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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
WAR GARDENERS
RESPOND TO CALL

place which revealed itself in an en-
thusiastic, widespread drive to help
home food production. OF the total
number Of war gardens in the United
States. the preliminary reports show
that more than 100000 of them
2,276,000, to be exact--were in the
Central Western territory. There was
gain of fully 50 per cent over the
war garden activity of last year.
Eastern States Tagging.
"The Eastern states, including New
England, New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Delaware, on the
whole showed little increase over last
year. In certain parts of all this ter
ritory there has been better show
ing, and particularly has there been
greater activity among manufactur-
ing concerns in providing land for
their employees; but these gains have
been counteracted to certain extent
by less activity in other places; so that
the amount of food homegrown along
the upper Atlantic coast this year will
be slightly ii any greater than last
yeS Better cultiyation ia hundreds
Of d2ses may make up for what is lack
ing In numbers. In New York the park
department alone reports 1000 war
gardens 26 by 40. The total number
of war gardens In this territory, as
shown by the reports, is $4,000, Of
which $4,000 are in New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
1.-THE South has made an excellent
record, certain states in particular
having made notable gains. Including
Texas and Oklahoma, there are total
of 1,246,000 war gardens in the South
ern states this year, one-fourth of tho
number in the entire United States
California, Washington and Oregon
show total of 463,000 war gardens.
That the war gardeners intend to save
great part of the garden crop is
shown In the 200 entries received up
to July l for the canning contests that
garden clubs are organizing all over
the country"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
A scholar has no ennui.
SAFE, GENTLE REMEDY
CLEANSES YOUR KIDNEYS

Tor centuries GOLD MEDAL HARLEM
Oil has been standard household remedy
for kidney, liver, bladder and stomach
trouble, and all diseases connected with
the urinary organs. The kidneys and blad-
der are the most important organs of the
body. They are the filters, the purifiers of
your blood. If the poisons which enter
your system through the blood and stom-
ach are not entirely thrown out by the
kidneys and bladder, you are doomed.
WEAKNESS, sleeplessness, nervousness,
dependency, backache, stomach trouble,
headache, pain in loins and lower abdo-
men, gall stones, gravel, difficulty when
urinating, cloudy and bloody urine, rheu-,
matism, sciatica and lumbago, all warn you
to look after your kidneys and bladder.
All these indicate some weakness of the
kidneys or other organs or that the enemy
microbes which are always present in your
system have attacked your weak spots.
GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules are
what you need.
They are not 'patent medicine" nor
a "new discovery" For 200 wears they
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
REJECTED BY NAVY; DRAFTED
Man Is Accepted for Service in Army
- After Qualifying as
Postwar.

Corvallis, Ore.-Ernest Chase, rurai
mail carrier, enlisted in the navy.
After his final physical examination
he was discharged as being physically
unfit. Then he got a 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, 1919-03-29
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
miserieG 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 way to correct stom-
ach ills. A compound has been dis
covered which surely takes up the
harmfuljuices and gases from the stom-
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, 1919-03-29

have been standard household remedyu
They are the pure, original imported Haar>
lem Oil your great-grandmother used, and
are perfectly harmless. The healing, sooth-
ing oil soaks into the cells and lining Of
the kidneys and through the bladder, driv-
ing out the poisonous germs. New life,
fresh strength and health will come as YOU
continue the treatment. When complete
ly restored to your usual vigor, continue
taking capsule or two each day; they win
keep you in condition and prevent re-
turn of the disease.
Do not delay minute. Delays are e.
pecially dangerous in kidney and bladder
trouble. All druggists sell GOLD MEDAL,
HARLEM Oil Capsules They will refund
the money if not as represented. GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules are inn
ported direct from the laboratories in Hob
land. They are prepared in correct guam,
tity and convenient form, are easy to take
and are positively guaranteed to give
prompt relief, In three sizes, sealed rack
ages. Ask for the original imported
GOLD MEDAL. Accept no substitutes.-
Adv
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
Not Militarized Yet.

"We were riding along wooded
road" the major related. II saw my
intelligence officer intently studying
the landscape. That pleased me. 1
said to myself, He's getting observant
I'll make a damn good soldier Of him
yet Then it occurred to me to check
up on the facts. So I asked him what
he was thinking about.
"He pointed up to the festoons of
mistletoe that draped the road and
grinned.
"'Golly,' he sighed, If I only had
my little Mary here in an old-fash-
Ioned country buggy"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
MAN TOO HEAVY FOR NAVY
Recruiting Officer Says Uncle Sam
Hasn't Suit Big Enough for
Kansan.

Salina, Kant want to fight" de.
clared v. G. Emick, twenty-one, Of
Miltonvale, at the local naval recruit.
ing Office. A recruiting officer gave
him the 'once over" put him through
a series of PAGES and then said:
"There is nothing doing here. There
isn't a sailor suit in Uncle Sans navy
that would fit you"
Emick walked out Of the office a
disappointed man. He weighs 275
pounds and was recently registered
under the new draft law.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
WHAT DID THEY DO TO HIM7
Surely Should Have Been Something
Severe to Make the "Punish-
ment Fit the Crime"

All ships have baseball teams. Dur.
Ing the warm weather outside of rou-
tine aboard ship. baseball is the alb
sorbing topic.
We had just come into port and the
regular team with the different di-
vision teams were waiting to go ashore
fro the national pastime. They were
all on deck near the gangway when
the ships joker came running aft.
TITS all off, fellows! No more base.
ball during the war" The boys
turned around In amazement. At last
some one said: "Why2"
Holding up newspaper the joker
replied: 1.-THE senate has passed bin
270,321, which says no more strikes
will be called during the war"
The captains yeoman reported an
absentee next morning.-W. A. Nc
Carthy, U. S. S. Arizona, in Judge.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29

EATONIC tablets after your meal. %
Light and pain-free you will feel.
There is not harmful thing In
EATONIC tablets. They taste incl
Just like eating candy. Druggists will
tell you that EATONIC users saythey
never dreamed anything could give
such quick and wonderful results; you
can insure yourself a good, cool, swees
stomach, you can eat what you like.
and always have the appetite to cat it.
EATONlC is absolutely guaranteed.
Get a 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. Ii
EATONIC fails, return to your drug
gist and get your fifty cents back. IL
you cannot obtain EATONIC wherc
you live drop card to Eatonic Remedy
Co., Chicago, Ill. They will mail you
Q box at once,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
CZECHS IN ITALY
MUST WIN OR DIE
all collective judgments, arise from q
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 WE'LL
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
viyed 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, 1919-03-29
The Hopeful Lawyer

"Your honor, I ask ,or 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 against me might possibly be
taken ll.n-Louisville Courier-J Journal,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
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
girl in everything but an education.
"Two housemaids were talking once
about their mistress daughter, who
had Just returned from one Of these
ra-fashionable schools.
"'What's that new course Miss
Marie is takingT the first maid asked.
81 think said the second maid. i
think the name of it's cosmetics"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
WOMEN FARMING IN
WESTERN CANADA
Success Has Followed All Their
Efforts.

On the train from Edmonton to Win.
nipeg the writer took seat beside d
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 scar that he
would carry to his grave. He, had
served his country faithfully and well.
AT the first call for soldiers In August,
1914, he fastened to the recruiting
office, leaving his 320-acre farm. with
Ats 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 1916, and when her husband
returned In 1917 she was able to show
some contemplated farm buildings
completed, the indebtedness Of the farm
paid off, 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 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 reaplng. They have been espe-
clally 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 $700. Their
herd was last year Increased by %
calves.
Miss r. M. Hillman Of Keller, Sas-
katchewan, Is another successful
woman farmer. She has gone In ex-
tensively for grain growing, and farms
1920 acres. She also owns some of
the finest Percheron horses In Sas-
katchewan.
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 women
have demonstrated, and are still dem.
onstrating, that versatile woman
may be just as good and successful q
farmer as her brother.
1IIl,aesoa are . laeFr women, too; on the
Canadian prairies, who, though they
have not had thrown upon them the re-
sponsibllities of running a farm
have been decided factors In making
the farm success. They assist their
husbands by keeping the farm ac-
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 men
and general conduct Of the farm work
The man who moves to Canada car
ries with him wonderful asset in a
good managing wife.-Advertisement
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
sind Indian ske.etons.

Martins Ferry, O.-While stripping
coal at the Beech Flats Coal company
mine at Rush Run, above this city,
workmen unearthed the skeletons of
three Indians. The skeletons IRE in II
good state Of preservation. The teeth
are perfect and white as ivory.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
Dead Called on to 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, 1919-03-29
Comfort Raby,s skin

When red, rough and itching with hot
baths Of Cuti9lra 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 rs. Ointment Is and 50.-Adv.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29
will Keep the Food Coming as
General Pershing Has
Asked.
Big INCREASE This YEAR
Central West and Pacific Coast Espe-
ciaIly Are Doing WeIi-National
Commission Offers Prizes for
Best HOMEGROWN Canned
Vegetables.

Washington.-The war gardeners of
the United States answered Pershing's
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 an increase
Of 40 per cent over last year when
there were 3,5O0,000 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 Lathrcp
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 so per cent. In the Eastern
portions there was failure to note
a 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, 1919-03-29
Crisp Criticism OF Gossln.

Gossip is sort of smoke that comes
from the dirty t0bacco-pipes Of those
who dlffuse 1t; 1t proves nothing but
the bad taste Of the smoker.-George
Eliot.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29

Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills contain
nothing but vegetable Ingredients, which act
gently az a tonic and purgatiye. Adv
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29

Ohio State university has a book 40
years ole and in good state OF preser
walton.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29

The island Of Tasmania lays claim
to having the worlds richest iii lnire,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29

Cheap teaspoons are being made
from compressed cotton fiber.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-03-29

important 20 Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle 0i
CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that It
The Springdale news., 1919-03-21
PERSISTENCE.

When to-day's difficulties oversha- dow yesterdays triumphs and obscure the bright visions of tomorrow
 When plans upset and whole years of effort seem to crystalize into sing hour of concentrated bitterness
 When little annoyances eat into the minds very quick and corrode the power to view things calmly
 When jolts of misfortune threaten to jar loose the judgement from it's moor ings-
 Remember that in every business, in every undertaking, in every career, there are valleys to cross, as we'll as hills to scale; that every mountain range of hope is broken by chasms of discouragement through which run torrent streams of despair.
 To quit in the chasm is to fail. See always in your minds eye those summits of success,
 Don't quit in the chasm. Keep on, Selected
The Springdale news., 1919-03-21
BOOST A BIT

Here. you dlscontented knoolo c, GroWlln bout the countrv's it., Chloroform yer dismal talkeyy.S HIS; . Take a course O liver pills Stop yer 'durn ki-o-tee howin, ChaW some sand an git some prit Don't sit In the dumps a-groWIns, s'''
 Jump the roost
 An boost
 A bit. Fall in while the bands plavin, ketch the step an march alono- Stead O pessimistic brayin', Jine the hallelujah song! Drop yer hammer-do some root;r, Grab a horn, you cuss, and snIt Every echo With yer tootin-p'''
 Jump the roost
 An boost
 A biti
 Selected
The Springdale news., 1919-03-21
IN BLACK AND WHITE

Standing among the dignitarles ot the foreign offices, the Soverelgns or States. the members of cabinets, the dl- plomatists and the writers who heard President Wilson read the draft of the Ieague of Nations last Friday were some men in khaki whose frank and title Tn the registration book reads simply, Fri vate. |. s. A."-some of the men whose nresence in France during the months inst past made possible the League of Nations.
 They heard the President say that the plan was made for the men who go to bed tired at night and wake up with ont hope" they heard the words of the covenant itself that is proposed to end all wars spoken clearl y and emphatlcally by their Commander-in Chief, and they saw the printed copies in the hands ot the delegates. They knew then that the thing that their comrades had fought and died for through winter and around the seasons until one November morning was real-it was there on paper, for all the world to read.
 There was little ceremony, there was no debate, there was nothing to show of the days of earnest discussion, of clam and cOuntef-clalm, or QouOt dIlu faith and the power that drove out the doubt and downed the opposition. The draft was read and explained, and that was all
 It is not yet accepted It was not even submitted without reservation on the part of some members of the con- mission that helped to draw it up But it is there, surely "a living thing as the President himself called it, with as fair a chance for success among the United States of Civilization as had the Consti- tuition of the United States of America when it came before the sceptic and fear ful councillors, the doubters and cynics in the legislatures of the original States, who very likely sneered at the 'idealistic document far too impractical to be worthy of their support.
 The privates who heard the draft of the covenant of the League of Nations believe that their comrades did not die in vain.-Stars and Stripes, Feb. 21.
 Germany is expected to busy itself turning tanks into farm tractors.
The Springdale news., 1919-03-21

Alleged humorists on larger nevx. pers are prone to poke fun at itemss country weeklies from rural corrpsnn dents, but readers of the first mentimea newspapers find in them much thai { ridiculous and frivolous. For instans last Sunday one of the big newspapen' showed a picture of coup pie of socjs1 women at Palm Beach, Fla, out prone nading, each carrying in her arms, young billy goat, and We were infOrns that this is getting to be quite "the' thny in high society,". We submit that thI is not more important than the item he country correspondent to the efa that Bill Jones' mooley COW has heits calf.
The Springdale news., 1919-03-21
NOW THAT r,r,z

And a yaa catry svsF tnn hke millions of mes 1sER AT, And blister your heels anu and pae, pack,
 n tbe Tas ra, straps run down om shoulders In the the smotSeras sn er ths sno, or ySar If you have why then you,ra U, .ne 2 cold 'p' nS nnd vo we welcome you into our buddy f0y of oun With Wit y9@ your ever eat a with your plate oa n While eoes ssp a1d 1d ins bagss ground se yor o sss Daneed P;d fox-trots over your Ibpeslss biSa untold a That sSo Souf svsr sesd sdeep in tent so sm. Then shake, old man, von,re rect played tag, Fof p;I you've followed the sama u pal pal of ours With Wit yGS Frza fzsr stand fn in 1a sss, fsg With ferries and Minnies away,
 And And, gas coming over all I~n95Sting Isu9 around Wlth No-Man's Land sea af
 A, Ana tempest of burstino VI lhsme s9eel Then, come in, old man .,nS ar shell? For we're all just back @q from roiat bdy your shh -J. h' M- in Stars and Strjnase me'l
The Springdale news., 1919-03-21
veto on any action not acceptable to us

veto on any action not acceptable to us except in the cases specified.
 s'That that will, to some extent, III ap- pearance at any rate, initiate against the rapiditv of action of the organs of the league is undoubted," said Lord Cecil ln discussing this subject before the Peace Conference, 'but, in my judgement, that defect is far more than compensated by the confidence that it will inspire that no nation, whether great or small, need fear oppression from the organs of the league" The purpose of the league, in short, is not compulsion, but agreement, and fourteen sovereign states are now proving that agreement can be reached by unanimous consent in the most difficult and complicated situation ever presented to mortal man.-Globe-Demo
The Springdale news., 1919-03-21

Ten thousand population for Spring dale-What do you town boosters say? We can reach it if everybody will get busy and help.