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THE SUNNY SOUTH
lru.el Dangers Beset Sub*
* merged Pearl Divers *
NINTH PAGE
HREE native ilivers famous
for their deep water feats
came out in a pearling
sloop with us one after
noon and gave a tine ex-
shell and he won't leaVe it, not for Fath
er Peter. He'll stick down there all day,
grabbing away in twenty , fathoms or
more till he feels paralysis cornin’ on—”
“Paralysis?”
' es-thcy get.it, lots of*'em. If you
was to go down in twenty fathom—they
can do five and twenty, but anything
over is touch and go—and stay 'alf the
* a.\, you'd come up ’-owling like any-
thing and not able to move. That’s the
way it catches them and then they must
get someone to come and rub them with
nnd grace in.1 i,«_» » j ~ ™ i ■*!V a water al > night long and maybe they
g ace and high-bred courtesy that dies
that If™ T'° W i nk 0ff f0r th0 of
nano “ unknown bird, the "wahine
a y . At last ' one after another, the
dark heads popped
divers, each
up
htbition. The bed over j «wam back to the bo’u. got^'n board mid
which we halted was about j Presented their catcli to me with the ease
again and
shell
90 feet under the surface,
our three divers stripped j are the birthright of all Pacific islanders
to a "pareo” apiece, and ” ot ilt a11 etnbarrassud by the fact that'
then, squatting down on I , the ‘‘lothes they wore would hardly
th. gunwale of the boat I have suffl ced to make a Sunday suit for
me
■j, ■ i •• white!
er m five minutes of• perfect still-
s 11.• • > .-■ud.>rrty got up and dived oft
thw. The rest of us fidgeted up
j lUuvr tlie tiny deck, talked, specu-
e d !mi passed away tlie time for what
nicil mi • xtraordinarily long period. No
, ii . innately, had brought a watch,
. tli. traders and schooner captains all
ree i saying that the Penrhyn diver
n ^1 under water for full three min
es. it was quite evident that our
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| l sually lie does not' find any, now and
j then he gets a small gray pearl or a de-
I cent white one or a big irregular “ba-
j toque” pearl of the “new' art” variety,
| and once in a month of Sundays he is
j rewarded by a large gloaming-gem worth
j several hundred pounds, for which he will
probably get only twenty or thirty.
Diving dresses are sometimes used in
Penrhyn, but in such an irregular and
risky manner that they are really.more
dangerous than the ordinary method. Tlie
suit is nothing but a helmet and jumper.
No bouts are worn, no clothing whatever
on the legs, and there are no weights to
liie swell up-to-date^styles'from*the ! P reaerve Ul< ‘ diver’s balance. It somo-
newest Fashionable Fabrics, cut to your 1 times happens—though wonderfully sel-
-i.rkwcn. with a perfect fit suaranteed j dom—that the diver trips, falls and turns
~ ' upside down, the heavy helmet keeping
him head downward until the air all
rushes out under tlie jumper and be is
miserably suffocated. The air pump above
is often carelessly worked in any case
and there is no recognized system of
signals except the jerks that mean "puli
up.”
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and maybe they're all right by
morning. So then down they goes again,
just tlie same as ever. Sometimes a i
man'll be pulled up dead at the end of a j
<iay. How does that happen? Well, 1 al- |
low it’s because lie’s been workin' at a !
big depth all day and feels all right, and |
then, do you see, lie’ll find something a I
'bit extra below of him. in a holier like, J
and down he'll go after i»t, and the extra
fathom or two does the trick.
'Sharks? Well, I’ve seen you poppin' |
at them from the deck of the Duchess, j
so you know as well as I do how many
there are. Didn’t 'it them, even when tlie
tin was up? That's because you 'aven’t
greased your bullet 1 suppose. You want
to. if the water isn't to turn it aside. But,
about the divers? Oh! They don't mind
sharks, none of them, when they’ve got
the dress on. Sharks is easy scared.
You’ve only got to pull up you*- jumpers
a. bit and the air bubbles out and fright
ens them to fits. If you meet a big
stingray, it'll run its spine into you and
send the dress all to—I mean, spoil the
dress, so’s the water comes in, and may
be it'll stick the diver, too. And the big
devilfish is nasty; he’ll hold you down
to a rock, but you can use your knite
on him. The knra manuaa is ithe worst;
tlie divers don’t like him. He's not as
big as a shark, but lie’s downright wick
ed, and he's a mouth on him as big as
'alf liis body. If an onoo comes along,
e'll bite an anm or leg off of the man
anyways and eat Tm outright if 'e’s big
enough to do it. Swordfish? Well, they
don't often come into the lagoon; it's
the fishing canoes outside they’ll go
for. )’es. they'll run a canoe and a man
through at a blow easy enough, but they
don't often do it. If you wants a canoe.
I'll get you one, and you needin’ mind
about the swordfish. As like as not they'll
never come near you.
HORRIBLE FATE IN DEPTHS.
•‘About the divin’?—well, I think the
naked divin’ is very near as safe as
the machine, takin’ all things. Worst of
it is, if a kara manuaa. or an onoo comes
along tlie diver can’t wait his time till it
goes. No, he doesn’t stab i't—not inside
the lagoon because there’s too many of
them there, and the blood would bring
a whole pack about. He gets under a
ledge or rock and ’opes it'll go away be
fore iiis wind gives out. If it doesn’t he
gets eat.”
1 thought of ray own small amateur ex
periences in lagoon divings about other
islands when 1 had gone down for a few
feet and then turned ajui m!TJe for the
surface as quickly as possible, unable to
stand the look of the black, overhanging
caves and hollows filled witli wavering
mysterious movements that made one’s
blood run cold. Not Schiller nor Edgar
Allan Poo ever conjured up a picture
more ghastly than that of a Penryhn
diver caught like a rat in a trap by some
huge, man-eating shark or fierce kara
manuaa crouching in a cleft of the over
hanging coral under the dark green gloom
of 100 feet of water with bursting Jungs
and cracking eyeballs, while the threat
ening bulk of his terrible enemy looms
dark and steady, lull in the road to life
and air.
A minute or more has been spent in the
downward journey; another minute has
passed in the agonized wait under the
rock. * * * Has he seen? * • ♦ Will
the creature move away now while there
is still time to return? The diver knows
■to a second how much time has passed;
the third minute is on its way; hut one
goes up quicker than one comes down
and there is still hope. * * * Two min
utes and a half; it is barely possible now,
but— Then sentinel of death glides for
ward; bis cruel eyes, phosphorescent in
the gloom, look right into the cleft where
the wretched creature is crouching with
almost twenty seconds of life still left,
hut now not a shred of hope. A few
more beats of tlie laboring pulse, a gasp
from the tortured lungs, a sudden rush
of silvery air bubbles and the brown
limbs collapse down out of the cleft like
wreaths of seaweed. Tlie shark has his
An Italian
the. sense of injury that I
had been liis ever
he had hurried down theism'
HEN Willis Keefie ran into;the wall, aiid thrusting Ris -hands- hon-
8t. Peter's to escape onefchalantly into his packets. ' s ; '
of the sudden downpours] ,“ The signore will remain without stir-
•so prevalent in Rome dur- ,inff_ “ or r r . - . 1
•_ .. The gesture was significant.
lng the summer months, 4i ,
, ’ ,4 I understand. No need to illustrate,
he was still possessed by, 8aja wmis -'Besides, there’s' nofhing
, in my pockets but the small change I
s * nce l keep for your compatriots. Now. if you
j will good enough to explain "
slope of the Janiculum an j "There is nothing to explain, signore,
hour before, and had failed; j am Guiseppe Montanari. who was ib
to see little Rosetta lean- marry Rosetta Niooli.”
“You have taken too much trouble,
Signore-er—Montanari,” Willis said, in
solently civil. “Still. I am yet in the
dark. Is this perhaps part of the cere
mony announcement?”
Montanari’s eyes gleamed.
“I care nothing for flic signore s
words.” he said; “it is with what he has
done that I have to deal. Three months
ago Rosetta and I were happy in the
thought of passing our lives together.
She danced and sang the whole day
through. Now she weeps—she turns
from me—slie will hear nothing of mar
riage. This T owe to the signore.
lng over the wadi near
Tasso’s oak.
j At their last meeting, as she told him,
I between the bursts of weeping, of her
J father’s determination to have her wed
ding take place within a month, Willis
j had understood the necessity of putting
| an end to the romance an idle spring day
{ and a peasants’ bad been responsible
j for.
It had been idyllic and innocent enough.
Being a good feitow in the main, and,
moreover, not wildly in love, Willis was
capable of a sharp twinge of conscience
The
when he realized the child’s distaste tor ! debt is heavy.
Willis now moved uneasily. The pathos
of this'-statement. simply made, planted
a certain nnd his mind, engaged
a marriage about which she had at first
prattled happily enough.
But Rosetta was so pretty, so full of
distress! Who could resist the tempta
tion of seeing her once more? Besides,
had he not promised himself to speak
wisely and firmly, as became mature 23
wliep advising inexperienced 17?
Such, however, is man’s inconsistency,
that when the tr.vsting place appeared,
void of the trusting maiden, he experi
enced none of tlie satisfaction popularly
supposed to reward the virtuous. It is
one thing to confront a pair of beseech- j home,
ing lilack eyes, in the role of a stern rep.
resentative of duty, mid quite another to
be anticipated; to find the play played
out and tlie curtain rung down, without
any of the plaudits so dear to self-sacri
fice.
Now, avoiding a procession of damp
pilgrims, in whom the odor of humanity j • sho J’ ,<1 unma _ , ed ;
predominated over that of sanctity, the j
young man strolled down tli e great nave 1
with lowered head and thoughts bitterly,
intent upon the inconstancy, of woman.
Thus lie did not notice a bucket dangling)
from the ^nd of a rope until he struck j
sharply against it.
As he recoiled it rose in the air, and,
he saw it was a rude device for carrying I
water to some workmen who were repair- j
ing the mosaics ornamenting the dome. ■
Willis’ lip curled with intolerance of such !
methods—his glance following the un
wieldy contrivance until it reached a ha.
ten under a board stretched from side to
side of the railing surrounding the dome, seemed suicidal.
sting, and Ills mind,
in a rapid reconstruction of the past,
accused him of cuttimg a poorer figure
than he cared to admit.
“Montanari.” lie said, “’pon my honor
there has been no—wrong—only—”
”1 know that,” interrupted the other,
with passion, “else the signore would not
he standing there—alive. Yet, he mis
takes—there has been wrong. Rosetta is
spoiled for her own people—her simple
She has become a dreamer of
dreams. The Mother of God knows how
it will all end.”
“Well, what are you going to do?”
Willis cried. “What’s the use of bandy
ing words?”
He had opened the little pen knife in
his pocket, resolved that his adversary
ild not
The signore is at least a brave man.
For one chance of life would lie swear to
leave Rome?”
“And the chance?”
“To cross by the plank to the other
side of the dome.”
In spite of himself tlie young man drew
back. A sudden paralyzing fear came
over him. Two hoards had been tied to
gether by the workmen and fixed across
the opening in the dome. They spanned
an aperture 300 feet from the marble
floor of the church; and this was the
bridge he had been invited to traverse.
To even contemplate such a passage
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’’The signore might perhaps like to see
the work nearer, it is very interesting,”
said a low-toned voice at liis elbow in
Italian.
The young man turned quickly, encoun
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in a handsome face of the better type of
peasant.
"it is forbidden to enter the dome dur
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same tongue.
the
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impatiently, he added; “Tlie old sacris
tan is also my uncle, so, if the signore
pleases, 1 will gladly conduct him to the
dome.”
Killis looked at the speaker with more
interest. Roselin had once pointed oul
tlie sacristan, speaking of his great age
and of his relationship ?T5 her. Could this
young man be the cousin-lover against
whom the girl rebelled? His good looks
deserved a stronger hold upon her fancy.
“How did you know I understood Ital
ian?” Willis demanded.
VI heard tlie signore speak to a beggar
at the door.”
Evidently the fellow had been follow
ing him. That he should wish to con
duct him to the dome was a singular
coincidence; but he dismissed as improba
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the hope of a possible fee, and, moved
by an unexplainable impulse, he deter
mined to accept the offer he had been
on the point of decliniii(j.
Ten minutes later, stepping through
the doorway opening ujen the narrow
platform surrounding the dome, lie heard
a sharp click behind him, and turned to
see liis companion coolly pocket the key
he had just removed from the lock.
“The signore appears surprised.” he
said, regarding Willis with a smile of
triumphant malice. “lie has perhaps
never seen a rat caught in a trap. To
understand, he must first regard the
scaffolding closing the platform on the
left.”
The other had mechaitirally turned to
the paint indicated. Certainly the left
was completely blocked by the scaffold
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right.
Still that smile of triumphant malice.
Willis made a step forward, but recog
nizing rather late the value of discretion,
paused before the steely glint of a stilet
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end in only one way. To appeal to the
workmen would be useless. Montanari
would be upon him at the first call for
help.
“This—efiance,” he said at length, with
sarcastic emphasis. “Why do you give
it?”
Montanari shrvgged his shoulders.
“There may be many reasons. If I
killed ti.cknSignore he would not suffer;
but to cross the dome so—even if one
arrives safely at the other side—
The pause was sufficiently eloquent.
Then he continued: “Perhaps it is my
fancy; perhaps I may not wish to commit
murder.”
Willis laughed unpleasantly in appre
ciation of the other’s irony.
“Would you consider your hands clean
if I should take a header off that
board?”
Montanari ignored the question.
“Let me urge the signore to hasten,”
lie said; “it grows late. Every moment
the passage becomes more difficult.’’
“What guarantee have I that you
won't stick your knife under my ribs
the moment I turn my back?’’
“That is as the signore pleases to
think. He has liis choice, and he must
take it—now.”
“I suppose it makes no difference to
you whether I leave Rome by the regu
lar route or by the gate of the Protest
ant cemetery.”
‘ That also is as the signore pleases.”
Willis fingered the knife in his pocket.
After all—why not die like a man, and
not like a monkey capering on a tight
rope? Yet—he hesitated; life is dear—
and there was a chance. So, summon
ing all his resolution, he made liis
choice, setting his feet cautiously upon
the norrow pathway.
Stepping carefully, yet firmly, he was
surprised at the clearness of his head,
the evenness of his heart-beats. He
could not have been more at ease cross
ing tlie floor below. Thus he advanced
nearly to the middle of the planks.
There they were roughly wired together,
and with his weight they began to
bend.
Feeling the support give under his
feet, he involuntarily looked downward.
There was an instant singing in his
ears; a cloud of blackness—then of fire,
spread before his eyes; an icy sweat
started from every pore; his very soul
seemed wrenching itself from his body.
By a great effort of will he stopped,
closing his eyes and striving to master
the vertigo threatening him.
He heard the chant of tlie returning
priests. It surged into his ears, deafen
ing him. Reason departed from his
racked brain, and his imagination, no
longer held in check, rioted. For meas
ureless time he reeled through afi§ce on
a thread suspended from world to
world, the sport of infinity.
But still he crept onward, until at
last, from the darkness surrounding
him, started the affrighted faces of the
workmen, looming vague—monstrous
through the gloom. Powerful hands
seized him as he tottered at the edge
of tlie railing on the other side—a crea
ture from whose haunted face even lit
tle Rosetta would have shrunk.
HE WAITED
“Supposing you wait here in this com
fortable seat by the elevator while I
match these two samples of ribbon,"
said Mrs. Mayfair sweetly to her hus
band, who had been entrapped into going
shopping with her, according to Lippin-
cott’s. When she came back she said
coaTritely;
“Have I kept you waiting an unpar-
(tenably long time, you poor dear?”
Oh, l haven't minded it,” he said
cheerfully. “I just jumped on a car and
ran out to the league grounds and saw
most of the bail game, and then I took
a little spin in the park with Dorton in
his new auto. Did you match the sam
ples?”
•One of them. It's so pnhvoking. I’ll
have to come In again tomorrow, for
they’re closing the store now.”
I "cure female diseases and piles. To
prove that you can be cured I will send
package medicine free. Write MRS. CORA
B. MILLER, Box 6, Kokomo, Ind.
office. In one instance, thafT>f a Mrs.L. A.
Phillips, of Texas, the witnesses say that
he raised her from the dead. Whether
that is literally true or not. there is
little doubt but that the woman would
be in her grave today were it not for this
man's strange -power over human life
and his marvelous control over disease
and death. Mrs. Phillips had been a
hopeless invalid for many years, and for
tlie last five had been bedfast, could lie
on one side only, and was covered with
bed sores. She was suffering from a se
vere complication of diseases. Including
stomach, kidney and female troubles, and
had been under treatment of twelve dif
ferent hospitals and various doctors, all
of whom failed to help her and pro
nounced her ease incurable. Her agonies
were so great that they threw her into
convulsive spasms, while her body was
wasted to skin and bones. All the medi
cines given Tier were without effect, and
she was rapidly nearing her grave, when
she heard of Professor Adkin. Broken in
body, pain-weary, and without faith, but
hoping against hope in tills last desperate
chance, she wrote to him. He replied at
once, saying that he would fake her case,
assuring her that he could and would
save her lifo and . restore her to health.
And notwithstanding what the doctors
had said, he did cure her completely
so that today she is up and about, a well
woman, joyous, thankful, and enthusias
tic. Another case almost equally remark
able was that of iMV. R. A. .Wallen, of
Finey, Mo., who for four years was
paralyzed and was steadily growing more
helpless in spite of all the doctors who
attended him. His cure was so quick and
marvelous that, in a letter he says: "It
wits like bringing the dead to life.” Pro
fessor Adkin cured Mrs. M. W. Nolen, of
Covington, Ga., of a malignant cancer
without the knife or probe; he stopped
the Great White Plague, consumption, in
tlie case of Miss If. L. Kelley, of Seal
Cove, Me., and hundreds of other suffer
ing men and women have likewise been
rescued by this wonderful man who seems
to control some mysterious force not
known to ordinary mortals.
When called upon for an interview Pro
fessor Adkin said:
“Yes, I remember the cases you men
tion, but do not quite understand why
'they should cause any especial astonish
ment, since they are no more wonderful
than scores of other cures I have made
since 1 announced my discovery to tne
world. 1 firmly believe that there is no
disease I may pot cure, and whatever
other men may do or fail to do, I mean
to keep on healing the sick and afflicted
of any disease they may have just as long
as I am able. I make no exceptions, rich
or poor, ‘east Or wes?, wherever they
live, it is all the same to me. Ail who are
sick from any cause may be cured in their
own homes simply by writing and telling
me the name of their trouble or their
principal symptoms, age and sex, and I
will give them my services absolutely
without charge. I feel that it is my duty
to God and man to give freely, to help
all who are afflicted and not to use my.
discovery merely to make money.”
“Do you really mean that anyone who
is sick can write to you to be cured,
without paying you any money?”
“Exactly. I mean just that. I know it
may seem an unusual thing to do, but if
I choose to help the earth's physical un
fortunates without pay, there’s nothing to
prevent my doing so, is there? I have my
own reason for injl course in this matter
and I do not want anyone to feel that
by taking advantage of my offer they
are accepting chenty. I will have my
reward in proving to "the world the great
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THE VERDICT.
Records of the ancient city Georgeana,
founded in 1640, better known at the
present time as York Harbor, Me., con
tain many quaint and unusual stories
of the early life of the town.
At the entrance to York Harbor a bold
_ ,, . promontory known as Stage Neck ex
value **®?** s ®'| tends some distance into the sea, from
ness ot wasting money on doctors and 1 , . , , ,
medicines when it is not necessary.” which formerly in stonny weatoer, a
“What is this discovery?” | temporary light in the form of a lantern
“I can ihow you better than I can -ex- I hoisted upon an upright pole was dis-
plaiu. Have some one who is sick write ! played as a warning to mariners, says
to me and watch the results. If you do so j Harper’s Weekly..
I would prefer that’you select a chronic I 0ne dark winter night a slo0p was
case;- some one whom physicians have
said- can pot be cured. Any doctor may
cure a simple case with a few doses of
medicines, but I want those where both
doctors and medicines have failed. Tell
anyone who wants to be cured to write
me, addressing Professor Thomas F.'Ad
kin. Office 234 N, Rochester, N. Y."
“But how can you cure those at a dis
tance; those whom you never see?”
“Just as easily and just as surely as
.'though I went, to them or they came to
ine. Distance makes no difference.
Whether they live one or a thousand
miles away is all the same.. A letter is
all that-is ; necessary to enlist my aid.
What other men may or may not be able
to do, how they fail or what they charge
makes on difference to me: My power is
supreme.”
Investigation proves that Professor Ad-
kin’s claims are' more than borne out
by the facts, and that he fulfills' his
promise of free service to the very let
ter. ' - • ■*
wrecked on these rocks. A survivor, on
being questioned about the catastrophe,
said:
“The vessel struck, turned over on her
side and the skipper and another barrel
of whiskey rolled overboard.”
The local coroner was summoned and
this somewhat startling verdict was re
turned:
“We find that the deceased fell from
the masthead and was killed; he rolled
overboard and was drowned; he floated
ashore and froze to death, and the rats
Sit him up alive!”
SHOUT CHANGED.
(From The Yonkers Statesman.)
Yeast—I Hear you went down to Palm
Beach, for a change?
Crimsonbeak—Yes, and I got “short-
cltonged '