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Show MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP SE 4 If the ocean has its mysteries, so has the ship that rides it, and wh.Ich furnishes the more baffling puzzles would be difficult to determine. deter-mine. Ships leave ports and aro never seen nor heard of again,1 and In some respects moro inexplicable still passengers board vessels and suddenly forever vanish from human hu-man ken. The strange disappearance of Dr. Diesel, the famous inventor, Is a case in point which must be fresh in everybody's mind. One day the early part of this month, it will be remembered. Dr. Diesel left Antwerp on board one of the Great Eastern Railway Company's Com-pany's steamers for Harwich, whence he proposed hurrying to London to keep an important business busi-ness engagement. On board the etcamer the doctor appeared to bo In the best of health and spirits and at 10 o'clock p. m. retired to his cabin for the night. Next morning ho was nowhere to be found, and the mystery of his disappearance remains still unsolved. un-solved. Again, not many months ago the steamship Baldbr, on arrival' in the Firth of Forth from Gothenburg) had a queer story to unfold through the mouth of her skipper. It concerned tho uncanny disappearance disap-pearance of a second-class lady passenger. The last seen of her was late at night, when one of tho stewardesses noticed her pacjng tho deck. Tho vessel was men tn the North Sea, Afterward the passenger's berth was found to be unoccupied, and, not only the lady, but her baggage, consisting of a bag, had vanished. Where and how no one knows. Could anything be moro baffling than the following? It occurred on board a s'teamer between Lelth and Orkney. Among tho passon-gers passon-gers were two slaters, who were traveling to attend the funeral of a third sister. When off Bell Lighthouse one of the women retired to her bunk, ' ' ' " ' i v the other, as tho night was fine, j l"M preferring to remain a little longer ' J on dock. That was tho last seen ? 3j of her. . ! M Another amazing Incident' was , i $ that reported by the captain of a ' ,'Sj Dutch steamer, the Van Noort. on $ his arrival at Singapore. The par-ties par-ties Immediately concerned were 5 three sisters of- German nationality t who were passengers aboard, and $ had been touring in Java. 4 ifj After having spent the evening i$ on deck, chatting and reading, they were seen one night going to their cabin about 10 o'clock. Next morn-ing morn-ing the attendant could get no 556 answer to his knocks at the cabin vl door, and, on an entry being made, tho room was found empty. On the table was a noto ad- ? dressed to the captain, which briefly brief-ly stated that he was to have their l"-. luggage, and on a desk was a bot-tie bot-tie containing a few drops of P chloroform. From this It was con- jectured that tho three sisters had each taken chloroform, and then 'j2J& climbed through the porthole into the sea! , & As a final example may be men- rf tioncd tho case of a vivacious young -woman who disappeared from a steamer Whlle crossing from Bel- ' l fast to Fleetwood. At 11 o'clock p. m. the young woman was seen by the stewardess, whom she asked to bring her a cup of tea at 7 o'clock next morning, as sho wlshod to catch an early w9 train to Manchester. At the hour named the stewardess took In the tea as desired, but was amazed to find the cabin empty. It was surmised the girl had fallen fal-len overboard while walking In her sleep, or climbed through tho port-hole port-hole Into the sea two theories which had not much of the element f of probability to recommend them. 1 |