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Five Others Injured in Two Acciâ€" dents at Alberta Collieries. A despatch from _ Lethbridge says: Oné man was killed and five were hurt in the mines north of the riyer here on Monday morning, at the Chinook collieries, by an exâ€" plosion of gas. Four of the injured men are in the Diamond City Hosâ€" pital, while one was sent to his home. _ The â€" accident happened shortly after the men went down into the mine. The dead man was ".Edward Radford. An accident in ‘the mines at Beaver Creek on Satâ€" urday afternoon resulted in the death of two miners. No details can be learned, other than that a Afall of rock â€" eame â€" unexpectedly, pinning them underneath. Sixty Grain Carriers Open Naviga« tion.From Twinâ€" Cities, )‘ A despatch from Port Arthur \says : On Saturday there passed through Thunder_ Bay eastward bound, from Port Arthur and her twin city of Fort William, sixty great lake freighters, laden with _approximately 12,250,000 bushels of =, wheat, oats, flax and barley, being .the vast fleet which has been lying in the Twin City harbors during the past winter, and which the openâ€" ing of navigation has set free. MAY GRIDIRON PROVINCE The bill provides, first, that the \Hydroâ€"Electric Power Commission, whenever required ‘by the Lieutenâ€" ‘antâ€"Governorâ€"inâ€"Council so. to do, There is a deficit of $2,300 in ]‘North Bay‘s tax department. mm mmnenmn cesmm ecmemmmmen en n mmmnenmmnmemmemeco: APPEALS 10 CHRISTIANS ‘A despatch from Pekin says: An appeal made by the Chinese Govâ€" ernment to all the Christian churches in China to set aside April 27 as a day for prayer that China may be guided to & wiss solution of the critical problems besetting }her, is regarded hbere as striking evidences of the extraordinary changes which have taken place in the nation since the revolution. The appeal was distributed broadâ€" |cast by telegraph on Thursday to ‘all the governors and high officials «within whose jurisdiction Christian communities are to be found. It ‘was also sent to the leaders of the jvarious missions. Prayer was roâ€" questedâ€"in the appeal for the Naâ€" EChinese Republican Government Formally Asks Day y of Prayer for Nation In moving the first reading of the bill Hon: Mr. Beck referred to the fact that the Government and commissionh had been waited upon and urged to adopt a plan of enâ€" couraging the construction of elecâ€" itric railways along the rightâ€"ofâ€"way of the commission used. for the transmission of power. "‘Railway .construction and operâ€" "ation,‘‘ he said, ‘"has not been considered a moneyâ€"making proâ€" position. . Consequently we feel that the matter should receive careâ€" ful consideration and the fullest investigation before such an enterâ€" prise is gone into.‘"‘ He added that the construction of rural lines that ihad been considered impossible ‘might be possible under the condiâ€" ‘tions made by the new legislation. _A «despatch from Toronto says : TJust before the Legislature rose On Wednesday evening Hon. Adam Beck introduced ‘an Act for the public construction and operation of electric railways that provides the machinery by which municipaliâ€" ties throughout the province can secure for themselves either, indeâ€" pendently or by coâ€"operation ‘the transportation service so many of them have urgently needed., Under the new legislation they will be able to proceed in three ways. _ They can go to the Hydroâ€"Electric Comâ€" mission and have that body conâ€" struct, operate and maintain a line ; they can have the commission construct it and operate and mainâ€" tain it themselves, or they can both construct and operate under ue supervision and with the assistance of the commission. The idea back of the whole bill ’is that the municipalities must meet the whole burden. The provâ€" ince assumes no financial liability. It is not the intention to use the credit of the province, the method provided being similar to that by which the municipalities undertake the local distribution of power, meeting the cost by issuing debenâ€" tures. The rightâ€"ofâ€"way â€" of the Hydroâ€"Electric transmission sysâ€" tem will, of course, be used to adâ€" vantage, and this will be rented to the municipalities by the commisâ€" sion. Government Bill Empowers Municipalities to Conâ€" THREE MINERS KILLED. HUGE FLEET SAILS. struct and Operate Hydro Radial Lines may enquire into, examine, invesâ€" tigate and report upon the cost of constructing and operating electric railways in any locality where powâ€" er is supplied by the commission, with an estineate of the probable revenue, the practicability of the enterprise, and the economic value to the locality served by it. Two or more municipal corporaâ€" _Two or more municipal corporaâ€" tions may be authorized by the Lieutenantâ€"Governorâ€"inâ€"Council to enter into an agreement with the commission (1) for the construction, equipment and _ operation of an electric railway, to be operated by power supplied by the commission ; Theâ€" Wouldâ€"beâ€" Assassin of King \ Alforso. A despatch from Madrid says : Alegre, the Anarchist who attemptâ€" ed to assassinate the King, will be tried by an ordinary tribunal inâ€" stead of by a military eourtâ€"marâ€" tial. It has been found that the reâ€" volver used by Alegre belongs to a police agent. He has been detainâ€" ed by the authorities and will be interrogated in regard to the manâ€" ner in which the wouldâ€"be assassin came to possess it. $ tional Assembly, for the new Govâ€" ernment, for the President of the Republic who is yet to be elected, for the constitution of the Republic, for the recognition of the Republic by the powers, for the maintenance of peace and for the election of strong «and virtuous men to office. The representatives of the provinâ€" cial authorities are instructed to attend the services. A similar serâ€" vice has been held already in Pekin at the request of the Government. The appeal has given extraordinary satisfaction to _ mission circles, where it is pointed out that this is the first time in the history of the world that such a request has come from a nonâ€"Christian nation, St. Thomas Y.M.C.A. raised more than $67,000 in its campaign for or (2) for its construction by the commission and for its operation by the corporation; or (3) for its construction and operation by the corporation or corporations, and in either case for supply of electric power by the commission. The agreement with the commisâ€" sion shall include the location of the line of railway, the character of the equipment and the service, and the maximum tolls and fares to be chargeable thereon ; the proportion in which the cost of construction, equipment, maintenance and operâ€" ation shall be borne by each of the corporations‘ interested ; thek proâ€" portion of the revenue to be distriâ€" buted to the corporation after deâ€" ducting the charges for rental of rightâ€"ofâ€"way, power, etc. The entire urdertaking â€"will be municipally owned, and ‘the provâ€" ince will not be liable for a dollar of expenditure. To meet the cost of the railways the municipalities shall have power to issue fortyâ€" year debentures, but these debenâ€" tures will not be protected by a provineial guarantee. It Enhances the Glory of Every Man in the Expedition. â€" A despatch from London says : Lady Scott, the wife of Captain R. Seott, who lost his life in the Antâ€" arctic, ‘has written a letter to the newspapers in which she expresses her thanks for the sympathy exâ€" tended to her in her bereavement and thanks everybody for their genâ€" erosity in subscriptions to memorial funds. She adds that her husband‘s diary will be published in full as soon as practicable. ‘"Every word in the diary,""‘ Lady Scott says, ‘‘goes to enhance the glory of the expedition and the work of every officer and man concerned in it." The Act requires the Council \of every municipality entering into a contract with the commission to anâ€" nually raise and pay over to the commission such sums as may be required by it in the construction, equipment, maintenance and operaâ€" tion of the railway, including the costs of the supply of electrical power to the extent fixed in the agreement, and provides that deâ€" bentures may be issued, payable in not more than forty years, for that purpose. The Act makes it unnecessary to secure the assent of the electors to any byâ€"law to raise. such monies. $50,000 for a new building_ CAPT. SCOTTI‘S DIARY. ALEGRE‘S REYVOLYVER. Balkan Nations May War Over Posâ€" session of Salonica. A despatch from London says: Bulgaria and Greece are rapidly drifting towards war over the posâ€" session of Salonica, according to the Chronicle‘s correspondent at that town. The Greeks have moâ€" bilized every available soldier and concentrated one army in the neighâ€" borhood of Salonica, while another is being landed at Orfani, in the Gulf of Orfani, in order to watch the movements of the Bulgarians at Drama and Kavala. In the meanâ€" time, adds the correspondent, the Bulgarians have suspended passenâ€" ger traffic between Dedeagatch and Salonica, and are utilizing the railâ€" way for the concentration of troops in the ne‘ghborhood of Drama, close to the Greek position. BULGARS AND GREEKS CLASKH Man and)Wife Lay Unconscious With Slain Baby. _ A despatch â€"from Port Arthur says: When J. McGrath entered the home ~of his son, <Redmond Mcâ€" Grath, â€"next door, on Tuesday morning, he found him and his wife lying unconscious in bed, with the dead body of, their 18â€"monthsâ€"old son beside them. The head was crushed evidently with an exe, and both the.man and the woman were seriously wounded about the head. The two injured were taken to the hospital. â€" The woman refuses to talk, and the man says that he awoke with blood on his face, calâ€" ling to his wife for her help, her response being, ‘"I can‘t, I‘m all in.‘‘. The man is aged 27, the woâ€" man 25. Prince of Wales‘ Tour of this Counâ€" try Has Been Arranged. A despatch from London says : The Prince of Wales will not go to Cambridge University for a few terms after he finishes at Oxford, as had been previously arranged. He will finish his university educaâ€" tion at. Magdalen College at the year end, and will start early in 1914 for his tour of Canada.! He will receive‘ a commission in the Grenadier Guards, so that he may appear in uniform. Bateman â€" Transferred from Kingâ€" ston Penitentiary. A despatch from Kingston says : John Bateman, the octogenarian, who was sentenced to death at Oshawa in December last for the murder of his wife, and whose senâ€" tence was commuted to life imprlisâ€" onment, has been transferred from the penitentiary to Rockwood Hosâ€" pital for the Insano. Mis Body Found in Carriage at Warsaw Railway Station. A despatch from Warsaw says : Prince Ladislaw Lubecke was murâ€" dered in a mysterious manner here on Tuesday. He drove to the railâ€" road station with his guest, Baron Bisping. When he did not return a searchâ€"was made for the Prince and he was found dead with severâ€" al bullet wounds in his body. The empty carriage was standing by. Foreign Secretary Will Go to Berâ€" lin With King and Queen. A despatch from London says : The Daily Express says Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, will accompany King George and Queen Mary when they go to Berlin to attend the wedding of the Princess Victoria Louise and Prince Ernst of Cumberland on May 24. If this statement is accurate it will give an obvious political importance to the visit. It will be Sir Edward Grey‘s first official foreign visit. Assessor Has _ Paralysis, Child Measles and Wife is Also Ill. _ A despatch from London, Ont., says : Alfred McConbrey, one of the assessors of London, is critically ill at his home in this city, he having suffered a stroke of paralysis. His wife is very ill in St. Joseph‘s Hosâ€" pital and his only child is a victim of measles. His recovery is probâ€" lematical. Amazing charges were made in the Reichstag against the German armor plate manufacturers. The bounties on iron and steel are, it is understood, not to be reâ€" moved, but there will likely be some revision of duties. Orderâ€"inâ€"Council Proclaims It In Force From First of May. A despatch from Ottawa says: An orderâ€"inâ€"Council will soon be issued in the Canada Gazette proâ€" claiming the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with Japan as in force from Moy 1, 1913. Nearly 300,000 men are on strike throughout Belgium. s TRAGEDY AT PORT ARTHUKR. WHOLE FAMILY STRICKEN. TO VISIT CANADA IN 1914. THE TREATY WITH JAPAN. GOES TO INSANE PRISON. RUSSIAN PRINCE SLAIN. FIRST OFFICIAL YISIT. White and magpie veilings are the favorites. A few plaited skirts are seen in the tailored suits. Hemp continues to be the favorâ€" ite hat material. Lace trimmed gloves are an interâ€" esting novelty. Colors in the new silks are brightâ€" er and brighter. Navy blue holds its own with the newer shades. Evening boots are quite high, coming above the ankle. Few long coats are seen this spring. A novelty cotton crepe has cheâ€" nille borders. There is a tendency to the long waist lines this season. The new wrap print ribbons have dark rich grounds. _Beaded ribbon is the latest cry among millinery trimmings. Veils most worn have lace patâ€" terns and are in black and white. The surplice Tine is followed in many of the new blouses. Pearl and smoked pearl buttons are used to trim modish gowns. With lingerie and black satin gowns bright green hose are worn. Welland County License Commisâ€" sioners cautioned sixty hotelkeepers to keep the law. A novelty introduced this season is cotton goods with a beaded borâ€" der. Two little girls in> Palmerston were struck down and trampled by an unmanageable _ horse _ while crossing the street, one having her jaw frightfully smashed. A resolution was introduced in the United States Senate‘ calling for the abrogation of both Isthmiâ€" an treaties with Great Britain. §ee%%2e200080208 Bright colored bead bags will be carried with the new spring cosâ€" tumes. Brocaded silks and chiffons are used for some of the richest new parasols.â€" : + _ Colored handkerchiefs with gay printed borders are another spring note. The Indian: silk crepe is the most popular and is woven in many odd designs. The Uganda, a large wooden vesâ€" sel, cornâ€"laden, sank near the Straits of Mackinac. The crew were saved. Bright green and cerise are much used in silk hosiery. Striped tub silks are used for many of the new kimonos. Bports coats for young women are best made of checked tweeds. _ Check materials in gay colors are to be combined with plain materiâ€" als. Evening gowns grow more elaborâ€" ate, much cloth of gold and bugle trimmings being worn. & $ Other street suits are made of lightweight broadcloth, poplin, raâ€" tine, or diagonal serges. David Mitchell, a M. C. R. conâ€" ductor, was instantly killed by beâ€" ing crushed under a falling car at Welland. Thos. Murray, who had lived to the age of a hundred and four years, passed away at New Durâ€" ham. Many evening gowns for summer aro in beaded or spangled effects. Elat brimmed sailors with a band and stiff little bunch of flowers are seen. Cotton voile embroidered _ with small beads make a pretty gown for siummer: f The new parasols suggest Japan and all her rich and picturesque loveliness. The long, pointed slippers of the Parisiennes are. expected to be fashionable. The sleeveless jacket has taken a permanent place in the new fashâ€" ions this spring. The new tailored coats have soft dainty linings of flowered mousseâ€" line or embroidered linen. Bright colors are combined with white or black in almost all garâ€" ments. The colors of the moment are beige, white, champagne, and pale citron. Black and white, which has been so much worn, is now a thing of the past. Yellow silk hose and black satin shoes are worn with beige or dark colored suits. Of all blues, periwinkle is the most popular. It is best trimmed with rose red or cherry colored red. Poplins, a combination of silk and wool, will be popular. _ It is of softer and more supple make than heretofore. The new hats are trimmed with rich ribbons in tall loops, like wings. 2 The blouse with the contrasting sleeve is a feature of the new fashâ€" jons. Prairie fires in southern Sasâ€" katchewan are sweeping a tract fifty miles wide. e %%%208%00%8%e0e04%0808 6 Fashion Hints Seen in Paris Shops. What Is It and What Are Its Duties to the Comâ€" . mon People of the World ? It isn‘t a Sunday morning club which is intended to minister exâ€" clusively to some one class in the community.. It isn‘t a prosperous and complacent congregation which is satisfied with itself and makes perpetuation of its own organizaâ€" tion its chief ambition. It isn‘t a group of men who are banded toâ€" gether, not to live for, but off the community, and who only like those who are already like them. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH There is one passion which the coming church must have or die, and that is the passion for all huâ€" manity. There is one spirit which the coming church must incarnate or be cast out, and that is the spirâ€" it of democracy. Swiftly the control of national forces is passing from the men of the middle class into the hands of the common people. Does the comâ€" mon «man frequent our churches{ Is he at home with us and we with him? We never see him. Woe unâ€" to us if that be true. 27, 28. Ishmaelites ... Midianâ€" itesâ€"Three solutions are offered for the difficulty raised by the mention here of two different peoples. Some have thought the different names were intended to rather. loosely designateo the same people. Other commentators have suggested that probably it was a mixed company of traders toâ€" whom Joseph was sold, there being both Ishmaelites and Midianites present. To this explanation the Bible narrative lends much plausibility, since, acâ€" comding to that narrative as we now have it in Genesis, Ishmael and Midian were both sons of Abraâ€" ham. Their descendants would therefore be closely related and, in the earlier generations at least, have many interests in common. The same.biblical narrative, howâ€" ever, makes Joseph & cousin of the men to whom he was sold. Still anâ€" other explanation and the one favâ€" ored by & majority of Old Testaâ€" Then We Are Already Damned. We are saved only when we become a company of saviors. We must reâ€" deem others if we are to perpetuâ€" ate oursélyes. What, then, is a â€" Christian church ? Why, it is just a company of plain, ordinary men and women, who subsist like every body else unâ€" der the covert of God‘s patience, but who have caught Christ‘s visâ€" ion of humanity. They regard the motley world about them; they know it is not ideal; they see that in the best of men, who have had a fortunate inheritance and a graciâ€" ous environment, there is only a little love, and conscience, and visâ€" ion. They see that most of our reâ€" ligion and our lack of it, too, is compounded of vague hearsay and blank prejudice and easy conforâ€" mity and dry and barren theory. They see that in most mon selfâ€"inâ€" dulgence, and uncontrolled desires, and mental trivialities, and: spiritâ€" ual inertia, and cruel and selfish Are we saving our souls and conâ€" secrating our lives, not that we may make free and happy this great troublous world of artisans,. and mechanics, and laborers, but that we may save ourselves and our church out of that work! Is our church an ark of salvation, the sanctuary of the consciously elect, to which we‘ withdraw from a perâ€" ishing and somewhat contemptible world ?1 Then it will go down. The church which is to survive toâ€"morrow will be the lifeboat filled with the elect, in order that they may rescue the perishing. Are we merely a company of the saved? 18E SUNBAY SCHOO0L STH3Y Lesson IV. â€" Egypt, Gen., text, I. 25. A caravan of Ishmaelitesâ€"All the inland commerce of the anciâ€" ent world was carried on by tradâ€" ers, who carried their merchandise on camels, and for purposes of muâ€" tual protection traveled in large companies from one â€" place and from one land to another. Spicery and balm and myrrh â€" Products of the «desert and highly prized in Egypt, where they were used in part medicinally, in part as incense, and in part in the proâ€" cess of embalming. The portion of our lesson chapter preceding the printed passage reâ€" cords Joseph‘s dreams and Jacob‘s favoritism. The story is perhaps the most familiar one in the Old Tesâ€" tament. It should be read again in its entirety. Verse 23. The coat of many colors â€"The marginal reading in the Reâ€" vised Version for this phrase in verse 3 above is "‘a long garment with sleeves,""‘ the exact meaning of the phrasse being uncertain. § INTERNATIONAL EESSON. APRIL 27. Joseph sold into Chap,. 27. Golden Cor. 13. 4. "O, brothers, look up and fight on, and don‘t be discouraged, and we are with you, and we are come out to help.. Through all the cenâ€" turies has been this ever failing but never ending struggle of our race. _ But slowly and surely we have been getting on, while the ancient.empires have risen and falâ€" len. Every step in the path of civâ€" ilization has been trodden out of rock, and brier, and wilderness, by score upon score of sore and bleedâ€" ing feet. There has been a persistâ€" ent heroism, a gradual uplift ; and we are dletermined that you, every man of you, shall have his part and share in this mighty progression. ambitions have brought them far down from their high estate. But, being Christians, this comâ€" pany of men and women pass from the open doors of their sanctuary, into the crowded streets to say :: ‘‘We know the road is hard toâ€" day, hard in these cities of the new world, as it was in ancient days among ancient and worn out lands. Our sins and your sins and the sing of your forbears have made it so. Militants decorated "The Monuâ€" ment‘‘ in London with flags and campaign streamers. Potipharâ€"An _ Egyptian _ name common in later inscriptions from the tenth century B. C. forward. Do you have many unlovely oddities, and unpleasant habits, and severe limitations, and is your point of view different from ours, and do we not care for the same things at all? _ Never mind.. It doesn‘t make any difference. We are millions of miles away from beâ€" ing perfect ourselves. If you will put up with us we will be mighty glad to put up with you. ‘‘You are our brothers, and we must make that plain, and we must have it recognized. That‘s the esâ€" sence of what our Lord demands of us, and we have something to bring you to enable you to surâ€" mount the world and find yourâ€" selves, and to make life free and tolerable once more. _ And that something is loveâ€"God‘s love for you, which when you will receive it restores your faith in yourselves and your race. And we know he loves you. Why, he has loved even us, and we stand beside you and behind you for Christ‘s sake and in Christ‘s name, and believe in you and care for you, ‘and stick by you until the very end." _ But We Ars With You; and into your conflict we mean to plunge our lives ; for you our heart beats, for you our mind works, for you our will is strong. Sheolâ€"The Hebrew â€" underworld or abode of departed spirits withâ€" out distinction as to their moral qualities. The New. Testament equivalent is Hades. From the deâ€" seriptions of Sheol given in Isa. 14. 4â€"29 and Ezek. 32. 17â€"32% and elseâ€" where we learn that the dead in Sheol were thought of as "still conscious, but living a feeble, shadowy, ghostlike life," What, then, is a Christian church?, Why, it is a company of lovers of the world. And what makes them the lovers of the world 1 It is their vision of the divine lovâ€" er.â€"Dr. Albert Parker Fitch. Captain of the" guard=Chief of the executioners. â€"Another transâ€" lation is "chief of the butchers." Compare "chief butler‘‘ and "chief baker‘‘ in the subsequent narraâ€" tive. Sir Charles Day Rose, Bart., M. P., died from the effects of an airâ€" ship flight in London. £ 34. Sackelothâ€"Coarse cloth worn as a sign of mourning. 35., His â€"daughtersâ€"Only one daughter, Dinah, has been menâ€" tioned in the narrative thus far. (Compare chapter 34.) Great Britain‘s Budget this year totals £200,000,000. 30. The childâ€"Better, _ thoâ€"ladâ€" The same â€"Hebrew word is used sometimes to designate a servant and sometimes a young child,, as â€"well as s youth, as here. ment scholars toâ€"day is that the oc currence of the. two. separate names is one of many indications pointing to the interweaving of two different accounts of the same event from which the Genesis narâ€" rator drew his information, one of these accounts mentioning the Ishâ€" maelites as" the people to whom Joseph was sold, and the other mentioning the Midianites. 33. An evil beast hath devoured himâ€"Jacob draws the desired inâ€" ference at the sight of the blood:â€" stained coat. Twenty pieces of silverâ€"Heb., twenty â€" shekels, twoâ€"thirds the price of an adult slave. & 32. Sent the coatâ€"Perhaps by one ofâ€"their number, whom, they followed shortly ; hence the expresâ€" sion also they brought it to their father. Into Egyptâ€"Whither they were bound to «lispose of their products. 29. Rent his. clothesâ€"A customâ€" ary sign of distress and mourning.