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The San Francisco call., 1910-12-01

JOHN D. McGILvRAY, the contractor, is at the
Palace with his family, for the ST. Andrews
banquet last night.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-01

ALHOUNS kept organ which also plays the music of the
reactionary interests in this city, hasens open post
election campaign of sneerng Hiram Johnson Because the
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After the Rats.

As country Germany has fewer rats than any other in the world This is due to the interest taken by the government in their destruction. If a boy applies to the mayor of his town he is furnished with traps and paid half cent for every skin he brings In large towns there are 100 boys at work all the time. The cost of traps and bait makes each skin cost the government about a penny, but as every rat destroys five dollars worth a year, this makes tremendous saving
 The mice. though destructive. are not looked after by the government It is expected that every household will protect itself. However. a reward of penny is paid for every three skins
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SYNOPSIS.

Andy Meleen. aged millionaire miner Is dying and orders a will drawn up, leaving all his property to the son of a sister of whom he has heard nothing for years, and whose married name he does not know. Meleen was married years before
 but left his wife after a quarrel In which he struck her. He learned later that she and their daughter were dead. The scene shifts to New York. introducing Wlfrid Stennis, who Is telling his flancee. Eunice Trevecca, what he would do if he were the possessor of wealth. In the law off, hce of Carboy. Passavapt & CoZine. at torneys for the estate Of Meleen, Roger Hews reports the result of his search for heirs of Meleen. He conceals the fact that he has discovered that Meleen's daughter Is living. Wilfrid Stennis replies to an ad
 vertisement for Information concerning hls dead mother. Martha Meleen, and is told that he is the heir to Andy Meleen's millions. He wants to marry Eunice at once, but she resolutely demurs He meets Clara Passavant. frivolous daughter of ms M attorney. Eunice becomes jealous of Wilrrld's attentions to Clara. He builds a yacht and starts on a trip abroad, the Passavants being included In the party.
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Clerk Knew His Business.

Up to the night clerks desk goes Abe Perlmutter, a Chicago travelling man, says Success Magazine. T won der" he says, "could you find me somebody to play a game of pinochle for an hour or two tonight!" Why, says the clerk, T guess so," and he runs his eye over the register. Boy" he calls, page Mir. Gutwillig." Before long MT. Gutwillig is found and intro duced to the pinochle-hungry Perlmut- ter and a game is arranged. How did you know I played pinochle?" Mir Gutwillig asks the clerk. "Oh, I|" begins the clerk. Just then emerges from the bar a young man, triple piled with wine. He staggers up to the desk and says: Shay, I wanna fight! Dye hear? I'm lookin fir a scrap!" Thus the clerk: Boy, page MT. Kelly and Mir. O'Brien."
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CHAPTER VI.

When Roger Hews was dispatched to Pennsylvania as the confidential agent of Carboy, Passavant & Cozine to verify the strange story told by Andrew Meleen on his death-bed he unearthed a far more curious and complicated series of episodes, so unusual and unexpected as to suggest to his fertile and not over-scrupulous mind plot by which the knowledge thus gained might be turned to his own advantage in several ways Briefly told. this Is what he discov- cred after much painstaking piecing together of fact and inference:
 When Minna Meleen found herself, as she supposed. deserted by her hus- Dand so soon after their marriage, un- able to bear the taunts and gibes of the village women. she left the out skirts of Hazleton, then little more than hamlet, and tramped across the mountains to Nanticoke. Here, being complete stranger she resumed her maiden name of Minna Tod, passing herself off as widow, and making NVing by sewing and doing chores. Here a daughter was born to her. A year and more had elapsed since leaving Hazleton.' when seemingly authentic tidings reached her that her husband, Andrew Meleen, had been Killed in battle. So to her the erst- while fiction became a cruel and bit ter fact.
 Believing herself free woman, and oelhg still young and handsome, her scoiding tongue and fiery temper somewhat cooled by her misfortunes, she permitted herself to be once more wooed and won. this time by an arti- san named John Trevecca.
 Tn less than a year she presented irevecca also with daughter, but 'nis time she died during her ac- couchement. and the infant with her. ana was buried in Nanticoke, exactly as Roger News reported. This event it must have been which reached the ears of Andrew Meleen, denuded of "s one vital eact that Minna had
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iiNu oSoAh thd luiI oWu still lived
 To the day of her death John Trevec- ca supposed she had been really a widow when she married him-as, of course, did Minna herself. The only deception she had practiced consisted in the concealment of her true name
 When Minna died, John Trevecca cherished her first-born, the little Eunice, as his own, bringing her up under his name, giving her a good education, even sending her to a country seminary for a couple of terms; then, in turn, he moved away, and no one in Nanticoke heard of him for many years.
 So much of the past Roger Hews had discovered when he returned to San Francisco to report to MT. Car boy. We have seen how he SUD- pressed the essential facts, complete ly misleading the astute lawyer. When he went east for good 1t was with the idea of tracing John Trevecca and his stepdaughter. He hoped that the girl still lived, and that, fortified with proofs of the foregoing facts, he could eventually produce her as the right full heir to the millions of old Andrew Meleen-for that she was his legiti- mate daughter, born in lawful we'd lock, no one would be able to gainsay in the face of the evidence he could produce.
 In one of two or three ways Hews proposed to turn this valuable secret to his own profit: If the girl were alive and unmarried and in humble circumstances, he would try to make her his wife and divulge the truth afterwards; in which case Roger Hews would have somewhat to say con- cerning the spending and scattering of old Andrews boarded wealth. If the girl were already welded to an other then he hoped to find his ac- count by selling her and her husband the story on the best terms possible. Thirdly, if neither of these things were the case, then he could find a market for his wares with Wilfrid Stennis, who might be expected to pay handsomely for the suppression of the secret, thus insuring to himself clear title to the property.
 It was a clear case of Heads l win, tails you lose!" So far as he could see, only one contingency could de- feat the major plot-the daughter of Minna and Andrew Meleen might be dead.
 Meantime. he had no objection whatever to letting wrongful heir enter into possession. The informa- tion he possessed would have sure and certain market value in any case.
 It took Roger Hews three or four months to trace the migrations of John Trevecca. covering, as they did, period of ten or twelve years. But run him to earth at last he did. and found to his joy that Eunice was very much alive. and well worth winning for her own sake. But one other
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spent swimmer is spewed out on the sand by some mad-rushing breaker.
 Into those two years he greedily crowded together enough vicissitudes to last another and better-seasoned mind and body decade at least. Per. haps his almost total lack of previous social training and preparation led the sooner to inevitable satiety; it was like a starveling gorging himself on a 12-course dinner of highly spiced and seasoned viands.
 Certain it is that his one over mastering desire at last took the form of an acute nostalgia-a longing to get away from glittering generalities and sybaritic luxury and settle down somewhere to life of plain and pol ished ease.
 So he left the Kestrel to follow at leisure-the original yachting party was disbanded long since-and came home by the Oregon on one of the last trips of that doomed greyhound of the ocean.
 In appearance Stennls was not much changed, save for a little more fullness of face and figure, rather tired look about the eyes, and-what was more noticeable-just a suspicion of grayness in the hair around the temples. And this at 30! In manner he had certainly improved; you would have at once set him down as a we'll trained and well-groomed man of the world
 An intense and overweening craving for simpler manners and homelier fare led his steps straight from the pier to the little house in Macdougal street, around which were clustered by far the pleasantest memories he had ever known.
 Eunice was at home, and herself opened the door, so no retreat, no denial, was possible.
 "Why!-Mr. Stennis!" she cried in genuinely astonished accents. In the total surprise of the moment it was all she could find to say.
 As he stepped across the threshold his gaze sought hers, but in the act 
 ly perfunctory ceremony on the girls part-her eyes were yelled, and the sole token of emotion she betrayed was a little tell-tale red signaling in her usually olive-pale cheeks.
 Have you no word of welcome for me, Eunice?' said Wilfrid reproach- fully.
 "Surely!" was the answer. We lam glad to see you back safe and sound and looking so well. When did you arrive?"
 Scarcely an hour ago. came straight here.'
 During the voyage across Wilfrid had in divers ways pictured to him self this meeting. There was to be a sort of killing of the fatted calf, although in no sense did he regard himself as enacting the role of the prodigal-he had been made too much of while abroad for that. And though he knew in his heart of hearts that he had probably forfeited all right there to, in fancy he had dwelt with an in ward glow over the glad greeting which Eunice was to extend; he had even pictured to himself in a haZy way her f1inging herself into his arms and with tear-wet cheeks taking him to herself again. But this common place, everyday "How-de-do, Mir. Stennis?" and the total absence of emotion, grave or gay, cool or ardent, was like passing at one step from the hot sunshine of the plains of Lom- bardy to the ice-crowned steeps of the Alpine summits beyond. (TO BE CONTINUED)
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CHAPTER VII.

Jaded and surfeited, ready to cry Vanity of vanities, all is vanity" Wilfrid Stennis returned to his native land after two years of kaleidoscope experiences in the chief capitals of the Old World. He had plunged into the vortex of 'life." only to be flung out of the worry and whirl as a
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Manufactured and Guarante
How About Lift Thine Eyes2"

The English Tourist-Excuse me. my friend and I cannot agree as to the name of that range of hills. Can you tell
 The Scot (severely)- Mon, the Saw bath is na the day for speiring hills tever!-Sketch
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Another Idea.

Charlie, dear" said young Mrs. Torkins, T want you to stop at the market and get some egg plant"
 But 1 don't like it.'
 No. But you like eggs. want to feed it to the hens."
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Dr. Pieree's Pleasant Pellets regulate and inviG. crate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coAte6 tiny, granules. easy to take. Do not grpe.
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A grass widow can give reference but she hardly ever does.
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Our tears are round to remind us that God loves the whole world.
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A CERTAIN METHOD

for curing cramps diarrhea and sentery by using Painkiler Perry Ddpts). This medicine has sus- ained the reputation for over 70 c 5c and 60o
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Green Mountains TN foothills Of the
Ndiroudaok, and al the way down IN"
Hudson Valley 20 New York
The county sect Of SrctOga county
End one ~ the plies ~ ntest places 20 visit
10 inc urtRhb0rhOpd b. Rgll~tln SpC
The ". tars g.e lmUst - famous - those
~ S.rrtpg1 itself md the medicine I
uur it - are zrid 90 ba atlia ily efiic" Dious.
Won cau q fishing 10 ~ llston Spr In
Nrr-togT Lake In the nee rhy brooks
~ trout On he like they g-t Lass End
uirkprel
The yill7ze II C,ppsr,i,wn is the foot
= Otsegp Like You p. ~ think 81 d.
s"rl without thinking ~ the young Deer
sl-yar aud ching. "hgoDk the Mohican
Otupgp - the her dwg 'sr II the Susque-
hr1nr Glin,merglr -. p ike with wide
b"vs E1d r'und green points snui Ia
hv sweeping hiils hFsE lost the r0mF nee
thr' ?itach@d itself IN your mind when Won
10 q - yOungst~r - the d0ings ~
= ~ BUmppo.
I've new O-te-ss-g.' Hotel ~ Cp"pers.
town Offers YOU he Kind ~ hpsp,i lhty
'h yJu hike ~ get u j. g'recdy win
ing n: ne fo. Itself
ShvrIn Spr.nga - both q summer aud
q Ntnt.s resort IT, ~ the SChoh-rie
yrl-y The ~pungS IRE effirrci1us foi
glu,. Ha.n. us'n NJ skin nervous md
cate Tl.' la,'i lIs
fgpsF y8p - % S'~VtlgA 'ud The
country neat here uSI. Nv tpkr the New
y ORR Cent? through the seEsDn the
View Nu.K Centred runs special Expresses
f.. n .ug Connection Is mode Tor
S'~.'p.'r ~ th- D-l'wF-.. ad HUDSON
. q tho R,-rYu End Mrine The Hudson
River o.. lsu" md the Hudson diver
v Wig uuu tpmpaIy o1er trips w W. ~
~ YOU prefer the river route
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DIDN'T KNOW HE RESIGNED.
TrICk ~ which SIS Enemies ReIscNsa .
nussian sf lls once.

The Ear recently accepted the rssixna-
riOn pi " NeritelnikOh. Governor Of Kos
froms The event excited some surprise
a- he Governor was thorough paced
r-iriionarv and Oisd for bis zeal IN crush
ing ouf any manifestations Of progressive
HE ~ the Government over which he ruled
~ reason f0t his resignation could he
adducnd aud h remained a mystery The
riddle I- now solved II appears that " Vert.
faIr'kof gas 20 grouped hat he often
signed documents brought o him by his
sub rdins'es without troubling 10 read
then Taking advantage Of this. one Of his
rnen.'1a sn'ufed his signature 10 = letter.
hirh vas despatched 10 he Ministry Of tho
Interior sud ,ausrd such astOniahment
that telegram vas sent ~ kostroma
ordering me Governor 10 come Immediately
10 Petersburg
when " leri's sik0n arrived The letter
rA. handed ~ hir 70 his utter surprise
r contained his resignation To read with
ans cement su"h passagez a. 4 am ahzo-
Iute.y M ~" ant incapab.e 81 ruling the
Government eonnded 10 me followed By
q confession ~ failure and the statement
have made q mass ~ plumbers Bur
h~ could MT di@putr that The signature
lr me end NJ fhs letter vas his
y" owned that he 9fien signed uanerz
without know Ing ihrr contents. and rad
sufficient sense Of humor N tender no.
resignation IN the aDot nfer The ~ir
Cums'ares -tolvpin could do nothing
bu' advise the car 90 accept h.
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Of air. seized his sinksr. disappeared in
the weier sud brought up the sword almost
Immediately.
Another dav q boatload NJ coal Wns
swamped beside the ship and sank 10 he
bottom Other divers came. located the
coal and the boat. and descending time after
time IN ninety feet Of water. they placed
The coal In bags. and succeeded In saving
both the coal and the boat Ohhcers timed
these divers frequently and found that they
remained umdef water a. long as one min
ute and hftv-fve seconds
The most Interesting and startling feat
performed during the American oficers'
Btay was accomplished when a collier
snapped No cable and dropped ts snchor
and forty faihOma II chain In twenty faihows
of water. After being directed 20 where
the anchor end the chain lay. the diver
summoned Invested himself Of his riothinW
Hehi through hts pumping process. ana
disappeared In over ia feet n water
one minute went By. then q second Wan
caned ~. When the oHlcsTs bsann 20 ~,
nervous Hut u vas not until two minute.
and hiteen seconds bad elapsed mat the
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I TENIciN FIRE DErIRTWENT
Consisting nj Onr Wan. ORr Blurrs and =
RSIllRE Water Barrel

u might b. though, that such "a ~
citing ,hing a. lire NouId s,artle the
NeNlral- 1u' 81 their hnbitual Incidence.
bEi such - moi he case
The alarm ~ hrC az MatamOrOs
tpa1uill NexicD. was given by the dta-
charge OF Numerous uts'ols and guns.
-a7N a wrii"~ IN the Wide World Maya
-iHs. and ! FASTENED 10 the scene. think
ing r FRS, that a battle Was raging
Ate. long interval. during which
the people watched the fire with interest.
cha tering among themselves mean
while there appeared Dlacidly trundling
along the road he MatamOre-an equiv
aieni oi a fire engine. a barrel rolling
along the ground drawn by a reluctant
burrO
4 -Sivel pin ia each end Of the key
permitted " Ia roll freely aud ropes
attached u Ia he animal Behind walked
the fire brigade a solitary peOn, barring
a bucket Arrived al the scene VI the
oonhagTatiOn the water in the barrel was
poured into buckets and hauled 10 the
roof ~ an adjacent house whence n was
flung OntO the flames
Everybody was greatly excited. The
calmeSt thing ~ all was the fire. which
burned steadily on till there vas nothing
lett ~ consume Then a. the spectacle
was over the people dispersed Every
one was satisfied. except perhaps the
unfortunate owner Of the house that had
been destroyed
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A SOUTH AMERICAN CONGO?
ITROCITIES CHIRGED tGtJNST
COLLECTORN az ri RRER.
agents Sf . British CsRpany Aeruscd sg
ManI Murders 81 indlans An Amrrl.
can the Ncrusrr THE nFIllsh .s,.
rTRmeRt Making an InN est,eatlon.

LONDON, June The secretary Of thu
A"ti-Slavery Society having called atten.
ton 10 the alleged ~ treatment ~ native
lrdian collectors Of rubber by tue agents
81 a British company ~ South Americn
b" has received the follow ,ng reply from
The Forrgn ono
SiH am directed bv ~-ot-tarv Sir
"rrv' TO arknVa ledge the re.eipt Of vonr
letter Of The 49, instant. and 20 inform
ynu IN reply that the question Of the alleged
W treatment Of Indians IN the puiumayo
Valley l. engaging the most srriuus a.ten.
ton %; bis Majesty Government wbo
aTe IN communication With the United States
Government With regard ~ the best course
10 pursue In the matter
W consular reports have been received
ON This -nbl" vhich 'an be- made publtr
am. SIR. 'nur most obedient humble
servant I.uvIs M,flFr
The British company referred 10 is.
according to writer In the Dals Chr,Bi-
re. the Peruvian Amazon Rubber Com.
pany and the allega tons are hased ON
statements made by an American. " 4
Hardenburg, a civil engineer who arrived
ia iondon nearly year ago. bringing
with him bundle Of documents. his own
niar'eH' dlar~s Kept Nv others COPIES Of
Peruvian. Colombian ard BRAZILIAN nswa.
napsrs and yariol. "A ftida,,,. a.. t;,., -.
,h. ,c,,,,,,,.. . a.. S
~ '' 'o'ni@hF' M.
hAihThburg ana companion named
Perkins crossed the territory Of the Putin
mayo ValIay. Gathering ;rfor,,a,i,,r :.
- a.. ,-..,..., = ~
''' " w" ihd'ah rubber
"ofkerH.
Al ons moment they came very near 10
sharing the fate Of the native. TO- ,v,,i,
mi. y.IIing al, ,h. 49, - = -
g. IN Ohioh'
"i HsrueuouTs says Two hunches APP
peared. and a. soon a. they saw ~. with
out stopping 20 ask who We var. ,r v,h.,
"a w.y@ doipg the ......i,, :, 80
-. " AIAha
tu"7 y, wv uv'o'a' .houted 70 thetr
subordinates IN crime, Fire! firel Sink
the Canoe
One ~ tb..a i.,Dcb.s an. H.,
.-,---a ~" 'N'7'ai'
D7'On kou ,o 'hr company ana me Other 70
the Peruvian Government For this and
subsequent acts the United Statee Cow
sy,,,.rt b.. cou,,.lI.4 ~. p..,,,..-.
G....-...', = - - '''o I'"V'an
o W ~. ~ ullleht uo Jay eh"se young men
" ~ conIsa.a',3 10 ,.-,,
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their employees. next mads a raid on Ia
ReseTvA. WHERE they captured Serrana
tho owner ~ the plaCs. with hig EN-
ployees Ramon Castro and Juan De IA
Cruz AnaConas ~ well as Manuel EraZs
and tine twenty odd workmen he was
conducting to the iowsy Cauueta for this
Gomez and ArEua Company rsSentlE es-
tallfhsd there Al theae men were
put M chains and then murdered most
lariarously. their corpsvs. horribly mu-
tilated. lreing thrown INTO the river
Another extract. from Peruvian paper
In Feipa " Deoemh-r ~ 1916. gives a
detailed account 81 the murder - twenty
five Indians by a Land - twenty Peruvian
rubber collectors. In addition 10 the
great numher Of extracts from Peruvian
aud Brazilian paper, are many sworn
statements ~ which IA" following may
be given as "A specimen. II 10 taken from
the declaration ~ Daniel Colantes madn
before Nrnaldo Guichard. notary public
Of Commerce. Hacienda lquitos. on Msy
IA. 1879
-Macedo ordered me 10 begin work At
UltimO Retro. where found another
criminal a. chief. Joge InOcente FOnseca.
A few days after my arrival this chief had
the Chontadura. Ocainama and CtigtIene
Indians called and about twenty -four
hours later hundreds ~ Indians began b
APPEAR about the house IN accordance
with this order,
Then this great lnOcents Fonseca
xrasned hia carbine and macheta and be-
gan the slaughter Of these defenceleas
indiana This operation he carried out
in company with ak Of his confidential
secretaries. some 81 whom used their
carbines while others wieleled their enor-
nous nachetes about the necks % their
unhappy victims.
-NIeanwlsile the mutilating FOnseca.
with hts extra large ohiefs machete.
mastered right and left the defenoeless
wretrhes who. bathed IN blood and In
the agonies of death. dragged Themselves
piteously over the ground, appealing In
vain foT mercy This tragedy over.
Fonseca ordered all the bodies 10 b piled
up and burned.
This scene was still more horrible. for
a. soon a. this order was Obeyed and they
were heinR burned. cries Of agony and des-
usration resounted ON every side. These
prooeedsd from thOse victims who were
still alive a.a who. aroused by tbs fire.
gathered strength 20 cry and lament for
a few moments while they were being
consumed by the devOuring flames.
Meanwhile the monster FOnaeca shouted
out: want 10 eKteFminate all the In
dams who do not obey my orders about
the rubber that ! require them 20 bring
In"
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diver came craving up the rope 80 ..
exhausted.
he had found the chain though. Dad
attached the grapple and the rope. and bod
succeeded In recovering both anchor I"a
chain al the first dive. u seemed O. ..f
onicers unbelievable that any human .n.
Withstand 'he pressure 81 the water 10 -1,.
depths. not 10 SPEAK Of the excessive 'Hrm
ions u pressure involved in the de- fI'
500 asceut u more than q hundred ..'
""hm Two minutes and fifteen serOul-
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DeelslSa Of interest 10 Angler,

N'NH ~ E"ftHi nhN 1fffHH'
Judge In Monroe county. Wisconsin H'
handed down = decision Of moro than p8-..
ing Interest. An angler IN pursuit of ffHH.
Maued a stream through private proper .
ne owner Drought auit. alleging frr-Ua'-
ne court held thar a landnv ner haa 90
Flfnt ~ title % a stream passing fhr0 ~
pc land ~ 10 The hah In that stream .f'
nc streams and the fEh In them hrInnr .1
has r right IN mavignfa these stream. rr -r
ln pnata ~ ~ undlng N was furthrr
fAat - lgng a. pefann f9licUinr ne eco ~
reifs lnen from aHif ing foot on The UIaaa
no charGe Of ngp1aa could lie
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sYRIANS WONDERFUL DIVERS.


FFnHt we tAlCulu Ifl1MHe.
Perhaps there are no more expert divers
than tnose Of The syrian coast. who. u h
claimed. employ no other apparatus than
q heavy stone for q siuker and . light line
whereby they come up hand over hand p
Once certain American naval officers
whose vessels we're making q somewhat
pTOtraoted stay 90 Beirut were enabled 10
witness IN Interesting exhibition Of the skiIl
sad endurance Of these divers N should
be stated that the vcssels lay In sixteen
or eighteen fathOms Of water
A midshipman. on duty " the Enngway.
one day raised his sword belt too hlah
and the blade slipping from the scabbard.
vent circiina 10 the bottom n the sea
The water ~ the spot was between nine7y
and ~ feet deep. 4 diver being sum.
moned. the point ~ which the ausrd ha8
fallen vas indicated. The qrrian aisuBud
n BIZ uitle boat. pumped bic tunau ftll