Calyx . J^ LIBERTY HALL V STATE CLUBS. West Virginia Club President Fice-President Historian Secretary and Treasurer Carroli, Anderson Engle Cleon Scott Osbourne Wade Lees Herbert Anderson Honorary Member William Jett Lauck The popular and accepted conception tliat the aboriginal Virginian iiolds of the WestVirginian in his mountain wilds is that ot a shaggy-haired barbarian, stalking at will throughthe deep shades of a thousand impenetrable forests, or of a kettle-mouthed cannibal, startlingand reawakening the dull echoes of the mountainside with a cannonlike roar, as he springsupon and devou
Calyx . J^ LIBERTY HALL V STATE CLUBS. West Virginia Club President Fice-President Historian Secretary and Treasurer Carroli, Anderson Engle Cleon Scott Osbourne Wade Lees Herbert Anderson Honorary Member William Jett Lauck The popular and accepted conception tliat the aboriginal Virginian iiolds of the WestVirginian in his mountain wilds is that ot a shaggy-haired barbarian, stalking at will throughthe deep shades of a thousand impenetrable forests, or of a kettle-mouthed cannibal, startlingand reawakening the dull echoes of the mountainside with a cannonlike roar, as he springsupon and devours his prey. Let us reassure you, fair Virginians, though when aroused in his native wilds the abovebarbarian is sporadically dangerous, when he goes abroad from his lair no more harmless ordocile creature can be found. To him Virginia is a land of hyacinths and dahlias of the mostiridescent hues, and of a people reveling m the pleasant mannerisms of his ancestors. To him West Virginia is a land where the shekels grow on bushes, to be
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