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time public inUrest aid indignation die down very quickly. It is agreed by government offi- cials, underwriters and firemen that the majority of these losses are due to carelessness and easily prevent- able. Nearly all of the recent fires which have attracted public atten- tion, because of the entailed heavy loss of life, have been due to the carelessness and indifference of the owners, occupants or municipal au- thorities. Criminal carelessness with matches, the allowing of in, flanimable rubbish to accumulate. dangerous construction, lack of Jr."o- pssfre protection and other condi, "tiiS'ifr ignoring the starting and spread of fires were evident in 'ne'tr- ly every case. Few of those re sponsible are ever punished and Material reduction in fire insur- ance rates cannot be expected un- less the present excessive fire waste is reduced. The losses last year in the United States and Canada were $234,470,650, and this year the to- tal threatens to reach $300,000,000, for the figures for‘the first quar- ter of 1911 show losses of $69,907,- ,250, an increase of over $19,000,000 as compared with the same period lat the previous year. The question of: "polar etiquette” _whieh--rfiight' have been raised against Amundsen for wintering "within Scott's sphere of inuence" has not been thought worthy of consideration, but Vr. Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australian expedition, organized for seientifie work along the coast betwetn.Cape Adaire ‘and Gaussberg, complains of a. broken agreernetTt, (sha'fGriliri'"'g" Scott's right to land a party at the former point. for the honor of reaching the south) What a r.elief, what sweet joy, ole to find a friend from whom you p . have been estranged, perhaps by Thus what may be regarded aslsome fault of yours, and to lsyy gbare your wer‘kness and wrong- In the last great effort of humans tolplain, surgical strokes. In some reach hitherto inaccessible spots of): mysterious way, out of your very _their habitation has not only the in- f evil there Springs a tenderness, ' a terest of discovery but the zest of} strength of mutual affeetion which . . . . awas unknown, before. What would _1nternational rivalry. Sir ErneStflovers be without lovers quarrels Shackleton, discussing the relativefand the making up.?. . chances of success, dismisses the’ His precisely this .psychological Japanese as offering too little in- quality that characterizes our re- formation for conjecture. Amund- """rer"ertrie "-____-_---ser, ----wt----------- sen starts eighty miles south 1Hllli SUNDAY (lthllill. l.Iigaif Scott and Shackleton finds it to his e , advantage that he has the "heredi- --_.- tery knowledge of skiing and held- INTERNATIONAL LESSON, ling of dogs that the Norwegian possesses." He has a "surveyed APRIL 30. route to within ninety-seven gee-t ---- f fit"lt,'aj, 21:1“ of .the pole.." jgf,1) Lesson Y.---God's pity for the hea- as e e er ,equipinent, me 11 mg then, Jonah 3. 1 to 4. I. Golden motor sleds and ponies. One motor . sled was lost through the ice. Phy- Text, Matt. 28. 19. sical embarrassments are about the Verse 2. yi1yeveh--rA city with a same to both. Shackleton declines.great porynatioy and one of won- to risk a prophecy. . Idtrs .Of. the snoient woil'd.‘ It was Before the Terra Nova found the Norwegians Capt. Scott, the lead- er of the British expedition, had been landed at Cape Evans in Me- Murdo sound to build store depots and quarters, and the last word from him was that he was about to start south with twelve men, eight" ponies, and two teams of dogs, and .expected to be cut off from Cape Evans for two months, returning in April. When the Terra Nova, re-I turned to the cape a note was found containing the information", that everything was well with ts,) depot laying party. It is not clear Whether Scott was informed of the, presence of Amundsen to the east.; Meanwhile the Japanese antarctic), expedition had sailed from Welling-i ten. New Zealand, and by this time! “may have appeared in McMurdo,' sound, its objective point, according to information regarding that en-,' terprise. The Terra Nova made its l way back to New Zealand. The , Fram had landed its party and was . proceeding to Buenos Aires. The 1 frozen south holds four expeditions, ( the British being divided into two, ( engaged in an international race“ for the honor of reaching the south) pole. I f When the Terra Nova of the Scott L JULAU U Mu” U 'antarctic expedition, following the _-------- great ice barrier eastward from Q McMurdo sound, came to the inden- i Just to kay- What W tation named the Bay of Whales by w ' Shackleton in 1908, Lieut. Pennell, With a Clea in command, found the Fram of the --------, Amundsen expedition. The Nor-l Wheli “I: te? world has tried Wegian explorers, whose dest/urs- "lreltl itnfut'"jrev/,rt.d l8nceoml . ' . 0 tion atHirst had been thoughtto these compressed tablets of ever- be the north pole, were striking lasting truth is: Confession is good for the goal that Shackleton nearlyi for the SOUL . . ' reached. Amundsen, when helwiirfgslgfeosf 2:311? .a mistake, a . ' . in some way sailed from Norway, was supposed separates it from our souls and to be headed for the north. From purifies it as by fire, sterilizing its Maderia in October'kame a state-Idangerous germs. . ment that he had changed his plans l Onle to open a gifts? to our; it. y our concea, , isavowe or and would try for the south pole. l unconscious sins eat into the soul From that time until the Terra and attack the life principle. Nova found the Fram in the Bay of This is true in our relations with Whales nothing was heard of him. leach 19th:]. The little child that goes ran y to his mother and ad-: Before the Terra Nova found the i mi.ts hi? disobedience is takeni Norwegians Capt. Scott, the lead-‘zzackézfgnrhzhiisgs::3122mm] er of the British expedition, had white clarity of mutual confession been landed at Cape Evans in Mc- have an unbreakable peace, a, love Murd _ n 'il, ots bastioned and secure against all Q sou d to build store dep tt k and nnnvharc 9hr] ”no 10.4 nvnvll‘] a ac . ‘ NOTES: AND COMMENTS 5. Believed God.--That is, they accepted the preaching of the pro- phet of God as direct from heaven, and believed their city was doomed. So they organized a public fast, reaching from the king to the low- est. subject. Their putting on sack- cloth was the outward sign of mourning and penitence. The cus- tom probably grow cut of the anci- ent lulhit of wearing merely a loin cloth, Woven from goats' and cam- ols' hair, fur a daily covering of the body. From, utiseit became the garb Nineveh shall he overthrown- This was the message which Jeho- vah had hidden him to proclaim the first time, and Jonah had refused, not so much because of fear as be- cause of his presentiment that God wished him to be something more than the agent of Nineveh’s destruc, tion, to be, in fact, nothing less than the channel of the divine grace (Jonah 4. 2) to these heathen, whose wickedness (see Nahum) he believ, ed called for a speedy doom. The actual overthrow of Nineveh took place in B. C. GOG. l Verse 2. Nineveh-A city with a Igreat population and one of won- ders of the ancient world. It was situated on the upper Tigris, capi- tal of Assyria, noted for its tem-l 1ples, palaces of marble and gold,l ‘hanging gardens, libraries, broad walls, and elaborate water system. The city proper was about nine miles in circumference, but beyond its walls lay miles of common dwel-'l ‘lings, making a great city some‘ sixty miles around. It was to this: greater Nineveh (an exceeding: great city meaning, literally, 3 "great from God's point of view"), ( a city whose diameter was a three days? journey (3), that Jonah wasl called a second time (1) to go. l 4. Into the city a day's journey-- The distance a man could go in a day, of course, varied. Probably through the crowded sections of a populous city, preaching as he went, Jonah would go no more than six or seven miles. i Newspapers are a, sort of public confessional. What is known is half cured. No one hates the or- gan of publicity as much as the icorrupter of public virtue or the fAGENT Ol? PRIVATE FRAUD, l who needs darkness for his success. f In society it is not the known but :the unknown vice that is danger- ous. Every exposed fraud, every aired scandal, every known scouri- drel is a, red dag of warning to the young and innocent. It is the _prosperous, devious, and secret 1 wrongdoing that spreads its cancer- _ ous roots wide and sinks them deep ",: into the body politic. To a soul nobler than myself I can speak freely of my cowardice, my fsdseness, my lapses. As I talk to him even my envy and littleness, my cgotism, vanity, disloyalty, and seiftshness, I know not how, seem to lose their septic and dangerous quality and to become, objects of curious interest. Confession is. impossible between man and man unless there be some sort of mortal stature in the one confessed to greater than in the one who confesses. SBparates it from When the whole world has tried a, truth and found it good it com- presses it into a proverb. One of these compressed tablets of ever- lasting truth is: Confession is good for the soul. ' Just to Say What We Are Floods the Life . With a Cleansing; Stream THE USES (Ill .UGNFESSIGN 4. Doest thou well to be angry I.-- Here he gives no answer, for he doubtless is Silenced by the sting of the rebuke. But later, he con- cludes (9) that it is well for him to be exceeding angry, even unto death. He felt that it was right that his prophecy should be abso- lutely fulfilled, and he could not tol, erate any divine forbearance with of his sin is measured by the fact that he knew God to be gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and, in spite of this knowledge, evaded the duty of making this known to the hated heathen. And now that he saw at length the unfolding of this abundant loving kindness of God, and his willingness to repent upon condition of the heathen's turning from their evil, he thought it hardly worth while to live (3). l 2. Tarshish-80 far as Israel was concerned, this represented the ends , he earth, for, it was a country in the extreme southwest Corner of Spain. Taking ship to Tarshish was a kind of proverb for a long.journey. By fleeing to 'this distant port, Jonah hoped to -put forever behind his back the odious commission of God. The magnitude 7. The decree of the king-A na- tional rather than an individual re- pentance is the only kind a writer of this period could conceive in such a case. The inclusion of the beasts . is intended to give a heightened ef- fect to the picture of a people pros- trate in sorrowful supplication. This is in keeping with the temper of Orientals, to make every possible outward expression of their sorrow. They believed God wbuld not over- look the sight of their sackcloth and ashes, and their cries and the cries of the neglected cattle. Perchance, when he saw these works (10), he would repent of his harsh purpose d so he did. But the change was not so much in God as it was T in themselves. Just as he had suited lhis warnings to the moral state in, lwhich they were (compare Jer. 18. Yi), so now he suits his actions to gthe moral state indicated by their (sorrow for their evil. l Chapter 4, verse 1. It displeased Jonah-He was jealous. It did not set well with the Israelites that God should postpone the doom of the heathen while the world seemed to wait with groanings for justice. And that they should repent was parti- cularly offensive to them. of religious ceremony. The reality of the repentance is further evidenc- ed by the people's sitting in ashes (6). "And hereby," says John the be.. loved, "we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him. For if our hearts con- demn us not, then we have confid- emee toward God."--). Frank Crane. Whoever commences to live a white, honest life in the face of his inner ideal, will begin to be hon- est with himself. And whoever is downright and square with himself is the only one who can possibly be loyal to his friends. ._ 1 Nothing is more foolish than dod. Iging the idea of God and evading his presence in the thought. I ’Would that all unchurched men might lay aside their prejudices, the various ideas about God which they have been taught, and all no- tions of their own fitness or unfit- ness, and open their mind's door and invite in whatever they believe God to be, and then and there strip themselv)es of all subterfuge, of all supposed goodness and supposed badness, and be more sincere with the iniinite-fearlessly, confident- ly sincere, as a child before his fa- ther, as a. creature before him that made him, as a being of half lights, l mysteries, and shadows before the sun. i HIS OWN IDEAL OF GOD, let him admit himself, avow and confess himself, and he will carry from his silent interview a lighter heart than he has known, - The first thing is peace with the 'infinite. Even if a man belongs to no church at all, if the implications of constitutional religion repel him, let him in certain quiet moments call up his soul and lay bare his deepest self to For confession is, at its core, sin- cerity. It is only in sincerity that [the soul can breathe deep breaths, that life is free and joyous. To live in conscious deception with those we love is to walk with feet entangled with strands. We are ever on the watch. There is no peace, no utter relaxation. Those men and women whose private mor- al code admits the doing of things unconfessable live a, fevered and restless existence. l Ilation to the infinite-to God, un- ‘der whatsoever form we conceive him. Whether it be the prostration before the ancient altar of sacrifice whereon burns the lamb of atone- ment, the prayers at the Methodist mourners' bench, or the Salvation army's penitent form, the princi- ple is the same. The soul is unveil- ing itself. Collapse of a Seaftold on Trenton Cartel Work. . l despatch from Trenton says: Two young men named Joseph Walsh and William Rout were drowned here on Manilav afternoon through a scaffold collapsing; on the works of Larkin & Sangster, canal contractors. Earl Grey Advises Ottawa's Mayor to Inaugurate Campaign. A despatch from Ottawa says: Earl Grey has Written a letter to the Mayor, urging an immediate warfare on house ifles. He suggests that a systematic campaign should be inagurated, and calls on the Mayor to take the lead. Bis Excel- lency 'thinks that Ottawa, as the capital, should set an example to other cities, both in a campaign to kill the flies before they breed and in removing unsanitary conditions. [Former Stratford Man Expiredl i Suddenly in the West. I A despatch from Lethbridge, A1- berta, says: Frank Tilley, aged 73, dropped dead on the train going to! Carmangay on Wednesday. Hei came here from Stratford. Be was} the father of the late Alderman Til, 3 ley, who died a few days ago. Three l daughters survive. I TWO YOUNG MEN DROWNED Many Farmers Throughout Prince I Edward are Suffering. A despatch from Picton says: Farmers throughout Prince Edward are suffering from the winter Kil, ling off many meadows. So far Hallowell and Hillier farmers are particularly complaining. A great shortage of pasture in many parts of the county seems inevitable. Clo- ver is one of the big crops and the shortage, it is thought, will be ") verely felt. Prof. Prince to Attend the Fisher- ies Congress at Rome. A despatch from Ottawa says: Prof E. E. Prince has been ap- jointed by the Dominion Govern- ment delegate representing Can- ada at the great International Fisheries Congress in Rome next month. The congress is held every three years, the last one taking place in Washington. Prof. Prince will leave for Rome within a few' days. Delegates from every civil-i ized country will be present. Prince Edward Farmer Was Thaw. _ ing Out Explosive. A despatch from Picton says: Stanley Hutchins, 21, a farmer, was the victim of a dynamite eirplosion on Thursday. He was carelessly thawing out some of the explosive, when it took fire'. When he at- tempted to stamp out the fire the dynamite exploded and shattered his leg and foot so badly that-it had to be amputated. MEAD OWS WINTER-KILLED . Portuguese Mail Steamer Lusitania Runs on the Rocks. A despatch from Capetown, South Africa, says.' Eight persons were drowned during the transfer of over BOO passengers and crew from' the [Wreck of the Portuguese mail steam- er Lusitiania to the British war ship Forte, and a Government tug Those lost were four men, two wo- men, and two children, occupants of two small poats which capsized. The wreck occurred off the Cape of Good Hope, the steamer which was en route from Mozambirque to Lis- bon being driven on the rocks. It will be a total loss. KILL ALL Halt-SE FUES. impression of the book is one of a compassionate heavenly Father who has regard for all the works of his hands. 1s so great as to excite his pity and even anger when it withers away, shall not God show pity to the thou- sands of people of Nineveh, espeei- ally the helpless little children (these that cannot discern between their right hand and their. left), and .the innocent cattle? So the closing 10-11. Thou hast had regard for the gourd-The meaning of this part of the story is clear enough: If Jonah’s care for the poor gourd .J eunuxuucu bu 'chafe at the prosperity of the Gen, tiles. In their pride as the chosen of God they nourished a fear that others than themselves might be the objects of the infinite grace. 6. A gourd-Like Elijah, Jonah, thwarted in his purpose, withdrew to a solitary place where he could be alone with his distress. And there God came to him, as he did to Elijah, in compassion. The gourd was a fruit of a, vine that grew very rapidly and spread its broad leaves as a protection from the sun, when planted by such booths as that of Jonah, or near the trellises of houses. FELL DEAD ON TRAIN. the foes of his People. In this he was a true type of Israel, for even after the exile they continued to .1. - It, - I LL - - . LOST LEG BY DYNAMITE. REPRESENis CANADA 8 DROWNED, 800 SAVED William Clark Moots Death at Parry Sound. A despatch from Parry Sound says: William Clark, a native of Drayton, Wellington County, was on Wednesday night cut in xtwo by a C. P. R. passenger train going south at Dockmuir, about six miles ‘south of here. Deceased, who was ‘about sixty years of age, was re- turning from the West on the night train and as the north and south-1i bound trains pass at that point,' he stepped out on the track to get a little fresh air. The train start- ed backing suddenly and Clark, in attempting to get onboard, [ell un- der the wheels. 'Watched for His Majesty on Ride Through Windsor Park. A despatch from London says: lWhen King George was taking his lusual morning ride in Windsor lPark on Wednesday, accompanied by Lord Charles Fitzmaurice and Sir Frederick Ponsonbv a group of merry school children lined up} in the roadway, waving hats and flags and cheering boisterously. The sudden outburst startled the horses, which commenced prancing. The King, who seemed to be amus- ed, returned the salute of the chil- dren and raised his hat to some of their mothers standing in the background. WAS CUT IN TWO BY TRAIN Manslaughter Vcruict Against Cap- tain in Paeitie Tragedy. q A despatch from Victoria, B. C., I says : A verdict of manslaughter was ’returned on Wednesday by a c>ro- ner's jury against Capt A. A. Seats, master of the steamer Iroquois, which foundered off Sidney last week, with a loss of 20 hvss. The evidence was to the effect than Capt. Sears, the first man to reach shore, deserted the ship while passengers were aboard and that he did not make every effort to rescue those struggling in the water. to 5 Quebec Provincial Board of Health Ii) Takes Strong Measures. :3; A despatch from Montreal says: be i Compulsory vaccination throughout jithe Province was on Monday after- ch, ’n'oon decided upon by the Provin- ew cial Board of Health as a result of dd the sporadic outbreaks of smallpox nd which have been reported of late., lid A decree was promulgated instruct- he mg each of the fifteen hundred mu- at mcipalities of Quebec Province to its enforce general vaccination. Many an municipalities already have such eh laws, but now it will be incumbent he upon all the rest to pass such laws ’within five days after the order is or received from the Provincial Board is'of Health. In most of the rural 1: districts this order will be promul-l _-d gated by announcement from the , id church doors after Mass. Within) 51,48 hours from such announcement"; I- , the law will go into effect, and every; i-jerson who cannot show proof of' gnieffe-ctive vaccination within seven l in (years will have to submit to vac-i d:cination, under a penalty of $5, l g 1 with further penalties if they refuse‘ a i to comply. ' Remains ot Man Discovered in Yards at Winnipeg. A despatch from Winnipeg says I' The body of Thomas Ryan, a, for- mer employe of the Pigeon River Lumber Company, of Port Arthur, was found dead in a box car on Wednesday, and has been identified by the Winnipeg agents of the Mc, Donald Company. The dead man was discovered about noon, when a car was being unloaded in the yards of Arbuthnot and Co. The body was quite warm when found. CHILDREN GREET THE KING. Point in a small skiff about 5.30 in the afternoon, and were on the re- turn trip two hours later when the accident-occurred. The boat cap- sized when they were within fHty yards of the shore. Lepard and the ltwo children were thrown into the water, but Mateer managed to cling to the boat. The young father, who was an excellent swimmer, made a desperate effort to save the little girls, and when his body was rec0ir- ered it was erect in seven feet of water about three rods from land. The bodies of the children were found floating, and futile efforts were made at rccruccitatixyn. Ma- teer clung to the boat for-half an: hour until it drifted to shore. Eel managed to wade to land and fell} in exhaustion. DROWNED IN LAKE SIMCOE. Operations of English Syndicate in i - h Prince Edward County. (Fred. L022; £5311 12;:esDaug ters A despatch from Picton says: l . Thirty thousand apple trees are now l A despatch from Belle Ewart under lease to the English syndi- says: Swamped in an overcrowded cate operating in the county this boat, Fred. Lepard, a laborer, iyear. The fame of the Prince Ed- thirty-five years old, and two of his ( ward apple has already gone abroad daughters, aged eight and tenland the Syndicate is determined to years, were victims of a triplerkeep that name at its highest. The drowning accident in Lake Simcoelhuddreds of orchards now under on Saturday evening. John Mateer, I lease will be put irrthe hands of a also an occupant of the boat, man- gang of expert orchard men. The aged to escape with his life. Theitrees have all been pruned and this party of four crossed to Roach’s l week every orchard will be sprayed. Point in a small skiff about 5.30 ingThis is all under expert manage- the afternoon, and were on the re-lment. Fred. Lenard and Two Daughters Lose Their Lives. A despatch from Belle Ewart says: Swamped in an overcrowded boat, Fred. Lepard, a laborer, thirty-tive years old, and two of his daughters, aged eight and ten VACCINATION COMP ULSORY DESERTED HIS SHIP BOD Y IN: BOX CAR. and iill likely proceed to Mont- real. The flagship has 250 new sail- ors ab and. who have been recruit- ed in Canada. ’Canada‘s Warship Niobe Leaves Halifax for St. John. A despatch from Halifax, N.S., says: H. M: C. S. Niobe sailed on, Wednesday for St. John, N.B., ont' her first cruise since becoming thti flagship of the new Canadian navy. At St. John she will embark Ati- miral Kingsmill and Deputy Yinitt ter of Marine Desbarats and will return to Halifax on Monday. As soon as navigation conditions per- min the Niche will sail for Quebec, A despatch from Berlin, Ont., says: Definite announcement has ‘been made that Earl Grey will yisit Berlin on May 'ece-1fctee(ialCil1,if statue erected e daughters of 'tsep-lt/i-rf/i-f-lf-YT/ijt/ii:, Park in memory of the late Queen Victoria. The statue cost $5,000. Mayor Schmalz has been authorized to make the necessary expenditures for the reception of Earl Grey. The, Town Council, Canadian Club, Wa- men's Canadian Club, and Daugh- ters of the Empire will unite in the reception. Will Unveil Statue Erected by Daughters of the Empire. EARL GREY TO VISIT BERLIN. Box Factory and Two Residence! Destroyed. [ A despatch from Parry Sound says: A fierce fire occurred here on Tuesday evening, "t'esulting in th4 total destruction of the boxHactort of the Parry Sound Lumber Come pany and the residence of Capt, Wm. Newburn, while another resi. dence, owned by A. C. Phillips and occupied by Mr. Ralph Kalkin, was considerably damaged. Several other buildings caught fire. but were saved by the efforts of the fire brigade. e (Tragedy at a Labor Meeting in Glace Bay. A despatch from Halifax, N. S., says: A shocking tragedy occurred at Glace Bay late on Monday night near the close of a labor meeting, which resulted in the shooting of William Bryant, a miner, and Michael Murphy by a man named Fred Beale. Bryant was instantly killed, and Murphy went to the hos. pital with a bullet in his abdomen. He died on Tuesday night. When the police arrived Beale gave him. self up, and went to the police star tion quietly. l A despatch from Windsor says: ‘Five tons of herring and a large number of fishing nets were seized by the Government launch MeCar- thy in Lake Erie just inside the Ca- nadian boundary line on Tuesday, and brought to Kingsville. Theva cation of the nets was in almost the same place as those seized a Cou- ple of weeks ago. They are pro- bably the property of Loraine, Ohio, fishermen, who will remain ignorant of the seizure until they come to take up their catch. Capture by Canadian Patrol Launch in Lake Erie. if A despatch from New York says: b At a meeting on Tuesday night to - celebrate the tercentenary of tho I publication of the King James ver- t sion of the Bible, Ambassador I Bryce read the following letter ‘from King George _ "I rejoice V that America and England should join in commemorating the publica» tion 300 years ago of that version of the Holy Scriptures which has so long held its own among English speaking people. its circulation in our homes has done more than any- thing else on earth to promote mor- al and religious welfare among old" and young on either side of the At- !lantic. The version which bears ;King James' name is so clearly in- iteryoyen in the history of British (and American life that it is right jive should thank God for it to- gether. I congratulate the Presi- dent and people of the United 1States upon their share in this, our loommon heritage." ON HER FIRST CRUISE. Teveentenarsr c, FIRE AT PARRY SOUND. FISH AND NETS SEIZED. KING GEORGE'S MESSAGE APPLE TREES LEASED. TWO MEN KILLED. y Celebration of King ames Bible. uoue more than any- arth to promote mor- [S welfare among old either side of the At- version which bears that it is right God for it to- late the Presi- of the United