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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1919-12-19

La population de PAngleterre vi
want u des ateaux est portee a 3d.
900 p%ersonnes.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
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TENNESSEE
FARM NEWS
Mai Pig en- Boys po

In explaining the pig club member
ship possibilities for the boys Of Hem
derson county, the county agent says
something that win interest farmers
in other parts of the state where pig
clubs are being organized. He says:
Last year only breeding hogs were
produced by the club boys. This year
we plan to add porkers to the list.
Each boy may produce one or more
meat hogs.
eve expect one, and perhaps more
carloads Of meat hogs to be shipped
to the market about the last week
in September. There are two reasons
for this-(1) the market is generally
higher at this time than at any
other time during the season; (2)
hogs can be finished very cheaply
for that market.
"When ready for the market we
expect porkers to weigh from 200
to $50 pounds. They should be fed
from August on corn and soy beans
largely. This feed may be utilized
in two ways; the best method is to
have it fenced separately and turn
them on it; the next best plan is to
cut it from a nearby field and throw
it to them.
"The pig club enrolment is grow
ing rapidly, Each boy will be expect
ed to make a record and a report as
was done last year, Prizes win be
given as usual.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03

See If it's the classified.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
''TWAS A LUCKY
DAY, = SAYS MRS.
O'GONNOR
Her Improvement, After Taking Tan
lac, Was Simply Won
derful.

1T was certainly lucky day for
me when ! got my first bottle oil
Tanlac," said Mrs. John O'Connor, of
338 East Oldham street, Knoxville,
Tenn.
For five or six years." she con
tinued, Il had been in a dreadfullyI
rundown and nervous condition, was
awfully weak and suffered with spells
of dizziness. / had terrible nervous
headaches and my stomach was so
weak ] couldn't digest even the light
lest kind of food ! could sleep very
little and became so Respondent that
| was afraid nothing would help me
regain my health
Il wouldn't have believed it if any
body had told me any medicine would
cause me to gain eight pounds in ten
days, but that is exactly what Tanlac
has done for me- Soon after | started
taking it ] began to eat better, sleep
like a baby and feel just fine, and
my steady improvement has been sim
ply wonderful | have thrown away
Iall my other medicines and will stick
Ito Tanlac, for ! think it is the finest
medicine on earth.
Tanlac is sold by all leading drug
gists.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
THE WAR WORK OF
THE ORDER OF ELKS

The membership doesn't make a
great deal of noise about it. to be
sure, but the Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order Of Elks "did its bit" grand.
~ and nobly in the big war, it seems.
The Elks organization is founded
upon patriotic ideals, anyway; never
a session is legally open unless flag
altar. 'i'e
Here is part of the Elks' record: :
Purchased 100000 worth Of Lib
erty bonds.
Donated 100000 to the Red Cross
funds. wal
Turned 800 Elk clubhouses over to
patriotic agencies. n
Members signed 100000 food con-
servation pledges.
More than 10000 members wore the
c!ountry's uniform. Among the Elks
IN uniform, one is general-John r.
Pershing two are MAJOR generals, six
are brigadier generals, 80 are colo
nels, So are lieutenant colonies, 400
are majors, 1900 are captains, 4,700
are lieutenants, 1000 are sergeants
and 500 are corporals.
In the navy the Elks have one rear
admiral, IL are captains, four are
commanders, 20 are lieutenant COM
manders, 100 are lieltenants, $50 are
ensigns. The rest served in the ranks.
This great order is, to be congrat-
ulated upon the fine and genuinely
patriotic and helpful showing it made.
And, for that matter, it is still on
the job, helping returning soldiers
and sailors wherever and whenever
and however it can.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
A TWICE-TOLD TALE
One of Interest to Our Readers.

Good news bears repeating, and
when it is confirmed after a long
lapse of time, even if we hesitated to
believe it at first hearing, we feel Sc
cure in accepting it's truth now. The
following experience of Covington
woman is confirmed after three years.
Mrs. G. A. Bringle, r. F. d. No. i,
gave the following account of her ex-
perience with Doan's Kidney Pills No
vember rs, 1914: Il suffered greatly
from backache and kidney trouble,
My kidneys acted irregularly and !
suffered from dizziness and black
spots would float before my eyes.
Doan's Kidney Pills always relieve me
of an attack of this trouble, and Of
late | have had no occasion to take
a medicine for my kidneys"
Doan's Always Dependable
On May IA, 1918, Mrs. Bringle said:
whenever / hear anyone complain
ing Of theis kidneys, | recommend
Doan's Kidgey Pills, for | know the
value Of them / never use Deans
but what / get fine results"
Zoe, at all dealers. Foster-Milburl
Co, Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
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The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
One Smith County Orchard

"a certain orchard is this county
containing about $50 trees appears
to have absolutely no San Jose scale,
but was very badly affected with all
kinds of rots, scabs, blotch, and cod
ling MOTH" writes a Smith county
man. would it be advisable to use
Bordeaux mixture straight through
as fungicide? Of course, arse
nate Of lead should be added at pro
per time for codling moth. Many
limbs show canker spots. Would it
be well to use copper -sulphate solu-
tion without lime as a dormant sra Z
to kill out as many Of the fungus
spores as possible?"
Bordeaux mixture, if desired, could
be used straight through as fun
gicide for the control of practically
all fungus diseases. Commercial
lime-sulphur, diluted at the rate of
one part of concentrated solution to
AS TO so gallons of water, also has
germiciaal properties and will con-
troll practically every fungus disease
except bitter blotch and bitter rot.
OF course, when it is diluted to this
extent, ii does not control the San
Jose seaie. The control of the San
Jose scale requires a more concehtrat-
ed solution to 8 IL to 10 gallons Of
water, which should be applied in
the spring before growth starts. The
best remedy for caaker spots is to
cut out the infected portion. Then
disin ect the tool with copper sui
phate solution to prevent the sps IL
of t.lis disease to sound branches.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
SAVE sl5o

Make your healing remedy at home.
Get a SOC bottle Of Farris' Healing
Oil, add It to a pint of linseed oil
and you have a full pint Of the best
healing remedy that money can buy.
1t cures old sores, wounds, cuts and
scratches.
For sale by Roper1McGee Drug Co.,
Covington, Tenn; L. L. Wilder, Ma
son, Tenn; E. Jones, Keeling, Tenn;
K. 3. Martin, Stanton, Tenn; NJ e.
Tenant, Atoka, Tenn; J.M.Smithson,
Brighton, Tenn; G. L. McPeak, Brigh-
ton, Tenn; The Enterprise, Coving-
ton, Tenn; H. R. Rose & Co., Gov
ington, Tenn. limo
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
AIR MACHINE TO CROSS
ATLANTIC OCEAN IN MAY

New York, March 29.-ahe start Of
the United States navy's attempt to
cross the Atlantic ocean in a heav-
Ter than air machine will take place
on the first clear day in May, or as
soon thereafter as the fog belt which
now envelopes the Newfoundland coast
shows signs Of clearing, according TO
a statement issued tonight by the
Manufacturers Aircraft Association,
which claims to have definite inform
alton from Washington.
The United States weather bureau
lis gathering all available informa-
ton from the North Atlantic region
and from this data charts are being
made for the guidance Of the avia-
tors. Observations on the surface
of the sea submitted by naval and
other vessels, and records obtained
lby test balloons provide the basis for
forecasts as to weather conditions
probably early in May. The navy IS
placing little reliance in favorlng
winds, because at the altitude Of 1000
feet. which is expected to be the av-
erage, on the trip across, available
data shows that only eight days
during May, and then only for quar-
ter of the time, is theresa strong
wind bearing to the east.
Each of the two or more N. Z.
TYPE of boats with which the flight
Twill be attempted will carry q crew
Of five men, consisting of pilots, me-
chanics, a wireless operator and pos
Isibly an aerographer No newspaper
men or photographers will be carried
because of the desire to utilize all
available space for gasoline and lessen
the extra carrying capacity. During
trials at Rockaway Beach this week
one of the N. C. craft arose from
the water with $4,000 pounds Of gross
load, whereas at one time $4,000
pounds was thought to be the limit.
This leads navy experts in charge Of
the flight to believe that sufficient
gasoline could be carried for non
stop flight.
Mother ships, especially outfitted
for the care and repair Of flying
boats will be employed, it is stated
to guard against possible disaster,
should one Of the planes encounter
severe storms. Destroyers also will
be used to form links in the safety
Iline. Very little food will be carried
by the seaplanes, the necessity for
this being removed by the use of de-
stroyers and mother ships,
1t is definitely known the trans
atlantic section Of the navy in charge
of the flight has prepared in detail
several plans, but the one to be Sc
Ilected will not be made known until
Just before the start is made.
Each plan calls for a separate
route, although all designate New
foundland as the point of departure
1t is officially announced the distance
between Rockaway and Newfoundland
lis 1900 nautical miles and from New,
Ifoundland to the coast Of Ireland $3.50
nautical miles.
Permission for the flight to start
and end in waters of the British do.
Iminions has been obtained from the
British and Newfoundland authori-
ties.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
Three Farm Labor Suggestions


Employment for rainy days aid
p4Its Of days should be provided for
hired men on the farm. II this is
done, by keeping the work well up
To schedule, some Saturday after
moons and circus days may be allowed
OF No farm hand considers a rainy
day spent by him in loafing as va
catica, even though his pay goes on.
There has been some inquiry con-
corning the best type Of organiza-
ton for cooperative threshing and
silo filling. Some sections Of the
state nc showing progressive ideas
along his line, while in others but
little has been done This is an unu-
sually good method Of securing adj
ditional labor during rush seasons.
Any member Of the boys working
reserve who served faithfully Oh the
farm last season should be given
an opportunity to duplicate the per-
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03

Torrance again this year. When
placed with the right farmer even
inexperienced town boys viii give sur
prisingiy good service.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
NOTICE

am closing out my business at
Liberty, and all persons indebted to
me must come forward and settle at
once if they wish to save costs.
27m2w* G. M. APPLEBURY,
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-04-03
Get Rid of Rats

Last night" writes a Tennessee
poultry keeper, Il lost 81 White Wy
andbtte chickens. Rats did il"
Take a small chuck steak, and
broil rather rare. While the steak
is steaming hot, squeeze about one
half Of the contents Of a vial of phos-
phorus rat paste over it. Spread this
on the steak with a knife, holding
the steak with a fork, SO as
to keep off the human scent. The
steak is then cut into very small piec-
es and put in cigar box, which is
inclosed in an old soap box that has
had two-inch holes cut in both ends
at opposite corners. This placed
under barn floor has been success
full in entirely exterminating rats
for one season. 1t is well to advise
that dogs and cats that have any
value be kept confined for a couple
of days after the poison has been put
.out.
Growing Irish Potatoes
The Irish potato is by far the most
important Of all vegetable crops
grown. It is grown in every state
in the union, and is found every day
on the tables of all classes. Fur
thermore, it is in season every day
lin the year.
The Irish potato is a cool season
crop. It is grown in Tennessee dur
ling the cool weather of the spring
months and is usually successful as
"a fall crop, particularly if the sea-
son is COOL
Potatoes do best on rich, sandy
loan, which contains plenty of humus,
An ideal condition is to have pota-
toes follow clover. Cover the clover
sod with heavy dressing of manure
and turn under in the fall. Where
the clover sod is not available, apply
manure to soil in fall and plow deep
Ily. Leave in the rough until spring
and either pillow again or disk. Fresh
manure should not be applied in the
spring as it causes the soil to dry out
too rapidly and also causes potatoes
to develop scab.
A good commercial fertilizer should
be used. Three hundred pounds of
acid phosphate, so pounds muriate
Of potash. and 400 pounds cottonseed
meal to the acre makes good fer
tilizer for potatoes. This should be
broadcasted and narrowed in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

ing you. When may we expect you homer
 General Pershing cabied in reply:
 q have heard the call. Will be there soon after my arrival in the United States Can't give you definite date now but will let you know later."
 Laclede will pay tribute to General Pershing on his arrival, not with tile pomp and ceremony that marked hts reception in European capitals, but with a good old fashioned Missouri homecoming" according to the com mittee arranging for ms reception.
 Plans for the general entertainment include reunions with old schoolmates and chums, trips to m. old swimmin' hole on Muddy Creek and to the old Pershing farm.
 The homecoming Will also mark a reunion of the Pershing ramily. James ] Pershing, of Chicago, tne Generals | brother. and Miss May Pershing and Mrs Bessie Butler, of Lincoln, Nep., his two sisters, will gather at the for mer Pershing home during the generals stay. The reception will not be without 8 military side. Decorated heroes of Mis- souri will form an hoacr guard. Ad- | jutant General H. c. Clarke, of Mis- souri, will have charge of the military reception.
 Governor Frederick D. Gardner will ideliver an address at the celebration and other state and national officials have been invited to attend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
TO THE EGRESS
these grounds or disturbing the deer.

these grounds or disturbing the deer.
 "J. D. JOHNSON"
 Barnum Acknowledged the corn and was hugely amused, while Johnson went around bragging that he had "got ahead of Barnum.' Several days later party of New Workers came to visit the John sons. It was dark before they arrived. Johnson told them they would see some thing wildly, screamingly funny when daylight came, but, despite their en- treaties, refused to say what 1t was.
 Next morning he led them into he street and along the outside of Bar nuns high picket fence and, when they had reached place where the sign showed off to advantage, pointed at it proudly and cried: Look! See the bully fine joke I've played on P. IT." They looked, but the snowman had risen early that morning and beneath Johnsons signature they read: "Gamekeeper to P. T. Barnum." Copyright 1919, by The Bell Syndi- cate, Incl
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the funny side of it--a mere snowman
 getting so effulgently illustrious-and
 he could put on greatness (with a
 chuckle) and snort at the result. For
 instance:
 While in Paris with Tom Thumb, he
 attended an auction sale of the effects of a Russian nobleman, bought lot of china adorned with the titled per to America, put the same coat arms on his carriage!
 TOOK HUMOR SERIOUSLY.
 One thing he took seriously, though, and that was, his humor. He gloried in it. loving a good yarn, and where ever he went, collecting good yarns by the score. Somewhere in what was then the West, he heard of back woodsman who came to the wharf from which a steamboat had just departed. Swinging his hat, the backwoodsman shouted Justify: Hello, captain! Stop
 that boat! Stop that boat!" l As Barnum tells it, 'The captain, 1 supposing there must be a dozen or | two passengers to get on board, back ed his boat to the wharf. The coutry-
 man, still astride his horse, called out | Is that a steamboat?'
 "Why, of course it is" replied the i captain.
 Well, I never seed one afore. Go 1 ahead, steamboat"
 1 There was any amount of comicality l lying around loose in the America of 1 the hoopskirt and little gray shawl period, and there was plenty more ly- | ing around loose in Europe. Imagine
 Barnums delight when an usher in an | English lecture hall looked at the tick
 cts displayed by the people ahead ap4 said, Letter Hay, first row; letter h1, | fifth row; letted heff, sixth row; let
 ter high, ninth row." and then, in re-
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When may we expect you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

sponse to Rarnum's inquiry, where 10 I go?'' said "you go to Hell!''
 At Waterloo the guides came swarm ing around Barnum, who tells us that each applicant claimed to have been engaged in the sansuinary contest, al- though it had occurred 30 years before and some of these fellows were only, 1t seemed, from % to 2S years of age We accepted an old man. who at first de- cared he was killed in the battle, but, perceiving our incredulity, consented to modify the statement"
 Inasmuch as Barnum used to lecture on "The Philosophy of Humbug,' you will have no difficulty in appreciating the lark he had with that guide. When the fellow had pointed out the spot where Wellington stood and the place where the British reservesS were sta toned and the position held by Napo- Icons old guard and the spots where fell Sir Alexander Gordon, Lieutenant Colonel Canning and many other celeb rites, Barnum asked him if he could tell where Captain Tippitiwichet of the Connecticut F'usiliers was killed. "Oui, monsieur" said the guide-and did so!
 Yankee smartness during the Hoop skirt and Little Gray Shawl Period was celebrated for the agility with which a jokee could get back at joker, and you took awful risks when you played lit tie trick on Barnum. In Scotland once a magician named Anderson, but known generally as "The Wizard of the North, '' dragged Barnum in among crowd of strangers and announced, 'I have the geeat honor of presenting to you my dis
 tnguished friend, the Wizard of the North!"
 Gentlemen" said P. T., T am de- lighted to make your acquaintance. give my first performance Monday even ing, and, as I always like to be liberal should esteem it pleasure to write
 orders for free admission to any of you who will attend" When 20 or 30 had
 jumped at the chance, and it began tc look as if the house would be filled ex- clusively with deadheads. Anderson
 Near Bridgeport, Conn, where hi. it's winters. Barnum built himself Per- sian palace (since burned) and called il 'Iranistan." MT. James D. Johnson
 lived in fine house not far away. AS I owned several acres of land ad joining his homestead,'' says Barnum, q surrounded the ground with high pickets and, introducing number of Rocky mountain elk, reindeer and American deer, converted it into a deer park Strangers passing by would naturally suppose that it belonged to Johnson's estate, and to render the illusion more
 complete, his son-in-law placed a sigr 1 in the park, fronting the street ana reading:
 "All persons are forbid trespassing on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
PERSH|NG HEARS
 CALL ID VISIT
 HOME OF B0YHO0D
Although Now Full-Fledged General, He is Johnny" Pershing to People of
 Missouri Village
By Associated press

I.aclede. Mo, September 13.-General Pershing is coming back to his boy hood home here.
 He will return full fledged general the hero of America, but to the boyhood companions with whom ne stole apples, and played at the ola .wimmin' hole, if will be the Johnny" Pershing who spent his early life here before going away to West Point to embark on military career.
 A cablegram received by Mayor Eo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

mund B. Alien promises visit by the General shortly after his arrival in the United States.
 Some time ago when Laclede learned that General Pershins was returning from Europe the following clablegram was despatched to him by Mayor AL len:
 "Laclede, your old home, your boy hood friends and Linn county are call
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

Gentle, stupid and bovine, they re- fusei to run until the crowd let out wild yell of derision. Even this startled them into only weak gailop. And when the hunter heroically roped the nearest calf, the spectators laughed Themselves out of years growth.
 HUNT" ONLY, FOR PUBLICITY
 N. P. Willis, poet and editor. wit messed the sell and reported that or his way home the passengers aboarn the ferryboat gave three cheers TOT the wag behind it all. whoever he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

ECS. SlQIIBq Oh kSs plGRACh StA"fNSo *N'-.- sundry living denizens of the jungle. Admission. 25 cents, children half price Crowds began arriving before breakfast time and many brought sanw iches and hardboiled eggs and stayed till sundown.
 This was nuts to Barnum. except on Holidays. Then, with crowds insife and other crowds twiddling their thumbs and kicking their heels out Side. impatient to plank down their money, and get in. the problem of ho" to ccax the insiders out became seri- ous Holidays tormented Barnlm more cruelty every year until at last he hit on a way to keep continuous fivec of humanity surg!ng through ais museum It was thIs: He erected hug. finger board, labeled in flaming letters, ITO THE EGRESS."
 Gosh" exclaimed the visitors. ~That's an animal we never even heard of" and rushed to the egress. Hon est they did Right spang out the heartiess big back door!
 Americans of the rfoopskirt and Lit tie Gray Shawl Period set great store by 'cuteness, and the worse you played it on them the better they liked you. One time Barnum learned that d herd of yearling buffaloes was being ex- hibited in Boston. He made up to tae Proprietor and bought him out. Then he hired the Hoboken race track, char tered the North River ferryboats for one day billed New York city with proclamations announcing Grand Buffalo Hunt" all persons admitted free and awaited results.
 They were nothtng short of acriG r. aocious Tweuty-four thousand eX- cited gullibles rushed to Hoboken, where a lone hunters logged out n tndiar style and riding a mustang, at Tempted to show how the terrifying mopster of the plains was roped and thrown. But. as Barnum, of course, realized yearling buffaloes have rather less ferocity than pacifist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
The Funniest Men That EUer LiUed Intimate the Worlds Greatest Humoss Eccenc
 ties, Their Folles and Their Foibles.
No. 19-P, T. Barnum

N the olden times, when grandmamma wore hoopskirts and Gramp wore a little gray shawl, nothing was half so easy as enticins people into Bar nuns museum, X lowering edifice of
 four stories Count
 them), it bulged with wonders-sea-
 shells, Indian rel