Semi-Tropical
READING HISTORY
FUSSY AUNT SALLY.
The On« Way •• Auyturs • Rsal Keewl-
edge •« th« Warig.
Henry Jmu«-e •«.•« t-*ld nie that th**
Mil; reading o. sliefa be ne'er tbsd
I was hL.i «)
five lead •UulScaat
footnote *»f htatrey," he sshl. stlra m**
more than the m*et thrilling and pae
al>i«aie flctta.u
.Xolbltg Ibat haa ever
ba. *»i»-d to the wretai DM* nte Indlf
frreat "
I used to think that Ignorance of hla
lory arrant i*ub a inch of cultivation
and a I *»« ■ t , i<
< .■ Sow J am sure
that »ii< It l<i> an- e linpalra Mir Jtalg
meot by Itupalrtlig .*ur UMleralandtn«
by de|tl«|ng cm of ■ tandarda. of th.'
power tomatraat and the right to «all
mate
We < an ka**w nothing of an*
nathwi unleae we ki ■ •« Ita b.story. and
! <« can ten»w nothing of the history o.
1 any nsth«n itnlees «•■ know »»methtn«
( of the I. •tot, of all nations
The l»wd of the wrekl Is full ef
i know ledge »•< m- >i to axprire, of I«*«
I sons we Orel to learn, of wisdom we
I need t«> a«s|i:>ilate i'vrnsldrr only tble
i mis' seftui •• o’ I'*. '»Ins, quoted by
' Plutan t. ... s.t!. xe no iuw ¡1 blam
led however he mat ha'e galled hi«
•reith ■
i pies >it place, m> <Jo<it*t
for business enterprise. a place where
young mew "rie la uht bow io get on
and ettraracanre kept pa-e with
«breed finance, a
f «aiiahed. self
•»»indent, wawy getting, money loving
peni le homwlng ancreaa and bogging
Ita fancied security, while 111 faroff
Rome < ato pr»>t> ■ need Its .loom •
Agnre Heppttor Iu Atlantic Monthly
She lo Ose et These Who Always Find
a Teak U<uis»s
Our Aunt Malty alwaya haa »eo er
two more things to du at eight before
sb» can go to b>d
its were at bar
ib'iM a few wveka agv and all of
ua sat up until late.
At about 11
e’clnrh Cueto Buckram gar« a yawn,
and In thirty uiluJrs e'«ryt-«iy sea
un ler tbs com Usteidng to the rata
erurytiody except Aunt Hally
Bbe de
• Pied that while everything wa« «me»
abe would sew the buttons <« the new
tnowera alie was making for Ru*kram
W bee title was inlaheg she started to
tied, but she rrinemtwred that she
badti t mm her yeast Hhe went bock
Into the klt. hea end worked for about
twenty minutas, end tbea tt see me I
that she was through with every lb la«
foe the night
We were almost asleep when she
brought In amMher guUt. Mbs said It
might turn roid during the night and
that «0 rould pull It up If wa sweated
It Nbe went back to her room sod
stood I»rfectly «»ill for a few eerowd«
KrM>*atlv she was trytag to think af
something el«e tn do baioro giHug to
tied, and she theight of II. Rhe do t.)
oil alie had twat sprinkle down her
< lotbeu an they would Iron better next
day
Wbeu ibis was tnl«bed she fold
< h ! tbo rough dried pleraa and pnt then,
away
At last the house was dark
The
rain w«a pouring d<»wa. and we turned
grer for a gore! sleep After wo turned
are ware fe> tag the barn and we saw
Aunt Rally out there with « lamp Bbe
matisgM tn keep the lamp dry. but In
• few minutes It want out. A little
later we heard her enter the house
•nd while feeling for a place tn aet the
lamp she said
“1 declare that fool
Uru basti I any «elise
I put b«-r up In
« dry place and she wouldn't star
there Rhe seems determined to drown
and I ought to let bar do tt. but I
guess I d lietter go back and see about
her--Fort Worth Atar Telegram
THE SCARLET TANAGER.
Southern California
CALIFORNIA with ita »rance«, its winter
flower«, iu benches. ita mountain resort«,
ita time - stained miaaiotu. ita delightful
aunahme and out-of-door life surely the
tall is irreaiatabie in January
But a two-day’a journey away
traina of the delightful
on daily
SHASTA ROUTE
Shasta Limited
California Express
San Francisco Express
You can secure ticket« or complete
information from any wnl or write
John M.
Gwwrai
PortUa4. Or«r»a
A|»at
S outhern P acific L ines
Ma Waare Hie Gaudy F.'emsn’e « m H
Only In the gwiemae
The country folk call the e ar let tan
ager the firebird Kle feather« aet the
wonda on Ore
lie'era I ng the figure,
the firebird puts out the lurch of the
sumac and [«ales the plumage of the
oriole that has come to fir "In tropic
■pietMlor through our northern sky “
This tanager of oki.s is not mu*b of a
Mit>g*'er He d* e« ivt ha>e to l*> AU
he haa to do 1« ‘aland <>o In the «b>'W
In .wder to ah a re applause with the
g»<4 tongued wood thrush and the met
lour noted meadow lark
R<*«mlnglv
the tanager thinks that hla call la tn be
preferred to hla song. for be call« forty
limes where lie stnga once The tip of
a tree rives him the beat stag« setting
for Ida beauty, and there ho perchea,
looks the anu In tho eye and chip
chore by the hour
Hla mate to a
modestly gar ted female, who la «1)11 ng
to attend tn Imine duties while Reau
Brummel gallivants abroad
It bi only for a season that the tana
ger wears hla fireman ault
Nature*«
rule that he must change bls rlnthas
when R*1Memher la a|*nt may seem
foolish to him. but he nt .eye to the
feather
In dun and drab he g.«s
south, where he tells an unbelieving
and brilliantly pinmogsd company of
tmplc birds of the woudor ot hla sum
mor drew« —r'hlt agi) Boat
The Oay ef thè Csrvor.
Cart-tng was «nce a sertous thtng
Tii<* sltteenth rentnry <-arve» was a
professi, mal
Ile had to m«ke thè
jolnt flt thè guaat. Tbe slse nf hto
allea« »»« thè thlng Tben he had to
knotr hla gueets and cut acrnrdlngly
A lord, fnr Insta noe. al tbs tabla, and
a plke sraa dished up vhnta. Rmaller
fry. and thè plks rama rm tn allcea
The satue procedure wlth plg
The
rank of thè ditterà «terlded wbether tt
should appear ai tabi« In g<»ld leef or
nakad. whola or allred
Wlth bread.
tno. thers trae a di de reno New or
three daya old haked was et thè dia
cretina of tbn cerve» •• he slang tip thè
vlaltnra And ss fnr thè appnrtlootng
nf thè tlthlts areordIna tn preredence
(bere was no end The old lime rerver,
la fa.-i. was bora and theu mada.
txmdnn Standard
OHRsult Fast.
Twn bnya «tomi In front of tha e«
trance gala of a football Beld The»
had no money bm th*» were detsr
mluod to outwit fbe gateheeper soma
how and get In and se» thè rama
They sugreated acheme after « berne
tn ono anothor. and Rnallr thè olite»
bey «ald
**1 g>>< Il bnw! WsU walk la ba< k
ward. and beli thtnk we*re romla
out •— Exchange
The true ar» nt memory to the art of
attention Johnson
A Real Autoerat.
“Here'« the photograph nt a famous
maltre d’hotel
He haa a stem and
haughty look ”
‘‘Hasn't ho. tlvwich* I dare say that
tellow wouldn't un'etid for any tip less
than a ll<«» bill” Il I rm Ingham Age
Herald
Net Ctlahlsg.
Mrs Nouveau Rlclre- W’tnia. I gna t
want to see veu play with the Blings
by.Rtnythe'a dog easin
Wlllto i’ltto
Why not. ma? Mrs N R -Tito dog
la |*edtgreed they ear. and there'« no
telling «rhen it mar have anoeher Rt of
theta-New York tllebs
Bsmbes Jests
•upec.eerty
•Rhe's a eery ropretre perwee. “
"That so? In what trayF
"Who pays more fre her «warns tkaa
say other woman la the «4Wtos—Aw
imti Free Press
Who wvero.imea by fsrre tost* «to*
eowe bm half hto Are Mitts«
A Osfant Idlem.
“Its ma." Is an Idiom, «ays a Har
vard professor and Is allowabtai H to
allowable largely for the reason that
we havea‘1 standing army enough te
snppreae It
Houston Post
A
heart seldom elgha, but a sor
rowful mouth open laughs, haalab
P*-overh.
Su^ocribt for
THE SCIO TRIBUNE
SI 50 a year
CswssHeg
’Wbat did von say your age VM?
he remarked 'vivrrn dances
Weii | dids t say.- smartly return
erf the girl ‘‘but l*ve list reached
twenty one.*'
**1« that o»T he returned ■weaeMng
IF **Wbat detained y««F- Kxe*an0h
Wre»a te Waste Valuable Time Over
TrtR.ng Frebleiwe
There err . me f.Hka Iu this world
who n«*v«e a|*t»«er to he able to r>em-
to a dc lsl.m <m any Issue, either big or
little
They are constantly bara««c«t
by doubt and tlm fear that they will
mak» th« mi«lak« of tMchlng up amwe
j thing by the wrong bandte
Tt«y
I spend their livre sitting asirlde th«
hso.e t<M-eue« they lack the coursge to
r»t down on either stale of It. They
strive le propltlata everybody end
pleas«* notMsly
tt bat more iwthedc apectacle than U>
a«« a «trapping big man < basing back
• nd forth between ths hat counirr «nd
the ealrror o»i the wall tn the Agony of
j doiitg and drepalr over the m.*mraiti>uo
. queetion as to w bet her he ought to
pun hss<* a straw nd wtth a n*d band
OU It or blue’
Rytnpathr gore '«if to the woman
who for wreko perpl«aea her pretty
head »ver the pndCerns ae to wbythre
she will have her new gown cut <»b
liqin ' re on the Has. In th« end she
has It cut erall«p«*d. and e'ery time she
wrera It her rogrer 1» that
didn't
hats It made severely plain.
If your pt™ see of das-laltm ere go
tng tn halt and buck and stall over the
colre of a hatband or the cut of a
gow n b'*«r ckn you h.tpe to decide the
really serious prutvteiaa <«f life? Bles«
sd te he who can marshal bls wits In
calm judgment, then dr* Ide whether hr
will stay on this side re rnvaa over and
burn the bridge l««tilnd him
Rafter than dtllv dally and «hilly
thally through life, yun had hertaf. In
the Interests of etr«-ngth«»tilng your
moral fiber, make a mistake by a <pil< k
decision now and then FVu'Ua th«best
|udgtn««t <*f which you «re catwide on
tha quest ion at Issue ttuui cake your
•tend and hold your ground llustisi
Fuat.
Olsrasll and Qlsdston»
That Maid Him
He I shall not marry a woman on
leas she Is n" exact opposite
Mho
Tou «111 never find an perfect a being
as that
l.lfe
Bamboo opals are peculiar gen»
which are sometimes found tn the
stem <>f the bamboo Thia gem i*
rerv rare from the fact that not cine
in a thousand hamboo stems coo-
tains it. These vegetable growths
•re called tobacur bv the Filips*
noa. Some of them ere ao similar—
that is. thar exhibit so perfectly the
’haractenstica of the opal — that
•ven expert« frequently fail to din*
tingniah them from the real gem
MAKE QUICK DECISIONS.
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Hto buaplalea CenRrmed.
How Interesting tha Ananrtal co In ton«
ta the morning papers can he t« th«
traveled reader* Far Instance, borea a
market report that say« “butter was
atrong “ This confirms an Impreeaion
formed at a hoardtag hmiee recently
Izmdori Idee«
Faminlns Intultle«.
“1 thougbt you were rdng te aend
that hat back. Manda What ladnced
you to keep II?"
‘‘Everv girl I kn«w was »arefnl t»
teli ni«, aa «o»n as «be aaw tt a« me
how unberomlng It waa'*~ Baltimore
American
Ow thè LI««
"Tou aay y»n bave «poni boura evar
a single line?-
"Tre. and rometlmes itsya.*“
Then you’re e ,retr
"Ne; r*m an angler "
Unusual Behavloe.
Lerret—T«u lor* worried, old chap
Tadfltah—-T«e; I'm sfratai my wife le
sick
Mh« su y «>1 a’ borne all yeetvr
day afteruerat. - T.tfb
•tawarda Must Lhra.
Rntekee Rmltb resarda Mmself aa
the et e ward of bla wealth. Rocker
Thaï e Jnat th« tronhl«. hs svperta tips
-New Trek Fon.
|t la w«l) te vaine pv»pie ftw trita»
they are atthiwt «xpactiag pettettew
Mr Rh«w l.e»lle an Irish author,
tall« the following
“My grandfather witnessed «n rft- t
tv* pie* a nt play In tha bnuae during a
dual bet w ren r>l«raell and Gladatv’M
Poring a heated flight of oratory tiled
atone upset some pell« on 111« table be
tween them Ptsraell rose end. calling
attention io the fact «lowly rei’la.ed
them one by one Tl.e rffvet of tiled
atoua'a speech was Irel by the time
titaraell had finished “
R|*ssk1nr of Ptekena and Thackeray
Mr I.«alto say«
“My grandfather rw-alled the Indi
crone Incident wh|. h brought them 1»
(ether Ae they both left the Atbe
naa'itn. unknown to each »th* r thev
se1>*d the sama hat Tlx* tft< t was
Ipdkron« enough to appeal even to pr<*-
fessU nal humorists, and they shook
hands” .
lags Bierlllaeg by Gss
A metb<«1 of preserving egg* which
la said io keep them absolutely fresh
for an IndeRnfte length of time la In
naa In France New laid egvs In tin
cases holding I tsai each ,are pls. ed In
an aotoclav«. form which the air Is «i
hsuated until all the gas within tlx-
sheila baa Iwwn drawn out ' Titen car
boule arid ga« and nitrogen ar« Intro
dttcwl from tanka of the»« gs«<-« In
liquid frem. and th« thia < .■nislnlug the
agga are sealed with aol t«r
Any
gvrma of
ay are killed by t!»««<•
gasaa. and It la aakl that th« flavor of
th« eggs la la no way effe td
Canale af Vanle*.
The canal« <>f Vrtike are a part of
the Adriatic sea The city Is built on
11R email Islands or shoals In the rulf
of Venice These islets are ci.i.ti.-. lol
by several hnnlre*! bridge« and the
direction of the canals, of which three
•re naarly MO. are so f<»rme*l as to con
atltute the ‘‘lily Uwar«.” Tl.ua If 1« due
to th« situation of thia city and not to
spacial Intention of man that It has
ranato laataad of paved streeta
He Mads the kata.
“Tea, th« property 1» • beep «noirgb
Why do yoa want to sell it?"
~Y<m won't give m« i * ij ?“
“No“
"Mell, air. It's bwausa I'm the only
man In thia u«lgtiiMirb*»>d that doesn't
move la high so i«ty. and I'm lone
aoma " -Chicago Tribo us
tamp la.
"George didn't keep hla engagement
wtth ma last night," aald the girl who
was baHrothed Iu him.
“I'd give him a pie.» of my mind."
said her mother
"Jnat a little sample of married Ufa."
suggested flat her <‘levels rxl leader
A Biting flant.mant.
Too bare to !• careful even about
paying camplliwenta Rill Mixer, who
weed to write ada for a tobacco hovise
got himself In lied Srhen he started
writing ropy for a butter rots ■ rn and
arreta “Guaranteed not to bite the
taagua
Boat <> i Globa.
A La«« Biaga.
Aitar a ateg* of twenty four year»
Mak Candía from Venire In