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Show ONE OF CUPID'S FREAKS, A Dltrnvcoil Coup'e Jlnnnllo't After Knrh IIiik Hurl I lira Other Matr. Jackson Thomas married forty years ago a beautiful joung woman about twelo years his junior, writos a Newport New-port (Ark.) correspondent. After a fow years thoy concluded they were not intended in-tended for oaoh other and wero divorced. Both found new and, presumably, moro sultablo companions. Death robb-d each in a Bhort tlrao of tho happiness thu foujjd. Koch triod a third matrimonial matri-monial venturo about tho same llmosov-oral llmosov-oral years Utnr, and the now rolutionx oontluued until rcoontly, wbon again, by a singular colucldonco, tho visitation ofdoath left each albno in tbo uorld, Tho borcavemont of the ono wai within a fow weeks of thatot the other. Uncle Jack, as ho Is called, is now eighty-one years old. Tho Udy who was hTi first wife Is slxty-nlno. Old targets for Cupid, turoly. But tbo Uttlo archer know that under tho dead ashes of a double borcavemont In tbo old man's heart thero was still something inflammable, inflam-mable, so ho aimed an arrowa ilory arrow, so to speale at the anolont breastworks, breast-works, and iho old flame of forty years ago buret forth agalti. It was carried by Undo Jack to tho woman from whom he separated thlrty-flvo yoar ago". Tbo flame caught and spread. Now tho 11 ro on tho honeohold altar Is burning again, after n brlof courtship. |