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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
SOME COMFORT FOR "sMOKE"
ties, Though He Wasn't Equal to
Fighting Monkeys.

Three companies Of colored engi-
neers mt big medical suprly depot
somewhere In southern France have
three nascots of which they think the
world. One is Bobo, the baroon. One
Is Smoke, little black French dog.
One is Peoria, III yn!ler dcg-a real
O. D. brindle.
Bobo Is no respecter of persons. He
Will climb all over his toe sergeant
with the unholy glee Of Il fussy in
snecting officer and rough Elm to Il
fnre-you-well. But his main penchant
seems to be for pulling little dogs
ears. a trait bitterly resented by the
guardians Of Smoke and Peoria, hut
filing with delight his own adherents.
"Dey can't fahnd dawg in all dis
we're camp wot'll stain up ngin him."
they chuckle, when Bobo swings his
long arms and lopes after some mon
grnl that has strayed In.
Not so long ago n pathetic scene
might have been witnessed en- one of
the company streets. Smoke was being
carried along, in covering, timid
STATE bordering on shell shock or men
I'll collapse. by Il great hulking steve
dOre, who was attempting to Soothe
him.
"Doan' yo' kcer, Smoke" he crooned.
"Dcnn' y0' bother bit If folks laughs
ut yo'. Even If yo' CANT fight no r
ccmp'ny monkeys, you's dc best III
Black dawg as ever WIZ borned cen
France, so yO' isl"
And Smoke nodded and shifted a
rather fearful preciatiOn.-Stars and
Stripes.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
CITY NOW BUT A MEMORY
Or, Birthplace Of Abraham, Once I'm.
portant, Today Consists Only Of
Vast Group Of Mounds.

The British, on their recent advance
in MeSopotamia. passed over or at
least near the ancient city of Ur. where
Abraham was horn and grew up; and
thence that he departed with his fam
lily and relations on Il journey to Pal.
estine that was destined to be SO pro-
ductive of important events for the
Hebrews.
We are accustomed to think of tho
days of the early PharaohS as almost
lost in antiquity. but Ur was prehiS-
toric. Eight thousand or 5000 years
ago that great Chaldean city was q
seaport on the shore Cor near it) of the
Persian gulf. 1t traded with India
and all the then known parts of the
world.
To-day Or Cor what remains Of it)
Is 12O miles as the crow flies from the
head Of the Persian gulf. Surely it has
not moved; but the alluvial deposits
carried down by rivers. have built out
the land. so that the head Of the gulf
IS no longer where it used to he. The
pushing southwark of the shore line is
known to have averaged about a GER
tain distance yearly since the time OF
Alexander the Great, so that the period
when Ur was seaport can be reck-
oned with fair accuracy.
Ur today is about halfway between
the head of the gulf and the ruins Of
ancient Babylon. It Is near the Eu-
phrates-acroSs the river from the
modern town of NaZareth--and is rep
resented by vast group Of mounds
that conceal remains of extraordinary
interest. Undoubtedly it was war that
destroyed this ancient metr0poliS-as
1t seems to destroy everything that is
worth while, sooner or later.
Out of one huge mound has been
dug the remains Of pyramidal tower
which is regarded by ASsyriologists as
the most perfect specimen Of Baby
lonian architecture knowl. 1t is built
in series Of stages, like the tower Of
Babel, with a continuous flight of
broad steps running up the outside. It
originally supported temple-the
great Temple of the Moon.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
RE KNEW WHO CRACKED SAFE
Aoo-Aauicr's Suspicious Basis Of Good
Joke on One Popular indian
apolis Citizen.

The return Of Major Fred Bates
johnson to civilian life in indianapolis
recalls story about him that has
been bottled up long enough.
In the days before he was a major
or captain, or even private, he
used to go down to Salem for weekend
visits with Walter Grim, particularly
In the seasons when the strawberry or
The fried chicken or the saSSafras crop
was ripe. His comings were frequent
~, II not often. unUnnOunced. hut he
knew all the signs and pass words into
Crim'S office and lumber yard. and he
would go in and wait for the coming of
one or the other member of the firm.
or telephone to see whether there was
room for him up "at the shack.
One Saturday morning he came In In
this way. and it happened that while
he was down on his knees trying to
put back roller that had slipped
from the legs of one Of the office
chairs log-hauler arrived OH the
scene. Being of an inquisitive DISPOSE
ton, the lOg-hauler tried to find out
what stranger was doing down 'on
his knees In Crim's Office, but. as all
who know Major johnson will easily
believe, the information which he re-
ceived was not wholly satisfactory.
And on Sunday night Crim's safe
was cracked!
Early Monday morning, as soon as
the news of the robbery became
known, the log-hnuler came rushing
down to the lumber yard.
Say" he called, excitedly. 81 can
tell you who did that! There was an
nwful suspicious looking fellow in here
Saturday morning when nobody was
around, little chap with yellow hair
and great big glasses. I'll bet he was
the guy that cracked 'er." But the in
fOrmant left the office somewhat crest
fallen when he was told, in no uncer-
tain language, just who that "suspi-
ciOus-looking fellow" was.-Indian-
apolis News.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
Early Protest Against Tipping.

The word .'tp" is said 10 he derived
from the initial letters of the phrase
"TO Insure PromptneSs," but rs tips
usually follow, instead OF preceding,
service. they insure nothing. and as n
consequence anti-tipping crusadcs are
constantly being threatened. But pro-
tests against tipping are t.y no means
of modern growth. George !. COM
planned about it when he first came
to the throne-and England. 'ThiS is
a strange country" he declared. "The
first morning after my arrival at st.
James I looked out of the window
and saw park with walks and a
canal. which I was told were mine.
The next day Lord Chctwynd, the
ranger Of my park, sent me q fine
brace OF carp out Of my canal, and
] was told I must give guineas to
Lord Chetwynd's servant for bringing
me my own carp out of my own canal
in my own park"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
HOW INDIANS FIGHT "FLU"
Heroic Remedy Which Unfortunately
Does Not Always Seem to Have
The Desired Effect.

While Americans of convention and
medical knowledge are bundling them
selves up and conducting civilized
fight against Influenza throughout the
nation, other Americans are discard
ing convention and clothing for the
same purpose out where homes OF
men are far apart.
On the Flathcad reservation in Mon
tana when descendant of warriors
feels the symptoms coming on he fiat
footS 1t to his tepee. He grunts terse
orders and Il Squaw squatS before the
fire and haSheS up connection in
a five-galiOn can, which is a brew of
balsam fir boughs mixed with one
pint of more or less illegItimate
whisky.
Then he saunters to the Sweating
tepee." A large vessel Of water is
placed in the center of that rag house
and into the vessel are dropped red
hot stones. The medicine is then
ready. The Indian who Sneezed drinks
the brew, inhales the steam. whoops
with gusto and races for the creek
Neither the ward nor the govern
ment has anything on him as he
plunges into the cold creek water.
He crawls out, dripping. shivcring and
"cured." The funeral usually is held
on the following day.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
Mine Tungsten In Australia.

Australia is second In Importance
among British territories producing
tungsten ores. In Queensland many of
the principal mines have quite recently
been acquired by one Of the largest Of
the concerns which have established
tungsten reduction plants in Great
Britain since the war, and the event
appears to promise a new era of prog.
ress for this branch Of mining in
Queensland. Wolfram is mined in New
South Wales and Victoria while impor.
tant quantities Of scheelite, another
ore Of tungsten, are obtained I'm New
Zealand and IN Tasmania.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
PUTTING II Plainly.

Among the many good stories con.
tanned In the private papers of Ad-
miral Sir William Hotham, Is one
about Gen. O'Hara, who, as governor
Of Gibraltar, discovered that an off,
Ger who had lately joined had come
on parade with an umbrella.
The wind that day was easterly,
and the general perhaps was unduly
affected by this circumstance, but in
very unmeasured terms he ordered the
delinquent to throw away the Offend
ing implement; and after adding other
comments, concluded thus "And pray,
sir, In future understand that you are
not to appear upon this parade with
an umbrella--no, not If It is raining
pixies with the sharp points down.
wards !-London Tit-Bits.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
"JEWELRY" OF NASAL WOMEN
sonai Adornment by Females Of
British East African Tribe.

or all Africa'S many tribes, none is
more distinctive than the Nasal, that
warlike race Of British East Africa,
whose women are regarded as the best
looking of all negroes. They are slen-
der, well formed, and lack the abnor-
NAL hips so characteristic of many 9TH
er natives Pride in personal adorn-
ment is shown by ornaments of a re-
markable nature, telegraph wire being
cOilcd about their arms and limbs in
spiral fashion.
SO awkward is this remarkable jew
elry that the wearer cannot walk prop
erly, nor can she sit down nor rise like
other human beings. Round her arms
she has wire cOiled both above and be-
low her elbows. while still more wire is
coiled round her neck horizontally, till
the head seems to sit on an inverted
iron Salver. Put on at an early age,
these ornaments must remain unless
they are sawed off. AS result Of this
compression the limbs remain like
mere stills, the wire frequently be-
coming embedded into the flesh. Be
sides this iron wire, often weighing 80
pounds or more, great quantities of
beads and iron chains are hung in va
riouS ways round the neck.
During the period of engagement the
girl wears round her head band COW
cred with cowries from which hang a
numbe: of strings forming bridal veil.
For the first time she dons real clothes,
consisting of an apron in front. sus-
pended from the shoulders behind. The
hairs of the eyebrow are pulled out to
further enhance her beauty.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
Reconstruction in America
And War Torn Europe Will
Cost Methodists So, 600, 900
0 'phanages, Dispensaries. and
Medical and Social Work
Planned for Europe and
Vast Home Program Being
Outlined

Six million dollars will be spent
this year in war reconstruction in
America and Europe in connection
with the Methodist Centenary five
year program, it is announced by
the department of war emergency
and reconstruction of the centenary
commissions Of the Methodist Epis.
copal Church and Methodist Episco
pal Church South. Dr. Appleton
Bash, executive secretary for the
Centenary in the Pittsburgh area,
which includes Southwestern New
York, Western Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and the Northern part OF
Virginia, has been informed that in
few weeks a relief ship will sail
for France, Italy and Southeastern
Europe.
$2,eoo,oo for Europe.
Plans for the relief ship and for
more permanent work in many parts
or Europe were endorsed by the war
reconstruction department appropri.
ating $997,S50 for immediate work
in Italy this year, $796,OOO for France
and sums for other countries which
bring the total to be spent in Ell.
rope to $2,90S,S50 Fully this amount
Will be spent for reconstruction needs
in the United States.
The war work of the Methodist
Episcopal Church began with an ap
peal by the board for foreign mis-
sions in the fall Of 1914 for $500, 900
TO be used in relief work in Europe
An appeal for $25O,000 in the sum
mer Of 1917 by the board OF home
Dissions and church extension was
promptly met and the money was
used to support pastors in churches
in camp zones, equipment for social
activities and erection OF new build
ings at camp.
Orphanages Operated.
To meet the growing needs the ma
tional war council was formed &c
represent all the interested boards
OF the church. Bishop Theodore 8
Henderson was executive officer An
appeal for $1.0O0,000 from Methodisu
for war work brought generous TO
Spouse in 1918.
Then the Centenary program was ex
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
Mummies Show ArterioscIerosis.

Egyptian mTmmies show that ar
terio-sclerOsls afflicted the ancient
Egyptians, and 1t has been established
that tuberculosis is at least 1000 wears
old, according to the Journal Of the
American Medical Association.
"Mummles have revealed that hu.
mainly has not changed in it's patho-
logic reactions In fifty centuries at
least.
1T Is illuminating to realize that in
spite Of the fact that the ancient Egyp-
tinns led lives Of ease. had no tobacco,
and did not overlndulge in meat eat
Ing, their arteries degenerated practi.
cally in the same way as our own"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
Frost Forests.

One beautiful use his window had,
one glorious use, one enchantment.
In the depth of winter sometimes Of
mornings wien he got out of bed and
went to open the shutter, on the
windowpanes would be Il forest of gilt
tering trees. The first time he beheld
such forest, he stood before 1t spell
silvery birds singing far off amid the
silvery boughs, and what wild crea-
lures crouched in the tall, stiff FROST
grass. From the ice-fOrests on the
wndowpanes his thoughts always re-
turned to the green summer forest on
the distant horzon.-Jamcs Lane Al.
len, In "The Kentucky Warbler"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
Frances "Sacred Road ~

The French government Is arranging
for the construction of n "sacred road"
400 miles long, from the coast Of Elan.
ders to Alsace. 1t Is proposed that
this road should follow, as far as may
be found practical. the actual line on
which the contending armies faced
each ether for three years.
In the countless woods through
which this road will ultimately pass
will be found the beautifully tended
graves Of those who have given their
lives for their country.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
Sentry Box on His Farm.

A Cook county farmer whose farm
Is not far from Chicago has built a
sentry house in the corner Of his place
from which he can see what Is going
on near any part of the farm. He oc-
cupies the Upper room every night and,
aided by dog, knows when anyone
is sneaklng around the premises. The
lower part Of the sentry house he uses
ms workshop. A row Of windows In
the upper part gives him wide view
of all the surrounding country. Except
for these precautionary measures, he
says. stragglers from the city would
steal him poor or by carelessness set
fire to the farm buildinBs.-Capper's
Weekly.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
Balkan Whiskers.

Prof. Give Day of Yale, who is a
specialist on the Balkans, said in n
recent interview:
+"There is Balkan story I'm praise
Of cleanliness. The scene Is brig
nnd's camp.
That prisoner there, said brig
and, pointing his knife ut young
Turkish captive, he combs his whisk-
ers every morning.
'"The other brigands listened in as
Punishment and the captain said:
81 don't see how the fellow stands
II. Why, I only comb my whiskers
once month, and then it nearly pulls
my chin off,"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
Centenary Can,paigners glue Aid
To Government and Offer Service
OF Vast Organization For Loan
Patriotism Makes Many Vital
Changes in Plans of Meth
odist Episcopal Church for
Its $iO5,OOO,OOO Financial
Drive

Patriotism has made vital changes
in the plans Of Methodist Episcopal
Church leaders for the Centenary
campaign and both the spiritual and
financial programs outlined will be
maze 10 harmonic with plans OF the
government announced after the Cen
tenary schedule had been made out
The Centenary financial campaign
for a $105,000,000 fund to back the
five-year program of home and for
eign missionary work was scheduled
months ago to open on April q and
reach its climax on May 4. Last
month plans for the Victory Loan
campaign were announced and Sec
rotary Carter Glass of the treasury
department requested that the Cen
tenary financial drive be postponed.
At q meeting in Columbus of the
executives of the Centenary commit
tees it was decided to open the
financial campaign on May Is.
Without the spur of war to drive
them on 1t was feared that the splen-
did campaign organization built up
by Liberty Loan workers might have
become weakened. Again the Meth
odists rallied to the government and
It was decided to offer to Secretary
Glass the $4,000 Minute Men or:
ganized for the Centenary and the
aid of the Methodist press and the
Centenary publicity department, in
prosecuting the loan campaign.
Every detail of our plans that
might in the least detract from the
force of the loan campaign has been
made to harmonize," declared DR..
Appleton Bash, executive secretary of
the Centenary in the Pittsburgh area.
During the loan campaign no con-
fifcting general conventions will be
held and wherever special or regular
Centenary meetings are held the loan
campaign will be pushed
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11
DO YOU THINK IN PICTURES?
According to Men Who Have Studied
the Subject, Most Of Us Uncon.
sciously Have That Habit.

A writer says: "a good many men
and larger number of women and
children think in pictures without
knowing it. If some one speaks Of
tree, an oak or an elm, or n pine-do
you see composite tree of your own
design, or n particular tree you knew.
perhaps, in childhood? Do you see it
bare or in full leaf? If you are one
Of those who think in pictures, you
will find that you always see the
same picture for the same words" Prof.
Francis Cation. +. r. s., is the
eXpounder of this belief, and after
ALL is it not merely return to
the very origin Of our written Ian
guage, the hieroglyphs of Egypt? In
that primitive time it is possible that
n word brought so clearly to mind
mental vision of an object or an action
that ii could easily be summarized into
an Telegraph. In our more complex
life we have, of course, lost sight of
the facts and no longer realize that the
woru tree" means to us wellde-
fined object probably fixed in the brain
by one Of the minute lesiOns-or its
cicatrix-which science tells us are the
sources of memory.
We unconsciously assemble these Va
r:ous memories and unconsciously form
of them pictures which, If we are sud
denly brought to ourselves, we nigh.
still retain on the minds retina for q
time, just as we retain dream images
wildly on suddenly awakening.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11

Another change made in the Cen
tenary program is extension Of the
celebration at Columbus Of the hun
dredth anniversary of the mission
work by the Methodists. The Ohio
state fair grounds were engaged for
an immense exposition, to be staged
by missionaries and natives from all
parts of the world. The dates orig
inally set were from June 20 to
July z. but SO imperative were the
demands that more time be allowed
that it was decided to continue the
celebration to July Is.
Speakers of international promi-
hence will add to the attractiveness
OF the celebration and the hall where
they will speak will be an attraction
in itself for it is pronounced sec
ond to none in America in it's ac-
coustic properties. 1t will seat
10000 persons and those in the
farthest part of the hall can hear
a speaker of only ordinary strength.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11

o'SF1ST I'GODOH6 .. ~ NDEHSON
banded to include war work and it's
initial appropriation of $5,O00,O00 for
war reconstruction work will be in
creased five.fold for it will take $25,
100000 to carry out the church's five
year program of aid to its American
heroes and relief for war torn Eli
rope.
The relief ship does not inaugurate
the church work in Europe for it is
already operating orphanages IN
France and Italy and supplying food
and medicine to war sufferers.
Home Relief Plans.
Clinics, dispensaries and public
rooms for rest and entertainment will
be established in many cities in
France and Italy. The work in these
countries will be OF permanent ma
ture although It is inaugurated now
as war emergency measure.
The plans for home war relief work
are being worked out and will be an
nounced before the Centenary CAM
paign reaches its climax with the
drive for s105,000,00O from May Is
to May rs. The financial drive was
postponed from April 81. at the re-
quest Of the secretary Of the treas
ury so 1t would not interfere with
the Victory loan drive.
Postponement Of the financial drive
came shortly after 1t was announced
that the great Columbus Exposition
which was to have opened on June
20 and closed July would be eX'
tendel to July 10. The magnitude OF
the celebration promised to attract
so many thousands to the Ohio city
that 1t was decided another week
would be needed to accommodate all.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11

Fifty-three thousand young men and
women are being recruited and
trained for social and religious work
at home and abroad, the biggest sin
gle project OF the kind in the his
tory OF Christianity, it was an
nounced here today at the offices of
the Missionary Centenary Movement
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-04-11

of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
This army OF trained workers will
be needed to handle skillfully the
world missionary program, for which
$12O,OO0,O0O is being raised by the
church. Extension OF schools. hos.
pitfalls and churches in many coun-
tries is being planned.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-02
WARM MURDER TRIAL
is SET FOR MARCH

st. Adams. Dec. 26.-When Frank
lin county court which convened this
afternoon after a recess from Novem-
Der 20, Judge Frank L. Fish Of Weir
gennes, presiding, announced that the
motion of States Attorney w. r. Nc
Feeters for a continuance of the trial
of Robert Warm for the alleged murder
of Jenni Hemingway had been
granted.
The States attorney said that the
State would be ready for trial any
time after February 1,'when DR.. b.. H,
Stone of Burlington, it's principal witt
ness. would be able to appear. Judge
Fish put the case over to the regular
March term as c. G.. Austin. senior
member of the firm of C. G.. Austin a
Sons, is to represent the town of High
gate in the Legislature and his son,
Roswell NJ. Austin. is also to be In
Montpelier during the coming session.
Warm was in court during the pro-
ceedings in charge of Sheriff Elect @.
p, Catlin.