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, "
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