The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-17
HAM-AN.ECCS
Every Saturday.

One on the Circuit Clerk-Mr. Shar.
key Pate, u polite Circuit Clerk, Ger.
tainly had a joke pulled off on him the
other day, and the remarkable part
OF the thing was that it was all un-
intentional On the part of those re-
sponsible. 1t happened in this way:
A young man from Sunf1ower County
and a young lady from Lefore were
engaged to be married and to make
the wedding more romantic they
planned to runaway. The date was
set and the young man from Sum
flower went to Indianola, purchased
his license, came to Greenwood, got
his girl and went directly to the Le-
fore County Court House an dto the
Office Of Mr.. Pate, where he showed
the Circuit Clerk his Sunflower IL
cense and asked him to perform the
ceremony.
Diamonds on Installment-1 saw
a picture the other day, used to il
lustrate an advertisement of "Dia-
monds on Credit" The picture was
that Of a boy and girl just stepping
through the enchanting circle of a
diamond ring into the unknown paths
of life. And the picture, sweet enough
l admit under certain circumstances,
but used in that advertisement car
ried the idea that the boy had pur-
chased one of the "gems on long time
payment" and with it had wooed and
won his fair lady and that they would
go on through life happy ever after
on a five dollar payment every month.
One of two things is certain. If
a young man is unable to pay for a
diamond ring in cash he should not
marry unless he could get a sensible
girl who loved him hard enough to
about the diamond and marry |
him anyway. After all, the quiet
little knot tied at the parsonage is
tied just as tight, and often tighter, |
than the one where the strings are
through diamond rings before
hand, potted plants, cut flowers and
heavy expense at the time of the
Wedding and costly entertaining and
social diplomacy ever afterwards.
A Neighborhood Defned-One of
he best definitions of "a neighbor-
lood" that I have ever heard was CIV
n by a witness in the Love trial re-
emily held in Circuit Court here. The
was t~estifying as to the char
cter Of the defendant and it proved
hat he lived some ten miles away
rom him. Something was said about
the neighborhood" and an attorney
sked the witness what he called a
eighborhood, he replied: "Where ev-
60 to the same church on
unday, associated together, eat to-
hunt together and fish togeth-
r."
And 1t Was Coda negro SER I
ant during the recent severe cold :
cell arrived at her place of employ
ent late on morning and her mistress
sked her why she was late. "Missus, j.
jes couldn't git here no sooner. As :
IS as l could git de ice-tickles broke : -
f'my nose another one would be dare Z
be broke off,"
Caught With the G0ods-He is a
,ung married man who for certain !.
'asons does not chew tobacco at '
'me and is very careful not to let
S wife learn that he chews it any,
here else. A few days ago his wife .
by where he was working one y
ternoon and stood outside the win =
w with several other ladies and =
lied him. He was very muct Wis
through the window but the :
ung mar forgot that fact and start :,
to "cast-fourth-h is-cud" and re- !.
smbered. What was he to do? He ~
uldn't throw it out because she. =,
'uld see him, he couldn't 60 out and ~
* to her with it in his mouth be-
use it was one Of those old fash , :,
led chews where a man didn't care -
|. expenses. He decided that his p,
ly chance to get by was to swallow GU
land swallow it he did. His little
fe was very much exercised wei his q
.sical condition that night and to
certain that he was not going to
called for the family physician.
the Doctor arrived the young
explained that it must have been
nething he ate so the M. D. got his
mach pump and found that it really