The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-05

and calms, and every bucket of refuse thrown over brought the man-eater
 up from astern with a rush. He finally lost the trail of this ship in chasing something she threw over, and was 1000 miles or more at sea. He swan n every direction hoping to pick up her scent or wake; now madly, again swimming slowly. He dived down quarter of a mile, searching for the
 bottom which was three miles beyond
 but was driven up by the cold to swim
 along the surface on calm days.
 Meeting an outgoing steamer, the
 man-eater trailed it up the coast to
 Barbadoes. Here he found small
 sailing vessel bound to the westward,
 and so reached the Aspinwall in the
 Caribbean sea. The water was in- tensely hot and he laid out in deep
 water cooling his massive bulk. occa- sionally chasing the great rays whose leap from and return to the water
 sounded like the discharge of cannon.
 One day the shark entered the har-
 bor late in the afternoon and swan in
 the direction of the anchorage. The (AOH OL uAlE 0lLlp HI HNNSAAAAAS' They had topgallant sail overheard, 1 and were swimming in it, suspecting
 the presence of sharks. The man. l eater swan beneath and around it and 1 was seized with a frenzy at the scent i that drifted away. He began to swim i rapidly, first in one direction, then in another, then circling the ship about ! twtnty feet below the surface, then ris- 1 ing. At this time one of the sailors, 1 fore venturesome than the rest, swan out into the channel. and the shark 1 catching the scent, swung its tail from side to side, and darted upward, barring it's notched fin to the sunlight.
 "Ahoy, there!'' came from the rore- l top. Come aboard!" The lookout did not utter the word
 shark" but the swimmer turned and l struck out. ..
 Way third cutter!" rang out from 1 the quartermaster.
 The boat struck the water with a crash, naked men fell into her and | seizing the oars gave way. Men never 1! pulled like this before; yet the man in 1 the bow, boat-hook in hand, urged
 them on in Gods name. The swimmer was still twenty feet away when the 1 shark shot ahead, assuming titantic
 shape He turned slightly, though not l upon his back, and for a second the 1 man in the bow saw its ghastly form
 against the blue, then in a moment Of horror realized that he was too late.
 1 Then came the continuation in tht
 career of this insatiate monster
 wounded to the death, but so insen- sible to injury that the scent Of his
 own life blood reached his brain be:
 fore the sense of pain, his first move being not alarm but desire. Frenzie6 by the lust for more blood, rapine and slaughter, the man-eater turned and
 dashed through the deep red cloud, ar1C
 was rushing savagely from side to sidt
 in search of himself, when second
 shot cut the spinal marrow. The grea mass dropped inert. For the first time the poferful tail did not respond; thu huge. lips gripped tightly, the rows o gleaming teeth erect for a moment then the small expressionless eyes con . vulsively turned inward, the pilot fishe darted wildly about the dropping ireat and open gills, the black and White re moras were along his taWny sides hart , and fast; the man-eater was dead. :, i In one of the great British museum: : is the mounted and splendid specimen , of shark. The length is given a! twenty-five feet, and tho card attacnet 5 to it states that 1t is an adult specimen 2 of the white shark or man-eater
 Carcharodon, It was donated by tn officers of one of his majesty's ships : It is a perfect specimen of this rar z shark, if we except inc wound or motel : on the dorsal fin.-Charles F. Holder Il |, Metropolitan Magazine