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.