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SEA SCAVENGER
FRIEND OF MAN
Expert Says Sharks Can Supply
Good Food and Fine
Leather.
FLESH HAS DELICATE FLAVOR
Scientist Gives Some Interesting In
formation About Fish Which Seems
to Have Been Grossly Libeled
Particular About Food.
Now York. From time Immemorial
the Rhnrk lias been considered as an
enemy to man and a scavenger of the
en. Ho IlllH been ntctiircil nu (lie
cannibal of the deep, and In fiction
nas been painted ns tho monster who
lurks nbout the Ill-fated ship In order
to devour the unfortunates who may
have met their death In a pile or on
the reef. We. therefore, for Koaora-
Klons hnvo cherished an antipathy for
this creature of the sea and have been
very willing to accept as fact nil of
these stories, never stonnlm: to con
sider thnt perhaps after all the shark
mlgnt have a few points In his favor.
To begin with, the shark does not
llvo exclusively on the flesh of man,
nnyB Dr. Allen Holers of Pratt Insti
tute. Brooklyn, In the current number
of the Journal of Industrial and En
gineering Chemistry of the American
Chemical society. In fact, there are
'only u few snecles who would eat hu-
inian flesh, even If It were possible for
them to secure It. The principal spe
cies considered a man eaten the tiger
(shark, probably has seldom had the
pleasure of this delicacy. Sharks, like
'all other tlsh, live on the smaller llsh,
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Boy Scout Saves Mother
and Pet Canary at Fire
New York. Klf teen-year-old
Melvln IYtcrkln carried his
mother, hysterical from fright,
out of their burning home at (i!
Pennington avenue, Woodhnven,
Queens, and then, dodging past
firemen, who would have Inter
cepted him, rushed back Into
thu blazing house ami saved her
pet canary.
The fire, which started at 07
Dennlnu'ton avenue, Ignited the
roof of the adjoining building
and was crackling fiercely In the
attic when Melvln nwoke. He
found his mother, Mrs. Herbert
Peterkln, In the next room and
shouted to hei to lice. She re
fused. The boy argued with her
until the celling started to sag.
Then he picked Ik up nnd,
though she Is twice his weight,
bore her bodily to tho street.
Then ho rescued the canary.
The boy Is a member of Troop
'2, Woodhnven Uiy scouts.
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SAYS WIFE
Forced to Support Husband If
Out of Job.
Soviet Marriage Code Provides Prln-
cipals Must Support Each
Other.
J.bndon. A llusslnn wife Is required
to support her husband If she be able
(to do so and he Is unable to work
nnd In need of her support, under the
mnrrlago laws of solet Itussla. A
copy of this code, translated Into Eng
llsh, has Just reached London from
the Russian People's Commissariat of
Justice.
It provides that married persons
Bhnll be expected to support each oth
er. Should one refuse, and the other
ho what Is classed as a "needful," un
(fit to work, the latter has tho right to
japply to tho department of social so
(curlty to compel tho husband or wife,
OF WAR INSPECTS TANK CORPS
(bus upholding the proverb that the
big fish eat the little ones.
Sharks Devour Food Fish.
Sharks travel In schools or singly
ami are found most abundant where
food tlsh are plentiful. They are es
pecially fond of the mullet, menhaden,
mackerel and sea trout. Thus It will
be seen that they are migratory and
at various seasons are found In differ
ent waters. They are naturally warm
water fish, which accounts for the
large number to be found In the Gulf
of Mexico, along the coast of Florida
and the West Indies. Being rapid and
powerful swimmers, they often follow
ships for hundreds of miles, picking up
food as It Is thrown over the side of
the vessel. Thus their diet at such
times Is not unlike that of our domes
tic hog and poultry. It Is claimed by
fisher folk that the shark will not eat
unsound food, which shows him even
more particular than our friend the
porker. Why, then, If he Is so clean
in his habits of life, should we dis
criminate against him?
Tho bureau of fisheries for several
WALNUT IS
Is Taking Place of Oak for
Furniture.
Dea Moines School Board Makes
Interesting Post-War
Discovery.
Des Moines. Desks and furniture In
many of the lies Moines schools soon
will be of American walnut, and the
school board attributed the change
from ipiarter-sawed oak to walnut to
tho war. The secretary of the board
says be believes ho was able to get
walnut because It was supposed to
have become so scarce that everyone
bad ceased to look for It.
Incidentally, the walnut to be used
lias a varied traveling history. It was
originally cut and seasoned for the
t'ulted States government for nlrplane
propellers. It had been sold by the
United Slates to France, and when the
war ended France turned the wood
back to this country. It was sold and
resold several times and was loaded
for shipment to Chicago when the
school board started -out to buy quar
ter sawed oak to build desks and fur
niture. The oak, heretofore the standard for
school furniture, was found to be too
costly by the board of school commis
sioners. A few dealers submitted
prices around $1,10 a thousand board
feet and did not appear overly anxious
for the order even at that figure.
It was then that the secretary of
the board heard of the shipment of
walnut and Investigated, lie was Im
mediately given a price of $:('.'() a thou
sand Teet ami bought $10,000 worth of
It. Since that time the boaid of com
missioners has purchased a considera
ble quantity of unseasoned walnut to
MUST WORK
as the case may he, to pay support.
Mutual consent of husband and wife
or merely the desire of one or them
to be freed from the other may lie con
sidered as grounds for divorce. Local
Judges are authorized fo hear divorce
cases, but their decisions aie subject
to appeal.
The iiiutrlumnlnl age Is fixed at 1S
for men and 10 for girls. Both must
lie of sound mind anil mutually desir
ous of marriage. Differences of roll
glon or vows of celibacy are no impedi
ment. Married persons may choose
to bear the surname of the bride or
the bridegroom, or of their Joint
names. Marriages contracted In no
cordanco with religious forms are not
binding unless tho union Is registered
under the prescribed form or ci so
viet 1st marriages. Old forms of mar
riage law, or, as It Is termed, "iho
legalized forging together of men nnd
women," are abolished.
Under tho laws of succession In the
years has endeavored to Interest the
people In this country In' using shark
meat as an edible product, with u cer
tain amount of success. In fact, thatv
species of shark known as the dog fish
Is being canned In large uuntltlcs and
sold under the name of gray llsh. Cer
tain fisheries on the New England
coast are removing the head, tall and
litis and selling the product in Boston
and New York as deep-sea sword llsh.
Italians Eat 'Em.
In Boston, also shark meat Is helng
sold as such to the Italian trade, who
nppreclate Its food value and enjoy Its
delicate flavor. Why, then, should we
not take a lesson from the Italians and
ncqulrc the shark-eating habit?
For the last live or six years the
writer has been Interested In develop
ing a method for converting shark
skins Into a merchantable leather. As
n result of this work several processes
have been devised which have been
assigned to a company operating fish
eries In the south.
A conservative estlmnte Indicates
that for a catch of '-'.000 sharks dally,
at an average weight of 200 pounds,
there wouhl be -lOO.tKX) pounds of tlsh.
As at least f0 per cent could he used
for human consumption, wo would
have UOO.(MK) pounds dally, or 71,000,
000 pounds annually. Assuming that
the market price could be set nt 10
cents, we have a saving of $7,300,000.
NOW CHEAP
be made Into school furniture nt prices
less than the seasoned wood cost.
The school furniture Is made by
manual training instructors who arc
employed the entire year nround In
tho schools, and In this way the cost
of manufacture Is reduced to about
one-hall'.
Since It has become known thnt tho
school board Is buying wnlnut, the sec
retary of the bmird says, the price Is
going up, owing to the Increased do.
maud.
WILD FOWL FROZEN IN ICE
Trapped by Sudden Change In Tern.
pcrature Hundreds Die in
California.
Chlco, Cal. Frozen Into the Ice on
fSoosp lake, hundreds of waterfowl died
In a recent storm and dozens of birds
were found on the windward side of
the lake so securely caked In Ice that
they were helpless and could be picked
up without resistance being offered.
Large numbers of waterfowl wero
attracted to the lake preceding the
storm by a warm spell, but with the
sudden drop In temperature mud hens,
geese nnd ducks were trapped without
a chance to escape, and they were
soon covered with an Icy spray Into
which they were frozen.
Flying Cost Soars Higher.
San Francisco. The high cost of
flying went up a notch here.
Companies engaged In commercial
aviation published n tariff Increasing
the price of ten-minute "sight-seeing"
flights 1M per cent to $ B.riO and fix
ing the price of the same period of
"stunt" (lying at $'-'0.
Increased cost of airplane parts,
operation and upkeep was given us
the reason.
soviet code, none but the "needful"
and the state may Inherit properly.
The estates of emigrants and of rebels
are subject to conlNcatlou by the state.
MAN FALLS, LANDS ON GIRL
Typist as a Human Cushion Saves
Window Cleaner's Life on
Trenton Street,
Trenton, N. .T. Acting as a hiiuinn
cushion, Miss llden Kugler, a pretty,
young stato-hoife stenographer, pnib
ably saved the life or Augustus .Mil
lor, a window (leaner, when the lnt
ter, while nt work on u second story
window of an olllco building fell anil
Inmled on the young woman as she
was passing. Miss Kugler, with
breath almost knocked out of her. fell
Into the street and Miller hunted on
his feet.
The girl, except for being hndly
shaken, was unharmed and was nhlo
to go to (he stato house and finish her
work. Miller's left foot was sprained
and he went to a hospital for treat-
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Nebraska
Given in Brief Items For
Busy Readers.
Overall clubs huc been organized by
students In the schools of Itrrueslon.
Work has begun on the Scottsbluff
Kimball state and federal aid highway.'
The Knights of Columbus of McCook
plan to erect a new home to cost nbout
Sltf.000.
All North Platte dance balls now
operate under license Issued by the
Welfare Hoard.
Farmers of Cage county are plan
ning to sow a large acreage of sugar
cniie this .season.
All high school students at Norfolk
are members if the newly organized
Overall and Denim clulw.
I iovernor MeKelvie bus Issued a
procliniiiiiloii calling upon the people
of Nebraska to observe .Monday, May
0, as "Mother's Day."
The annual conference for touchers
and those Interested In vocational edu
cation will be held at the university
state farm, Lincoln, May .'II to .Mine .1.
A summer camp for Lincoln business
women and working girls Is helm:
planned by members ()f the Klwanis
club. It win be held on an eight-acre
tract at Mllford.
Krlckson will Join with the farmers
and ranchmen of Wheeler county in
one big community or commercial
club to work for the bettering of con
ditions In the county.
Thus far this .onr IM.'IO motor ve
hicle licenses have been Issued to Ne
maha county automobile owners.
is estimated that more than .S'-M.OOO
has been taken In from this .source,
.lobn O'Connor, county assessor of
I'odge c ty, bus adopted a method
of advertising assessment returns in
the newspapers In order to catch the
lax shirker and i:iiullzo the tax bur
den. .Miss I'.uimn Mcscrxoy of Fremont
was selected by Dodge county demo
crats us their nominee for state repre
sentative. She was the only woman in
the state to be iioinimited and If elect
ed will be the llrst woman to sit In the
legislature.
It Is reported that the Sinclair Oil
and Itellnliig company, the largest In
dependent company in the country, Is
seriously considering Alliance as the
site for one of the largest refineries
In the west, tn cure for Its large pro
duct ion In Wyoming.
Hall county sugar beet growers were
given a pleasant surprise the other day
when they received a letter from the
American Bret Sugar company enclos
ing a 1 per ton bonus for all beets
they raised during the lust season.
There was no obligation on the part of
the sugar company to grant this bonus.
One of the most unbpie gardens In
Nebraska this year will he planted nt
Stella by Mr. and Mrs. duy Harris,
who recently returned from a trip to
all Latin-Aiiierhan state. All the
seeds were brought Horn Peru and
Chile, and seeral of the vegetables
that will be grown are unknown to the
I'nited States.
Eph .lohnsim, farmer near Uehllng,
has sent to the soil survey department
of the state university samples of lire
clay taken from his farm for decision
as to the prospects in commercial de
wlopmciit. Two acres of farm land
have a sub-soil of the clay, declared
to be of excellent llro-roslstlng quality
and great tensile strength.
Old residents or I he Norfolk vicinity
say that the rise of the Flkhnrn river
at that point the past week was the
highest in twenty .scars. The flood
partially destroyed the Northwestern
bridge, live miles west of Norfolk, mid
caused thousands of dollars' damage
to properly all along the river from
north of Norfolk to points below Fre
mont. The death of former governor Silas
A. Ilolcomb In Hcllinghain, Wash., re
calls, that in the past the years seven
Judges and former Judges of the Ne
braska siipienie court have passed
away. They are: Conrad Ilollonbcck,
.Tnnunry 1M, llll."; Mauniih II. Iloeso,
September 'JS, 1017; Francis (. Humor,
August 10, mis; Thomas O. '. Harri
son. ,May 'Ji, ISMS); Samuel II. Sedg
wick, December H.'i, mill ; Albert ,1.
Cornish, April IS. 1!20; Silas A. Hol
i ib. April 'J.", isrjo.
Many families living In the south
part of Norfolk were driven from their
homes last week when the Klkhorn
river overflowed and Inundated a large
area of the city,
While (ioNcruor MeKelvie was In
Heat rice last week be discovered a
deed to a half-mile of the south Jetty
of the harbor at (inhesion, Tex. It Is
owned by the Slate of Nebraska.
Ileturn of Wjoiulng cut'lo and sheep
from Nebraska ranges, where they
have been feeding during tho winter,
has already begun, according to re
ports from O'Neill.
It cost a Lewelleu man !.") In fines
when he was found with fourteen
muskrat skins In Ids possession unlaw
fully. Th" Overall club movement has
reached Nebraska and organizations
have been perfected at Oinalia, Lin
coln, Fremont, Norfolk nnd u number
of other places over tho state.
The total cost of the Hiram Johnson
cnmpalgii In Nebrnska was $1,072,
according lo u statement filed by (he
Johnson campaign manager, in the
olllco of the secretary of state at Lincoln.
'me Farmers' union or lumiin vicin
ity has Incorporated for .?ur,000 ami
will conduct a general store at Inman.
Counly roads are nigh Impassable In
enstern us well us western Nebraska,
because of the continued rains, reports
say.
Dr. Calvin II. French of New York
lias accepted the presidency of Hast
ings college to succeed U." I. Crone,
who resigned recently.
Stock losses In the range countrv of
western Nebraska, as the rc-hill of' the
recent storms, were the heaviest In
many years, reports say.
On .May II voters or Scottsbluff will
pass on u propositi,,), , M,n, u,0 ,.tv
lo Hu. sum ,,r JSI00.000 for the purpose
or constructing new school buildings.
The iwenty-story American State
"niils building to he erected at Omaha
will be the largest structure between
liicago and Seattle, it s said.
In a light over the loc-ition or the
new county court house between Co
liiiHliiw and Platte Center, Columbus
was selected by a majority of l.r.oo.
I 'clayed by the spring rains in I(!,
planting of .seed potatoes, Holt ( nt
limners are guarding their cellars with
shotguns against p.ss,,. nu.-s, ac
cording to reports ft out O'Neill.
-Mrs. Kllzaboth Donovon, !l years
old, or (ienevn, Is probably the oldest
woman voter in Nebraska to east
vote at the recent primary election
She went to the polls unassisted.
The Omaha. Lincoln nn.t it..,.t,-i...
Intel-urban will have lis Hue etended
from University Place, a suburb of
Lincoln, to Oniaba, during l!)il, ac
cording to reports from Lincoln.
Lancaster .ounty fan -s report
that many fields of wheat have been
hudly damaged by the eany spring
winds. Where It was not damaged by
the winds pnc.pects for a good crop
are excellent.
The Lincoln County Agricultural as
sedation Is moving the fair buildings
over to the grounds leased bv the asso
ciation at North Platte. ' Thev arc
planning to double their grandstand
seating capacity.
The posioihce appropriation hll
which nuihorl7.es establishment of tin
iransconiinentul nir mall route from
New York to San Francisco by wu
of Omaha, has received the otllcl'al slg
nature of President Wilson.
Six thousand head f sheep and ."00
bend of cattle were frozen to death In
bllzards which swept western Ne
braska while they were being shipped
buck to Wyoming after wintering In
Holt county, according to reports.
Attorneys for O. V. Langley of
Coitland. found guilty of murder in
Hie second degree for slaying Justice
Chris I'fclffcr and sentenced to '20
years In the Nebraska penitentiary,
have dropped the ease and Langley
must serve his sentence.
Funeral services over the remains of
Silas A. Holcomli, former governor of
Nebraska, member of the Mule su
preme court nnd state board of con
trol, were held at Ilroken P.ow. Judge
Holcomh died at the home of a daugh
ter ut llellingliam, Wash. He was tt'2
years old.
According to railroad crop reports
Nebraska soil s in splendid condition
for planting, and the winter wheat Is
practically made, providing the iimimI
warm weather follows. P.urlingion ex
perls esilniate winter wheat, based mi
a full crop, at U'2 per cent In eastern
portion, .SS per cent In the central por
tion. S!) per cent In the south and
southeastern portion and OS per cent
In the south-central and southwestern
portion.
movement Is well under way in
Nebraska to erect on the campus or the
Slate Fnivei-slty at Lincoln a S1,0(N),-
on structure as a stale memorial to
l he OO.oon Nebraska soldiers who
fought In the world war, veterans of
the civil war, the Spanish-Aiiierlcan
and the Mexican wars and those who
battled the Indians in the early days.
The regents or the university have ap
propriated the site and the organiza
tion for collecting the necessary mon
ey has been perfected nnd the drive la
making good headway.
A considerable stir has been created
In Lincoln and especially among state
olllclals over Lieutenant (iovernor Har
rows pardoning Itay Sandlovlch, ,
of Lincoln, sentenced to the state pen
itentiary for two years on June 1S1,
WIS, for receiving stolen automobiles.
Harrows' action was caused, it Is said,
because the prisoner turned slate's evi
dence, for which he was promised
clemency by the prosecuting attorney
and which was denied by the district
Judge who sentenced him. (iovernor
MeKelvie was in Chicago at the time
and Harrows was acting governor.
Motion pictures hnvo been Introduced
lino the First Presbyterian church al
St. Paul.
The department of public works will
start out three gangs of prisoners from
the state penitentiary for road work,
next week. The men will be assigned
to work at Tecuiiiseb, in Seward coun
ty, and ut Table I Sod;.
Judge I'. A. Flaiisburg or Lincoln,
who iho late Judge A. J. Cornish o
the Nebraska supreme court had asked
to have succeed him before bis death,
has been appointed to All the vacancy
b.v (iovernor MeKelvie.
.Lincoln voters at the recent election
gave the lighting bond Issue 1,000 ma
jority. St. Paul has received a battery of
artillery from the, government. It con
sists of four howitzers of late model,
They will bo parked in tho court house
square, around tho soldiers' and sail
ors' monument recently erected.
A community library for Wheeler
county hns been organized nt Hrlck
son, books from' the prlvato libraries
of county residents helng donated In
HUfllclent numbers to start the lihrarj
off with a large number of volumes.
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The liver is the regulator of health. If
the liver is active and well, good health-
ana nappiness prevail;
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Milieaulleirtlioilm S&tan&ttC
Spilling the Beans.
"Now that you have your divorce. )
suppose you have no further use foi
Reno?"
"fin the contrary," said the beautiful
actress "I love Iteno and propose to
make my permanent home here."
And then her mother had to bawl
down the staircase: "Dearie, when
does the next train leave?" Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Important to Mothorn
Examine carefully every bottle of
PASTOIJIA. that famous old romoilv
of
for lufants and children, and wee that It
Hears tbo
Signature of 6jJ&MJrfc,
In Use for Over lib Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
The Real Term.
"I wrote up those athletic achieve
ments from some magazine foot
notes." "I should call then feat notes."
There Is nothing more satisfactory
after a day of hard work than a line
full of snowy white clothes. For sucb
results use Red Cross Ball Blue.
Forget as many disagreeable things
as you can.
it tnkes an umbrella denier to BOfr
the silver llulnu of a cloud.
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You can't be iiappy if every bad day
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