Oklahoma Ledger (Sterling, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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OVER 100
VEARS OLD
New York, April 19.—The following
account of the sinking of the Titanic
and the rescue of 745 of its passen-
gers and crew was given by Mr.
Beasley of *„">ndon, one of the pas-
sengers on tue ill-fated steamer:
"The voyage from Queenstown had
been quite uneventful; very fine
weather was experienced and the sea
was quite calm. The wind had been
boats from aft already In the water,
slipping quietly away Into the dark-
ness, and presently the boats near to
me were lowered and with much
creaking as the new ropes slipped
through the pulley blocks down the
ninety feet which separated them
from the water. An offlctr in uni-
form came up as one boat went down
and shouted: 'When you are afloat,
W. N. U., Oklahoma City, No. 17-1912.
Some men never brag about them-
selves—and don't blame them.
westerly to southwesterly the whole row round to the companion ladder
For torpid, Inactive or disordered liver,
take Garfield Tea. All druggists.
A Slight Mistake.
"Katie, I can't find any of the break-
fast food."
"O hevings, mem, I must of took It
for the sawdust to put on the Ice on
the pavement, mem."
way, but very cold, particularly the
last day; In fact, after dinner on Sun-
day evening it wbb almost too cold to
b« out on deck at all. 1 had been In
my berth for about ten minutes, when,
at about 11:15 p. m., 1 felt a slight
Jar, and then, soon after, a second
one, but not sufficiently large to cause
any anxiety to any one, however nerv-
All Interested.
"la your bookkeeper's heart In his
office work?"
"Everybody's heart is In the office
work since the blonde stenographer
came."
Not Resentful.
"Those people say they don't be-
lieve you ever reached U19 pole."
"That's all right," replied the ex-
plorer, as ho looked up from his man-
uscript. "The more doubts there are
as to whether I landed or not, the
longer this rather remunerative dis-
cussion is going to last"
Not Needed There.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley was asked the
other day if he had heard anything
about the recent invention which gives
to new wine all the properties of old
wine.
"No, I haven't," Doctor Wiley re-
plied. Then, with a smile, he added:
"But, by Jove, I attended a musical
comedy performance the other night
which certainly must have been treat-
ed with that invention."
Birds are Early Riser*.
He was an affable young man and
desirous of demonstrating his kindly
and genial disposition. So when the
canary bird chirped sleepily from its
cage on the wall he spoke up cheer-
ily.
"What's the matter, bird?" he in-
quired.
The girl glanced at him with a
dreumy smile. She was a southern
girl, and she spoke with a gentle
drawl.
"He thinks it's mawnin,'" she
cooed.
The man who loves birds hasn't
been back.
and stand by with the other boats for
orders.'
"'Aye, aye, 3lr,' came up the reply,
but I don't thJnk any boat was able
to obey the order. When they were
afloat and had the oars at work the
condition of the rapidly settling boat
was so much more a sight for alarm
for those In the boats than those on
ous they may have been. However, j board that in common prudence the
the engines stopped immediately aft-j sailors saw they could do nothing but
erwards, and my first thought was ] row from the sinking ship to flave. at
'She has lost a propeller.' I went up any rate, some Mves. They no doubt
od the top (boat) deck in a dressing i anticipated that suction from such an
gown and found only a few people 1 onorr-ous vessel would be more than
there, who had come up similarly to j usually dangerous to a crowded boat
inquire why we had stopped, but! filled with women.
there was no sort of anxiety In the "All this time there was no trace
minds of any one. i n' any disorder or panic or rush to i he slowly tilted straight
CARD PLAYERS SAW ICEBERG, j ,he boatB and n° 8cenes of womfin
"We saw through the smoking-room j sobbing^.hysterically _such_ aj^one gen-
window a game of cards going on and
THANKSGIVING PSALM
A Rhythmical and Grateful Chant
A teacher in a Terr© Haute publlo
school Joins in the chorus:
"Teaching is a business which re-
quires a great deal of brain and nerve
force. Unless this force is renewed as
fast as expended the teacher is ex-
hausted before the close of the year.
Many resort to stimulating tonics for
relief.
"For 3 years I struggled against al-
most complete exhaustion, getting
what relief 1 could from doctors' ton-
ics. Then in the spring of 1903
had an attack of la grippe and ma-
laria which left me too weak to con-
tinue my work. Medicine failed to
give me any relief, a change of cli-
mate failed. I thought I should never
be able to go back In school again.
"I ate enough food (the ordinary
meats—white bread, vegetables, etc.),
but was hungry after meals.
"I happened at this time to read an
article giving the experience of an-
other teacher who had been helped by
Grape-Nuts food. 1 decided to try
Grape-Nuts and cream, as an experi-
ment. It was a delightful experience,
and continues so after a year and
a half of corsfant use.
"First, I noticed that I was not
hungry after meals.
"In a few days that '::^d feeling left
me, and I felt fresh and bright, in-
stead of dull and sleepy.
"In Ihree months, more than my usual
strength returned, and I had gained 15
pounds in weight.
"I finished the year's work without
any kind of tonics—was not absent
from duty even half a day.
"Am still in best of health, with
all who know me wondering at the im-
provement.
"I tell them all 'Try Grape-Nuts!*"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. "There's a reason."
Eter rend the above lettert A new
one appear* from time to time, Thry
■re srnulne, true, and tall ot hixmna
Interest.
went in to Inquire if they knew any-
thing; it seems they felt more of the
Jar, and looking through the window
had seen a huge iceberg go by close
to the side of the boat. They thought
we had Just grazed It with a glancing
blow and the engines had been
stopped to see If any damage had
been done. No one, of course, had any
conception that she had been pierced
below by part of the submerged ice-
berg. The game went on without any
thought of disaster, and I retired to
my cabin to read until we went on
again. I never saw any of the players
or the onlookers again. A little later,
hearing people going upstairs, I went
out again and found every one want-
ing to know why the engines had
stopped. No doubt many were awak-
ened from sleep by the sudden stop-
ping of a vibration to which they had
become accustomed during the four
days we had been on board. Natural-
ly, with such powerful engines as the
Titanic carried, the vibration was very
noticeable all the time, and the sud-
den stopping had something the same
,effect as the stopping of a loud tick-
ing grandfather's clock In a room.
"On going on deck again I saw that
there was an undoubted list down-
wards from stern to bows, but, know-
ing nothing c.i what had happened,
concluded some of the front compart-
ments had filled and weighed her
down. I went down again to put on
warmer clothing and as I dressed
heard an order shouted:
LIFF.BOATS ORDERED.
" 'All passengers on aeck with life
belts on.'
"We all walked slowly up with them
tied on over our clothing, but even
then presumed this was a wise pre-
caution the captain was taking, and
that we should return in a short time
and retire to bed. There was a total
absence of any panic or any expres-
sions of alarm, and I suppose this
can be accounted for by the exceed-
ingly calm night and the absence of
any signs of the accident. The ship
was absolutely still and except for a
gentle tilt downward, which I don't
think one person In ten would have
noticed at that time, no signs of the
approaching disaster were visible.
She lay Just as If she were waiting
the order to go on again, when some
trifling matter had been adjusted.
But In a few moments we saw the
covers lifted from the boats, and the
crews allotted to them standing by
and curling up the ropes which were
to lower them by the pulley blocks
into the water.
"We then began to realize it was
more serious than had been supposed,
and my first thought was to go down
and get more clothing and soms
money, but seeing people pouring up
the stairs decided it was better to
cause no confusion to people coming
up by doing so
the order:
WOMEN TORN FROM HUSBANDS.
'' 'All men stand back away from
the boats and all ladies retire to
next deck below!'—the smoking-room
deck or B deck. The men all stood
away and remained In absolute si-
lence, leaning against the end railings
of the deck or pacing slowly up and
down. The boats were swung out
and lowered from A deck. When they
were to the level of B deck, where all
the ladies were collected, the ladles
got in quietly, with the exception of
some who refused to leave their hus-
bands In some cases they were torn
from them and pushed Into the boats,
but In many Instnnces they were al-
lowed to rpmaln because there was
no one to Insist they should go
"looking over the side, one saw
erally pictures as happening at «uch
times; every one seemed to realize
so slowly that there was Imminent
darger. When it was realized that
we might all be presently In the sea
with nothing but our life belts to sup-
port us until we were picked up by
passing steamers it was extraordinary
! how calm every one was and how
| completely self-controlled.
"One by one the boats were filled
with women and children, lowered and
rowed away into the night. Presently
the word went round among the men,
'The men are to be put in boats on
the starboard side.' I was on the
port side and most of the men walked
across the deck to see If this was so
I remained where I was and presently
heard the call:
"'Any more ladles?' Looking over
the side of the ship, I saw the boat,
No. 13, swinging level with B deck,
half full of ladies. Again the call was
repeated: 'Any more ladies?'
"I saw none come on, and then one
of the crew looked up and said: 'Any
ladles on your deck, sir?'
" 'No,' I replied.
" 'Then you had better Jump.'
WOMEN HEAVED INTO BOAT.
"I dropped In and fell in the bot
tom as they cried: 'Lower away.' As
the boat began to descend two ladles
were push's** hurriedly through the
crowd on B deck and heaved over into
the boat, and a baby of ten months
passed down after them. Down we
went, the crew calling to those lower-
ing each end to keep her level—'aft,'
'stern,' 'both together'—until we were
some ten feet from the water, and
hero occurred the only anxious mo-
ment we had during the whole of our
experience from leaving the deck to
reaching, the Carpathia.
"Immediately below our boat was
the exhaust of the condensers, a huge
stream of water pouring all the time
from the ship's side Just above the
water line. It was plain we ought to
he smart away from this not to be
swamped by it when we touched wa-
ter. We had no officer aboard, nor
petty officer or member of the crew to
take charge. So one of the stokers
shouted: 'Some one find the pin which
releases the boat from the ropes and
pull it up.' No one knew where it
was. We felt as well as we could on
the floor and sides, but found nothing,
and It was hard to move among so
many people—we had sixty or seventy
on board.
"Down we went and presently float-
ed, with our ropes still holding us,
the exhaust washing us away from
the side of the vessel and the swell of
the sea urging us back against the
side again. The resultant of all these
forces was an Impetus which carried
us parallel to the ship's side and di-
rectly under boat 14, which had filled
rapidly" with men and was coming
Presently we heard down on us in a way that threatened
to submerge our boat.
STOKER AVERTS GREATER LOSS.
"'Stop lowering 14,' our crew-
shouted. and the crew of No. 14, now
only twenty feet above, shouted the
same But the distance to the top
was some seventy feet, and the creak-
ing pulleys must have deadened all
sound to those above, for down she
came—fifteen feet, ten feet, five Teet
and a stoker and 1 reached up and
touched her swinging nbove our hends
The next drop would have brought
her on our heads, but Just before she
dropped another stoker sprang to the
ropes with his knife
"'One,' I heard him say. two.' ns
his knife cut through the nuiley topes
and the next moment the exhaust
stream had carried us clear, while
boat 14 dropped Into the water Into
the space we had the moment before
occupied, our gunwales almost touch-
ing.
"We drifted away easily as the oars
were got out and headed directly
away from the ship The crew
seemed to me to be mostly cooks In
white Jackets, two to an oar, with
a stoker at the tiller. There was a
certain amount of shouting from one
end of the boat to the other, and dis-
cussion as to which way we should go.
but finally it was decided to elect the
stoker, who was steering, captain, and
for all to obey ills orders
SEA CALM AS A POND.
"The captain-stoker told us that he
had been at sea twenty-six years and
had never yet seen such a calm night
on the Atlantic. As we rowed away
from the Titanic we looked back from
time to time to watch her, and a more
Btriklng spectacle It was not possible
for any one to see
"In the distance she looked an enor-
mous length, her great bulk outlined
In black against the starry sky, every
port-hole and saloon blazing with
light. It was Impossible to think any-
thing could be wrong with such a
leviathan were it not for that ominous
tilt downward in the bows, where the
water was by now up to the lowest
row of portholes. Presently about 2
a. m., as near as I can remember, wo
observed her settling very rnpidly,
with the bows and the bridge com-
pletely under water, and concluded
It was now only a question of minutes
before she went; and so It proved.
end,
with the stern vertically upward, and
as she did the lights in the cabins and
saloons, which had not flickered for
moment since we left, died out,
came on again for a single flash and
finally went out altogether. At the
same time the machinery roared
down through the vessel with a rattle
and a groaning that could be heard
for miles, the weirdest, sound surely
that could be heard In the middle of
the ocean, a thousand miles away
from land. But this was not yet quite
the end.
"To our amazement she remained
In that upright position for a time,
which I estimated db five minutes;
others in the boat say less, but It
certainly was some minutes, while we
watched at least 150 feet of the Titan-
ic towering above the level of the
sea and looming back against the
sky.
"Then with a quiet slanting dive
Bhe dlsappetr-u beneath the waters,
and our eyes had looked for the last
time on the glgRntic vessel we had
set out on from Southampton last
Wednesday. And there was left to us
the gentle heaving sea. the boat filled
to standing room with men and wom-
en in every conceivable condition of
dress and undress, above the perfect
sky of brilliant stars with not a cloud
all tempered with a bitter cold that
made us all long to be one of the crew
who tolled away with the oars and
kept themselves warm thereby—a
curious, deadening bitter cold unlike
anything we had felt before
CRIES ARE UNANSWERED.
"And then, with all these there
fell on the car the most appalling
noise that human being ever listened
to the cries of hundreds of our fel-
low beings struggling in the icy cold
water, crying for help with a cry
that we knew could not be answered.
We longed to return and pick tip some
of those swimming, but this would
have meant swamping our boat and
further loss of the lives of all of us.
"We tried to sing to keep the wom-
en from hearing the cries and rowed
hard to get away from the scene of
the wreck, but I think the memory of
those sounds will be one of the
things the rescued will find it diffi-
cult to efface from memory. We are
trying hard not to think of It.
"We kept a lookout for lights and
several times it was shouted that
steamers' lights were seen, but they
turned out to be either a light from
another boat or a star low down on
the horizon. About 3 a
SUFFERED
EVERYTHING
For Fourteen Years. Restored
To Health by Ly^ia E. Pink-
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Compound.
we saw
faint lights showing on the sky and
all rejoiced to see what we expected
was the coming dawn. but after
watching for half an hour and seeing
no change In the Intensity of the
light, realized it was the northern
lights
"Presently low down on the horizon
we saw a light, which slowly resolved
Itself into a double light, and we
watched eagerly to see if the two
lights would separate and so prove
to be only two of our boats or wheth-
er they would remain together, in
which case we should expect them to
be the masthead light and a deck
light helow of a rescuing Bteamer
CHEER SIGHT OF RESCUER.
"To our Joy they moved as one and
and round we swung the boat and
headed for her The steersman
shouted: 'Now. bovs, sing,' and for
the first time the boat broke Into
song with Row for the Shore. Boys.'
and for the first time tears came to
the eyes of tis nil as we realized that
safety was at hand The son* wn
sun? hut It «as a rerv vnor 'ijiin
Hon of the real thing for m.pvf-lnv
voices make poor songs A cheer was
given next, and that was better—you
keep In tune for a checr."
Elgin, III. - * fourteen years of
suffering evei> Jiing from female com-
plaints, I am at Inst
restored to health. I
" I employed the
best doctors and
even went to the
hospital for treat-
ment and was told
there was no help for
me. But while tak-
ing Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable
Compound I began
to improve and I
continued its use until I was made well."
—Mrs. Henry Leissberg,743 Adams St
Kearneysville, W. Va. —"I feel it my
duty to write and 3ay what Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
done for me. I suffered from female
weakness and at times felt so miserable
I could hardly endure being on my feet
"After taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
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Words fail to express my thankfulness.
I recommend your medicine to all my
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MALARIA
headache, biliousness, in-
digestion, rheumatism,
pimples, blotches, yellow
complexion, etc., are all
signs of poisons in your
blood. These poisons
should be driven out, or
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To get rid of them, use
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Black-Draught)
the old, reliable, purely
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Mrs. J. H. Easier, of
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" I had sick headache, for
years. I felt bad most of
the time, 1 tried Thed-
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now 1 feel better than
when I was 16 years old."
Your druggist sells it, in
25 cent packages.
Insist on Thedford's
Make the Liver
Do its Duty
Nine times in ten when the liver la
right the stomach and bowels are right
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Carters
ITTLE
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Sick
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and Difttreii After Eating.
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