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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12

EATONIC tablets after your meal, no
light and pain-free you will feel. A
There is not a harmful thing In
EATONIC tablets. They taste incl
just like eating candy. Druggists will
tell you that EATONIC users say thew
never dreamed anything could give
such quick and wonderful results; You
can insure yourself a good, cool, sweet
stomach, you can eat what you like,
and always have the appetite to eat it.
EATONlC is absolutely guaranteed.
Get q box from your druggist today.
Use it to get rid of and prevent the
stomach and bowel troubles that are
bound to come in hot weather. IL
EATONIC fails, return to your drug
gist and get your fifty cents back. II
you cannot obtain EATONIC where
you live drop card to Essonic Remedy
Co., Chicago, III. They viii mail you
o box at once.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
Cold Drinks Bad
for Your Stomach
How to Avoid the Digestive Miseries
That Hot Weather Brings

Gold drinks in hot weather are bad
enough for any stomach but doublyso,
In fact, dangerous-when the stomach
is out of fix and you suffer from indi-
gestion, acidity, food-repeating, heart
burn, sour stomach, and that awful
puffed-up, bloated condition after eat
ing. In fact, all stomach and bowel
miserieS are greatly aggravated in hot
weather. You can't be too careful.
Sunstroke can be traced in many cases
to poor digestion. Everyone should
watch their stomach in hot weather.
Keep it sweet and cool. Here is an
easy and pleasant wayto correct stom-
ach ills. A compound has been dis
covered which surely takes up the
harmfuljuices and gases from thestom-
mach, leaving it sweet, clean, cool and
comfortable. You won't know you
have stomach if you take one or two
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
CZECHS IN ITALY
MUST WIN OR DIE
all collective judgments, arise from ;
full consensus of the judges.
Elect Own Officers.

The examination of the political
opinion Is not less exacting for being
carried out by fellow soldiers. A Czech
recruit who spoke his mother tongue
well was challenged by his compat-
riots. HE speaks our language well,
but his heart is not Czech" they said.
1t was learned that during protracted
business transactions in Vienna he had
lost the fierceness and the intrepidity
Of the Bohemian character through
daily contact with the Austrian author
tiles.
This control has been fraught with
excellent results. Those who have sur
vived the tests of the assembled judges
have furnished the best war material
and proved themselves dependable in
military and moral affairs.
The officers are also elected by the
soldiers, who trust their leaders with
blind faith, and give them the most
rigid obedience and discipline. Such
discipline the new soldiers of liberty
are taught, by their remembrance Of
imperial oppression, to hold essential
to the triumph Of their cause.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
VIII Keep the Food Coming" as
General Pershing Has
Asked.
Big INCREASE this YEAR
Central West and Pacific Coast Espe-
ciaIiy Are Doing WelI-National
Commission Offers Prizes for
Best HOMEGROWN Canned
Vegetables.

Washington.--The war gardeners of
the United States answered Pershings
call to keep the Food Coming"
There are, according to figures being
tabulated by the national war garden
commission, 100000 war gardens In
the United States. These figures are
incomplete and the estimates were
made on reports received up to June
Is. This number indicates on increase
of 40 per cent over last year when
there were 100000 garden munition
plants at work. Figuring in the in
creased cost this year over last, fur
Their estimates will be made by the
commission both on the number of gar
dens and the estimated crop value.
"Taking these early figures into
consideration" said Charles Lathrop
Pack, president of the commission, in
making public the preliminary survey,
together with the increased canning
demonstration work being done by the
United States department of agricul-
ture in cities and towns, we feel safe
in saying the forecast of 1,500,000,000
quarts in tin and glass Of canned stuff,
made by the department, will be
reached"
Big Prizes Are offered.
The report points to the early plant
ing season this year. which was made
possible by weather generally favor
able throughout the country. To en-
courage saving the garden crop the
national war garden commission, which
planted 400-acre demonstration war
garden at Camp Dix, N. j.. is offering
$4,000 in prizes for the best canned
vegetables grown in war gardens. with
the slogan Back up the cannon by
use of the Gamer"
In nearly every section of the coun-
try there has been an appreciable and
encouraging increase in the number Of
war gardens this year, the commission
announced. This has ranged anywhere
from 10 to 60 per cent. In the Eastern
portions there was failure to note
gain on the early returns.
"The greatest percentage of in
crease" the commissions statement
adds, twas made In the Central West
ern states and Pacific coast, taking
any one section Of the country as a
whole. There an awakening has taken
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
Very Likely.

Mrs. Borden Hartman, the brilliant
sociologist, was talking at the Colony
club about girls schools.
"Ultra-fashionable girls schools
don't like" she said. ''They educate
a girl In everything but an education.
'Two housemaids were talking once
about their mistress daughter, who
mad Just returned from one Of these
ultra-fashionable schools.
"'Whats that new course MISS
Marie is takingT the first maid asked.
"I think said the second maid, !
think the name Of It's cosmetics :"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
REJECTED BY NAVY; DRAFTED
Man Is Accepted for Service In Army
After Qualifying as
Postman.

Corvallis, Ore.-Ernest Chase, rural
mail carrier enlisted in the navy.
After his final physical examination
he was discharged as being physically
unfit. Then he got job as rural car
rier and invested $40 in rig, horse
and outfit. After working 20 days he
was called in the military draft, passed
by the local examining board, and Or
dered to camp.
He doesn't know now whether to
sell his rig and give up his job, or
whether to take "lay off, and trust
to being rejected by the army as he
was by the navy.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
MAN TOO HEAVY FOR NAVY
Recruiting officer Says Uncle Sam
Hasn't Suit Big Enough for
kansan.

Salina, Kant want to fight" De.
clared ". G. Emick, twenty-one, of
Miltonvale. at the local naval recruit
ing Office. A recruiting officer gave
him the "once over put him through
d series of PAGES and then said:
1Therefis nothing doing here. There
isn't sailor suit in Uncle Sans navy
that would fit you"
Emick walked out Of the Office Ii
disappointed man. He weighs g75
pounds and was recently registered
under the new draft law
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
Signature fI<z1lsa.
In Use for Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
Dead called on 10 buy Bonds.

During a war loan campaign In a
London suburb, an airplane dropped
5000 leaflets calling for subscriptions.
Almost the entire 5000 fell into the
village cemetery, where they covered
the graves and shrubbery like snow
flakes. Visitors to the cemetery who
picked up the little sheets found them
Inscribed in large letters: "Wake UP
and Buy War Bonds"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
WOMEN FARMING N
WESTERN CANADA
Success Has Followed All Their
Efforts.

On the train from Edmonton to Win
nipeg the writer took seat beside a
soldier who had returned from the
front. On his breast he wore the
beautiful distinguished service medal.
One coat sleeve was armless, and on
his left cheek he bore a scar that he
would carry to his grave. He had
served his country faithfully and we'll.
AT the first call for soldiers In August,
1914, he fastened to the recruiting
office, leaving his 320-acre farm, with
its crop ready for harvest. a full
equipment of farm implements. plenty
of horses, and wife, The wife should
not be last on the list for she proved
the master of the situation, and 10y
ally took hold OF the question of pro-
duction. while her husband was on his
way to fight the Hun. And she sue
ceeded. In 1915 she succeeded, and
again In 1915, and when her husband
returned in 1917 she was able to show
some contemplated farm buildings
completed, the Indebtedness Of the farm
paid of, a considerable addition to the
stock, and the land ready for a 1917
crop. This was the story told by the
soldier, and wasn't he a proud man
He was now ready to do what he could
to keep up the period of prosperity
and provide food for the allies The
women Of Canada have done nobly
during the struggle.
Among the most successful farmers
OF the Oak Lake district, Manitoba,
are the Misses Clara and Beatrice For.
ward, who, for the past fourteen years
have farmed their own land, doing all
the regular work on the farm, such as
blowing, seeding, summer following
and reaping. They have been espe
cially successful with stock, and have
a splendid herd Of shorthorns, both
purebred and grade. At the recent
Brandon sale they purchased new
purebred stock bull for $500. Their
herd was last year increased by q
calves.
Miss r. M. Hlllman Of Keller, Sas
katchewan, is another successful
woman farmer. She has gone In ex
tensively for grain growing, and farms
1,120 acres. She also owns some Of
the finest Percheron horses In Sas
xatchewan.
The prairie now boasts Of many
women who have had more or less sue
cess, though few are farming on the
same large scale as Miss Hillman and
the Misses Forward. These womer
have demonstrated, and are still dem
onstrating, that versatile woman
may be just as good and successful 9
farmer as. her brother, .--.--@---
There are other women, too, on the
Canadian prairies, who, though they
have not had thrown upon them the re
sponslbilities Of running farm
have been decided factors In making
the farm a success. They assist theil
husbands by keeping the farm &C
counts, reducing the grocer's bills by
their management Of the poultry and
butter, taking care Of the house, and
very often, proving good advisers In
the economic management Of the mer
and general conduct Of the farm work
The man who moves to Canada car
ries with him wonderful asset In
good managing wife.-Advertisement
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
Find Indian Skeletons.

Martins Ferry, O.--While stripping
coal ut the Beech Flats Coal company,
mine at Rush Run, above this city,
workmen unearthed the skeletons of
three Indians, The skeletons are in Il
good state Of preservation. The teeth
are perfect and white as ivory.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
The Hopeful Lawyer.

"Your honor, ask COR a postpone
ment."
"You have had too many postpone
ments already" retorted the judge. It'll
give you Just fifteen minutes more and
that's all"
"Weli, thanks for that, your honor.
Something may happen. One Of the
witnesses againnt me might possibly be
taken Il.r--Louisville Courier-JournaI.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
comfort Haby's skin

When red, rough and itching with hot
baths Of Cutic,lra Soap and touches OF
Cuticura Ointment. This means sleep
for baby and rest for mother. For
free samples address, "Cuticura, Dept
x, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap 25, Ointment % and 50.--Adv.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12
Crisp Criticism of Gossip.

Gossip is sort Of smoke that comes
from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those
who dlffuse it; it proves nothing but
the bad taste Of the smoker.-George
Eliot.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12

Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills contain
nothing but vegetable ingredients, which act
gently as tonic and purKatiye Adv
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12

The island OF Tasmania lays claim
to having the worlds richest ia r1ipe,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12

Ohio State university has a book 425
years old and In good state Of preser
walton.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12

Cheap teaspoons are being made
from compressed cotton fiber.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-04-12

important to MotheEe
Examine carefully every bottle 81
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that 1t
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18

A little village exists on the Cape of
Shima, in Japan, the name of which in
japanese means "the Settlement of
Nymphs." Woman in this village is
the predominant partner The chief
industry is pearl fishing, and it is the
women who are the fishers. The men
stay at home and do the houseWork.
From the age of four girls are taught
to dive. and the craft has always been
jealously kept in the women's hands.
Recently some of the men became
discontinued and started to practice
diving with the idea of themselves be-
coming pearl fishers. The women,
dreading the intensified competition,
ordered the men to discontinue their
diving. and as the men refused a boy
colt was declared against them. The
sexes have been at war ever since, and
finally the women expelled all the
men from their homes and undertook
in their clumsy, inexpert fashion to do
the homework for themselves. The
men have petitioned parliament for
their rights.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18
CHINESE Is MADE BISHOP
Anglican Church, Performed
at Shanghai.

For the first time in the history of
the Church of England in China, a
Chinese bishop, in the person of the
Venerable Archdeacon Il. c. Shen, has
been consecrated. The ceremony took
place in the Church of Our Savior, Dix
we'll road, Shanghai, before a number
of distinguished guests. The rites fol
lowed the ordinal OF the churches of
the Anglican communion.
The new bishop was presented in
due form by Doctor Molnny. bishop Of
Chekiang, and Doctor Norris, bishop
Of North China, who were assisted by
Doctor Graves, the presiding bishop,
in the laying of the hands. Bishops
Roots and Huntington of the Ameri-
can church, Bishop Tiff of the Church
of England ana Bishop White of the
Canadian church. All these bishops
are also bishops Of the Chung Hua
Shang Kung Hui.-Canton (China)
Times.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18

require a nice warm lalher; dry soap
must never be used ON them. and a
teaspoonful Of salt should be added
both to the sudS and the rinsing wa
ter for scarlet and pink, and the same
quantity of ammonia for blue. They
should then be well shaken and hung
ont AT once to dry. Articles of deli
cate blue that must be washed are
often ruined by careless washing.
Shoes that have become stiff and
uncomfortable by being worn in the
rain. or that have been lying unused
for sonle time. can be made soft and
pliable by vaSeline well rubbed In
with a cloth and rubbed off with a
dry one.
When cooking turnips, drop a small
lump of sugar among them. 1t irn-
proves them wonderfully.
Do not allow the tea to brew for
more than five minutes.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18

TO carry on its work with the A. T.,
+. the Y. NJ, {. a. has had more than
three thousand secretaries in Europe,
supplemented by more than one thou
sand French civilians. These have
been operating about fifteen hundred
hutS ana stations in the sectors held
by American and French troops. Up
10 August there had been more than
fifty casualties, eleven Of whom We're
killed while on duty, according TO the
Atlantic Monthly. OF the ministers
engaged in the work four have met
death while serving at the front and
many others have been permanently
injured.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18
Clemcnceau's MESSAGE.

When in October NJ Clcmenceau re-
ceived Roumanian delegation he was
asked. after few minutes converse
ton, Ia one of the delegates to send
a message to the Roumanians who
had fought so CALAMITY and suffered
so terribly in the allied cause. The
French premier's message was as
pithy us it was expressive. Il rise"
he said, sin the presence of your dele
CATION; I take my hat of to the Rou-
maninn people; put it on again in
face Of the Rnumanian government"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18
NO D!MMING YANKEE SPIRIT
Soldier in Midst Of Stern Duties Of
War Found Time to Play Little
Jokes on Dad.

The Yankee spirit In the midst Of
the carnage and trayaiIs Of war is
eXpmplltied in letter written two
weeks before the signing OF the armis-
ticc to Edwin G. Brandenhurg, for
mer president OF the Washington
board of trade, by his son, Sergt
Milton /. Brnndenburg, who has been
in France a year. Dark forcbOd-
ingS flushed through the mind of the
Father as he read through the epistle
untl he came to the last sentence.
The letter reads:
II dislike very much to have TO
write this letter to you, but the time
has come when ] must ask your ad-
vice on matter of great importance
to me, the complication of which has
caused me nights of restlessnesS and
many day Of anxiety.
You will understand when | tell
yau that many happy home has been
wrecked, and in fact even huns"
lives upset by similar troubles, aud
that is why | haven't written You
about 1t before, but now I feel that
you should know at once, as it means
such great deal to me.
Even though I am in France. | dare
not communicate the state Of my
mind TO any of my friends here, so
20 TO you. | know | am asking a
good deal Of you, but your loyalty
more than warrants it and | am go
ing to ask you and expect you to tell
me from deep down in your bic heart
if you think that jeff will ever be as
TIL rs Mutt 2"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18
SELECTING A HAT
Profile View More important, Ad-
vises Fashion Critic.
Use of Hand Mirror Will Aid When
Buying HcadJear--More Get Side
Than Front Glance.

Why do some women wear unbe-
same price they can get one thai will
bring out all the good points. of the
face and throw the defects into Shad-
Ow 50 that they VIII be scarcely no.
ticeable? There are several reasons
for. this, states an authority, ana the
first is that many people do not seem
to know just how they look in any
thing and are perfectly happy as long
as the style is up TO date; and another,
and by far the most common. iS that
they are bewildered by n multiplicity
of models. After they have tried On
dozens Of the wrong kinds of hats they
are so tired and discouraged that thDy
decide on the one that seems the most
inoffenSive Of the lot. But If they I'M
derstood a little me- 70 about the shapes
that We're suitable for them they would
not need to waste all this time, but
could select with more intelligence and
decidedly less effort. Now it Is GER
tuin that no one shape is suited to att
faces. All women cannot Wear larga
hats any more than all can wear the
fashionable close-iitting styles that are
so becoming 10 q good many, But
somewhere thcre is q shape that was
made for just your Kind of face.
A hat that is long and narrow IN
shape should never be worn by WON
an whose face is of the long, oval
type, or in other words, is long and
thin. Nc,tEr. sb M such q woman
wear hat "ith very wide bonn. g..
pecisHy If ne h,,s tcl,c,. &c { azure I,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18

for this will make her face look very
commonplace and her checks almost
emaeiated. She can very becominSiE
wear the round turban effect. especial
~ If it has q brim that rolls up; she
can wear the continental shape; for
this, though pointed in the front. is
wide at the sides and thus gives her
face the needed breadth She can also
wear becomingly AL kinds of medium
sized sailor shapes but rs a rule does
not look well in irregular hats, hat is,
hats that are wider on one side than
the other.
The round-faced woman, on the con-
trarS, usually finds that a toquc that
fits quite closely at the sides suits her
best. She can wear big hat very be-
comingy, and if her face is little too
broad and fat such II hat viii make it
look more slender. II is mistake also
for a fat woman TO wear hat so
small that it makes her face look like
n full moon, when If she had chosen
a little bigger shape her fat cheeks
would not have been brought so much
into prominence.
When you buy Your next nat don
stare straight at yourself in the mir
ror. Take hand mirror and look
carefully at yourself from all sides
and be sure to get Il profile vicw-a
dozen people regard your hat from the
side where one looks at it from the
front. Some hats that look well on the
head when one IS sitting down are not
nearly so becoming when one stands
up. 50 it is we'll TO stand before full
length mirror to get the real effect of
a hat..
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18
TWO NEW C0L09S NOW IN USE
Overseas Blue ana Artillery Red Pro
Woe Very Smart Combination
Military Effects.

There are two new ColorS which arc
beautiful, overseas blue and artillery
red. The overseas blue is shade as
lovely rs the sky on the most beautiful
Of days. Artillery red is the vivid
bright scarlet one would imagine It To
be. A combination of navy blue aud
artillery red is very smart, a mere
touch OF the latter being sufficient to
brighten The dulIest frocks. 1t is
placed agreeably on Il paneIed blouse
buttoning at one side with rather
large round red buttons caught with
sili<en loops Of red cord.
II is curious 10 note, observes fash
ior writer. how we reach ont after
IS many Of the military effects as pos
4ibjc. Epnulets, for instance, are made
nf fur. or gold fringe or silver, and
again Of some Of the Japanese bro
caded metallic fabriCS.
Another military note is the slash
ing seen in some costumes. one fabric
is slit aud material of contraStin.
color is pulled throuGh the opening.
This treatment supplies a very new
and effective bit of trimming. A
charming soft blouse of dove gray
georgette with a. tiny French chemI
settle OF Alencon lace was slasbcd
through with pale pink velvet ribbons
at the yoke and on the cuffs.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18
NOTICE.


Estate Of Mary Dufie'd Deceased.
Notice is hcreoy given that the I'M
dersigned, EXec0triE Of the last will
and testament Of Mary Duhicld, late
OF the County OF La Sale and State
OF Illinois, deceased, will appear be.
fore the Probate Court OF said county,
on the first Monday CbcinG the third
day Of March, 1919. at the Probate
Court room, in Ottawa, in said comfy
when and where all persons having
Gains CT demands against said estate
are notified to attend and present the
same in writing for adjustment.
Dated the 9th day OF January
a. u. 1918.
MARGARET SHUFELT.
EXecutriX.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18
Classified Advertising


Advertisements will be inserted in
this column not exceeding five lines,
three times, 30c. one week. GOc. Each
line over five, 10c per week add
tional. All advertisements in this col
umn must be paid in Advance. No
advertisement will be inserted in this
column for less than 30c.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18
Like Pana.

The family was at breakfast and
among other things hey had hard
boiled eggs Tho bald-hcaded papa
turned to his two-year-oId child and
said; Elizabeth, how do you wish
yoIt egg this morEuG?" She looked
n the egg and then ut her father and
said: Il des I'll take il bald-headed.
papa"
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-01-18
FOR SALE
FAR q.

FOR SALE-We nave two small
tracts within the city limits Of
ottawa, consisting of about / acre
on North side without Improvements
equal to about lots suitable for
poultry and vegetable raising; can
be had for $4,000 per lot. The owEeI
is a nonresident and wants to sell
The other tract consists OF 10 to j.
acres with small house on West side
Both Of these would sell as lots for
double the price we are asking. Bet,
Ter look into this J. o. Harris &
Son Telephone 957-W.