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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26
PETITION FOR coMMUTATIoN.

To Honorable Earl Brewer, Governor
of the State of Mississippi:
Your petitioner, Wade Hampton. re-
specially represents unto your honor
that at the january Term, 1918 of the
Circuit Court of Lefore County, Mis-
sissippi, he was found guilty Of the
murder Of Nahoum Ristom and was
sentenced to be hung. Petitioner
further shows to your Honor that he
was not guilty Of said crime. and prays
that your honor will commute his sen.
tence OF death to n in the peniten.
tiary for life. .
Respectfully submitted this the 18th
day Of December, 1918.
WADE HAMPTON.
And Others.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

Why take the trouble to invent new
Jokes? A young woman laughed so
hard at the ancient wheeze about a
dog appearing in short pants that she
swallowed a ring.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

II must be humliiating for the In,
ventor Of the motorcycle muller to
have one Of those interesting machines
get anywhere neal him.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

A soup spoon with a muf'er has
been invented, thereby aiding the ma
tional campaign against unnecessary
noises.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

Bread deliverers may be required
to wear gloves, WHICH conveys the
peculiar intimation that In that In.
dustry hands are not washed as often
as gloves.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

Rcforc deciding q adont low
necNcd evening dress men should re-
fleet that such a course might pro
woke women into abandoning It.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

Woman students at the University
OF Kansas are now required to learn TO
swim Which Is all right, But where
is Kansas going to get the water?
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

stnco the oyster Is becoming less
popular IN society II has mora oppor.
tunities to pass an evening COW and
then at home with It's family.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

while compelling packers to I'LL
thSir crns with oysters, why doesn't
the department Of agriculture mar
them I'll the oysters with pearls?
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

Mr.. n. c. Motley, a p~rtmirent
young planter fI'm Gtlen, WIS
~ the city MOI day and taNoItd
The Commonwealth with a leas-
ant buSIm SIS call.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

An old bachelor says there is some
thing wrong with every woman's fig.
ure. Observations like that are
the natural result of q visit to the see
shore
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

O-esnn Mss a record hon vield--hu
malas ~iupulus. not frogs legA
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

Aviators are looping the loop" In
safety Soon they will be able to run
into the ground without getting hurt
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

Miner AIdridQe, who is attend
ing college at Lafi yette, lid, is
at home for The hoIILays.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

Mr.. j. A. Eillnd and family,
former citizens Of Montgomery Co,
have moved here and will make
their future home. A cordial
welcome is extended them by our
people.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

II the whale that rammed the Dan
ish tanker belonged TO sny particular
school Of fish, It ought 10 qualify a
center on the football team.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26
Suffered with =.
Throat Trouble.

Mr.. Barnes
used to be
9 h Of
w a r r Q n
c o u n t y,
r. s
From ex-
p 0 $ ure to
the elements
ne acquired
I h r o q t
I u b | e.
He s u p
posed that
his health
was entirely
ruined, in
spite of all
the treat
m t h G
could pro-
cure.
A ( t Q r
using four
bottles Of
Peruna h g
claims that
he was n
I | r e | y
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26
French Market Coffee
Is Never Sold in Bulk!

splendid machinery OF the
French Market Mills.
In the third place, no ono
could reproduce the French
Market process of packing cot
uafoueAtd BY human hanG
in perfectly sealed cans.
If the leading coffee experts
in the world cannot pick out the
best cotfees until they are
roasted and served in the cup,
how can you. Madam, afford to
buycofee in bulk that's without
any guarantee as to its quality,
Lot this coffee tell its own
story. Servo French Market
Coffee at every meal tor several
days. Be convinced by actual
test that this Is tho best OF all
coHecs.
z N MARKET MILLS
NEW Orissas Coffee Co. Ltd. PTcpsic<ors}
NEW ORLEANS
DIRECTIONS NJ recommesd that you
mato Preach Market Coffee In roar usual
way. II yoa and lttoo strong. reduce 1uss-
llty until strecgts and flavor arc s~atistao-
tofy. French Martat makes more caps OF
rood coffee to tho po,ad han othoe brands,
ihe<eby reducing yosr coffee bin. (llN
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1913-12-26

Take The Commonwealth.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
MAIL CT gRK UTTERS PROTEST
Wall Should Appeal to Those Who
Have Habit Of PlnnIng Their
Written Sheets Together.

''If people must stick pins into their
letters, l wish they would cover up
the points so that they wouldn't push
through" said mail clerk whose
hands were disfigured by tiny scratch
es. Il must get about a hundred digs
a day from pins that systematic folks
use to hold their correspondence to.
gether. l never could make out, any
how, why so many letters need to be
finished off with Din.
"Of course, / understand that about
half of those written by women have
a postscript in the shape of samples OF
dress goods or newspaper cuttings,
which perhaps require pin or two to
hold them In place, but even that habit
cannot account for the large number
of letters that come through the post
Office with pin sticking out of one
corner
IL have come to the conclusion that
many writer's so mail their manuscript
with malicious intent. 1t may not be
us fellows in the postofice against
whom they hold grudge, but we are
the ones that usually get the benefit
Of those pins"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
Lime Salts and Health.

The Berliner Klinische Wochen-
schrift, in an article on the influence
of lime salts on the constitution and
health, speaks of some physicians
who are coming more and more to
believe that the use of calcium Qime)
In various forms is the keystone of
individual hygiene- Reinhardt, a
German physician, quoted. says:
''Neurasthenic. overworked' and physi-
cally depressed persons are so rapid
ly healed by the chloride of calcium
solution that they cannot show sufi-
Gent gratitude They feel as If new
ly born, full OF zest OF life, stronger
and more enduring than ever and
twenty years younger" II Is not i'm
probable that there is here an over
measure of enthusiasm Many of
the cider physicians will remember
Doctor Brown-Sequard and the won
derful things that were to be done
by his discovery In making old fell
lows young again. The melancholy
Jacques observed that from hour to
hour we ripe and ripe and then from
hour to hour we rot and rot"-the
decay OF the natural forces of age.
This is as true today as it was In
las You Like It. in the forest OF
Arden.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
Uncle Sam az a Solomon.

The departments at Washington are
now and then called upon to settle
petty questions Of the most intimate
personal nature. For instance, the
treasury department once acted as
Judge In a dispute between man and
wife.
This couple had had a spirited
struggle for the possession Of several
bank notes. each holding fast to the
end of the roll" A ten-dollar bill
was torn across the middle, and each
contestant carried of one-half Of it
in triumph. Just here the treasury
department was brought into the dis
pute. 1t received half of the bill
from the wife, with the statement
that the other half had been de-
stroyed, and she requested new
bill. In a short time there arrived
the second half of the bill from the
husband. with a similar statement
and request AS the government then
had both ends Of the bill, it rem
dered a Solomonlike decision and
awarded FIVE dollars to each of the
Acknowledgment Weekly.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
EVEN FLOWERS MUST LABoa
Nature Dsnanss lts Tell From Every
Living Thing. and Accepts
No Excuses.

However fine and dainty a flower
may look. It is pressed TO DO q great
service and its colors and forms are
all suited to its work. II must bring
forth the fruit, or the continuity OF
plant life will be broken and the
earth will be turned into a desert ere
long.
The color and the smell of the flow.
er are all for some purpose, therefore
no sooner is It fortified by the bee,
no sooner does the time Of It's fruition
arrive, than II sheds its exquisite pet
ais and a cruel economy compels II
TO give up its sweetest perfume. 1t
has no time to fiaunt IS finery, for it
is busy beyond measure
Viewed from without, necessity
seems to be the only factor in Ma
ture, for which everything works and
moves. There the bud develops into
the flower, the flower into the fruit,
the fruit into the seed, the seed into a
new plant again, and so forth, the
chain of activity running on unbroken.
Should there crop up any disturbance
or impeachment, NJ, excuse would be ac-
cepted and the Unfortunate thing SO
choked in itS movement would at
once be labeled as rejected, and be
bound to die and disappear post haste.
In the great Office of Nature there
are innumerable departments with
endless work going on, and the fine
fower that you behold there, gaudily
4ttired and scented like dandy, is
by no means what It appears to be,
nut rather is like laborer toiling In
the sun and shower, who has to sub
NIT a clear account Of his work, and
has no breathing space to enjoy him.
self in a playful frolic.-Rabindranat
Tagore, in the Atlantic Monthly.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
THAT ONE MOMENT OF LIFE
Her Idea Of II Was Not Exactly His
Though Both Recognized Its
Tragic Intensity.

Heidi you ever know moment
when the very air throbbed with emo
ton?
She-Yes, yes!
He-When your heart felt like a
bird fluttering meath your hand?
She-Yes. yes!
He drawing nearer)-When the
whole world was conferred so close
to you that eyes answered eyes?
She (edging away from him and
his eyes)-Yes. yes, / have known
it, have-I have!
He (more and more fervently)-
And into that moment crowds years
and years of suffocating intensity?
She-Yes, yes, and its memory will
live foreverl
He (makes move to take her IN
his arms-And that moment-thai
moment is
She-Was-you mean was that day
when the score was tied. the basei
full, two out and Baker up?
In about ten minutes the docto
pronounced him out of danger.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
Touched Her Sympathy.

A kind-hearted lady was collecting
for the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children. She paid So
ries of houseto-house visits, and at
one door her knock was answered by
a rather stupid-looking servant, says
Pearsons Weekly.
The lady explained her errand; that
she was collecting small sums for the
funds of the Society for the Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Children. but the
girl found this title rather too much
of a mouthful. She went upstairs to
the nursery, where her mistress was
hard at work bathing and dressing
half a dozen lively, shouting children,
and trying at the same time to coax
the recently arrived baby to go TO
sleep, and announced: "Please'm.
there's somebody at the door collect.
In for the Society for the Prevention
of Children"
The worried mother sent down 9
willing donation Of half a dollar.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11

One Must Have the Soul Of Poet to
Appreciate The Rhapsody Here
INDUCED In.

I was skating on a patch Of Ice In
the park, under a poverty-stricken sky
flying a pitiful rag Of sunset Some
little muckers we're giiying a slim.
raw-boned Irish girl OF fifteen, who
circled and darted under their banter
with complete unconcern. She was In
the fiedgling stage, all legs and arms,
tall and adorably awkward, with a
huge hat full of rusty feathers, thin
skirts tucked up above spindling
ankles, and a gay aplomb and swing
in the body that was ravishing. We
caught hands In midfiight, and skated
for an hour, almost alone and quite
silent, while the rag of sunset rotted
TO pieces. have had few sensations
In life that would exchange for the
warmth Of her hand through the rag
ged glove, and the pathetic curve Of
the halfformed breast where the
back Of my wrist touched her body.
l came away mystically shaken and
elate. II is thus the angels converse.
She was something absolutely anthem
tic, new, and inexplicable, something
which only nature could mix for the
hearts intoxication, compound Of
ragamufin, pal, mistress, nun, sister.
harlequin, outcast, and bird Of Cod
with something else bafflingly sur
fused, something ridiculous and frail
and savage and tender. With world
Offering such recontres, such aery
strifes and adventures, who would not
live a thousand years stone dumbf
would, to think on the shut lid and
granite lip of him who has done with
the sunset and skating, and has turn
ed away his face from all manner Of
Irish.--William Vaughn Moody, in the
Atlantic.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
Manners Can Be Acquired.

An English critic says that the ath-
letic girl has no manners and has
other faults. But after the brilliant
showing Of little Baltimore girl late
ly in rescuing several children single
handed from burning house, a res
cue made possible by her practice at
athletic exercises, the lack Of polish
more or less can easily be forgiven.
Manners can always be acquired, but
1t demands very quick action and abil-
ity TO save lives. The mistake of such
critics is to lay the blame on athletics
when that blame is due to entirely diff
ferent causes. The old idea that gen.
ueness went with weakness and won.
anliness with timidity is now exploded
Baltimore American.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
OLD QUESTION TO THE FRONT


A Partisan woman ran up a bill IN
one year amounting to $3.50 for
dresses and furs. Her husband was
sued. He stated that his fiat cost HIM
$500 a year, therefore credit to his
wife for over $4,000 was unreason-
able. The court decided that mar
ried woman cannot spend In dress
more than the amount OF the rent
paid for the Joint home OF husband
and wife without laying herself open
to a charge of extravaganza, and the
court reduced the bill to $500. (There
is a saying that the rent should not
exceed one-fourth OF the income.)
The scene now opens in the court
of chancery, Jersey City. Vice Chan
cellor Garrison stated there that the
utmost extent to which a man could
be asked to go in supplying his wife
with "outer clothing" was as follows:
Suits, $40; coat, s1S; pair of shoes,
s4 one pair Of corsets, ST." 1T is
common. the court knows, for women
70 spend SIS or 800 for suit with
which to go to bridge parties and
cause their sisters to turn green with
envy. But 1t is no part of a husbands
duty to provide means of causing 9TH
er women unhappiness.
IT have seen women in SIS coats
which looked fine on them. There
isn't married man in the world who
doesn't know that for 81 corsets can
be bought which will set off a wom-
ans figure most engagingly" The
report of that case includes the state
ment that Vice Chancellor GarrisoD's
wife is "one of the handsomest and
best dressed women of all Hudson
country"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
Overwhelmed With Work.

Along in the SOS Pat Casey pushed
a wheelbarrow across the plains from
ST. Joseph. Mo-. to Georgetown, Colo,
shortly after that he Struck it rich; :"
in fact. he was credited with having
more wealth than anyone else in Colo
RADIO. A man Of great shrewdness and
ability, he was exceedingly sensitive
over his inability to read or write.
One day an old timer met him with;
How are you getting along. Pat?"
60 way from me. now" said Pat,
genially, me heads burstin' wild BUSH
ness. 1t takes two lid pinciis a day to
do me wurruk. "-Everybody's Maya
zine.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
How To Wed.

Why should not the church which
solemnizes marriage go behind the
ceremony. encouraging young people
to wed and giving them needed In
struction concerning marriage life?
Just this the New York diocese of the
Protestant Episcopal church proposes
to do. In the discussion of the mar
riage problem 1t was unanimously
agreed that health certificates should
be required for marriage. The much
greater problem Of how the church
is to bring young people together with
marriage as the aim and how to make
the married state happy and perma-
nent has been turned over to the So
cial service commission to work out
Leslie'A
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
Character Told by Laughter.

A French paper has discovered that
a persons character is expressed in
his manner of laughing. II you laugh
in 'Ha ha" fashion. you are frank II
a man and inconstant and incapable
Of keeping a secret If a woman. II
you laugh "Heh. heh." you are neu-
rasthenic, melancholy and skeptical.
II you adopt a deeper tone and laugh
in 'Ho. hos" you are generous, easy.
going and good-natured. The proper
pitch for the fair sex TO laugh in is
"He, he" while people who laugh
with a Hoo. hoo" effect should be
avoided as hypocritical, scandal-mon.
gerlng and misery.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
WELCOME COMING OF LOCUST
Sudanese Consider Insects, Elsewhere
Regarded as Pests, as Most
Palatable Food.

The latest advices from Khartum,
In the Sudan, state that the usual
bitches have been dug in all direc-
lions in anticipation of the summer
rains, which, however, have as yet
not put In an appearance. In the
meantime these bitches are having
their uses, for a plague of locusts
has set in. Immense swarms have
for days been passing over the city.
Locusts of course do vast amount
of damage to the fields. They null
tiply most rapidly and wherever they
settle they devour every vestige of
green and leave the land bare. The
Sudanese are waging a vigorous cam
paign against them and their zeal Is
whetted by the fact that locusts con-
stitute for them very palatable dish
These insects are usually caught by
the Cyprus system" which consists
In digging trenches and erecting on
their farther side tin screens against
which they dash and kill themselves,
eventually falling into the trenches.
1t is not thought that this invasion
will reach Egypt. The last time that
country was visited by locusts was
in 1904, when no fewer than 1,000.-
100000 egg masses were destroyed.
The work was carried out by over
100000 men and cost the government
close on $4,000, which was in all
conscience a cheap radiance of the
plague seeing that it might quite cas-
lily have ruined the entire cotton crop,
not to mention crops Of other sum
mer products.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
ProftabIe RrItIsh EIsherIss.

The British fisheries yield about
2'oOO.OOO.0o0 pounds annually. for
which the ultimate consumers" are
believed to pay at least $4,000, 900.
In view OF the part which herring
and other small fishes play in this
total, 1t may be within the truth to
estimate the number of fishes caught
in an average year by the fishermen
Of the United Kingdom, at two bill.
lion or more For all Europe this en-
ormous number may be multiplied by
three, perhaps by four.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
pry Dock a DUTCH invention.

A correspondent in Holland draws
our attention TO the fact that the con-
struction in that country OF a floating
dock of $4,000 tons. for Soerabaya har.
Dor in the Dutch Indies. should remind
US that the floating dry dock Is
Dutch invention, and that many float
ing docks OF this type are built on
Dutch ways and towed to their desti-
nation. Dry-dock towing Is a special
", and many foreign-built docks are
towed to their destination by Dutch
tugs - Scientific American
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-10-11
RussIa's AerIal pefense.

Another Of the great powers of Eu.
rope has followed the example Of Ger.
many and Great Britain In the de.
yelopment of an aerial armament
The minister Of war Is planning 70
aaye a lying squadron established in
every camp, and already has secured
six airships, known as aero drece
thoughts. which are equipped With us.
cline guns, bomb thrcWers end
less telegraphy.
The sun., 1913-10-05

mo a Kid when was four. hit he did
Then he said he wouldn't call me
kid when ! WIS five: but he dad. -"
You s'posc he'll call me II kiu when I'm
siN?"
At seven she announced joyfull>;
wow I'm seven | can call other chill
dren kids. hu, She added inournfuly:
bunny SAYS lac can always call mc n
kid hut I can never call linn "A kid, h.-
cause he'll always h" uld.r'n me"
Her interest In clothes increased with
her wears. Al thrco-and-a half she I'D
dressed the cook who Wa in temporary
charge: II don't ike - hlHck hat "u
you. You may wear il if You hdv, "a
pink blouse. If not you'd t't'r l."
without Lots of servants do and they
look very nice
At fv" she had madc her choice f"r
the future: "l'll l." "A lady when grow
up. for then III wear nice clothes.
| Her brothers suggested that she shoUld
u" a mother, but the prospect seemed
| To- have lc-s appeal for her then the
other.
About that time sn" became convene
| tinnal. io the HnnuNanc" Of tn" simpler
made. Sh". became p''se"ss"d "f secrets:
| "t;Cntlctucn. gentlemen. There ar"
things We don't tell to gentlemen" She
| said. with tn" air of a friskN elderly
| lady Who has s,Il the manner If 4
| spoiled beauty.
! She had reached a stage in her dc-
vclopmcnt when she announced At lunch
| one day:
! zone of Bunnys schoolboyS ~miird at
| mo in church" Then, with some en-
| barrassmcnt: "Eut ! didn't encourages
| him"
Sho was in her seventh year wien
she had to he forced into a new sni"cll,
| for she had waXed fat She explained:
|"T can push myself iV by holding my
| breath, but ] can only do II for a little
| Wlrilc. Rut anyhow I've given up pud-
ding
About the same time she had begun
| to have feminine occupations ana fem
| mime daintincsseS. \ little rose water
| in her washing basin prov okcd. Il feel
as though my blood were msdc Of Roses. 80
| As for occupations: "I'll go up To the
library and &C, my box of bcads or my
Grimm and be quiet. II isn't about
making Il noise that annuya father I
mind, but because | annoy myself when
I'VE nothing to do"
She was only "A little over seven when
she said to her mother; "Nou are made
Of gold and silver and all sorts Of pre-
cious stones; but I'm only made of 4
few common stones. I'm II rottcr and !,
| Stacker"
Here is another stage of development
"of all animals ! like first dogs, and
then birds but ! like them best when
they're little and have To have every
thing done for them"
She was very direct schoolgirl and