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Show HIS TRICK SUCCEEDED. Published Banns of M.irringe to Keti" His Credit. In a certain church a certain man caused the banns of marriage to be published between himself and a lady to whom he is not engaged and who has no intention to marry him, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. He is poor and has no credit. She Is wealthy and at the time of the publications publica-tions of the banns was in Europe. The effect of the announcement was Instantaneous. Instan-taneous. The man's credit revived, congratulations poured in, and for a few weeks he had a delightful life-Then life-Then came a letter from the lady in the case. ' She denied her engagement to the audacious and penniless one and threatened to bring proceedings against him for libel. But suppose he pleads that he had hopes of the lady; who can prove that he had not? Then few per-' per-' sons understand the real object of publishing pub-lishing the banns. It is popularly thought thnt they nre made public to bring out such facts as whether either party has been previously married and has a partner still alive or whether they are under age. The true object of banns being published whs to g've the church wardens an opportunity to object if the parties were poor and likely to be a charge on the parish. |