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WE WIN SMOCK
Reason for Scanty Garb of Some
Gld-Time Brides.
In England It Wat Held That Act Relieved
Husbands of Debts Contracted
by His Bride Before
Their Marriage.
HA Bangor lawyer attending court In
tiie ancient town of Wiscasset, Lincoln
county, recently went rummaging in
tbe Colonial court records of the place,
and in the course of his reading came
across the official registration of a
taock marriage/ " writes L. T. Smyth
from Lungor, Me., to the Boston Tranacript
"Not knowing what a smock
marriage was, the lawyer looked fur^
/ ther, and got considerable light upon
a custom that prevailed in England a
century or more ago and also to some
extent in the American colonies.
"Smock marriages were weddings
where the bride appeared dressed in a
white sheet or chemise. The reason
for such a garb was the belief that if
a man married a woman who was in
debt he could be held liable for her
indebtedness if he received with her
any of her property; and also, that if
a woman married a man who was in
debt his creditors could not take her
property to satisfy their claims if he
had received nothing from her at marriage.
In England, says an antiquarian,
there >vas at least one case where j
a bride was clothed in puris naturalibus
while the ceremony was being performed
in the great church at Birming,
j ham. The minister at first refused to
perform the ceremony, but, finding j
nothing in the rubric that would excuse
him, he finally married the pair.
"To carry out the law fully as the
people understood it, the ceremony
should always have been performed as
it was in the church at Birmingham, in
the case noted; but, modesty forbidding,
various expedients were used to
accomplish the end without the un
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pleasant features, /sometimes me
bride^ stood in a closet and put her
hand' through a hole in the door; sometimes
she stood behind a cloth screen
and put her hand out at one side;
again, she wound about her a white
Sheet furnished by the bridegroom, and
sometimes she stood in her chemise or
smock. Eventually, in Essex county, |
at least, all immodesty was avoided by I
the groom furnishing all the clothes
worn by the bride, retaining the title
to the same in himself. This he did
In the presence of witnesses, that he
might be able to prove the fact in case
he was sued for any debts she might
have contracted. A marriage of this'
kind occurred at Bradford in 1773, and !
the fbllowing is true copy of the record
of the same:
"Bradford, Dec. ye 24, 1773?This
may certifie whomsoever it may concerne
that James Bailey of Bradford,
who was married to the widow Mary
Bacon November 22 last past by me ye
aubscrlber then declared that he took
said person without anything of estate
and that Lydia the wife of Liazer Bur^
bank and Mary the wife of Thomas j
Stickney and Margaret the wife of Caleb
Burbank all of Bradford were witnesses
that the clothes she then had
on were his providing and bestowed
upon her. ,
** 'WILLIAM BLACH,
" 'Minister of ye Gospel.'
1 "It Is noted by the same writer that
in all cases of smock marriages that
have come to his notice the brides
have been widows.
"It is thought that during the reign
of George III there were many smock
marriages in Maine, then a part of the :
province of Massachusetts Bay. chief- J
iy in the counties of Lincoln and York,
or in the territory which is now so
known. There is nothing to show that
the practice outlived the Revolution., j
In Maine, up to 1852, a husband was li- ,
able for debts of his wife contracted
before marriage, and no such subterfuge
as the smock marriage could relieve
him."
How Pipe Reveal* Character.
x A new method of telling a ma^'s
character is now advanced by William
E. Critchlow, ninety, of Macon, Mo.
He said:
"You can tell more about a man by
the way he lights his pipe than you
can by the shape of his head. There^s
the fellow who strikes a match on the
4 south end of his trousers* holds his
hands over the bowl^until he gets it
going, throws down the match any old
* place, and tilts his pipe up toward the
'North Star. That man may burn down
his home and barn, but he'll never
lick his wife or children, because his
heart's right
"Crooks and bad men don't often
smoke pipes. They wouldn't be crooks
If they did. Decause uiere s summing i
about an old hickory pipe that inspires '
a man to play fair with his neighbors." j
In Memory of James Watt.
The centenary of James Watt, the
inventor of the modem condensing
steam engine, who died on August 19,
1819, was celebrated in Scotland by the
raising of a fund of $250,000 to further
endow the engineering department
of Glasgow university, te provide
additional facilities for the training
of enidpeers. '
WHEN AIRPLANE WAS NOVELTY
In 1910 Newspapers Considered Ordinary
Flights as Something Worthy
of "Splurge" Headlines.
Nine years ago who would have
dreamed of an NC-4 flying easily from
Hockaway to Halifax, from Halifax ,
to Trepassey, from there to the Azores
and on to Lisbon, and thence to
Plymouth? Or of Hawker and Grieve,
the indomitable ones, jumping off at
St. John's in a land machine with an
ocean between them and the Irish
coast, whither they were bound? Or
of Alcock and Brown who won after
Hawker and Grieve had failed? Or of 1
a dirigible, large as the ocean liner
Adriatic, with five gondolas and a
crew of 30 men. sailing swiftly
through the fog, most of the time seeing
nothing else, from England to a
landing field in Mineola?
On July 7, 1910, a New York newspaper
published the latest "ocean
flight" news with a three-column head:
"Curtiss, In Great Ocean Flight,
Soars 1300 Feet Above Waves."
"Remains Aloft More Than 12 Minutes,
Circling Atlantic City's Throngs."
The story goes on to describe the
flighty
"Steady as a sea gull, the great yellow
biplane flew over the sea, 1,300
feet above the waves and a mile out
from the shore, remaining aloft for 12
minutes and 13 seconds." It tells how
Curtiss almost wrecked the plane at
the start in a dash through a breaker.
The accident forced him to descend
after he had covered 1,300 feet.
"Sending for new propeller blades,"
the account says, "Mr. Curtiss superintended
their adjustment, and after a
single test he forgot the accident and .
daringly reascended. This display of
coiffidence and courage brought a cheer
frofn the multitude."?New York Evening
Post.
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LAST HOM? OF SEMINOLES !
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Indians to Whom High Tribute Has .
Been Paid Have Been Removed
to Reservation.
Now that the state of Florida has
gathered the Seminole Indians together
and placed them on a definite
reservation in one corner of the Everglades,
that remarkable tribe attracts I
passing attention. For many years
they have inhabited the Everglades,
and been undisputed masters, beyond
the outskirts of that region of swamp
and jungle, of some 800 square miles
of country which no white traveler
has ever penetrated. Few whites have
known the Seminoles at all, and perhaps
none better than Mrs. Minnie
Moore Wilson, who was recently interviewed
for a New York paper. "The
Seminole brave," she said, "is the
most upright man in the world. He is j
altogether moral, and never lies,
cheats, steals or breaks his word,
while his wonderful squaw holds a
rank in her familv and community un
rivaled among all the women of
earth." A race could hardly be more
highly spoken of; and the Seminoles
themselves, says Mrs. Wilson, dread
contact with American civilization,
lest it destroy their own standards of
conduct. One cannot but sympathized
with them when seeing the engineers j
surveying their wilderness. ? Christian
Science Monitor.
English Hotel in Paris.
As early as 1702 there existed an j
English hotel at Paris. It was owned \ i
by a man named White and was situ- \ !
ated opposite the church of Notre j
Dame des Victoires. Its chief clien- |
tele was drawn from the English lib- j
eraie of the day, who were attracted ;
to Paris by the British enthusiasm for j
the French revolution. For, as a !
writer in the Anglo-French Review j
points out, "if George III and the To- J
ries watched with anxious eye the |
progress of democracy, the whole lib- j
eral party, imbued with the ideas of i
Rousseau, was amazed at the flashing
developments in France." Among the ! j
noted guests there lodged was Tom |
Paine, author of the "Age of Reason."
Lord Fitzgerald wrote home of him:
"We breakfast, dine and sup together.
The more I see of his inner self the '
more I love and respect him." The
hotel is intimately concerned'with the
history of the Terror.
Changing Japanese Conditions.
Abe Kolei, a rich Yokohama- meiv
chant, bequeathed 1,000,000 yen to be
used for the public welfare of Kana- <
gawa prefecture, placing the matter
entirely in the hands of the governor,
Inouye. This is by no means a solitary
case of Its kind, as it may be remem- j
bered that an Osaka merchant, not j
long ago, donated 1,000,000 yen to con- j
struct a public meeting house, which :
is now complete and in use. However, '
it shows a change in the psychology of !
the people, with whom the family has ;
been t-he unity of society, and family J
property and possessions have been :
kept intact from one generation to the
next, even by the'expedient of adbpt- j
ing other people's children to keep
up the family lineage whenever no I
heir is born. This change Is welcome I
for it indicates a contribution to the , j
betterment of the social wdlfare of j
NiDDon. |'
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NOTICE OF SALE.
Pursuant to an order of the court
of prolate for Bamberg county, the
undersigned, as executors of the estate
of J. B. Hunter, deceased, will
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, at the late residence
of the said J. B. Hunter, about one
mile north of the town of Bamberg,
on the 6th day of December, 1919,
beginning at ten o'clock a. m., on the
said day, the following described personal
property, to wit:
One horse, buggy, two wagons, all
plows, tools or other farming implements
belonging to the estate of J.
"D TJ,ir>tnr? olon alouori Vi oq rl nf VinCQ
ii uixic.1 , uiovy viv^f vii 11vm.u. vi **vqwj
and about 175 bushels corn, 1,500 lbs
fodder and hay, potatoes, syrup, peas,
etc., or other produce ^belonging to
said estate.
B. D. CARTER,
GEO. W. HUNTER,
Expoutnr<?
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Blow outs, rim cuts, expert
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Ready Reckoners on sale at the
Herald Book Store.
The food distribution in London j
during the present labor crisis has
been placed in charge of women.
In 60 per cent, of the civil service
examinations for government positions
held thus far this year women
are not allowed to compete.
The Herald Tiook Store carries the
largest stock of tablets, pencils memorandum
books, and school supplies
in Bamberg county.
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tion of Land Titles.
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organized.
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in 14 to 21 Days
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