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Show DIVER'S DAUGHTER I FOLLOWS CALLING. DETROIT OIHL IS LAVINQ UP i WEALTH TMROUflH HAZARD OUS PROFESSION. MISS BAKER'S FIRST DESCENT i i Recovered Diamond Ring from Wreok . ed Steamer and Wae Later Pre- enttd with It aa Reward I Undaunted by Pain, llettolt Detroit girl diver. Vla I Kianrea Maker I regarded aa a protege by all the aallora of I he great lake Hhe la II yeara nf age. nnd haa laid tip a eomfor'able bank aecunnt by following berhatard oua railing lltr fltel prnfeaalonnl work w when the raited ItOOM wtirlli of rtipHir from the tblp nf W II Hlevena, whlrh unk In SO feet nf water In Ijike Krl" teteral year Mia Maker a father, ("apt V 11 linker, wa a captain nf diver, and from the flrel time he waa allowed tn go down lo the titer alone, a he uted to watrli ber father a wrecking alilp leave the dock and long to go with him The amblllnn to heroine a diver matured In tier ft the grew older, and the deplored the fate which had nindi inned her to lie n girl At laat her deelre to become a diver overcame the objection of her friend and the began making wreck lug trip with her father, nnd noon became hi Innparable mmnnlon Mho made a itudy of every part of the machinery connected in any way with diving and In time learned to command the wrecking boat with great klll and atauranco lltr flret dewctnl wna In l.ako tin inn, where a big wooden barge had tune down, and Ixfnro the wrecking learner had reached the mt whera ih barge had atink the owner apoke in Mia llaker, regretllug the Iota or a diamond ring which waa lu the cabin In dearrlblng the aenaatlnn ot tho Initial trip ho mM that thn reel IliK at the outart waa na If aome great mature with a llinuaand arm wa prrlng her gtnlly but firmly on ail aldt. and If In a few mln tilt her breath would bo rut off tn tirdy, but the wa far from fright tneil and runllnuid her deacent until tbe thadow of llm atinken barge hxim ed up It foru her Shu had a atrange feeling of buoyancy, nnd the 20 iomid ot lead altnihod to hir fret nt'inod no heavltr than leather anlea o the follow td her companion to tho wall of the iiinken ablp and Willi I Ida aid tllmbed over them At tht lnt Vtn eiiMirleuoed ae vtte pnlna In her head and felt aa It her iib'ao went golnu to bleed, but, atlll undniinted abe reached lh cabin ot IbH the barge where he enlernl and with HaH the aid ot Ihe elertrie llirriJt bee vBSh Ik It nought nut Ihe) corner of the Wrffii cabin whlrh contained a amall aland yjCv ' iikiii which waa a tiny ho rontalnlflg Q-'t the much dealred diamond ring r" J In her haote to reach tt ahe alum QMmI bled and fell, and for the moment waa rTPtWl conaiime.1 by a terrible fear, aa the Eur' pnaaure of the water, tntjether wlih wBlf' breathing the romprmaed air, had flmil now became altnoel overpowering, but Cu9l ahe quickly gained her aelf rnntrol, Banc and with tbe hoi In ber band returned H9fr In the deck at the wrecker Hrarfc A a reward for thli exploit Vltt H llaker wa prwaentetl with the dla LiVB , niond ring ahe had renivmivl, and It ILB la now In her imaapaaliMi jH The ring mittkeil :, IwRlnnlng ot HH her fortune, a ho had proved that saafl 8ht Reached tht Cabin ot tht Darflt H Whert She Entered. M he could live tinner Ihe water, and H to be able tn do thl ineana that a H raon I worth anywhere from f0 H to 1100 a da) to a wrecking rompany H Aa W out of ever) 100 men who tie- H r(id Into the water ot Ihe lake H will In a few minute begin lo aurfer H from bleeding at thn none, bead epllt H ting palm and urforatlun, that le B why all gooil diver from one end of gH tho great lake tn Ihe other may be B counted on one linker and toe H Mlaa llaker now began following Jt up her adventure with practical work, HHJ and alio early dlacovrrrd tho fact that HH ho wa fltted for a captain of dlveia HH Initead ot a diver alone, a tbe loca -8H tlon of the Wtntvt-W) which - BJJ ha btn aearclicd for fur yoara haa M proven H |