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clearer and clearer as the vessel nearcd
the scene, presently became more and
moro dim and finally passed from sight,
the folk aboard her ignorant that a
few miles away hundreds were dying
for want of the assistance they could
have rendered.
What ship il was that stood thus
near the laundering Titanic may never
be known. Several liners are known
10 have been III her neighborhood The
Leyland liner California was within
10 TO 20 miles OF her by a reckoning OF
her Captain, Capt. Lord. but the steam
ship had run into an ice field and Capt
Lord had had her engines stopped for
fear of collision with i berg.
With the engines shut down the wire
less also ceased to work so that the
Titanic's calls for help were never
heard by a liner which could have
reached her in an hour, or little more
The freight steamship Lena was an
other boat which is now known to
have passed close to the Titanic. But
she is not equipped with wireless, and
for the want OF this. slid slowly past
the sinking ship. unlinowing that the
greatest vessel of the seas was in
her death throes and that hundreds
aboard her were doomed to die.
But not all the lifcboats had pulled
water and OF those that remained
close enough. there were some whose
passengers were brave enough TO take
the risk If trying to save others. Many
man, exhausted and almost dead from
cold, was pulled into Al boat and Il share
In the few blankets and articles of
clothing which its passengers possessed
was generously offered to him. How
many were picked up in this way can
never be known. for sometimes the eX-
perience in the icy water proved to be
too much and then, while the women
turned their heads, the men in the boat
gently lowered something over the side
A co!lapsible boat, which none had
been able to get overheard from the
Titanic. but which floated off when the
big steamship sank, saved the life of
thirty men, Harold Bride. the Marcorf
operator. saw a throng around 1t just
before the Titanic sank. He was Civ
Ing them hand to push it overheard
when the final cngulfing wave swept
over the steamship. Boat and men
were picked up like chips and sent
whirling out into the water
1t was this boat on to which Col.
Archibald Oracle, young ]. T. 'Thayer,
and Second Officer Lightoller climbed.
Bride also reached 1t. The boat was
upside down and cranky. There was
danger every moment that she would
capsize. but when dawn came thirty
men had managed to Chamber on to her.
They stood knee-deep I'm icy water,
afraid to move lest they upset the craft,
freezing, benumbed, and almost sense
less. but still alive.
Others swimming in the water strove
| to board the boat. They were warned
away by those whose sole hope of
safety the boat provided. and the thirty
| that finally reached tho Carpathia will,
carry with them forever the memory
Of the uaf2rtunatss who were not per.
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whose officers had thought to put
lights aboard.
But there were shouts sometimes
from boat to boat, cheering calls that
lights were to be seen, and were
thought To be those OF the approaching
Carpathia. Each time. however. disap-
pointment followed the alarm. until
finally, about > o'clock, there actually
did appear two lights far down Oh the
horizon. Those in the boats watched
Them eagerly, straininG their eyes to be
sure whether the lights remained to-
gether or moved apart. II they scpa-
rated there would remain the chance
that they were on the Titanics lilc-
boats which had carried lights. II they
kept together il could only be the Car
pathia speeding to their aid.
Minutes passed while the lights were
watched, and then II cheer arose from
some of the watchers as they shouted,
encouragingly:
They are keeping together. It's the
Carpathia. We are saved! "
The helnsmen of the lifeboats swung
their craft around till they headed for
the lights. and then shouted encour-
agement to those at the oars:
Pull. Pull your hardest! It's the
Carpatha.
The name Carpathia was one to con-
jure with. Men and women who had
sat listless. slowly succumbing to the
intense cold and to the strain under
which they had labored, now sat up
light. alert, each one putting all his
strength into the oar.
Dawn grew nearer ana nearer 1t
was beautiful pink. the light clouds
floating just above the, horizon and a
crescent moon showing in dim silver
and apparently resting lightly on the
! horizon. The drab gray of carly morn
ing was suffuscd with the pink light.
! and slowly rctreatcd before IT, And
! then the SUN came up out of the sen,
! red ball OF fire.
In its warm rays the survivors saw
for the first time the sea In which they
had been floating through darkness
On every side was ice-ice ten feet high
near by. and to the left and to the
right, ahead and behind. at greater dis
lance away. q fleet of icebcrgs.
On them played the rays of tho sun,
turning. golden as 1t mounted hishe.
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Harris. Miss Gretchen Longly, Mrs.
Cornclia !. Andrews, j. C. Hogeboon.
DR.. and Mrs. Washington Dodge OF San
Francisco and their four-year- old child
/ and the other. Mrs. Frederick Joel
Smith and DR.. Alice Farman Leader
OF New York. among the twenty-four
passengers and sailors, sixteen of them
women.
Some OF these boats, the first ones
10 leave the ship, had pulled far away
from the Titanic. Others, however.
were near enough TO hear that terrific
sound which rose above the waves
, some seconds after the Titanic sank.
1t was n cry raised by more than
1000 voices, the voices of men and wo-
men who had jumped overheard when
the Titanic sank, or who had gone down
aboard her, and who rose for an in
slant afterward to the surface beneath
which the suction of the great ship had
I drawn them.
Ii was the most appalling noise that
human being ever listened 10, the cries
of fellow beings struggling in Icy wa
| ter. crying for help with cries which
be answered.. a wild chorus above
which rose prayers shriescd to Heaven.
despairing sobs, and crazy laughter of
those in whom the tension had merci-
fully snapped at last to leave them Wit
less, with no sense of pain or danger.
| The first waillng cry died out. and for
n few instants there was perfect quiet
1 g., hist
of women in the lifeboats. it was as
I though those who had gone down and
risen again had sacrificed all their re-
naming strength In that one appeal
for life.
| But presently from over the black
water came renewed cries and for an
hour the anguished tones rang in the
ears of those in the lifcboats. Had the
/ ifeboats put back, many doubtless
could have been picked up, though at
the risk of sinking the boat which Of
| tered them succur.
| But many of the lifeboats did not
turn back. They drifted here and there,
! their passengers working Internationally
ut the oars, for there was no place to
go more safe than where they were,
and in their ears rang the cries OF the
drowning.
! In some cases il was the men in COM
mand of the little boats who refused to
put back. sealing their cars to the calls
of the dying. doggedly determined that
the lives of those already safe should
not be endangered that chance might
| be given to others. But 1t was not al
ways the men who shrank from the
danger. In some boats it was the wo-
men. there only through the bravery of
those who now begged their aid, who
refused that aid because it meant dam
| ger to them.
Some boats there were which could
not have put back, those first ones
which, in obedience to Capt. Smiths
| order. had started pulling for a light
which glowed a moment on tho horizon
| just before the Titanic went down. It
was some steamship which might have
rescued many IL not all those who were
lost, but her light, which first grey
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mitted to board the boat. and who sank
within sight of those aboard.
Il was the men on this boat who saw
Capt. Smith die. All who afterward
reached the Carpathia We're not there
then. Some We're still swimming in the
icy water, kept afloat by the lifcbelts.
Those who had already made the boat.
however, saw Capt. Smith swimming
toward them with child held high
out Of water. With Il lifebelt to sup
port him the Captain was swimming
easily and strongly. lie reached the
boat from which hands Were stretched
out to receive him and passed the
child on board. Several hands gripped
his arms, but he broke away from those
who would have raised him out OF the
boat.
Where is Murdoch? he demanded.
Some one told him that the first Of
ficcr had gone down. Capt. Smith
showed himself away from the boat.
His fingers worked desperately at the
fastcnings of his lifebelt, and finally
he east II from him.
II Will so down with the ship" he
cried.
He sank Immediately. and although
those on the collapsible boat watched
for him to como up that they might
drag him aboard. he never appeared.
Only the lifebelt which he had discard
ed bobbed on the water few feet from
the boat.
And now there We're men all about
IL ,ft Il to-
with them, some afloat on lifebclts,
others clinging to pieces Of wreckago
each one striving to reach boat.
Quickly the collapsiblc boat filled,
until the time came when those on
board of her drove others away. In
other boats men raised oars and struck
down the frenzied swimmers who fas-
tened II weak grip on their gunwales.
In one boat Il woman ciinchcd a jew
eled fist and drove II with all the might
Of her arm into the face of Il man who
caught desperately at the side of the
boat near where she sat.
" shame" cried an elderly woman,
and she and 4 young girl caught at the
man as his grip relaxed and he was
about to drift away.
They dragged him into the boat. his
face cut and bleeding where the stones
of the womans ring had Scared it, She
sank abashcd into the bottom of the
boat.
But from other boats helping hands
were extended TO those in the water.
Two women were dragged aboard of
one. They were almost unclothed. and
though it was icy cold and many OF
those in the boat were already as wet
as the women, nevertheless men re-
moved their coats or gave over the
blankets in which they were wrapped
that the women might keep warm.
Sixteen lifeboats and four collapsible
boats were the equipment of the IT,
tanic. All the lifeboats and three of the
collapsibles got away from the ship,
one Of the former to capsize when she
struck the water. Those who got away
were widely scattered except FOR five
which Fifth Officer Lowe managed to
bring together. In the haste of leav-
tng the ship many Of the boats carried
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less than their complement of passer
gers. and Lowe found that he cou
crowd into four of the boats all the pc
sons who then filled five. He made til
transfer. and in the fifth boat picked
up dozens of others who otherwise
would have been lost Loves boats
were tied together with line, and he
kept them thus until he sighted the
Carpathia.
1t was approaching dawn when thu
Cunarder first appeared on the horizo
In the hours that had gone before sin
the Titanic foundered. hundreds h;
died, and long since that weird. wailin
cry which had dnncd at first into Ii
ears of those in the iifcboats ha
ceased. The boats now, except 70
loves, which had kept together, were
scattered over many miles OF sea.
In many there We're vacant spaces
which had been occupied when the long
ordeal of waiting for the Carpathia be-
gan. In ono boat alone eight men died
Of exposure and were cast overheard
/ From tho upturncd collapsiblc boat sew
eral mon died and rolled off into the
waves.
Those who We're still alive were be-
numbed. half frozen. some of them UNI
conscious. but that they were alive at
all was due to the wisdom of the few
often times the women who forced
| those less wise than themselves TO
labor at the oars. pulling aimlcssly
around i'll circles that they might not
move far from the scene OF the wreck.
yet pulling nevertheless with all their
strength 1t was the example of Il
single person or two in each OF the
boats which kept the others from
abandoning hope. relaxing to the ter
riblc torpor which overlook them
and sinking into the bottom of the
boats to die there of exhaustion and
exposure.
III some OF the boats the passengers
tried to keep up their courage by sing
ing. Ii was a mournful chorus. inter
rnpted again and again by the sobs Of
women who broke down and wept. In
some of the boats they tried to pray
There was no diffidcnce. In one boat
man asked simply.
Don't you think we ought to pray:"
The others accepted the suggestion
eagerly. Men and women called out
their religions. There We're Catholics
Protestants of many denominations
aboard Finally the Lords Prayer was
selected. They said it in chorus again
, and again.
Through the long hours each boat
| load of passengers and crew struggled
to keep up their spirits. buoyed by tn .
knowledge that the Carpathia was
| coming-how soon they could not tell.
but coming certainly. The blackness
of night. which was lit only by the
! myriad stars, gave way to the gray of
| coming morning.
| Over tho sea n dim light settled, nj
lowing those in many of the boats to
catch a glimpse OF the others for the
! first time since they had left the I'll
tanic. For in the lifeboats there had
been neither provisions nor water-not
! even lights. The boats had driftcd
about in tho blackness, unable to sight
one another. EXCEPT those few boats
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q or who were its occupants. SO
far as 1t has been possible 10
gather this data from the stories of
survivors, the passengers seems to have
been grouped somewhat as follows:
In boat believed to have been the
fourth to leave the port side we're
Major Arthur Peuchen. Miss f. a.
Norton OF London; Mrs. Walter Clark
OF Los Angeles; Mrs. Lucien b. Smith
OF Huntington, West Va; NIr and Mrs.
T. Cavendish of New York: Mrs. Walter
Douglas Of Minneapolis: Mr. and Mrs.
Burnham OF Denver: Mrs. Edgar j.
Meyer, Mrs. Arthur Ryerson and her
son John D. Ryerson. and seventeen
other women. There were thirty-sevcn
passengers In all, including Quarter
master Hitchins, Lookout Frederick
Fleet and four sailors
In another boat went Sir Cosmo and
Lady Duff Gordon. y. L. Saloman, Miss
Francatelli, Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Henry
Stengel Mrs. Dickinson H. Bishop OF
Detroit, with three stokers and one
Eeaman.
j. Bruce lsmay was in 4 boat with
Mrs. Mark Fortune. Miss Ethel. Alice
and Mabel Fortune. Mr. and Mrs. w.
L. Carter of Philadelphia, Mr.. and Mrs.
a. a. Dick. and Miss Marie Young.
There were two stokers in the boat and
four Cinnamon We're found when the
boat was afloat, hidden under the seat.
Mrs John Jacob Astor got away in a
boat in which were also her maid Ro-
sale Birdsle, Mrs. George Widcncr,
r
Jean Hippach and Mrs. Fair and her
child.
Col Archibald Oracle, Peter D. DAILY
OF Lima, Peru. Mrs. y. r. Compton and
daughter of Jefferson. y. H., r. NJ
Williams. Mr.. and Mrs. George Rheims
and Mr. Mellers were in another boat.
Thirty-two passengers and two mem
bers of the crew were In Il sixth boat
Among them were Mrs. Edward W. Ap-
pleton. Mrs. John Murray Brown, and
Mrs. Robert c. Cornell. wife of Magis-
trate Cornell.
Mr.. and Mrs. William T. Graham and
their daughter Margaret. with Miss T..
w. Shutcs, were among tho thirty five
passengers and two scamen to put off
In another boat.
TWO seamen and thirty passengers.
among them Fiernam Omond. Pierre
Marechal. Paul Chevre, Miss Marion
Wright. Mrs. Wright, Stuart Collet,
and Miss Buss, were the occupants of
another boat
Albert Crawford. steward, took
charge of boat in which there were
thirty-five passengers and four men,
beers of the crew. 1t was this boat In
which Mrs. Straus refused to go. But
aboard of it were Mrs. Strauss maid,
Mrs. l.. Parrish and daughter, Gilbert
NJ. Tucker, Jr., the Countess Rothcs,
and Mrs. Paul Schabert OF Danbury.
Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl II. Behr.. Mr.. and
Mrs. Engelhard c. Ostby and daugh-
ter. and Mrs. Emilia Richards were
together in another boat Two other
boats held, the one Or. Emil Taussig
and his DAUGHTER Ruth. Mrs. Henry B.
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John thompson Fireman. and Thomas Whitley
Titanic, ST. Vneent's Hospital, New York.

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, officers had thought to put
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examined them closely. If there were any marks, some one of us surely would have discovered them"
 For answer he got up leisurely and walked across to chair where the garments were still lying. He picked up the skirt and held it by the lower hem.
 Look closely at it," he commanded Do you see nothing there?"
 l scanned the dusty cloth intently and shook my head. He picked up the coat and offered it gravely for my in- spection. even turning 1t Inside out. sleeves and all.
 Well, what of 1t? 2" I exclaimed i'm patiently. 'I can't see anything there either"
 Cant you?" he asked over-pleasant- ly. That's where ] found the wom- ans name"
 Again I took up both garments and studied them, but I was positive that there was no name of any sort or any thing to indicate a name. I felt that he must be simply testing with me.
 You can't fool me-" exclaimed T would wager you thousand dollars to five hundred that coat and skirt do not differ any In the slightest from
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(Continued from last week.
CHAPTER VIII.
A New Clue.

A NeW Clue.
 "So, Davis," l concluded, you see that every new clue points to Hugh Crandall"
 The post office inspector sniffed.
 What have they done with the dead weman's clothes?" he asked q want to see them at once"
 had been anxiously awaiting Davis arrival, not without some little feeling Of triumph. to tell to him the startling developments in the mystery since had left him hardly more than twenty four hours before at the ferry. I was at the station awaiting him, and led him at once to the little hotel. The noise of his coming had been bruited about by the village gossips, and as his fame had penetrated even to the obscure Jersey village, there was a curious crowd gathered at the station. Some of them even followed us as far as the hotel lobby, pressing so close that private conversation was
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COMMISSIONERS SALE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in pursuance of the authority and directions contained in the de- cretal order of the Chaneery Court Of Washington County, made and entered on the 2tst day of August. 4. D. 1912 in a certain cause tNo S44D then pending therein between J. S Ewalt complainant, and John Il. Holly. Alice Holly, Fred Perkins and C. & Perkins defendants, the undersigned as Commissioner of said court. will offer for sale at public vendue to the highest bidder, at the West door or entrance of the County Courthouse, in which said Court is held. In the County Of Washington within the hours pre- seribed by law for judicial sales. on Friday the 11th day of October A. D. 1912. the following describ- ed real estate, to-wit: The South West quarter of the North West quarter of Section Twenty nine e291 In Township Seventeen t1I) North, Range Thirty (30) West, containing forty acres more or less. in Washington County, Arkansas.
 TERMS OF SALE: On a credit of three months. the purchaser be- ing required to execute a bond as required by law and the order and decree of said Court in said cause. with approved security, bearing in- terest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum from date of sale until paid. and lien being retained on the premises sold to secure the payment of the purchase money.
 Given under my hand this 12th day of September, A. D. 1912.
 NJ. F. Croxdale,
 Commissioner in Chancery
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Copy right 1911, The Bobbs Merrill Co.
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at once," he said, "and tell him te bring with him the garments worn b, the woman who killed herself"
 If had sent Mahlon Williams such an order am positive he would have paid no attention to 1t, but Davis was obeyed. So quickly that it almost seemed as if Williams had been listen, ing outside the door the landlord ap- peared carrying the black coat and skirt the woman had worn. Perhaps it was something in Davis authorita. tive manner, perhaps it was due to re- spect for his position, but at any rate Williams brought the clothes at once
 There's no use in your looking those over," said They were care fully examined today, and there is not a mark on them. The only clue is the letter 'S' on two black-bordered hand kerchiefs and return ticket to Bridgeport. She signed her name as Mary Jane Teller, but there is none of the Bridgeport Teilers who an- swers her description. nor are Gny of
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Commissioner in Chancery

Whats that?" l cried, not believ- ing my ears.
 If you love me"-she was speaking slowly and enunciating with labored distinctness that there might be no mistake-"you will drop all investi- gation at once without any questions. Do you hear me? Repeat what I have said so I can be sure you under stand"
 Word for word l repeated her mes- sage, amazed beyond thought at its import. As finished repeating 1t. cried, Why. tell ne why" but heard the thud of the broken con nection.
 Frantically I called central. plead ed urged. demanded that she get the person at the other end of the wire again. It was no use. called fer the Far.ishs' number. Central report ed Don't answer" I said that had been called just now from there After weary. impatient minutes of waiting and wrangling. she told me the call had come from another num- Der, from pay station. I demanded that number at once and finally she got il for me. It was drugstore near the Parrish home The druggists clerk said that the young lady who had been telephoning had left the store. tried to get him to send a messenger around to the Farrishs' to ask Miss Louise Parrish tc come to the telephone. He refused. It was useless. l was forced to give 1t up.
 l emerged from the telephone booth perspiring. frantic. puzzled beyond measure at the sudden and startling turn in affairs.
 What could have induced Louise to send me such a message? What could have happened?
 (To be continued
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Avoid Sedatiye Cough Medicines.

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J. c. Ray. Winfield. Ala, says: My father, r I suffered with kid hey and bladder trouble so bad he had to use a catheter Various kid ney remedies were tried without result, and finally We gave him Foley Kidney Pills In three days he could pass some water and on the fifth. no longer need a cathe- ter. He continued to use Foley Kidney Pills until entirely cured " " C. OWnbey
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It has just about gotten so in this country that woman can al ways tell when she is getting stout by the hard time she has in getting her skirt on without a shoe horn.
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T suffered habitually from con stipation. Doan's Regulets relieved and strengthened the bowels so that they have been regular ever since "-E Davis. Grocer, Sulphur Springs, Texas.
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As a general thing. the reason a bride promises to love, honor and obey the man at her side is be cause she doesn't know him very 4-oI
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An apostle of painless dentistry now accompanies his bill with an anesthetic.