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TTTC STJWDAY OREGOXTAX. POTtTXAND. FEBRUARY 2S, 1915. TOMES j8ND HOURS POEM L1TH ONES- Jamie and the Peppermint Drops trJ w i (O i it peppermint, mixed with sugar and watr, and it probably made you feel better. So you see, the peppermint came out of the ground, too." "Yea, sir!" agreed Jamie, hia eyes wide with wonder. "Now, many candies are not made of pure sugar, especially the kinda that you get lota of for a penny, but of glucose, which is much cheaper than real sugar, and Just as sweet. But glucose is not good for anyone's stom ach and often makes children sick. But these peppermint drops are made from pure pulverized sugar and the oil of peppermint, eo of course they cannot hurt your stomach. Aren't you glad you like them?" Jamie nodded his head. "Do you 'spose I could have some peppermint in my own garden, grandpa?" he askod eagerly. "Of course," answered grand pa, "If you plant Just a little sprig you will have lota of it, for wherever it touches the ground a new root grows and a new plant is formed." Jamie made up his mind Juat where he would plant his mint and felt that ha could hardly wait untt! Spring came to go into tht wtuils to get the pepper--mint roots. He picked up a pepper mint drop and looked at it thought fully. "Now I know where you came from." he said to it. "And I know why peppermint drops ara the best kind of candy for little boys to eat" Then be' Teachers Pet HE other boys in the school all called Algernon "Teacher's Pet." Instead of minding It, however. der her. So Teacher straightVay turned her attention to "Reddy" and attended to that young man thoroughly. Algernon's other "lickln'?" Oh, yes, "Reddy" saw to that outside after school that afternoonl Bully Frog's Sad Lesson A SURPRISE! FOR YOU. he seemed to be quite proud of it. And oh my but i waa s'prised last night to hear my papa say That other folks could live upon what we just threw away; The vegetables from out the soup, the carrots and the peas, -The bread that dries, and then I said: "But who would care for these?" little Algernon never overlooked an opportunity to help teacher. But, only the other day, alas! he at tempted to render a service to Teacher an inestimable service and got two "lickin's" for doing so. "Reddy" Thomas! the acknowledged "bad boy" of the class, took advantage of an unusual opportunity and placed a bent pin on Teacher's chair. Alger non saw him do it and straightway Jumped to his feet and hurried to the "CRjUTBPA.- HE ASKED, "WHY IS IT THAT PEPPEIUIINT PROpTIojioT held back his head, and opened his red I MAKE ME SICKf mouth, and the peppermint dropped 1 "P1 iEPFERHINTS!" cried Jamie, as In it that would not be good to eat. ha spied the yellow bag peep- called impurities, and these have to be Ing ut pf grandpa's overcoat pocket, taken out. So the manufacturers put Jamt had a sweet tooth, like most certain kind of lime into it Urae is little boys; but it was not filled very what we make whitewash of, you ro- ofteni tor he had a stomach that did member and that separates the Im- not Ilka sweets, and it ached badly Purities from the sweet Juice. Then . every time Jamie ate candy of any " J boiled and boiled and all the kind except peppermint drops. So. of tlme ' boiling, water comes off of course, be Jumped up and down and " ' tna orm "ou k"ow cried "Goody!" as grandpa-handed him wh,it ,team "le hot bits of water the bag full of peppermints. ,n tho -'r nd of course the syrup Grandpa," he asked, "why la Jt EOt thicker and thicker. If there is that peppermint drops do not make ny mor dlrt ,n tha Julc8' " rlae t0 me sick?" U popped a round, white th t0P ftnd can ba ramd off. When right in. A Perilous Trip losengo into bia mouth and climbed up on grandpa's lap, all ready for a story. Grandpa told such nice stories, not always about fairies and witches and things that Jamie had never seen although he could tell that kind, too but usually about things that Jamie saw or felt or ate every day, and o. of eourse, asked questions about. "Well, said grandpa, "you know at one time those peppermints grew in tho ground." Jamie's eyes widened. "Candy grow in the ground?" he asked. Tea," grandpa assured him, "pepper the syrup is very thick, it is run into a shallow trough to cool. Then it is put into little barrels, with boles in the bottom, and the thin part of the syrup FIGHTING in the . air for half aa hour, a boy 9 years old has had an experience which surely no child may have again, for people would soon have to form A soolety for tho prevention of air accidents to children. Why the German pilot took the small boy with him on his perilous Journey, who may say There must have been a story behlnd it somewhere perhaps ho besrired and begged to go with his iurf And papa said, "I'll take you where a family's so poor That they will thank you very much for such a treat, I'm sure." So we put on our coats and hats and filled a great big dish And took it to the queerest place; and oh, I really wish That you could just have been with us to see how starved thov were. The poor old lady cried and cried when papa gpoke to her; And now we never waste a thing, and since I know the way. if wi $ "tiin-n-n-RrMP." iirrin oi t old (jumd-diodt rno.. pt.niiArs lOl lL tO.NDBSCKND TO UIVB U AN KlllBlllO.. ILLIAM FROG, of course, was his right name; but all his com panions called him Bully Frog. And that name suited him precisely. I gather up a great big lot and go Though a mere youngster, with a croak w there every day. Now, seems to me that you could find a family like this; And oh. how happy they would be for things you wouldn't miss; And ir you f nit Just bad enough to throw away your bread, You'd 'member your poor family and take it there instead. The lint Instant She Had Across Her Knee. Algernon aisle. Just as he reached the chair Teacher turned from the blackboard father, perhaps the Utter had become and started to sit down. so used to ganger that he did not real- jjk8 flash the thoughtful Algernon Ue there was an)'. But In a British realised that he hadn't time to explain Crrat Help in Farming;, Buffalo (N- V.) Courier. "I reckon." said Farmer Corntossel, "as how mebba barbed wire ought to be counted as one of the most usoful in ventions of the age." "For what rea son?" "When there's a lot o' work to be done barbed wire makes it Impossi ble fur a feller to sit on the- fence an' look on." the next instant he was terrified. For presently, of course, he began to descend. And right beneath him was not water but the log! Oh. how he did squeal and twist and squirm in that fraction of a second in which he was falling. And then, with a sickening, slippery squash, he fell on the end of the log, glanced off and disappeared under the water. Instantly a dozen frogs dived after him. They brought him to the sur face and then to the bank where, stunned by his fall, he lay In the soft warm mud for quite a while before he so much as opened an eye. And when he did. what do you think he said? It certainly showed how pert and Impudent and cocksure a frog drains thivillpll f i hnlrti IntA riulorn soldier's letter it is recorded that "Ws to Teacher so be grabbed the chair underneath, and tho thick part that Nred t a German airship, but it es- Rnd pulled It out from under her and do yQu pUy QnT Small I'ltolicrs. (Kansas City Star.) Little Willie Mr. Simps, what nine down but not on the after half an hour's fight." And with She didn t remain there long, now him was this 9-yaar-old aviator, pretty ever, for the next instant she was up mint drops are made from pure sugar tak thi "wn sugar and melt it in is left in tho barrels is called raw caned. Four days after we 'got mm. Teaoher sat sugar. It is good, too, on bread and A French aeroplane brought him down ohalrl butter. Wo call it brown sugar," "Mmh!" Jamie smaeked his Hps, for he did like brown sugar. "But how do they make white sugar. Grandpa?" he inquired, "Well," Grandpa continued, "they -I don't that is ground very fine pulverized, It Is called and flavored with au oil called peppermint oil, and both the sugar and the oil come out of the ground. "Do you know where the sugar comes from? No! Well, away down South, where it is warm most of the tlm. thp. mrr-n nr a nlint flint Innkl something like corn. It is called sugar " ru" to molds and cut; lump sugar eana. Th littla notrro children down " m .. uiruuy, nnu grau cotton bags then they run it through layers of charcoal made of the bones of animals bono black, it la called and that bl-.ck stuff makes the sugar pure and white. Isn't that funny? Then it is boiled down again until all of the water ia out of it end the different kinda of sugar aro made. Loaf sugar well dased after his fall, but unhurt. Tale of Two Mills. Exchange. "The trust has two rolling mills one at Pittsburg, the other at Washington." "What do they roll at tho Washington mill? Italia?" "Logs." and had Algernon across her knee- without waiting an explanation of any sort, It wag his first "lickin' " and he felt the humiliation of It more than the Bister's beau at all, Willie. Little Willie Why, I heard Sis tell ma you were such a good catch. that was still high and trembly, he took unto himself vast airs and a swag ger. Not even his dearest friehd could help but admit ' that Bully certainly did not hate himself. To the old f;ogH the wise old fel lows who had narrowly escaped cap ture and death many times he was Indeed Impudent. And to the younger one in the pond he was a source of much alurm and worry; for ho over looked no opportunity to tease and "bully" them. "Now, greatly Interested in the boys who came to the big pond to swim during the long Summer afternoons. And he was particularly interested In the do ings of one of thorn, "Skeets" Thomp son. For "Skeets" wus their acknowledged champion divor. And "Skeets" loved to display his prowess from the end of the old log which projected out over tha pond. There "Skeets" would stand for a moment, with arms outstretched play baseball end palms Joined in front of him and about the finishing touches to Bully's thai it happened that Bully was Bully was. lie atked: Did you see me? I ll bet 'Skeets' boy couldn't do that!" But the rest of tho froKS were not Impressed at all. On the contrary, they squeaked and croaked In high glee. Moreover, they told Bully that there wasn't the slightest uko In his trying to make out he had done so on purpose. And they told him how lucky he was not to have any broken bones. And old Grand-daddy l'rog put Just Listening ami Talking. Dallas (Tex.) News. "I really dislike to talk to her: she lina unph h. habit of finlBhinsr one's sen- pain. Then the operation over with tences for one. You know the kind?" he told Teacher, between sobs. Just -Yes; they listen faster than you can vhy he had pulled the chair from un- talk to them." The Saving of Gwendolyn A Children's Pet there suck this plant, because the Juice tastes sweet. Did you ever pull a blade of glass and bite the tender end of it?" Jamie nodded his head eagerly. "That sweet taste was the taate of the sugar sap in the grass. The flowers have it hidden away under their petals and the bees gather it to make honey of. But the sugar cane has more of this sweet juice than anything else except a big white beet, called the Solution of Sled Pnule. sugar beet. Across the seas. In Russia and France and Germany, where there is a big war now, tho farmers have always raised lots of sugar beets and factories over there made many pounds of sugar of them: but now the men are all fighting each other, and haven't peppermint, rrom wbtelt the oil Is made, time to work in the fields, so there aro is gathered and the leaves and little very few sugar beets being raised, and flowers are allowed to partly dry. Then sugar is scarce and costs a great deal the oil is taken out of it. If there ia of money. any water mixed with tho oil, it is all Most of the sugar made in this coun- taken out very carefully, then the pure try Is" made' from sugar cane. ulatod sugar is made by stirring the thick syrup all the time, and instead of the sugar all sticking together, It forma littla bits called crystals. So you see that the sugar really comes out of the ground, don't you?" "Now, for tho peppermint, which makes the drops taste so good, and keeps the sugar from hurting little boys' stomachs." Jamie put a pepper mint drop in Grandpa's mouth, and helped nimself to another.' "In cool, damp places, usually, on the banks of a stream, a little green plant grows, called mint. It has a very strong odor that means that you can smell it easily- especially if you hap pen to step on it. What you smell is the oil that is In the plant, called the oil of peppermint. There are three kinds of mint peppermint, spearmint (the kind your mamma makes Into mint sauce to eat with Spring lamb) and pennyroyal. Some people hang pennyroyal in their rooms in the Sum mer, to keep the mosquitoes away. The I " A AVWt CIjAHIE CAME OUT WITH THE DOOMED GWENDOlYlf ASD A BUNDLE OF RAGS. LITTLE gray oat, a very ordinary string to it and hide the string in the prepared the poison and left Gwendolyn ..t wih nttiful e-reen eyes. hnnevsuekla vines. Then 1 11 go around lu "er n"c noisy purr, a piercing mew and a the corner of tho henhouse where she IN"vl mur'ns u" . v' . 'V cocked an eye at Bully then, when every boy was watching, dive overboard in a way that brought envy to their hearts. But that was morely a beginning for "Skeets," for ho would follow it with all sorts of "fancy" dives which none of tho other boys would oven try. And "Skeets" wus particularly expert at diving backwards, lie would stand on the slippery end of the board in most careless fashion and then, all of a sudden, leap over backwards into the water, "cutting It" more cleanly than the other boys could when diving head foremost. But It seems tha boys were not the only enos who envied "Skeets" as a fancy diver. Bully Frog was more en vious than any of them, though he wouldn't have admitted it for any thing. When the boys were In swimming, you see, there were always a doxen or bo of the young frogs hiding In the soft mu.l of the bank, covered with rushes, watching them. Often maybe they would have but dne eye far enough out of the mud to see. And Bully Frog was always among them. "ITin-m-m-umh !'' a little frog ex claimed one day, as "Skeets" dived overboard backwards in particularly Impressive fashion. "That was some dive, I tell you!" "Humph!" Bully croaked. "Is that so! Well, I don't see anything hard about that! Why when It conies to diving, there Isn't a boy there who's in my class!" "Gur-r-r-rump! Gur-r-rumpl" snapped out old Grand-daddy Frog. "You cer tainly do hate yourself, don't you, young wnipper-snapper! There never has been a frog like you, hus there? Well, well, youngster, ws shall see. After these boys go home where thry belong, perhaps you'll condescend to give us n exhibition; and particularly the back-dive, eh?" Ail the frogs lying in the mud V5' ;7r.-rirr.f' How He Did M-l and Twlat aee Saalres. conceit and bravado when he re marked In araxual tone: "If that was a dive, young whlrpr snapper, then all I've got to say Is that somebody forunt to pull the log from under you! The object of diving, my boy, Is to light on the water, rot on a log! Gur-r-r-rump! Cur-r-r-r- rump!" The oil of peppermint la left. Thia oil U monstrous appetite for milk, had been nn. pae m0 even if ghB keeps washing their race, in the kltch. n ine, eXpectantiy, cane is cut up fine and tho Juice la used aa a kind of medicine. When you the very dear pet of Floyd and Thelma .wateh from the kitchen wo can let hearda slight thud on the back porch and then a faint "mew." Flora went tlertrlrUy and Vegetables. Baltimore American. At the recent sssslon f the National nd waited Electric Light Association In Philadel phia T, C. Martin gave an Interesting Ha! Ha!" squeaked Bully, pert aa report on tna electrical aiimuiaiion ana I sure will! And 1 11 show you plant growth, lie announced mat v- pressed out of ,t by big. Heavy rollers, were . tin, ; baby and had a bad turn- from the day It had wandered in at the ou before smells too - doo and he": was Gwendolyn Ay 2." .vern h IV Zlu a. 'ra ZZV and' . . . : . rst Aunt Claire dldn t want to keep g0( when Aunt ciaira came out with "See," cried Flora. "Gwendolyn's been jJumh! That's the best thing I do; I'm I'ad shown a 75 par cent Increase la A SURPRISE FOR YOU the starved little beggar, but the earn- doomed Gwendolyn and a bundle killing the rats that have eaten your aom, dlv.r , ,,.. esi pieas 01 mo emiurcu ...i w i , saturated with the strange, chicks, Auntie." And Gwendolyn-so the children named tU't "l. .!rhi for Aunt Claire was indeed surprlsed- tt-became a member of the household -leepy drug, Flora waa searching for and shared many happy days with Flora a long string while Thelma was feeling go u waa nQt Gwendolyn after all. ' and Thelma at the farm home. very sad but hopeful as she watched her B09 aidi ttnd to herself added, "the But one day Gwendolyn "got in bad." auntie put both eat and rags under poeon weakened the rata so ahe was Aunt Claire's hobby-was chickens, and the box, . .bla to manage them." she mado enough money selling eggs "Seems to me the children are taking At tlJ0 henhouse the children found and broilera to keep her in clothing and it aensibly." thought Aunt Claire as threo moro rata that their pet had houeehold furnishings. It was the she walked back to the house. killed.. When they returned proudly to Spring of the year, when she had sue- She waa no sooner In the house than the kitchen with the heroine Qwendo ceeded in hatching aevoral aetting of . Flora ran quickly to the box, fastened iy)li Aunt ciaira had a large saucer little chicks, the end of the string to a nail and hur- fui 0f milk waiting. It was her apo- One morning she announced to the rled baek with the string to where 0gy to the rat-killer, children: Thelma stood by the chicken-house, -j humbly beg your pardon, Gwen- "Six of my little chicks are gone, and They saw Aunt Claire sit down by the aoiyn," "aid Aunt Claire, as she I am pretty sure I know who took kitchen window to peel a pan of ap- smoothed tha cat's fur. "Hereafter them. I Just saw Gwendolyn corning plea and Keep waten, you snaii neip me proieci my cmc, out of the henhouse." "Oh, Gwendolyn wouldn't kill chick ens." protested Flora, "It seems she has, all the same," re plied her aunt. "I am going to chloro form her." "What doea ehlo'forra mean?" asked Thelma, alarmed. "It means to put Gwendolyn under a little box and give her something "Hurry up, Flora," whispered her sis- and for wages you are going to have ter. "Pull the string. I'm Gwendolyn's getting dead." Slowly the box began to rise. At last they saw a sleepy-looking gray head. When the box was high enough, out came Gwendolyn saved - and doubtless glad to take a lung full of fresh air. An hour later Aunt Claire felt some afraid all the milk you want to drink. And never . afterward was Gwen dolyn In danger of losing any of her other seven lives. Though it seemed hours to the young frogs waiting there in the mud. it was really but a few minutes before "Skeets" and the rest of the boya wera out of the pond, dresstd and on their way home. "Now! Now we'll see!" croaked old Grand-daddy Frog. Bully squeaked In derision and hopped nimbly to tha end of the log while the othera came out of the mud and sat on the bank the batter to se the per formance. Bully polked a moment on the end of the log as he had seen "Skeets" do so often and shouted back: "Here 1 go watch me!" Then he jumped. But, alas, instead of turning over as "Skeets" always did, he seemed to go almost straight up in the air! He was even more surprised than the watchers on the bank. And growth over untreated vegetables. " Ilia Thief. I wouldn't steal a penny, A cookie or a cake Or never, never any Such thinga as people take. But I would steal from mother A thing she'd never miss, lAnd also from my brother A sweety llttlo kiss! Strategy of tha .ew Bey. Life. "What kind of work could you pos sibly do around an office?" "I'm a kind o' ail-around handy man, mister. I kin hold a door open, light a match for ye. look out an' ae If It Is raining, call a taxi, drop a letter down ina chute, and tell folks yor out when ye ain't." SLED PUZZLE. that will put her to sleep forever and thing rubbing against her skirts and not hurt her a bit." "J don't want Gwendolyn put to sleep frever," cried Thelma. "I want my dear kitty always," "But I can't ratse eats and chicks. too. Thelma, dear.' heard a familiar purring and saw Gwendolyn alive! ."Well, that's queer!" she exclaimed. "I must need tome new glasses. I de clare I couldn't have missed seeing any one touch that box. for I sat there by Oh, my, but I waa n'prised last night to hear my Papa say That other folks could live upon what we just threw away: The vegetables from out the soup, the carrots and tha peas, The bread that dries, and then I said, "But who would care for these?" And Papa said, "111 take you where a family's so poor That they will thank you very much for such a treat, I'm sure. So we put on our coats and hats and filled a great big dish And took it to the queerest place, and oh, I really wish That you could just have been with us to see how starved they were The poor old lady cried and cried when Papa spoke to her. And now jre never waste a thing, and since I know the way, I gather up a great big lot and go there every day. Now seems to me that you could find a family like this. And oh, how happy they would be for things you wouldn't miss; And if you felt just bad enough to throw away your bread, You'd 'member your poor family and take it there instead. While she was gone to get the the window peeling apples half an hour. "chlo'form" Flora and Thelma held a hurried consultation. "I don't believe Gwendolyn ate those chicks at all," declared Flora. "The other day I saw a big rat coming out of the floor of the henhouse, and I bet it ate them," "Oh, can't we save Gwendolyn?" asked And that box was surely heavy enough," Next morning three more chicks were gone. This made Aunt Claire all the more determined to get rid of Uwen-t dolyn. "I hate to have their pet killed," she thought, "but I simply cannot afford Thelma. "Make big holes in the box so to have my chicks disappear like that the chlo'form can't kill her." so early in the Spring." "Auntie would see the holes." , She let tha children play with "Then run and kick the box over." Gwendolyn to their hearts' content that "She'll watch from the kitchen win- day. planning to get rid of the animal daw until it's all over."- t night after the children were in bed. In a moment they saw Aunt Claire This time she decided to try poison., carrying a box out to thd honeysuckle After chickens and children were all vines near the fence. asleep she took Gwendolyn -and the "Oh. I have an idea," whispered poison to tho granary, which adjoined FJora. "Just as soon as she puts the henhouse, making sure that the lat Gwendolyn under the box 111 fasten a tex waa securely locked. There she vt . ' Our Puzzle Corner k.k;m.4. My first Is In Polly but not In NT1. My seoond is in mountain but not In dell. My third Is In short but not In long. My fourth Is In right but not la wrong. My fifth la in song but not In danra, My whole I a prominent city of Franoa. THANNPOSITIOX. I. Transpose a cavern occupied by wild animals and get the name of a boy. 5. Transpose tha nd of a benk. aa of a bird, and get a receptacle for holding coal, vegetables, etc. 5. Transpose an umlevelofiod flowr and got to confer a name or ml- 4. Transpose a fl'h of snake-lika Hppearanre and set a prominent Gen ersl In tha Civil War. The coasting is fine, but liilie Joiin-nia lias no nfl, .Ste if you can find o'ne by cutting out the black spots and fitting them together.- Anmra. nnipma: Purls. Transport Ions: 1, ren-Ned; a, Me bi ii ; J, Bud-dub; 4. Eul-Lee.