Bird With a Broken rinlnn. 1 walked through th woodland meadows, Whore swoot the thrushos slug, And found on A hod of mossoa A bird with A broken wing. I healed Its wound, nnd often morning It sang Its old, sweet strain i But the bird with tho broken pinion Novor soared to high again. I found a young llfo broken By sin's seductive nrt And touched with A Chrlstllko pity I took him to my heart, He lived with A noble purpose, And struggled not In vain But tho Ufa thnt sin had stricken Never soared as high Again, But tho bird with tho broken pinion Kept Another from tho snnro ; And the life thnt sin has stricken liaised Another from despair. Each loss has Its compensation. There Is healing for every pnln I But the bird with the broken pinion Kover soars as high Again. Hczoklnh liutterworth. THE WOMAN IN BLACK. Traveling recently from Chicago to New York, I found in the morning, upon crawling ont of my berth, that the train was standing stock still. The porter told me it bad been standing thus for an honr and a half, while I bad been sleeping the sleep of the just. I dressed and peeped ont, and saw that we were alongaido the platform of a country station. I took a good breakfast in the dining car, and thon went out to stroll np and down the platform. In the cab sat the driver, or engi neer as they call him, nlone, WAiting. With the eatural fondness of an Eng lish man for machinery, I stopped and gossiped with him a moment about the engine. Then I o (To re J him a cigar, which It took with thanks, and asked me to come in. I swung myself intb his cab. The engineer, a bright, pleasant faced man, about 40 years old, ex plained to mo the uses of the numer ous valves nnd levers about him. They were all as bright and shining as polish could make thorn, for an en gineer is as proud of his engine as any housekeeper is of the neatness of her dwelling. I glanced at the two shining steam gauges with the clock between them, and then I noticed what seemed to be an ordinary white moth, mounted in a gilt frame, hang ing against the wall of the cab. "Is thnt for an ornament?" I asked, pointing at the moth. The driver suiilod. "Well, partly for an ornament, " be said, "but a good deal more for sentiment. I put that moth there beoanse it saved my lifo, and the lives of 250 people as well." "How in the world could an insect save human lives?" I asked. "Well, I will tell you if you want to bear tho story. I reckon there's tirao enough before we are able to got out of this." "I settled mysolf in the absent stoker's soat aud prepared to listou." "It wasn't such a long time back," said the engineer, "only a year ago last spring. I was running this very train, and this very engine old 449. My fireman, Jim Meade, the same fellow as I have got now. Yon can aee him over there leaning up against the telegraph offioe. "We were timed to loave M about 1 o'olook in the morning, and to arrive in S about 6 o'clock. On the night when the thing took, place a fearfnl storm of wind and rain bad been raging sinoe early evening, and was at the height of its fury when I started from the engine shed. "It was about midnight and the wind seemed to sweop clear round and through the building. It was terribly dismal. Jim was there, and the en gine was all ready, so, aftor getting my working clothes on, I ran the en gine down to the station. Our train, the vestibule limited, was an hour late. I gave the engine a thorough oiling, and made sure that all was in order. "As we sat in the cab we opuld hear tho storm raging outside, while the rain, driven by the gusts of wind, beat fiercely against the windows. Pres ently onr train came in long and heavy, consisting mainly of sleepers. "By and bye the little gong above my head clanged sharply, and with a puff and hiss of esoaping steam we were off into the night and storm, rattling over junotions, post signal lights, and between long lines of car riages till, with a roar and a rumble, we rushed over the long iron bridge and away through the bills, waking their slumbering echoes with our shrill whistle. "The darkness grew mora intense, if possible, while the wind shrieked by. The rain became more blinding; till nothing oould be distinguished in the gray murk which enveloped us. "Bnddenly through the mist and rain. I aaw looming right in front oi ns tha gigantio figure of a woman wrapped in a long, black mantle, which seomod to flutter in tho wind. She waved groat spectral arms about in swift, twisting movements. As I stood looking in horror, the figure vouched with a final wave of tho arms. 'I was too much astonished and stupefied evon to make a movement of my band toward tho throttle At that moment Jim had been bonding over tho fire. As he looked up ha ex claimed : " 'Halloa, Frank. What's up? You look as though you had seen a ghost "I did not answer. My mind was too full of the strange figure I bad percoived. "We were now nesring Rock Creek, where there is a bridge over a deep stream. I felt more nervous than ever. We dnshed around the curve and whizzed by Rook Creek station, which is only a mile from the bridge. As we passed I glanced at the steam gauge for an instant. A cry from Jim caused me to turn quickly toward him. He sat rigid, his eyes largo and staring. His jaw dropped, the very picture of terror. He pointed with a shaking finger out into the darkness. I turned and looked, and thon I be gan myself to shake. There on the metals was the same hideous figure of a woman outlined on the background of light from the engine, now motion less, now whirling in a witoh dance, but all the time motioning ns back. " 'Frank,' gasped Jim, but scarcely above a whisper, 'don't go over the bridge. Don't go for heaven's sake I Don't go until yon are sure it's safe.' "I suppose I was pretty badly scared. At any rate, I put on the brake for all I was worth. I couldn't have resisted the impulse to stop the train. "As we came to a stop I could hear the roar of the water in Rook Creek just ahead. I stopped out of the cab and met the conductor coming up. " 'What's the matter? What's the matter?' he asked impatiently. "I felt decidedly foolish. There was no gigantio woman to be seen now. Nothing could be made out more than a few feet away in the blinding storm. " 'Well,' said I, 'we've seen some thing. I don't know what it is seemed like it was a great black ghost that was waving its arms, aud warning us not to go forward.' "The conductor looked at me curi ously. 'Are you crazy, Frank,' he said. 'I should think you were. But we're so near the bridge we'll take a look at it' "We took our lantorns and went ahead, leaving Jim with the engine; be looked frightened to death. But I toll yon, we hadn't gone five rods be fora we stopped in horror. "There at our feet lay a black chasm, filled with the roar of tho river, ns swollen with the spring rains, it dashed down toward the lake. The bridge was washed away. "Only a few splinters of wood and twisted iron dung to the abutment, while now far out over the blackness, that awful black figure of a woman danoed again on the thin air, relieved against tho shaft of light that the headlight threw. "It was flinging its arms about as if in wild glee. The conductor stared at the chasm and then at me. " 'Was that the thing you saw when you stopped the train?' he asked, "'Yes.' "'Well, it's somothing more than luck that saved us tonight, Frauk.' "We wont book slowly to the train, feeling very queer and thankful too, I can assure you. Several passengers had come running forward by this time. Among them was a young fol low from Chicago, about IS years old, who was smarter than the whole of us, as it turned out . "When he was told of tho woman in black he turned aud looked at tho looomotive headlight Thon he ran up toward it I looked up as hti did so, and I saw a peculiar spot on the glass. " 'There's your woman in black I ' said the boy. "And there it was, sure enough that same moth miller that you sea there in the frame. He was clinging to the inside of the glass. As I tapped on the glass the creature flow back and lighted on the refleotor. "That's the whole story, sir. The moth, by fluttering on the glass just in front of the illuminator, bad pro duced a great black shadow like that of a oloaked woman darting in front of us, and when he flapped his wings in bis vain attempt to sail out through the glass, be gave bis mysterious shadow the appearanoe of waving the arms wildly. "Then when he flew back out of the direct ahiue of the light, the figure disappeared, of oourse. "We novor knew just bow he got in there, but no doubt it happened when Jim went to fix the light at the pump ing station. "Anyhow, he saved our lives by scaring ns with thnt woman in block. "So you see why I keep the moth in the frame. It's to romiud me of the way we were saved that nig'ht Yen, you may call it accidental, but I callod it providontial." Pearson's Weekly. To Prevent Hydrophobia. For the consolation of nervous or timid poople, the bite of n dog even if it proved to be mad need not necessarily result in hydrophobia, though it is certainly advisable to treat every bite at once and to take every care to prevent evil conse quences. When you are attacked by a furious dog it is worth retnemboring that his instinct prompts him to always fly at any uncoverod portion of our body; so, if you have presence of mind, you can do something toward saving your solf by covering up your hands and protecting your face. The reason is that the dog's saliva contains the poison, and if his teeth have to pass through clothing, the probability is that the material will wipe the teeth clean before they enter the flesh, and thus render the wound very much less dangerous. Nevertheless, atteud at once to a bite given in anger by either dog or cat, for a very minute quantity of the poison introduced into the wound is sufficient to set up the dis ease if allowed to get into the system. This it will do if the blood carrying the poisonous germs is permitted to flow back to the heart in the ordinary course. The object, therefore, in these cases is to stop the circulation near the wound by making it bleed freely. If possible to do so, tie a string or liga ture tightly on the side of the wound nearest to the heart and set to work at onoe to bathe the bitten place. Warm water is best, but if there is none handy, use cold. If far away from water, the bite may be sucked, provided there are no cracks on lips or mouth. This method of inducing bleeding is, however, only to be used when no other is practicable. Should it be impossible to obtain medical assistance within a reasonable time some people recommend that the wound be cautorized with a red-hot wire, a poker or some such thing. But if a doctor can be had, you need only contiuue to bathe the spot uutil be arrives. Washington Star. How a Hnake Does It. The following is an interesting para graph iu a letter sent to friends here by Harry Hammond, formerly of this city, who is now making bis home in Florida: "Today I had the good luck to see a curious sight, that of one snake kill ing and swallowing auothor. We came on the scene just as a 'king' snake was killing a black snake, each a little over three foot long. Tho king was tied and coiled round tho black, and the lattcr's tail could just wiggle. Af ter a few minutes, during which tho king tied himself in the most curious knots and ran bis bead up and down bis viotim's writhing body, biting it here and there as if examining bis supper, be turned to the black's head, gave it a preliminary bite, and then slowly prooeeded to take the black snake into camp. It seemed impos sible that he could swallow a snake as long and as largo as himself, but he did. This is how be did it: "He would stretch his hoad as far as possible, get his teoth booked in his viotim's scales, then slip his body up till it was in wrinklos at bis nock and for some way down, thon looso his tooth hold aud elide his head for ward for another grip, just as if you were putting on a tight glove, in fact. It was tha most iutoresting oporatiou I thiuk I ever wituessud, and the king swallowed ull but three inches of the tail of the poor blacksnake and then, with that dungling from his mouth, glided off into the grass. We let him go, as he is a kuown enemy to the rattlesnakes aud often kills them." Indianapolis Journal The Useful Egg. An egg added to the morning enp of coffee makes a good tonic A mustard plaster with the white oi an egg will not leave a blister. A raw egg taken immediately will oarry down a fish bone that oannot be got up from the throat. The white skin that lines the shell of an egg is a useful application for boil. White of an egg beaten with loai sugar and lemon relioves hoarseness. Take a teaspoonful once every hour. A raw egg, with the yolk unbroken, tsken in a glass of wine, ie beneficial to convalescents. HF.AVr WEIGHT BILKS. Silk was never in greater demand than it will be this coming winter. The bosviest weaves, the thickest sords, will be most in favor. Light weight silks will be used only for lin ings. Heavy moires and richly bro jaded satins with raised flowors in sontrastiug hues, and in shades to match the ground tint, will be the fabrics for dinner and evening wear. ROW TO KEEP THE. ETCH BRtORT. Never rub your eyes norsllow your shildren to do so from their cradles. Veils are bad for the sight, especially those spotted or covered with a pat tern ; so eschew veils when you can.or wear the softest, clearest nut when obliged to do so. Never read in bed or whon lying on a sofa. Sit with your back to the light when engaged in reading or workiug. Pale blues or ;reens are the most restful wall papers for the eyes, whereas red is exceeding ly fatiguing. Do not read, write or work longer than two hours without resting your eyes and closing them fully five minutes. ARTIFICIAL OABDENS ON THE BEAD. A writer iu one of the London fashion papers hopes thnt the present fashion of wearing a quantity of arti ficial flowers ou the headgear will long flourish ns it gives employment to a very large class of poor womeu. Tak ing one thing with anothor, from the testhetin point of view, ladies may just as well wear flowers ns anything else. Englishwomen have a heavy taste in headgear, and a feather stuck in otherwise than with the most artist ic nicety always gives a ridiculous look to a bat or bonnet This is not o much the case with flowers, which are now lovelier than ever, and cau he manufactured in several different materials. There is no reason why this fashion should not bold its own in autumn aud winter as well as in luuinier, since velvet leaves and rich leep tiuts have so excellent au effect on either bonnets or cbnpeaux. FirtST WOMAN CYCLIST. Mrs. W. O. Smith, wife of tho man who iuvonted the drop frame bicycle, was the first woman to ven ture on a safety in this oouutry. She bad long udmircd the bioycle, but considered that riding a diamond frame was utterly out of the question. Eight years ugo she urged her hus band to invent a wheol which women could ride in safety and comfort, and some regard for the proprieties. Smith constructed a wheel on the lame principles involved iu the drop frame of today and it whs ridden by Mrs. Smith. It weighed sixty pounds. It was the goneral opinion at the time that a woman oould not maintain her equilibrium on a wheol any lighter than that Mrs. Smith, by the way, weighed but eighty pounds whuu she first be gan to ride the bicycle. Things have changod sinoe thou. Now tho bicycle is forty pouuds lighter and the women riders are heavier. MAKING OVER DISCARDED OOW.N8, A favorite gown of silk, cballie or any figured or striped material, ufter its original sorvico has expired, may bo made to do excellent duty as n teu gown. The bodice should be cut off neatly at tho belt liuo aud renovated, if needed, in any simple way by a jabot of laae or revers of velvet from some other diBoarded gown. The skirt is then ripped carefully, linings all taken out and sponged aud pressed, it need be, and from the best of it four straight widths, hemmed all round, exoept across the top, pre pared. . . , These are to be fitted to the waist two at the front and sides, and the other two laid in small plaits to join the back waist line. AU fly open from the waist, the polonaise for such beiug worn with an old black silk skirt. A very dressy, bouse gown made from a cballie that had a red flower in it was produoed in this way, and a skirt of white albatross whose waist was useless, wssoooiblned with it with most happy sffeot A. twist of ribbon is passed over the seam of waist and skirt tabs, ending in loops nnd flying ends in front O' course now materials should not be purchased unless n remnant of rib bon is picked np, but this model will be fouud vory helpful to combine nnd restore to service parts of two or three dresses thnt nre apparently useless. If the sleeves of the bodice have given out, a pair may be mado from the com bining skirt material. MB LOVP.LT CHILIAN WOMEN. The most striking features of the Chiliu oities Valparaiso aud Santisgo are those of its women. Certainly nowhere else in South America, if on all the western hemisphere, is there to be fouud so large a proportion of pretty women in a large population. The Spaniards say that the very air there conduces to a perfect develop ment of form and feature. However that may bo, it is a fact that the proportion of beautiful wom eu to be seen in the cities meutioned is remarkable. The pure blood of the German, French aud English baa mingled with the Iodo-Spanish and the result is a race with the graces and beauties of eaoh, beside which the far-famed beauty of the Indo-Spanish women seems tame and insipid. With their beauty they have much esse and grace of movement, and walk with tha long, swinging, virile stride of the English girl. Strange to say the modern Chilian beauty has little love for the Spaniards aud resents the imputation thnt she is an "Indo-Espauol." But they are pleased immensely, any and all of them, when referred to as the "Yan kees of South America." On the promenades or when shop ping, ridiug and attending to ordinnry social dutios, they are attired quite as fashionably as any of their sisters fur ther north. While attending church services, however, they invariably dress in black nnd duoird the latest French fashions in millinery for a mautua, which has a bewitching effect when worn by one of these glorious seiioritai. The mautua is the common head-dross of the poorer classes. The bruuette is the more common type of beauty, though a magnificent type of blonde is not uncommon. The brunettes have clear, olive skin, their eyes, big and blnok, are lovoly beyond description. In both Valparaiso and Santiago womou net as conductors ou the street oars. The oars are double-decked aud the oonductor,who wears a smart, uniform, has a seat on the rear plat form. There she sits and collects tho fares of passengors as they got on, and she rings the register with which all the cars are fitted, without leaving her soat She is nffuble, polito, even-tempered and accommodating to every one but tho male flirt New York World. FASHION NOTES. Autumn hats ure more than ordinar ily picturesque. Tho sack or box coat is very much iu evidence this fall. Velvet gowus aud jackets are fash iouublo for autumn wear. Links are used, to the exclusion of buttons, to fastyu tho cuff of shirt waists. Ombre or shaded ribbons and al paca ribbons, which shed the dust, ure the ribbons for this fall aud next spring's wear. Ribbon bows are not now used in the buir, unless it be a very small one used to support an aigrette or some ornament when in full dress. For children it is always wise to make your desigu as simple as possi ble. Avoid two shades of ribbon if one will do as well and any unneces sary number of feathers and orna weuts, Nothiug is more becoming to the small girl than mitlle aud laoe. She can boar it in most delicate tints next to her fresh youug skin, and it will add only new oharms to her clear, laughing eyes. The latest mourning paper is of dead white with monogram or ad dress in blaok. This is a great im provement upon the gloomy bordered symbol of woe so universally in vogu among strioken letter-writers. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Falling in love is a serious accident. Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. He is only exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar as in a king. Tho wenltbiost man is he who pos sesses a contented mind. We cannot do evil to othors with out doing it to oursolves. People who carry sunshine with them, shine the brightest in the darkest places. The man with only one idea is much more dangerous than the man without any ideas at all. The things which a man jokes him self about are just tho things that he doesn't like to have other people joke about A great many will be looking for their wings when they awake in the other world and will not be able to find them. A woman mny know a man is lying when be tells her she is pretty, but she would not have him puuished for the fault .Dyspepsia Proof. Much is said about American dys pepsia, but there is one native raoe of America that is certainly not greatly troubled by the modern enrse. The sturdy little Eskimos defy all the laws of hygiene and thrive. The Es kimo, like the ordinary dweller in Americs, eats until he is satisfied, but there is this difference, that he never is satisfied while a shred of the feast remains uuconsumed. His capacity is limited by the supply, and by that only. He cannot make Any mistake about the manner of cooking bis food, for as a rule he does not oook it, nor so far as the blubber or fat of the arotio Animal is concerned, about his method of eating it, for he simply does not eat it; he cuts it into long strips an inch wide and au iuch thick, and then lowers the strips down hia throat as one might lower a rope into a welt And after all that be does not suf fer from indigestion. Ho can make a good meal off the flesh and skin of the walrus, provision so hard and gritty that in cutting np tho animal the knife must be continually sharp ened. The teeth of the little Eskimo child will meet in a bit of walrus skin as the toeth of an American child would meet iu the flesh of an apple. And that when the bide of the walrus is from one-half to one and one-half inohes in thickness and bears considerable resemb! aijco to the skin of nn elephsut The Eskimo child will bite it and di gest it, too, and never know what dys pepsia means. Popular Soionce News. The Tongue. The perfectly healthy tongue is clean, moist, lies loosely in the mouth, is round at tho edge aud has no prom inent papilla). The tongue may be furred from local causes, or from sym pathy with the stomach, intestines or liver. The dry tongue ocours most frequently in fevers, and indicates a nervous prostration or depression. A white tongue is diagnostic simply of the feverish condition, with perhaps a sour stomach. When it is moist and yellowish brown it shows disordered digostion. Dry and brown indicates a low state of the system, possibly typhoid. When the tongue is dry and red and smooth, look out for inflammation, gastrio or intestinal. When the papiilm on the tongue are raised and very red we call it a strawborry tongue aud that means scarlet fever. Sharp pointed red tongue will bint brain irruption ot inflammation, and a yellow coated in dicates liver derangement When so much can bo gained from au examin ation, of the tongue how important it is that the youngest ohild should be taught to put its tongue out so that it can be visible to the uttermost point in the throat New York Medical Re porter. Banana-Leaves. Banana-leaves serve many useful purposes, for of them are made tough paper, from the thinnest tissue to thickest cardboard ; clothing, hats and brushes, mats and hammocks. Mil lions of pounds of banana fiber, mis named Manila "hemp," are eaoh yeat brought to the United States or taken to Europe, and spun into cordage from the fineness of silk up through the size of twine to the bigness ot mamouth cables; and many a dainty handkerchief and bit ot fine laoe has been woven from the fibers ot banana leavea by the deft fingers of tho women of South Amerioa and cf tha fat East,
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