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TRAGEDY UNDER THE SEA.
Fate OF q Diver Whose Helmet strangely
Came Cnfastened.


Cane Torn corresponding London Chronicle.
An accident which Is described as without
precedent in tho history Of diving operations
has been the subject Of maglsterial inquiry
at Simonstown. Two divers. Kraming and
Macphail. were at work at some levels or the
new dock yard works at s.monstown. They
were working at a depth Of about fifty feet.
and. though they did not go down together.
they met under water, and were, 1t appeared
from the evidence. discussing by means Of
signs the position In regard TO the levels on
which they were working.
According to the statement OF the survivor.
Macphail he saw his companions helme ct
suddenly fly of. In this desperate position
the drowning man chung to Macphail. who
gave the signal to the boat overhead TO haul
in, and the two men we're drawn up to within
ten feet OF the surface. At this point the
hauling ceased. the men In the boat being
unable to raise the heavy weight further.
and Macphail was compelled TO loose his
hold Of his drowning comrade. who sank to
the bottom. The other man reached the
boat. and Immediately went down again.
but Kraming was lying face downward on
the bottom, and was dead when they finally
got him to the surface.
No explanation was forthcoming Of how
II was possible for the mans helmet to como
unfastened. II was stated to have been ad-
justcd properly when he entered the water.
and the two divers were said TO have been
on perfectly good terms, no question as to
the possibility OF foul play being raised. The
verdict was simply that the man was drowned.
but the Magistrate confessed that the manner
In which the helmet came unfastened re-
manned a mystery.
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N 10 isti desn
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tsce Nss entirriy NV ~ hin, and ,ncsilsd
We put IN MARKER On tbs ar~ aeeH The
neti Turn brought th~ 49, pus ~ M loaiaa
80" The tendsFfoot didnt bat N NJ
ny Juv" he ssid. esolly yawnine sed
stfc'china 'tbs lurA siFs 10 aaainat ma
nat sv~n Gin q hss vheu I make 90 Tor
nm
Upton hooked 90 ~ tho Id peculiarly.
apps~n'ly doubtlna whe,bsf ths tender.
foot sas footing ~ In earnest
"How'a THAR he Inquired
u said. replied The tenderfoot, blas as "
he ~ere talking about the weather, that
sven when ! bat for hun I can't seem to sc
anything
'tpton's face daFksnsd. and the fasn Who
were standing around The tsndsrfoot edged
sway ~ by Q common impulse. They
Thought they shifted something coming.
Where's your hundred for this tnaFasff
Inquired Upton, hiching the marker from
the aos.
THE hundred1' said the young ter In q
wondering kind Of q way. 4 thought I
just told you that I made that bet for fun,
10 500 u there was going 10 be anything
doing In tho way Of luck for me-
AT thia instant every man sitting around
the table was ready TO drop 10 the floor TO
flop low while the BULLETS were flying. 70
looked like a sure case Of lead tenderfoot.
Upton studied the youngster intently for q
moment, his features working with anger.
boy stood looking at him in an innocent
kind OF way. with his hands In his trousers
pockets. After about thirty pretty quiet
seconds Of this Upton's dark face creased
into a grin.
Son. he said amusedly 10 tho tender
foot. you make q hit with mo. Here. take
this'-reaching into the drawer and pulling
out fvo double eagles-'and see what you
can do with 1t up the block and he handed
the perfectly self-contained tenderfoot the
hundred.
The tenderfoot accepted the coins with
a murmured word Of thanks for the loan
went up the block To another faro bank.
won $500 inside of an hour. returned and
paid back Upton the hundred and had that
very evil proposition for a stanch friend
during the remainder Of his stay In Du-
ranRo.S
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POCKET CAUGHT HOME RUN HIT.
Baseball Crawied Into Auto Driver's Coat
~ o Refuge From Feiders,
From the Minneapolis Journc

from he Mtnnfdpout JouTno|.
Or. G. II. Kohler has a baseball which he
would not sell for love or money. It was
not given him. nor did he take II, II orawled
into his pocket. and thereby hangs an Interest,"
ing little narrative Of the queer things apper-
tanning to the national gama.
Tuesday afternoon DR.. Kohler was driving
his automobile up Sicollet avenue. Sud-
denly he felt a bump on his right side, In
side the inolosure the man Of healing could
hear the populaoe yelling like q tribe OF In
dams at q beef issue, He turned on the
power OF his car to the limit to get 10 the game
In time to participate In the whoopinG AZ
a whooper at the ball game the doctor 10 q
willing worker. and never shirks his free
born privilege OF yelling as often and as loud
as he pleases,
Once inside the fence. having parted oom-
psny with his so cents. the healer sat him
down with a group Of friends and demanded
an immediate explanation OF the yells, They
explained with gusto how Jimmy Hart, the
hard hitting first baseman OF the Minneapolis
team, had just put the ball over the fence for
the longest hit ever seen on Nlcollet field.
The spirit Of the physician warmed at
the thought Of the great hit and he stuck
his hand In his overooat pocket for a hendker-
chief to wave at James.
He drew out-not a handkerchief, but A
new baseball with a deep dent In one side
He had caught Harris. LONG ny In his pocket
while speeding up Nioollet avenue IN his hu-
run in baseball .hlstory-but the umpire did
not see II, AZ. Minneapolis won by one run
Tuesday the ball 10 highly valued,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20
Diving for Amber.
From The Technical World.

FTDVV tHt tCHVNout " uT".
Amber Is supposed to be gum which exuded
from trees that In some former geological
age covered certain parts Of the earth's sur
face. but Of which now not a vestiee remains.
In confederation Of this theory. We have
the evidence of insects found imbedded In
the amber, showing every evidence Of having
struggled hard to free themselves from the
sticky substance upon which they had aliRhted
or been driven,
The shores Of the Baltic Sea are the worlds
principal source Of amber. Here a large
number Of people earn a precarious livelihood
by gathering the precious substance along the
shore. They work only In rough weather,
for 1t Ia only then that the boulders are tossed
and tumbled on the bottom and great quanti-
ties, OF submarine vegetation. dislodRed,
hidden among the roots and ranches OF
which are Jumps Of, the precious gum, At
some points along the coast divers search
the bottom OF the sea for Jumps Of amber
hidden in seaweed or TANNED between rocks.
The largest piece ever found weighed cigh-
teen pounds, valued at $40. 00o, II Ia now
In the Royal Museum In Berlin,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20
Bull Fighting IN Spain.
From T, Pa Weekly.

Spain is still a great country for bull fights.
The season starts on the first Sunday aftor
Lent and continues-with a snoU Interrupt
ton at the height Of summer-till the month
OF October. Seville and Madrid are the great
centres Of tauromachia.
In Spain no bull leaves the ring alive: neither
do any Of the horses, The expense OF supply.
ing even the poor ha cks which are chosen 10
enormous. and in some poverty stricken town
ships horses n Te omitted from the performance
when the cOrrida becomes n good deal more
palatablc to the stranger. though less 80 n
the native. O'Shea states that >, 400 bulls are
killed annually and $500 horses.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20
Re, olutionary Coins in North Carolina.
From the Charlotte Observe

FROM Nv 'Hu't ONe cOscTtcr,
Farmers down In Richmond county, on
Dry Creek. are ploughing up coins, On tho
south side ri the creek copper pieces bearing
tho name of George Washington are being
found and on the north side the coins un-
earthed bear the IA me of "A King Of England.
A number Of these coins hG W been gathered
recently and IL is supposed that they were
left there in the pockets of dead soldiers
during the Revolutionary War, Mr.. F. c.
lands Of this city has q number OF them,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20
Big Ono Story.
From the American Spectator.

FTUW ~ NWtTWUW DVsNTHIUT.
Senator Clay Of Georgia was once showing
q constituent the sights OF the national capital
when the " ashin gton Monument was reaohad.
what do you think OF it?" oarelessly asked
the Senator. as the constituent stood gazing
In awe at the stately shaft.
Senator" responded the Georgian era vely,
that's the darnedest highest one story build
ing I've ever SEEM
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-06-15
THE EXODUS TO AND
FROM EUROPE
Mone,ed People from the New World Penness Folk from the
Od-Shps That Pass Sea-

Now thousands on pleasure and "cul-
ture' bent are taking part in the
great annual pilgrimage to the old
world. Now thousands bent on seek
ing better fortune are patiently max
ing their way to the new world. The
one goes over to spend the dollars,
the other comes over to make the dol
lars.
In this country the steamship COM
ponies appeal to their patrons by
means of seductive itineraries, allur-
ing pictures of life on the ocean wave
and of charms of the great playground
across the water. Over in the old
world agents are at work with the
common people, melting them to
dreams of happy land of liberty and
short hours and easy money.
The ship companies find the emit
grafton movement very profitable, emf
grafton authorities declare the COM
panies are responsible for at least so
per cent. Of the departure for foreign
lands. In refutation, the transporta-
ton lines deny they employ the sub
agents at work all over the continent,
making use of unnatural means to
bring about emigration; but it is more
than probable the business is done
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those with very full purses a private
table may be obtained, one may make
this whole passage without coming in
contact with a person not of the
party; one is not under obligations to
exchange good morning with anyone
unless perchance the captain himself
be excepted. And in this carefully
guarded eXclusiveness we have one of
the sharpest contrasts to the emf
grants mode Of crossing" latter
with sleeping room shared with many,
perchance his portion of food eaten
from his lap in the common sleeping
quarters-en entire absence of seclusion,
either waking or sleeping. In some
ships of the worst class old evils still
exist; dangerous as well as unsanitary
overcrowding; transportation of the
sexes; treatment of the steerage herds
that would not be tolerated were the
freight cattle.
When the pampered traveller decides
to take the air, money secures the
suggest corner for the great loung-
ing chair; and wrapped in fur-lined,
softest, wooliest steamer rug tka PAM
pered passenger veritibly lies down in
the lap of luxury. With the steerage
folk it is not choice of fresh air in
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-06-15

dim black on white. Skirt and waist
were in one, and there was a fchu
and undersleeve of white lawn
with border of fine Swiss embroidery.
A white wash hat was worn.
misunderstanding is material the
wise are now buying for their shirt
waist suits, creamy material not un-
like kitchen toweling, though soft
er and more artistic" 1t is very
wide and takes but four yards to
make a dress. Trimmed with bands
of colored cambria, it is very modish.
And made of course with elbow
sleeves.
This is the day of pastel shades.
and we would repeat what was said
not long ago about the modishness of
touch of light gray. Pale harmonies
are liked better than contrasts.
We are affecting youthful modes.
Not only is this evidenced by the
childish lingerie hats but also by such
chapeau as Tuscan hat lavishly
trimmed with pale blue ribbons and
blush roses; white crinoline straws
with crown of spotted muslin and
wreath of dog roses and ivy. A Leg
horn simply trimmed with black vel
vet and white roses looks very we'll
with dress of white serge.
The black veil of real lace drapes
with due charm the white or black
hat worn with a white gown. Some of
these wells are very beautiful, and the
pattern is brought out well in detail
when seen against white. AS a rule
they are very becoming, forming a
frame for the face, generally seen
thrown back over the hat.
Sheer gray is in fashion for evening
wear, and as rule Is made over a
colored liuing. A very Frenchy cos
tune was a transparent gray over an
,, orange-colored silk slip; the CLEAN of
the yellow through the cool gray very
beautiful. In the hair was worn an
orange aigrette that came forth from
a bowknot of silver spangles. Many
persons are attempting gray that
once thought the color quite impos-
sible for them; but nowadays there
are such beautiful tones and gray IS
combined so variously that 1t Is not
so difficult to wear as formerly. There
are lovely wash materials in gray, and
one may evolve from one of these a
fashionable evening gown at decided
ly small outlay of money. The more
expensive evening stuffs, among them
chiffon, are of course very attractive
ELLEN CSMONDE
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IN STRICT CONFIDENCE.
Women Obtain Mrs. Pinkham's
Advice and Help.
She Has Guided Thousands to HEALTH
How Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound Cured Mrs. Alice BerryhiIl.

1t is a great
, satisfaction for a
woman to feel
that she can write
to another telling
her the most pri-
vate and confden-
tial details about
her illness, and
know that her let
ter will be seen by
a woman only.
Many thousands
of cases of female
diseases come be-
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on commission basis through general
agents.
Last year over million emigrants
crossed the broad waters asking per-
mission to step on shore and make
living here. Many people for short
year, and without question large num-
bers do not find in the new world
quite the golden land of their visions.
What picture they make at Ellis
island, what pictures they suggest
Let us go in fancy to this famous spot,
'the greatest gateway OF immigration
in the world"-and watch an incom-
ing. Thirteen ships have arrived, l,900
immigrants are awaiting inspection
a comparatively small number; hard
work means seven or eight thousand
to handle at once. Here they come,
advancing patiently, stolidly, dumbly,
like cattle; Russian Jews, Austrian
Jews, Firms, Slavs, Italians, Hungari-
ans, Germans, Scandinavians. The
women carry or lead little ones, the
men bear small trunks on head or
shoulder. At sign from an inspec-
tor the men drop their loads and re-
move their hats-for up there above
them floats the American flag, and
their first lesson is to be lesson in
reverence for an emblem of the new
nation of which they are to become
part. The impressionable on-looker
feels a mistiness about the eyes; it
cannot but appeal to the feelings, the
stream of old world failures, the hopes
the new world asylum holds out.
Steerage conditions are better than
they once were-as, for instance, when
Stevenson came over steerage, when
the immediate ancestors of some of
our "first citizens" crossed-and Ellis
island conditions wonderfully good,
considering. The strictest precautions
are taken at Ellis island to have things
sanitary and care taken to protect ig-
norant newcomers from falling victims
to fraud and rapacity.
A study in contrasts of no small in
terest, the ships that pass at sea, the
floating palaces, the emigrant vessels;
the human freight so differently con-
ditioned, and yet human life, hu-
man life, a human life. The pleasure
seekers palled by luxury, the emf
grants close crowded in the steerage.
Travel now for voyagers on the
frst-class liners-to say nothing Of the
newest and most wonderful one of
them all, with eight decks, with ele-
vator service, suites with nothing sug-
gestive of shipboard, all the luxqrfes
of luxurious hotel on lands travel
suited to a Sybarite rather than a
hardy lover of sea-going-all softness
and ease, and every want anticipated.
| It is really too comfortable, brings
safety, one almost envies the emil
grants who at least possess desires I'M
satisfied There is nothing Of the SIM
pie life preached as so desirable. The
suite, bathroom, bedroom and sitting
room, tempt to lettering inside, to in
| dolence and a novel, while without the
big ocean stretches away unheeded.
the fresh breezes are unregarded. For
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-06-15
BITS FOR BACHELORS.

Many men think themselves self
made who are really marriage-made.
The man who avoids matrimony on
account of the cares of welded life
rivals the wiseacre who secured him.
self against corns by having his legs
amputated.
Don't marry for beauty alone. Soc.
rates called beauty "a short-lived tyr
amy" and Theophrastus pronounced
it "a silent cheat" The man who
marries for beauty alone is as silly
as the man who would buy house be-
cause it had fine flowers in the front
garden.
1t is in life as It is with kite; 1t
will not fly very high until it has a
string tying it down. And so the man
who is tied down by half dozen re-
sponsibilities and their mother will
make higher and stronger fight than
the bachelor who, having nothing to
keep him steady, is always floundering
In the mud.
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Never were bonnets and hats more
picturesque than at the present, and
are just suited to the demure little
faces of the wearers. There is the
granny, which comes in straws as
well as in lingerie, and is a, grand
mother affair modified to suit baby.
The granny is made of white silk
shirred on wire frame, and trimmed
simply with half-wreath of delicate
blossoms; and there are straw shapes,
burnt-straws, with a band of ribbon
passing about the crown and fastened
over on the brim, off at one side big
white pompon attached-al so simple
and effective.
A dainty granny comes in white
pique edged with a little good en-
broidery and with no trimmings at
all. There are also very nice white
pique hats for little boys. three cor
nered affairs that make the wee lads
miniature Napoleons. For older girls
one may purchase we'll made pique
Tam O'Shanters, larger somewhat
than last year, with a braided pat
tern on top of the crown, the edge of
the frill buttonholed, under the brim
softly shirred null, about the crown
folds of pale blue or pink silk with a
great bow at the right side. Then
there a.. extremely cheap wash hats
of coarse but pretty embroidery,
which are made with draw-string for
top brim, can most easily be removed
for laundering. These come ready
made and with little additions at
home may be converted into very ac-
ceptable lingerie hats.
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Not long ago we were shown an ar
ray of party frocks for little girls that
quite took our breath away, they were
SO elabroate. But while these were
pretty they really were too fussy,
would make the little girl look Like an
overdressed French doll. However, it
would be all right to let one such cos
tune creep into that sensible ward
robe you have planned for your par
ticular small maid. The favorite ma
terial is dainty dotted Swiss, which
does not muss easily, looks crisp and
fresh long time and stands out in
that engaging ballet-skirt manner so
affected by the smart wee lady. One
for child of five years was mads
with full blouse waist that came dowS
very low indeed and from which frillea
out a ruffie supposed to do duty as a
skirt. The neck was low, the sleeves
mere puffs, the trimming lace inser-
ton put in with up and down strips
No sash was worn, stockings and
shoes were white. With this a hat of
dotted Swiss would be charming, the
flowers a half wreath of daisies.
Colored shoes and stockings add to
the costumes of the summer season,
pale blue stockings and low shoes in
great favor with the very young la
dies. Perhaps later we shall see them
adopting the gray hose and shoes
their elders so much approve just at
present. Both mammas and daughters
have taken to Powered stuffs for af-
ternoon and evening frocks, and these
costumes suit admirably the pictur-
esque headgear in vogue.
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and the print dress was euIogized
by many folk, looked upon as the
apotheosis of the Wanted simplicity.
We smiled little scornfully, called it
but part of the passing fad; but have
been converted, now would join with
the eulogizers. And the conversion
came through glimpse of just one such
frock, quite perfect of its kind. 1t was
noticed this very morning while COM
ing down town on the train and the
hours since frock and wearer has
stayed with us as bit of refreshing
both so morning fair" The material
must have been q pretty fine print,
the pattern Yves a delicate tracery of
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well ventilated rooms or on attractive
open deck-it is struggle for air
enough to keep going. At the recent
national conference on the vexed
question of immigration, one of the
resolutions passed made demand for
increase below decks of air space to
| each steerage passenger; another had
reference to eating space provided
with tables and outside of Sleep
ing rooms.
The Fortnightly speaks of present
emigration as stampede, which gath
ers Roadway with every passing month.
This stampede has now reached such
proportions as to occupy all the ener-
gies of score of steamship lines in
handling the travel, to warrant the es-
Enlistment Of new and more direct
routes and the building of new ships
especially designed for the carrying of
this cargo. The business is profitable.
There are comparatively few restric-
tions upon it, and in central and south
ern Europe there is apparently a vast
amount of human freight needing only
definite term of years this gigantic in
| dustry."
But let us refer again to the tide
Of travel setting the other way to the
tourist and to the society folk going
over for the London season and gaye-
ties in other great European capitals.
A writer in Harper's Bazaar, treating
Of no ut
There are, indeed, good many citi-
zens of the United States left to whom
Europe is still an unknown book, but
as an offset to this list there is a con-
stantly increasing number who have
been over so many times as to have
lost count of the journeys. One New
Yorker made six round trips last year
between January and December, and
he is not in the importing business Ell
ther. To the growing class of persons,
men and women, who go over regular
| ly, the voyage has become like any 9TH
er journey regularly, taken. They
have tested almost every transatlantic
liner, and they know the long ferry
in every season of the year and in all
weathers."
And now let us go to the very con-
siderable class that travel neither in
expensive suite nor In impossible
steerage. A small room may have to
be shared by four, but when one once
has ones sea legs but little time will
be wasted in sleeping quarters, so what
matter? There are the fine long decks,
the great lounging rooms, plenty Of
air and space. One has all the COM
forts that are good for one. Enough
| is better than feast. And one has
zest for pleasures and opportunities
1t is no shame, but joy to be cross
ing the first time-not the man that
has crossed 119 times is the person to
be envied. 1t is unseen Italy that has
the brightest skies, the unclimbed
Alps that are highest, unvisited Paris
that is gayest, mysterious London that
is most inviting 1t is not the biase
traveller who really "goes to Europe"
| KATHERINE POPE.