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KIDNEY SUFFERERS HAVE
FEELING OF SECURITY

You naturally feel secure when you
know that the medicine you are about
10 take is absolutely pure and contains
no harmful or habit producing drugs.
Such medicine is DR.. Kilmcr's
Swamp-Root, kidney, liver and bladder
remedy.
The same standu I'd of purity. strength
and excellence is maintained in every
bottle of SwanpRoot.
Swamp-Root is scientifically COM
pounded from vegetable herbs.
1t is not II stimulant and is taken in
tcaspoonful doses
1t is not recommended for every
thing.
According TO verified testimony it is
natures great helper in relieving and
ovccoming kidney, liver and bladder
troubles.
y sworn statement OF purity is with
every bottle OF DR. kilmcr's swamp
Root.
If YOU need medicine, you should
have the best.
II YOU ar" already convinced that
swamp Root is what YOU need. YOU will
flnd 1T on sale at all drug stores in
bottles OF two sizes. medium and large
However, If you wish first to try this
great prepa ration send ten cents to DR.
hi!mcr IL Co. Binghamton. y. y for a
sample bottle. When writing he sure
and mention the Richmond Sunday
Times Dispatch ADV
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ballast before that turned out to he
carrying heavy hftccn-inch guns for
the German naval forces: some had
careocs OF valuable armor plate. trans
ferrcd all across the Atlantic because
krupps couldn't turn out stun half SO
good or tough. SO he decided to have
look II that gentleman who carried
nothing but ballast. But. though he
pccred into every nook and Granny
under the shippers bunk and into the
cooks Kitchen coppcr-hc could find
nothing Then from the bottom OF a
hold came shout.
Here YOU are. sir cried blue
Jacket. Heres the stuff"
The lieutenant descended TO the hold,
there 10 find Il fine stretch OF sand
hallast-as fine Il stretch as any beach
In Britain-with something like
spring bubbling out OF it's center. 81
strolled over here. fancyin' mcscf At
the seaside in August. sir" explained
the sailorman. And though il smclt
oily. SO l just dug my cutlass deep
into it. and that stuff came up like
n spring.and if it isn't oil fucl-wcn, l
never saw the stuff" Exit another
ucu;ral-without cargo and in ballast.
Metals which cannot be found in Ger
found in blockade runners. and many
and various are the means adopted for
them. There was one ship
IA observation-disclosures cargo was cigars
in boxes OF hundreds direct from
Havana. They were quite .. X. TO look
at and smell. and the pictures on the
boxes were tho real thing. They APP
Ppcarcd so good that the ScarchcrS
mouths watercd. and oncman stole 4
handful OF the Smokes" from the box.
ON his way back to the ship he tried
mouths watercd and one man stole Il
leaf OF tobacco had been wrapped round
an aluminium cylinder which contained
tunESten--a metal that is used in max
ing diamond hard steel. The beat
turned round and got some more cigars
also she got tho ship.
In another case double bulkheads had
been rugged. and between these. as
we'll inside the hollow steel masts
OF the ship. were some tons OF pure
copper in bars. Again a certain vessel
was carrying macaroni in packages
blue label. white seals string and
everything as ii should be. Also it
was macaroni-,hcre could he no doubt
OF that. II was only the dropping of
a package that disclosed the fact that
in each bundle three or four sticks OF
the fcodstuff concealed thin strips of
a luminum-thc whole ship contained
enough to build the framework of n
Zeppelin, though that was the only
discovery by the scarchcrS when she
arrived at the base.
And those are a few incidents we've
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do YOU need to search? TAKE the stun
and let me 60"
NO: came the cool reply. Il wan,
TO search you-your person" said the
lieutenant. You don't seem 10 be
cr--cr-built jus, right. somehow"
lie called the chief stcwardcss and
ordered her. under many fcarsome
threats To search the adiposc lady.
In fear ana trembling the two women
entered the examination room and the
door closed Five minutes later ii
opened again. and from il came u
skinny scarccrow with n gorgeous cos
tune hanging from her shoulders
Imply. with great sal; tears coursing
down her face, while OH the table in
s.dc the room lay the nifty odd pounds
OF surgical rubber bandagcs she had
carried wrapped about her body.
AGRICULTURAL. MACHINERY
CONSTRUCTED OF COPPER
Then there was the chap who de-
clared himself frankly to be carrying
contraband. bu; swore that tho stuff
tanned hides. lcather-bclongcd to 4
firm in the north OF Franco. and was
intended for ,ranshippmeut through
Holland. We almost lc; him go. but
one OF our chaps-hc was Il armer in
the old 'ays-becamc Interested in n
selection of agricultural achinery
which the cargo carrier had dashed to
her upper deck. These said her cap
tain, were intended for work in the
war arca-wcrc to place under cuiti-
walton the ground rcsaincd from the
enemy by the Anglo-Frcnch troops.
We wished him bon voyage" and
apoloCizcd for delaying him--wc are
always polite in the search-and turned
10 70.
An able seaman stumbled against a
bucket and fell against a brightly
painted plow. His cutlass hilt rang.
and. turning to see the extent OF the
damage. he was surprised to find that.
instead OF the dull gray wrough, iron.
the plow's material was cleaning cop
per.
That ship also went TO the base,
and after relieving her OF the copper
agricultural implements and the tanned
hides and leather. she, too. became a
unit OF Britain's mercantile marine,
and no longer blockade runner.
There was one more who received
us very politely, and offered the lieu
:" .'''"" "a 'ne p'r'S u
,,,,,,,aa',',, III INN was
about our task.
P"pe'S were quite cleah' the
e"'s 80 containing hoth'hg mat
wa. '''"i'u' a''"
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n,'u tF'cNs-
'iN n"p'' oc'to.'
'" "1 ''h'ns no chances ne
~ S..'e" tne snip 'ho'ous"'E
an" ~ way VI commencement ne began
w" '"' mus i"Hoceht Things IN her
-, t'S enc Dag Oh Deans was
,ntnms ca .I' go" are ,"e best
oe'"s-out mat WAS
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Cure Your
Rupture Like
), / Cured Mime
Did Sea Captain Cured His Own
Rupture After Doctors Said
Operate or Death"
His Remedy and Book Sent Free.

Captain Ceilings sailed tho seas 10,
many years: then no sustained a bad
double rupture that soon forced him 10
not only remain ashore, but kept him
hedrlddcn for years. He tried doctor
after doctor and truss after truss 40
results. Finally. he was assured that
lie must either submit to n dangerous
and ahhorrent operation or die. lie did
netherl lie cured himseIf instead.
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run across out in the North Sea. "rhc
search" is Mt work all over the word
and It's captures are oven more strange
IN some parts than our own
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of inquiry OF the quartermaster's de-
partment announced tonight by Act.
ing General Cocktails
IL the recommendations. which meet
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with General Gocthars approval re-.
Iardlng weight. are adopted. the uni
form cloth viii lie twenty ounces in
stead of sixteen ar at present.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
WASHINGTON.

More than $4,000, 100000 worth OF
war risk insurance has been applied
for by American soldiers and sailors.
Finland is made Germany's vassal
by the terms OF the German Finnish
treaty, according to the Swedish press.
The food situation between Germany
and Russia has reached an acute stage
according to advices received at the
State Department.
Resistance OF the enemy between
the Marne and the Ourcq has been
broken down. and American troops
with those Of the allies are In pursuit,
General Pershins announced In his
communique, received at the War De.
partment.
Sixty-four million silver dollars have
been melted into bullion BY the United
States treasury. most of which has
been exported to India.' Fifty-eight
million dollars of silver certificates
have been withdrawn from circulation
and destroyed az the silver on which
they were secured was melted down
The treasury still holds 425.000,O00
silver dollars. against which $39O.0o0,
900 In silver certificates are outstand.
Ing.
Names of ten American soldiers who
are prisoners Of war In Germany were
announced by the War Department.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
GENE RAJ.

A man supposed to be William Hen
ry Cochran was seriously injured, and
a woman believed to be his wife was
killed when the auto in which they
were riding was struck by Union Pa
cific passenger train at Ozone, twenty
miles west Of Cheyenne, Wyo.
The crown of Finland has been Of.
iered to Duke Adolph Friedrich Of
Mecklenburg- -schwerin and he has ac-
cepted. says Zurich dispatch to Paris
lie Journal
One thousand and fitty-seven SOL
diers were naturalized at Camp Cody,
Deming. N NJ. by ex.Treasurer F. C.
Emmerich. according to advice re-
ceiyed at the Denver office OF the nat
uralization bureau.
More than $4,000 pounds Of ostrich
meat is to be sold to the people OF Ari
zona by order Of the state food I'D.
ministrator. 1t will be supplied by the
slaughter Of 800 ostriches on the ranch
OF J. E. Cogdell. near Glendale. Ariz..
who has found that the growing OF
long.staple cotton Is more profitable
than ostrich culture.
Governor Boyle OF Nevada and the
American Mining Congress have called
a conference OF gold mine operators
for Reno. New, Aug. IL, to discuss the
gold mining outlook. present condi
tions and endeavor to solve problem
that threatens to seriously handicap
the industry. The conference will in.
clude representatives Of all Western
gold mining states.
]. A. Van Dis, associate director OF
the department Of boys reserves in
the United States. is in Denver. and
he said that there are 250.000 boys en-.
rolled In the reserves. and OF these
l75.000 are at work in Industrial
plants or on farms. Each boy. he said.
represents food production valued 1T
from 81 500 to $4,000, and the boys will
be uniformed next year.
Joseph Gilmore, author Of the hymn,
HE Leadeth Me-" written fifty.slx
years ago. and which has been sung
all over the world, died at Rochester.
N. Y, aged 81
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
WI ST ERN.

Decks are cleared for action, and
all bands at the Denver recruiting sta
tions are standing by for the big drive
for 100000 men for the navy.
Leroy and Edward Hicks, ages 1 and
l3 years, were arrested at Globe, Ariz.
for cimplicity In the theft OF mail
from the ella Valley bank postoffice
box.
Lieut.. Lambert Herbert and Lieut.. ].
Jagou, French officer instructors at
Camp Cody. Deming. N. NJ. we're
drowned In White Water creek, twelve
miles southeast OF Silver City, ~ NJ.
sergt Ernest Picard Of the United
States army. who was driving the car,
was also drowned.
Thomas ]. Mooney. In death row"
at San Quentin prison under sentence
TO be hanged for murder In connection
with bomb explosion during a pre-
paredness parade in San Francisco in
1916. was reprieved by Governor Ste
phen until Dec. 13.
Early returns gave Hobby big lead
over Ferguson In the Texas Demo
cratic primary for governor.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
DAISY FLY KILLER
SOL LDIERs AAD0PTED' BY PIG
Odd Mascot That History Records a
Attaching Itself to Company Of
kentucky Volunteers. ...iE

There is In the history Of the state
Of Kentucky an odd incident In con-
nection with the invasion Of Canada
by the Kentucky troops In 1912. A
company Of volunteers, destined for
Selby's army, assembled at Harrods-
burg and formed a nucleus around
which the military recruits Of the
country gathered on the march to the
Ohio.
On the outskirts Of the town named,
20 the story runs. the company saw
two pigs fighting and delayed the
march to watch the combat. When the
march recommended 1t was observed
that the victorious pig was follow
Ing the company; and when the men
encamped at night. the animal lay
down near at hand. OF course the sol
diers fed their plump recruit The next
day the pig followed them, and this 1t
did daily on the march to the river.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
SPORT.

Charley Pick, captain Of the San
Francisco team Of the Pacific Coast
league. has been sold to the Chicago
Nationals for $4,000.
Professional baseball players were
given until Sept. to seek essential
employment or be called to the colors.
in an order issued by Secretary Baker.
I'D like to fight Dempsey" was the
first comment of Jess Willard, heavy.
weight champion at Lawrence. kaA..
when he learned the outcome Of the
Dempsey-Fulton fight at Newark.
N. J.
Jack Dempsey OF California punched
his way to pugilistic fame at the Fed.
eral League baseball park in Harrison.
N. j., when he knocked out Fred Full
ito of Minnesota, claimant for the
heavyweight title. with terrific right
swing to the Jaw when the fight was
but twenty-three seconds old.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
CONDENSED RECORD or THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o I N q ., ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERINos, HoPEs
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Wsstsrn Newspaper Union csvs ssrviea
ABOUT THE WAR.

American fighting troops now are on
the Italian front. They are being bill
leted with the Italians.
British Casualties reported In the
week ended July II total 1888 com
pared with 1881 reported In the pre-
yious week.
Rioting Of peasants In the occupied
regions Of White Russia 10 increasing
and many German soldiers have been
killed. said an official dispatch from
Stockholm.
Very serious revolts and mutinies
have occurred In Bohemia and Hun
gary. At Manaros-Szjet $50 officers
and 500 CzechoS Slovaks who mutinied
we're shot and 1000 arrested.
villemontoire. little more than five
miles south Of Soissons, has been
taken by the French and Americans.
while farther south they have cap.
tured Oulchy-le Chateau and swept on
east OF the town.
Since the fighting began the Ger.
mans are reported to have used be.
tween sixty and seventy divisions.
Estimates from headquarters place the
German losses In that period at 200..
900 in killed, wounded and prisoners,
The FrancoAmerican troops, con.
tinuing their pressure on the Germans
In retreat from the Marne. have
reached and crossed the ourcq river
and penetrated the town OF Fere-en-
Tordenois. one Of the great German
supply bases for the enemy troops in.
side the Soissons- Rheims salient.
Under the battering tactics of the
Americans and Frenchmen the Ger.
man line on the south has now been
driven back more than twelve miles
from the point south Of Chateau
Thierry, where the allied troops locked
the door to Paris against the enemy
July Is and themselves became the az.
pressors In what has turned out one
OF the greatest battles Of the war.
The Germans Saturday retreated
along the whole front north Of the
Marne. the Paris war office announced.
French and allied troops pressing hard
on the enemy rear guards, reached
the line Of Bruyeres villenueve-S Sur.
Fere. Courmont. Passy.Grigny, Cuisles,
La Neuville and chaumuzy. This
means that the German crown prince
and bis generals are extricating their
troops from dangerous positions as
best they may.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
FOREIGN.

The British armed cruiser Marmora
was tospedoed and sunk BY German
submarine.
The Siberian government. including
the premier. has resigned. says Vlad-
ivostok dispatch to the London Times.
King George has ordered ths British
court TO 90 In mourning for four weeks
for former Emperor Nicholas Of Rus
sia.
The municipality OF Paris will off
cially receive Herbert c. Hoover, the
American food administrator, on
Aug. 2.
A peasant rebellion has broken out
in the Ukraine on formidable scale.
according to information received in
London.
Fur dealers in London say that furs
In America and Great Britain are to
be higher in price next fall and winter
than ever.
Two Austrian transports were sunk
in an Italian attack on Cattaro, ac-
ocrdlng to dispatches received from
cattaro.
Six airplanes dropped bombs on
Constantinople. according to Turkish
official report received at Amsterdam.
Five persons we're wounded.
1t was officially announced in Lon
don that Japan had decided to accept
the American proposal to assist the
CzechoSlovak armies in Siberia.
DR.. Won Seydler. the former Austrian
premier, according to the Cologne Ga.
zette's Vienna correspondent. has been
appointed director Of the emperor's
cabinet.
Both the American and the United
States Smelling companies report in.
creased earnings from Mexican plants.
where labor is fairly abundant and
government war work does not inter.
fere.
The Irish Association for the Pre-
yention of lntemperance has approved
the recommendation Of the liquor trade
finance committee that at least one.
half of the 1896 houses for the sale
OF drink In Ireland should cease to be
licensed.
The Rome newspapers prominently
display announcement OF American
troops at a point behind the Italian
front. The Americans we're enthusi
aStically greeted everywhere along
the route. patriotic associations turn
ing out with bands.
A Russian wireless received in Lon.
don says: After the siege Of Yaroslav
by the councils troops against coun.
ter reyolutionaries the place was occu.
pied by red army. Between 1900 and
5000 white guards tried to save them
selves on the volga but 4 majority OF
them were drowned"
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01

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ness are . thing Of the past Allwomen
who suffer q ! did should tyy Lydia E.
Phkhsm's Vegetable COMPOUND. -
Nm. JAA RoH1sERo, 60 Knapp St.,
N. 8, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Women Who sulter from any form Il
weakness, ssindicated BY displacsments,
inflammation, ulcesati0n, Irregularities,
bsekache, headaches, nervousness Or
"the blues" should accept Nrs. Rohr-
berGe suggestion and give Lydia e
Pinkhem! Vegetable Compound .
thorough trial.
For over forty years Il has bssu
correcting such ailments. II you have
mysterious complications wfits for
edvice to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn. 4asa.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
To Call 900, 900 In August Draft.

Washington. August draft calls are
expected to reach 100000 men. The
provost marshal generals reports indi-
cate that Glass / In the draft will be
completely exhausted by Oct. l. This
means that Congress will have to get
quick action on the new man-power
bill when 1t reconvenes, Aug. 10.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
Armed Rebels March Against kIsv

V""eu UeUeW WaFCH N0AIuUt NIUVs
Washington. .-Seventy-five thousand
armed peasants are marching on Kisv,
capital Of Ukrainia, according to IN
formation received at the State D.
partment from Stockholm. II also was
said that the Russian and Ukrainian
peace delegates have been unable to
agree upon details OF the settlement
between the two nations. The soviet
government at Moscow is reported to
have expelled from the capital all rela.
tives Of the persons implicated in the
murder OF Count Won Mirbach.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01

D W08kue9y WHICH
caused bscksehs
and headaches. a
friend called my
attention to one Of
your newspaper
advertisement and
Immediately my
husband bought
three bottles Of
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound for m {.
After taking two
k~<Al>n 4 <~Ik Eua
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01

London, July 30.-"The relations be
tween Germany and Turkey have been
severed, according to direct informa
tion from Constantinople." This an
nouncement is made by the Copenha
gen correspondent Of the Exchange
Telegraph Company.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Germans have powerfully strengthened
their battle line running across the
Soissons-Rheims salient with addition
al fresh reserves and have stubbornly
disputed further passage northward to
the entente allied troops. the enemy
front has been compelled to bend back
appreciably on all side OF the salient
except at the anchor points resting
Immediately on Soissons and Rheims
South OF Soissons further wedges have
been driven eastward into the enemy
front down to the Ourcq river. East.
ward along the Ourcq French and
American troops have crossed the
stream at various points and advanced
their line well to the northward, while
southwest Of Rheims the allies have
debouched from the wooded sectors
and gained the plains, Notwithstanding
the violence Of the enemy's counter
maneuyers. At some points the Ger.
mans succeeded somewhat in checking
the forward movement. but nowhere
were they able to bring It to a stand.
still. The retirement OF the Germans
still remains orderly. but everywhere
the allied troops. and especially the
Americana near Fere-en-Tardenois, are
pressing them hard. Particularly bit.
ter fighting has taken place around
n-Tardenois and at Sergy. both
OF which towns are now well in the
hands OF the French and Americans.
At Sergy the Germans paid the Ameri.
cans the compliment of reinforcing
their battle line with two divisions OF
well tried Bavarian troops. men whose
courage previously has been tested
when the tide of battle was going
against the Germans.
II was an effort either to destroy
the Americans or to herd them back
across the Ourrq. The effort resulted
In failure.
The French are on the north bank
Of the 0urcq and to the east they have
secured the whole road between
Rheims and Dormans. The Germans
are stubbornly resisting and are burn
ing villages.
Heavy fighting is still in progress to
the south OF Soissops, In the neighbor.
hood Of Buczancy. villages between
Scissors and Bazoches, about fourteen
miles to the east, however, are on
fire, leading to the belief that the Ger.
mans may intend further retreat.
Since Sunday the allies have ad.
vanced between two and three miles
on twenty-mile front.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
MRS. J. HERcoTT IS KILLED.
Three Daughters Badly Injured In
Runaway Accident Near Windsor.

Greeley, Colo.-Mrs. Jacob Hergott.
80. wife Of a farmer living at Brace
well, three miles east Of Windsor, was
killed and three Of her lcur daughters
badly injured when the horse which
they we're driving became frightened
and ran into C. & s. train at the
crossing east of Windsor.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
He Found Il

Mr.. E. z. Marks arrival into the
room had been preceded BY good
deal Of giggling by three small boys.
He was always the butt Of all jokes
and expected no better treatment on
this occasion. He knew he was In for
prank and he wished to hurry up.
and get 1t over with. Boys, / don't
see any point to this joke at ALL" he
said finally after nothing had hap
pened. Neither do we," shouted the
miscreants, .but there Is one" And
then he sat down on the pin they had
carefully arranged for him.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
'czECnS CAPTURE
CITY IN RUSSIA
FocH VANGUARD PENETRATEo
vILLE.EN.rARpENoIs, AN
ENEMY STRONGHOLD.
GERMANS BURN CITIES
AMERICANS DRIVE BACK CRACK
eAvARIAN pIvIsIoNs-TuRKs
BREAK WITH HUNS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Shanghai. July 30.-The CzechoSlo.
vaks have occupied the town Of Selma.
kova. according to dispatch from
vladivostok. They captured consider.
able In munitions.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01

Suggests Wilson Reseres Irish TansIs.
London.-In the debate in the House
OF Commons on his motion regarding
Ireland, John Dillon, the Nationalist
leader, proposed the reference Of the
question to President Wilson.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01

Roosevelt confers With King George
London.-Franklin D. Roosevelt, as
sistant secretary Of the American
navy, had a long interview with XII
George.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01
HUSBAND :
SAVES ;Iiii Wife
From Sufistins b Getting
Her Lydia E. Pmkhams
Vegetable COMPOUND.

PittsburTh, Pa.-"For many month";
] was not able TO do my work owing 70
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01

Ten miles for q nickel. Always buy Red
Cross Bag Blue; have beautiful, cleaa
white clothes. Adv.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01

Yes, Rafalo, our alphabet has en-
dured for ages. though used only for
a spell.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-08-01

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