Show HULF WHOM ff GIRL AND GROOM NEARLY MADE MAN AND WIFE BEFORE DIS COVERY OF MISTAKE ORGANIST WAS responsible preacher beg ns marriage ritual when music stops real bride 8 s arrival unravels tangle just in time st louis the momentary stopping stop stoil bing ot of an organ at a time when rev T L mueller of the bethel evangelical english congregational church was impatiently waiting to perform a wed ding almost precipitated miss clara kanke into wedlock with charles L reid her friend friends s fiance flance rev mr mueller had begun read ing the marriage ceremony when the error was discovered through the ar rival of miss caroline loheide the real bride miss kanke and mr reid were so much excited and embar by their predicament that they were unable to stop mr mueller long enough to explain that all the require ments of a wedding but a bride were on hand when the mistake was corrected by the marriage of miss loheide and mr reid spectators in the church were no longer able to suppress their merri meat ment and burst into loud laughter miss kanke volunteered to act as bridesmaid and went to the church in company with mr reid they a flower girl and two other attendants drew themselves into line before the altar the organist had been playing vig porously he looked from his loft and decided that there were enough in the party to supply a bride and bridegroom he silenced the organ and hung oer the railing to witness the ceremony taking the stoppage of the organ as a signal that it was time to marry some one rev mr mueller opened his ritual and began reading miss kanke into matrimony miss kanke nudged reid hoping to prompt him to some explanation the V jill rey rev mueller began to read miss kanke into matrimony mere fact of being a bridegroom had rattled him the knowledge that he was bridegroom to the wrong bride paralyzed his faculties miss kanke only blushed and stammered those symptoms are so common in brides that they held no special significance for rev mr mueller and the cere mony morly was on a fair way to make some business for a judge when miss lo 10 heide helde came into the church with AI al bert Ma beat man the organist and mr mueller both saw the mistake the organist at tacked his instrument afresh and played all the nuptial music he could call to mind in the next three min utes by this time miss loheide posted hersell herself by the side of mr ur reid miss kanke and maschmeier retreated to positions in the rear and the ceremony was resumed after the wedding the party went to the home of mrs reid s father there miss kanke was hailed as a near bride and the joke helped the celebration considerably |