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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-05-02
SUNB0NNET SUE
-
BY ANSTiS M. RENEAR.

Miss Susan reached up for the frilly,
white sunbonnet on the third hook
She stood on tiptoe to do it, for Miss
Susan was slim and very tiny. The
surbonnet had been her mothers and
had always. during the thirfy-odd
years of Susan's life hung on the third
hook. Although she had been alone
In the homestead for over a year. it
would have been sacrilege to hang the
bonnet on a lower hook! AS she bent
over to picl: up her garden basket and
shears, her long brown braid escaped
Its pins and swung over her shoulder.
Bother" said Miss Susan; she
paused irresolutely moment. then
pushed open the screen door. No one
could see, her from the street and
there was only the silent, shattered
house next door, vacant for years.
Swinging her basket gently. Susan
crossed the velvety lawn to the south
trellis, where her roses grew. Quiet
ly she moved about among the great,
rich blooms. until, spying perfect
rose high on the trellis. she climbed
upon the garden bench, to cut the
flower. She leaned eagerly forward,
slipped and in clutching at the trellis.
dropped the rose. 1t fell. with soft,
little sound. fairly upon the open book
Of man in the garden, next door!
Startled. he looked up. dropped his
book and seized u pair Of crutches at
his side. When he had risen and faced
her. Miss Susan saw upon his uniform
a majors insignia.
"Hcllo. SunbOnnet Sue" he said.
twirling the rose, us this pOsy for me?
Many thanks!"
Amusement wldened Miss Susan's
dark eyes, indignation lent rosy
flush to her cheeks, but suddenly, as
realization Of the mans very natural
error came to her. amusement tilted
the corners OF her mouth and revealed
n dimple.
II dropped It," she said in pretty
embarrassment "but you are quite
welcome to 1t. Would you care for
more? I have so many"
The majors cap lay on the grass,
and the sun turned the gray in his
black hair to silver.
II should like some immensely; my
orderly. who keeps house for me.
doesn't care much for 'gew-gaws' and
the old place needs bright touch or
two"
Susan was shipping busily; she had
gotten down from the bench, but the
major was tall and could lean over
the fence easily.
VI have come to live here" he con-
tinued. "for the summer, ut least. Ar.
rived last night. The place was left
me by great-aunt whom I'd never
seen. / didn't take the trouble to in.
vestigatc until the surgeons agreed
that several weeks rest was impera-
tive for this leg Of mine. SO I packed
up and brought Thompson along"
Susan's cheeks were pink as the
~oses she handed over the fence; al
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Carburetor Uses Kerosene.

An automatic carburetor has been
developed in England for which aston
ishing claims are made. The details
of its construction are withheld, but
it's performance Is said on good au-
thority to be remarkable. During a
demonstration test it was used on a
two-cylinder. SiX-horsepower motor
cycle. The start was made with the
engine cold and the float chamber half
filled with gasoline. The change to
kerosene, while under way, produced
no noticeable difference in the per-
Torrance Of the engine. There was no
knocking on grades, no smoke, no
odor. The cylinders fred crisply, the
pickup was quick, the firing regular at
all speeds, and the power all that could
be desired. 1t Is even claimed that,
with the new carburetor, a gallon Of
kerosene will drive the motorcycle
and sidecar the unheard-of distance of
0S miles, but there Is no official con-
firmation of this statement.
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"and It's Dick. too" she exclaimed.
lifting his head to her lap. ooh |!
Dick look up to me-" walled Betty.
"Oh, why. why, did ever shoot? But
1 couldn't have injured him very
much. I am such a poor shot"
She reasoned. "Dick, please sneak to
me-" cried Bettina again bending
down and pressing her face close to
his.
Slowly the young soldiers eyes
opened and happy grin overspread
his face as he said: "Betty, have you
found that perfectly dear man YETI"
"Oh yes" replied Betty happily, Civ.
Ing him a bear hug. fright here,
Dick"
You naughty boy" continued Betty
Grossly. "yOu just fooled me by max.
Ing believe you were killed. don't
care. I've got an offer from granddad
for your skim Then she proceeded
to tell Dick of the roadster her grand
rather had promised her.
When the two reached the farm
house Bettina drew Dick into the
Kitchen. Here Is my deer granddad,
nut you just can't have his skin, as !
have decided to keep it as my perma.
nent property" cried Betty mcrrily.
Thereupon the story Of how Uncle
Sans khaki uniform had been mis-.
taken for the color of a deer, was told
to both her grandparents.
Let 1t suffice to say that Bettlna not
only Kept her deer skin, but moreover
went on her honeymoon in an ador.
able little roadster-her wedding
gift from granddad.
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Easy to Understand That Youthful
Member Of Chicago Jury Was Not
Married Man.

Every man knows what q curling
iron is. but does every man know
whether or not curling iron is q
deadly weapon?
The question was raised in Judge
Gucrin's court In Chicago recently In
the Otto Mathis murder trial. Otto
said he stabbed his brother, Edward,
when Edward attacked him with q
curling iron, which he thought a dan
serous weapon. The judge ruled de-
scrlption of the implement was unnec-
essary, as everybody knew what It
was.
"Sure, I know" one spectator whis-
pered to another. "A curling iron is
one Of those hot things that burn your
fingers when you are fumbling around
among the things on your wife's Dress
ing table"
1T looks like pair Of scissors with
wooden handles" said the other.
"And It's deadly, too" woman
whispered. "Mazie got hers too hot
the other night and the way it killed
lot of her hair was caution"
fortunately" another woman an
swered, "the curling iron hath no mis-
cries that peroxide cannot cure"
Assistant States Attorney Daniel
Ramsay insisted there might be single
men on the jury. The Judge glanced
knowingly at the jurors. The young.
est looked bewildered. So Judge
Guerin ordered description OF the
weapon supplied. The youngest juror
appeared relieved when he heard what
1t was.
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BETTINA'S DEER
By BEULAH w. RICHARDSON
Copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate)

copyright, 1919. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
Don't believe any wandering hunt
er would mistake me for n deer, do
YOU, granddad?" demanded Bettina
Ray as she danced forth from the old
farm house door, arrayed in bright red
nannels and bearing brother Fred's
rifle probably not a four-legged
one" shyly replied granddad. survey
ing the saucy scarlet tam perched on
Bettina's golden locks.
"Well, gran. you see as Fred isn't
home from camp. it's up to me to keep
up the family record Of shooting u
deer this season." replied Bettina, i'm
preSSively, as she placed some shells
in the magazine of the rifle.
"'SpoSe you could lift the rifle, Bett,
if you should see anything to shoot
at?" sarcastically shouted five-year-
old Ruddie from the barn door, where
he was buSily devOuring soda crackers
spread thickly with ketchup. Gran
ME, dear" called Bettina in through
the window. "you really mustn't give
that boy any more ketchup. for it al
ways makes him sick at home; that
is. if he chances to find it, although
mother doesn't intend he SHALL"
well, Betty girl, if you get deer"
called "randdad as Bettina started up
the rugged mountain. path, "why, III
give you Il little roadster in exchange
for his skin" "I'll take the bet
hn yIt1 Ill.
rounded the turn and disappeared
from view.
Bettina tramped slowly along
through the fallen leaves lost In
thought. She was thinking Of two
years previous. when she had last paid
visit to her grandfather's farm In
Maine; on that memorable trip Dick
Haskell, the son Of one Of her grand
fathers neighbors. then just gradu-
ated from q. Of NJ, had fallen most
deeply In love with pretty Bettina.
consequently the two had spent many
Pheasant hours together during the
Following weeks. Just before Bettina
returned to her city home, Dick mr.
GENTLY confessed his love for her. He
met with the laughing reply. ooh. but
DICK, when marry, I am going to
marry perfectly dear man."
hettlna really loved the good look
ing young fellow, and had only meant
10 tease him bit; but apparently
DICK had taken her seriously, for he
never pursued the subject. Upon
ne'1iha'S return to the city he had en-
listed and gone overseas.
'Hark!" brcathcd Bettina stopping
snort at n noise in the underbrush.
gracious. q chance to win that roads
TER as she perceived fawn-colored
INJECT moving through the bushes.
one raised the rifle and fired. Bang
ana down Crashed the game.
hettina ran forward; outstretched
VII 'he dead leaves lay a soldier! "Oh,
"hat have DONE" cried the terrified
f'rl as She hurried to the still form
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most In panic she p1cKeu up her basket
and fled to the house.
The major was in his garden that
day and the next and the next; in fact
even when 1t rained, the major found
1t necessary to get breath of air in
bis back garden.
The summer passed and with 1t the
roses. But nasturtiums bloom faith
fully and persistently, with care, I'M
til late In the autumn. Never had
those on Miss Susan's back fence been
such riot Of color and when one
Cannot have roses to tighten ones
rooms nasturtiums do splendidly.
The crutches were abandoned and n
cane took their place. Over the fence
the major told his war experiences,
thrilling. sad or humorous. Miss Susan
listened with shining eyes but she said
very little. She did not exchange con-
fidences with the major, but always
she wore the frilly sunbonnet with the
braid over her shoulder.
One golden morning In September
the major said a brief good-by. Susan
clutched wildly at the fence.
"But-are you able? Your leg"
she began. The major was very pale
and stern, his voice was hoarse.
when man is on the point Of
making fool of himself. dear child,
IL IS time to say good-by. am forty.
two and you are a mere baby. Forget
me. little Sue, but don't forbid me to
remember you. Some day when you
are older think that his love for you
once made q man better"
And then fate masguerading in the
fat. unwieldy form Of the grocer's
wife came putting along the quiet
street. Her loud voice carried dis
tinctly into the back garden as she
declared to her companion:
wal, I've known Susan sence the
day she was born, thirty-fOur years
ago next month and I never see her
cut sech caper! Hair down like a
young un. they say, a-handin' flowers
over the fence every day to tibet SOL
dier-feller. sh'd think
The voice died away as its owner
waddled on, leaving tense silence in
the back garden.
susan met the majors eyes sQuarely.
III 1t Is any consolation" she said
unsteadily, "let me confess thnt-I--
care, too! And I shalI-pay--all my
life for this silly deceltw
The major cast his cane recklessly
aside and climbed the fence. He took
Miss Susan's hands In firm grasp.
Sue, aren't you bit behind the
times? We don't call.it deceit nova
days, dear. You've accomplished q
bit OF successful camouhage"
"Sue, couldn't you possibly be mar.
riett IN "unbonnet instepd of bridal
veil?"
copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate)
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Generosity Of Love

A man may be mizer OF his wealth
he may tie up his talent in napkin.
he may hug himself in his reputation.
PIT he is always generous in his love
Love cannot stay at home, a man can
not keep 1t to himself. Like 'ight. it Is
constantly travelling. A man must
spend 1t, must give 1t away DR.. Mac
leod,
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There are men who would not kick
IN enemy when he was down--pre.
ferring to jump on him with both
feet.
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Doubtless the way Of the transgres,
sor Is hard, but the people who travel
thereon never seem to get very lone
some.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

slightest offences, and often for no
offence at all. For instance, one
evening a German officer who had
been dining at Belgian restaurant
offered five-mark piece in pay
ment, saying, "That is the image
of our Emperor"
Emperor or no Emperor" re-
piled the patronne, at is worth six
francs and nothing more" She was
fined heavily.
The Germans on the
10th of April posted an o6iche stat
ing that the French were employ
ing new kind of bomb containing
an asphyxiating gas which rendered
its victims insensible. The Ger
mans were panied and surprised,
even Mortified; they said that it was
barbarous for the French to do such
a thing. Then, three weeks later,
on the 2Sth of April, we read in
the newspapers that came in from
the outside the accounts of the
asphyxiating bombs used by the
Germans at Hill 60, near Ypres-
for the first time, l believe, in hui
man history. Not only was there
the constant outrage of that sense
of justice which lives in most men
who have known liberty, but there
was every day some new and con-
crete instance of injustice, or, if
not always that, of indelicacy,
which, according to Talleyrand, is
worse than crime.
"Nothing was too small, too
petty, for the official notice Of the
government of occupation. 1t had
the notion, everywhere the mark
of immature development, that
every ineXact statement, no matter
how trivial, must be pursued and
hunted down. 1t spent much time
in denials and explanations; long,
elaborate, puerile discussions were
posted on the walls and published
in the censored press. Qui s'encuse,
s'accuse. When the American
newspapers published story to the
effect that a German officer in a
Brussels restaurant had objected to
my speaking English, and that I had
risen and with bow and a flourish
handed him my card, precisely, of
course, as it would have been done
in the cinema, the authorities asked
me to issue a formal denial, and
were nonplussed when I declined
to do SO; having read Treitschke
more deeply than Emerson, they
could not understand the attitude.
Freedom! said Count H
one day, with sheer at the word.
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colombier. He was then cordau
to pay a fine-because it was ~
hidden by the law to allow pipeo..
to fly. eN0As
Edith Cavell wrote several la+4o
before she was murdered. amoass
them one to her mother in EnylsnS
The letters were taken by the Gov
mans and never delivered. NJ
Whitlock says: again and aya;n
asked for them, begging to he :,
lowed to send them to England :.
comfort the aged and sorrou,;ns
mother, but they refused to o;rs
them over. They said that if wo,s
to send them to ENGLAND sbor
would be published abroad and ~
other sensation created that wouls
react against the German cause
was able later to give them nv word
that they would not be published
that they would remain the sacros
secret of the mother for whom thew
were intended; but no, they would
not give them up-the military
would not consent. But the Office,
IN whose keeping they were did bave
the grace to say to me fnallv q
wish l might give them to you; thew
are very sad and uncomfortable
charge for me to keep"
Baucq, the Brussels architect WIN
was shot with Miss Cavell, was mur.
dered, according to Mr.. Whitlock
simply because it would have been
too bald and too patent, even from
the Prussian point of view, to hurry
out a woman all alone and kin her
One evening the German polize;
descended upon the banking Office
of Baron Lambert and accused him
of having telephone line which
enabled him to talk to Paris. '1What
they found was only the telephone
oooth, relic of old and happier DAYS.
which, with It's private wire connect
ing the baron's establishment with
the Rothschild bank in Paris. was
plainly marked on the outside with
the name of that gay city. Some
Teutonic detective had seen the
booth standing there in its place in
the orderly row of telephone booths
and reading the word Paris on its
door, had made the Illuminating de.
duction, quite in Sherlock Holmes
manner, that the baron had a secret
wire to the French capital, and
imagined daily contradictions and
dark and mysterious conspiratiohs.u
The Belgians panied their invad.
ers by pretending to be surprised
that the Germans had allowed Spring
to come without posting any a6iche
to regulate its coming. At last, how.
ever, an a6Sche appeared with the
decree that all dogs be muzzled lest
they bite somebody
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
A Question of
Hens and Eggs

The Countess K. de RI was or
dered by the kommandant in her re-
gion to furnish his men with GER
tain number Of eggs every day. She
complied with the order. Not long
after she was ordered to dispose Of
her chickens to save food. But
how" she asked, "ean then
supply the eggs?'' They had not
thought of that. 1t was wholly char
acteristic of the German mind,
which, so exceedingly keen in many
ways, cannot always put two and
two together. They would have a
commission of thirty-six herr profes-
sors, and they would make an in
tricate study, and another commits
sion of herr doktors, on hens, and
all sorts of statistics, but they would
fail to note the relation between
hens and eggs.
"Going down the rue de la Made
leine those summer afternoons we
used to smile as we passed a cafe
with this sign:
Cafe des
and then blank. It had been the
Cafe des Allies in the early days of
the war, but the Germans ordered
the proprietor to change the name
the proprietor, with Belgian clever
ness, simply erased the word Allies
and left blank, and thereupon his
cafe had an extraordinary adver-
tisement and such a vogue as he
had never dreamed of when at first
he had thus Haunted his colors. II
was but another instance of that in
comparable inability to understand
all things that have to do with the
mystery of human nature; they were
myopic Of soul as OF vision, seeing
nothing beyond their purblind eyes
and they could not understand
why the Belgians did not like them.
and actually complained that they
were not cordially received"
Some Of the blunders of the Ger
mans in their judiciary were almost
farcical. An officer of the Garde
Civique was found to have some
blank cartridges in his possession
He explained that they had been
used before the war for exercises
and were valueless for anything
else, but he was sent to jail. While
in jail fire broke out in his house
and his pigeons flew away from his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04
rs Brand Whtlock Pllories the German i'm Belgium

Being a digest of Mr.. Whitlock's
nelo book on has experiences and OBJ
serUGtlons as Minister to Belgium,
during the German occupation.
~ CERTAINLY no man has been
u in better position to judge
the Germans and their
methods than Brand Whit
lock, our minister to Belgium, who,
until we declared war, was at the
very centre of the cyclone that
swept over Europe. In the sinister
days that followed the first occupa-
ton of Belgium he was witness to
German ways and methods that
made him ponder, and that could not
be made to fit into any code of ac-
lions known to civilization. He
finally adopted the Belgian method
of accounting for these inexplicable
things-a shrug, a sigh and the
phrase, "La mentalite allemande.
Throughout the course of his book
Belgium" soon to appear, he gives
examples of this paradox Of mental
ity. After the fall of Liege he was
requested to present on behalf of
the German government q message
to the Belgian government suggest
ing that the heroic defence of Liege
had been a sufficient gesture to
maintain the self-respect of the
country and that it should not put
up any further resistance. Of that
incident Mr.. Whitlock says: Ode
Leval finished his translation and
handed me the text, standing there
with an inquiry in his brown eyes as
| read it. / was standing there by
Gibson's desk in the room of the
secretaries. l read the dispatch over
and over; looked at Gibson, looked
at De Leval, looked at Miss Larner,
amazed beyond words. | stood there
with the telegram in my hands,
looked at the English and then at
the German words. What hand had
written them? What mentality had
conceived them? Were there, after
all, in this world no such things as
honor and faith? l let the dispatch
fall to the table, one thing at least
decided-namely, that no such offer
should soil my hands,"
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fixing the status of all nations and
regulating the affairs of the world
for all time; it must be that way
and no other, because that was or
ganization, and it was doctrinaI that
everything must be organized. We
discussed it learnedly and solemnly
for days on end, and the marvellous
and unprecedented phenomenon of
organization was at last evolved.
Then, one afternoon, by an innocent
question of one of us, it was sud-
denly discovered that none of the
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subscriptions; they went to every
door behind which they suspected
the presence of some one knowing
about the paper and asked for odd
numbers to complete their files, but
all to no avail; neither editor nor
printer was ever discovered.
Of the business of feeding Bel
GUM Mr.. Whitlock says: eve sup
posed that the military authorities
would prefer not to be troubled with
this constant shifting Of goods. But
no, that was not the German way
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

"For the love of God, give me
enough to get me to Antwerp"
She was touched by pity and gave
him two francs. The next day she
was arrested for assisting soldiers
to escape.
The remarkable German mind
seized upon and circulated the story
that came from Sweden to the effect
that the passengers on the Lusi-
tania had been induced to make the
passage by the captain Of the ship,
who gave them a refund Of $40 of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

IT'S not our way; and as for de-
mocracy-we want none of it,"
Against German boorishness and
brute force the Belgians cast their
wit and cleverness. When the Ger
mans posted an odiche prohibiting
the singing of the Belgian national
anthem the Belgians whistled it;
when the Germans forbade the clos
ing of the shops in celebration of the
national fete the shops remained
open and no one made purchase,
and the little children Knocked the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-04

herr doktors or herr professors, or
/ know not what gowned and hooded
experts, had ever once thought of
such questions as insurance,
transportation, demurrage, freight
charges, and, above all, the fluctua-
tons of the wheat market and the
desirability Of buying as cheaply as
possible. None Of these things had
entered into their consideration.
They looked up in amazement and