Show luck turns for owner of old gretna green London The lack luck of the black smith shop gretna green grecu in to scotland I 1 Is turning for years there wa was a popular superstition that a couple who clasped hands over the th smiths nn an vil would live happily forever and ever thousands of couplet couples were mar ried there then the shop lost its popularity A law was passed making it necessary that a couple live in scot land 21 day days before they could lc ile married there prior to that they could slip over from england and enjoy complete secrecy later Ao however weier business has revived the smithy fitted cited up his hl shop stop with many relics and according to protesting clergymen as many as a axx 2000 persons in one day have paid ten cents each to see abe tie place the ministers are demanding that scotland put an end to the tile evils of such marriages marri agea as the smithy performs and a it london justice recently held that a arellia green marriage was illegal because the couple hud had not resided in scotland 21 days dayl |