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Fashion Tyranny. "What an inslduous tyrant fashion is! It makes a live man or woman so ridiculous and often so contemptible; dictating everything, from the cut of a mantle to the expression of a thought ? from the tftlquette of "a call" to the propriety of an expert* ment, and as silly as it is humiliating; and, unpleasant and uninviting as the task may be. It Is our duty to good naturedly affront It and protest that the first duty and right of a live man or woman is the duty and the right of aelf-possesslon. ? London Light. Empress of Russia. Mrs. Amalla Kussner Coudert, the American miniature painter, says In an article in "The Century" that she never heard the words Czar and Czarina used by any member of the Russain royal family. They say Em peror and Empress, and in their pri vate life they all speak English. The Grand Duchess Helene, daughter of the Grand Duke Vladimir and now i Princess Nicholas of Greece, told Mrs. Coudert that she could not remember ever speaking anything but English j to her father. ? New York Tribune. Mra. Swanson's Striking Riding Habit. One of the prettiest women In the whole State of Virginia, able critics assert, is the wife of the Chief Execu tive of the Old Dominion, Mrs. Claude Swanson. Hundreds and hundreds of her photographs have appeared In newspapers and magazines, for she is of a rare type, having golden hair and dark brown eyes and lashes. Mrs, SwHnsun spends much of her time in Washington, in spite of her duties in Richmond, and she is entertained fre quently. In her black, cloth riding habit, with a big soft felt hat with drooping plumes, she looks her best. Mrs. Swanson has a striking habit, the jacket of which is made entirely of fine yellow leather. She effects the very short riding gown, and her brigni yellow boots, made ol' the same materi al as the jacket, and a cap of the same, bive her a jaunty appearance, especially when she rides n light bay horse almost the shade of her fellow trimmings. ? New York Press. Change of Shoes. "Lots of shopgirles would be more polite to customers if their feet didn't ache so," is the dictum of a working girl. And the same might be said of a snappy, nagging, nervous mother she would be more amiable if her feet did not hurt. , For a woman who has to stand many hours a day there is rest in simply changing from one puir of boots to another, it is easy to keep a second palt of slippers behind the counter or in a convenient corner of the sitting room or kitchen, out of sight, and to put them on when one's feet begin to feel tired ' and drawn. There is economy in buying good stockings, and in darning them care fully with fine thread when they be gin to give way. There is also econ omy In buying good shoes, for cheap shoes have a desperate way of pinch ing or grazing in some unexpected place, and they hardly ever keep their shape like a good article. Money spent, on the feet is never wasted. ? New York Tribune. The Cookless Dinner. The rldde as profound as the Sphinx's, "how to live without a cook." has been solved, a Brooklyn caterer believes, by his own scheme, which Is beginning to bud and blos som Into fact, says the New York Evening Bun. He has already open ed In the heart of one of the restricted resldont sections a place that he is pleased to call, unofficially, a "neigh borhood supply station." A family can eat its three meals a day In the cozy, home-like dining-room, or a represen tative may call with a sut? ca?" "?? basket or box stocked with dishes and c^rry It steaming wim buvoi y comestibles, to be eaten under the home roof-tree. If company conies unexpectedly, if a Itincreon or dinner party Is to be given, whatever the exigency of do mestic complicity ? the cook's goings and comings cease to be of Interest to the housekeeper. The caterer promises not to "give warning," nor pack his trunk and start off. whatever his grievance. He says he has come to stay, and that the new establish ment is only the first of many to fol low It In other localities. Bad Taste In Overdressing. There are n few things that are ap plicable to ho many women, one cannot err in discussing them. One of them, a great one, Is tho tawdriness of finery after Its first freshness is none. says KHr.aheth Anstruther In "The Com plete Beauty Book." Ix't us take for granted that no one presuming ever ?o faintly to the title of a gentle womon would he guilty of wearing dirty or mussy finery on any occasion, either where finery Ik In order or where it Isn't. But renovated finery Isn't much bet * ter. You may read reams of stuff about washed and ironed silks and ribbons and gasoline cleaned cMffons being "equal to new," but. you know aa well as I do that they're not, aud that there Is always something unsat isfactory about, them. For that reason women of taste buy fripperies with nice discrimination. Women who In ?eat heavily In proportion to their meana In pertahable apparel or apparel suitable only to a few occasions are bound to be caught often in the pre dicament of having to wear highly in appropriate and ill-looking clothes. Probably more women look ill be cause they are trying to "get the good out of finery that Is no longer fine, than for any other reason. Separation Good For Lovs. The happiest marriages are undoubt edly those where a certain amount or dslly separation takes place between husband and wife. He and she both mix with outsiders; their ideas are en larged and freshened; they have a chance of missing each other, which is one of the truest secrets of preserving affection, and when they meet again it is with renewed pleasure, and a cer tain restored sense of novelty, which lasts till it is time to part again. And when there are little absences, what a renewal of charm succeeds! We never value a thing till we lose it; and even the temporary loss of an other's society makes us think it more attractive than if it were always with us. So let the married resolve to spend at least a little portion of each day apart. Do not understand by this that I mean to advise such an amount of separation as shall produce in them a difference of tastes, pursuits or friends. But it is wise to lead just so much dally life apart as shall lend a new zest to the time spent together, says Woman's Life. One grave drawback in seeing to much of each other Is the tendency in human nature to treat with slight re spect the thing with which we are too familiar. A husband and a wife are apt to lose that courtesy in their mutu al intercourse which is the \ery salt of happy family life. Keeping Well. Doctors tell us that if we would spend the greater part of our lives out of doors, taking a reasonable amount of cxcerlse, diseases could scarcely And a place to take hold on us. Consumption has long been consid ered an incurable disease, but now we know that, by living in the open air and taking light, digestible food, three fourths of those who have consump tion recover. Isn't that a strong proof that fresh air is a wonderful medicine? And even th^ poorest can afford this med icine. Mothers who insist on their children going out into the fresh air each day, often forget that they themselves ne$d this air as much as the children do. You say you cannot find time to go out. Think for a moment! When an errand has taken you out of doors for a little while, have you not work ed all the faster when you cattie back? Were not your thoughts fresher and better? If only for a little while, mothers should be sure to go out each day. Leave your work behind you and go out. Take a long walk if you can; if you can't, take the longest that is pos sible. In summer take your sewing and sit out of doors, pare the potatoes out of doors, do everything that you can out. of doors. If you live in a town, try to go to the parks or squares each afternoon. When you are in the house and must stay there, keep the windows open wide as you can and let in as much fresh air as possible. Summer and winter, all the windows should be thrown wide open several times a day, that the air may change. It makes one dull and heavy to breathe the same air over and over again; we become pee vish and irritable, and are not pleas ant companions or good examples for ntwtrszesostetJCa alu door.nfut our children. Clod gave us the sweet, fresh air that we might be strengthened and made better by it. Let us all try to benefit by it, then as much as possi ble.? Elizabeth Roberts Burton in tho Mothers Magazine. Fashion Note*. White Is oftenest chosen to soften the somewhat trying stone and mou^e gray 8. Small silk crochet buttons and simu lated buttonholes border both sides or the front or side panels on some new skirts. Fanciful ornaments for dressy gowns are wide-open ribbon roses with tiny silver tassels dangling from their centers. Wood brown velvet and creamy tea roses with flufT of brown mallne com bine to make a dainty hat foi a rosy cheeked girl. Many of the newest skirts are al most severely plain but with long slop ing lines, graceful curves and decided flare toward the bottom. If you want to make your velvet walking stilt very smart, line the short skirt around Its flaring lower edge with several rows of silk frills. A hint of pink In the huge satin ro sette upon the side of the brown hat worn' with a brown velvet street cos tume lends a becoming color note. The caracul coat Is one of the favor ites of the season with handsome dressers, and there are the usual num ber of chlnchlllu wraps, especially In the evening. Instead of passing entirely around the arm. the wide luce cuff on one of the stunning evening wraps runs up the full sleeve toward the shoulder snd Is edged all around with a tiny frill of l?ee. Dreams. My dreams are dream* of re?lfulnt'??: Tills everlasting zestfulness la not a dream. It's fact. And all along the way I go There is no stop nor stay. I (o Until my system's rucked. 1 only wish for peacefulness. A little touch of crwascfulness Prom this eternal grind; But neverwhere Is quietness; There's always such a rlotness It wearies flesh and mind. Why Isn't It that poverty Can hand me beaaers of her tea t As good as money seems, I. So In a cup of restfulness I'd drown this killing xestfulness And actualize my dreams' ? W. J. Lamliton. Squirrel Risks His Life. I have often wondered what passes through the minds of small creatures when they find themselves In strange places. This occurred to me very forcibly one day when I stood for half an hour watching the antics of a gray squirrel that had tried to cross a road on a two-inch cable, and whose progress was not only blocked by the huge traveling steel bucket used to carry earth from an excava tion to wagons, but whose life was threatened repeatedly when it got in the bucket's way. It was compelled to run at top speed every time the bucket came toward it. but the mo ment the latter began to ascend the cable, the squirrel, as cocky as ever, scrambled along behind. ? Forest and Stream. How the Mink Hunts. If you follow a mink's track in the snow any winter djiy it will usually lead you before long to the mute story of a tragedy ? just some trampled snow and a red stain, says Country I^ifc In America. The whole method of the mink's hunting is told by the snow. We see how it. follows a rabbit, taking every precaution not to betray its pres ence while the wretched creature feeds for then it is alert ; how it follows bunny to where it sleeps beneath a log, an upturned root or the snow-covered top of a fallen tree, and then stealth ily creeps on the unsuspecting prey. Sometimes the rustling of a dead lenf warns the rabbit, who leaps forward perhaps just in time to avoid a furious onslaught of the mink, though more often too late, uml the red stain te!ls us that the rabbil has been ealen where it expected to sleep. Where Animals Take Their Nap*. Scotch terriers are especially l'ond of finding a flower bed to take a nap by day. Our sheep have lost neatrly all their wild Instincts, but one which is to seek the highest place possible in which to lie down and rest. They have been known to climb to the lop of straw-covered sheds, !|ho;ild there be a hill in the pasture, they j;o to the very top. I>ondon cats are said to inouut to the top of water tanks. Rabbits select sunny banks for a daytime snooze, and foxes and even otters go to sleep on the rough grass or sedges. Birds seem to prefer the topmost bt^ighs of dead trees. Many of them seem to think that the telephone and telegraph wires are strung for birds to roost on. Pigeons, especially, take to dead trees, and so are easily shot. The sea birds always select some dead tree cr branch as their perch when watch ing for food. Are they not like boys who enjoy a sunny bank or girls who delight in a hammock, A Teacher Instructed. 1? Cate never tells the exact truth. Prevaricate. 2 ? Cate Is frail and gentle. Delicate. 3 ? Cate kindly points out the way. Indicate. 4? Cate has a twin. Duplicate. 5 ? Cate seizes the property of others. Confiscate. 6 ? Cate leads a country life. Rusti cate. 7? Cate brings others into trouble. Implicate. 8 ? Cate adds to the difficulty of many a case. Complicate. 9? Cate takes leave. Vacate. 10 ? Cate makes things run smoothly. Lubricate. 11 ? Cate on occasion denies church pri v 11 eges. Exeom m u n I ca t e. 12 ? Cate settles on a particular spot. Locate. 13 ? ('ate Is an eloquent pleader. Ad vocate. 14 ? Cate imparts much information. Communicate. 15 ? Cate offers a perplexing problem. Intricate. Itt ? Cate develops mental and physi cal powers. Educate. 17 ? Cate has an influence for evil Intoxicate. 18 ? Cate believes in home life. Do mesticate. 19? Cate will die if deprived of air. Suffocate. ? Philadelphia Record. Massasoit. That there have been greut men miong the American Indians no one vho has carefully read their story A'lll deny. Among the children of the fores: here were some mighty splrltB, /reat in nntlve intelligence, great in ?ourage, great In executive ability, ad. better still, great In all the ele ments of moral Integrity. The first Indians that the New Eng vul settlers caino In contact with ere the Wanipanoags, whose hunt ; grounds lay between Narragansett - J Cape Cod bays. The head sachem of the Wampano ags in 1C20 was Massasoit, a man whose heart was as white and 6011I as noble as those of any white man. The Pilgrims had been upon the New England coast but a few months when the Wampanoag chief, attended by an escort of his painted warriors, made a visit to the white people, with overtures of kindness and good will. Fortunately for all concerned Govern or Bradford treated the "savage" as a "man and brother," rather than aa a wild beast, and It took them but a little while to draw up and ratify an offensive and defensive alliance be tween "King" Massasoit and King James. After smoking the pipe of peace and exchanging the heartiest of congratu lations upon the friendly compact made between them, the white men re sumed their digging and building, and the red men, in single file, marched away again into the wilderness. For half a century that compact was sacredly kept on both sides. The white men were faithful to their prom ises, and, fully appreciating honesty and fair dealing, Massasoit remained true to his solemn agreement. This "savage" chief roust have been as diplomatic as he was staunch, as wise as he was good and true, to have eld his wild barbarians fast to that treaty for fifty years! It was a tre mendous task, but i.e*did It. Not once did the forest. King swerve from the path he had promised his pale face brother to walk In; p.nii when the hour came in which he heard the "Great Spirit" calling him to the happy hunt ing ground" he could depart knowing that, no white' man was able to say thai he had broken his word. "There is no good Indian but the dead Indian," we used to say ? and some of us are saying it yet. But the ? story of Massasoit gives the lie to the miserable saying. The grand old chief was a savage only 1* name. His heart was tender and true; his man hood was a heart of oak. ? By the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory iu the New York Ann ricau. The Bird Was a Prisoner. Robert was ill. He had found that wet feet sometimes bring unexpected consequences. This time he had walked through the gutters on his way to school, and then sat all the afternoon iu wet shoes, end so instead of going to grandma's for a visit he went to bed. The day had been quite tedious, and when he began to sit up there was not much that amused him. Mamma drew his couch up by the window that ho might look out and see the boys going by to school. As he sat there he saw a bird fluttering about the gutter that ran by the bay window. The bird hat! begun pome time ago to make the journey South, and so he was surprised that this nest was not vacant. He watched the bird, and saw that he carried something in his inouth each time. It was first a worm, then a bit of bread-crumb from the dooryard. Robert callcd his mother to come and see the Utile fellow, working away so happily and briskly. Mamma was as surprised aa Robert, and after studying the bird's comings and go ings for a while she decided to call the gardener and ha\e him investigate the matter. The man pul a ladder against the window and went up to l he nest. Mamma had wrapped a blanket about Robert, and now she opened the win dow that he might see what the gar dener had found. In some strage way the bird's mate bad become entangled in a string that had unwound from the nest und which had been pnrt of lis foundation, and was so tied by the leg that It was impossible to got away. She had pick ed at the string and made her leg sore, fiut tho knot was too strong for her. The gardener gently took up the nest In his hand and brought it down on a level vith Robert, and then began to unwind the threads that held the bird a prisoner. Her mate flash ed back and forth, but did not act. dismayed. He even seemed to know that help had come. It took but a fe\f minutes to free t Ik* tangle, and then the man carried the nest hack. Hardly had he done so when away flew the bird, and the first plaee she touched was thf little pond in the garden, for she had been with out water so long. She circled about the. water, taking a dip now and then. Presently the mate sailed by, and together, like two children ihey set off over the hills and away toward the South. "1 am sorry 1 disobeyed mamma about the gutters," said Robert, as he watched the pair sail away, "but if 1 hud not been ?lek we should uot have known about the bird, so there was some good come onto f It. I wonder if they will come back again In the spring'* He never knew whether they did or not. but he tried to make himself think that the birds which came io the nest In the gutter were the same. Perhaps they were, for as he watched them they seemed to be happy in the old nest. ? Youths Companion. And They 8ay Figures Can't Lie. Jonea ? IH> you believe there la safety In numbera? 8korchei--Sure; whenever I'm ex ceeding the speed limit, I hang aome other chap's number on the back of my auto! ? Mfe SOUTHERN FARM fiOTES. TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN ANQ TRUCK GRQKER. Fertilizer For Tobacco. | The use of fertilizers for the grow ing of tobacco hastens forward the crop at least two weeks or more. It also adds greatly to the yield of the crop and to the quality of the prod uct. Lands that under ordinary con ditions would make a yield of poor, papery tobacco, lacking- in gummy or oily matters and unfitted for shipping purposes, may be made to produce a very high typ? of tobacco by the lib eral application of a well-compounded fertiliser with suitable ingredients. It is now a rare thing to plant tobacco without using some fertilizer. It not only Improves the quality and in creases the weight of the cured to bacco, but it gives an early start to the plant, which soon grows large enough to withstand the ravages of grasshoppers and other insects. After the hills are , made, the quicker the plants are set out the better. During the first half of May there is usually enough humidity in the soil to make the transplanting safe without rain. It is best, how ever, to set out immediately after a rain, provided the fall of rain Is not so heavy as to thoroughly soak the ground. In this case it is better to wait until the excessive wa?er is drained away. A peg an inch or an inch and a half in diameter and six or eight inches long nnd sloped for one-third of the length to a blunt point, is used for setting out the plants. A hole is made with it in the hill into which the roots of the plants are thrust. The dirt is then pressed to the plant by the thumb on one side and the peg on the other. One person usually drops for two set ting out. A hand plant, that is an extra plant to begin with, facilitates greatly the planting:, as It may be adjusted in the hand in passing from one hill to another. The plant dropped on one bill is the one set out In the next. In about eight to leu days after the plants are set out in the open field they will be so well established that cultivation should begin by run ning a furrow on each side of the row with the single horse turning plow, the bar of the' plow being run as closely as possible to the plants with out disturbing the roots and so en dangering their vitality. This leaves a narrow ridge with the plants stand ing on It. Hoes are then brought in to requisition to scrap away any grass or weeds that may have made their appearance. It is a good prac tice to draw a little dirt up around the plants after breaking the crust which generally crowns the top of the ridge. This initial working is prob ably the most Important. For subse quent working cultivators may be run at Intervals of -a week or ten days both ways through the tobacco. This is especially Important after every rain. It Is now the practice of the best tobacco-growers to use level cultivation. It was once thought necessary to put u supporting hill around each plant at the first culti vation. This practice has been aban doned because it diminishes the area of range for the roots of the plants and also lessens the amount of hu midity within reach of the roots, and this humidity grows more important as the leaves expand. T*he land should never be worked when It is wet. When the plants have attained a size that makes it impossible to use a plow or cultivator without damage from the breakage of leaves, It will bo found advantageous to cut out with hoes or to pull up with the hands any grass, weeds or bushes that may spring up. Every alien growth will damage the quality of the tobacco. ? From Virginia-Carolina Fertilizer Almanac. t Growing Winter Lettuce. Lettuce Is grown in the Norfolk section out of doors in the open air. without protection to speak of. It Is also grown under canvas, and also under glass. It Is with the outdoor and under canvas lettuce that we write of at present, leaving the under glass culture to be noticed hereafter. The seed is sown in warm sunny nooks in the open air late in Septem ber. In November and December the plants are taken up and transplanted In the fields. In rows closely enough to permit about 90,000 plants being , set to the acre. Some of the planters use the sod go i grass, and the marsh grass to spread 1 a very thin covering over the field j lettuce. It is so thin a covering, how ever. that each lettuce plant cau be I plainly seen through Its very thin ! covering of dried grass. Lettuce so ; planted often comes through an or dinary winter here without the loss of one per cent, of the plants. Other truckers use more or loss ' canvas to cover their lettuce which is set out in beds. A wide board is get up at the north side of these beds, and a narrower one at the south side and a canvas cloth is tightly stretch' ' Proverbs and Phrases. Providence for the most part sets as on a level. ? Spectator. Prudence supplies the want of every good. ? Juvenal. t? i??gS f0 snfffr punishment than to it. ? Ovid. When one hits you with a stone, hit him with a piece of cotton. ? Tur kiah. it ia the quiet people who are dan gerous. ? La Fountain*. over these temporary frames. The board on the north side being wide and the canvas sloping to the south, catches the southern sun nicely, and lettuce so protected grows during the winter season so that it goes to mar-' ket two or three weeks earlier than that standing in the open air. The canvas is lifted during the many warm sunny days * of winter, and the plants grow slowly and stead ily until ready to ship. There ib no artificial heal used in such cases. The extra expense is in the boards, the canvas, aud the extra labor involved. The extra price received more than makes up for the extra expense, and the business seems to be growing. The lettuce is shipped in what, is termed half baskets. If the heads are fair sized it takes about thirty five to fill a basket. In some eases which have come to our attention, eighteen heads have filled the basket, while in other cases it takes as tnueb as fifty beads. This means that an acre of lettuce may turn off isoo to 2000 b&skets, although it does not often happen that all plants mature. The cost of the baskets run about twelve cents each, and the freight to Northern markets about fourteen cents per basket. The cost, to cut and pack is very reasonable ? say less than live rents per basket. Close, careful estimates place the cost of a rasket of letluc? at a little less than fifty cents laid down In Northern markets, so that all above that is profit. The price received in Northern ujarkees ranges from sixty c?nts to $3 per basket. The erop is entirely a winter crop. Being transplanted in November aud December and marketed in April, it leaves the land during the entire summer growing season for two or three other crops. The lettuce grown In the Norfolk trucking section is either grown close to the city, or in close proximity to the many navigable "arms of the sea" or near to the electric lines which penetrate the trucking section in all directions. A single wagon load may contain fifty baskets, and a little sail ing vessel may bring at least -'>0 or more baskets. It is a crop requiring and repaying intensive culture and care. It gen erally receives about two applica tions of fertilizer, and the land must be in good heart in order to get bust results. ? Progressive Farmer. Poultry Notes. The beginner who buys a tri > of flood birds will get egg.; enough i<> hatch a big flock. This is the cheap est way to start. When out of two piano boxes a floored poultry house six by eleven feet can be made it seems as if every one should be able to have good houses. Infertile eggs will keep longer than those that are fertile, hence i; is more profitable not to have male birds with the flock from which eggs are to be saved for the market For the ordinary farmer who can not give all his time and study t ? ? the care of chickens a hardy breed that will lay large quantities of egn- and are good foragers are the most profit able. Some say that a mating of cock and pullets will produce a larger number of females than male?, and with a hen-cockerel mating the result will be the opposite. The Idea i* that the young stock, being more vigorous, will have greater influence on the offspring. A fair estimate for the cost of feed and care for a fowl on the farm is about fifty cents per year. Often the grain a flock of 200 to :;u0 hens will consume would hardly be missed on Unany a farm. They will yi !d a profit of from $1 to $1.50 per head per year. Where is the other live ^tock that can make as good a showing? ? - Nashville American. Sausage to He I'sctl Next Summer, The Raleigh ( N. ('.) Progressive Farmer gives the following recipe for putting up sausage for next sum mer's use, which is highly recom mended : "Grind the meat fine, To fifteen pounds of meat add one teacupful of salt and four level tablespoont'uls of blnck pepper ? nothing else. Mix well with the hands*. Make Into cakes and fry nearly done. lie sure to place the fried cakes where they will get cold. After they are cold (which is very important I pack them in a tin can closely. Now pour the surplus lard fried out over the packed cak^s. If there Is not enough melt more lard and pour over until the cakes are covered half an Inch with it. When you begin to \:se them (about next July or August) scrape the l.?rd off enough to get enough from t1:? top iayer, then press it back carefully so that the nil* is e,,nr'ded. j? n :| jour vantage will be all li^iil to the la^t ??ake. Always Busy. A country life is just the thing; It beats the city hovel. You push a mower in the spring; In wintertime you shovel. Bathos. "Beautiful snow!" the poet sanpr. And the peoplo sighed : ''Oh, The yen' next day thore eamo r thaw, hush 1" And they said: "Oh, slush I"