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Show MARRIAGE EASY IN SCOTLAND. Simple Declaration Suffices to Make Couple Man and Wife. To bo married by Scotch laws ono must haw ri'BliIcil for a fortnight In the country. After that It Is quite sufficient suf-ficient for two people to Bay before wliucsnes that they lal.o ouch other as man nnd wire to marry them as legally nnd us firmly as If tbo nrch-blBhop nrch-blBhop of Canterbury himself had performed per-formed the coremouy It Is not alono when tho declaration Is solemn and Intentional In-tentional that tho mnrrlaRo Is binding. bind-ing. Such a declaration made In Jest Is enough to hold as firmly as It It wero In earnest. Many young peoplo havo thus slipped Into matrimony unwittingly. un-wittingly. Even for a man to address n woman as his wife, either by writing or by speech, and for her to respond In tho satno terms, constltutcR a marrlngo In Scotlnnd. An) ono who has ever read Wllkle Collins" novel, "Man and Wlfo," will remember there a cnBO In point. Tho heroine sends a uoto to tho hero, signing herself "Your Wlfo": ho Is sufficiently careless and Indifferent Indif-ferent to wrlto his reply on tho back or her own letter, and sign himself "Your Husband." This note, crumpled up nnd tossed nsldo as of no value, falls Into tho hands of an unRrrupti-lous unRrrupti-lous person, who, to levy blackmail on the hero, keeps It, nnd produces It ns evidence of marriage. No other form had been gono through nnd yet the couple wero married legally. o |