready to endorse a modification of one or the other of those plans of liquor selling. In the Provincial Alliance, however, one of these gentlemen who load been ex- pected to endorse the system made a vigorous speech against the theory of state control declaring that the only animal that never changed his mind was a long eared beast, to which variety he did not belong: His change. of mind had come about by a careful study of the facts con- concerning the two systems. There was practically no effort to secure the endorsement of state control by the Provincial Alliance. In the Dominion Alliance, however, there was an hour and a half of in- teresting debate upon the subject, but the opposition to the proposi- tion to make the Govermnent a sa- loonkeeper was decidedly in the ma- jority from the beginning and the measure never had a chalice to ob- tain the endorsement of the Alliance. EFFECT OF SUGAR. A celebrated English physician as- serts that the increased height and weight of English and Americans in the last half century are chiefly due to the increased consumption of -su- gar. 110 cites, in conformation of tins opinion, the fine health of the date-eating Arabs and the auger- cane-eating neeroes. FATHER OF LACROSSE• A National Monument to the Late ' ' Dr. Beers. The project of perpetuating the me- mory of the late Dr. W. George Beers of Montreal, "The Father of La- crosse," was originally proposed by Mr. W. K. MeNaught at the close of a short sketch of Dr. Beer's career published in the Toronto World a few days after his lamented death in December last. At the invitation of the poesident, Mr. MeNaught ad- dressed the annual convention of the Canadian Lacrosse - Assoeiation which met at Toronto on Good Fri- day, with the result that the project was unanimously and enthusiastical- ly endorsed, and it was left to the incoming Council of the Association to devise some plan whereby the clubs in its membership could give it the financial assistance that its mer- its demanded. At a recent meeting the Council de- cided that the most effective way of doing this would be for each of the clubs in the Association to play a benefit match this fall, the net pro- ceeds of which would be devoted to the "Beer's Memorial Fund." The matter was also brought be- fore the annual convention of the Na- tional Lacrosse Association by Mr. A. W. Rutter, President of the To- ronto Lacrosse Club, and was unani- mously endorsed by that organiza- tion, and we understand that the clubs composing it have also agreed to play matches for the benefit of the fund this fall. In addition to this the project has been warmly taken -up by Dr. Beer's old club, the Montreal Amateur Ath- THE LATE DR. W. GRO. BEERS. letic Association, the largest and most influential athletic. club in Can- ada, who are organizing a thorough personal canvass amongst the La- crosse players and business men of Montreal on 'behalf of this fund. A similar personal canvass of To-. ronto has also been" undertaken un- der the 'direction of Mr. MeNaueht, to that it now looks ,as though the scheme will be brought to a success- ful issue. The proposed memorial will be erected in the city of Montreal at a cost of from $10,000 to $12,000, the construction and design of which will largely depend upon the liberality, of the subscriptions. In order to make the monument "national" in every respect sub- scriptions are being solicited Crett every part of the Dominion from the - Atlantic to the Pacific. Lacrosse is now beyond dispute the national genie of Canada, and for that rea- son the promoterS of the Beer's Me- marial feel that it should be truly national In character so that Cana- dians from In_ part of our great Dominion shall not only be able to point to it with pride, but have the satisfaction of claiming a share in its erection. Dr. Deers . well deserves such an honor. 'Not only was he the "Fath- er of' Lacrosse. ''but he 'was'in a large measure responsible for the volunteer Inclement that swept over 'Canada during the —Trent' affair • of the early sixties, having termed:what has shire become the Victoria 'Rifles of Montreal on that memoreble toe easion. Not only did Dr. Beers found the game of lacrosse, personally °stabs' Welling clubs in many of the cities of Ontario and Quebec, but he conduct- ed two lacrosse Colors through Great Britain and transplanted the game there. The second of these tours (in 1883) was also intended to further emigration-to Canada, and during its inception mid progress the team and their friends distributed throughout Great Britain 800,000 pamphlets and 500,000 illustrated books about Can- ada and its resources, a book, the value of which to this country it would be difficult to estimate. Dr. Beers was a staunch Britisher and an ardent Imperialist, aricrwillen- ever the occasion required he gave forth no uncertain sound regarding the duty of Canada upon National questions. With an intense love Mr Canada, his Dative country, s he nevertheless believed in Canada as an integral part of the British Em- pire. His speech at the annual meet- ing of the American'Dental Associa- tion held at Syracuse some yeera ago in which lie chamPiOned Canada against the United States, was a masterpiece -iii its way, and showed the calibre of the -man and his .utter fearlessness when he believed himself to be in the right. This speech was published in Canadian papers from Halifax to Vancouver., and was every- where commented on as one of the ablest and most patriotic addresses ever delivered by any Canadian. The lives of such men as Dr. Beers are a priceless heritage to the people of any country, and the perpetuation of their achievements in some public and enduring form will undoubtedly act as all incentive to generations yet to come, to emulate their ex- ample... • VERY SMALL ALLOWANCE. Landlady—Will you have a piece of pie or some rice pudding, Mr. Tlayn- ne? Boarder--It's quite immaterial to me. ma'am. THE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON. SEPT. 1. Text of the Lesson, Gen. xxvi., 25. Golden Text, Math, V. 9. 13, 13. Isaac sowed in that land and reeeived in the same year a hundredfold, and the Lord blessed him." The previous chapter told us not only of the death and burial of Abraham and his son, Ishmael, but also of the birth of Isaac's two sons, Jacob and Esau, and how Esau despised his birth- right, preferring a present enjoyment to a future inheritance (Heb. xii, 16, 17). The beginning of our present chapter tells of a second famine and of Isaac going to sojourn among the Philistines at Gerar. The Lord ap- peared to him and confirmed ilis promise to Abraham and gave him "the stars of heaven" portion of the covenant. He fell into his father's, sin concerning his wife, and was re- buked by Abimelech ; truly the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked (Ter. xvii, 9), even the heart of Abraham, and the heart of Isaac, and your heart and mine. All that God does He does for His great name's sake, pardon- ing our iniquities when we confess our sins (I John i, 9 ; For. xiv, 7). 14, 15. "The Philistines envied him." The majority of mere natural people would be apt to envy one whom they saw blessed and increas- ing, as Isaac was. It -was contemp- tible to fill his wells with earth, but that woo human, too, and devilish, for the merely human is apt to be much used by the devil. To see him prospering notwithstanding these hindrances was more than they could stand and must have made them full of indignation. Envy and strife is earthly, sensual, devilish, and leads to confusion and every evil work (Jas. iii, 14-16 ; Titus iii, 8). It is bad enough among those who know not God, but when it gets into churches and families it works great havoc and -greatly grieves the Holy Spirit (Acts vii, 9; Eph. iv, 30-32). 16, 17. "Go from us, for thou art much mightier than we." Thus they sent him away, as he said after- ward when they wanted his favor. "Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me and have sent me away from you ?" (verse 27). The pre- sence of the righteous is often a great torment to the ungodly ; they cannot stand the sight ; it is too strong for their weak eyes. Isaacs might have reasoned and argued with them to have insisted on re- maining where he was, and have de- fied them to send him away, but he Was not that kind of a man ; he was more inclined to yield for peace sake; he was a mart of peals. 18, 19. Unless we know something of the meaning of scarcity of water we shall net appreciate what these Wells meant', -and the enormity. of the sin of,-stepping them. TO. many People in India, where they have to go miles for water, a well is an in- estimable boon, When in South Africa, spending a day at a mission in Natal, my wife, having washed hen hands, was about to throw out thee water, , when she was greeted with such an exclamation of surprise and fear from several lady mission- aries as she will not soon forget. They then told her that water was so scarce that they must all wash in that Neater. To stop the wells as the Philistines did because of their hatred was about equal to murder. See I John iii, 15. • 20, 21. The contention and hatred manifested by these unrighteous and wicked Philistines (see the mar- ginal meaning of the. names Isaac' gave theses wells because of the strife) were certainly hard to put up with, and only by the marvellous grace of God could Isaac have acted as he did and yielded again and again to these unjust people the wells his servants had digged. Make the case your own ; •putryoureelf ,as far as 'you can in his place, that you may in some measure appreciate it. • 7 .22, 23;,l "Now the Lord bath made room --forlos, and we shall -be fruit- ful in theOand." This he said when after - iligehltut a third well they did not strive for .that One.. After that he removed to Beersheba. Submis- sion to, wrong and oppression for the Lord's sake is not human, but is Christlike and is a strong testi- mony for him as we shall see. If we had anointed ears, we might often hear our Lord say to us, "Suffer- it to be sd now" (Math. iii, 15), and it would not seem so difficult if we would consider Him who endured such contradiction of sinners against HiniSell ; who, when He was reviled, reviled not again (Heb. xii, 3 ; I Pet. ii, 23). 24. "And the Lord appeared' unto him the same night and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father ; fear not, for I am with thee, and will-bless thee." What a reward for his meekness, a new revelation of God to him that very night with His glorious "Fear not, 1 am with thee." How small a well, or a dozen wells, and all one could be called upon to bear seem in com- parison with such a reyelation and assurance ! Truly the sufferings of this present time are not ivorthy to be compared with the -glory that is and shall be ours (Rom. viii, 18). 25. "And .he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there ; and there Isaac's servants digged well." A tent with the Lord is enough ; the Lord without the tent is enough, for a believer should be able to say. with much assurance, "Lord, Thou art my dwelling place" (Pe. xc, 1). The tent, the altar, and the words from Good, "Fear not, for I am with thee and will bless thee," are all and more than Heart can wish. It must have been the power of the presence of God that enabled Isooac to act so meek- ly. See in the verse 28 the sequel and note the testimony of Abime- lech and his officers, "We saw cer- tainly that the Lord was. with thee." The Lord was seen en Isaac in his yieldingness, for "yielding pacheeth great offenses," and we are exhorted to let our yieldedness be. known to all men, for the Lord is at hand (Eccl. x, 4 ; Phil. iv, 5). Had Isaac stood for his rights, as we say, in the matter of the wells,God would not have been seen in him. We must contend earnestly for the faith (Jude 3), but when we can, avoid strife by a little yielding let us yield in His name, though it may seem a personal loss. Isaac might have sent these Philistines away and have refused further intercourse because -oestheir former conduct, but grace again prevails, and now we see the sequel to this yieldedness. Isaac's servants were diggiug a well at Beersheba and that same day they came and told Isaac that they had found water (verse 22), CROSS-BRED CROPS. Natural Types of Food improved Artificially. The latest and most daring experi- ment of modern agriculture was in- spected the other day by a party of gentlemen from London who found it well worth while to spend the whole sultry day ill a railway carriage for the sake of one short hour on a farm planted among the Lancashire mills at Newton-le-Willows, says the London Express, It is here that Messrs. Garton (Limited), have the results of twenty years' research in a hitherto undiscovered domain .of. evolution. They have done what no one else except, perhaps; Major Hallett, has ever seriously thought of—they have actually bred wheat, oats, barley, and other field plants in order to produce the perfect type, just as the farmer breeds animals. The significance of this is very strange. Nature has denied to cere- als the opportunity of -cross-fertilie-- ation ; Messrs Garton have artifi- cially supplied and fostered it. And the results of to-day are as startl- ing as the theory was twenty years ago, when Mr. John Garton, the youngest of three brothers, started to put it into practice. A stock of wheat can be produced by cross-fertilization which combines the best characteristics, of wheats from all parts of the world. It is in very truth a new breed of wheat, and it is different from and better than any other by reason of in- creased yield, earlier maturity, and greater strength of straw. Oats and barley have similarly been bred to produce new and im- proved types. English barley has three grain$ to each. spike ; elabor- ately cross-fertilized on scientific methods, that very stalk produces a descendant with seventeen grains in-, stead of three only to each spike. Breeding will do more ; it will eliminate the husks of both barley and oats, and so increase their nu- tritive value that these cereals may eventually supply "breakfast foods." These are new triumphs of evolu- tion and artificial, not natural se- lection which are actually accom- plished by Messes. Garton. The die covery should belong to the nation, for it was freely. mid unconditionally . offered to the Goverareent three times, but finally decided, not be- cause it fails, but because there was no precedent to act upon. Surely no precedent is necessary for a ^ discovery like this, which could never be more important than That is-proved by experiment to be its certainty ; its possibilities. seem infinite. STILL AT IT. Women Still Warring On Kansas Joints, Kansas women are continuing their war' • on liquor end gambling joints and declare that they propose to keep up the work till the liquor traffic is driven out of the state. The most serious raid recently was at Eldorado, where seven women, headed by the president of the local W:Q.T.U., cleaned out a joint in a tent in the center of the town and demolished e tub full of bottled. beer. The keeper .of 'a joint in an- other part of the town -heard of the raid while it -was in progress and immediately -carrjecl his stock outside the toivn. A . lone woman raided Bechler's policy shop at, Leavenworth with a. hatchet and smashed the policy wheel into bits, She was Mrs. Mary E. Dickens. bier boys, she says, had gambled in the place and she declares she will smash every policy shop un- ess they are closed by the authori-. res. Asa result of evidence obtained by Fort Scott ministers and church members the district court 'leas or- dered all saloons in that city closed. The church people propose to bring suit against the -keepers and owners pf buildings used for saloon purposes- under theHerrell law.- ----4 COAL MINING UNDER THE SE.A. to the acting engineer's remasks at a recent Meeting of the shareholders in London, four menthe must elapse and £10,000 more be spent before the first coal seam, at a depth of 1,176 feet below high water mark is reached. At depths increasing to 2,- 400 feet there is a series of scams to be worked. Pastures were in prime condition in the early 'part of this season, but fell off about the second ,week in July. However, heavy rains were falling, as correspondents wrote, and the prospects were that pas- tures would soon pick up again. Prices for both cheese and butter have been most encouraging to dai- rymen, and the bulk of correspond- ents are cheerful as to the outlook for fall and winter supplies. Dees and Honey—The average yield will not go over 50 pounds per hive. FOUNDATIONS OF GOLD. The Religion of Christ Counteracts All Trouble. Well, my friends, you know that all theologians agree in making Sol- read, Ho read on and on, chapter onion a type of Christ and in mak- after chapter, hour after hour, until . lag the Queen of Sheba a type of his face was all aglow with the every truth seeker, and I will take tidings from heaven, and when the the responsibility of saying that all the spikenard and caesia and frank- incense which the Queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon are might- ily suggestive of the sweet spices of our holy religion. Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicali- ties and angular facts and chrono- logical tables and dry statistics. Our religion is compared to frankin- cense and to cassia, but never to night-shade. 3t is a bundle_ a li agiffle It le a- dash of Holy fight. It is a sparkle of cool fountains. It is -an opening of opaline gates. It is a collection of.spices. Would God that we were as, wise in taking spices to our Divine King as Queen Balkis was wise in taking spices to the earthly Solomon. The feet is that the duties and - - and cares of this life, coming to us from time to time, are stupid often and inane and intolerable. Here are men who have been battering, climbing, pounding, hammering, for 20 years, 40 years, 50 years. One great long drudgery has their life been, their faces anxious, their feelings benumb- ed, their days monotonous. What is necessary to brighten up that man's life and to sweeten that acid . dispositiort and' to put sparkle into the man's spirits? The spicery of our holy religion. Why, if between the losses of life there dashed the gleam of an eternal gain, if between the betrayals of life there came the gleam of the undying friendship of Christ, if in dull times in business we found ministering spirits flying to and fro in our office and store and shop, everyday life instead of being a stupid monotone would be a glor- ious inspiration, penduluming be- tween calm and satisfaction and high rapture. I would say also that we need to put more spice and enlivenment in our religious teaching, whether it be in the prayer meeting or in the Sun- day school or in the church. We ministers need more fresh air and sunshine. in our lungs and our heart and our -head. Do you wonder that the world is so far from being con- verted when you find so little viva- city in the pulpit and in the pew? We want, like the Lord, to plant in our sermons and exhortations more lilies of the field. We want fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesquipedalian words, and when we • talk about shadows we do not want to -say adumbration, and when we mean queerness we do not want to talk about idipeyncrasies, or if a stitch in the back 'we do not want to talk about lumbago; but, in the plain vernacular of the great masses, preach that gospel which proposes to make all men happy, honest, victori- ous and free. In other words, we want more cinnamon and less gristle. Let this be so in all the different departments of work to which the Lord calls us. Let us be plain. Let us be earnest. Let us be common' seneical. When we talk „to the people in a vernacular they can understand, they will be very glad to come and receive the truth we present. Would to God that Queen Balkis would drive her spice- laden dromedaries into all the ser- mons and prayer meeting exhort, tions! Now, I want- to impress you with the fact that religion is sweetness end perfume and spikenaed and saf- LITE FALL FAIRS, 1- 2 1- 2 1- 2 1- 2 1- 2 1- 2 1- 2 1- 2 1- 2 2 2- 3 2- 3 2-3 2-3 2- 8 2- 4 2- 2, 4 3 Oct 8- 9 Oct 8- 9 Oct 8-10 Oct 8-10 Dates of the Annual Fall .Shows. Great and Small Canada's Great Industrial, Toronto... ... ...Aug 26 to Sept 7 World's Fair, Streetsville.Sept 2- 5 Harrowsmith, Harrow- Weererinthlso— ....SSeepptt 5-5-116 Orono, Orono Sept.,10-7/1 Hamilton, Sept-10-12 Wilmot, New Hamburg Sept 12-13 Addington, Tamworth Sest 13-14 Central Canada, Ottawa_Sept 13-21 Nova Scotia, Halifax,N.S.Sept 14-21 Chesley Horticultural, Ches- ley Sept 16-17 en and Usborne, Ex- eter hStep Sept 16-17 Newborn', Newboro Sept.. 16-17 East Zorra, Tavistocls Sept 16-17 Lennox, Napanee.... ... Sept 17-18 Central, Guelph......... ,.- :dept 17-19 South Lanark, Perth Sept 17-19 South Grenville, Prescott Sept 17-19 Scugog„Port Perry... ... 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Sept 27 Holland, Chatsworth Sept 80-Oct 1 Carleton, Richmond Sept 30-Oct 2 East Simcoe, Sheltie Sept 30-Oct 2 South Waterloo, Galt... . ..... Oct 1- 2 it Great Northwestern, Gude- os to-day. It would double our Oct 1- 2 hones-grown cereal food supply With- Tilsonburg,4Tilsonburg Oct 1- 2 out either increased average or-cost. South Perth, St. Mary's Oct 1- 2 Listosvell, Listowell... ... Oct Huntley, Carp... ... ........ - Oct Proton, Dundalk.- Oct Port Oct Caftwright, Blackstock... Oct North Oxford, Woodstock Oct Bentinek, Stayner, Stayner......... :Oct East Algoma, S. Ste Marie Oct North Dorchester Oct Otonabee, ICeene, Oct Alvinston, Alvinston... ..... Oct Woolwich, Elmira._ Oct Western Drench, Dunnville Oct Lansdowne, Lansdowne... Oct Six Nations, Oshwekan Oct North Grey, Owen Sound Oct blast York, Markkam.s Oct 'West Zona, ,Embro,...•... -- Oct Tossorontio-Alliston, Allis- . '- -ton - Oct 4 Gravenhurst, Gravenhurst Oct 3- 4 • Lffibcaygeon, Bobcaygeon Oct 3- 4 E. _Northumberland, Week- worth-. ...... Oct.... -3- 4 Ndi-th Renfrew, Beachburg Oct 3- 4 Bolton .. .. - Oct 3- 4 ilosanquet, Thedfore... ..; : Oct0ct 48_ 9 South Oxford, Otterville Oct 4- 5 "World's" Rockten North Perth, Stratford' Oct 8- 9 Glenelg, Markdale... Oct 8- 9 North Norwich, Norwich Oct 8- 9 East Peterborough, Nor- Oct 8- 9 ForewsotoUdnion, 'Forest— Thorah, Beaverton... Peninsular, Chatham... Elmvale West Nissouri, Thorndale:-.0ct 8 Scarboro' .... Oct 9 Clifford, Clifford-, Oct 9-10 Dungannon, Dungannon Oct 10-11 Sutton... Caledonia.- :.......Oct 10-11 Oct 10-11 1,000 feet has Gorrie, Centre Wellington, Fergus Oct 11-12 A. depth of nearly Oct O been reached in one of the pits of East Luther, Grand Valley.0cett 2 115-16 the Dover collieries, but according i Norfolk, Simcoe... Oct 15-17 Woodbridge, Woodbridge Oct 16-17 Freelton.Freeiton 0 Oct 16-17, ct 17-18, ..Oct Erin, Erin 8- 9 East Cwillimbury, Queens- Myth and Morris, Blyth Oct 8- 9 Oct 15-16 East Hastings, Gilead._ ...Sept 18-14 Clark Tp., Orono... Sept 24-25 East Durham, Millbrook Oct 8- 4 West Durham, Bowman- Sept 12-13 Sullivan, Desboro' __Sept 12-13 North. Leeds, Merrickville.Sept 19-20 Streetsville, Streetsville...Sept 25 lllosa and Ekfrid, Glencoe.Sept 25-26 Shedden, Sheddeme . . ... Sept 27 Tyenclinaga, Shannonville Sept 28 Dundee, Alorrisburg Sept 27-29 Ridgettewro, Ridgetown Oct 8- 5 Dundas, Dundee-. ...... Oct 3- 4 East Huron, Brussels-. ....: Oct 3- 4 Pilkington, Elora... ... ... Oct 10-11 - Coldwater, Coldwater... Oct 3- o Unionville Unionville Sept 3- 5 It is said that the American coal . ;Pvey-Lolie,og, Flveytroomleinag......T sSeeppit 2264:2275 syndicate has ousted English coal Watf ord, Watford from the Swiss market. ct 1- 2 Moore, Brigden... Oct....- 6