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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-04-26
INQUIRY IS STARTED
MANAGING DIRECTOR lSMAY
FACES UNITED STATES
SENATE.
ANSWERS SEEM VERY tyASWi
did Not See What Was Going On
Some Of Senator Smiths Questions
Caused the Titanic Survivor to APP
pear a Little Nervous.

New York, April 2O.-The story Of
how the Titanic met its fate was told
to the United States Senate inyesti-
eating committee into the Titanic dis
aster by j. Bruce lsmay, managing
director Of The White Star line.
The details of the story were drawn
out by Senator William Alden Smith,
chairman of the special subcommittee
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New York, April 2O.-With all it's
tragic details, the complete story Of
the Titanic disaster, the worlds great
est sea horror, was told here by the
survivors, who arrived on the Carpa-
thia, OF the Cunard line. After strik-
ing an iceberg that lowered $50 feet
above the water line, the Titanic sank
slowly.
AS the thrush of icy water reached
the engine rooms, the boilers ex-
ploded, sending up showers of live
flame, sparks and smoke that caused
the four great tunnels of the ship to
resemble craters of active volcanoes.
1t is believed that the explosion broke
the ships back, for she sank at once
in water two miles deep. She carried
down with her leading men of Ameri-
ca and England,
Here is the real story of the sink
ing of the Titanic, which at 1875
o'clock Sunday night, struck an ice
berg and went to the bottom exactly
two hours and twenty-five minutes
later, or at 2;2O O'Clock Monday
morning.
The blow, which was a glancing one,
did not cause much of a jar and there
was not a soul on board who knew
that any serious accident had hap
pened at all until later. The liner
struck the berg on the starboard side
amidships,
Only Captain Smith, the command
er, realized that there might be grave
danger and even he did not regard
the collision as fatal. Going to the
wireless cabin, where Operator Phil
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SURVIVORS ON LAND
THE cUNARDER cARPATHlA Fl.
NALLY REACHES PIER AT
NEW YORK.
MET BY HYSTtRICAL RELATIVES
Women From First Cabin Rushed
Away by Limousines-Their Less
Forenate Sisters Cared for by Port
GOO Raised for Relief.

New York, April 20.-The Cunarder
Carpathia, laden with sorrow for a
world, crept to her pier in the North
river and discharged to the hys ericai
embraces of hundreds of h2'f.craaed
blends and relatives, 745 survivors
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MRS, GEORGE WlDENER'S STORY

In describing her experience in the
sinking of the Titanic, Mrs. George D..
Widener, whose husband, a well
known inancier of Philadelphia, and
their o were drowned, said she saw
Captain Smith jump from the bridge
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REVISED LIST OF THE LOST.

New York.-The total saved from
the Titanic was officially placed at
7o5 by w. W.. Jeffries, general pas
senger agent of the White Star Line.
The latest revised list Of survivors,
heretofore, accounted for 745 persons.
If the report of Captain Rostron is
accepted as final, the total number Of
dead is Increased to 1888.
It is admitted that the exact num-
Der Of dead may never be known. i.
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of the $4,000, GOO Titanic, which wen,
to the bottom Of the Atlantic ocean on
Monday morning.
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$4,000 Lined the Shore.

Monday morning.
$4,000 Lined the Shore.
The expressions of human emotion
from $4,000 people on shore and from
those racked souls who lined the ships
rail reached far beyond the limits Of
written or spoken description. The
closing chapter Of the greatest of all
sea tragedies was enacted amidst the
most stupendous and overwhelming
sorrow. Joy at seeing again loved
kin or dear friends was alleged by
grief for the fate of one equally close
who persisted.
The search lights of twenty boats
placed the scene in a lurid spotlight.
Women who had been first cabin pas
sengers On the Titanic stumbled down
the gangplank and were rushed to
waiting limousines or taxicabs and
hurried to mansions or hotels; men
and women Of the steerage were re-
eeived by customs officials and en-
trusted to the care of physicians and
nurses and members Of the stock ex
change, who carried in their hands
$4,000 for the immediate relief Of the
needy.
Eyewitnesses told of a brave death
in the sea that had been his life, of
Captain Smith. Mrs. John Jacob AS
tor came haltingly down the gang
plank and vas rushed away to the
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upon the berg. He was the first one
Informed by Captain Smith. Ismay
rushed to the deck to look at the
berg.
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lips was III conversation with Cape
Race on traffic matters, he gave Or
ders to the wireless operator to hold
himself In readiness to fash out a
distress signal.
At the time there was a great
throng in the main salon where the
ships orchestra was giving a concert.
Despite the bitterly cold weather some
o. the passengers were taking advan.
tage Of the bright moonlight 20 stroll
upon the decks. Survivors who were
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charged with the examination of wit
nesses, and Senator Newlands, the 9th
er senator who came to New York to
conduct the inquiry.
Mr.. Ismay was accompanied by p. A.
S. Franklin, vice-president, and Elmer.
son E, Paryin, secretary of the Inter
national Mercantile Marine. Besides
the committee, Representative Hughes
of West Virginia, whose daughter,
Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, was saved ard
whose sonin-law was lost. was pres.
ent.
After Ismay had been sworn by
Chairman Smith, he was questioned
at length.
Bruce Ismay, managing director Of
the White Star line, on the stand be-
fore the Senate investigating com
mittee:
Il saw no passengers in sight when
I entered the lifeboat."
Il did not see what happened to
the lifeboats,"
81 did not look to see after leaving
the Titanic whether she broke in
two"
81 did not look to, see if there was
a panic"
after I left the bridge l did not
see the captain"
81 saw nothing Of any explosion"
81 saw no struggle, no confusion"
81 did not recognize any passen-
gers on the Titanic as she sank"
Il saw no women waiting when I
entered the lifeboat."
Evening star., 1912-09-29
BECOMING A FAN AT SIXTY
Continued from page 9

COH!"'NeU Jfc" P0Se ,
surprised and delighted that for minute
he was speechleSs.
"A sweater!" he finally managed to say.
"The one thing I've wanted all my life! Ma,
YOU know more about ball players than Pa
will ever know.
The old lady beamed with JOY at having
made him SO happy. Without waiting for
supper to be over, the boy jumped up and
pulled the bright-colored sweater over his
head. Notwithstanding the hot weather, he
insisted on wearing it while he ate. We went
to bed that night happy household.
THE next morning l rose early. and was
having the horse hitched up when Addie
noticed my activities.
"Where are you going?' she inquired.
"You know it's Sunday"
"Yes, know replied; "but there is no
preaching today, and l was just thinking I
had to see Jim Stone for a few minutes |
guess I'll drive down to town. Just then
the boy came up want to go along, Son.
| asked.
OF course he wanted to go, and when
breakfast was over he put on that striped
sweater and we set out.
"Try and come back early pleaded my
wife. ave are going to have big dinner,
and I'd like to know what they are talking
about downtown"
We must have looked a picture as we
drove down that road,-a white-haired old
man and a sunburnt youth in red and
black sweater. Just at that minute l don't
know which of us was prouder of the atten-
ton attracted by that sweater.
1t would be hard for me to tell the things
that were discussed downtown that day;
but do know that we held regular recep-
ton, and when l finally started back home
| recalled that in a moment of enthusiasm
had promised to let Pat play baseball every
Saturday.
To be concluded next Sunday
Evening star., 1912-09-29

in Georgia The only place know of in the
United States where man with one single
act can commit two distinct crimes in two
separate Jurisdictions, is out in the middle
of the Mississippi River. But Hopkins has
committed, if not a crime, at least mis-
demeanor, in the State of Alabama.
"What is that?" asked the Governor
eagerly. .o
they left the road and climbed little way
up the hillside 1t was from here that Hop
kins fired across the raHey. He must neces-
sarily, therefore, have fired across the road
that lay at the bottom of the valley"
"Well?" said the Governor.
ALLOW me- said the Attorney General,
"to read you section 5354 of Article 8 of
Chapter 1872 of the Revised Statutes of Ala
bama:
ANY person who discharges a gun any
other kind of firearms [siel along across any
public road, must. on conviction, be fined not
less than ten. nor more than fifty dollars.
"This," continued the Attorney General,
"is, so far as | can discover, the only penalty
that the State of Alabama has the power to
inf1ict upon anv deliberate murderer who
takes the precaution to commit his crime
in the same circumstances that Hopkins
chose for his. The fact of the business is
that our State Legislatures have been so busy
guarding against playing cards beside the
public highway on Sunday, and fixing the
length of bed sheets to be used in hotels,
that they haven't been able to find time to
make proper statutory provision for the ex-
tradition of important criminals"
"Well,' said the Governor, II hope the
Justice of the Peace fines Hopkins the limit. >
When they took him out of jail and led
him before the magistrate and fined him
fifty dollars for shooting across a public
road Hopkins was disposed to be indignant.
But when they told him that this was the
limit of their punitive powers and turned
him loose, Hopkins laughed. He was even.
But of course he has to stay in Alabama.
Evening star., 1912-09-29
A LONG TINE FOR A SEAT

SEVENTEEN years without a seat. al
~ though riding on streetcar twice day
during the entire time! That is record of a
clerk in the War Department at Washington
according to Professor L. O. Howard, chief
entomologist of the Department of Agri-
culture. This particular clerk is lame and
cannot walk to his employment. He must
and again in the evening. He always finds
the car overcrowded at both times, and
therefore during the seventeen years he has
had no seat.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30
Marital Differences Should
Be Settled on Business Basis

"Bosh!" was Mrs. Hookes brisk an
swer. ct is the easiest thing in the
world to make ones marriage happy
one, and a man is the easiest thing in
the world to manage. All one has to
do is to bring it down to the basis of
business proposition"
"You are not advocating the I'M
American idea of marriage for money!
implored.
81 promise you not to do that, for !
don't believe in it. But the difficulties
that come up in marriage can be set
tied as they are in business partner
ship. If two business partners dis
agree about something they don't think
at once of business dissolution. They
argue the matter out earnestly, but
not extensively, and reach bed rock
of understanding on the essential
points That is what the reasonable
wife does"
Are not most wives reasonable?"
inquired.
Far from it. Seventy-tive per cent
of all the unhappy marriages are made
unhappy by the wives. Three-fourthS
of the separations and divorces could
be prevented If the women did their
share in the business partnership, but
usually they want to be the whole
thing"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30
(By Ada Patterson.)

"Seventy-five per cent. of all unhap-
DIV marriages are unhappy through the
wife's fault"
Mrs. Edward w. Hooke, by twenty
four years of uninterrupted marriage
has established her right to one of the
proudest degrees of womanhood-H. W
(happy wife). Meeting her at clubs,
at teas, at matinees, in the gymnasium,
in any of the scores of places where
smart women congregate, one hears
first that she is young woman of &C.
tive mind, with marked executive abil-
ity, shown by her capable performance
of the duties of the president of the
International Pure Milk league. But
while one woman is admiring her trig
tailored suit and another observes that
she has travelled so much and lived in
so many of the large cities of the coan-
try that she is what the politicians call
"a good mixer one who knows her is
sure to say: "She is really the best
wife ever knew. She thinks 1t is
easy to get along with ones husband.
Mrs. Hooke whisked into tearoon
for breathing space on a busy day, and
I asked her there if she agreed with
the modern trend of thought that mar
rage is a hard job which the far
sighted woman declines to undertake.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30
SAFER THAN CALOMEL.
DOdsOn's Liver-TOne at Night VIII
Suaighten You Out by Morning.
CalOmeI May Knock You Ont
of Days Work.

If you are calomel user, next time
you are tempted to buy it ask your
druggist if he can absolutely guar
antee the drug not to harm you. He
won't do it because he can't do It
But here is perfect substitute for
calomel, which the druggist does guar
antee-the famous Dodson's Liver
Tone. The Howell-Prather Pharmacy
will refund your money without ques-
ton if you are not thoroughly salts
fed.
Go to the Howell-Prather Pharmacy
who you are acquainted with-and
find out about the great number of
people and feeling better, keener,
healthier and better able to enjoy life
than they ever were when taking calO-
mel.
Why? Because calomel is a poison
--one that may stay in the system,
and while seeming to benefit you ten
rorariiy. may do harm in the end.
/. you haven't felt these ill-effects
so far, it is because you are fortunate
enough to have a strong constitution.
Don't take the risk any longer. Get
a bottle of Dodson's Liver-Tone (50c)
and note how easily and naturally it
corrects all bilious conditions, how 1t
clears away that sick headache and
coated tongue, how it sets you right
without ache or grippe. The most Won
derful thing in the world for consti-
patton
All this without the slightest inter
ference with your regular habits.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30
SMITHVILLE
Especial to Times-Recorder.)

especial 10 1lleS-ttSGoIu0IJ
Smithville, Ca, Nov. 2S.Mrs. James
Salter has returned from a short visit
to relatives in Albany.
Mr.. T. S. Davis, of Oakfeld, was a
guest for the weekend of Mrs. B.
Mckinney.
Mrs. T. r. McMichael, of Reynolds,
is the guest for few weeks of her
daughter, Mrs. e. M. McAfee.
Mrs. O. L. Evans and little daughter,
Lille, of Cedartown, are the guests
for week of Misses Lizzie and Elma
Evans.
Misses Edith Mckinney and Ethel
McManus are spending the Thanksgiv-
ing holidays with Mrs. Julian Forces
ter in Leesburg.
Mrs. Malcomb Snellgrove and little
son, of Cuthbert, are spending week
with relatives here.
Miss Pearl Hale has returned from
Leary, where she was the guest for a
few days of Miss Lucy Pipkin.
MIR. and Mrs. Fort McAfee and Mrs.
Perry Lipe and little daughter, Chloe,
of Americas, were guests of relatives
here Sunday.
Miss Shook and Mr.. C. X. Hender-
son, of Albany, were visitors here
Wednesday, the guests of Miss Mary
Ansley.
Mr.. B. /. Mckinney and two little
daughters, Helen and Annette, are
spending the Thanksgiving holidays
with Mr.. and Mrs. T. s. Davis, in Oak
field.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30
Washington Camp No. "a.

Washington Camp No. "a.
Washington Camp, No. "a, +. o. q
4 A.. meets every Monday night In
K OF P. Hall at o'clock. Visiting
brothers cordially invited to attend.
C. j. CLARKE. President.
@. l. McMATH. Secretary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30
old At 40
Some Younger at S. Than Others Arc
At 40 Years.

/ So many people whom you meet
about the time they reach 40 begin
by saying II can't do this, and | can't
do that because I'm getting old now,
they begin to act old, feel old, and
they are oldest in appearance than
many who are much more advanced
in years.
When you begin to feel old, when
your energy begins to fail build
yourself up with our delicious cod
liver and iron tonic, Vinol II is 4
wonderful blood maker and strength
ener
Mr. J. n. Kelley, aged IS who lives
at Lake Charles, La, says: Il took
Vinol for rundown condition, it
not only built up my strength, but /
feel fifteen years younger than |
did before taking A."
Thousands Of old people have found
IN Vlnol just the medicine they neol
to build up the feeble, weakened sys-
tenn and create strength II 4 falls,
We return your money Murray N
Hooks Pharmacy AmerieuA Ca
lAdytl
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30
men OF SOUTH
UNJUST TO WOMEN
Miss Helen Gray Gives Start.
ling Lectures

New Orleans, La, Nov. 29.-Declar-
ing that Southern men are eating up
their women because when men be-
come deaf, dumb and blind to their
peoples interests, they are eating their
women, Miss Helen Gray gave a most
startling outline of her views on poll
tics ard eot homics In Louisiana. The
lecture was delivered at Newcomb col
legt and at the outset the speaker,
who is a student of the British School
of Political Economy, declared that
to discus political economy, one
must needs put away all tenderfoot
language, since no doctor can think
of politeness when he is in the depths
of diagnosis.
When the men fail in their duty to
their state, when they show indiffer-
ence to the public veal, when they are
wanting in that spirit of pugnacity and
combativeness which urges heroes to
defend the rights and liberties of those
weaker than themselves physically,
and when they become deaf and dumb
and blind to their peoples interests,
they are eating their women"
Il would rather be Ill in New York
city or Canada than in Louisiana and
some other Southern states. My doc
tors bills would only be one-sixth as
much, and my other bills considered
accordingly. There is more kindness
among professional men in New York
towards working women than in New
Orleans. The New Yorker lives In a
community of vast wealth which draws
tribute from many states. 1t is a spe-
cial privileged state. Other states of
the union unwatchful of their rights,
have allowed it the privilege of be-
coming special privileged state.
Louisiana is tribute-paying state
and its drained of it's currency. Its
men accept injustice complaeently; its
women are the sufferers. The fercer
the struggle for existence the less kind
a people must be the less considera
ton Is there towards women.
The South is not getting on in the
world as it should. yet the South
yields annually $1,000, 900, 900 from its
farms, $3.50, 100000 from its mines, and
it is leader in exports. Why cannot
we have more of the good things OF
life?
Grants treaty Of peace with Lee
was noble one, but 1t was not kept;
another strain of blood, that which
flowed in the veins Of Blaine, Butler
and Stevens, was in the ascendant. So
cially no kinder people ever lived than
the Northern people, but politically
the trade instinct is that business"
rules. Spain herself has never exer-
cised more despotic rule over a people
than the North over the South.
"The Southern country is a land OF
resources, but her great
coal fields and gold fields and phos-
phate mines and sulphur mines and
marble quarries, her oil fields and
forests will soon nominally
anly belong to the Southy. They are
passing rapidly into the hands of the
Northern capitalists"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30
$50 STOCKINGS FOR BRIDE
Made Of Finest SIN Weave, Inset With
Lace and Pearls.

Washington. y. c., Nov 20 Miss
Laura Merriam who was married 20
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
James Curtis. wore $50 pair Of white
silk stockings given her by Mr. and
MIS- Joseph Letter The stockings
were OF the finest silk weave and are
Inset with point lace and embroidered
n rhineatanes and pearls.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30

America is teaching Europe how to
dress its windows. Europe Is teach
ing America how to dress its girls in
skinny clothing, which is most I'M
grateful.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30

DO you think a woman should get Il
4 mans wagesY asked the deliver Into
aoc problems. MY wife gets mine
repl b Henpeok. sadly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30

No, Maude, dear; stationary engines
are not strictly confined to paper
mills.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILWAY.
Current Schedules Corrected to Date
Trains Arrive.

Trains Arrive. I,
from Savannah, Augusta,
Atlanta and Macon 49, 1880 p 10
From Columbus and in
termediate points ......+l }:45 y N
from LocElart, Dothan,
Albany, Troy and Mont
gOmeTy ..........ss' 'F1VIOO "
grcm Lockhart, Dothan
Albany, Troy and Mont
gomery ..........s..... 1:OO p N
from Atlanta and Macon - ELS p m
from Augusta, Savannah.
Atlanta and Macon 49, $3.50 N
From Columbus and in
termediate points ......! 7:10 p IN
From Columbus and n
termediate points ......s1O:0O q M
From Albany and jack
SOnVllle .............s. osOO II
From Albany ...........s $40 m
Trains Depart.
For Macon, Augusta and
Savannah ............~ b.4U I'd
For Albany, Dothan,
Lockhart, Troy and
Montgomery ...........S $50 u
For Albany, Dothan,
Lockhart, Troy and
Montgomery ..........s 2:15 p N
For Macon and Atlanta - 2:05 p m
For Macon, Atlanta, Saw
annah and Augusta. "r0:35 p IN
For Columbus ..........* 3:45 p M
For Columbus ...........! $500 a m
For Columbus Birming-
ham and Chicago ......' 1855 q m
For Albany ..............* 1880 p IN
For Albany ard Jackson Il
"Daily. Except Sunday.
Sleeping cars between Americas and
Atlanta on trains leaving Americus
1926 p. M, arriving Americus $3.50
a. m. Connects at Macon with sleepr
ing cars to and from Savannah.
Pullman sleeping cars between Chir
cago, St. Louis and Jacksonville on
Seminole Limited" which leaves
Americas for Jacksonville at 11:4R
D. m. Leaves Americas for st. Louis
and Chicago, via Columbus and Birt
at 1855 a. m. sst
For further information apply to II
B. ELS. Ticket Agent, Americas. OF
John W. Blount, District Passenger
Agent. Macon. Ga. I'll
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-11-28
Where the FurS Come From.

In rbn Ior., ,it;o, sc tLo ,,,o,,Il
rotiooob,v pac;s a,d Ta,,Io, vaiI
Iiono Sc .,hrit .L.,,o a.l I',.,,oI
ond troo.oa o,,a hn,,,,o Co.,, a.,',n,t
omt fnon, ,hoao -,a,,,,s,a.,,.; 49,. ool'
tona 80 ust,, ,.,.', a,,J ',.' N
o,ar tha y,,,,I T. do,.a',, f. go
ono,s fooIint IS nrida IN - hn,,a'aD,l
f,,r ,,or,,,o,'t 80 L,a,,. $780, ar,D. .ro
fmrrior ahan,;a, .a I,,a. 49,. ', Wv
,,ith tho ,.,Lt;, ,,,;,, e. a,,..I,o "s,.I
shin" - o,orI,n .,,,,... ~ ~,,,;,I,"
. "S;herian g,rirro,", @,,,,.ta,"
haavar" ,r .,y nt,.c r,,hionahI,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-11-28
Vast Coal Reserve.

The known coal fields of the
United States embrace a total area,
according to the United States Geo.
logical Survey, of 310,296 square
miles, to which may be added some
thing over 10000 square miles Of
which little is known. but which
may contain workable Goals, and
about $4,000 square miles where
the coal hes under heavy cover and
is not considered available under
present conditions. The supply of
coal before mining began is estimat-
ed to have been 3076,204,000,000
short tons, of which l,922,979,000,.
600 tons were considered to be east
ly accessible and 1,1S3,225,000,000
short tons to be either so deep or
the beds so thin that they are ac-
cessibe only with difficulty. Clas-
sified according to the character of
the coal, the original supply con-
sisted of 21,O00,000000 short tons
of anthracite, 1851, 457, 100000 tons
of bituminous coal, $50, 157, 600, 600
tons of subbituminous coal, and
743,59O,OOO,OO0 tons of Ignite. the
supply of bituminous coal being
something more than what that of
all other grades combined.
The total production of coal to
the close of 1911 has amounted to