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True Flying.

Blanche Willis Howard, in Golfers Weekly
1t is significant that many sports at their
best suggest flying. Riding has a touch of
1t, when, dominated by the use of spirited
and glad movement. one is hardly conscious
of the body, while all the f1eetness and
lightness of the adorable creature beneath
one seem ones own. Skating, one flies
and in Waiting, under perfect conditions
still more, because borne a.ong upon the
pinions of rhythm and tone. Swimming pos
sesses marvellous poetry OF motion. Well
out among long soft waves-dreamily watch
ing drifting Clouds fitting sea-birds and
dipping sails, one is waited lifted set free
in strange obliviousness. Of ones cor
poreal impedimenta. Rowing, or rather be-
ing rowed, upon a silent summer sea where
hovers a sort of twilight of the gods, also
has the floating feeling. And a good sail
boat-ah, that is a bird But given an up
land road smooth asphalt and stretching
on interminable miles and miles between
magnificent beech woods oaks pine woods
-undulating meadows and farms woods
again cool and fragrant-woods at intervals
all day Tonga sky slightly clouded a
breeze from behind, and the wheel you love
the rest may reason and wonder but
with apologies to Abt Voxlerl we bicvclists
know what flying is. One forgets ones self
and the machine. One feels only mower
sEi1tness. JOY. the freshness on ones cheek
the scents or forest and field vistas OF ever
changing lovelineSs, and a glorious sensa-
ton AZ perpetual eight rs IL not
terribly fafiguing to tho knees?" people are
always lnQuirine. How shall we convince
tnem tnet cyclists IN such circumstances
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countered, also lined with dynamite like
the first. Then another open space and
another cut in the rock and still another
so that four of these forts have to be gone
through to get at the outlaws, who have
thus skilfully combined science with brute
force and reckless daring. only one morse
can go through at q time and two men
cannot walk abreast in the passages. There
is absolutely no other way except by bal
loon of reaching these men.
When these four passages are gone
through q level space is reached with
blasted out This is headquarters and here
the outlaws congregate and form plans for
future crime Chief CaSsidyS cave is lux
uriouSly fitted up, and the men all have
the comforts of civilization. AT the chiefs
elbow are the buttons which explode the
mines III the passages and bells which ring
when the sentry gives the alarm. The pro-
lection is ample and complete. Down one
side of the sheer cliff the outlaws have
rugged a windlass for hauling up provisions
and even cattle.
The horses are trained to go noiselessly
and carefully through the tortuouS pas
sages, but cattle could not do it. In this
lair, more fabulous than any described in
yellow-backed literature, is almost untold
wealth gathered by the gang and stored
there in the dry caves. No man not a
member of the gang has been curious
enough to penetrate it, but this description
was obtained after months of patient work
by the Thiel agency and is practically ac-
curate. TO enter means death. If you con-
template visit to Robbers Roost, bid
goodbye to your friends.
CASSIDY, the CLl6l, - ltOJ oil Olu
He is of medium height, brawny, with the
strength of a giant He is smooth-shaven,
has an affection of the left eye, but can
shoot to kill and fears neither God, man
nor devil. About him are men as reckless
and daring, but without the nerve which
makes him a leader. One of the gang is
coal-black herculean negro, whose name
nobody knows.
The outlaws have confederates on the out
side who pose as respectable ranchers and
business men of various kinds. These help
in the disposal of the cattle "rustled'' by
the gang. The hide containing the. brand
is cut out and new hide substituted. Then
the cattle are allowed to Craze until the
wounds heal. when they are disposed Of
Over 800 of these stolen cattle were recent
ly recovered by the Thiel agency. In Salt
Lake City are confederates, respected men,
and the system of this band is so complete,
their fertilization so perfect and their
wealth and daring so great that their ex-
termination seems impossible. 1t is the
greatest gang of outlaws this or any age
or country ever saw. Quantrell and his
band of guerrillas, the Younger and James
boys and all others were infants compared
to Cassidy and his Robber Roost layout,
the Thiel men say.
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studies, and often makes a serious drain
upon the resources of parents who have to
take care of the pennies, and a nuisance to
those who believe in teaching their boys
and girls to do so.
Going off half cooked at the enemy is not
patriotism. If there should be war 1t would
be much better TO keep boys and girls busy
learning a great deal about other matters
than in taking up collections for war ships
If there should not be war how nonsensicaI
to keep the war craze going for year in
the minds and the pocketbooks of ten mill
lion children. 1t is all very well to instruct
minors in the events of current history
but it is very easy, apparently, for certain
instructors to let an illogical enthusiasm
blaze away to the disadvantage of all con-
cerned. The solid. well-poised minds, that
have from time to time shown their poise
and wisdom in the counsels of the Nation
We're not trained in feverish schools, but in
those of some repose. Tt is well that the
stars and stripes wave above thousands of
schoolhouses all over this country. The
silent sermon of the flag will be of unspeak-
ably more value to the boys and girls, and
therefore to their country. when they are
men and women, than penny collections for
the intiaming of youthful jingoism.
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dictionary, see now demagogy is, pro-
ncunced and then turn to pedagogy.
Pardon me, was speaking of you, said
the torturer, with cherubic smile. In
your peroration this occurs: An incognito
communist, being commandant on the from
tier, in one of his hunting expeditions came
upon an Indian, who, to the accompaniment
of the soughing wind. was softly playing
a minuet on a flageolet, for the purpose or
quieting a wounded hydrophobic Bengal
tiger penned up in hovel.
1.-The officers companion, Malay from
Singapore, acting as seneschal, or pursul-
want. suggested houghing the animal, or
giving it some cocaine, morphine or saline
yeast. Accordingly this nauseous dose was
administered. The rampant beast there
upon coming in contact with dllapidated
divan, filled with dynamite, babe adleu 10
things sublunary, and proceeded to grace
the empyreaI regions You look into a
dictionary once in while?'
At this taunt, the choleric old man
launched forth an objurgatag tiraaei acyi
ficabie to the juggernaut Of alleged caGate dC
into a dictionary? Dictionary be II
Here archangels began the sonorous
chanting of the music of a bolero, and the
disputants adjourned sine die.
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A Cnrnet-Cleaning Fluid.

Baltimore American.
II used last year, a carpet-cleaning fluid
which did very satisfactory work on an
old Brussels carpet-quite as good in it's
results, so far as l am able to judge as
those sold at 80 cents for two gallon jugs.
1t has been such a labor-saver to me that
1 send the recipe to the Household.
You want a bar-laundry size-of ivory
soap, four ounces of borax and the same
quantity of sal soda, half q pint of al
cohol and five gallons of soft water. Shave
the soap measure out one gallon of water
and add to ii the soap, borax and sal soda.
Boil till thoroughly dissolved. Take from
the fire and add the four gallons OF water
and the alcohol. Make the day before you
want to use it, let stand over night and in
the morning it will be thin jelly.
An ingram carpet should be taken up and
the dust removed before cleaning; a Brus-
sells may be cleaned without taking up.
Both should be cleaned after being tackled
down.
Pour a little of the jelly on the carpet,
scrub with bristle brush, then wipe clean
with a sponge dipped in clean water. Wet
only a small place at a time, and rinse as
YOU go. Choose a day when you can have
the windows open, ii possible, and keep
people out of the room till the carpet is
Drefectly dry.
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ROBBERS, RoosT IN UTAH.
ImpregnabIe Mountain Fortress Tor
"Butch" Cassidy's Outlaws.

Denver Post.
Robbers Roost, where the famous band
of Utah outlaws are intrenched, is place
as impossible of capture as was the anclent
pass of Thermopalae. Butch CASSIDY Is tne
leader of the gang, which consists OF t W.
score desperate men, all of them wanted Tor
various heinous crimes. Maxwell, walker,
Johnson who killed Ranchman Hoy TINS
week, and Grimes and Moore are rev OF OF
these men. The latter was once asked IL
he was compelled to leave Texas. .
''Why no. he said; they wanted me 70
stay A sheriff and posse followed me TOT
over three hundred miles 70 eaten up Win
me and beg me to go back
This story was told this morning py Mail
ager Payne, of the Thiel detective agency.
Ha has had detectives up in that country
for a long time, and has a full description
OF the fortress in which the gang NOES ~
is practically impregnable: All the men IN
troops with heavy guns could not reduce It;
An armed expedition sent against II WoulQ
fail. The Robbers Roost is located IN "na s
are called the Henry mountains, south ana
a little west of the Green river, in Utan
1t is not very far from Vernai, the hearesI
telegraph station. Brown dole, w WHEY
Hoy was killed by Johnson. is In the Iool-
hills of these mountains. The entrance 10
the roost is a narrow passage blasted IN tne
solid rock high up on the side OF an ailnosl
age is straight and only wide enough for a
horse to go through. then there Is q larger
space like room, big enough Tor tne morse
to turn and then the passage makes rignC
angled turn, going in a narrow lane as pc
fore out to an open space on the mountain.
This passage is lined with small holes
drilled in the rock in which dynamite or
giant powder Is placed with wires. running
from each of these holes UP 70 the neau-
quarters Of Chief Cassidy. There electric
batteries are placed and q touch OF the pus-
ton would blow up a thousand men. a
sentry stands guard night and DAY az TINS
entrance and has electric signal warns his
chief Of the approach OF enemies.
After the firet passage through the rock
is passed there IS clear travelling for q few
rods, when another similar passage Is en-
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two ounces: cucumber emulsion, one ounce.
elder-fi0wer water, four ounces: strained
juice of two lemons. The mixture should be
dsed night and morning, AID applied with
a soft rag or sponge.
Silver that has been laid away and thus
become badly furnished can be cleaned
quickest If the first application of the whit
piication Afterward dry whiting can be
used as usual.
A pair of curtains received by a bride
We're the work of the donor. They were of
sage green serge, with punches of scarlet
peoples at intervals along one side. They
were made with knowledge of the room
which they will adorn.
Striped silks of bright blue, green and red
with plenty of orange. display their gor-
geouS colors among the new parasos, but
the pretttest of all the stripes are the black
and white. The special elegance of many
OF the new parasols is confined to the lin
ing, which is chiffon snirred into puffings, or
a deep ruffie of lace.
The latest novelty in petticoats to wear
with evening gowns is made of soft muslin
IN pink, blue or yellow, pattelasd with
dainty rosebuds. 1t is made win a deep
Hounce, trimmed round and round with va
lenciennes Insertion in straight or Vandyke
form, and the number of frills of lace al,
the foot is limited only by the length of
your purse
Close trim and natty in effect are all of
the new tailor gowns made by celebrated
French artists. Skirts are narrowly gored,
sleeves are carefully fitted and very slight
~ trimmed, and yet this season these goods
cause the beauty of the models consists so
much in the hang of the skirt, the draperies
ana trimmings of the bodice and the artistic
but indescribabie blending Of colors.
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AnriI.

I come, like a hope to a gloomy breast,
With comforting smiles, and tears
OF sympathy for the earth's unrest
And news that the summer nears,
For the feet of the young year every day
Patter and patter and patter away.
I thrill the world with a strange delight;
The birds sing out with a WILL
And the herb-lorn lea is swift bedight
With cowsp and daffodil;
While the rain for an hour or two every day
Patters and patters and patters away.
sing of love, and my strains console
The wish Of the ming mind.
And their echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow on my murnurous wind;
And hearts with true love every day
Patter and patter and patter away.
BERNARD Malcolm Ramsay, in Pail Mall Maya
zine.
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Art Amateur

Art Amateur.
In selecting a piece of china, there are
two things to be considered: are we going
to make q picture or decorate the china?
And the use for which it is intended de-
cides the matter. If it is a picture, then
the china is merely surface to work on,
and the palmer it is the better. Such nrna-
Inent as it may have is only an accessory,
d fting or frame for the picture, some
g to be kept subordinate, not detract-
from the central idea And SO for our
solrre we can use any shape we may
.aney. even if it happens to be the much
abused chop dish, for then it ceases to be
q plate for chops. Don't call it by that
name or economize by using it as such;
there is no poetry in holding greasy meat
On the dainty petals of a rose, a sunset
sky, or the head of fair woman And il
is the same thing with plates, which are
the most available and in many ways the
most acceptable surface TO work on. AS
the foundation for pictures, they are no
longer receptacles for any food that will
soil, or cause them 10 be cut or scratched,
natural anu proper decorations for the
table.
But the decoration of china is another
thing, and in Ii no charm of color or lavish
use Of gold viii conceal bad design: yet
every one is considered capable of making
such design; some even boasting. their
and from the results we are not disposed
70 question the matter. If one were to
photograph all the oddities and incongrui-
ties of this kind seen in a years time the
collection would make a good object lesson.
Some OF these mistakes arise from careless
lieSs, some from perseverity. and some from
ignorance. The use of the article and some
times the ownership is to be considered
Dainty nOWers, gold and jewels may beau
tify the engagement cup given a young
girl, but are hardly the thing for a mans
mustache cup. / have in mind good wcm-
an who decorated what she called break
fast service for her husband-cup and
saucer. oatmeal bowl, and plate She
sprinkled them over with spring wild flow
ers, 'careleSsly, as though they were Just
thrown down., and then worked out a
chain of pearls around the edge of every
piece. With patient, loving care she shaded
each, bringing out the light and half light
and warn. reflections, and gave them a
dainty setting Of gold. 1t would have been
ludicrous, had ii not been almost pitiful
And the style, as well as the use mas
much TO do with choosing the decoration.
Flowers OF the garden will hardly look
well on a dish having shell and seaweed
coco ornament. We would not paint cupids
or Vatican figures on a beer mug, or a
Dutch smoking scene on a Greek vase The
head OF little child or such field flowers
as breathe the spirit of the woods and
meadows will be overpowered by a heavy
gold. A gypsy head. or picturesque peas
ant, or one of Greutzner'S jolly monks
wants nothing of delicate scroll work such
as suits court beauty. But certain flow
ers that custom associates with artificial
life and high state of cultivation. such
good deal more of gold work and orna-
ment.
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odds and Ends.

The best way of meeting the loss of appe-
tite and languor so common in the spring
is with acid salads of good green herbs and
of fruits used in desserts.
To wash a glass which has held milk
plunge it first into cold water before put
ting ii into warm. The same rule holds
good for egg cups or spoons from which
eggs have been eaten.
White serge gowns are made very striking
with n bodice of taffeta in some bright
color, laid in tiny pox plaits from neck to
belt. The sleeves and wide collar are Of
serge, and tie skirts are quite plain.
Glass spoons are sold at the drug stores
for the taking OF medicines which may tar
nish silver. Better. however. than these
are the glass tubes which keep such power
full drugs away from the teeth as well.
Pickles are by no means so deleterious to
the health as some would have us believe.
Used in moderation they are necessary to
some and the old saying. "One mans meat
is another's poison. certainly applies here
The following IS a remedy for oily skim:
LIQUID refined honey, ens ounce alcollols
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ROYAL APPAREL.
Gorgeous Jewels and Priceless Laces
AdOrn German Ladies'.
Tnudon T.attar In Non, vrrlr KFou - t..


AdOrn German Ladies'.
London Letter in New York Mail and Ex-
press.
1 do not often treat you to much gossip
about royalties, or their clothes which to
tell the truth, are not always worth speak
ing Of The other day / got a letter from a
friend of mine in Berlin, who gave me an
account of a wonderful ball given by the
hero of the mailed fist and his Empress. in
the white hall of the royal palace. The Ger
man Empress, who invariably is at her best
at night, looked like magnificent adver-
tisament for the silver question, for she was
all in brOcade of the richest silver tissue,
with an enormous train bordered with
rucneS of silver gauZe. Her bodice was u
blaze of diamonds, and, although extremely
decollete, was unornamented, save with a
spray of pink roses high on one shoulder
there were no sleeves, only the most mi
mute straps, while on the other side she
wore the star of the order of the Black
Eagle, an exceptionally handsome decora-
ton, entirely of diamonds made for her
especially by the Emperor'S orders. She
also wore a splendid crown of great dia-
rnonds tipped with pear-shaped pearls.
while even the wide expanse OF her splendid
neck and shoulders was nearly coyered by
rows upon rows of diamonds and pearls
Very lovely also was PriRcess Henry Of
Pless in a heavy white satin gown with the
train ard the front panel heavily emhFoI-
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possession. so that she Sent me most
gracious little note and accepted fer him
without hesitation. With Mrs. p. II WAS
more difficult. but, as luck would have u.
dined with her somewhere not long ago,
and the conversation turned upon people
being asked at the last moment to MI
ciety In that respect she said, decidedly.
'It should never be taken otherwise than as
a compliment
a week ten days later 1 scratched off a
seemingly hasty scrawl TO her. telling her
/ had been disappointed In one of my guests
and begging her TO do me the great favor
of taking the place of my delinquent She
fell into the trap at once. OF course she
answered; 1t will give me the greatest
pleasure to be of any use to you. and
shall have my reward by assisting at one
of your delightful entertainments.
Yes, l think the dinner was a success IS. :,
1t would have been if i had had Mrs. A.
ard Mr.. b.. AS long as / seem TO be max
ing confession she continued, Il think
/ will make a clean breast of il. i fear ]
must cry mea culpa in other things, for /
simply cannot stand having dull dreary
dinners. j find out peoples engagements
by all sorts of devices, and time my invi-
Dear. stupid Mrs Dullard said to me the
other day, 1t is so unfortunate, but every
time you have asked US to dinner we have
been engaged and ] hear yours are the
most pleasurable functions given.
- You are too good l murmured: the
next time / hope L shall be more fortu-
nate.
ITO go on with my shocking confessions.
/ even have been known TO give deliberate
ghost parties. What are those? Why, en-
tertainments which are never Intended to
take place, for the reason that every one
asked is already engaged for that even
ing"
what am TO think, then, if l have an
engagement when / receive an invitation
from you?" demanded her friend, rather
Indignantly.
why, of course, dear, would not have
told you if my precautions could possibly
apply to you" answered Mrs. Machiavelli,
and her tact saved her.
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collections in Public schools.
Boston Transcript.


1t is time to call halt with no uncertain
sound in regard to the taking up of collec-
tions in public schools. 1t is proposed Seri-
ously by IA New Jersey teacher that the ten
millions of children in the public schools of
the United States contribute s. cent week
for fifty weeks to make up 100000 to help
Uncle Sam buy a new war ship to replace
the Maine. This would be an absurd per-
version of the aims and objects of our pub
lie schools. The collections taken up in the
schools have in many towns and cities, not
perhaps around here, but farther West and
South, already become sufficient annoy
ance. Children come home with constant
requests for money for this, that and the
other object OF current interest which de
verts their minds from their legitimate
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Silks for Easter Wear

WHITE HABUTAI Wash Silks,
most desirable for Confirmation
Suits; special prices Monday; the
yard, s down to......................2
PLAID SILKS, Illuminated Ombre
and Basket Stripes, % inches
wide; the very latest for Suits and
Waists; the yard. .SE.2i
PRINTED midas, various pretty
designs and colorings; better waist
silks are hard to find; the yard. $50
PEAU DE SOLE, the best wearing
Black Silk we ever offered; very
heavy, double faced; our 81 80.
quality; Monday, the yard. .......S1 .3 j
BLACK SILKS, Faile Franchise,
Armures and Peau de Sole; three
of the most popular silks this sea-
son; Mondays popular price, the
yard .........................A Y 81
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New York Tribune.
How is it that you manage to get en-
PERTAINING wives without their heavy hus-
bands at your dinners. OF attractive mar
rled men unaccompanied by their uninter-
esting spouses?' said a society woman en-
viousIy 70 a friend who apparently had cut
the Gordian knot successfully.
Through finesse," laughed the other
4 wrote to Mrs. A. instead of to her hus-
band. Ter instance. the other day, and
asked her TO spare him to me. or course
n ! had written 10 him direct, she would
have been furious but my appeal TO aler
saved her dignity and gratlfied her sense Of