B OREGON CITY COURIER. THURSDAY OCT 9 1913. A TEAPOT STORY RrnVen-Handled and Old. it Serves as a Political Text When I tell you that we have a new feapot in our house, you will no doubt think it is of no interest to you. How ever like the cute things that Daoy does. I cannot help telling about it, as it. ia ft rather unusual event with us. The old one had a rather bad habit of dropping the lid in the cup when tea was served, wnicn was a very annoy ino nprfnrmanre. but as there was Infk nf the coin of the realm the old tea pot continued in service. It might be well to state tnat every time we went to town we could see tea pots nf nil kinda star-incr us in the face in an imploring manner, begging to be taken home, yet we pretended not to tains witn many oiner useim uuubo. I write this just because it may in terest vou to know how poor people must do in order to live. The exploit ing class have no such trials, for when they see some thing they want they buy it right off, while people who must work hard in order to live must make many makeshifts. Well, in the course of time we had saved up enough trading stamps fi-et a teanot. You perhaps do not know about tradincr stamps, becaus- you do not need to bother with such trifling things. Trading stamps are a sort of a commercial alms-giving business, charitv as it were; which some business men give to such cus tomers who are poor enough to bother with it. I believe the custom has been outlawed by the state of Washington on the claim of being an expensive nuisance. However they give us poor people "something for nothing," for which we are duly thankful, much like a person once said to me: l am giao the millers put nour in ciom bucks for if it was not lor them i aon i know where I would get under-cloth es." Also the present administration is doing a lot for us poor people by giv ing us a new tariff law, also a lot of Chautauqua lectures. I often hear it said the work peopl never realize how much is done them. But I think I do, or else would not tell about our teapot. The Editor is away or I might not get a chance even to tell you, even if he should tret home soon he no doubt will be so glad to get a glass of limpid (I believe that is the right word) wu lamette water after swallowing chill concarne and mescal the past few weeks, he will overlook my breach of ethics. Well, we used our new teapot, you know about the tea which comes strong paper bags with a Chinese laundry ticket marked on its side. have been told that is the guarantee under the pure food and drug act of June 30. There is also a picture which looks like a small Jimson weed in full bloom and the name of the corner grocer as "importer and blender" to insure us against fraud. The contents of the bag look like the "shatterings around an alfalfa hay press, shriveled up little greenish leaves. I have been told by a fellow who served on a school ship, that the . orientals usually steep the tea leaves once or twice before selling it to the white man, but we are now sending Christian Missionaries over to teach those heathen the error of their ways You know that rousing old hymn: "What tho the spicy breezes Blow soft on Ceylon's Isle, Where every prospect pleases, And only man is guile." If it is true that tho almond-eyed Cellestials steep the tea and then sell it to us, I think they are getting the worst of i alright. Of course it is not likely they would dare to steep the high priced teas, but poor people can t attord them and then people who don't need to work for a living have more time to taste their tea, so they would soon get next to the game, and perhaps send sol diers over there to Bhoot those swind lers full of holes, if our Bibles and brandy bottles failed to work a change of heart. Ur course people who worK for a living don't need the best teas for they don't appreciate those rare delicate flavors, besides that they don t have time to taste it, as they can t leave the work long enough for such things. Something like a hundred and fifty years ago the government of this country felt in need of a little pin money, so in order to obtain it in a perfectly legal way put a tax on tea, whereupon some people "down Massa chusetts way" kicked up a terrible fuss, ending tho row by taking a boat load of other peoples tea and dump ing ti in the ueu. When 1 wus a boy I reud soma fine praises about these men, in the school history, which plainly shows how ideas of right and wrong change with the time. At present when the government puts on a tax like that it is called "protection, while the person who would object would be classed as an anarchist. Can anyone explain why the change in the view? It is past mo. But here! I got to writing politics all on account of a rattle headed, broken-handled teapot that has been in the family these many years. It seems that politics is so very close to our every day life, it is strange so few people ever try to to find out what it is, and still stran ger that we permit some small class of persons to use it to our disadvan tage. Strangest of all is that we as a people will hollow our insides out in adoration of that bunch of grafters. Speaking of teapots, 1 am reminded of that scene in the Kubaiyat,, of tho collection of pots and what they said. ' I do not recall the words, but no doubt you can repent thorn "by heart." Also I think perhaps the reason we seem so lop-sided is in the question "what then did the hadnotfh , KKAUKK then did the hand of the potter shake?" John F. Stark. of for Health WithoufDrugs (By W. A. Turner, Naturopath.) INTRODUCTION. This column will endeavor to edu cate the people in regards to the laws of health and the cause of disease from the druerless standpoint. The pro- mulgation of rational natural methods of aiding Nature to cure disease with out the use of poisonous drugs, filthy animal serums, and unnecessary sur gical operations. The upholding of medical freedom the combatting of medical errors the exposure of quacks, fakers and frauds and those who prey on the ill and suttenng, whether regulars or "irregulars I he right of every man to call physician of his choice; the so-called "medical inspection of the publ schools and its baneful influence children, it being only a graft to in crease private "medical practice the expense of all classes of taxpay ers, and on other subjects. What Causes Sickness? Disease or sickness is an effort of Nature to expel diseased morbid mat ter from the system and to restore normal health. Nature is always at work, trying to cure you and will do so if not prevented. The physician only assists JNature. The Naturopathic school of healing recognizes the fact that about 95 per cent of all disease comes from wrong living, eating, sleeping and breathing, When you take drugs into the stom acn ana nave iiitny animal serums and vaccines injected into the blood. you only interfere with the healing and cleansing processes of Nature, only suppress symptoms and never cure. The best class of the old time medical" doctors are beginning to be lieve what the drugless physicians have long known, that the enormous increase in cancer and tuberculosis due to the poisoning of the blood the people with filthy vaccines smallpox, typhoid, diptheria, during tho past half century. Vaccination or serums for these diseases is merely a medical hallucination and kill more people than the diseases themselves. besides poisoning the blood of future generations. The "Germ" Theory is one of the latest medical fad and an absolutely impossible superstition (Jerms are the eftect of disease, not the cause of it and no germ can cause disease except by personal contact Germs are beneficial and necessary. They are the scavengers of the body and if you were to swallow the belief that germs cause all disease, a sec ond thought would tell you that ll were a tact, the human race would have been wiped off the earth thous ands of years ago. As a matter fact you are full of germs all the time and if your blood is impure and your vitality low, they have a fertile field in which to multiply, but disease germs cannot propogate in pure blood anymore than you can raise vege tables on rocks. "Radical" borne may say: "This magazine seems to be rather radical." Sure! Anything, you know, that wakes them think is "radical." You cannot scare the peope any longer by telling them a statement is 'radical. What they want to know is whether or not it is true "Brain and Brawn." Exactly sol I am trying every day to wake people up and point out some ot the follies of medical mal practice. They have been fooled long that they are used to it, but they are opening their eyes. len years ago there were 1(5 med ical" colleges in the U. S. Today 105 emain. 1'retty good work in 10 years thanks to drugless methods. Eat Properly Every fruit and vegetable has a dis tinct value chemically, and if properly cooneu, luliuis its mission when eaten 1 lie potato, for instance, is nrob ably the most generally eaten of all vegetables and probably does the most harm because of a lack of know edge to properly cook it. Potatoes to be a healthful food should be either aked or boiled with the skin on- never peel and then cook. lake a boiled potato and peel it Then you will see the surface covered with a reddish-green, brown coloring, rliat is tho natural oriranic salts placed there by Nature for theexpress purpose of neutralizing the starch in the potato and making it digestible, it peeled and mashed thev look beau tiful, taste good, but become like wall paper paste in your stomach so look with suspicion on all mashed potatoes unless boiled with their jackets on. Avoid Sedative Cough Medicines If you want to contribute directly to the occurrence of capillary bronchitis and pneumonia use cough medicines that contain codine, morphine, heroin and other sedatives when you have a cough or cold. An expectorant like Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is what is needed. That cleans out the culture beds or breeding places for the germs of pneumonia and other germ diseas es. That is why pneumonia never re sults from a cold v. hen Chamberlain's Couirh Remedy is used. It has a world wider reputation for its cures. It con tains no morphine or other sedative. For sale by Huntley Bros. Co. Had No Sense of Humor The Courier editor attended a boos ter meeting banmiet in one of the southern towns, when one of the bus noss men was suddenly called upon Lo preside, lie explained how the mat was "so sudden,' declared he would not try to bo funny, and excus niiiiseii witn mis very amusing tory: .Should I make the attempt, my ex pcrience iniirht be somewhat like that ot the London bus driver beside whom I was riding a few years ago. Taking a piece of string from his Docket. he dangled it before the eyes of the driver of another bus going in the opposite direction, who immediately oegan to svwnr as only a London bus driver can. "What's the joke?" I ask- eu; wny imi mat driver swear so when he saw the string?" "Ah," was the disgusted reply, "Samivel ain't got no sense o' humor. I was only just remiiidin' him that his father was hanged this morning." Bennett Thomas A. Thomas of Beaver Creek and Miss I,. M. Bennett of Orenco. Ore.. were married at Orenco Wednesday, iiriooer l, by Kev. John Griffith. Mr. Thomas was raised in Beaver Creek, is wen Known in the county, is a pub he spirited, popular farmer and a live t'.quity worker. Miss Bennett was born in Nebraska, was a school teacher, and has taught several terms in the county. They will make Beaver Creek their home. Will G. Richmond, a resident of In- rrlnn-nrw! C.u.. mill nnswpr nnv inntiir- ies about Foley's Honey and lar Com pouud. He further says "Foley's Hon ey and Tar Compound has greatly benefited me for the bronchial trouble and cough, after I used other reme edies that failed. It is more like a food than a medicine." Do not accept a substitute. Huntley Bros. Co. 1 FARMERS ATTENTION WE ARE IN THE MARKET to sell or trade your farm. We list your property at a price which includes our commission and we ask a purchaser that price and no other. We have an insurance department and will be glad to insure your buildings, automobiles, grain, stock or your life. DILLMAN & HOWLANI) Over the Courier Office, Ore gon City, Oregon. READY FOR COMING YEAR Concord Parent-Teachers Association Organizes with Large Membership The opening of the yearly meetings of the Concord Parent-Teachers As sociation was held Friday afternoon at the school house, 25 being present. The officers for the ensuing year are as follows: President, Mrs. James Wallace, Vice Pres. Mrs. George Brownell; Secretary, Mrs. A. C. Ar nold; Treasurer, Mrs. Philip Oatfield. The meeting was opened by the President, minutes of the previous meeting were read by the Secretary, following this new business and un finished business of importance was transacted, it was decided to hold a bazaar in Sept., after which the ladies had the pleasure of listening to a talk on Manual Training and Domestic Art lines by Mrs. Aristene Felts, of Salem, who is to be a candidate for the State President of the' Oregon Congress of Monthers and Parent Teacher Association. In part Mrs. Felts said, the Parent Teachers Associations are trying to break down the barriers between the schools and the homes, the attitude of the whole world has been that the school is isolated from the home, and Manual Training and Domestic Art lines should be taught in every school, experience is what they need. Prof. Frank Keelan, of the Concord School, gave a brief talk on the same line, and is very much in favor of having the equipment installed in the Concord School for Manual Training. Miss Gertrude Lee, teacher in the Concord school, then gave a pleasing talk to the ladies present. Miss Mary Rice, one of Oak Grove's talented mu sicians, who is a student of Mrs. Lena Chambers, of Portland, rendered several selections on the piano, which highly entertained the ladies. At a special meeting of the execu tive board of the Parent-Teachers As sociation recently the following com mittees were appointed for the years' work: Mrs. J. F. Risley chairman of CLARKES Mrs. 0. S. Martin and children from Eastern Oregon are visiting Mrs. Martin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max son. Timber Grove school will open Oct. Cth, and the teacher is Miss Lillian Bonfit. Mr. Buche was in town last week. Miss Dora Marquardt is attending school in Oregon City. Mr. G. Marquardt and daughter, Dora, were in town lastw eek. Clarkes school will open October 6th, and the teachers are Miss Inez and Gladys Snodgrass. Mr. J. Grossmiller went through uarKes on business. Mr. C. H. Bergman moved to High land lastw eek. C. Haag and son Rudolph were in town recently. W. 11. Bottemiller was at Union Mills last week. Rudolph Haag hauled wheat to the Howard mills last week. ELWOOD Nouna Vallen was home from school over Sunday. Miss Freclolph spent Sunday visit ing with Mr. and Mrs. Stahlnecker and Mr. and Mrs. Zerkel. Mr. and Mrs. Zerkel are going to move to Willamette this week. Mattie Maplethorpe has gone to Es tacada to attend high school. Gus Gottberg's time on the Elliott farm having expired, he and his fam ily have moved to Molalla and a man by the name of .Snodgrass with his wife have moved in. Mrs. Elliott will be here also for a few weeks, i Ernest Vallen is working near Bar ton. Charlie Freeman has gone back to Barton to work at the Cummin's saw mill. Mr. Brown, Willis Cox of Estacada Walter Cox and Harry Bittner went to the mountains Saturday on a fish ing and hunting trip. GEMS FROM 8HAKESPEARE. There Is a tide In the affairs of meu Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and In mis eries. Julius Caesar. lie jests at scars thnt never felt a wound. Itoiueo and Juliet. True hope is swift and files with swallow's wings; Kings It makes gods and mean er creatures kings. -Richard III. If nil the years were playing holidays. To sport would be as tedious as work. King Ilenry IV. Love sought Is good, but giv en unsought Is better. Twelfth Night. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids aro May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they ure wives. As You Like It. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him thnt makes It. Love's Labour's Lost Miss Alma and Florence Moore of this city, left for Portland on business baturday. . f BEATER LEVER LARGE INDEPENDENT TILTING OP APRON CONTROL SCAT V ' APftON LEVER Independent of Blr Control . " pgr dc" "J f INDEPENDENT RAKE. f LOWEST-DOWN MACHINE 1 TggthHddf ofOillpmptfffd Spring Sfrf I BecdUSpApfonPdswsUnfJerRedrAnl iW AVERAGE HEIGHT 3ff ET 8 INCHE5J Hiqh Carbon Beater Teeth set stoqqered forminq spi'Jl, qiv inq wide delivery. Simple Apron 1 S! I I I CAST -STEEL SIDE BRACKET I y under all conditions DOUBLE ANGLE STEEL REACH Givinq DVe ctOrjft and eliminatinq all strain from Spreader Box A Reach is as indispensable on a Manure Spreader as it is on a Wagon. ARE YOU LOOKING For a Low Down Easy Loading Light Pulling Manure Spreader One that will Last a long time and please you better every time you use it? Look no further. WE HAVE IT AND YOU NEED IT THE BLOOM MANURE SPREADER GETS THE MOST OUT OF THE MANURE By breaking it up fine and spreading it evenly Easy, sure control and no horse killer The only Spreader with a reach Farmers who have bought them say they are the best farm machine investment a farmer can make. See the BLOOM at the nearest Mitchell Agency or write us for Illustrated Catalog Northwest's Greatest Impement and Vehicle House PORTLAND, ORE. SPOKANE, WN. BOISE, IDAHO roirram committee; Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Naef assisting; Mrs. Robert Kichardson, chairman membership omiiuttee, Mrs. Liddcl, Mrs. Charles Risley and Mrs. Labowish assisting;; Mis. L. P. Campbell, chairman recep tion committee, Mrs. Brownell, Mrs. Uncus, Mrs. M. T .Oatftcld, assistiner; Mrs. Tyra Warren chairman press omnuttee; Mrs. J. R. Oatfield, chair man music committee; Mrs. Laudin, hairman Kinderearten committee: Mrs. M. T. Oatfield, child hygiene committee; Mrs. P. Andrews chair man chillis wellfare committee, Prof. Keelan assistinir: Miss Mannie Oat field and Miss Sally Warren librar ians. Last year the Parent-Teachers' As sociation made $105.00 and cash on and in the Treasury at present $f;l.80 and the next regular meeting will be hold the first Friday in Nov. Mrs. Lldia Park lias gone away on a visit to her two sons and their families, who are living near Eugene. School opened Monday with thir teen in attendance, but more will starts oon. For Sale 30 acres good level land. 10 in cultivation, 10 slashed, balance in timber. One and onehalf miles north of Mulino on good road. $150 cash, balance 2 vears at 7 nor cent interest. Address Mrs. M. E. Graves, anoy, tit. l. Eczema and Itching Cured The sooth in?, healinir medication in DR. HOBSON'S ECZEMA OINT- Mil' VP rmnof fu f.e ouni-.f tim m.a nf the skin, clears it of all impurities slops itcnimr instant v. Dr. Hobson'si I Eczema Ointment is guaranteed to I .,..,i;i i,i w i orm, tetter and other unsnrhtlv eruD- tions. Eczema Ointment is a rlnr-tnr'u irescrintion. not at an pvnirimnt All druggists or by mail, 50c. Pfeiffer Chemical Co., Philadelphia and St Louis. A CARRIAGE THAT IS RE PAIRED AND RE-PAINTED by us you couldn't tell from the new article, for we will make it just as good as it ever was. If your horses need shoeing you will find us good judges of a horse's hoof and what kind of a shoe it needs, and our work will be properly and scientific ally done. If you want anything done in our line we guarantee satisfaction. Owen G, Thomas Oregon City, Ore. 3 S.K.CHAN CHINESE DOCTORS 133ft 1st St. Cor. Alder. Portland, Or. Dr. S. K. Chan . Mrs. Dr. Chan The reliable Chinese Doctors, S. K. Chan, -with their harmless Chinese remedies of herbs and roots as medi cine, can wonderfully cure all sick ness. They have cured many sufferers, both men and women, of chronic dis eases, and all internal or external sicknesses when others failed. No op erations. Examination free. Ladies treated by Mrs. Dr. Chan. Call or write for symptom blank. 133ft First St, Portland, Oregon (Opposite Oregon City Car Station.) Oregon Equity News CO-OPERATIVE STORES Equity Must Wholesale and Retail to Protect Themselves Adopt a systematic method of doing business on the productive part. Con federate all the locals tributary to a central shipping point for the purpose of grading and packing produce suit able for the market and not send un saleable produce to Portland ware house, there to be re-sorted, graded and re-packed before it is saleable. The writer saw potatoes that were shipped to the F. S. E. Warehouse of which about one-third were unsaleable and any farmer would only use them to teea stock, the expense, of sorting and the freight had to be charged to the saleable portion. Whv should this De; Oregon City should have a cooper ative store supported bv everv F. S E. member that is within reach, and in connection with this store and thru it all the surplus farm produce should De nanniea and marketed, there to be graded and packed suitable for the market betore shipping. The profit of this store to be divid ed in proportion to the amount of the goods purchased by each member. Equity members, consider this then get the consumers of Oregon City in terested to join this cooDerative Rtore: bring producer and consumer to gether, and let the store be the medi um of exchnge. Also pay non-members one-half the per cent of profit in pro portion to mount purchased by him. There is not another place in Oregon where there is a better opportunity as here. Why should those who pro duce the wealth make a few rich. Be ing organized as F. S. E. amounts to nothing if each locality or each mem ber is not willing- to cooperate with each other. Success will only be achieved by a united effort of everv locality working out their own salva tion. In Minneapolis. Minn., thev are. about to establish a coopeative com mission house which is also to be cn- operative wholesale house.' Why not have our F. S. 7. warehouse organiza tion be on a cooperative Drincinle. As yet the word Equity means nothing unless the "business system is organ ized on cooperative methods. F. S. E. members, consider the possibilities of cooperation. PULLING TOGETHER County Meeting F. S. of E. The meetine- nf the C.n TTninn f the Farmers Society of Equity will-be held with Coltnn Local of r.r.nnr, n..o on Sat. Oct., eleventh at 10 A. M. ' S. L. Casto. President. F. G. Buchanan Secretary. The Hope of the Farmer Lies in Or ganization and Co-operation What is equity? The word equity means cooperation or to ' cooperate. The Society of Equity was formed for the purpose of bettering the condition of the agricultural class and it can only be done by applying the princi oles and methods of cooperation as is : applicable to farming and the market ing uy esLauusiuug nmu&Liiai zauions for beneficial purposes. The key to this solution is the far mer must work out his own salvation and this can only be done by combin ing among themselves. Effective com binations for a productive and com mercial purpose is not accomplished simply by being organized, but to be capable of joint action we must or ganize on certain well known but rather complicated lines in order to be permanent. It is difftficult for the farmers from the nature of their occupation to ca pably establish the principles which must be observed in framing such rul es as will do justice between man and man and harmonize all the interests concerned. Even if he does grasp the idea that he ought to combine with his neighbor he cannot put before them an intelligible and working scheme. Here it is where it is necessary, without interfering with the farmer's business or weakening his spirit of in dependence, to have the assistance of those who have had wider opportuni ties of observing . and a larger ac quaintance with commercial and in dustrial affairs. , Heretofore it has been a notorious ly difficult task to bring farmers into any kind of cooperation and it requir es some one of ability to discuss and advise upon the technical details of establishing a systematic organiza tion. Idaho F. S. E. has solved the problem. Each county has organized 'hem'selves in a business organization and they got a reduction of 7 cents on grain sacks, 4 cents in twine and now concessions are made to them by manufacturers of twine, sacks and all kinds of merchandise and farm ma chinery. F. B. Loomis of Los Angeles, who was special envoy of the government, said the people have been led to be lieve and expect our new tariff will grow them cheaper food, cheaper su gar and other necessities, but will the consumer benefit by those articles put on the free list? He fears the manu facturers and middlemen and retail men will be the ones benefited. The only solution out of this crreat difficulty that is to cast out the great gain of the middlemen is the coopera tive store, both retail and wholesale. AT THE Lowest Cost ELECTRIC LIGHT is the most suitable for homes, offices, shops and other places needing light. Electric ity can be used in any quantity, large or small, thereby furnishing any re quired amount of light. Furthermore electric lamps can be located in any place, thus affording any desired dis ttibution of light. No other lamps possess these qual ifications, therefore it is not surprising that electric lamps are rapidly replac ing all others in modern establish ments. Portland Railway, Light & Power Company MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH , ALDER. PORTLAND Phones Main 6688 and A. 6131 VV4 OVER 65 V "HrtXPtHIE 2 f CARS, NtE 1 Tradc Marks Copyrights Ac Anton mmn l ultetch nd description mT (lutclily ascertain our opinion fro whether an Invention It probably patentable. Coniniuntca tlnniMrletlf oonodentlal. HANDBOOK on Patent tent free. Oldeat auency for Muring prtenta. l'umma taken tbroush Munn & Co receive ajx.-tdj notice without charge. In th. Scientific American A handeomelr ntntrtrated weekly. I.anraal clr. culatlon of any ecienlldc Journal. Term. 3 ft year: foarttontha.il. Sold by all newadealera. MUNN iCo.'6'8 New York Branca Offlot, 636 r BU Waahlwtoa, D. C. Officepbones: Main 50, A50; Res. phones, M. 2524, 1751 Home ittol, D251 WILLIAMS BROS. TRANSFER & STORAGE Office 612 Main Street Safe, Piano, and Furniture Moving a Specialty Sana, oravei, cement, . unie, i'laster, Uommon Brick, Face Brick, Fire Brick ' Butter Wrappers, Letter Heads and Envelopes Print en on short notice at the Courier Printery