»rHE TEESDALE MERCURY—WEDNESDAY* APRIL 24, 1912

( THE PARLOCTI of our PALACE is represented! of carelessness. "The vessel," he said, "was WIRELESS OPERATOR'S STORY. "What did you dor I obeved the [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] order." by the characteristics of the Peacemaker. It speeding at 22 knots an hour when she struck Mr. , the surviving wireless 0 AWFUL IRAGEDY. "How were the passengers selected to fill implies a certain resistance and victory in the iceberg which sent her to the bottom, and operator of the , says he was relieving the boats?"—"By sex." respect to our own affairs, furnishing us the caused untold misery to hundreds. The impact Phillips, the chief operator, when Captain BIBLE STUDIES "Who determined who should go?"—"I opportunitiy to help others. "Bleased are when the Titanic hit the ice was terrific, great Smith came into the cabin and said:— CONDUCTED BT the peacemakers, for they shall hie called ice-blocks weighing many tons were thrown on did." "We have struck an iceberg. You had better the children of God." IITANIC'S FATE. — STORIES the deck, coming down in a perfect shower and! "How?"—"Whenever I saw a woman I :STION^ get ready to send out a call for assistance. PASTOR RUSSELL. killing a number of people. The bow was put. her in, except the stewardesses; I THE KITCHEN of our PALACE represents Brf thp ills to which we ar* • » But don't send it uutil I tell you." turned those back." the trials and difficulties :nc-d*iital to the "EGET* OLE PUftlPv.^ OF THE SURVIVORS. torn asunder, water pouring in like a Niagara, i to action. H.«iWh<> ft J the stern rose in the air, and in an instant The captain came back again ten minutes "Did any families go?"-—"No. Numerous THE PALACE OF BLESSEDNESS rounding out of our characters as a whole inonVr". and Skin Comply'?* perfect pandemonium reigned throughout the later, and said: "Send the call out." women would not go." and oar proper nourishment and upbuilding 'ritually, "Blessed are ye when men S PURIFYING PILIC ship. People ran shrieking from below and "What shall I send?" asked Phillips. 11 rcvilje you and say all manner of evil ITILL ".ITT8T AS OOOt.. jAND PLAYS AS SHIP SINKS clustered on the deck where the boats were "The regulation international call for help. The Lesson: Matthew y. 1-13. r 1 Ch'-mists. swung from the davits. Women and children against yau falsely, for mv name's sake; re­ Just that," was the reply, and Phillips then MEMORIAL SERVICES. •ue-nnirt, Fleet-st,, Lon \ joice and be exceeding glad, for great is nn rushed for the lifeboats and hundreds of men began to send the signal, joking While d«,iug Text:—"Blessed are the pure in heart, for joined in the scramble. Tho sailors, however, your reward in heaven." (HERBS AND HOW TO l-al „ NEARER. MY GOD, TO THEE." so. they shall see God."—Verse 8. P for ooe.-TKIMNKU, «R kept their heads, and I am happy to pay a MR. HALL CAINE'S HYMN. "We all made light of the disaster," says Of the Great Teacher we read, "He spake , Caiuitf Established ls-i. tribute to British seamanship in this respect. Mr. Bride, "and it'was some time before we They tore husbands, brothers, and fathers from In places of worship throughout the coun­ as never man spake." As the Man Christ ,ltl.r manv days of weary waiting the truth . realised its seriousness. Phillips was a brave try on Sunday pulpit references were made Jesus, he was not a fallen man, not a kraral-y's Oriitinal AwjiriL^} At the disaster to the Titanic, that supreme the shrieking women and hurled into the boats man. and I shall never forget his work during ROTHSCHILD SHOOTING CASE to the disaster, and the services were largely j sinner. His life was transferred from a 1 ui Merit 4t the Ta^maniA.-, % dv of the sea, has been told at last. It j hysterical women who clung to their men and the last awful fifteen minutes. I strapped a IS'l. 1"<> Yeirs' reputation of a memorial character. The Dead March heavenly to an earthly condition; hence, as !**. *tory that cannot be read without a feci- with difficulty could be separated from them." lifebelt on him while he worked. B#Aicpnt <\C.P.), 42, Waterloo ! ,iifDings out there in the darkness, when below, leaning over Phillips, and trying to slip B churches as during the singing of the hymns j received his anointing of the Holy Spirit— Rothschild and Charles Berg, a plain-clothes, ad. S.E. . (rreatest and proudest ship that ever red* off his lifebelt. I did my duty, and I hope I AGED COUPLE DIE TOGETHER. or the rendering of the l>ead March men ] this was the Power of the Highest. Need constable, vith a revolver, was committed for R litun went crashing upon her doom, and finished him. I left him lying on the floor of and women broke down in grief fot lost | wc wonder, then, when we read that he trial at the Mansion House (London), ou *jt.d with her to the bottom of the Atlantic Mr. Thornton, who was in tilt first cabin, the wireless cabin, and Phillips ran aft. That BAGATELLE TABLES. relatives and friends found expression in taught as one having authority—as one who Friday. TSecond-hand TnM<* til fSctea* freight of some 1.600 souls. told the "Chronicle" correspondent how Ml-. was the last I saw of him. 0 tears. The collections were in many in­ I knew, who understood clearly and positively, Berg, who was wounded, was able to give 1 and Dining Table*. Write fo». PjLvri before, in all the tragic history of Isidore Straus, the New York millionaire, and "I saw a collapsible boat on the deck and a stances devoted to the Mansion House Re­ the things which he presented? evidence. He said that on March 4th he saw adK'L.N.F, Tfl.: 47 >0< t-ntruL ,1 ^-a. has there been an event so awful, so his wife met their fate together. number of men trying to push it out. I went the prisoner walking up and down St. Swithin's- Birring, as this. The horror of that time " Mr. Thornton said, "The aged couple stood lief Fund. The eight Beatitudes illustrate the diffe­ •upTit alive wholpsale. Koy»» to help them, when a big wave swept it off lane an hour before the shooting. Later he waa . the darkness, the sudden shock of the col- arm in arm on the deck of the first cabin, The following hymn, written by Mr. Hall rence between the teachings of Jesus and , C. Wyatt, Newport. Mon. carrying me with it. The Iwat was overturned, at the entrlauce to New Court (where Messrs. If.iou, the rush of water into the bows, the very peaceful and calm amidst all the uproar Caine, was sung by a crowded congregation other teachings. His message is different and I was underneath it, but I managed to get Rothschilds' offices are), keeping people back Ef/1. *JS days onlv. Al-*> T nnlojL Tjtliiig down of the mighty ship, the realisa- and strife of the struggling hundreds at the at the City Temple: from all other messages to this day. While clear. I saw men all round—hundreds of them in order to enable Mr. Rothschild » motor-car f Rubber (Jooda, accemoi £L that she must sink, the rush for the boats. boats. Old Mr. Strauss was tenderly reassur­ other teachers instructed the people to hold —depending on lifebelts. Lord of the everlasting hills, to leave, lie heard a shot. Turning he saw ^lanufartiir>r.WolT*Tbainpton I^r agonised parting from dear ones—these ing his partner of years, and neither made any np their heads, to remember noble an­ patnl linnnMliJitcIy. whole «T ,.,,.„ "I swam with all my might, and I suppose I God of the boundless j,sea. the prisoner firing at the front of the car. II!, things that the women and children saved attempt to reach the lifeboats. His aged help­ cestors, etc., Jesus encouraged his hearers to was 150 feet away when the Titanic, with her Help us through all the shocks of fate, Witness saw the flash of the pistol and ran EL the will remember mate looked up into his face, and out of all realise that the poor in spirit, the humble- after quarter Sticking straight up, began to To keep our faith in Thee. across to catch hold of the man. "He backed Kyng as they live. the misery that that great ship contained, the minded, would receive the greatest blessings. settle. After a time I managed to board the three or four steps from me, held up his hand, sweetness of the sight of the two standing side When Nature's unrelenting arm While other teachers hold forth the rich, the collapsible boat. The sight all round was ter­ and fired point-blank into my face. I fell down •WOMEN AND CHILDREN' FIRST." by side while death came was the sweetest Sweeps us like withes away, gTeat, the learned, the mighty, the influen­ rible-. and felt some numbing pain in the left side of picture I ever saw. Sailors of the Titanic Maker of Men, be Thou our strength tial amongst men as the patterns to be '.ere were heartrending scenes on board. "Men were swimming and men were sinking. copied, if happiness would be attained, my face. 1 there are dark stories of one or two pas- rushed up to them and tried to drag them All of us in the collapsible boat recited the And our eternal sway. apart. They sought to wrench the woman from Jesus, in these Beatitudes, sets forth the Counsel mentioned that the first thing Berg »ers who, in a frenzy of fear, attempted to Lord's PjraVer. After a time we were taken on When blind, insensate, heartless Force reverse. His prescriptions for happiness asked was Whether Mr. Rothschild was injured, Le their way to the boats in defiance of the her husband and put her in one of the boats. board lrtttoats, although they were already She refused and would not let go of her hus­ Puts out our passing breath. have indeed been followed by a few; these and when fold that he was uot, he replied. Cendid British tradition, "Women and chil- full. When I was dragged on board the Car­ Make us to see Thy" guiding Light alone appreciate their value and find the "Thank God!" tti first." But the officers and crew of the band, and finally the sailors gave up their task pathia I went into hospital, and stayed there and rushed to Kelp others. As the lifeboats In darkness and in,death. blessings promised, both for the present Dr. Archfer said that Berg had a bullet Jfitanic behaved like heroes, and their efforts for ten Tiours. life and that which is to come. wound in the left side of his face, and the Ifrre grandly seconded by the bulk of the drew away I could see the pair together still "Then somebody said the Carpathia's wire­ Beneath the roll of soundless waves arm in arm, Strauss bending towards the bullet was located in the right side of his neck. •..jengers. It was not until all the women less operator was getting queer from pressure Our best and bravest lie; GRACE BETTER THAN LAW. Prisoner read a statement, in which he said: partner of his declining years, giving her a of work, and asked if I could help. Give us to feel their spirits live I'm! children who wished to go had been got The contrast between the ten command­ "I have reason to l>elieve that there is a I - • the boats that places were found for a farewell kiss. It was an inspiring picture." "I couldn't walk—both feet broken or some­ : Immortal in the sky. ments of-the Mosaic Law and the eight general impression that I was insane at the I'.j of the men. The captain, according to thing—but I went on crutches, took the key, COLONEL ASTOR'S LAST ACT. We are Thy children, frail and small, Beatitudes declared by Jesus on the Mount, time I made my attempt on the life of Mr. de |j :v reports, shot himself upon the bridge and never left the wireless cabin. I am a j: Formed of the lowly sod; illustrate in considerable degree the diffe­ Rothschild, j I consider I was perfectly sane. I L«n after the collision occurred; but this Colonel Astor's bravery is highly spoken of native of Nunhead, England, and my age is Comfort our bruised and bleeding souls. rence between the Law Dispensations and am completing a full statement of the motives Ijunour was promptly discredited, and the by all survivors, and he acted throughout with twenty-two." Father and Lord and God. the Dispensation of Grace. The Law com­ of my action, which are mainly political, and •tntimony of several of the 745 survivors, who great courage. Efforts were made to persuade which I shall read to the judge" who tries me." him to take a place in the lifeboat, but he THE LAST OF MR. STEAD. In accordance with orders issued by the mands the " house of servants" what they •iirived at New York on Thursday night in the should and what they should not do. "Moses He was coknmitted for trial at the Old Bailey. emphatically refused to do so until every Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, Admiralty, memorial services were held on ht to dar, your table to-morrow. •hoarder Carpathia, is that Captain Smith was faithful as a servant over all his house" Ifcrae Is. fid., post paid.—. woman and child on board had been provided East Yorkshire, one of the passengers, says board H.M. 6hips in home ports. Memorial luiied on the bridge to the very end, only (Heb. iii. 5-6). He delivered to the "house (Mi Southport. for, not excepting those women who were mem­ he saw Mr. W. T. Stead on deck after the services were held throughout the United Ijumping into the sea when the deck was of servants "—typical Israel—the Divine bers of the ship's company. collision. Mr. Stead described to him how States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. BOTTLES LONG VOYAGE. Iwith 15 LAKOE PACKETS OP •MB. Law, by keeping which they might be . FLOWER SEEDS, p