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NEW COMMERCE CHIEF Often Caused by Tm, uv>M, mor» oft*n than ■ you . think. irwmjjir ATTO-STOSTA'CH. ItlriTftV’wlOi dtgesnon, heartburn, belching, food-repeat' In*, bloat and gaa.'if not checked, .will «*«»- tuilly, affect every vllal-Organ <ijt the body. Severe, blinding, splitting headaches are, therefore, of...freqoent occwrrence as a resalt of this upset condition. Take EATON 1C. It quickly banishes */cM- stotuach with its sour bloat,'pain and gaa. It aids digestion—helps the stoVnach get full strength from every mouthful of foe*, you eat Millions of people are mlserabTa, weak, sick and ailing because _of ACID* STOMACH Poisons, created by partly dl* geste 1 food charged with acid, are absorbed Into the blobd and distributed throujjjoat tha-*ntlre eyatem. Tnls often causes rt»ea- matlsm. biliousness, tftrrhorfls of the liver, •heart- trouble, btcere tnd • cancer of the jtomartnIt- Fobs Its ^victims of ^helr health, undermines .the' strength of the most vigorous. •. •>* If you want to get back your physical and mental strength—be full of vim aa4 vigor—enjoy life an*T be happy, you moat get rid of your acid-stomach* In EATONIC you will find the very help you need and it's guaranteed. So get a big 10c boa from, your druggist' today. If it falls to please vou, return It and he will refund your money’ Most Austrians Suffer From-Rav- ages of the Many Wartime Maladies. therjChHdren I saw by feeling their •v«ft»*shless arms. When I touched -one child the father said: ‘Don’t touch him., lie ha,s this had new disehse, and j it hurts him so much.’ I realized ; nt i had hurt film, bub-the child was ♦ »o listless to shrink from the bain. ‘‘The doctors could do practically k g jMM! ik‘ - '•'U —■ ^ nothing for the out-patients who couid cot h«* taken to the hospitals. The mothers .Were in despair. The doctors said the greatest wapt of all was for cod liver oil. Funds raised in England had sthit a supply,.hut It •only lasted ’ two dtiysT Practically every child in- Scrawny/ Limp, Listless From Malnu trition and Seldom Smile or Play —American Red Cross Is ” during the past two years is graph u,iH* (letnppjilrutetLJ.n figured comped by the navy department's office of naval' infellig^nce. The -United States, »' ’ closely pressed by France tm 101T fyr —■**.-. _ its place As tjiird naval power iti the | • — L w °cldr—is now se<*»ndj otriy to Great JL r* cEJa. - Britain "atirMs pushing to completion d\1f md A building program that will make the .II ^ j x\ _ American navy *u formidable eon- ‘ YXJlw tender for first naval honors. A little more than two'years ago, lilt Mthe figures show, Germany, -then sec- fl!»! ond naval |tower, buasted'-murc than x. ^100 more ships of all classes than tlie stiftes, with a total tonnage exceeding tha,t of- the American navy hy nearly 200.0(10 tons. Great Britain’s fleet at that time numbered a total of GNO ships, aggregating 2,375,504 tm^f, as compared with Germany’s 2G2 siiips and 1.058,240 tons and the United State’s J53ships and 8GO.017 tons. * riie. completion of all vessels now buifUing‘*nnd projected will ad(I~'2'liT ships totaling 500,000"tous to the Br 11islrrmv>vus compared with .‘MG ships and 1,110,389 tons for the United States, 24 ships and 107,200 tons for Japan, and 13 ships and 1)0,000 tons for Gernllmy, according to the most authentic figures available at the navy department. • ' t "I he completion, of the.present UuiUtlng programs, a'matter of about three years, w 111 find 4he chief naval powers of 'ThvwnrHf U'Ttr'TTre'TnTTowing "reln- tive strengths: Great Britain, 955 ships aggregating 2,772,. r »42 tons; United States, 008 ships totaling 2,117,022 tons; Japan, 170 ships, 785.230 tons;~Frunce, 25.3 ships, 719,237 tons, and Germany, 043 ships measuring 923,437 tons. Helping. London—Dr. Ethel Williams, a New castle doctor of 30 years’ experience, recently lias returned to; England from Vienna. She. attended the Woman’s InternaTlohal conference at Zurich, where she beard so much about the conditions-of disease in'Austria that she decided to £ee for' herself what those conditions really were. She spent a . week In Vienna, visiting the hospitals and the school kitchens, studying medical statistics, Interview ing representative people, and seeing ns much as she could of the ity. Speaking to a Manchester Guardian representative, she' said : “What impressed me most was the appalling condition of every old per son I saw. and of 95 per (cent of the children. The old people 3 Mere like (Tor y6ur acid-stomao# Philip It. Kennedy, newly appointed chief of the bureau of foreign and do mestic'commerce/ says that trade res toration in Europe.* Including that in enemy .countries, is dependent jippn flu* return to work of the different peoples. is t<. help you to keep well and strong.” The American Bed Cross is opening feed 40,000 or more children, but that on I v tii ean s fooQ for. xuie section the people.'the ebihlrerv-of school nge—and even thcrTimfy one'meal In the day rrmny thmgs—ttprt persons -over -sixty cannot digest. The mortality among the old has increased by 150 per cenW wnlk- “What struck me most when lng about the streets was that there veer? 1 mr-toddlers. Children of three and even four years were carried bv 1 their mothers. The children did not run about. ■ or ■ shout.* 'nr~ quarrel. It was four days before I saw a child U. S. Army lists Emphasize “What’s in a Name? INDIGESTION — Quickly rclluved by 8A L- BP KAS-MlUTOk 1 , , , , , ... Bend 25 cent* In stamp* for larc* trial box to insurance has, compiled a statement showing that Tho Kol-Hp*ar-Mlnto Co.. Now York. Who wt»' sons in the army, 51,950 Smiths, 49,000 Williams^ ‘ rafund money If reaulto ar# not aatlafaetory. •s, 22,000 Anderson^, and 18,500 Walkers, Of th» r " 1 1 • Couldn’t Follow It ■***> “Can t you uvnld quarreling?” manded Judge White the other day I of a man who appeared for ( the third time in Ills court for fighting. “Yea, sir. I could.” answered the cul prit. “I have a recipe that was writ ten by Bill Shakespeare or Kipling or someone, hut I don't know hut what Td ra t TUT PeF TnTo” TriTuRTe once I9 a while, rallier than follow* It.” “What's the recipe?" demanded White. Airhmsly. and the tnan an- TO FIGHT FIRES playing Most Children Emaciated At least 95 per cent of the practical first name John ami 2,002 answering ■ to William. Of the Smiths, 3,412 were nv J__rj V . Johns and 2.625 Williams, *wlth 1,200 * U> 1 of them using the baffling title of "E. pi -0~ Siuith.” Twenty-three men in the service carry the famous namP"‘hT"T7oTiVrt Jl. ^ Lee,” who have no middle name, using merely the initial *211' Of “Geur«« r-»>^ Washingtons” there are 123, and tlmre J are six with the iqodest name of "(Jen- oral Washington,’’ 47 "John Quincy Adams” and five “Abraham Lincolns.” Every namesakes in the bureau files. General Grant Pickett, General Jaekson, Napoleon Bonaparte, a.re all there, although their rank in the world Localities some (hues run to similarity in Iticans in the army minted Rodriguez. There Domingo, Francisco, J«^e, Juan. Itamon. r l'uma The most unusual names Include these; Isaac Didnot Butcher, the mystery of the .bureau. Asad_ Experience Wilson. Van Hook, N. D. Mill G'osTi, 220 Halsted'street, Chicago, 111. Green Horn, Statesboro, Gu. Velvet Couch, Brinkfej - . Ark. Will Swindle. Centre^Xax. Paris Green, iluntlngton, W. Va. *7^ ~ Slaughter Bugg, Oscar Turbin, I.a. Chocolate Candy Chirk, Prescott, Ark. Harry Crles-fyr-rlh, White Eagle, Okln. Owen Money, SUddle shhro. Ky. Willie DarlingT J W«sUipgton, D. C. Toy Brush, Kenton A> Tenn.‘ ly well children were painfully emaci ated. with discolored circles arorind their sunken eyes and the tendons of their necks showing like fhose-v»f- eld people. Even middle-class children have these scrawny necks, and when they run their cheeks flap like those of old people. But they seldom run. Shortage Makes Forest Fire Situation in the North- • . west Desperate. ... One large fire In the Pack river dis trict, northern Idaho, hurst entirely beyond control and spread over forty- five square miles of., territory without showing the least signs of dying down. 1 Men to fight It were few and far be tween. In Spokane as well as -the—coast cities tin* forest service is waging re cruiting campaigns slmiWr—'to-^ThnSe carried on during the war. It is a war—against (lames almost as destruc- "The scene In the out-patients’ de partment nt the biggest state Chil dren’s hospital Hvns pitiful—110 souncT or attempt to play. The children sat quietly on* their mothers’ knees or Husky Man Who Is Willing to Work Looks <ood as M.tlion Dollars to Officials of United States Forestry Service. he noth- Sny nothing ; do* nothin broke out in Europe. LtHnlterjm-ks, -those btff-shnutileivd veterans of the forest 'life, make the tii lest tire fighters.. This summer the.\ have had little chance to engage in their regular work of cutting timber, and hsive bent all their efforts to sav ing the forests that house the nation The forest service inafnnTins a cease less lookoiiL As soon as smoke is ffis- cerned llnL trews is Hashed Lo_heud- ipiarter*-; a-ervtv is hastily recruited and equipped, and sent Into the bunt-, ing area with full supplies of food, iools mid bedding. But they have little chance to use the Jbcdding.^ Fire fighting Is an a 11- Important to all Women names, (here were W were hut seven first iTuutes— s and Autuuio. seen bad been shown to me as a ci,rl- ,rujr w osity. It-seems to come from lack of A good-, fmskj man. with two stiong fresh food, aiu\ there have been 250 arnis and a Willingness to work, iook-x cases In Vienna, ami I heard of an- !1S good as a million dollars t«* the of- other epidemic in a German town. ficliils \>f the l njted States forestry ’“The holies soften and heroine dis- service, and the big lumber concerns, torted, the pelvis hones fold inward, who are losing vast vafucs in timber. In early stages Jt Is curahje. but a had There is a famine In men. flint ts case never will walk again, and a the great reason fires, started by car»*- rnther bad ease ahvays wilLhuve diHi- less campers or lightning storms, have culty'Tn walking. “ beer) aide to spread over many miles “The cases were those of^older chll- of Apigrica’s. richest lumber lands and dren nn<l adults. 3’hey told me th'at cause <lamage that will not he replaced the hospitals were receiving about 15 for a generation. Readers of this Paper Thousands upon thouiwnda of womea have kidney or bladder trouble and never •uapect it. Women's complaints often-prove to bo nothing else but kidney trouble, or tto result of kidney or bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy eo»- dition, they may cause the other organ* to become diseased. You may suffer pain in the back, head ache and loss of ambition. Poor health makes you nervous, irrita ble and may be despondent; it makes anj one so. But hundreds of women claim that Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, by restoring health to the kidneys, proved to b« just the remedy needed to overcome eocfc How Fire Is Beaten. The onljr successful method of stop ping a lire is -to get In front of it, clear n Mbfe trull, and widen ft by backfiring. A slight change of wind will make the back fire cross the trail and cn- PERSHING QUALIFIES AS A MARKSMAN No Civilian Successor to conditions. A MEMORIAL to congress from Harold W. Rhss, former rnannglng editor of the Stars and Stripes, has been referred to the committee on military affairs. It says, among ottm r ~things; ,rr- . “In behalf of the six soldiers who. jumter up the editorial council of the Stars and Stripes, and Expressing the unanimous und often-voiced sentiment of ull men who, from first to lust, wrote the text and drew the, pictures of that weekly journal pf the American expeditionary forces, I respectfully Many send for s sample bottle to ng what- Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver” and bladder medicine, will do fee i them. By enclosing ten cents to Dr. Kilmer A Co., Binghamton, N. Y., yen may receive sample size bottle by Pared {-Post. * You can purchase medium an£ large size bottles at all drug stores.—Adv. danger the workers L -ttves. Blazing trees frequently. fufT with the wind, across the trail, ami undo the work of a day. _ One result of the ( epidemic of fires In the present summer will he n vig orous effort, on Jhe paTt, of lumber companies and forestry men alike.'ter secure from congress a greater ap propriation for the forest-service than ever before. America’s forests are no longer so .numerous and well-grown that the trees can he -sacrificed with out notional suffering. USTAdS *1 VLLC0f1ET\ . Not Hard to Satisfy. There, were two plates of cake oa the table and the hostess asked Arthur whleh-he preferred, chocolate or cocoa- nut. “Oh, I’in not pertlckler like some, folks Is,” said the little chap; “an* ao I’ll Just have a piece of each ktniJ.'* ^ How’* Thl* ? We offer 1100.00 tor any case of catarefe that cannot be cured bv HALI/8 CATARRH MEDICINE. HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak* en internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Sold-by 4fug*1sts for over forty years. Price 76c. '’Testimonials free. F. J.-Cheney A Co., Toledo, Ohio. - -Bells for City Dogs. Asheville. N. C.—As unreasonable as it sounds the .city authorities have an nouneed that every' canine re*44e«4- of this city must wear a hell dtiring the next year, and to prove tlielr ear nestness They have purchased a large supply of the necessary ornaments for Still Looking After Stock. Church—When he was a boy he IIvet! on a farm and he used to feed the stock. Gqtham—I understand. “Now he’s irtWtmslness hi Wall street.” "Ail’d doesn't have to feed the ^tock any more?” “No; only water It.” < Mans. France, distribution among the owners of dogs General Pershing, on a visit to me greai rifle range al l American expeditionary forces, demonstrated to the onlookers how he handled a ritle in his frontier duys, er Now of Extinction of American Bison eral scouts appeared. Tl\ey have learned various tricks of deception during the years of evading ’the fed eral*, and even drive a herd of burros with them so they may transform themselves* Into’ wood venders on oc casion. P ROVISION Is made in the current agricultural appropriation Set-for tho secretary o£ agriculture to give buffalo to municipalities and public Insti tutions from any surplus which may exist in the herds, now under the control of tlie department of agriculture. This provision is made Uecuuse of the sur- plus of bulls In some of the department ^ of agriculture’s buffalo herds,' partieu- larly'the one In the Wichitu National ’ .Forest and Game Preserve, in Okla- 0 j homa, and because the department Is - T i^%PKw nearing the real’zution of tlie first J (J sttige in the preservation of the spe- IjjlV m ties—the acquisition ot_at least-1,000 K U | head of buffalo by the government. JT' r /j . j| el bands do the same thin'g when a superior .federal column approaches. Often Villa s band will number 2.000 men under hisT chiefs, Angeles, LApez. fl>mz ami Garciar—They make a col umn whlcl} colls a/rhss the plains’like a ghmt snake’'and leaves a great dust cloud in its wake. But let General (Jastro’B government troops approach with artillery, ma chine guns and cavalry mounted on former American army, horses and the column will break upHuto little hands Even the j of 100 under petty chiefs, will disap- has been pear In some mountain canyons and n always go into hiding until the federal* pass, ig which Vince ^e danger of nttkck Is over the •cape and column reassembles, occupies some ley travel j tow n In its* path and ngmui.iL"appears Villa and His Men Foil Pursuit. - T* Purify and Enrich the Blood Tako GROVE'S TASTELES8 Chill TONIC which la almply IRON 2nd QUININE #u»- nanrted In Syrup. 80 Pleasant Even Chlldroa Like It. Tou can toon feel ita Strengthening; Irrlgoratlng Effect. Price 50c. ANTHRACITE PRODUCTION UP Shipments Show Hundred^ of TtrOU ;ands of Tons Over Latest Nor^ • mal Production. „„ * Right Hen, Wrong Tack. Lucile whs visiting auntie In the country. It was the Joy of the four- year-old to hunt for eggs in the barn. One day she brought in a very small one. presumably laid by a bantam. ^ “Auntie,'* said the little mal(L, nhowlng It. “the hen that laid this egg didn't have the right recipe."—Terre Haute Tribune. Philadelphia.—Shipments of anthra cite for July as reported to the nnihra- ' cite bureau of Information' aggregated , G.052.334^ tons, an Increase over Juue are approximately 7,000 buffalo in North America. Canada htfy^*^ r- sotnething over 3,f4K) and the total number in the United SUtes It more than Compared with July. 1916, the luteitf 4 ’D*>0. This is about seven time* thd number in the United State* In 1S$9, normal year In anthracit^ pnaiuction, the first buffalo census was taVn. Individuals In the United States own the shipments last month showed au In ! approximately 2,000 of the total number In thjs coyntgr. crease of 619,456 ton*.”' 1 There are eight government iichl*. six of which are under the control of The shipiueut* lor the first our ( the depurtmeut of agriculture. ’The Ijirgeat herd In this country Ivdn charga mom hx j*f the ami year. Anqcinuiog.; ut the interior depart bin. t and is located *n the Yet town one- National park, April k amounted tr» 22.608.ft55 tons. | there tin re are ah^ut 50 bison*. The SmfcJwmian iustltu . n gow has a herd compared with 21.146.536 tons for th >f 18 at the NatloaaLZr» logical b: rk, Wash Aetop. D. C eorreupondink peri<»d In 1916, an la I Thg. hrrt herd of huffaW nxqjkr the department of agriculture wag estab ertmaa of nearly LaUOJXlO tor (shed in 19U6 00 the Wiehtta pregarve. Ine 13 gnlmaig bare Dow lacreuggd TPAOE MARK MiG J S PA^ Off