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■ Italy Developing Power Resources _ f V itlor Vi ill Produce Electrici ty Equivalent to 12.000, 000 Tons of Coal. By International N>wi Plertlre. Rome, April 11.—Italy Is taking n leading place among the foremost nations of the world in developing lier power resources. In six or seven years water-driven power stations v ill he in full working order, and they will produee 1Q.000.000 kilowatt hours of elpetrioity. equivalent to the produet of 12,000,000 tons of coal. Mortnr'a, Italy's leading economist, rstimntos there is water available In Die country to generate as much elec tricity as could tie obtained from 30, 000. 000 • tons of coal yearly. Tilts development in the produc tion of energy will be of untold bene lit to the industries of the country. Italy Is not rich In coalfields, and it has had to pay dearly In recent years for Its coal Imports; but the production of cheap electrical power will cut dbwn these imports to the minimum. Industrie*, while obtain ing pohver at less cost, will simultan eously wipe out the present heavy ex penditure of coal. It Is truly said that electricity now stirs thn pulses of Italy from the Alps to the farthest ends of the coun try. Three Great Centers. One of the biggest schemes at the present, moment is to link up the throe great commercial centers— Turin, Milan and Genoa—with a tri angular electric railroad system. This will completely change the face of Italy from the Industrial viewpoint. Genoa is destined to become the cen ter for seaborne trade for Northern Italy. The railroad from Rome northward, via Pisa, wilt also bo electrified, and the time for the Journey considerably reduced. Italian engineers are working on extensive plans for harnessing the mountain rivers. / One such scheme was completed last year. The largest dam In the world, on the multiple-arch system, stores the waters of the Tirso and produce power for the whole of Sardinia. The lake holds 460,000,000 cubic meters of water. Mountain Basins. Upward of 100 mountain basins have been completed In Italy. Others ' are In process of construction, the most notable being the Sila Rakes, In Calabria, which will furnish all • the power needed for the electrifica tion of the entire southern railroad system. Including Sicily. Agriculturists pie beginning to realize the enormous benefits to be obtained from the Use of eleetrieity. In many southern provinces farmers still cling to primitive methods. Pro duction is low, but Ibis will be changed by the use of. power. It Is hoped to reclaim extensive tracts of marshland by the use of electrically driven, pumps. An exam ple of this is found In central Italy, where 2.000 acres of reclaimed land are now being cultivated. There’s oft' Infection In the pool Where disinfection's not the rule; Ret's avoid such pools as these 1. est we acquire some Skin disease. Itching and Burning Ter rible. Cuticura Heals. | “ My trouble started by little plm l pies coming out on my face and the back of my head. After a few weeks the pimples scaled over and the itching and burning were some thing terrible, causing me to scratch. 1 lost rest at night becauaa of the irritation. " I heard about Cuticura Soap and Ointment and sent lor a free sample. After using it a few times I got relief sd purchased more, and after using about four cakes of Cuticura Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment I was healed.” (Signed) Miss Dorothy Welsch, Dare, No. Dak., July 16, 1924. * Use Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Talcum for daily toilet purposes. Sep Ba. Olntma.it 25 .nil V. Talrtim »r Sol,) »v«r»i»hir« Sample «ifh fre* Addraaa: Cjgajra Ubarato^M, Dapt H. MaMaa. Maas.” Cuticura Shading Stick 2Sc. ADVERTISEMENT. Stop Coughing! — Kennedy. "Past winter I contracted a terrible cough and i could not check It," nahl Air*. Myrtle (irlfllth of PIS South C Si., l’oplar JflufT, Mo. (Picture above). "Kinally, one day I wn.s In a drug •tore and asked the druggist wlmt he thought would be good for my cough. He said Dr. Pierce a Golden Medical Discovery wss the best tiling 1 could get. 1 then took two bottles of the 'Discovery' and by thal time I had no cough at all. 1 discovered rtlao that It helped me otherwise, gave me a normal appetite and rich red blood." Slip Into ary drug etore and »*!< for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical DIs covery In tablets or liquid, or send lbc to Dr Pierce's Invalids' lintel, liuffalo, N. V., for trial pkg. nod write for free advice \ Poom-Pah and 3 “Poomlets” RW 6 Toes on Front Feet Thin !■ PoonvPah and her thr-c llttj# Poom*. now three week* old. The girl !* Frieda Arndt, 18, book keeper, stenographer and clerk In the grocery emporium of M. Frank, 1127 Park avenue. Poom Pah and her three little.ones dwell In the cellar of the grocery where they are a .constant terror, to the mtee and rats. yf ,, * .'!■ The reason why Poom Paji- a rfd her family got their picture* 1h tlrt paper i* that they have six fpes on each front foot. Common csjtp £y».r| even the finest Persians ana ^t*J goras have only five. & Poom-Pah's front feet when she stands look like elephants feet—they’ are so full of toes. All the toes -are down on the ground line and all are well- formed toes, each armed with a sharp claw. — Poom Pah Is not a hit stuck up about her extraordinary toes. She just goes about her business of mouse-catching and raising the three little Pooms as If she were a com mon five-toed cat. School Pupils' Bucket Brigade Saves House From Being Destroyed Bridgeport, Neb., April 11.—By forming a bucket brigade with the students he was driving to school In the school truck of Rawhide district near Torrington, Wyo., Stanley Hoy saved his own house from destruction by fire Thursday. Just as he came over a hill, en route to the school, he saw smoke and flames Issuing from his rest donee, and he got busy at once, with the assistance of the teacher, stu dents and neighbors. They managed to confine the flames to the kitchen. Omaha’s Cowboy Mayor “Little God” to Pal, Who flames Horse “Jim Dahlman” Up in Alaska Gold Field Area 1. This little horse is named "'Jim Dahlman.” In 13 years he traveled 66.000 miles, 25,000 of which he trav eled on snow shoes. The horse Is 22 ypars old and works every day, either on a ho tilde ender sled or packing 2. This little lump on the pan Is 1,634 ounces of sold which had just heen taken nut of the retort. Lender Is waiting for the'Rold to cool before prppnrlna It for shipment. 3. This Is lander's mountain home, 17 miles from Wasllla, Alaska, Nearly 50 years ago Mayor James Dahlman of Omaha, and J II. len der worked together on the N Bar ranch In western Nebraska, on the Niobrara river and 12 miles from (iordon. In the whlrllKlir of fute and fortune, Dnhlmnn moved to Omshu and became mayor. Lander traveled tn Alaska where he is In the minlnK business. ltecontly, when the air mail was bo Intr promoted by Omaha noonday dubs, Mayor Dahlman sent a letter to l.umler, who received It In V' days. lander answered that air mall letter by elvInK a Utile hlatory of his early days In Nebraska, The letter follows: "Mountain Horn* " Waailla, Alaska, January 21, 1926 Air d »ar .Mi l Your rocant latter waa raralvad. ami you n«k mi* tn writ* inm* incident of early cow-boy If* on th» ranch. It intalit bo of Intaroat t<» vnu to corn par® with 1 h* aarly day® In win rrn NabtaaUn—*mv about 47 vaara afo I went Into the* northern part of N> i braaka. on th* Niobrara river, with a hard of ■ ittl® from T#**aa for 10 8 Naw-j n.an, o no of lha flnaat man that rvar llvad. and on that ranch flrat mat tha praaont mavor of (ttnaha. Janie* i>ahl 1,1 NVr noun h*f *mf frland* and If thara waa cv*»r nnn boy 'hat waa Invad by an ntha*. Jim wa® |o»ad by ma, ha *na ■imply my Hill* _ —.Ri Vear# passed along and lust full I noticed an article that spoke of the mayor of Omaha. Janies r luhlman. en tering Into a roping contest at Fremont. Neb I knew It must be mv Jim. I Im mediately wrote him and rot ait anawer by air rnuil which reach'll nr* n* my mountain homo near Waailln, Alaska, in 13 d a y a 8j»e iking about frontier countries. T h»ve been in nil of them, from the Rio Grande river to the Arctic circle In Aloe ka. and of all the frontier countries. Alaska s th • easiest for the pioneer We have everything ws peed plentv of v nter. plenty of game and fish, no short ng.t of wood, and In summer gra^s every • i ere • n in a few iUk e thousaJtal of game blrda winter and summer. As lur mh cold goes, it is not hlngfllka as dli.agrees Ida ns northern Nebraska wo# 60 years ago when we lined to deliver beef »o those ri.OQii ftioux Indians at the Vine Hldfte nnd Rosebud agencies every 10 days. 600 cattle at an issue. ],.’»00 head monthly. Hardest Human Task. It waa slmplv the hardeat taak tha* anv tuan »*ver did, facing those north winds sf 40 to O0 tie low 7er«j and stand night guard over the < utile when they intlled all night in from one to two feat i of anow. Then, on arrival at the agency in the late "evening, to find one or two little ; measly Indian ponies In the corral: and wo wits not permitted to put the raltl# ! In the corral# without paving tha In [flians hnndsomelv to turn the ponies out. I so that we could get rid of the rattla for the night and get some test. (■•tifta of rattto In Alaska, tha rain deer IntcrcM Is proartaolng nicelv. Thsra AI»YKUTIHKMKNt7 ‘EAT AND GET WELL’ NSvar vn * tIIIn mora filling t» any aubjert lb;in thla til la to DIABETES Thara Bra no “Ifn" or “andii" about what you ahoiild rut nnd what you ■bnuld not ant. You ant what you tiaa.l Thin bonk will ba nant FRRK In any auffarar of dlnbatr* Writ, M niaharti, Hapt. 77, -;o Want 42nd Straat, Naw York. .. ■■■.■■7 * I . ..-i are new shout ?**,(•** rain deer In the territory, hut we get excellent drea**d beef from the statea at I* to 20 rent* by the carcase. It is not too high and moat people prefer It to reindeer But In the earl v da vs of Alaska, beef was very high I have seen Jive steer* sell for 11.200 per head while I have seen the time In southern Texas when a 4 year old steer sold for a cow and calf was worth 12.50, ami a yearling 5<» cent* but a pair of cowboy boots waa worth 12. a shirt 30 rents and a pretty good cow pony 17. F.gg* 93d Dines. In Alaska the skin of a ateer sold for $50 for dog feed, and one# I paid $15 for the head of a steer after the longue had heen taken out I have seen eggs sell for $14 a down, 13 each, hav# paid $.7 for a pane of glass •> by * inches. $1.5*0 for a ton of hay and $1,400 for a ton of oats Doctor McfllllUuddv waa agent at Tine ridge agcn> v 'n 1*7* or along ahout that time Well his cousin. Mrs. Mary Morrison, who now owns and manages a nice hotel in Anchorage. Alaska, once had a lot of wild hav rut out in this country. .She loaded the hay on a barge which she had built and rafted It down ihn rlv* r. When it got to Its destination, much Of Ihe hav had been wet. so she spread if out ell over the ground, and whs trying to dry It; but li was bla« k. and looked bad. While she waa working wi'h It. a f eighter came along and she ► old it |o him foi $1.1** per ton. Now, in comparison with this. I have seen eggs sell In other frontier countries for * to 1* cents a dosen. hay for $2 per top and oats for $* For the amount t list one steer hide sold for In Alaska. 1 could have bought 1* 4-year-old steer* in Texas in 1*74. or 2* cows and 2* cal'#* lailmr Buy. Wage* fn- rnwl>o' * In Nebraska In I*7m were $25 to $.’•* per month, while In Alaska In 1*3*. 0 years later, a man got s*» much a* $?* a dav to shovel In | Pav din I have been paid $!'•* a day for inyaelf and s icam of i " <• librae* j and have been paid $1 a day for myself and one horse. In Nebraska I drove four: oxen and hauled hav for $.15 a month. Its all a mistake about the cold In Alaska Where I now live I am _»«>' rounded by mountains from 5.*** to i.*** _ KN/GHTS OF COLUMBUS qOM-PA H ^0 ^ 6 BIG NIGHTS ~ APRIL 20-2I-22-23-24-25 SPASMS OF ROLLICKING JOY CITY AUDITORIUM | DANCING EVERY EVENING Dan Deadline'* Band 1 I i feet high In the valley* the rnerhur' j j may r»i* h 45 below, hut et *n elevation I I of MV i-OOn feet. It never Ret* |ov «*r I than 12 below. .Thi* winter wa are ex J peritnetnc th* »oldest weather 1 ha* : je\et kni'tin at this Immediate spot. It i was 28 below last right and genernlK lit l« onlV about r.ern Tb*> snow Ret* Quite deep along 4ha coa^t. tout never so deep lln the . ior of the country „ Wn often get s to 7 feet where 1 live and we often u*a snow- shoe* on fty hi#iq»es. Snow shoes fpr horses are m*jfl$ in various forms: eotn* .use a round HIm. w tl h « nsiti toi V-ebbing others OUh; boards Inches equal-* aud clamp theffl1 )"»n, with a din and nu\.on the other sldv. The horse will sink In the snow fust hs ar as a mfen will without snow shoea The hntaea soon become nrcustomsd to , lire ain*ca. and in- case on** cornea o»f they Will stop an-l hold up the foot that 1r UiJTiUS a .snow shoe until It is replaced, rearly days on Runnlngwgtef, or ■Bewr.-tra river, in Nebraska, where Jin» ffrtpji WYi arui 1 worked, the company tionslly fine lot of cow $m rode a small, brown t thought was ^ wonder. >h. whenever I get a good brown hors*' I christen Kin* "Jim'* and » I have a "Jim” now which I have had for J 2 years. He is 21 years old and still wonderfully good. Since I have , owned him, he has traveled 66.000 miles and about 25.600 of that has been on 1 snow shoes, or about the distance around the earth. Insult to Cowboy. Tfi • the old cowboy (lavs If a man . wanted to Insult another grossly, all ho had to do was to tell him that the mount • he bid was no good. It made no dif , ference what kind of a mount h* wa* riding, be generally defended the horses • character And don’t ever, for th* value of your life, ride another cowboy's horse ’ in his absence or without first getting permission. Almost every outfit had an outlaw or - two that no orte cared to ride. I seemed to be the easy mark for Jim. If there was ever any mean trick to be played on anyone. Jim alwayj selected me for ths goat. So. one year I had gone to Oregon to bring through a herd, and In my absence the outfit had gotten aome whera & place, or a part or a pleca of horse flesh that Jim simply aaved for me. After my alx month* of trail work and riding tired horses. I wanted aome f thing fat and freah to rid*. Well, of couraa I could tlMnk of no one else to , ask for a fat, freah horse but Jim. and after meditatelng a while, he said, "Why, I yes, there is a nice little horse In the bunch, and he Is fat. too." Then she • took me out and showed me & microbe that didn't look a bit good to me. But 1 r was conceited and wanted to show him that I could stay on the hurricane deck 1 of anything that wore hair. ''Line on It." So T put mv line on It (about all you call the thing was ’’it"). It wa* simply i a man-eating, horse-eating hyena: the moment t he rope nit hln* he commenced showing his'various methods of how to I cat a rope. But finally I got him hog tied and got the saddle on and pro ceeded to mount his rainbow and pulled | up the blinds, lie bucked and bawled. fell backwards. rolled over me and ■ finally got me loose. Then he kicked m*\ jumped on me, slobbered in my ta<»» and bit me. It became a toping contest, to mm if they could get the horse off of me before he killed me. Jim aat on the fence and wanted to bet a man two dollars that the horse couldn’t hurt m* j Finally they got him choked down and drug him off me. and Jim. smilingly and with deep sympathy In his voice, asked. "Did he hurt you?’* I answered "Oh, no. not * bit. He never touched me" Jim turned to the fellow with • 'yhoin. he had bet and said. "Here, give me that two dollarr; I win" And I didn’t f«el as though I had a sound hone in mv body Well, I got on him again end got him headed for the sandhills and thought 1 would ride the life out of him. Hut i rani into a bunch of sand cherries and took the big chance of getting off and on again j without getting killed. Rut the sand cher les were too tempting and off I got and he went after me again. This time I had the rope in my .hand and in whirling .♦round he got his legs tangled and fell down I simply hog.tied hirn and took all the time I wanted and ate sand cherries until I had enough. I meditated awhi)*, hen as to whether to kill him and park] tny saddle home and tell them some sort of lie about how the poor, faithful ani mal died. But th*n. I didn’t like to walk so far and pack my saddle; so. after another sharp engagement, we got start ed for the ranch. But I thought l would try an experiment on him. It worked, too well, and the poor, abused, kind, loving pony never recovered. The other boys said ho was too fat for such a hard ride, and I agreed with them. Now Beautiful Farm*. "F'lly the Bear, J.. J. F. laeger. clerk of th* district < ourt of Dawes county.' who live* at (’hadron, write* me that that part of Nebraska where our old ranch was. is now all beautiful farms. In a very high state of cultivation, and that the sand cherry bushes have grown «o high ihat 1? takes a 60-font ladder to fen 1* the first branches I was thinking of go ing back there and killing a buffalo or two and getting me a robe and oyer-oat. but Billy save the buffalo are all gone In piece of buffalo, here we have moo**, and for elk w4 have caribou,, and for deer j and antelope we have mountain sheep and j •Roata. Domestic afcrep gel *<» fat here that they are not fit, tor food—that la! w hen they are held high up In the yioun- j tains In the valleys tner.p are quite a lot of wild roses and thee* get In the wool. But the winter* are too long to-make aj business of sheep, t attle get very fat. but there are very few cattle on account of the long winter*-1 Hay nt the present tfrna. at ti\y place, rh*t* |6n 00 per 1on and oata $85 00. Fox raising Is quite an Industry' h*r* and the growers ar* getting it down to . ble. I kr< w of one Insfam * w here a v.oman took ’rare of a blue fox which had two litters, one of 12 pups and an. othe- cf in. You can figure them to be worth $100 each, thus making $- 200 in one year from one fox. But such care* are rare and it take* a lot of care to raise, all those little pups A la a.«a is going to produce large quan- i titles if coal e have large beds of hi- | tumlnoua and Immense bodies of rood llg nlte. Alaska produced In 1*24 $6.35ft noo In gold; $10,000,000 In copper; $450,000 in silver and #0.0dq ton* of coal We may possibly find oil. The Standard Oil corn*J pany lias a drill m operation in th* Cold Bav district They are now at a depth of 3.it f*et. wh*re they ntru>-k a h*avy fle w I of ga«, water, however, came In from n higher level, and caused a temporary shutdown. Rut I did not start out to give you th* history of Alaska. I wanted to show you how much better off th* pioneer* of Alaska wer# than the pioneer* of Ne braska uur laat census showed 4ft. noo white people end Jft ftftft natives In <*ur f,fto ft ft ft square miles There are more w ild flowers on one acre of ground in Alaska tlep there wa* In the whole *> > cf I r~“—I A First f Law of Nature A FIRST law of nature. In terms of today it means # SAVE MONEY. And money saved is WEALTH—the thing that preserves you from wan* and woe. Occidental Building & Loan Ass’n S22 >. IMh S|. | . <i«,*«o.oon ! IIM ) rnr* In Omnhn m HitMrniU l’ntiililt< Oimrtfrh 9 _—— a ~ 1. “Gleaner” Editorial Staff at Mount St Mary Seminary the annual of Mount St. Mary Catholic seminary, went to press last week. Members <* the editorial staff are shown above enjoying a few moments* relaxation after finishing their work._, _ Nebraska. Tn my front yard, 6^ square, there aie varieties of w11 • 11 flowers, and there are 104 varitles within three miles of my homo. Old-Time liunter*. There Is one thing In Alaska that ^ Is verv much like Nebraska; that Is the old timer. In Nebraska w« used to listen to 4he old settlor tell how he killed a big buffalo bull and .-hot him square through the heart, and how many antelope tne, old-time cnwlov roped and threw hi- rope 60 feet ami caught him square around the horns, ft the speed of a now slow-moving airplane, and you might measure hia ropt and find it to be about 35 fe-t Jong Well, we have the same kind here, only they tell of the cold and the fast dog team and the echo of the mountains, and the brown bear they pumped a ton of lead Into and he fell at their feet at the last shell he had. That is what we call the "Yukon habit, and a man's *veracity is Judged by the length of tin e he has lived here. Every om « In a while these old mossbacks congregate at my cabin. Just the other evening there -.vn* a bunch of them here, and one fellow said he was at a place one - winter wher» he could talk to 'Ills partner*' in an ordinary tone of voice a m1ie around the mountain. Another fel low had be. n at a pl^'e where you could talk n a whisper and hear it echo half a mile down the canyon. Ilf rout'. I had lived here quite a while myself, and had been around a little one winter I was trapping on the Kuskokwim river and had no alarm • lock Whin 1 wanted to get up early I would go i ut about 4 o’clock In the eve. ring and holler good and loud: "Time to get up: time to get up.” and at about 5 next morning, t h echo would return and wake tim* up. One of those old timers said. "Why. how lone did you say you had been in Alaska?’ Another old fossil told about it heio ; ho cold one day that he had to keen the “toy --ed hot to keep the water f'om freezing on the top of the stove; his cat »umped up on the stove to keen warm and froze stiff on the stove. Another * *llow couldn't blo\. the candle flame out be iiu« ■ the flame was frozen: he had to b-e.-k the flame off Aa I *.iid before: I had beep here a day or two mvself and one winter I started up the Ko'vuklk river and found it was awful |v cold. 1 thought it best to turn the dogs loose and go ba< k So I turned the Hotel Fohteneu e Special EASTER ! Dinner $2 ' j Sunday, April 12 Noon to 3 and 6 to 9 Main Dining Room Indian Grill Easter Dinner Noon to 8:30 p. m., $1.50 Music by Randall’s Royal Fontenelle Orche-tra ! i Hotel F°Ntenelle _ ':"rc- _:tt ! They are, leit in rigni: neainre Hnel. editor; Mary Gibson, art; Teresa Kastl, literary; Marion Coleman, as sistant business maltacer. Mary Flor ence Madignu, music, is sitting <>n the floor. leader loose first find he ran to gst a drink out of the running crfeif. At tins point, the whole bunoh of old timers com men* **d to "Ha! HH! Uh. come off! Them would not be any running water If .It was that < old." I answered. **It was net run ning water at all; It whs liquified »lr run ning down the creak " They all got up and left; they rail l had lived here too long, and as they left one fellow said to his partner. "That echo story didn't sound just right .either." . sio, I find 1 will hav# to be In good form If I peer come to Nebraska again, to stand off theT sand cherry story of Billy the Bear. Very truly yours. .T. H. LANDER. ATTENTION! [ 4 Piano and Player Piano own ers. Expert piano tuning and repairing by our Steinway tuners. P’ree estimates. Low prices. All work guaranteed. Telephone AT. 1856 SchmollerS Mueller 1514.16-18 D" Telephone Dodge st. nano to. at.iss« I ORDER IT NOW! Tank Water Heater Installed Complete ATTRACTIVE TERMS Monthly Payments With Gas BilL SAVE RUNNING UP AND DOWN Tank Heater With Time-O- CCC AA Stat installed complete.yuotwU TERMS. THIS SPECIAL OFFER IS DURING APRIL ONLY GAS DEPARTMENT 1509 Howard St. AT. 5760 S Is |! 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Mother was I ' eo pleased with my improvement that she got eight j • more bottles of Cardui for me to take and I took it | S every bit. and when I finished that course of medidne J* J j I was entirely well. 11 [ « i "I gained in weight from ?$ pounds to ISO. My j i i 1 color came back to my cheeks and I could enjoy my- I j [ self. I ceased to be troubled at certain times with any pain, and 1 felt like a new person " Thousands of other women have reported good re- j | suits from taking Cardui in the treatment of many I J cases of female ailments. It Is a purely vegetable t i compound: mild, harmless, strengthening. Obtainable from good druggists everywhere. CARDUI j Jl Vegetable Compound ; . for Jliling "Women y^fi