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SOCIAL AFFAIRS AT LAKE CUT. RECEPTION AND LINEN SHOWER [ IN HONOR OF BRIDE-TO-BE-| | NEGRO THIEVES NABBED.~ (Special to The County Record). Lake City. October 7:?The first social event of the autumn season was the reception and miscellaneous shower tendered Miss Annie Howie by a few of her friends at the Halcyon Hotel on last Friday evening. The reception hall and parlors were thrown en suite and were artistically decorated in the color scheme, red and white. Large wedding bells and artistic Cupids accentuated the effect upstairs and hearts and Cupids in the diningroom downstairs. Mrs P H Arrowrmith and Miss Mollie Nachman received the guests in the reception hall and Miss Clyda Caldwell and the honor guest, the bride-elect, re- j ceived in the front parlors. Miss Leah Nachman presided over the punch bowl, which was under a bower of cut flowers and wedding bells. Upon the arrival of all the guests they were given little books decorated with Cupids and red hearts and entitled, "How to Manage a Husband." Much merriment was had in compiling this important advice by the young ladies who +k/%,irrKt th?v ennld aucrcrest the best method of ruling mere man. Miss Adelaide Rollins' very original and amusing bit of instructions was unanimously voted the best and most acceptable and she was presented with a beautiful box of silk hose which she very charmingly presented to the honor guest. The young ladies were ihen invited downi to the dining-room, where supper was served. The bridal party, the bride and her maids, were assigned the honor seats at the table and a large heart was suspended over the bride's head, which when opened quite suddenly showered myriads of little hearts on her unsuspecting head. One of the amusing features of the supper, which consisted of salads and sweet courses, was cut% ting the bride's cake. Miss Laura Rogers cut the ring and Miss Ellie Gravely the thimble. After supper the guests were ushered to a table on which was a large heart from which were suspended various ribbons and attached to the ribbons were "fortunes" tending to console ' ' 4 the young lacnes wno were .nut ?u fortunate as to cut the ring in the cake. Before departing the guests registered in a "bride's book" and at the request <^f the genial host likewise registered on the hotel register. Quite a bit of excitement prevailed Monday at the lunch hour when a small blaze was discovered under one of the prizeries belonging to Mr M K Gravely. Its early discovery and prompt action on the part of the"bucket brigade" prevented serious loss and possibly a large conflagration. The origin of the fire is not at present known, but some seem to think it was incendiary; however, the prevalent belief is that someone had been smoking and perhaps drinking there and quite carelessly dropped a match on the litter, causing it to ignite into flame. Miss Eva North has returned from Boston, Mass, where she has been spending the summer in that city studying music at the Conservatory. For several consecutive evenings the local postmaster has been missing change from the cash drawer on tsnrvnor If urflc [US lCtuni 11U1II supinri. av rnu evident that some one had a key to the door leading to the rear room of the postoffice. This evening Mr T Lyde Carter, assistant postmaster, had Mr J L Richardson secrete himself in the dark in the rear room. Mr Carter then left for supper and he had been gone only a few minutes when two negro boys, Rufus White and "Possum" Martin, about twelve and fourteen years of age, respectively, appeared on the scene and produced a key that gave them admission to the office. As they were in the act of opening the money drawer Chief of Police Rogers appeared at the front door and ama. teur detective Richardson immediately laid hands on the little rogues. In a few minutes the offenders were in "limbo," where they will await the pleasure of "Uncle Sam." Mrs P H Arrowsmith charmingly entertained twenty young ladies this evening, the occasion being a linen shower in honor of Miss Annie u.'Kn will hp married Wednes day evening to Mr Davis Powers. A puzzle was placed on five different tables and two couples at each spent some time in putting them together, which when completed spelt the names of the bride and groom. After this little cards were handed each guest, who then proceeded to give a "Forswear" for the bride. Miss Clyda Caldwell's card taking the prize, she was presented with a box of linen handkerchiefs, which she gracefully presented to the honor guest. Delicious salads, coffee and orange cocktails were served in the beautifully decorated diningroom, where the color scheme of white and gold was carried out very artistically. L. B. N. STORIES OF FRANZ LISZT. His Suprsma Joy Whan Ha Wat Kitsad by Bsathovan. Franz Liezt was born at Balding, Hungary, Oct. 22, 1311. Died at Bairouth, Bavaria, July 31, ISSd. Tho potent influence of the personality of Frana Liszt, the great pianist and composer, over all persons with whom he came in contact was almost as wonderful as his genius. While Abbe Liszt would never take pupils for pay, he took many in whom he saw ability and musical enthusiasm. A few Americans were privileged to play to him, for that was what constituted study with the master. There was one young girl of sixteen from Baltimore who was so fortunate as to train his in terest, and he always called her "America" instead of by her name. Liszt allowed a 6tudent to show his own comprehension of a musical idea, and what criticism he made was so good natured it made deep impression. lie once said in regard to some playing where the melody was not strongly brought out, "When I play, I always play for the people in the gallery; they pay so little for their seats they ought to hear something." At another time he corrected a young girl who was making a peculiar circular motion with her hand while rendering a difficult pas sage, "Keep your hand still; don't seem to be making an omelet." At the age of twelve years, when he plaved in a concert at Vienna, Franz liad the supreme gift of his life?he received the kiss of Beethoven. In tho midst of the tremendous enthusiasm of the audience Beethoven went up on the stage, took the boy in his arm9 and kissed him on both cheeks. Till his last day of life this was a supreme memory with Franz Liszt. At the breaking out of the 1830 revolution in France, Liszt was at Paris. His father had died, and he was supporting his mother and studying hard. Lafayette was his ideal hero. At heart Abbe Liszt was an earnest republican, and he had unfailing sympathy with the struggling mass of the people. One of his friends saw him in a corner one night in Paris holding the broom of a crossing sweeper. He explained that as lie had no change in his pocket to give the boy he had sent him to have a dollar silver piece changed and was holding the broom until the boy came back. Liszt gave money with a lavish hand for all good causes. One time the great musician was in Italy having a little journey in which he sought to hide his identity and enjoy a quiet that his fame seldom allowed him. Attracted by Ricardi's music store in Milan, he went in and sat down at a piano and began to play. In the hushed silence that fell upon an eagerly talking group of persons he heard a voice whisper. "That is Liszt or the aevnr?Lineage* News. The Whole Thing. In the older days of the Harvard Medical school, when funds were scarce and professors scarcer, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the lecturer on anatomy, physiology, medical chemistry and a few other sub JVV1" One day the president of the college met him on the street and congratulated him on his then recent election to a professional chair of medicine. "Chair!" exclaimed the doctor. "You're mistaken, my dear sir. It isn't a chair that I occupy; it's a whole settee." The County Record SI a year. THEEBAW'S P/j?Y y.H2. He Thought a Great Deal " ore of It . Than He Did of His Queen. The greatest % ::.rut of the | late Sir ilarry i're; ih-rgast, V. who lived until his <eventy-niuth year, rarne in ISn.VC. when he an nexed mirina, a couniry larger rnzn France, to the British empire and dot:;; sn -d the infamous King Theebaw. "It i? l*ey?>n?1 doubt that in one dav King Theebaw cau.-ed seventy or eighty mem!>ers of the royal household to be massacred," said Sir Harry once. "But then this was strictly in accordance with the traditions of his position." Sir Harry has himself dcscril>ed the surrender of Theebaw at Mandalay in the following words: "1 went to the palace with twenty or thirty officers and an interpreter. King Theebaw sat on his throne under the awning of a veranda surrounded by his ministers and his wives and the queen mother. "There was no trace of fear or anger in his demeanor. He was perfectly cool and polite. I informed him that it would be necessary for him to embark for India. He suggested a delay of three months, which was refused, then three weeks and finally three dam At length I took out my watci and said, T can give you ten minutes.'" King Theebaw then implored Sir Harry not to rob him of a precious ruby ring or his wife. But as the general smiled in a mysterious way the king exclaimed, "Well, well, take my wife, but, oh, great commander, spare me my ring/' From the officer of the steamer in which the king and his court were taken into exile Sir Harry received a receipt for "one king, three queens, one prime minister, three councilors and so many maids of honor." ? London Cor. New York Sun. Th? Eleventh. Archbishop Usher was once washed ashore from a wreck off the coast of Ireland. Almost destitute of clothing, he wandered to the house of a church dignitary and asked for shelter and aid of a brother clergyman. "How many commandments are there?" inquired the other, thinking to detect an imposter. "I can at once satisfy you that I am not the ignorant imposter you take me for," replied the archbishop. "There are eleven commandments." "No," was the sneering comment; "there are but ten commandments in my Bible. Tell me the eleventh and I will relieve you." "There it is," said the archbishop; " 'a new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another/ n Partitions of Poland. There have been three partitions of Poland. The first was in 1772, when Prussia took the palatinates of Mai berg, Pomona and Warmia, a part of Culm and a part of Great Poland. Austria took %1 Russia, or Galicia; a part of Podofia, Sandomir and Cracow, and Russia took White Russia, with all the part beyond the Dnieper. The second partition was in 17D3, by which Prussia acquired the remainder of Great and a portion of Little Poland, and the Russian boundary was advanced to the center of Lithuania and Volhynia. In the third and final partition, in 1795, Austria had Cracow, with the country between the Pilica and the Vistula. Prussia had the capital, with the territory as far as the Niemen, while the rest went to Russia. The Canny Scot. A commercial traveler had taken a large order in the north for a consignment of hardware and en deavored to press upon the canny Scottish manager who had given the order a box of Havana cigars. "Naw," he replied. "Don't try to bribe a man. I cudna tak them? and I am a member of the kirk!" "But will you accept them as a present?" "I cudna," said the Scot. "Well, then," said the traveler, "suppose I sell you the cigars for a merely nominal sum ? say, sixpence?" "Weel, in that case," replied the Scot, "since you press me and not liking to refuse an offer weel meant, I think I'll be taking twa boxes." A Movable Feast. A westerner attending a Rhode Island clambake for the first time suddenly became aware that he was not quite so comfortable as he had been at the beginning. "Look here," he eaid to Senator A., his neighbor at the table; "you are a native and know the rules of the game. I don't. Now. I'd like to know when to stop eating." "Well," responded the senator, with a smile, "my rule is this?I seat myself at the start exactly four Inches from the table, and when I feel myself touching it T know it is time?to move back." ? A PLAN FOILED By LSlHtK V AIN Ufc. V bJLK Martin Borland, a man of wealth, having lost his wife, married again. The new connection was especially unfortunate for blm and his only child, Miklred, who was sixteen years old at the time of her father's second marriage. Mrs. Borland was no sooner married than she laid a plan to secure her husband's fortune. He was suffering from an incurable disease when she married him, and this enabled her to work her plan more easily. Her first move was to make the bouse so unpleasant for her stepdaughter that she was forced to leave it and go to live with an aunt. This <'tabled her to have her husband to herself, and as soon as his daughter had gone the stepmother began a systematic nagging upon her husband to compel him to make a will leaving his property to her. Had Mr. Borland been in good health he might have withstood her prodding: but, affected as he was with a nervous disease and made a virtual prisoner by his wife, it was not long before he broke down under the strain and signed a will leaving all his possessions to her. except some swamp lands that were nearly worthless. Previous to bis marriage Borland bad willed everything he owned to Mildred. Mrs. Borland knew of this will and wonld have forced U from her husband that she might destroy it, but It was In Mildred's keeping. The only thing that Jezebel could do was to torture her husband Into making another In her own favor. As Mr. Borland grew worse his wife kept every one from him except bis physician and an occasional friend, her brother giving as a reason that the invalid was not In a condition to see any one. She realized that Mildred's friends after her father's deHth might advise her to try to break the will, but the schemer relied upon her being able to cut off any proof that any undue Influence had been brought to bear on the testator. She changed the servants frequently In order that they might not get an Inkling of what she was doing. She once a week Introduced into the sickroom friends of her husband, but never permitted any of them to remain alone with him a moment. At last Borland died. His wife produced the will he had made In her favor, and a lawyer to whom she had paid a large retaining fee stood ready to enforce It against any demands that might be set up by poor Mildred, who had not a cent In the world to prosecute with and no one to take an Interest In her case. Soon after her father's death Mildred asked permission of her Stepmothaf *r\ tnl-a nrarnw a fow halrMliriltfr* slln had left there. She was permitted to do so, was denied nothing she claimed and went away with a boxful of odds and ends, among them a few books. On getting them to her home she looked them over tearfully before putting them away. Some of the books she had loved when a child. One of these she took up and was reading a fu miliar passage when she noticed a daub on a word. Turning the page, she noticed another daub on another word. A few pages farther was still another. Turning over the leaves, she found the book full of these daubs that had evidently been made with different substances. Scrutinizing them closely, she round tnnt some or tnem might have been made with n drop of coffee, some with the juice of a berry, and on one so much of the substance had been left that she was able to examine it closely and surmised it to be potato. Mildred was puzzled. She tried to remember from what room she had taken it, but could not do so. A suspicion came to her that these daubs might mean something. Two words that were daubed "wife" and "Will" directed this suspicion. She wrote the words down in the order in which they came, but they were a jumbie. ir tney hnd been daubed to tell something the person who had done the work had not been able to find consecutive words for the purpose. Then Mildred cut out the words she had written and began trying to arrange them so that they would mean something. Several times she gave up the puzzle, but always returned to It. She made certain sentences, but found nothing Intelligible for the whole. Finally she hit upon two words?"my" and "wife" for a beginning?which, after many transpositions, solved the puzzle. The final reading was this: My wife la holding me a prisoner. I cannot communicate with any one except her and her brother. She has forced me to make a will In her favor. It la not my last will end testament. That Instrument Is possess (ed) by my daughter, to whom I give all my property. There was no date or signature. Mildred's theory was that her father had managed to keep the book near him and when his meals were brought to hltn had used bits of food in lieu of a pencil. She carried the book to a lawyer, who took up her case in the courts and by skillful management succeeded in getting the cipher message accepted as evidence. The case dragged a long while, and tn time Mrs. Borland's lawyer offered to compromise. But Mildred's counsel advised her to hang on for all or nothing. Finally a judgment was obtained setting aside the will made under duress and validating the one held by Mildred. 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