The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1916-01-01
CUPID IS vERFBUSY
264 Licenses in 1914 and 2sS in
1916 Circuit Clerks Office is
a Popular Place.

a Popular Place.
Daniel Cupid come this way,
Hear you not fair maidens cry
ing?
Come and visit US, we pray
Hear you not the swains sigh
ing?
Anxious hearts are here await
ing.
Come and soothe them if you
can.
And stop this awful palpitatirg.
Come. now, cunning little Dan!
The above is the tune someone
didn't say is being hummed around
the Office of Circuit Clerk Ed
Smith, who sells those cute marital
sticking plasters that paradoxically
make one cut Of two people Any
way, Clerk Smith and those who
daily receive his hospitality
around the office where Daniel Gu
pid has his Brookhaven branch, are
speculating OF the whereabouts of
the little God OF Love just as the
New Year breaks and discloses the
fact that despite the natural in
crease in the city's population, the
year 1915 not only did not surpass
its predecessor in, the number of
marriage licenses issued. but actu-
ally fell behind by one, the record
being l54 for the latter and l5S for
this year. Maybe Mars Daniel
left most of the work to Black
Dan, who goes along with him to
look after the colored folks, and if
that is true, then here's to Black
Dan, for he beat the record Of 1914
by thirty five, the figures standing
ITO licenses issued to negroes dur
ing that year. against 145 for the
closing period.
If the licenses issued for both
races are totaled it will be seen
that the balance is in favor of 1915
for, during the year that has just
past in its checks there was total
of 298lIicenses issued to white peo-
pie and negroes, against total of
264 In the previous year.
But what is the matter with Mr.
Cupid that he permits his ebony
assistant to do most of the work?
Us he suIking because his arrows
have missed fire in these parts !!
Il as he been ruthlessly snubbed by
any of the fair maids and brave
gallants around this particular
corner of the Garden of Eden,
which Congressman Quin is con-
inced is located in the Seventh
|DiFtrict7 Nothing Of the kind
rhe mystery bas just flashed to
light, Daniel Cupid, God of Love,
was captured by President and
|Presidentress Woodrow Wilson and
has been held a willing prisoner on
their honeymoon at Hot Springs,
Va. So there you have it-maybe
If this suspicion be true, then
Brookhaven and Lincoln County
lovers may take heart, for with the
beginning Of the New Year Daniel
will be at liberty, because the Ma
tions chief and the new Chieftain-
ness must get busy at Washington
and stop their honeymoonin2. (By
the way. how do the suffragettes
Ike that new Chieftainness" ref
etence?)
So now that Daniels wherea-
bouts has at last been located and
his release Is imminent, Circuit
Clerk Smith may expect him to be-
gin a strong offensive movement,
as they say on the battle front
Before his disappearance Daniel
Cupid fired several true shots from
his bow, as Will be seen by the
following list of licenses issued to
white couples since last week:
John Sykes and Miss Mamie Ry-
ais, Thomas Martin and Miss Jane
RyaIs. Joseph Robert Sparkling and
Miss Sadie Boutwell,. Randolph
Scott and Miss Alice Smith, Vince
King and Miss Josie Nesmtih.
Thomas Roberts and Miss Maize
Bailey, Barney Grice and Miss
Lizzie Lowell. w. l. Anding and
Miss Floy Bowman, Lee Walker.
and Miss Georgia Rollins. Frank
Emmett McGehee and Miss Mary
M Simth. Martin T. Wilson and
Miss Beulah Griffith.
Mars Cupid's assistant, Black
Dan, was busy during the same
period and got in his work with
the following:
John Smith and Elizabeth Can
LEY, Enoch Thomas and LulG And
ing. Rufus Stewart and Precious
Hart, Emanuel Handy and Msude
Watson, Willie James and Jessie
Daniel, Thomas Young and Pinkis
Thompson, Louis Parnell and jamie
Williams, Matthews Rancifer and
DonLis Wall, Abraham Jackson anC
EstelIa Farmer