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is the combination of an interfolded package of sanitary toilet paper and a cabinet which protects each sheet from dust and germs, serves just two sheets at a time and prevents waste and littered floors.

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October 4.-Two enemy submarines shell the port of Cezimbra, eighteen miles south of Lisbon. The enemy fled when the shore guns replied.

A dispatch from Rome states that American submarine chasers destroyed

two enemy submarines during the bombardment of Durazzo.

Washington dispatches say the evacuation of Zeebrugge and Ostend will not materially affect the submarine situation. American and Allied naval officers believe that the Belgian coast Uboat flotilla was practically put out of action when concrete-laden ships were sunk in their entrance by the British. Rome reports that enemy submarines. have been effectively fought in the Mediterranean. The Italian Navy has reduced losses from a maximum of seventeen monthly to two. Admiral Del Bono declares the present situation highly satisfactory.

German submarines are again active off the Atlantic coast. An Italian freighter is torpedoed 300 miles off Sandy Hook. Two life-boats containing 21 men each are missing.

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AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

October 1.-A dispatch from Archangel states that the Americans are holding the farthest point reached by any of the Allied forces in the advance southward from the city. They are now within forty miles of Velsk, the Bolshevik stronghold.

October 3.-Stockholm reports the receipt

of Petrograd dispatches dated September 30, announcing that the CzechoSlovaks have captured Kazan. The Maximalist newspapers bitterly reprehend the Lettish soldiers who surrendered to the Czechs after the fall of the city.

October 4.-Washington reports that re

plies to Secretary Lansing's note asking foreign nations for an expression of condemnation of the lawless element in Russia show that the civilized world is practically a unit in condemning the Bolsheviki.

A dispatch from American headquarters on the Vaga River reports patrol encounters nightly in the woods and hempfields and that the Americans are turning natives against the Bolsheviki. October 7.-Washington reports that the immediate aims of the new Russian Government, formed at the convention at Ufa last month, include liberation of Russia from the power of the Bolshevik Soviets, annihilation of the Brest-Litovsk treaty, restoration of treaties with the Allied nations, and continuation of the war against the German coalition.

Representatives of the Siberian Government who have arrived in Norway to purchase large quantities of agricul tural machinery state that 360,000 tons of the grain harvest of 1917 are stored in the Omsk district. Stockholm receives a wireless dispatch from Moscow reporting that the Bolshevik Government has declared its intention of adhering to the BrestLitovsk treaty.

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Belgian refugees in France in the lacemaking industry.

October 4.-A Budapest newspaper says the proclamation of the independence of Bohemia will be issued shortly. Madrid reports that King Alfonso is recovering from an attack of Spanish influenza.

Paris is rejoicing over the capture of Lens, the coal fields long in German control holding out a prospect for winter cheer in France.

October 8.-Zurich reports that the Turkish Cabinet has resigned and that the people in Constantinople are in revolt.

A dispatch from Athens states that delegates from the government of Smyrna, Turkey, are expected in that city with an offer of peace to the Entente Powers.

DOMESTIC

October 2.-A Washington dispatch states
that the American and Allied govern-
ments are considering serving an ulti-
matum to Germany, demanding the
immediate abandonment of its practise
of destroying Belgian and French towns
after evacuating them and wiping out
vineyards, on pain of Allied reprisals
when we reach German soil.
The Director-General of the Emergency
Fleet Corporation reports that the
epidemic of Spanish influenza has put
10 per cent. of the shipyard workers in
the Fall River district, Hog Island, and
as far south as Baltimore, temporarily
on the ineffective list and is seriously
interfering with rapid ship-construction.
The Shipping Board's additional program
contemplates the building of 210 steel
and 244 wooden ships at an average
cost of $1,000,000 each.

The Federal woman-suffrage amendment,
which failed in the Senate October 1
by two votes less than the requisite
two-thirds majority, is returned to the
Senate calendar in position for future
action.

Regulations issued by the War Industries
Board prescribe fixt prices for shoes.
This is the first step in a general policy
for price-control of clothing.
Reports received at the Surgeon-Gen-
eral's office in Washington show that
Spanish influenza prevails in forty-three
States. The Philadelphia Board of
Health orders churches,
schools, and all places of public assem-
theaters,
blage closed in the city. In Chicago the
police have been ordered to arrest not
only violators of the spitting ordinance,
but every person found coughing or
sneezing without using a handkerchief.
The epidemic is reported waning in
Boston.

October 4.-A series of explosions wrecks
the Gillespie shell-loading works at
Morgan, N. J. The loss of life is esti-
mated at one hundred workmen.
Owing to the spread of Spanish influenza
in New York, the Health Board issues a
program of opening and closing hours
for stores and offices to mitigate travel-
congestion in the "rush hours."
ter hours are also curtailed. During the
Thea-
twenty-four hours ending at 10 A.M.,
1,695 new cases of the disease and 188
of pneumonia were reported.
State Health Commissioner announces
The
that $50,000 is immediately available
for fighting the disease in the State.
Washington reports that there are now
1,800,000 American troops abroad.
The American Defense Society sends
letters to all branches of the organiza-
tion warning them against the new
German propaganda and urging them
to oppose with all their influence any
peace except one based on the uncon-
ditional surrender of
Powers.
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action and

gracefulness of carriage.

When this

arch weakens and one
or more of the bones are
depressed, unequal pres-
sureis produced, the weight
is unevenly distributed, caus-
ing a burning sensation, cal-
louses, tender spots, contracted
toes and a cramp-like pain
known as Morton's Toe or
Metatarsalgia, which frequently
extends into the limbs. The

foot widens and spreads over the shoe, the
small and great toe joints become inflamed
and enlarged-bodily fatigue and nervousness result.

For this condition Dr. Scholl's Anterior Metatarsal Arch Supports are especially designed to reach the vital spot and give immediate relief and comfort. They support the weakened parts, remove the abnormal pressure and assist nature in effecting a permanent correction.

Dr Scholl's

Foot Comfort Appliances

are scientifically constructed to bring quick relief and
correct the cause of tired, aching feet, bunions, weak
ankles, broken-down arches, flat foot, over-lapping toes,
enlarged toe joints, corns, callouses, etc.

The heavy strain thrown upon the feet by war activities
is readily overcome and the feet made comfortable and
efficient through the use of these simple, effective devices.

An Expert Will Fit You

Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Appliances and Remedies can be purchased at leading shoe and department stores where a foot expert will fit you with the proper appliance; also stylish, comfortable, easy shoes. These experts have studied foot anatomy and Practipedics, the science of giving foot comfort. They are rendering a distinct service to your community and deserve your patronage. Valuable Booklet Free. "The Feet and Their Care," by Dr. Wm. M. Scholl, recognized foot authority, will be sent free upon request.

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