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Painty hands with a faint rose lute >
! Tilifcine the skin of -.v, >
I Dimpled hi;:: wiih tl„ ,r baby • lusp
( Whose owner too soon shall know
The ro!i| unrit of a ( hanging world;
Something, too, of its woe. 5
When V..U prow (o the stature of woman,
Baby with eyes of blue.
What shall destiny hi M in her palni
For those little white hands to do,
; M hen the work and rare of life begin,
[ The work that is meant for you?
! Will you w* irk. I .• n that dainty hand
The badge of an eainest love?
i Mill you value that F\ as a precious gift
And he true as the skies above?
I Will you cast it aside with a careless heart*
Like a cast off faded glove?
Little hands with the ir rosebud hue,
Ever keep firnr your hold
On the tilings above till life shall end,
[• Till the little hands he cold
And the uriec TI land lies all before
r- As the gates of pearl unfold.
—-Woman's Life.
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Every one in Fecamp knew the story
of Mother Patin. She had certainly
not boon happy with her man, had
Mother Patin, l r her man used to
beat licr When he was alive as they
thrash the w! cat on the thrashing
floors.
lie was ma-lor of a fishing smock
and had in. 1; i d In r long ago because
site was pit a. ant, although she was
poor.
t Patin, a good sailor, but brutal, fre
quented the drinking shop of old Au
ban, where lie drunk regularly every
day his four ; live little nips and on
days of luck at sea eight or ten or even
more, just according to how good he
felt, as he said.
The drink \va.> served to patrons by
old Auban's daughter, a brown girl,
good to look at and who drew custom
by her plea: nut manners solely, for
no one had ever hinted a word against
her.
Patin when he came into the shop
was content with looking at her, and
his conversation was polite, the civil
remarks of a decent fellow. After he
had drunk his first glass of brandy
he began to find her very attractive,
and at the second he winked his eye at
her; at the third he would say, "If
only you liked, Mainzelle Desiree,"
without ever finishing his sentence;
with the fourth he tried to catch her
by her skirts to kiss her, aud when he
went as high ten her father brought
him the other OIK S.
The old wine seller. Mho wns up to
all the tricks, sent Pesiree round
among the tables to stimulate the or
ders, and Pes rec, who \va not her
father's daughter for nothing, flitted
in and out among the customers, joking
with them with a laughing mouth and
snapping eye.
What with drinking his little nips,
Patin became so used to tlie face of
Desiree that lie kept thinking of her
even out at sea wlu-n he was casting
his nets far out, windy nights and
calm, nights of moonlight ajid nights of
cloud. lie thought of her, gripping
the helm in the stern of his boat,
while his four comrades were sleeping,
their heads on their arms. He saw
her, always smiling, pouring him the
yellow brandy Avith a swing of the
shoulder, then saying as she went:
"There! Does that suit you7"
And at last, keeping her thus in eye
and mind, he was seized with such a
longing to marry her that, unable to
light any longer against it, he asked
for her hand.
He was well off, owner of his boat,
of his nets and of n house at the foot
of the hill on the Reserve, while old
Auban had nothing. So he was re
ceived M'ltli enthusiasm, and the wed
ding came off at the earliest possible
day, both parties ay hlng to hurry mat
ters for different reasons.
But three days after marriage Patin
was utterly unable to conceive how lie
could have thought Desiree different
from any other woman. Well, he must
have been a fool to tie himself up M ith
a girl M'ithout a cent Mho had be-
Avitohod him vs it li her rum, for sure
liquor that she'd put seine filthy charm
ibiu lev liluj.
And lie swore up arul down tlie tide,
breaking his pipe between his teetli,
abusing his outfit, and having cursed
copiously in all the .customary terms
at everything he could think of he spit
forth the rest of his cboler on the fish
and the lobsters taken one by one from
his nets, never throwing them into the
baskets without an accompaniment of
scolding aud bad names.
Then, home again, having within
reach of tongue and hand his wife, old
Auban's girl, it was not long before he
was treating her like the lowest of the
low in his speech. Then, as she heard
hiin resignedly, used to that sort of
thing already from her father, he grew
exasperated at her silence and one
evening struck her. After that her life
was frightful.
For ten years they talked of nothing
else on the Reserve but the thrashings
Putin gave his wife and his way of
swearing at her whenever he addressed
her. He swore, in fact, in an individ
ual style, with a richness of vocabu
lary and a sonority of organ equaled by
no other man in Fecamp. From the
moment his boat appeared at the en
trance of the harbor, coming back from
the fishing, they awaited the first vol
ley he would launch from his deck to
the Jetty as soon as he saw the white
cap of ills helpmeet.
lie stood up in the stern, steering,
his eye ahead or on the sail when the
sea was high, and, spite of the preoc
cupations of the narrow and difficult
channel, spite of the waves from the
deep that piled up in it like mountains,
he sought to make out among the wo
men waiting for the fishers under the
spray of the surges his own old Au
ban's girl, the jade!
Thou when ho saw her. for all the
clamor of the waves and wind, ho
turned out on lier a string of abuse
with such a strength of throat that ev
ery one laughed, although they were
honestly sorry for her. Then when
the boat came in at the quay he had a
way of discharging his ballast of civili
ties, us he called it. all the while un
loading his fish, that drew around his
tying up place all the rapscallions and
loafers of the port.
It came out of his mouth sometimes
like cannon shots, short and awful;
sometimes like peals of thunder that
rolled out for five minutes such a hur
ricane of objurgations that lie seemed
to have in his lungs all the storms of
heaven.
Then when he Avas off the boat and
found himself face to face with her, in
the middle of a croAvd of idlers and
fish women, he fished out of the bot
tom of Ills hold a Avliolc new cargo of
insults and abuse and escorted her
home with these, she in front, he be
hind; she crying, he shouting.
Alone with her, the doors shut, he
struck her 011 the slightest pretext.
Anything was enough to make him lift
his hand, and once begun he never
stopped, casting then in her face the
real grounds of his hate. With each
slap, with each thump, he vociferated:
"Ah, ye penniless wench! Ah. ye rag
ged, hungry Jade! A pretty thing 1
tliil the day I ever washed my mouth
w iili the rotgut of your thief of n fa
ther!"
She lived, poor woman, in a state of
incessant terror, in a constant tremble
of soul and body, in affrighted expecta
tion of outrage and blows. And this
lasted for ten years. She was so tim
orous that she would grow pale when
talking to any one, and she thought of
nothing save of tlie beatings hanging
over her, and she had become lean,
dry and yellow.
One night, when her man was at sea,
she was awakened suddenly by that
wild beast's growl which the wind
makes when it comes on like a hound
unleashed. She sat up in bed, alarmed,
then, hearing nothing more, lay down
again, but almost at once there came
a bellowing in her chimney that shook
the whole house, spreading throughout
the cut ire heavens as if a herd of mad
dened cattle were rushiug through
space, snorting and lowing.
She rose and hastened to the har
bor. Other,women were coming from
every direction with lanterns. The
men flocked out, and nil watched,
lighting up in the night, on the sea,
the foaming whitecaps of the summits
of the waves.
The storm lasted 13 hours. Eleven
sailors did not come back, and Patio
was among them.
They found 011 the Dieppe const the
wreckage of the Young Amelia, his
sloop. They recovered down by St.
Valery the bodies of bis sailors, but
never found his. As the hull of his
boat seemed to have been cut in TTro
his wife for a long time waited in
dread for his return, for if there had
been a collision it might have happen
ed that the colliding vessel picked him
up and carried Idm to foreign parts.
Later, little by little, she grew used
to the idea that she was a widow, still
trembling each time that a neighbor
woman, a beggar or a traveling ped
dler came in on her unexpectedly.
One afternoon about four years after
the disappearance of her husband she
stopped before the house of an old sea
captain lately dead, whose furniture
was being sold.
Just at that moment they were put
ting up a parrot, a green parrot with a
blue head, who looked at all the people
with a disturbed and discontented air.
"Three francs!" cried the auctioneer.
"A bird that can talk like a lawyer, 3
francs!"
A friend of Mine. Patin nudged her.
"You ought to buy it, you that are
rich," said she. "It would lie company
for you. It's worth more than 30
francs, that bird. You can always sell
it again easy for 20 or 23."
"Pour francs, ladies, 4 francs!" re
peated the man. "He sings vespers and
preaches like a cure. He's a phenome
non, a miracle!"
Mine. Patin laid 10 sous more, and
they gave her in a little cage the bird
with his hooked beak, which she car
ried off.
She hung him up in her house, and as
she opened the wire door to give him
some water she got a peck on the fin
ger which cut the skin and drew blood.
"Ah, he's ugly!" said she.
Nevertheless she gave him some corn
and hemp seed and left him preening
his feathers and watching out of the
corner of his eye his new house and
his new mistress.
The day was beginning to dawn next
morning when Mother Patin heard,
unmistakable and distinct, a voice,
strong, sonorous, rolling, the voice of
Patin, crying:
"Will ye get up!"
She was so frightened that, she hid
her head under the sheets, for every
morning aforetime as soon as he open
ed his eyes her dead husband used to
shout in her ear these words, which
she well remembered.
Shaking, rolling in a ball, her back
bent before the blow she expected, she
muttered, her face hidden in the pil
lows:
"<> Lord, there he is! O Lord, it's
him! He's come back! O Lord!"
Minutes passed; no further sound
broke the silence of the room. Finally,
trembling, she raised her head, sure
that he was there, waitiug, about to
strike.
She saw nothing save a ray of sun
shine coming through the window,
and she thought:
"lie's hidden for sure!"
She waited a long time; then, a little
reassured, thought:
"I guess I must have dreamed. He
don't show himself."
She was closing her eyes again, when
there burst out right in her ear the
raging voice of thunder of the drowned
man vociferating:
"Blank, to blank, to blank to blank,
will you get up. you"—
She leaped out of bed, forced by her
Instinct of obedience, her whipped wo
man's impulse to obey, that moves hei
st ill after four years and will always
move her and will forever respond to
that voice. And she spoke:
"Here I am, Patin. What is it?"
But Putin answered not.
Then, distracted, she looked about
her, examining everywhere, in the
wardrobe, in the chimney, under the
bed, finding no one. Finally she fell on
a chair, desperate with misery, con
vinced that oulj* the soul of Patin was
there near her—come back to torment
her.
Suddenly she thought of the garret,
which one could gel iuto from the out
side by means of a ladder. For sure,
lie was hidden there to surprise her.
Captured by savages somewhere, ho
coulrt not get away any sooner, and
now he was back, wickeder than ever.
There was no mistake about it. The
sound of his voice was enough.
She asked, lifting her face toward
the celling. "Are you up there, Patin?"
Patin did not reply.
Then she went out, and In fear and
trembling, hey very Injurt shaking, sbo
climbed the ladder, opened the trap
door, looked, saw nothing, went in,
searched nnd found no one.
Sitting down on a truss of hay, she
commenced to cry, but while she was
sobbing, pierced by a poignant and
supernatural fear, she heard in the
room below her l'atiu talking. lie
seemed less in a rage, more easy, and
he was saying:
"Dirty weather! Hard wind! Dirty
weather! I've had no breakfast, it!"
She sang out through the ceiling:
"Here I am, Patln! I'm going to
make your soup. Don't be mad; I'm
coming!"
And she came down again, running.
There was 110 one there.
She felt herself as faint as if death
had touched her, and she was starting
to flee for help to the neighbors when
the voice cried, right in her eur:
"I've had no breakfast, !"
And the parrot in his cage looked at
her with his little round eye, sly and
wicked.
She, too, looked at him, dismayed,
murmuring:
"Ah, it's you!"
He began again, wagging his head:
"Wait, wait, wait! I'll teach you to
skulk, I will!"
What passed in her mind? She felt,
she realized, that it was he, sure
enough, the dead man, who walked
again, who came back hidden in the
feathers of this bird to torment her
once more, to swear, as before, all day
and bite her and shout at her to bring
the neighbors and make them laugh at
her. She rushed on the cage, opened it.
seized the bird, which, defending him
self, tore her flesh with beak and
claws. Hut she held him with all her
strength with both hands and, throw
ing herself on the ground, rolled upon
him with the frenzy of a mad woman,
crushing him, making of him a shred
of flesh, a little soft green thing that 110
longer moved, no longer spoke, hung
limp. Then, wrapping him up In a
towel as in a shroud, she ran out In
her chemise, barefooted, to the edge of
the quay, which the sea was lapping in
little waves, and, shaking the cloth, she
let full into the water the little dead
thing that looked like a handful of
grass. Then she came back, threw her
self 011 her ki\ees before the empty cage
and, upset completely by what she had
done, besought pardon of the good Lord,
sobbing as if she had committed some
frightful crime.
The Joke.
A variation from the usual "English
man and joke" story was told In an
up town hotel the other night. lie was
a young Englishman and was riding
horseback with an American friend
from Uye to Larclimout.
"I sny, old chap," said the Eng
lishmun, "what is written on that sign
by the wayside?"
"Why. it says 'Private Road,'" re
turned his friend. "You ought to go tc
a blacl smlth and learn to read signs."
The Englishman was Interested.
"1 say, old chap," was his reply, "is
that a joke?"
"Of course it Is a joke. You will see
It next week if you work hard."
"Next week! Ah, smarty, I'll lay you
a bawtle of wine that I see it before
mawuing."
The wager was taken, and by the
time they had reached their journey's
end the American had forgotten the
wager. Not so his friend, lie thought
and thought, and shortly before 1
o'clock the following morning he burst
Into his friend's room with flying hair
and radiant with elation.
"I have it! I have it!" he cried, bare
ly able to talk. "The joke is—suppose
the blacksmith was not in."
lie got the wine.—New York Sun.
.lay Gould'. Timely Hint.
"I called upon Jay Gould once to ask
him for a rule that would bring me
success in my work," said Edward
Boyer, principal of one of the fines!
grammar schools in New York city
"Every one who knew Jay Gould knew
that he was a preoccupied man, that
his thoughts were usually far away
from the present scene.
"1 was introduced to him by a friend
but 1 felt that lie was scarcely con
scions of my presence. We had plan
ned to make some startling remark to
attract his attention, ami as 1 did so
the great tinaneier looked at me for a
second as if he saw me for the first
time. Then I put my important ques
t ion.
"'What is your business?' lie asked
as quick as a flash.
" 'I am a schoolmaster.' I replied.
" 'Then let other people do the work '
"The advice was to the point and lias
proved Itself invaluable."—Success.
Doesn't Seem l.lkely.
"And just think! They say Miss Old
enoild used to be quite a matchless
beauty!"
"Really! I wonder if that can be the
reason she never made a match?"—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Ills Cruel Wife.
The Count -Dear me, baron, your
face! Dueling again at your age and
so recently married?
The Baron—Acli, mi! It is my Amer
ican wife. She makes me eat with a
fork.—Life.
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Reporter—There's a newsboy on the
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stuff that isn't 111 the paper.
Great Editor—Gee .Wliittnker! Then
put It in.—New York Weekly.
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Mrs. Sleepyizc—Henry, the alarm
clock just went off.
Mr. Sleepylze—Thank goodness! 1
hope the thing'll never come back.—
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES
DELATTARI, SUHQI'BH ANN A ANI)
SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.
Time tali)* in effect March 10, 1001.
Train* icuve Drifton for Jeddo, Kckley, Hazle
Krook. Stockton, Dearer Meadow Read, Konn
and H*xleton Junction at *OU a m, daily
except Sunday; and 7 07 a ra, • '*% p m, Sunday.
Train* leave Drifton for Harwood, Cranberry,
lomhicken and Dermyer at lid u rr, dally
except Sunday; and 7 4/7 a m. tit p m, Suu
*7*
ITaina leave Drifton for Oaeida JuncUon,
Harwood Road, Humboldt Koad, Oneida and
-keppton at 4CO a m. daily except Sum
day; and 7 07 n , 2 il p M, Sunday.
'Trains Irareliazleton Junction for Harwood
Cranberry, Tomhicken and Lerinfer at 6 We i.
daily except Sunday; aad aai.tapra,
Sunday.
Train* leave liazleton Jnection fer Oneida
Junction, Harwood Koad, Humboldt Koad,
t >nrid and S'neppton at ft W2, II id a m, 4 41 p ra,
daily except Suudaj; and 737 a m, 3 11 p at,
Sunday,
Trains leave l)rinrcr for Tomhieken. Cran
berry. Hm wood, liazleton Junction and Rosa
at SHI p m, daily except Sunday; ana ") S7
a m, 107 a as. Sunday.
Trains * krypton for Oneida, Humboldt
Koad, Harwood Koad, Oneida Junction. Hnzio
i ton Junction and Loan at Til am, 12 40, 6/
p ra, Jaliy except Sunday; r.nd S 11 u m, 344
p m, Sunday,
j Trains leave Skeppton for Reaver Meadow
I Koad, Stockton. Ha/.le Brook Eckley, Jrdde
and Driltcn at a 7i p m, daily, except Sunday;
and A 11 in, 2 44 p m, Sunday.
Trains leurv liazleton J mac-Mem fer Reaver
Meadow Koad, Stockton. Hazle Rioek, Eckley,
| icddo and Drifton at til p m, daily,
•xoept .Sunday, and 10 IP r ra. 4 4® p at. Sunday.
All trains connect at liazleton junction with
-Icotric car* tor Ilaxietou, Jeaneavilla, Auden
ricd and other points oa the Traction Cora
•ny's line.
Traiu leaving- Drifton at 000 a m makes
on unction at Deriuger with P. It. Ft. train* for
Wilkesbarre, Sunbury, Karrisburg and points
IJ'TBRII (7. Wtrm. NuwwrfwWmdvat.
J EHIGII VALLEY RAILROAD,
i-s March 17, 1901.
AKRAXOEMKST or FAAKK6EU TRAINS.
LEAVE PUKELALFL).
5 12 m for Weatherly, Mnuch Chunk,
Allentown, 1 tot hicbcra, Kaston, Phila
delphia, New York and Delnne and
Potuville.
? 40 a m for Sandy Run. White llavon,
Wilkes-liar re, Pittaton and Scranton.
<s 18 a in lor liazleton, Weatherly, Maueh
Chunk. Alle.utown, Bethlehem. Ramon,
Philadelphia, New York, Delano and
Pot i aril le.
9 30 a in for Ha/.leton, Mahaney City, Shen
andoah, St. t arrnel. Sharaokin.
1 20 P ni for Weatherly, Mauch < kunk, Al
len town, lictblchmn, RasLon, Philadel
phia and New York.
3 34 { m for Sandy 'ltun, White Haven,
Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and all polnte
West.
/ 29 p tn for Ha/.leton, Delano and Pette
ville
ARRITR AT FRKELARD.
7 40 * ni from Wontherly, Pottsville and
Ha/.leton.
9 17 am from Philadelphia. F.xston, Rethle
liein, Allentown, Mauch ( hunk. Wonth
erly. liazleton. Mabanoy City, Shenan
doah, Mt. Cnrmel and Shamokin.
9 30 a m from Scranton, Wilkes-IJarre and
White Haven.
1 12 P ni from New York, Philadelphia,
Kaston, liethlehem, Allentown, Mauch
Chunk und Weatherly.
6 34 j m Prom New York. Philadelphia,
Kaston. Bethlehem, Allentown. Potts
ville, Shamokin, Mt. Cartuel, Shenan
doah. Mahunoy City and liazleton.
7 29 ]> m from Boranton, Wilkes-Darre and
White Haven.
For further information inquire of Ticket
A proms.
iOLLIN H Wl LBCR,General Superintendent,
2' i ortlaiidt Street, New York City.
CHAS. S. LKK General Passenser Aaent.
LI; Cortlandt Street. New York City.
G. J. GILDItOY, Division Superintendent,
Hazleton, Pa.
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