WAITING. , 'Five y-ui to welt:" Dan't r! It, " My IniKH'v'Ut, blue-eyed maid. Fur the year may lt hfe-tine) V li i 1 s your youthful rosea, fad. While your eros re red with weeplm! And w tcliln t'.ie Ireecberoui see, Tlil you strut the eont of the lone one, "He neror ciue beck to uie." Fire years (o welt, wblle other Are danrlim the denee of youth, And the one perhaps yon are trustier Is brenklnn hl Towe, foreoothl "1 thA wait for my loye, my derllng. Wbo hm enllert fr over the see rive yr. or ten, or twenty." 814 the blue-eyed meld to me. So the wrote her tweet love letter. Or tended her erden tinier. Or watched the rentlo-e bll'owe f- On the bwtllng cilfTe for bourei VThl't ihe turned ber eultore plnlo Awe,y from the collate dior. And waited, patiently welted. One loot, lone year or mure. e e e e Tie very w eary waiting. " Said the bine-eyed maid to tee. And she glanced at ber last new eultor And tbeu at the reetleee tea: As the glanced at the roeei fa tin In ber garden fair and bright. Twice come, twice gene, tlace he left ke Two yean before that night. And the married ber laet new suitor Before tb winter eped. And tbe wrote to her abeent lover On the day that tb wae wed; She hoped be would not euffer. That the shock would toon be o'er. And tbe answer soon laformad her Be bad married a year before. ADELAIDE It ii now long while sine tit rnit ager of theatrical company, then f hearsing "The New Yeaxg Present" in the town of Cividale, near Udine, dev clared that no stiff doll should be need to represent the infant introduced into the piece, but that a real baby nanit be) found at once. "Hasn't somebody a baby T " he cried. A good-looking actor who was stand ing at one side of the stage instantly nudged his wife with his elbow. She laughed and blushed. "Mine is ouly two months old, mon sieur," she said. "But I can promise you that she shall know her part, sine I can prompt her when it is time for her to cry." "That matter is settled then," the manager remarked, with a sigh of con tent; and the name of another actress was placed upon the list, and its parents drew a tiny salary for its serricea in ad dition to their own. Afterwards people said that the baby really cried and cooed in the right places, and was evidently a born actress. There was after this no want of a baby in the company with which its parents were connected, and at the age of fire the little girl had a speaking part of her own. Little Signorina Adelaide created quite a furore in this part She weat to Venice, to Milan, and to Rome; and at an age when most young actress as are seeking an opportunity to appear was well established in her profession. It was at the Royal Theater, of Turin, that a young nobleman, the Mount Capranica Delia drills, first saw :ier. The part she played was one that called forth all the powers of her genius and demanded the costliest and most elegant costumes and the most brilliant display of jewels. Her dark beauty, wonderful even in the simplest dress, was enhanced by this magnificence, so that it seemed actually superhuman. The young Count leaned from his box with his eyes fixed upon her. His ad miration was so evident that the whole house remarked it The admiration of a nobleman for a beautiful actress was not uncommon. It generally ended in one way. The nobleman won the lady's smiles, sur rounded her with luxury and for awhile adored her. Then they quarreled. ' Whea the Count's devotion beeam manifest, as it did shortly, all the world expected this history to be repeated. They were disappointed. The Signor ja Adelaide had wise parents, aad was dignified as well as beautiful girL The Count's lore was tinotured with respect Shortly he made an offer of marriage to ihe fair Adelaide and was acoeptatL After this ha confided to kis parents the fact that be was about t marry the best, the loTeliest and the greatest gear ius among women in fact, the most in comparable creature upon earth aad asked them to congratulate and bless him. They did no such thing. Parents are seldom to be calculated on ia this particu lar, and the young Count's ware no ex ception .to the general rule. Instead of rejoicing, the ladies of the family be moaned themselves with the energy only possible to Italians. The father, in stead, of blessing, uttered curses loud and deep. The daughter of a poor no body I "An actress!" The son of their ancient family should not so cast himself away. He might be troth himself as much as he pleased, but he should never marry the girL The old Count went to see Signorina Adelaide's father, but was treated with little reverence. He commanded his son to give up his mad idea and set be fore him the fact that he was about to disgrace his family. The son declared that the alliance he was about to make would honor it. The old Count prayed bis son to re member his mother's grief, his sister's tears. The young Count declared that they were not to be pitied, sines they wept when they should rejoice. Finally the " indignant and terrified father had his son seized upon and car nod away in a fashion quite possible in )Uly and ctmllned in an old castle which ho posseted in Campagna, there to re luaia until he promised to give up his ! n-ed Adelaide for ever and take for a wife sorao high-born madame of his nyjt'ier'n choosing. Thus partod from each other, the lov rr. grieved and yearned, and watched V. .v. moon, uud counted the hours an I'.'vora always do under such circuia ' a'iinceo, but did not doepair. The guw-d t at the gates would never Lave allowed the young Count to n8 through them or to climb the wail, but wotin a wagon laden with provisions entered no one thought of watohina the wagoner s boy in his frock and lor,Tt hat and so a littlo bribe bought the coHtume of the fellow, and tlio young Count smacked his whip Cnyly as he drove over the hill and got atvuv without being discovered, though the guard would examine the wagon be fore he let it pass. The Count sat under a tree reading a book for a long while afterwards that is, the wagoner in the Count's clothes and when the truth was discovered the con steruaiion was so great that the confeder ate enouped scot free. By thnt time the young Count was ma-. riod. He had met his wife at a lit tle church, to which she came with her father and other friends, and they were made one and went off to geth.r. . There was some talk of the Count hiranelf becoming an actor, but, whatever happened, the old nobleman, lib ("'Ui't, could do nothing. 11 ally the family held counsel that they would forgive their son if his wife would leave the stage. Now, the beautiful Adelaide was a born aotreea, but at the moment love dumiuaU l her soul. Her husband was k11 in all to her. She yielded to his hih!uv ious and retired from the profes niou she aderued. She weut to live with the great fam ily, who were very kind to her. She Ut?d all the sweets of idleness and luxury and was adored by her husband. She wait for awhile perfectly happy. But slowly, surely, a BaoaeleM long ing crept into her soul. She felt her life dnu and uninteresting. The artist within her got the better of her. Her one great longing was o act once more, to tread the stAge as of yore, to live the life for which she was born. She drAmed of it at night, she dreamed of it by day, bat she never spoke of it Hht word had been pledged and she must keep it Sodttty had owed to charm her. All occupation was wearisome. Sha turned her attention to the poor and was boun tii'ul to them. Among other wretched !eople she gave alms to the poor crea tures in tbe debtors' prison. It was in the year 1847. At that day in the place where she abode a creditor who chose could cast bis debtor into a foul prison and let him rot there. There wan, I believe, some law which mode it compulsory te give the man who owed money which he could not pay bread and water. For all else he had to depend on charity, and there were bars in his cage behind which he could sit, thrust out his hand for what ever pitiful strangers chose to give. The Countess Adelaide had often spoken to one unfortunate man, a gen tleman whose debt wss vary large, and one day it oama into her mind that there was a way in which ha might be deliv ered from his bonds and restored to kis helpless wife and children. Accord ingly, she spoke of it to her husband. Her idea was to give an entertainment to the publio, the object being specified in the public prints and in private let ters. The tickets sold at high prices; actors of position would be implored to offer their services, aad sha herself would take the principal part. To this the Count gave his consent His parents, after some demur, agreed that acting for a charity, and to such an audience, was not objectionable, and one night the play was put upon the boards of a magnificent theater. Ones more Adelaide, in all the splen dor of a queenly cohturuo, walked the stage. Once more she was happy. And how she acted I Applause rent the air. How wonder derful genius impressed all who lis tened. The old de.ight in it returned to her husband, and none was more en thueiastio than his relative. I do not know what the play was, or I would give its name to my readers, but those who saw it that night never forgot it How often did they call the beautiful Countess before the curtain! how osen did she smile and oourtesy and kiss her hands to them! She was happy for the first time for long, long months. A good deed had been dona. The poor debtor was happy, too, for his debt had been paid, and he had money besides to begin the world with on his day of trasv dom. His wife knelt to kiss the hand of the benevolent Countess, aad the poor man himself, bewildered by his un expected good fortune, could only weep. Happiness was restored to a bom that had been very miserable. As for Ade laide herself, heps arose in her heart The sensation her acting had caused was no tremendous that tbe whole feeling of ber husband's family changed. Italians :re all artists enough to feel pride in genius like hers, and when she unbur dened her heart to them and told of her longing to return to the stage they gave their consent, and so that greatest of all modern actresses, Adelaide Bistort, be--un the triumphant career that has made her name known in every country ia the world as the greatest of all mod ern tragic actresses. Surely no one can say that truth may not be as romantic as fiction. Mary Kylo Dallas, in Fireside Companion. CONUNDRUMS. "When do you make a seat of an in sect ? When yon sit on a cricket When is a balloon like good bread ? When it rieea. To what city should dirty children be seat ? To Bath. When ia a fur cape like a watch chain ? When it is lynx (links). What holly is not used at Christmas ? Hollyhocks. What poet might be called a pedes trian insect? Joaquin Miller (walkin' miller). What moves swiftly over the ground, t.ud yot always leaves tracks behind ? A railway train. Xf you Hhould see a poisonous serpent crawling iu a wall, what city might you mxrre V Apinwull (tusp in wall). Youth's Companion. tco.L'Af to tiir RMrnuKircr. She Wee Ottrmlii.il to Melninln Mer Illglits. The wind blew and tlir ruin felt When the stout lady first became noticeable by reason of her raaiufo.it trials she was only a few step from the center of the street, struggling bravely iu the direc tion of the nearer curb. In one hand she held an umbrella, it )cx of candy and a paper box of oysters. With the Other she clutched her skirts. There wns an expression of unmixed nppreliensioa on her face, save the Pt'troit Tribune. "Can't I assUt you, madam ?" nently inquired the small nnn in a lubber coat, who had madly rushed to the rescue. "Nope." A gust of wind struck the umbrella mldhlp. It careened forcibly against the woman's hat and the latter was knocked forward on her nose. . Simul taneously the candy box displayed a marked disposition to slip away from all restraint "Won't you let me hold your urn brella?" persisted the little nmn very soiicitousiv. "Nope." She as almost half way to the curb now aud the oyster-pail seemed inclined to be rebellious sind follow the example of the candy-box, "But you're losing vour paekages, madam. " Tue little man made a grand attempt to save the day auj was grandly re pulsed. "You are mUtuken, sir. I am not los ing my packages. " The n lnd bleiv ami the rain felL Tha stout lady tossed ber head and jerked the dislociir I hat into plnce. With a deft movement she defxwitpd the oanJy-box under her arm and the bail of the oyster pail between her teeth. At the same in stent she seixd the purse firmly with her thirl itnd fourth lingers, devotitisr all the remaining faculties exclusively to the umbrelltt. "No, sir; I am not losing mv pack agwe." The little mnn bowed and murmured helplessly, "I mUht remind you, sir," she said as she reunited tie curb and entered upon a general readjustment, "that live move ment for the emancipation of womauhes been in progress for several centuries, snd I am not one, 1 axsure you, to abro gate thus lightly the independence gained at the expense of years of labor the most arduous. I confess I was tempted to yield, but, thank Heaven, I did not." Half an hour later the littlo man was still there, stnrimr at u rift in the clouds, ss if wondering if it were going to rain all night. Truthful Frits. There were a numlier of old coons sit ting in front of a stuhle door ou Austin avenue and telling stories about hunting, says the Detroit Free Press. "As a general tiling hunters will tell lies," said a venerable old man, filling up his onrncnb pipe, "but I knon-ed one old hunter that couldn't tell a lie no more than Eli Perkins could with his little long how. " 'What sort of a fei'ow was he?" asked another member of t ie Senate. "He was an old German named Frits SuegebenteL but we used to call him Fritz for short He used to live out west of San Antonio in the mountains. He never talked much, but what he said you could always rely on as being Gos pel. He was t e only German I ever see what read the Bible regular and prayed. Frits was a xood old man. He is dead now, poor old mnn." 'Aud he uever told onlikelv yarns about killin' dear and bars?" "He did tell a tough story about killin' a bar, but I had such confidence in Frits that I believed every word of it." "Oivo us the yarn. "Well, Frits told me that one day when he wss in the Rocky Mountains he killed a bar under very singular circum stances. It was the coldest day he ever felt in nu life. The bar w as some dis tance off. Frits fired at him, but only wounded him, and theu the bar weut for Frits. It was a question of life and death gettin' hU gun loaded quick. Frits put in trie powder ana readied tor the bullet, when he found he had left them at home. T. bar as within twenty feet of him. Now, what do you suppose old Frits said he did?" "Ran like a turkey?" Nary time." "lit into t e bar with a knife. " "He didn't have none. " "Well, what did he do?" "He just spit in the gun. It was so cold that the spit froze solid like a bullet in less than a second, aud just as the bar was reachin' out to gather in Frits he fired and sent that little lump of ice crushing through the bar's heart. " When we left there was a deadlock in the Senate regarding the nomination of old Frits as the champion truth teller, A SoothlHs; Clfjsr. Gus De Smith Whew I Hostetter McGinnis What's the mat ter? "That cigar you are smoking. It smells dreadfuL " "Yes, I know it." "You can't have any pleasure smoking it" "Yes, I can; .you see the longer I smoke it the happier I will be when I'm doue. "Texas Sif tings. nemembar the Snbbath Day. Husband Wife, hand me out my Sun day coat. Wife But, my dear, this Is not Sun day ; it is only Saturday, "I kuow it's ouly Saturday, but I'm going to attend a fashionable dinner, and it will be Sunday before I get back, " Texas Si flings. She Prefers Tellotv Dipt. "What kind o' fireworks are those?" asked Aunty Meddergrsss of her city nephew on the night of the Fourth. "Those are Roman cuudles, aunty." "Are tiny ? Well, I'm glad I dou't live in Homo. I'd hate the worst kind to have to sew by the light of them things, " -rack. .... PHILLIPS'. The sha dc of a pa ra sol is a very acceptable ihing in i ne summer mom lis, but tue reputaVon or rumps cafe anauanery cannot be thrown in the shade at any time the year round- Bread and cakes fresh ever? day. JVe are sole agents for lenney s fine candies : Ice Cream ahvays: Ca tering for parties and weddings a specialty. Special terms to regular boarders in the Cafe- M. M. PHILLIPS & SON. BLOO.MSBURG, PA. AND SHORTHAND INSTITUTE Honfc.kfenlnir. 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Is having his Gallery remodled and fitted up in fine style, and the only first class north light in the county. , 12 CABIHETSSl.OO. tt Also having a wagon on the road fitted with the latest improvements for taking in views, Portraits and Tintypes, will call at your door without extra charge. Reserve your photos as we carry a full line copying samples till we call at your place. Prop us a postal earl and w will tat a day te call on you, (Jallery Main St., next to St. Elmo Hotel, BI.OOMSBURG, PA. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Write ugttktfl Coif, deceilHrd. a Notice Is hereby given that loners testament ary en the estate of E.eklel Cole, deceased, have beeu in-anted to 11. 11. Oi-otz, to whom all lieisous ludubied to suld estate are requested to make payment, and those having claims or de. wands will make known the same without de. luj . JI. II. UUUTZ, Executor. n WlF f n if ' INVlNiTii.E TUSlilAI lUi Tu trl. . . f.,1,.), n.Blli(.-iw,l,iu,t. III., .!, iirolfia. address H. UIMUX, C6) Oraj, , !. 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