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,