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JUS! 1 1 B i ] | ro-.i''"'-' 4 * ' ? ?? vu jte I M: \ * A mu > k. :.>' Sffe? i m:: r KS v : ' x JL -r - - , ' ' ' 0 g, 1 . ' v G. Fi ?i????1? * A HUGE SEA MONSTER. I Landed After a Straggle of Two Days and Nights. The following is taken from the Tampa Daily Times: Through the courtesy of the Wide u/??ld Moorovino Pontain Thnmnsnn fT VI VU^VMiu A s:*. is permitted to publish the artist's conception of his thrilling battle with the deep sea monster, which lasted for two days and a night and which was the most nerve-racking v experience that ever befell mariner > " i or sportsman. In the terrible ordeal which followed, Captain Thompson lost sixteen pounds in weight as a result of the terrific strain and was near complete exhaustion before his !' capture was safely landed. 'The creature's enormous strength was evi, denced by the fact that it knocked the stern, rudder and propeller off a thirty-one ton yacht while in a dying condition. It also knocked 16 feet of temporary piling from underneath the trestle of the Florida East i Coast railway at Knights Key, Fla. These facts are authentic and can be f verified. , The monster was forty-five feet long and weighed thirty thousand pounds. Its liver alone weighed 1,700 pounds, or more, than ten full grown men put together. It is twenty-three feet around the body and its tail measured ten feet from tip to tip. j It had swallowed an octopus weighing 1,500 pounds which was still alive in its stomach whenj caught. i It could have swallowed twenty ' Jonahs without suffering the slight- j est pangs of indigestion. It smashed a boat into thousands . of pieces and crushed the rudder and j propeller of a thirty-one-ton yacht j with a single swish of its mighty; A_ il tan. Five harpoon thrusts and 150 large calibre rifle bullets only served ! to increase its fury and*it took five days to finally kill it. The battle lasted thirty-nine hours ?two days and a night?in open sea with the monster dragging a j small boat at express train speed for hundreds of miles. Smithsonian authorities believe that the creature was an inhabitant of depths more than 1,500 feet below the surface and that it was blown i up by some subterranean or volcanic upheaval which injured its diving apparatus so it was unable to return to its native depths. Its hide is three inches thick and , \ r re [ have o Hors :hat has lumber ight. Se / lext pur < rank r . .5 1 I enabled to withstand the most enor-1 mous water pressure, a pressure almost inconceivable to men. Its eyes, which are very small, have no lids and were never closed, indicating that it lived at a depth where eyes were pf no avail. The creature is not classified in natural history, the genus or species is unknown and it. is not only the most remarkable zoological specimen but the largest specimen of the fish ' tribe known to history. Although the largest fish ever captured, scientists claim it was only a baby of its tribe and if it had lived to attain full growth^it would have been two and one-half times as large. Every undertaking establishment on the Florida east coast from Jacksonville to Key West gave up their entire supply qff formaldehyde to preserve the monster and over nineteen barrels were used. It was mounted by J. S. Warmbeth, the celebrated taxidermist of the Smithsonian institution, who was: also chosen to accompany Admiral j Peary on his famous trip to the Pole. | It is now exhibition in Tampa, at; the city dock in front of the?Tampa Bay hotel, on board Captain Thompson's large sea-going yacht which he built at a cost of $30,000. SHOULD NOT SELL COTTON. Summers Calls on Farmers to Hold Staple. "Do not rush your cotton to the j market in case of a sudden and sharp j break in either direction." That is the advice which A. C. Summers,, State commissioner of agriculture,1 Monday to the cotton farmers of ' this State. "The fact that the cotton i markets of the world are closed to-! rioTr inrlipsitoQ that thoro will hp crimp heavy barrage work followed by snip- j ing on the part of the bear interests/, < when they get an opportunity, and 1 the farmers must not be startled by j < any blustering attack. j i "Having attended all of the con-! 1 ferences at which the cotton situation i has been considered by the represen- f tatives of the farmers of the South- 1 ern States, I wish to state most posi- 11 timely that cotton, even while the war ] was in progress, had an intrinsic: value of not less than 40 cents. This < estimate is based not alone upon the i size of the crop, but upon the cost of ] product;on and the losses on ac- j i count of drought and other causes. Also, the cost of replacing this crop i j with next year's crop is not an in- ] siderable factor that the farmer must 1 be permitted to figure upon, as the i j CEI\ I ii hand es a 7 * been s of years fVIA kn ^ lllV^ chase. t ; 1 Bam merchant does in a similar conditioi With the war practically over, witi the enormous war risk insurance re moved from trans-Atlantic shipping there is every reason to declare tha cotton is actually and intrinsicall; worth more today than it was yester day, because the opportunity to mark et it is so greatly improved. . "There will be either a sharp de cline or a sharp upward movement and the purpose of this statement i to urge our farmers to hold their cot ton until they can get not less thai 35 cents?and then to keep on hold ing it. The situation is in our hands and the farmers will win if they d< not permit themselves to be impose( upon and the South robbed of mil lions of dollars. At $1 a pound Tex as would yet be the loser on this crop, and Soiith Carolina owes it t< her sister States to stick with then in this figh? to hold cotton until there shall be reached a price which wil be fair and reasonably profitable. We do not wish the farmers of Soutl Carolina to take advantage of anj situation in an improper manner, bul when we consider how the South suffered in the early fall of 1914 while other farming sections were faring better, we must feel that the farmers are entitled to about all thai they can get out of this present crop." RAINBOW DIVISION. r # Americans Cover Themselves With Glory. With the American Army on the Sedan Front, Nov. 7, 10:30 P. M.? It was contingents of the noted Rainbow Division and of the First Di v.siuii iudi maue ine nnai wmnwina dash into Sedan. It is now permissible to mention the divison which participated in. the famous drive that cleared that part of France west of the Meuse occupied by the Americans. It was the Second Division which, operating at the center, made the strenous push on Lhe afternoon of the day the Germans began to weaken and pressed orward until it controlled the heights ?elow Beaumont. This made possible the shelling of the Mezeleres-Metz railroad. The Fifth Division (regulars) mossed the Meuse under machine *un fire, aided by the Thirty-second Division and covered themselves with ?lory for four consecutive days. Continuing its success in the Ar*onne Forest, .the Seventy-seventh D'vision fought its stubborn way upward along Bourgonne Wood, in coniunction with the Seventy-elgth. fED=_ a lot of the fii nd Mul I 4 hipped here i >, and the pric fore making y * \ \ % berg, Bam It If ,t r '? y ' i ; . 4 ; < 1 . 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