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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
LITTLE ISLAND f:AS HISTORY
He'ooland, Small ~ II Is. Figure
Prominently In the Affairs
Of the World.

betore Germany acquired the is
ihhd or Helgoland and sent 1000 SOL
dicrs there to man the fort, the citi-
-ehs were law abiding. When there
was m occasional misdemeanor no
heed TO send police lookout" warn
ing. An islander. when arrested,
would 20 to the little Jail and inform
the Keeper he was imprisoned.
In ancient times the island was
called ler'ha. A temple of Foesta,
Frisian goddess. was there. From
the tenth until the fourteenth CEN
tury 1t was independent. Then the
dukes of Schleswig took it over and
used 1t mainly rs pawn for loans
until the Danes acquired 1t 400 years
later Denmark coded it to Great
Britain early In the nineteenth CEN
fury and the British, while recognizing
us military Importance. fortified it only
Tor defensive purposes. But the Ger
mans built great sen wall of granite
anu steel, ut cost Of $30,OOO,O 900 and
spent millions more on turrets and big
: guns.
visited by so many nationalities, the
Islanders absorbed customs and ideas
OF many lands, yet seemed to adorn
ench with distinctive touch. They
even had curious Quirk in their Satan
II wooden leg-so painted in pic
ture of the "E:lnptation Of Christ" in
the historic church by the island artist
OF the seventeenth century, Andreas
Amelink. Hence n Schleswig saying:
In Helgoland the devil goes on
crutcheS."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
Red Cross Work to Continue.

The ambulances of the British Red
Cross are to be among the war-work-
ers that will never be demobilized. The
pick of that great park Of ambulances,
familiar to every soldier who has land.
ed at or left Boulogne, will form the
nucleus of permanent service, In
which all England will share. A com.
missioner Is now at work finding
homes for 500 Of these ambulances,
and Is so mapping out the country
that, If possible, no place shall be more
than Is miles from an ambulance,
which shall be at the service Of any
doctor who has a serious case to move
10 hospital. All these ambulances will
be under central control, which will
guarantee the efficiency of the car and
the service; and the organization will
have the active assistance of those
VINO have learned all there Is to learn
about the running Of ambulances dur
Ing the war. The rest Of the ambu-
lances being over-much war-worn, or
not specially well suited, will be added
to the enormous total Of cars and mo-
torcycles now being sold or scrapped.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
The Aftermath

The Kindergarten teacher had made
the children an impressive talk on the
danger of playing in the street. But
one little boy did not take warning
An automobile struck him, bruising
him slightly. For two days he was
out of school; the third day he came
back, only to hear the teacher begin
another talk on the dangers of the
street. This time she used him as
"the horrible example"
Just think, children, If Johnny had
been killed how much we would have
hated it. He never could come to us
and we would have" she was going
to say, ito do without his compan.
iOnship"
But the freckled little boy finished
1t for her.
1--WE would have to buy some flow.
ers," he yelled.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
BOOK LOVERS IN TRANSPORT
Expect Literary Treasures to Be In.
earthed From the Volumes Stored
at Constantinople.

Some of the books Of Livy undoubt-
edly will be found among the great
number Of volumes ascertained to be
stored In crypts under the public build
ings of Constantinople, but will the
lost books Of Livy be found?
The report that The long-awaited dis
covery Is about to be made may rest
on no better foundation than the
vague impression of some uneducated
Turkish under official. And, indeed, in
the absence Of any information what
ever, on the subject, what more natu-
raj conjecture than that the lost his
torical works will be restored to the
world when the vast collection of an
cient books whose existence was pre-
viously unsupported come to be ex-
amined2
or the 80 books Of Livy preserved
to us out of 142, two are incomplete.
Of the other 107 books the summaries
remain, so that their contents are
known. Their full text probably would
not add so much to the sum of knowl-
edge, but their recovery has been the
dream of classicists for centuries. The
occasional discovery OF even frag-
ment III the Vatican or other libraries
has been sensation for scholars.
These tons and tons OF books, which
IT was supposed the Turks burned dur
Ing their conQuests. but which, it ap-
pears. they took back to their capital,
may increase stores Of learning and
make more definite our knowledge Of
particular men and particular periods.
1t is agreeable to think that forgot
ten authors Of great merit and for
gotten works Of undisputed value will
gain new recognition.
If the missing works Of the Roman
historian are among the volumes fur
Their cause will be given for congratu-
lation over the Turkish downfall.-St.
Louis Post Dispatch.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
Speaking In a Parable.

The youth, cigarette fiend OF the
worst type, was testifying before a
coroner at IN inquest over q suicide in
an eastern Indiana town. and was be-
Ing questioned as to what he knew
about the shooting that ended In the
mans death.
"Now about how far were you away
from the deceased when you heard the
shOt?" asked the coroner.
"As near as I can remember" re-
piled the youth, II was about two
cigarettes away"
"WEat do you mean by two cigar
cites awayT" he was further ques-
toned.
"Why. / mean could probably
smoke about two cigarettes In the
time I was going from where was
when heard the shot to the place
where this fellow shot himself" was
the lucid explanation.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
NEVER SAW THE SUWANEE
Writer Of Popular Song Used Name
Because Rhythmic Sound Of It
Appealed to Him.

The song, "Old Folks at Home"
made the name of "Swanee River" IA
nous. but few people, except those Of
Florida and Georgia, connect the
Swanee of the song with the Suwanee
that flows from the southern swamps
of Georgia down through the wood
lands Of Florida to empty into the Gulf
Of Mexico.
'Way down upon the Swanee river"
suggests vaguely the South Of the ante
bellum days with its cotton plantations,
Its mansions and negro cabins. None
of these things are found along the Su-
vance. Yet Floridans claim that the
song was written in honor Of their for
est stream, and boatmen even point
out tree under which Stephen Fos-
ter Is supposed to have penned the
memorable lines. Reports less pic
turesque, but more generally accepted,
say that Foster never saw Suwanee
river, but that he used the name be-
cause Of the rhythmic sound, dropping
the ''u' to perfect the meter.
While the Suwanee river may not
be what Its name suggests to most Of
US, 1t Is q beautiful stream, flowing
through semi-tropical country where
ive-oaks and expresses are mirrored
In Its clear depths. Heavy forests Of
cedar also grow in its valley, but these
have been reduced in recent years, as
the wood is In great demand for pen
Gil making.
The Suwanee figured largely in
early American history, for it was q
favorite haunt of the Indians, and
many battles with the red men were
fought in its valleys.
The name Suwanee has an Indian
sound, but it is said to be a corrup-
ton of San Juan-a name given the
river by early Spanish explorers.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
FST BE BORN A SINGER
IAN Formation Of Throat and Nos
'r''s Imperative for Utterance
Of Sweet Sounds,

recording to recent scientific dis
er'es' singing birds, like human
sers must have a certain type of
WI ana n0strils. A full throat, large
,"A open nostrils and slightly pro-
'.''e lips with good length from the
1T VI the nose to the point Of the
anu full cheeks are, say the scien-
positive signs I'm a human being
"e power to give forth tone.
we ears are round and well set to
"s"u II Is sign not only Of the
TO sing, but to appreciate. and
N. T,,''n'1ation means the great artist.
"n iPath"red songsters much the
rules hold good. The round.
'"hat pointed beak OF the canary
" "'de and his thorax and throat
o,h t,'''''hgly big for so tiny a bird,
oria WING TO the Philadelphia North
s,n "m lie can hear and appreciate
h"" ''eSt sound and his trills and
mo-, "''S or his tone are due to his
H.. !" 'he roundness of his head
we shape Of his bill.
~ ;, 'uck' on the other hand, having
lck ~. una a small throat can only
la me- Even II he longed to sing he
II ,a acquire any pleasant notes,
nv. we same way with some peo-
fl" e most careful training cannot
ts for ' ., box which nature pro-
BIT rIf, nose to whom she gives the
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
First Thrift nax

The first Thrift day" in America
was August II, 1915. That was the
first time one special day was ever
officially set aside for the purpose of
encouraging attention to thrift. The
day was celebrated in California rs
'"Thrift day" in response to procla.
nation Of Governor Johnson. The Oc.
casion marked the opening of the
thrift congress, held at the Panama
Pacific exposition by the American So
ciety for Thrift.-Thrift Magazine.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
LAIN DESCENT FROM cELTs
yrter Asserts Scotsmen Are a Unit
in Denying Stories Of Their
Saxon Origin.

II WIS that deadly flower of Saxon
Rivalry, Edward I. who caused the
brly records of Scotland to be de-
royed. Fortunately, the Irish Celtic
bnaists' writings remain, and as his
|Hans none were more competent or
pie to form an impartial judgment of
Ntland's carly history than they were.
Owherc in their annals do they make
(e slightest mention of the silly
cory of the Saxon origin of the peo-
of southern or eastern Scotland,
fd they also know nothing of the
F,itious division of Highlanders and
bwlanderS. Hector Boece Is also 81
pit on the supposed Saxon descent of
L"wander and the expulsion Of
tCclt. Instead he says we who have
abode on the confines Of England,
r"ush much commercial intercourse
ID wars, have learned the Saxon
Fech, and have forSaken our own.
Place names prove the essential
Il:c.ty of Scotland, MS the Celtic
TINS outnumber the English by ten to
e. and the latter are mostly modern
corruptions of the Gaelic. The Eng
language pushed out our native
elic but neither Saxon nor English
SlMced the men,, and any outsiders
," hfteen hundred years ago were
fHtted to survive within our Dor
rs would soon be fused into the
Pole' and today we are a nation or
&c or breed second to none, and as
"eSsor Keith, the eminent ethnOlO-
L. says, 1.-THE Scot is the fertilizer
The British empire."-Edinburgh
OtSman.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25

hhe, and vice versa. According to this.
rat hide would produce superior
leather.
Somebody with the gift of guessing
computes that there are 100000, 900
rats In this country, and the damage
they do would feed good-sized army.
1t would take at least 5000 skins day
to supply a small modern tannery. No
body wants the rats; they belong to
anybody that can catch them. That is
the only problem-to catch them and
skin them, and then deliver the goods
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
CAL0MEL SALIvATES AND
MAKES You SICK.
ACTS LIKE DYNAMITE ON A
SLUGGISH LIVER AND YOU


ACTS LIKE DYNAMITE ON A
SLUGGISH LIVER AND YOU
LOSE A DAYS WORK.
There's no reason why a person
should take sickening, salivating
calomel when a few cents buys a
large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone
"a perfect substitute for calomel.
1t is a pleasant, vegetable liquid
which will start your liver just as
surely as calomcl, but it doesn't
make you sick and can not salivate.
Children and grown folks can
take Dodson's Liver Tone, because
it is perfectly harmless.
Calomel is dangerous drug. It
is mercury and attacks your bones.
Take a dose of nasty calomel today
and you will feel weak, sick and
nauseated tomorrow. Don't lose a
days work. Take a spoonful of
Dodson's Liver Tone instead and
you will wake up feeling great. No
more biliousness, constipation, slug
gishness, headache, coated tongue or
sour stomach. Your druggist says
If you DE- :: find Dodson's Liver
Tone acts b.. te,' than horrible cal
omel your money is waiting for you.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
ALONG THE WAY.

II you can't shout hallelulia
AS ySu travel on the way.
You can keep the quiet spirit
And look thankful for the day.
When the heart keeps time to song.
AS Teller goes along,
He's gittin' ont the country
Where the thorry troubles thronG.
II you can't be on the hilltop
In the big blaze OF the light,
You'll know that even the valleys
Keeping heaven still in sight.
1t still keeps time to song
AS the shadows dream along
And Its paths lead from the country
Where the thorny troubles throng
Atlanta Constitution
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
:. NAY Mean War on Rsts.

nd IT,, not enough leather to 20
nipy s ., skins are susceptible to
ke ro a,' there are rat skins which
by vu leather, large enough for
tt k h,",poses. They would do for
Linn" S OF gloves and mlttens, says
ptber journal. They may be sewed
PTS, an 70 make cloaks and other gar
tlahIo e 'hey are not too small to be
pcnor Ior parts Of boots and shoes.
THEA ' rule as to leather Ia that
the fur Is the poorer the
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
Two Sides TO IL

Mamma-NOw, Freddy, mind what I
say. I don't want you to 60 over into
the next garden and play with that
Binks boy he's very rude.
Freddy (heard q few moments after
ward calling over the wal)--I say,
Binks, ma says I'm not to go In your
garden because you're rude, but you
come into my garden-I amt rude
Farm and Home.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
Her Best Friend Said This

Her Best FRIEND said This.
"The lieutenant pnid me some pretty
compliments"
"Indeedw
"He said l looked sweet enough to
eat and he'd like to bite piece out
Of me-"
"He wouldn't have to bite very deep
to leave hole in your complexion,
denrie."-Birmingham Age-Herald.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
Dolnu Penance.

"Where's the old man, Blll7"
"Why, his wife caught him SHOW
cling IN chicken pie Mt a swell restau-
rant and now he's eating humble pie
In the kitchen"
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WARMING.

ut makes me angry to think Of an
anarchist waving red flag"
"And yet" unused Miss Cayenne,
''hoisting danger signal seems to be
the nearest decent thing he does"
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A Real Ambition.

'Is he ambitious?
II should say SO. He says he'll
never be content until he can drive
a golf ball 200 yards every time"
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DUNK In which
money is not al
ways a very con-
venient place, nj
though it is safe,
for the money
has a tendency
to slip down,
and then the
owner has to dig
perhaps MS far
as her shoe tops
to get 1t. To OBJ
viate this disad-
vantage Leonard
Careless of st.
Paul, MIMI, has
invented a purse
which Is attach
ed to the pend
ent garter and
may be fastened
either inside or
outside the stock
ing.
The inventor
has just re-
ceived a patent
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
Nothjnu Of the Sort.

'Is this proposition Of yours, sir,
a tentative One2"
Laws, no, brother; it's merely a
tryin' out of the idee."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
Tho Resemblance.

"Why are stars like persistent mid
night lawbreakersw
IT suppose 1t Ia because the latter
Gin till late"
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
Tho Reason.

"Nonh wouldn't have made a good
poker player"
"Why notw
Because he never held more than
two Of kind"
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Might Do There.

This new clerk doesn't seem to
know anything whatever about any
thing"
"Well, that won't do for silks or
dress goods Put him in the book de-
partment."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
Quite Different.

"The young bride across the way
treats her husband like a dog"
"Poor fellow I"
Don't pity him. She's always fuss
ing over him."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
OF Course NJ

"Cost me $40 today Just because ]
was honest"
"Oh, well, you don't mind paying q
small premium on a good policy
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
PLUTOCRATS,

They had some
very expensive
presents at the
De Bosh we'd
ding.
Did { h e y 2
What did her
T a t h err give
them
Two barrels
OF sugar and @
ton Of coal.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25

upon this device. the details OF
which will readily be understood
from the diagram.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-07-25
NO CHANCE FOR PICKP0CKETs
Woman Can Carry Her valuables and
Indulge in Laugh at Light
Fingered Gentry.

The traditional bank in which
women keep their money is not al.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-09-27
WILD TALK.
Buffalo, N. Y, Enquirer)

(Buffalo, N. Y, Enquirer)
Coming to Buffalo on business Z
supervisor of large contract work il
Washington predicted the race out
break at the national capital several
days before it occurred.
The man had good opportunities fol
observation since many Negroes were
employed on the work he had in
charge. He related there was much
unrest among the Negroes, much Grim
inal activity by Negroes which the po
lice failed to suppress, and asserted
that he had himself seen Negroes
drilling after dark in out of the way
places. On the other hand, he re.
lated rising disposition on the part
of the whites to take measures not
countenanced by law.
The dispatches quickly brought the
fulfillment of the visitors forecast.
Washington has no unusual reason
for race war. 1t therefore seems safe
to charge the outbreak to agitation
and incitement that are everywhere
developing belligerent spirit. There
is at present too much cultivation of
dispositions to make a fighting mat
ter of every difference, grievance, pas
sion, prejudice. There is more en-
couragement of violence than cultiva-
tion of restraint. Wild talk is hav-
ing the natural result, wild action.
Every element of the people is being
taught that it is the victim of some
other or several elements. This line
must be abandoned if bad is to be
stopped short of worse.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-09-27

In every portion of the audience of
1000 could be heard the expressions.
None" mo one" In very truth.
this is the universal sentiment. Re.
ports from employment bureaus, the
Urban League, and from members of
commissions and delegations them
selves, from the South, declare that
little or no encouragement has been
received, in the matter of returning
South. One man expressed the senti.
ment OF thousands when he said: 81
would rather live in Chicago if thew
had a riot here every week" Another
typical individual made very anus
ing comment This happened in the
assembly room of the Chicago Urban
League, and is vouched for. The big
white southener was present, before
as assembly of more than one hundred
Negro workmen. He described en-.
Enthusiastically that on his plantation
there are many logs that need saving
up. Railroad transportation would be
furnished and four dollars per day
paid to the laborers. "How many of
you wish to go?" he asked. There was
painful silence. Finally, one brother
spoke up and said, deliberately: 81
tell you what you do, you send the
logs up to Chicago, and Wen saw 'em
here"
So, that seems to be the one way
out, if the South must really have ad.
ditional Negro help and insists on
continuing the political and civic in
justices of the present, their logs will
have to be sent North if the work is
to be done.
A. N. P.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-09-27
FAR TOO MUCH.

New York Evening SUM
We are having far too much hooli.
ganism these days. 1t does us small
credit. There is no conceivable rea-
son for it. To say that it is a pro-
duct of our war excitation is a trifle
too humiliating; it is to pronounce
ourselves nation of psychopathics.
The trouble is simply that some ele-
ment always lawless think from care
less newspaper reading, that this is
an epoch of generally relaxed author
ity and that they can do what they
please. They must be speedily con.
vinced to the contrary if it takes all
the soldiers in the United States.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-09-27
JUST A FEW

Just few more days o'loafin'
Round the good old swimmin' hole
Just few more trips a fishin'
With his plain old hickory pole;
Just few more days of real sport
Cause the days are gettin' cool,
And the bell will soon be ringin'
Calm Johnnie back to school.
Just a few more games of baseball
Down on the corner lot,
Just few more gentle lickins
Fer the history he forgot;
Just few more days of childhood
Free from trouble, toll and strife,
Ere Johnnie must awaken to
A broader, sterner life.
Earl Smith.
Phoenix tribune., 1919-09-27
RIOTS GO ON.
SOUTH HAS NO CHARMS

Encouraged by the recent troubles
III northern communities numerous
southern delegations from various
communities have recently visited
Chicago, and other cities. with the
most glowing inducements to Colored
people, urging them to come back to
the land where they are best loved
and most understood
In great mass meeting held in
the Eighth Regiment Armory on the
night of Labor Day. a question was
asked by one Of the speakers: How
many Of you wish to return south n
Phoenix tribune., 1919-09-27

A popularity of our race riots is
that everybody in the land deprecates
them and denounces them, but they
persist. There isn't newspaper any
where that defends such lawlessness;
the newspapers of the South are al
ways denouncing lynching and lynch
ers and mobs; the better element in
every community deplores such out
lawry-and the better element is in
the majority in practically every
neighborhood of this broad land. But
there is not an end of the unholy
business; it breaks out spasmodically,
and frequently where it is least ex-
pected.