The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-10-03
SURPRISED BRIDEG2ooI.
Ready For Wedding, Finds Arrange
ments Changed, and He Is Forced
to Marry Girl He Had Deserted.

newspapers the other day saying
that on Sunday evening William
Frank Thober, of Newark, n. J.,
would marry Miss Mary Mac Donald
at her mothers home, 249 Fifty
ninth street, Brooklyn, and that the
Rev. William T. McGuirl Of ST. Mich
aePs Church in Brooklyn would per-
form the ceremony. The florist en-
gagged to decorate the parlors Of the
Macdonald home brought wagon
load of potted plants early Saturday
morning.
Then messengers We're sent out to
notify the guests to be on hand a day
earlier Come Saturday. they were
told. Young Thober, who is in the
diemaking business, was hurriedly
summoned from Trenton, and reached
Brooklyn soon before dusk Saturday.
He was in a happy mood and greet
ed Miss Macdonald cordially. She
ushered him into the parlor. There
many guests had already gathered.
Each time a new guest arrived Tho
Der was introduced. Miss McDon-
AIDS brother-in-law, 3. H Griffin
who lives at SGT, East Thirty-ffth
street did the introducing.
In fact, Mr. Griffin was there as
master of ceremonies, so when he
stepped to the door to greet a pale
faced gii11l no one took any particular
notice Of It. The girl was accompa-
MED by yelled woman in black.
They. We're ushered into a rear room,
where Miss Macdonald sat chatting
with some girl friends.
Leave it all to me-" said Miss
Macdonald, shaking hands with the
pale-faced girl and taking her TO
room upstairs. Returning to the re-
ception room, Miss MacDonald's.
friends found her a few minutes later
arrayed in her wedding gown of white
silk. She was weeping.
HAS any one sent for the minis
ter?'' she inquired, and Mrs. Mac
Donald replied that the minister
would arrive in "a few minutes.
Minister repeated one Of the
guests inquiringly, 81 thought a priest
was to perform the marriage cere-
mony."
.eThe plans have been changed
somewhat" explained Mrs. MacDon-
aid. "The Rev. H. C. A. Meyer. of
st. Jacobrs Lutheran church at
Fourth avenue and Forty-sixth street,
will ofhciate
do you feel nervous, Mary" in
quired another guest, turning to
Miss Macdonald. :,
No. was the answer "I've been
schooling myself for tie ordeal I
must pass through
Out in the parlor car. Thober was
laughing and joking with q, group of
men. Miss MacDonald's brother-in-
law, Griffin, stepped up to him and
Whispered something.
Thober later palea and moved to-
ward the door. Griffin smiled.
There is 70 chance of escape
he said, taking Thober by the arm;
face the music. Miss Macdonald is
to be bridesmaid, not a bride, to-
night
~And 1 am to be the best man.
chimed in George Casey, a friend of
the Macdonald family. 14The bride
viii be Miss Viola Glover, of New
ark, the girl you deserted several
months ago. She is here with her
mother"
The curtains were brushed aside,
and Miss Glover stepped forward. II
was like a scene from Henry Arthur
James new play, 'The Hypocrites, f"
now at the Hudson Theatre. The fin
ger of scorn was pointed in the right
direction. Miss Macdonald occupied
the centre of the stage. With her
arm about the waist of the New, Jer-
sey girl, the Brooklyn girl stepped
forward and said calmly:
Marry her! She don't want you,
but she wants your nameH'
Some of the guests wept. Others
famed themselves vigorously. All
crowded about Thooer. He stood
open-rlouthed staring into space,
Brorher-in-law Griffin called in the
minister who had just arrived. The
Rev. Mr. Meyer was robed in black.
Thober glanced at Miss Macdonald
and then at Miss Glover.
He sighed and said Cali right