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talking in their sleep. From the Boston Adrertiter. “You think I'm dead,” The apple tree said, •Because I have never a leaf to show— “ecß Because I stoop, \nd inv branches droop, , the dull graV mosses over me growl iSfrwa alive in trunk and shoot; But l m ^ )ie budK oi „ ext May I fold away— But I pit)' the withered grass at my root. “You thiuk I’m dead,” The ouick grass said, •Because I have parted with stem and blade! *** But under tte ground I am safe and soimd \rtth tbo snow's thick blanket over me laid. I'm all alive and ready to shoot. Iro Should the spring of the year Come dancing here— But I pity the (lower without branch or root." You think ! am dead,” A soft voice said, “Ftacausu uut a branch or root l ov>n. 1 never have died, But close I hide in a plumy seed that the wind has sown, f atiJut l wait through the long winter hours; 1 You will see me again— ] shall laugh at you, then. Out of the eyes of a hundred flowers. FEMALE SUPES. The Hard Luck of Many Women Who Become Stage Struck. New York, April IB.—You have seen them often, the stiff wooden duchesses and the oddly attired countesses, the whole But ko's peerage of the dumb nobility of the oourt pageants of the stage You know how thcv come filing in, after the soldiery and in front of the king's pages, bestowing them selves in an awkwardly expectant half-circle just before his majesty appears. You have noted them evening after evening prome nading on the arms of their escorts iti and oat of the ballroom, and to and fro in the conservatory behind it, never venturing too near the footlights, in the great palace rev elry scouo. Who are they of the ill-fltting evening dresses, they of the dingy,blue mus lin ancfthe crumpled paper roses, the walk in" ladies, the women supers of the footiight world i Where do they come from, how do thev happen into the business, how many are” there of them, who hires them, who dresses them, and what are they paid 1 The ballet girl’s tights and scanty draper ies have inspired a literature, but the wo man supernumerary is a creature unknown. If you wore to happen around at the stage door on Monday morning early you might get a peep at her without the disguise of her make up or her title on. A factory hand of the better sort or a shop girl you might sup pose her. in that maid-of-all-work brown gown, with the button holes of her jacket yawning a trifle mid a tired looking feather in tier hat. There is a masquerade scene cast in the piece that evening, she will tell you, and she is on the ground looking for a chance to take a mummer’s part. She has been a ballet girl iu the “Black Crook” at Niblo’s all win ter, but she caught an obstinate cold, and they put her ofF the stage lieoause she cough ed. She was a circus girl before she mar ried—this vou will find out as she grows confidential—and, indeed, you may have seen her on the road with Barnum when she posed in the sawdust ring as the original three-headed woman for the great moral show. Her husband is doing tumbling tricks in the clown’s dress to-day; but she finds it better to keep a home for the babies, picking up a stray dollar here and there as ballot girl this week, supe the next, for this thea tre or that. It is three weeks since she saw the foot lights, and she is nervously anxious to be on the boards again. The manager is busy and slow to send for her, and she is afraid of missing her opportunity because she doesn’t own a dress with a train. She has two or three peasant gowns, she will assure you, tights in all sorts of colors, a servant’s outfit with apron and mob cap, a short dancing dress, but, alas and alas, she has cut up her long evening gown. She wonders if the company will pay for it if she hires a dress at a costumer's, and she says she thinks they might, considering her experience and the fact that she has more than once taken a small speaking part. There is a little army of women supes looking for bread and butter about New York. Niblo’s employs great numbers of them on occasion, as do Wallack’s and the Union Square. They are to some extent in terchangeable with tne ballet and the chorus girls, but for the most part form a class and a very distinct class by themselves. To act as walking woman has become for them a regular business, and they look to the thea tres altogether for a living, belonging to the stage as exclusively as do tire stars. They appear before big audiences nightly, but they have no fixed connection with one house more than another, no engagement beyond a week or a fortnight or the run of a single play in duration, ami they never travel with any company out of town. Society drama calls for half a dozen of them uptown to •tjg'ht, while perhaps a couple of hundred are disporting ui spectacle downtown. The miss has her name on the books of ten to fifteen managers, and each one sends for her according to the exigencies of his plays iu turn. She wears her girdle and her flowing robe with wlmt grace she can muster in the train of the Empress Theodora with Bernhardt this week; she was a grand dome ut. the uipulets’ ball with Margaret Mather Inst "eck; she will dance with the village uinid eiiK on the green in some German play of Much she understands not a word on the Bowery at the Thalia next Monday evening, cue gets pretty familiar with the dressing toms of every theatre in town and is bets ter known to the managers than the r.m j?j' ] f}' °f actors whose names are on the play From the stipe's standpoint it is more profitable to be a woman than a man. l weiitv-llve cents will hire a buckram war fior to carry a pasteboard helmet once across the stage. Fifty or seventy-five cents will ®gago his prowess throughout the five-act war. Six dollars a week is about the leaf t, •uni for which you can get an additional pair ol hare shouldein to grace the drawing rwm festivities, mid eight dollars is a u ml enough reward for swelling the grand court train. ° 1 lie super’s clothes have a trick of not flt ■W her. but tins is not alwn> ■ the super's The company supplies the costumes,- 0r,.. mi -’ * vcn * scruples about nationality ■ ra. and the gowns ure dealt out in aver se sizes, porliaps fifteen minute-, before tie* outuin is rung up. The thin girl and the P'imp gi r i arrange matters as best they ran ’tween them; but tdii haunting conscious- L , ~ books and eyes that won't meet or a -that yearn to lap over is oftoner titan ,1" 'hsceruiblo in face and attitude at the critical moments of the scene. The in , i l ’ust!uneH herself as she does for all '• cueajtor companies can show a tenderer . J‘ l, [d lor the weaknesses and tile strong K’Hits of her own figure, but her wages ns oj,ar,,| with the star'# salary make their , " !i ' "H companions to cross tho stage ‘*y ride. In sutler is wooden, and thin Is Viooause u l"'i'is stage struck. The chances are <i‘i 01 ton Uult i* sho Inis only to rush • '*tli a score more to sec what al! the btiotioii is nlmut when the villain rou*ex 1 to catch tho hero iu on awkward P ''banci-i arc Hint in nil the nielco Ww.ii i* if tho eyes of the audience will Xl i 0,1 b' r alone, and that the notion o ,,j t .' u, ' l ‘ ber into a jumping jack that movi* t|„ w,t b H|Kwmodfc jerks. Tho very fact i ti, . iaw H °lhing to say and little or t; * do makes tlio situation more otl FT . ’ *° one of the guild told me the • evening, and keeps tile •clfs'oiwcious ” irts], wearing nway. The old stagers, 'in i,"' 1 , Ibuu Llniid th sente's, rub off Ui '''msuTassnn.it, iu time, aiei some of •, I'uli off Date ambition with it. ruoArndd. perhap*. to allude to a stijK-'s ,, '’*’*■ 'mt few of tii>' younger one, are ■ “it >• siring iilsns They meant to lie o ,a alu | wlksi fate in Uie t * , **** uialtuoia wnuwMU' has iclujc] % U “*V rtsjt at tin* Into mi oruie luidei * uMUtUhMM tout it atii taws easy to climb. Rose Coghlan’s example and Maggie Mitchell’s arc talked over continu ally among them, and one day they look forward to their turn. How arid' then they have a little backing or a little talent behind them and tho turn ntay possibly come. A city manager’s supe book is instructive in this particular, containing as it does a cer tain proportion of not unfamiliar names. He keeps a list of 100 to ISO addresses always by him of women who can be depended on for regular supe duty in any time of need. Running over such a memorandum yester day, where the record had boon accumulat ing three years or more, t found Alice Spencer, who has been taking good parts with Joe Emmet this season, still on record as a supernumerary, and Sydney Arm strong, who has made a hit 'wit h Joseph Haworth as lending lady in “Hoodman Blind,” not yet erased. Victoria Hulskamp, the coachman's bride, had left her autograph iu neat little round letters under Miss Arm strong's, thougli she probably never report - ed for actual duty among the supes on the stage. Mrs. Langtry’s maid, who makes her de but before the footlights among tho silent gentry after she has arranged the actress’ gown, stands for a source from which a good many of the supers, first and last, have come. Rhe li!c:js to get out within sight of the audi ence instead of waiting from act to act be hind, and has no objection probably to turn ing an extra penny for pin money. The sujiers get a rehearsal Monday morn ing sometimes, and quite as often not,. If they are to take part in a spectacle there is drilling enough; otherwise a word or two of instruction is all that anybody has time to fldtg them. Take them all in ail, they have not an easy life of it, picking up a precari ous living from theatre to theatre and re joicing when the rage for spectacle strikes the town. E. IJ.1 J . H. WANTS HIS FATHER’S ESTATE. A Supposed Suicide Appears After Thirteen Years. l>\om the Xew York Times. Huntingdon, Fa., April 13.—A case in volving an intricate legal problem and all the features of a weird romance was brought to the attention of the court here to-day. In 1872 old Jacob Stahley, a man of eccen tric habits, diod in Shaver’s Creek, leaving an estate worth $30,000. After a protracted adjustment of the estate this amount was reduced to about $25,000, and over this sum a long and stubborn legal controversy was waged. Stahley left a widow and a son. The widow had been his fifth wife, and the son was supposed to lie the child of his sec ond wife, though he was legitimatized by an act of the assembly. His name was also Jacob. In early life he left home, and in 1800 married. After living with his wife fourteen veal's he mysteriously disapjieared, since which time no trace of him could be obtained until a few days ago, wdien he vol untarily put himself in communication with M. S. Leytle, formerly his attorney to this citv. fn 1868 Stahley and his wife went to Re becca, Neb., where he was appointed post master, but some irregularities occurring with the mails resulted m his being sent to the House of Correction at Detroit, Mich. He was extravagant and improvident, and it was no doubt his father’s knowledge of these qualities that induced him to make his will as he did. During their absence in the West the will was made. It was executed in December, 1870, and two years later the testator died. It provided that the real es tate should be rented and the rents paid an nually to his sou Jacob, and that at the latter’s death the property should go to his heirs. It also provided that the executor might sell the real estate at his discretion, and that all the moneys at the death of his son Jacob should be equally divided among his heirs. In 1872 Stahley and his wife returned from the West arid settled in this city. Ho had left numerous creditors in this State, and as his father’s will did not provide that this annuity should not be liable for his debts, his creditors obtaiued judgment against him and attached the money held by the executor, so that he never received any of it. Being childless, Stahley deter mined upon obtaining an heir by adoption, and selected a boy 3 years old named George Lightner, son of a poor man in Stone Valley. Stahley continued to reside with his family until Feb 13, 1874, when he suddenly disap peared, leaving behind a note for his wife in which he stated that he had concluded to drown himself, and that his body would be found in the Juniata river. His coat, hat, and other articles of clothing were found at the spot designated, and although diligent search was made no tidings of him were ever obtained. After waiting seven years and learning nothing of him Mrs. Stahley took out letters of administration on his es tate, and a distrtbutiou of the estate of old Jacob Stahley was made equally between her and the adopted son. Soon afterward she remarried and went to tho extreme West, where she is still living. The adopted son, wuo is now’ in his fifteenth year, resides with his natural parents in this county. He lias expended a considerable portion of his share of the estate on his education. The strange sequel of this singular story remains to be tola. In January last Stah ley, whom every one believed to be dead, wrote to liis attorney here under the assumed name of W. W. W illiams. He was then living in Boston, but now resides in North Dighton, Mass. He made inquiries after the Stahley family, and particularly about the estate of his fat her. Ilis attorney at once recognized the handwriting, and during the correspondence that, followed Stahley threw off his digsuise and acknowledged liis iden tity. He has never bean away from Massa chusetts, he says, since liis sudden disap pcarance from here thirteen years ago. In his letters he expressed repentance for his erratic, course, but says that under his as sumed i rune he has lived an exemplary life, and has acquired a good reputation. He now desires tlmt his father's estate, divided between his wife, who has since remUrriod, and their adopted sin, la* recovered for him self, mid the this end Ins attorney to-day be gan to initial step in the prosecution before Judge Burst. Whether 'heestate can be recovered is a question over which there is much difference of opinion here, inasmuch s the court thirteen years ago aoceiite 1 tlic supposition of liis death by reason or his protracted absence ail ! his expressed deter mination to commit suicide. Peter Thellusson’s Will. 7 Vina the London Times. Toward tho end of the Inst century Mr. Fetor Thdla-son. n London merchant, made an extraordinary Mill, directing the income of his property to be accumulated during the Lies of nil his children, grandchildren und great-grandchildren who were living at the time of liis death. His object win to benefit very largely three future descendants who might, be living Rt the dentil of the sur vivor of all those, and so to found a very wealthy family. He meant to convert Ins J.'iKXI.OCW in course of time into something like .CM,000,000. The result of these trusts being unlcid by the court* was to create a mania for accumulations. (tuff man gave instructions for a will which should postpone all enjoyment of his property until the death of the lust survivor of nil tho members of the peerage living at his death. To prevent th<> repetition or them' alisurdltitw Thellus son’s act was pn - ed, which in effect forbids the accumulation of income for a longer period than the settlorhie, or twenty -one years from liis death, <>r the minority of any jms son living at liis death, or of any iiornon w ho would under the sett lament 1s- otliem iso ciitithsl to th" income, etc. Even so, how ever, the ljonofleial enjoyment of pro|**rty may bo isMt.pouc l i,s i very long time. Imprcs' 'll with the iliexjsslit'iiev of tills, Mr. t'occii* tbirriy, member of parliament for North Norfolk, . ugiput* that the restric tion Should be uxteule 1 rtill further. Iu Iris bill, which law* lieeu rea l a second time iu tlic House of I 'onmiouM, ImprojsuM to pro hibit every ou< - from hell after m *tUitig prop erty iu sir'll a nuuis, r that the Jin nine is to tie wholly or jmrUally a * inoulisti* ! for a longer term tiuui t*j ‘ minority or Mve muiurdfeh tHdJf oi vie pci or pens in* elm UU cs lie truAs of <he setts mrnt wooVti he, U ol luff ue, spUUys to luoeiye theiuooua,. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS; SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1887-TWELVE PAGES. ION DOX GOSSIP. HOW I DINED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. What We Eat and WherelWe Eat It— The Men I Mot There -The House Compared With Congress Why There Are No Newspaper Interview ers on the London Press- The Ameri can Exhibition Virtually Completed— Some False Rumors- Entire Success at 'Last The Emperor of Germany and the Fortune Tellers, Etc. London - . April 2. —It was “raining cats and dogs” one night this week when I whistled on my door stop for a hansom cab, and, jumping iu, started for the House of Commons, whero I was to dine at 8 o’clock. Now, everybody almost who comes to London goes on a visit to the House of Commons. Yards and yards of matter descriptive of it have been written, and photographs of it are as common as those of Mrs. Langtry, so I do not propose to dilate on the buildings. But a dinner in tho House to an American is not so common, and I am going to tell you what it was Ike. Well, as I have said, it rained in the fe line cum-eanino style, and after a furious drive of a half hour, during which the cab leaked in various places, and the bottom of it became a small, shallow and confoundedly unpleasant pond, I airived at the doom. I found the usual crowd around the entrance, but a man-servant took my card in, and my host promptly appeared, armed with tho ntecssary order, and I passed into the inner and charmed recesses. We went imme diately into the dining room, where visitors are allowed. It is the centra out t three, which open one into the other. It was, I should say at a rough guess, about 20 by 60 feet, with a very high ceiling. The room was light and warm, and the air was full of a savory smell of toothsome viands. Li a few moments we were installed in seats at a small square table at the end of the room, and consulted the bill of fare. You see there is uo ordering set dinners of a swell character in the restaurant at the House. There is tho “carte tin jour,” and you can order what you like from it. It is not long or fanciful; just some good, plain, sub stantial dishes, for it is not intended as a place of entertainment, but as a convenience for members who are too busy to go elsewhere to iliue, or in case of inclement weather. The prices were also moderate, the cost of a slice of roast meat, with two vegetables, be ing about 30c. In fact, the bill of fara was very like t hat at “Simpson's,” In the Strand, and scores of other places in London where they serve a 50c. dinner from the joint. We ordered n soup, some fish, some “pates d'homard.” roast beef, a nice fruit tart , and cheese and salad—the most elaborate dinner afforded by the bill of fare, and a bottle of extremely good dry champagne to wash it down with. Then I had time to look around me. The tables were nearly all filled with members, and they were nearly all in morning dress. The noise of the talk ing and laughing filled the room, and they shouted at each other from table to table with the abandon of school boys. This I dwell upon, because as a rule in England you notice always the extreme quiet which prevails in restaurants and club dining rooms. They always modulate their voices carefully and the conversation is carried on in a low key. Eating is a serious business with an Englishman, and I have seen two young men, in evening dress, come into the dining room of my club, which is a very large one, and set down to a table to dine after the following fashion: A few words of sug gestion, hardly worthy the name of discus sion, over what they would eat and drink, and then eat their way through their dinner in silence unbroken except by one *or two monosyllabic remarks. Andyet they were intimate friends, and were going after words to a theatre. In fact, nothing truer was ever said than that “Englishmen take their pleasure sadly,” and, it might be add ed, slowly as well. They will get into smoking carriages in railway trains, and ten men, many of them traveling in pah-s, will sit for hours in gloomy silence, and looking as if they were all going to attend a funeral. It is amrising to see an Englishman walk into a barroom alone, call for a long drink of whisky or brandy and soda, and spend twenty minutes in slowly sipping it; mean while ne rtudies his boots carefiuly, with a most abjectly miserable expression. Mind you, I don’t say that all Englishmen do this, but those who do not are the exceptions that prove the rule. But to get back to tho House of Com mons. I was struck, as I say, by the fact that this was not the case in the House din ing rooms. Several men shouted out for my host to come and join them at table in a hearty, cheery way, “quite Yankee, you know,'’ and we finally settled down with two men at a table as I have said. My host was a young member of the Conservative party,"who had succeeded his father in the House (whether for the same district or not Ido not know), when his sire was elevated to the peerage and joined the Upper House. Gar companions were, one of them, an elderly gentleman, a member of the Conservative government at present in of fice, and a middle-aged gentleman, who Is one of the whips of the Liberal party. From that fact you will gather, as I did, that party o l ' iiions do not alb'Ct social re lations among tho members, and the mem bers, and the conversation around me proved that political discussions are re served for the floor of the House, and by common consent are not continued over the. ■iimier table. Taking them altogether, the men around me, whose faces I could study to better advantage here than from the vis itors' gallery, were a verv representative looking lot. Far more so, in fact, than the same men ut tne House of Representatives in dear old Washington, I think even the Irish members emupnre favorably with their colleagues who represent New city York in the House. It would !• hu id to duplicate “the Hon. Tim Campbell” among them, I assure you. But the thing that struck tne most, nnd it would take columns to detail the little things which went to create' that impression, was tho air of absolute democracy that pre vailed. 1 have called it an anq it certainly was on atmosphere. In fact there was an even greater feeling of one man as good ns another there than 1 ever remem ber having ex;“wieitced ut home, even when I take nits > consideration tliat it was entirely unexpected, and the conditions of imeana distance which may have affected me. There can bo no doubt t hat the Into Henry Ward Beeohor whs right when he ex pressed the opinioi) during hi* last visit, that England is a freer country than America Oukey Hall too, who has lived here a long time now, is emphatic in his expression of the opinion that England is pre-eminently tho couutr) ol p'monel liberty In the conversation at dinner 1 plavod the part of a witness, and 1 was submitted to a rigid iToss-examinatioa ns to the methods of pur'y—or rather machine —politics in America. My friends thought some of our ways better than theirs, and vice versa There was no prejudice, no insular feeing, only a desire to learu, ami, if suitable to the different condition*, apply any of our ways to their needs. In one tiling Parliament is far and away ahead of the House, is. l : haps in more than one tiring, but in tne rise os 4. of lining a school of and ilute it is the first l**dy in Die world. And this is brought ntssit lv the excellent rule that the members of th Cabi net iimsC tie lilting meiiils-rs of the legisla tivn body. Mae limn this, they must go to their constituents for mcionoment iiguTu after they mvrpt oflhv, und, haring Iwtira turned mid tukcit their plane* hi the gor srnnamt, ttsny must • omr into the House and i lief end Uwir |sihcy on all matters of mu na ul. Tie result I* that it i* a csisUlit fencing 111*6 ti; It is a itails aurotinter. at tit. V ai' 1 Wanse dun [ten Oie wits and uti •H.ts> k*il pi it hgt' This lunslajit frp tint* 'sf tr'a.nn i W'l 8 hrljilMJ*. 1> |>rndttotl' , a ■n s v-i ivmlL, tnU *it&. one which, curiously enough, accounts for the fact, that Hie art of interviewing by newspaper men is unknown in England), that the Ministers must answer all the questions put to them by members. And I can assure you the opposition put them through a course of sprouts that, tlic cheek iest newspaper reporter America ever pro duced would not dare to do. These ques tions and answers being published In full, all the papers and the public get the benefit of them, and the interviewer's office is gone. Meanwhile tho nation watch this game iff fence attentively,,and when the Ministers are inadequate to the defense ot their posi tion, Parliament is dissolved, and the qui s tioti is at once asked the people, whether they do or do not approve tlic con is- of the government. It is a complete and perfect government of the people by the ptople. There is no waiting two to four years for the constituents of a man or of a party to ex press their disapprobation and turn Urn out of office after tne mischief has bran done. Well, a truce to politics; only let me add, my dinner was gix)d. the company better, arid the moon shone brightly when I once more emerged from the door under the clock in the tower. The American Exhibition grows daily, both in the moral and material sense. It, is a huge affair, aud under the guidance of Mr. .T. R. Whitley nnd Mr. T. G. Speed, now his able lieutenant, the groat engine that they have built up little by littlo for tho past three years is working with ac curacy, precision and marvelous efficiency. By the time that the State of Nebraska ar rives with the Wild West, and in part the exhibits, the building will be completed nnd entirely ready for their reception. It is marvelous tho rapidity with which this vast structure and its surroundings have grown up on what was five months ago a most un promising looking tract, partially wasteland and partially cabbage garden-. Now the American flag flies in every direction, nnd reminds those of us who were ut the cen tennial of the palmy days of that great fes tival. The goal of all these years of de voted self-sacrificing labor aril vast expen diture is now in sight, and you may assure vour readers that America will be proud of the way both in which she is represented and in which she has been received before they are 30 days older. The weather is warm nnd spring-like, and already the lovely soft gre n, which only the humid atmosphere of England can pro duce, has overspread the grand garden of twelve acres. The primroses and the cro cuses are in bloom, and even the heavens seem to smile encouragingly on the comple tion of Columbia’s enterprise. The curiosity to seoßuffali Bill and bis colleagues aud possessions is so great in Lon don that their removal from the docks b > the grounds will have to be carried out with the greatest secrecy and in the dead of night. A high police official assured me that he was convinced that if they were to march through the city by daylight that, the crowds - 'ould be as great and the suspension of business and traffic as complete as on the dav of the Lord Mayor’s show. The executive staff are now in full pos session of the offices in the buildings. These are very light, airy and commodious, and are decorated in severe but faultless taste. Rumors were started by some malicious person that Buffalo Bill would not ap|ieor at the exhibition, etc., and I believe reached America by cable. The presence of Mai. J. M. Burke, General Manager of the Wild West, on the ground aud the publication by all the leading daily papers of his prompt and emphatic denial, set these at rest imme diately. Many anecdotes are told of the German Emperor in connection with his birthday. Here is one worth repeating. At the time of the Furstentag at Frankfort, iu 1863, King William was one day walking in tins neighborhood of Baden-Baden, accom panied by Bismarc k and a number of ladies and gentlemen. Passing a gypsy hut one of the ladies said: “That is where the famous gypsy girl, Preciosa, tells fortunes.” The party, all in walking dress, entered the hut, and l.ad their fortunes told in suc cession, the King, whose identity was con cealed, coming last. Preciosa held his hand a long while in silence, and then said: “I see a great crown, great victories and great age. You will live ninety-six years, but your last days will bring many troubles and much sorrow.” Tho King forgot all about the prophecy till, in 1884, when at a ball at the Russian Countess Embassy, in Berlin, the Hungarian Erdody, whose mother was a gypsy woman, was pre sented to him. During a' long conversation it was mentioned that the Countess had the gift of chiromancy. The Emperor held out Els hand, and tho Countess, after examining the lines, gravely said: “Your majesty is destined to live ninety six years.” The Emperor was much struck by the co incidence. Caroline, Duchess of Montrose, must be ac counted one of the cleverest practitioners on the turf. By the success of her horse Oberon she is said to have netted something like £15,000 besides the stakes. And yet the knowing ones declared that Oberon was “not half-trained,” and “palpably unfit to run.” All weathers seem alike to her when racing is on tne “tapis;” and she braved the snoxv and the bitter winds at Lincoln with the same resolution that she did the rain at Sandown on the Eclipse Stakes day last year, when she promenaded the paddock with no better protection for head and feet than a red silk sunshade aud a pair of flimsy little bronze slippers. Let Our Hopes Spring like May Flowers Now Spring gives us renewed hopes for the future —so as it has been! so it wiil be — let us learn by experience. The 202d Grand Monthly Drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery occurred at New Orleans, Lu., under the entire supervision of Gen'ls G. T. Beauregard, of La., and .Tubal A. Early, of Y,i.. on Tti eday, March 15th, 1887. $535,000 was vent flying everywhere, in sums of from $150,000 to f-A) a single, ticket. No. 60,551 drew the First Prize of $150,000. It was sold in tenth costing each sl, sent to M. A. Dauphin, New Orkvin , La.; one-tenth to Jos. H. Ludwig, 480 William St., Buffalo, N. Y.; one to Win. Moeser, Topeka,* ICas.; one to Joe Rosenttold, Houiton, Texas: one to H. Taylor, New York City, collected through Adanis Express Cos.; one to P. M. Vermaas, of Chicago, IU.; one paid through London, Paris and American Bank, Limited, of San Francisco, Cal.; one paid to Wells, Fargo A Co.’s Bank also of San Francix>, Cul.; one to D. P. Hawes, Decorah, Iowa; one to Thos. Falvey, Wrightsville, Pa., and one to 11. J. Warner, Stratfoix!, Out. No. 66.341 drew the Seooti I Prize of $50,000, also sold in fractions: One-half to Hon. Byron D. Houghton, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of Oswego. N. Y.: one-tenth to Frank Brock. 518 Potter St., East Saginaw, Mich.; one to T. J Weaver, Trabue, Fla., other* to parties in Central City, Dak., and Pembroke, Ontario, Canailn, etc., etc. No. 45,732 drew the Third Prize, of $20.(10 1 also sold in tenth at $1 ooeh; one to E. B. Kimball, of Portland, Me.; one paid through the City National Bank of Dallas, Texas; one to Oliver & Griggs, Bankers, also at Dullus, Texue; two to Union Na tional Bank of Kansas City, Mo.; one to J. E. Handgun, No. 128 W. Canton St., Boston, Mass.; one (Slid through Adams Express Cos. u* ('has. H. Homer, Newark, N. J. Nos. 62,2.51 and 65,615 drew the Fourth Two Prize* of SIO,OOO, sold every where, etc., etc. Tho same thing wilt be done again on Tuesday, May 10th, aud any information can lie hud on application to M. A. Dauphin, New Or leans. La. Now let our hojvK spring like May flower*. Advice to Mothers. Mr*. Winslow's tVotliiiig My nip should always be used when elilldran are cutting teeth. It relieve* the little suffer at oimxi; it prodnisw natural, quiet (Us*]) bv relieving Dm i In Id from imui and the little cheiiib awake* a* “urigl.l a* a button ' It la very pleasant to taste. It aootbc* the child, eiHeiM the gums, allays all pain, ro lieves triad, regulate* U*i bowohi, ami l* th" best known r**ue>iy foi dierrhu-u, whethc afiicng from te-rtiing or other cahte*. W L>put* a uut J*. A TERRIBLE TALE. Infuriated Citizens About to Hang an Innocent Man for a Double Murder. iff ,mi the Cin innaH Enquirer. James Leonard, a young man who had lived most of his life in Lawrenceburg, Ind., thought it would be a good thing to get ac quainted oornp with the outside world, and übout a year ago he left town for the pur- I'se of visiting other localities. He return ed a few days since, determined to never again depart from the haunts of home, |>er feetly cured of his roving desires, for ho hail undergone an experience in his brief absence so thrilling in its nature that the remember ane.i appalls him with the horrors of a hide ous dream. His story is briefly this: “While journeying on foot to u lonely railroad station at Gpalen, 111., for the pur pose of taking the care to St. Louis, he en tered the premises of a fann house to get a drink of water. When approaching the well he passed a wood shed and was horrified to see the corpse of a woman, \vhil" all iu ■ utnd the ground was colored with her life s blood. He stopped only long enough to see the gory ax with which THE BRUTAL MURDER had been committed, then rush ui aft’riglit from the fearful v.vne. As fast, ashis limlw would bear him ttaoterrified follow fled, try ing to lengthen as rapidly as possible the distance between himself ;uul the horrible sight lie had witnessed. At last, wearied with flight, he sat down to rest, and while trying to banish from his mind the shock ing impressions made by the discovery of the murdered woman, he was overtaken by a crowd of horsemen, who roughly assailed him and cliargod the crime of murder upon him. In vain did he deny the commission of the deed. The men tin I his hands behind liitn, placed him upou a horse, and with a rope around his neck started on the return with their prisoner to the faigu-house where the <lead woman lay. Betore reaching the premises a couple of boys joined the swell ing crowd of excited men and jxisitivoly identified the prisoner ns the man they hail seen running from the house, just before they discovered the dead body. This evidence cause si an examination of his clothing, and, sure enough, on the bottom of his pants and the sides of his shoos were stains of blood, showing that lie had indeed been at the scene of murder. This newly discovered evidence incensed the crowd to madness, and, while the terrified prisoner would give no explana tion , but only in half-crazed tones coatinu'xl to repeat that he was innocent. HIS THOROUGHLY ENRAGED CAPTOUS determined that he should at once pay the penalty of the crime with his life. With kicks and blows ho was dragged to the little fann-hbuse where the crime had been com mitted, the crowd avowing that he was to lie hung in the very shed where the body of the murdered woman had been found. Before reaching the intended place of lynching, a messenger informed the arresting party that in a bedroom of tho farm-house another woman hail been found, with her throat eut from ear to ear, unconscious, but not dead. This further intelligence exasperated the furious crowd the more against the helpless prisoner, and it was resolved to torture him to death. The jioor fellow, paralyzed with fear, listened in speechless agony to the devil ish modes suggested for taking his life. Drag ging him, more dead than alive, to the fated woodshed, the rope that had been around his neck for some time was put around a rafter of the roof, and then, with oaths and blows, the trembling and bleeding form of the poor fellow was drawn up and then lowered again. Several times had this been repeated, and just as the mob was preparing to hoist him the third time, and just when con sciousness was about to forsake him, a loud voice was heard from the house exclaim ing, IN ALARMING TONES, “Holdon, men! Ship, for heaven's sake! Don’t hang him! lie is innocent!” The lynchers paused, while in breathless haste the man who had interrupted them told that the woman with her throat cut had revived and had confessed that she hail murdered the woman found in the woodshed, and then had cut her throat herself in an at tempt to tak > her own life. Leonard was at once released, but, unable to stand, he swooned awa .- as soon as the rope was re moved from ins neck, and then those who hail been foremost in the attempt to take his life were now the most anxious to effect his restoration. For days he lingered between life and death, kindly nursisi and cared for by his late enemies until able to start to: his Indiana home. The woman with her throat cut, crazed by the murder and attending ex citing incidents, refused to submit to medi cal treatment, tore the bandages from her throat, pulled apart her gaping wound, and died the same night. Before dying she briefly told the history of the tragedy that came so near resulting in the death of an innocent man at tho hands of an enraged mob. THE MURDERED WOMAN was her step-mother, and disagreements be tween the pair were an almost daily occur ren< e. and frequent fights had been indulged in between the quarreling women, That, morning an old fuss had been revived and the step-mother had driven her from the house with a club, and sought shelter in the wood shed where, pursued by the other, she had caught up the ax, _ chopped her enemy down, and, irenzied with passion, hail hack ed the head almost from her body. Return ing to the house she espied young Iso uard approaching, and believing he had witnessed her murderous deed aud would arrest her, she seized a knife and sought to end her wretched existence. The discovery of the step-mother’s body soon after the flight of Leonard turned suspicion to him, and caused pursuit aivl his arrest, wit h its subsequent ter rifying on leal, and would have ended in his death, but for the timely revival of the mur deress, whose confession was just in tune to rescue him alive and remove tho stain of a double murder from his name. All the latest styles of E. & W. Collars aud Cuffs, and ulso complete fine of sizes of Worth s or < losby's Linen Covered Reversible Paper Col lars at Appel & BchauTa. MEDICAL. pMsnFYOimi w) _ The Wofol Curse of T y\R .to'i’H, thoicllddonn I'l'b! U ait; aFrotluHruf Si xnnl IV* pay, Lost Powr I)rtin, Night Loppefte f'<Jlint? Kit*. -nlc hLKW'l'j ck. Insao- II v. Torpor, BiuthfuJiiM*. Earalvslr, WMC.ng l,l SniefineM of <jr|[an*, vrl- PerfeO. Lasting Cure nrd Full Vigor, full Strength, Potency and Development of I art*. ill. new Brain and Nrnr I’owpr, or we icrtslt £ (M)0. V. a u-i- only tire wnuiiorlul (JJ ML IF l iPPH ATFI) PFAItI.S. No llnnihuc, <l>cs*work. or Experiment. POMliivE l*nOl rt. Doctor* 1.1,1. mre, ll.rt ory of lire DU-nv.-ry, L.*t cf ‘ e Hrfereaccn ttvim.tom*, Met nod and Price* tnallrd rlll.K. ISUIct.M .re cr*.-v < •niuili.-.t io itw A,lore** POKOI'H I’L \->i 1 BH. 05 MEDALS • AWA W D E J- TO’ BPsdns lW*twr r t %•,•, Wmlmm, rM§ to vmmr ■ Um I *.•• <1 U Ja*m •4 Mr.l a*. mmJ . •••r.dtbk iM Kl fIHF anr HAVIFT’S SPECIFIC. ml IGLEREMUS. GAT HER IN j ROOTS / f Tor the Manufacture of o). o) r Vr-”’ , fio'.kgiC l * mrm> •~FOR THE BLODD. Tv,, mmrnm ATLANTA. DA..U.B. A. •£ * * For Sale fivo'ilSmggdtm^ LIVING WITNESSES! DAWSON, OA., Dec. 7, 1886. For fully nine years 1 had catarrh. For five years I had it in the very wontt fonu. how mm noxious t hat is I need not recount. 1 was under treatment of one of the most celebrated eye, ttflHj and thro.it physicians in the Unitesl Staus, but ho was unable to do mo any good, in resorted to numerous patent medicines that I saw advertised, but with no avail. I* many, ab<yfc six months iigo, I l+egan to to,kt! S. S. S. in sheer desperation, hut with little hojx l and no faith But to day 1 am comparatively well; indeed, 1 have lx*en so beneliUxl hy the S. S. S. that, skeptical of its merits. 1 am compelled by the benefit I have derived from it. to testify to its tttkf questioned curative power.-: in eatarrh cases. The best compliment 1 can lisyit is that, I jy cently recommended it to a number of my warmoat personal friends. Mhk, E. 0. .Vlr. K. K. Harris' tiood Luck-4 Freight Agent’* Huccewful Investment of a Small RiHjjp of Money. Mr R R Harris is well known to nearly id! the, business people of Savannah, and to nmdjllj others throughout Georgia. He is the obliging freight agent of the. Savannah, h mrlda and We#*e eni Railway at the Central Railroad wharf. He has recently gotton large returns trow a tint small investment, of which he tells in the following communication: a .a*~ M * SAVANNAH, GA., Jan. 8, 1887. JH Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga.: Dear Sins “Over u year ago I was afflicted for mouths witn mularlul yv+iscn. This was accompuniod hy mid for four mouths 1 robtin absolutely nothing on my St-omacb sa.vf? a little oatinoal, wuich 1 had to take thrws a day to sustain lift* I was reduced U> such a low state* that t,h most eminent physician of Savaw-t nah pronounced me to be in the last Hta*ps of i msumption, and (hat. my death was only a lion of a very short time, lean name this phy ‘ -ian should any one desire it. Finally, wheuL> too, had about pven up hope, 1 bean to Uike +S. “ S. as a despeiate and almost bopeless expe inent 1 had Liken almost every medicine I coni’* hear ol ! , hat none had done mo anv the time I began taking S. S. 8 immediately after usinx up one la rtfe hotrle of the BiM*rifl< betfnn to improve, and, when I bad uaed ui> six lartft* bottles. I was entirely cui*eu. and ditfi*st anythintf. and mv hv.*th is ixirieet/’ Yours tnily, K. K. IIAHHhS.jM ( U ’liON MKRN. Swift’s Srieciflc, like every other tfo.xl rtunedy, is imitatM and rount<‘rfeiUxl to a extent These imitations and substitutes are gotten up, not to sed Mi merit of their own, hut on the reputation of our article Of course all that these imitators mM is simply stolen from us. But the public who buys them is the tfieatest sufferer. Beware of tbdH Mercury and Potash mixtures. The Mercury seems to sink into tlx* bon s, and the Potash drWM the poison into the system, only to lurk there and attack the tender organ* or the lxdy, as luiitfs the tbn>flt the nasal ortfans and stomach. Hundr*ds of people have Ixien made deaf, frfH 9 tfieat many blind, by the use of Mercury and Potash. Beware of Mercurv and Potash MixtuiH aotten up in imitation of our HPE< TFItL A few grains of Sugar of I*ea<l dropped into a tflass tVieso imitatioiiK will cause the poisonous drugs to fall to the bottom and show the danger of ui them. SWIFT'S is entirely vegetabh , ami is tlie best tonic for delicate ladies and cmM di-cu and old people in the world. ™ ... TIIE SWIFT SPKCIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atl*vnta, Ga* J (DBSETS. Jo^os Y^cEiiiiuraSW/, Wjy \@ar /Zm 9 Million worn during the past six years. This marvelous success Is due — Ist. i'o the superiority of Coraline over all other materials, as a stiffener for Corsets. VU —To the superior qur iity, shape and work manship of our Corsets, rintdued with their tow prices. Avoid cheap imitations made of various kinds of cord. None arc g-nnino unless “ DR. WAr?NE:n’3 CORALINE" IS prir.tc.l 0" in. and of *e"l oner. LIQUID GOLD. Warranted to • utuiu Vb RK ‘'blJ>. iYi*- BMCtHiuNg The exact color of English Sterling ftold. PltlCK fiOe. Used by over 1,901* Manufacturers and Gilders. These splendid prcslimts have IsAon before tls put-tie since IKI.I, and they nave invariably U-en nward.-d tl.e highest prize wherever exliililted. Tt.ey war*- us-d to (Its- .rate the splendid homes of W 11 Vanilerbllt, .Judge Hlllou, Gen. Grant, and many other w.-ah-hy and dlstin* guislit*.! New Yorkers. I'liey aj-e mil) for in stant use and may lie used by the most Inexpe ri.-0.-cd amateur. for laT’lFs. Either of the above to Invalua ble for Oilditi;.- hranis.. Furniture, I mlo-s, Baskets. Fans Photos. Silk Mottoes, Decorative Paint ing, etc. Auy one can use them. Ask for tVlUincis’ Gold or Kilby's Gilding, and refuse all substitute* Hold l.v all Art Dealers and Druggists. Nr Yolk Chemical Mfff Cos. 3K. 4ta st . h. Y. {Either will is- sent by mail for e extra.| MEDICAL. PENN\ROYAL N1.1.5. ■ C H I C H fc ST E RS ENGLISH” The Oil lobl and Only gsMlHf. Safe and alwava lt.- ial.le Ik-war- <rf n-.rthUws • uiiMHoo Del., .- re., o!>- i . UMM Ask you llruggl.t f.,r"( tdot.e.lrFs ItoglMi” .-ilk) take uo oilier, or Inckas* !<• '•teuipi to us Ilur iia.ti. ,jts in UU" i.y return *uufl. Nt'ir. PtPKK I hb-b. Her ( iwiulcal * iff I 3 Ma4in sir. I*i.iia4s. **• add ', Dr u*y|ita eter tslwr* . Ask for-‘CIi 1 - ■u> ... r * EttglDh" Tmnyrv)sl PUD. ‘lake AW KAIL. ROADS. South Florida Railroaor Central •tunrlard Time. _ ON and after SUNDAY, March 0, 1887, trad will an and leave as follows: •Dailr ♦ Daily except. Sundays. I Daily k ■•ept Mondays. Ajg Leave Saatord for jffl Tampa and way ,f stut ions... ... . * 10:30 arn and * r 4:40 Arrive ai Tunijia . 8:40 pui and #r 8:S0 fH Returning leave T*' ll ” pa nt . *1 9:80 a m and *! 8:00 Arrive at Sanford * 2:30 p m and 1:00 Leave Sanford for Kissimmee and . J way stations at t 8:00 ||S Arrive at Kiftsinimw at, +7:00 Miff Keujrnmg leave Kissimmee t 0:26 IK Arrive at Hanford t 8:26 ■ ¥ Meamboat Express. *'j West India East Mail Train. BARTOW BRANCH. DAILY. Lv Bartow Junction. 11:25 am, 2:10 and 7:15 p re. Ar Bartow 12:25, 3:10 and 8:15 p m Returning I.v Bar tow. 9:70 am, 12:W) and 5:80 p m Ar Bartow Junction 10:80 am, 1:40 and Bi3o i> nt PEMBERTON KERRY BR ANCH. Ojieruteil by the Soul ti Florida Railroad. ♦Leave Bartow for Pcmbeiton Ferry and way stations at 7:15 a m Arrive ai Pi 'nlierten ferry nt. . 9:45 a m •Returning leave Pemlierton Kerry at.. fii2s p m Arrive at Bartow at 8:25 p m tleave ’er ibertou Kerry 7:00 am Arrive Bartow ll:Bspin tLenve Burlo v 1:10pm Arrive Pemberton Ferry 5:15 put SANFORD AND INDIAN RIVER U. R. Leave Sanford for Ir.ita Charm and way sta tions +10:15 a m and 6:10 pm Arrives Lake Charm— 11:45 a maud 8:40 pm Returning— Leave Lake Charm.. . 6:00 a m and 12:80 pto Arrives at Sanford.. .. 7:40 am and 2:10 pm SPECIAL CONNECTIONS. Connects ut San rd with tho Sanford and Indian River Railroad for Oviedo and points on Lake .lesup, with the People's Line and Deßnry iluya Merchants' lane of steamers, and J. T. and K. W. Rv. for Jacksonville and all intermediate points oil the St. John's river, and with steamer* for Indian river and the Upper SI lohu's. AI Kissimmee with steamers for Ports Mver* and Bnssinger and points on Kissimmee r+ver. At Pemberton Ferry witii Florida Sout.er* Ra’lwav for s'l points Nothb and West, and at Bu. um with the i lorkla Southern Itallway foe Fort Mttude and points South. STEAMSHIP CONNECTIONS. Connects at Tampa with steamer ‘Margaret* for l'almr Sola. Braldentown. Palmetto, Maaa tee and all points on Hillsborough and Tampa Buys. . 1 ■ Also, with tbe elegant mail steamshii* “Man notte' and “Whitney.” of the Plant Steamship Cos., for Key West and Havutia. .Through tickets sold at all regular stations to isilnt > North. Boat and West. Baggage eh.s’ked through. Paneugnra for Havaua cau leavo Sanford on Limited West In tin Fast Mall train at 4:40 p m (stopping only at Orlatulo, lCinsimmee, Bartow Junction. Lakeland and Plant City), Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, connecting same eveu. ing with steamer at Tainjia. WILBUR MoCOY, fieiieral Freight ami Ticket Agent. in .up— ■■ -i. a CARHI VtiKM AND BUGGIES. KeCTaVHLIHHFGr) INIB. D. A. Altick’s Sons, Buconwore to D. A. AI.TICK * RONS, Hroughton 8c Wct Broad Have Just Received a Now S' oclc of Buggies, Phaetons, Carriages McOAl’Lli WAtiONH, Which • iii offering m BOOK BOTTOM PRIOBB. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING MERCHANTS. WARNER BROTHERS, 399 Broadway, New York City. 11