Exeter Advocate, 1901-8-29, Page 2777-
UNDATIONS OF GOLD.
The Religion of Christ Counteracts
All Trouble.
A. dosPatch ,from Washingtonsays;
s--ReSt Da. .TalMage preached from
the following text : 11. Chronicles ix..
'01 spices great abundance; . nei-
theaivas there ansasuch spice as the
Queen. or Sheba gave King Solomon".
Mutt, is, • that building out there
glittering in the. sun ? Have yon
not heard ? It is the house of the
forest of Lebanon. King Solomon
has, just taken to it his bride, the.
princess of Egypt. You see the pit -
lana of the portico and a great tow-
er, adorned with 1,000 shields of
gold hung on the outside of the tow-
er—,500 of the Shields of gold Maim
-
facture(' at Solomon's. Order, 500
were captured by David, hi$ father,
In battle. .See how ;they blaze in
the noonday sun !
Solomon goes up sthe 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 haveto provide
every day 100 sheep and 18 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 the straw and the barley for
these horses. Ring Solornon was itn
early riser, tradition says, and used
to take a ride out at daybreak, and
Nvhen in Ins white apparel, behind
the swiftest horses of all the realm
and followed by mounted archdrs in
purple, as the cavalcade dashed
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
ehatored 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
ta/ned that Solomon might walk
clear across the city under the she, -
(low of 'their wings as they hovered
and flitted about, him.
Well, my, friends, You know that
all theologians agree in making Sol-
omon a type of Christ and in mak-
ing the Queen of Sheba a type of
every truth seeker, and I will take
the responsibility Of saying that :all
the sniken0rci and cassia and frank-
incense which the Queen • of Sheba
brought to Ring Solomon are might -
Hy suggestiVe. of the Sweet spices of
aonr- 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. It is a bundle of
myrrh: It is a dash of holy light.
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 Ring as Queen
Dalkis was wise in taking spices to
the earthly Solomon.
The fact is that the duties 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,
disposition and to put sparkle into,
the mans 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,-
eity in the pulpit and in the pew?
We wantlike 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 lidiosyncrasies, or if a
stitch in the back we do not want to
talk about lumbago; but, in the plain
vernacular of the great masses,
pneach that gospel which proposes to
make all men happy, honerst, victori-
ous and free. In other words, we
want more cinnamon and less
gristle. Let this be so in all the
different departinents of work to
',which theLord calls us. Let us be
plain. Let us be earnest, Let us
be common sensical, When We talk
to the people in a vernacular they
can understand, they will bo very
glad to borne 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 exhorts,-
tional
. Now, t want to iMPress .yOu with
the fact that religion: IS sWeetness
,id perfume and spikenard and safs
iron and cinnamon and cassia and
frankineense .anti all sweet spices to-
gether; "Ohs" you say "I have not
looked .at it as such. Thought it.
was a nuisance, It had for me a re-
pulsion,
‘
1:held my breath.'as though.
it were, a maloadr. I: have :been 'aps
palled at. its advance. I have said:
if 1 have any religion at all 1 want,
to, have just as little of it as possi-
ble to get through with." Oh, what
a Mistake you. have macle, .my bro-
ther! The religion .of "Christ is a.
present and everlasting redolenceaIt
counteracts all trouble. Just put.
it on .the Stand beside the pillow of
sickness. It catches in the curtains
and perfumes the stifling nir. It
sweetens the cilia of bitter medicine
and throws a gloW, .on the glOom. of
the: turned lattice. It is a bahn for
the aching .side and a soft bandage
for the temple stung with, pain.
Why did you look 50 sad this
morning when. you Came in ? Alas
for the loneliness and the heart-
break and the load that is never
lifted t from your soul ! Some of
you go about feeling like Macaiday,
When he wrote, "If I had another
Month of such days as I 'haYe.:been'
spending, I would be impatient to,
:get clown into. my little narrow drib
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 life. You have
said, "Oh, how sweet to My lips
would be the dust of the valley !"
and wishedyou could pull over you
in yens last slumber the :coverlet of
green grass and daisies. You have
said : "Oh, how beautifully quiet
it must be in the tomb !1 wish
I were there."
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.
Sonic one could not understand
why an '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 hinaself 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 beginto
read. He l'ead' on and on, chanter
after chapter, hour after hour, until
his face. was all .aglow with the
tidings from heaven, and When the
clock struck 12 he ,arose and shut'
his Bible ;-.1..nd said !-'Dlessed Lord,.
.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 1 Will you come and got 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 ! Arches of Vic-
tory ! Capstones of praise ! And
a dome in which there are echoing
and re-echoing the halleluiahs of
the ,ages, 1 And around about that
ma.neien is a garden, the garden of
God, and all the springinglountains
are the bottled tears of the church in
the .wilderness and all the crimson
ofthe flowers is the deep hue that
was caught up from thc'. carnage of
earthly martyrdoms and tfie fra-
grance is the prayer .of all the
saints and the stromo puts into
utter forgetfulness the cassia and
the spikenard, and, the, frankincense'
and the 'world renownedspice's whiell
Queen, Belkis :Of Abyssinia ,fiting. -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; particularly
some members ,of the I'rovincial 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 had 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 hacl come about
by a careful study of the facts con -
concerning the two systems. There
was. practically 110 effort to seciire
the endorsement of state control by
the Provincial Alliance. s'
In the Dominion Alliance, however,
then: was an hour and a half of in-
teresting debate upon the subject,
but the opposition to the proposia
tion to make the Government a sa-
loonkeeper was decidedly in the ma-
.jority froni the beginning and the
measure TICVer had a chalice to oh-
-Lain the endorsement of the Alliance.
E FEE C'1' <AI' SU AR,
A celebrated English physician as-
serts that the ;increased height' and
weight of English and Americans in
the last half contury are chiefly due
to the inereased constnnptioli of su-
gar, He eItes, in conformation of
this opinion, :the line health of the
date -eating Arabs and the sagas-
,
cancheating negroes.
p.A.THrn OF LACROSSE.
A National 11/Ionument to the Late
, Dr, Beers.
The project of perpetuating the Me-
mory of the mate Dr. W. George Deers
of Montreal, "The Father of La-
crosse," was originally proposed by
11fr. W, K. McNaught at the close of
a short sketch of Dr, Beer's career
published in the Teronto World a
few days after his lamented death in
/ecember last, At the invitation of
'e psesident, Mr, McNaught ad-
.essed the annual convention of the
anadian Lacrosse Association
which met at Toronto 011 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 aesistanee 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 "Deer's Memorial Fund."
The matter wa,s 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 Atli -
THE LATE DR. W. GEO, s3EERS.
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 beeu undertaken un. -
der the direction of Mr.- McNaught,
so 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 810,000 to $12,000, the
construction and design of which will
lai.gely depend upon the liberality of
the subscriptions.
In order to make the monument
"national" in every respect sub-
scriptions are being solicited from
every part of the Dominion from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. Lacrosse is
now beyond dispute the national
game of Canada, and for that rea-
son the promoters of the Beers Me-
morial feel that it should be truly
national in character so that Cana-
dians from every part of our great
Dominion shall not only be able to
point to it with pride,- but have the
satisfaction of claiming- a, shard in
its erection. '
Dr. Deers well deserves such an
honer. Not,onlyswas he thea'`Eath-
er Of ,Lacrosse." but he was .in, a
large mea.Stire respon,sible for -the
-volunteer movement 'that swept..4*er
Canada, during the. "Trent," affair - of
the eitrlY'aiXties,' having f armed. what
cloia,fassitEshoi er crab. ,po t.htahte.: t. oo, ces:
Not only -did Dr. Deers found the
game of lacrosse, personally estab-
lishing clubs in many of the'cities of.
Ontario and Quebec, but he Conduct-
ed two lacrosse tours through Great
Britain and transplanted the game
there. The second of these tours (in
1883) was also intended to further
emigration to Canada,nind during its
inception and progress the team and
their friends distributed throughout
Great Britain 800,000 pamphlets end
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. Deers was a staunch Britisher
and an ardent Imperialist, and when-
ever the occasion required he gave
forth no uncertain sound regarding
the, duty of Canada upon National
questions. With an intense love for
Canada, his native country, he
nevertheless believed in Canada as
an integral part of the 13ritish Em-
pire. His speech at the annual meet-
ing of the American Lental Associa-
tion held at Syracuse some years ago
in which lie championed Canada
against the United States, was a
masterpiece in 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 in:MI
h'Inlifaii to Vancouver, and was every-
where ,commented on as one of the
ablest and mOst patriotic addresses
ever delivered by any Canadian. The
liyes of such men as Dr. Deers are a
priceless heritage to the people of
any country„ and the perpetuation of
their achievements in some public
and endming form wil1 undbubteclly
act as ali:incentiVe to generations
yet to come, to emulate their ex-
VEltY SATALL ALLOWANCE.
Landlady --Will you have a piece of
pie or some rice pudding, Mr, Thyn-
Boarder quite immaterial to
me. Ma'am. ,4 •
THE S. S LJES511)1.$
.0TIRRNATTow4T., x,p8$ON.
• SEPT. 1.
Text of the Lesson; Gen. xxvia 12-
25.
Gplaei?..`XpiO, Math, 9,
12, 13,, ''Then :ISaae sowed in
, • i
that land and reemyed n tee same
year a liandredfold; and''the Lord
blessed The previous cliaPter.
told, nS net only :of.. the: tientlf, and,
burial .of Abraham ,asid, Ins son,
Ishmael, .but also of the, birth Of
-
Isaac's two sone. Jacob-, and ,Esau,
and IlOW :Esau despisedhis. nistils.
right,.tpreterring a Vreeent, enjoyment
to. a fu ture inheritance (Pleb. xii,
1.7)•. beginningof thin. present
chapter tolls of .0: second.famine and
Of, :in. going to sojourn..among the.
'Philistines at, Germ. Tho,LOrd ap-
peared to him, and Confirined ' His
promise to, Abrahann and gave him
"the stars Of heaven" portion of the
co-Ye/milt. He fell intohis. father's
5111 noneerning his wife, and was re-
buked by.Alninelech ;. truly the heart.
is deceitful above allthings and
•despenetNy Wicked. (jer. .xyli, 9),
even the heart of Abraham, and the
heart of Isaac, and your heart and
mine. All that God (foes Ile does
,
for, His great .name's sake; pardon-
ing our iniquitics when we confess
our sins ' (1 'John 1,' 9 ; jer. xita 7).,
14, 15. "The Philistines envied
him." The majority of Mere net -Ural
people would' ,be api. to envyone
whom they saw 'blessed and increasS
ings as Isaac was, . It was contemp-
tible to fill his wells' "With earth, but
that Was human's too, and devilish,
for the merely human :is apt to be
much used by 'the "deVin. To 'see .hun
prospering notwithstanding these
hindrances :was more: • than they:
could Stand and Must have made
-
them full of indignation. Envy .and
strife is earthly; sensual,
,and leads to .confusion and every
evil work (Jas.. Ali, 11-16 'S Titus
iii, 3). It is bad enough aMOng
those who know not God, but *her.
it gets into churches and families it
works great havoc and greatly
:grieves the HOly Spirit (Ants VII, 9;
Eph. iv, 30-32).
16, 17. "GO "froin 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. Isaac
might have reasoned and argued:
with them to have insisted on re-
maining where lie 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 petted sakes
he was a man of peane.
IS, 19. Unless we know something
of the meaning of scarcity of water
We, shall not appreciate whatthese
wells meant!, and 'the: enorinity Of
the Sin of storming' them. To many
people in India, where they have to
go miles for water, a wellis an ins
estimable boon, When in .South
Africa, spending a day at a mission
in Natal, .my wife, having washed
her hands, was about to throw out
the water, when she was greeted
with such an exclamation of surprise
and fear from several lady missions.
aries as she will not soon forget.
They then told her that water was
so scarce that they must all wash
in that water. 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 andhatred
manifested, by these unrighteous
and wicked Philistines (see the mar-
ginal meaning of the names Isaac
gave these 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 haddiggeda,Make
thesgase your 'own' ;, Put Yoursolfeas
far as ycni.Canin his phicOnihat you
May in..sorne measure appreciate, its
22, 23.. "Now the. Lord hatInina,de
reom for .us, and 'We shall be frui5t-
ful in.the land." This he saidwhen
afterdigging' a .third well they.did
not s,trive .fon that, one.After tnats
he removed to -Beersheba. Submiss'
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 so now" (Math. iii, 15), and
it would not seem so difficult if we
would consider Him who endured
such contradiction of sinners against
Himself s who, when He was reviled,
reviled not again (Heb. xii, 3 ; 1
Pet. ii, 23). ,
24. "And the I.,ord 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 asreward for
his meekness, a new re-velation of
God to him that very night with
His glorious :Tear not, I am with
thee." How small a wej), or a
dozen wells, and all one • could be
called upon to bear seem in com-
parison with such a revelation and
assurance ! Truly the ,sufferings of
this present time are not worthy to
be compered with the glory that is
and shall be Miss (Rona viii, 19).
25. "Ansi 110 build,ed an altar'there
and called upon the name of the
Lord and pitched his tent there ;
and there Isaac's servants cligged a
we,11." 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"
(Ps. xc, 1). The tent, the alter,
and the words from God, 'Tear
not, for I am with thee and will
bless thee," are all and inore 'than
heart, can ,wish, It must have been
the power of 1,1w presence of God
that enabled Isaac to act so meek-
ly. See in the verse 28 the sequel
and note the testimony of Abime-
loch end his officers, "We saw cer-
tainly that the :II„orCi Was with thee.''
The Lord was seen in Isaac
yieldingness, for "yielding pacifieth
great offenses," and we areexhorted
to let our yieldedness be ,IMOwn to
all men, for the Lord is wer:'
x, 4 ; Phil. iv, 5). Rad Isaac
stood for his rights, as we say, in
tlje matter of the wells, 'God "would
not have been seen in him. We ,must
contend earnestly ler the faith
()ude 3), but when we can avoid
strife by a little yielding let us
yield, in His name, though it .may
seem 0 personal loss. Isaac might
have sent these' Philistines away
and have refUsQti further intercourse
because of their former conduct, but
grace 'again prevails, and now we
see the sequel to this yieldednesS.
Isaac's servants were digging a well
at Beersheba, and that 8111110 da,y
they CaMC and told Isaac that theY
had found water (verse 82).
CROSS -FRED CROPS.
Natural Types :Feed Improved
,
Artificially.
The latest .and :most daring eXperis
nicht of medern agricilltnrewas
in-
spectecl the other day by a party: of
gentlemen front London Who found it
well world while to spend the whole
sultry day in a railWay.carriage for
the sake of one short hour on t
farm planted: among the Lancashire
Mills at New ton -le -Will oWs.; 'says.. the
London Express. It is here that
'Messrs. Garton .(Linaited),. Save the
results of twenty years' research, in
nitherte undiscevereadomain' 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
farnier 'breeds
The 'significance: Of this .is very
strange.. Nature has denied to cere-
als the opportunity of cross-fertiliz-
ation ; Messrs: 'Garton have artifi-
cially supplied: and fostered it. And:
.the, results .of to -day :are as startl-
ing as, the theorywas twenty years
ago, When: Mr. john Garton, the
youngest of ..three brothers, star‘ed
to put it -into practice.
A. stack of wheat can be produced
by cross-fertilization which combines
the best 'characteristics of, wheats
from all' pests of the world,. It is
in very truth a new breed of wheat,
and it is difierent froin and. 'better
than any , Other : by reason of in-
creased yield, earlier, maturity, and
:greater „strength of. straw.
Oats and barley have simularly
been bred to produce new .and im-
proved types. English' barley has
three grains to each spike ; elabor-
ately cross-fertilized on scientific
methods, that 'Very stalk- produces a
descendant With seventeen grahis in-
stead Of three 'only to each spike.
Breeding win do more s it :will
eliminate the husks of both barley
and oats, and so increase .tbeir
no-
tritive value that thesel,cereala may
eventually 'breakfast '10 ods.''
'Theseare new , triumphs of evolu-
tion and artificial, not natural 'se-
lection wliich are actually accom-
plished by IMessrs'.. Garton. The dis-
covery should.belong tO the nations
for it was .freely"andninconditionally
offered to the Govirnment ..• three
times, but finally decided, no.'t 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 iinportant than
it is to-claY, It would double our
home-grown cereal .food Supply with-
out either increased average on cost.
That is proved by experiment to
be its certainty; its possibilities
sewn' infinite.
4
STILL AT IT.
Women. Still Warring On Kansas
Joints.
Kansas women are continuing
their war on liquor, and 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, EidoradOs „where, -seven, :women,.
headed -by .the Oesident ef the; loeal
oicanoir .olit ,joint ih 'as
tent An 'the tenter s of 'the town and4
adniiiliShed a. tub full of ,bottled
'beers
,Tie keeperof a joint in, an-
other 'part ofnthe town heard of :the
:j,,jCF while it was . progress and
immediately,Carried hi' e stock, butsi4
the town. • .
A lone woman raided ,Dechler's
policy shop at Leavenworth with a
hatchet and smashed the policy
wheel into bits. She was Mrs, Mary
E. Dickens. Her boys, she says, had
gambled in the place and she declares
she will smash eveny policy shop un-
less they are closed by the authori-
As a result of evidence obtained by
Fort Suitt ministers and ,church
members the district' court has or-
dered all saloons in that city closed.
The church people propose to bring
suit against the keepera and owners
of buildings used for saloon purposes
under -the Herren law.
COAL MINING UNDER TH11 SEA.
A depth of nearly 1,000 feet has
been reached in' one of the pits :of
the Dover collieries, but according
to the acting engineer's remaeks at a
14:cent meeting of the shareholderssin
Lordons four months must elapAe
and £10,000 more be spent before
the first coal seani, at a depth of
1,176 feet below high water mark is
reached. At depths increasing to 2,-
400 feet thereis a series of seams
to be Worked.
Pastures were in prime condition
in the early part of this season, but
fell off about ' the second week in
:Tilly. 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-
' and the bulk of correspond-
ents are cheerful 0,8 to the outlook
for fall end winter supplies.
Dees and Horley --The average yield
will not go over 50 pounds per hive.
• It ie said that the American ceal
syndicate has ouated English coal
irons the Swigs market,
LIIE PALL PAIRS.
Dates of the Annual Fall
• Great ,and Small
Canada's Great Industrial,
: Toronto... ...Aug 26 to Sept 7
World's Pair, Streetsville.SePt 2- 5
_
Harrowsmith.,,IIarrows,
smith-. ,,.,a .......Sept 5s 15'
.Western London.' ...Sept, 5a11-
Orono, Orono.... Septst0-11
Hamil ton, :Hamilton, Sept 10-12
Wilmot, New Hamburk.,..,Sept 12-13
Addington, Tamworth ....:.Sett 13-1.1 id
Central Canada, OttawaSept 13-21
Nova Scotia, Hallfax,N.SSept 11-2:1
Obesley Horticultural, Ches-
ley... . . .. 16-17
Stephen and Usboine, 'Ex-
Showse
Newboro', Newboro ...,....Sept 16-17
East Zorl'a, Tavistecic --Sept 16-17
Lennox, Napanee... . . .....Sept 17-18
Cen-tral, Guelph_ 17-19
South Lanark, Perth .... ..Sept 17-11aa.
South Grenville, E'rescott.Sept 1.7-19
Scugog, port Perry... ......Sept 17-19
East Elgin, Aylmer- ... ...Sept 17-19
West Middlesex,Stra.throy.Sept 17-19
Northern, Walkerton . —.Sept 18-19
North York, Newmarket.,,Sept 18-20
Northern Pair, Ailsa
Craig ... . . ..... ...„..... ....Sept 19-20
North Brace, Port Elgin...Sept 19-20
Eldon, lyoedville.., .......Sept 19-20
North Waterloo, Berlin ....Sept 20-21'
Elnia, Atwood— ......Sept 24-25
Russell, Metcalf. Sept 23-21
North Aluskola, Hunts-
ville Sept 24-2
South I-Itiron, Seafortli .,Sept 24-25
1)rumbo, Drumbo.. . ... 21-25
Wellesley, and N. E. fIope,
Wch1ebey .. . .. . . Sept 24-25
North Victoria, Victoria
-Road .... . Sept 24-25
1-Ialdirriancl, Cayuga_ Sept 24-25
Palmerston, Palinerston Sept 24-25
South Grey, Durham ... Sept 24-25
Uxbridge, Uxbridge . Sept 24-25
Ancaster, Ance.ster... ... Sept 24-25
Alnwick, Roseneath... ... Sept 24-25
Teeswater Teeswater . . Sept 24-25
South Grimsby, Smith -
villa Sept 24-25
Ripley. Ripley. . Sept 24-25
Central, Walter's Falls Sept 24-25
Centre Bruce, Paisley... Sept 24-25
Great Southwestern Es-
sex., Sept 24-26
Prescott, Vankleek 21-26
Central, Peterborough_ Sept 24-26
North•Lanark, Alinonte Sept 24-26
Northern, CollingwoodSept 21-27
Prince Edward, Picton Sept -25-26
Tiny and Tay, Midland Sept 25-26
Centra,1 Simcoe, Barrie Sept 25-27
South Renfrew, Renfrew Sept 26-27
Halton, Milton_ Sept 26-27
Mornthgton, Milverton.. ... . Sept 26-27
West Wellington, I-Iarris- ,
Parry Sound, onUPay 'rrSept 26-27
Sound... .*
.. . . Sept 26=27
N. &- W. Oxford, IngersollSept 26-27
East Grey, Flesherton... _Sent 26-27
North Diant, Paris...' Sept 26-27
Fullerton -Logan, AfitchellSett 26-27
Central, Cobourg.. . Sept 26-27,
Turnberry, Wingham. ... Sept 26-27
13rock, Sunderland.. ... Sept 26-27
Dtaerin, Orangevillea. . Sept 26-27 ts
Walpole, Jarvis._ ... 26-27
Dunham, Whitby.., ,Sep t 26-27
Central, Lindsay...a. ... Sept 26-28
West 'York, Weston..,... Sept 27
I-Iolland, Chatsworth Sept 30 -Oct 1'
Carleton, Richmond Sept 30 -Pet 2
East Sinscoe, Orillia Sept 30-Oct2
South Waterloo, Galt.., Oct 1- 2
Great Northwestern, Godes
rich . Oct 1- 2
Til.sonburg, Tilsonburg... Oct 1-.2
South Perth, St. Mary's Oct 1- 2
Listowell, Listowell... ... Oct 1- 2
Huntley, Carp Oct 1- 2
Proton, Dundalk_ ... Oct 1- 2
Port Hope— ... Oct 1- 2
Cartwright, Blackstoek.. Oct 1- 2
North Oxford, Woodstoa—Oct 1-2
13entincla Hanover... ...... Oct 1- 2
Sta,yner. Stapler.- .. Oct 1- 2
East Algoma, S. Ste INIaiieOct 1- 2
North Dorchester ... .... . Oct 2
Otorrahee, Keene. . Oct 2- 3
Alvinston, Alvinston... Oct 2- 3
Woolwich, Elinira... Oct 2- 3
Western, Branch, DunnvilleOct 2- 3
Lansdowne, Lansdowne... Oct 2- 3
;Six Nations, Psitswekan Oct an-, 4
North Grey, Owen,SoundOct 2- 4;
East York 'Oct 2s. 4
Ar.ot, Zorra,'Embron.....S...,0et 3.
:TOssorontio-A.111Ston; .
ton,Oct 3- 4
,
-GravenhUrst, GravenhurSt:Oct
13olicaygeons Ilobeaygeon;Oct, ,3:-`• 4
Es NOrthumberland, Work- *
' 'worth.- . . . ... 3- 4
North Renfrew, BeachburgOct ' 3- 4'
Bolton •. Oct 3- 4
Bosanquet, Thedfore... -.Pet 4
South Oxford, Otterville Oct' 4- 5
"World's" Rockton... 8- 9
North Perth, Stra,tforcl Oct 8- 9
Glenelg, Markdale..... .. .. 0ct 8- 9
North Norwich, N'orwich pet 8- 9
East Peterberougli, Nor- .
.... . .. .0ct 8- 9
Forest Union, Forest. Oot 8- 9
Thorah, Beaverton. . Oct 8- 9 '-
Peninsular, Chatham... Oct 8-10
Elmval e..... . . 0ct 8-10
West Nissouri, Thormiale....Oct 8
Scarboro' ....... .. . . .. . . Oct, 9
Clifford, . Oct 9-10
Dungannon, Dungannon.,,,, Oct 10-112
Cuatledoonnia, Caledonia Oct 10-11
st
O
Centre Viellington, Fergus0cctt 1
110:11.1
2
Gordo. Gorrie.. Oct 12
East Luther, Grand Valley.Oct 15-16hts,
Nbrfolk, Sinic,oe. Oct 18-17
Woodbridge, Woodbridge,0et 16-17
Preelton, Oct 16-17
Erin, Erin...-.........,.. , .... .,Oct 17-18
Cardwell, 13eeton.e. . ... 0ct 8- 9
Blyth and ill:orris, Blyth .,Oct 8- 9
East (willimbury, Q:ueens-
ville... . .... . ......., Oct 15-16
East 1Tastings, Gilead.- ...Sept 13-14
Clark Tp., Orono... ... Sept 24-25
East Durham, Millbrook. --Oct 8- 4
West Dunham, Bowman -
. 122:133
Sullivan, Dcshoro' .
North Leeds, 11,Terrickvil le, Sept 19-20
Streetsville, Streetsville—Sept 25
M.osa. and Ekfrid; GIIendoe.Sept 25-26
Shedden, Shedden,., . .. .Sept 27
r.l'yendinaga,, Shannonville Sept 28
111)3') tti..1(nillillirs°', w11\111:1(1r1 ,-..*70OePecttt 2337---2115)'
.113ast Huron, Ilrussels... --Oct 8- 4
Coldwater, Coldwater— --Oct 8- 4,
Unionville, Unionville ,Sept 3- 5
Petroleas I'etrolea,.. ... Sept 24-25
Wyoming, Wyoming... .,Sept 26-27
Watford, Watford,-....., 1.,s 2
Moore, Drigden,.. iOct