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Show UV'CLY PlOKt WTM A SHARK. f errifyinj Experience With a Kan Eatt by a Han Who Was Fishing. William Muller, an attorney of Deni ion, Tex., had an experience with 8 xn&n eating shark at Bockport in tht gulf. "I hired a small sailboat" said Mr. Mulifcr in relating his unpleasant experience, "and Was out some distance from land when I baited my hook and cast it out I used anew clothesline 100 to 150 feet long for a cord, and the hook was quite large, probably six to seven Inches long. ' 'I felt a jerk, and in an instant tht line was under the boat's rudder. I asked ask-ed the boatman to reverse the sail in or der that the line could be cleared. 3 was oblivious to all except the big fish, find as the boom swung around it caught me on the back between the shouldera. I was tumbled overboard head foremost tn the water, some 40 to 50 feet deep. Ab struck the water the fish that I had sanght, a man eating" shark, laid hold of the calf of my right leg. The pain was fearful, and I felt myself jerked rapidly down toward the bottom of tfa eea. : "In ray fall I did" not relax my hold on the lide, and as soon as I realized my position I knew that my life depended - ability to hcJd-joiulajfcb0 cord. The struggle I'JLaow was not long, m to me it seemed like an age. The cord was fastened to a beam in the boat, and ach by inch I gained on my antagonist and as soon as I appeared on the surfo the boatman came to my assistance. TLi shark retained its grip on my leg unt say body was entirely out of tiie water, and s?en then it did not let go until the boatman knocked it off with an oas. When I was safely on the inside, how-erer, how-erer, we pulled for the shore, and as tviy hook was securely fastenad in th mor$h of the shark no troubla Tvaa experienced ex-perienced in landing the fish. It w Selecting: a College, i The wise parent, in trying p select a I college for his son, will ask first, not where the most learned professors are still less, of course, where thtest baseball base-ball team is, or where most sons of millionaires mil-lionaires congregate but where the tone of social life is purest and manliest; man-liest; where the young men behave neither nei-ther as young monkeys nor as rakes, where the conditions for complete moral autonomy are most fully established. At the Bame time he will ask what college col-lege best understands its - business, which is to impart that culture, intellectual intel-lectual and moral, which is essential to free manhood, and does not attempt to forestall the university by dabbling in professional knowledge or erudition. Thomas Davidson in Forum. |