OUR COUNTRY'S WONDER PLAC E GREATEST WORLD'S THAT BUr MUSEUM HAVE SEEN SURPASS WONDERS ABROAD Where they are Located and How tit Visit Them (M. J. Brown, Courier, Oregon City) It would almost seem that our most learned are the most ignorant of America's wonders. . . I talked with a county schoolc om- missioner in New York state regard ing the antiquities of our country, but ne was so Hopelessly and embarass ingly ignorant of them that I permit- tea mm to change the subject. In Dunkirk, N. Y., I attended an illustrated lecture on the ancient won ders abroad. The lecturer was high in state educational circles. He had been abroad and taken photographs of the wonders in Italy, Greece, Egypt and otner places, which he showed with stereoptican slides. At the con elusion he strongly advised, almost pleaded, that every student present "who possibly could, should see at least part of the old world wonders, as part of his education. I ate supper at the same table with him after the lecture, and I remarked that he had not shown a picture of om world wonders that could not be almost duplicated and surpassed al home. He asked where were the Cata combs like Rome and Syracuse, and I replied in the mummy caves in Can yon De bhelly, northeastern Arizona. He wanted to know where was there scenery that would equal the Alps' and I told him to take a trip up the Rio Grande river from Santa Fe, and he would find it, and afterward see the magnificent Grand Can von. i which put in the background anything on earth. And as to Pompeii, there were 15,000 buried cities in New Mex ico and Arizona. ' Wonders? This country is full of tnem, lull or the strangest corners people, scenery and ruins in th; world and just as old as the oldest And it seems so strange that morj oi our people do not see them and know more of them. Nine out of ten educated men can tell more of the an tiquity of the old country than ol their home. And there is not one o: our cluster of wonders but what any man or woman can see with safety, yet nine-tenths of us know as little of them as we do of the interior of Af rica. We all know of the Passion Play- at Oberammergau, and hundreds of our people go abroad to see it, but up in northwestern JNew Mexico, back in the mountain hamlets, a commun lty of Pemtenties, have had annual crucifixions of human 1 beings for years, and today, while these barbar ities have been stopped, there can be seen horrible scenes of self-punish ment. J. have seen the fanatics with the blood running down their bare backs and dripping off their heels They are self-scourgers a remnant of the Flaggellants of the middle ages in Europe. Our school boys know of the won derful snake charmers of the Orient, ana tne jugglers ot India, but they DON'T know that our own Moqui Indians will handle the deadly dia mond rattlesnake as we would a ropo, and that the Rio Grande Pueblos Der- for some of the most wonderful of magician s tricks. Every school boy and girl can tell you of the old history of Salem (Mass.) witchcrafry, but there is among the mountains of New Mex ico today, 1913, a great area where many a Mexican man and woman are murdered because they are witches and can bewitch. How many of our people know anything about the extinct cliff dwel lers? Yet only about twelve miles from the station of Espanola, on the narrow gauge railroad of the D. &- R. G., north of Santa Fe., you can see the grandest ruins in the world. There is not a hardship in reaching these cliffs. The country is ' comparitively level, and the road follows the little Santa Clara river. And here on one cliff you can see the former homes of ten thousand people, who lived, died, and whose history perished before a white man ever dreamed there was a western continent. We all know about the great Sa harah desert abroad, but right here at home we have one as absolute, and in spots more deadly, extending from Idaho into old Mexico, and embracing parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Ne vada, Arizona and Texas. And its' most gruesome part Death Valley, has an African desert an irrigated ranch by comparison. . The most of us have heard of the petrified forest, but ask where it is and see how few can tell you. And yet a railroad runs almost to its front! gate. Get off at Hoi brook, drive six or seven miles and you reach a forest of agate, covering hundreds of square miles an area where wood has turn ed to' stone. While it is not much to look at, yet it is one of the big won ders of Americt, and a place almost any man can see if he will. Zuni, one of the Seven Cities of Coboli, is one of the most interest ing sights an American could hope to see. It is a people of . the past, liv ing in the today. It is the oldest in habited place in North America. There the Indians live in their great communial home, 1900 of them. They have lived there hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, ' and there are some of the strangest, wildest sights one could dream of. Zuni is a hard place to get to, one of the most hid den of our odd spots, but it can be made with absolute safety. About 100 the island on an old water-logged raft and my partner couldn't see why we went to all this discomfort to see a fresh water spring. Cit reminuea me oi tne story oi two men looking at Niagara for the first time. "Isn't it wonderful?" asked one, as he saw the great volume of water tumble over. "Wonderful!" repeated his com panion (who of course was an Irish man) "I don't see any wonder. There's the water and there's the hole." The wonder with me was how salt and fresh water could come up from the same lake. But there are many things to wonder at in the great dry land. There are mud springs to be found in this country, big wells of liquid quicksand in localities where one would not think there was wetness enough in a hundred sections to ex tinquish a match. These pits are cov ered over with polished, baked mud and you would never dream of their danger. I broke a hole through the crust of one and shoved an eight-foot limb out of sight. Animals know their danger far better than men. They say if you once get in you never come out and 1 believe it. South fifty miles from a little des ert station called Grant's, just on the Arizona line, is a wonderful historic sight, the rocks where the first com ers into America wrote their history. Very few white men have ever seen these historic rocks. A man at the station told me it was money thrown away to make the trip and it would wear a man out In thirty minutes you have seen it all and you will not nave Known what you saw. You can t read or understand them." But I had read them and under stood them long before I ever saw them, and I had read every scrap of history I could find of the venture some men who wrote their names and missions there. They were written in Spanish by the early Spaniards who cut their way through this wilderness from Mexico to the Rio Grande. And they did not know there was a Rio Grande: what there was ahead of them, or whether they could ever come back. Just appreciate that Cor onado. at the head of a band of ad venturers, lured on by mysterious legends of gold, marched from the gulf of California to Missourri in 1540. The great autograph cliff is call ed Inscription Rock. There is a spring there, the first in many miles, and nearly all pioneers passed it and camped there. There are dates there that go back 1580, and there are the names of Ornate and other men who made early history, but I looked in vain for the name of famous Coronado. Whether he missed this camping place, or whether he was too busy to- write, 1 do not know. But there are scores of names of early heros there, and some have written descriptive letters. One can't write of such a place and make it interesting, but he will never forget the album rocks, once seen And it DOES seem as if our govern ment should protect this wonder spot There is another great wonder of the far dim days of our country, and one easily seen, in fact it is in plain sight of the Santa Fe railroad for several miles, near McCarthy s a lit tle telegraph station just over the New Mexican line in Arizona. This is the stone river, once a river of molten lava but now a river that will never flow. In ancient days it poured out of Zuni mountain and flowed for forty miles across the country a literal river of fire. As it cooled it rose higher and higher and today it lays there from ten to twenty feet above the land. It fill ed low spots, made lakes and formed its path for forty miles. It is now eternal stone black, glass-like lava. I never saw its source, but I was told it was a wonderful sight to see, that it tore out the side of a great mountain by its force and weight, and that today you can see once great torrent where it broke asunder the Mountain and ran in a great river of fire down its side to the level coun try. The river Mas plain today as it was thousands or. years ago when it was alive, i nave waiKea lor miles alongside of it, and some day I hope to see where it -was vomited from the earth. I have seen buttes, solitary and far from others, rising at least one hundred feet high, whose tops were almost solid lava, and not another trace of lava could be found for miles. How these hills of solid sand could have a lava loof I never could guess out. These are a few of the strange, wonderful and historic spots of our country. There are countless others all through the southwest. Would you pass up such wonders, the most of them to be easily seen, and tear off to the old world ? The people of England know more about our wonderful dry land than we at home do. And when you have ' seen these places, drop over- the Rio Grande into Mexico, into the inland country where the railroads have not gone. There you will find ways and ruins of the time of Christ: there, you will find ancient wayside shrines. , old Aztec ruins, wonderful stone implements. This is not a new world, feopie liv ed on this continent as early as they lived anywhere. There is no use to go abroad for the ancient, our country is full of it mmm mum news locals elect officers in Janu- All ary. The success of your local depends on live working officers. You want men for officers who will do all in their power to make money tor the farmers by co-operation. Farmers must stop competing with each other and instead must help each other to get the highest price. A good, active, thinking member is worth as much to a local as an of ficer. If members knew how much depended on the success of the Far mers Society of Equity they would at tend every meeting. Look' by over the year just gone by and see what the Equity has accom plished in Clackamas County and ask yourself if that is not worth every cent it cost. And then look at Idaho, wnicn nas aone so mucn more ana see how much good the future has for us to da. Get more farmers in to help. The Farmers Sciety of Equity is not a gang of political grafters. It is not a political party or machine. Neither does it propose that our country shall be governed by any set of grafters or ring of politicians, who hide behind the American flag in or der to live from the hard labor" of others. No sir I This political Tower of Babel was progressing finely until some worker asked what we were going to do about the trust question and then confus ion came and we workers have not been able to undeistad a politician since. zine. He could do about as much as a lost dog at a .country fair. The farmer raises the game birds at his own expense and pays taxes on the land that they are raised on and the game should belong to the far mer as much as his plymouth rocks, and no one should be allowed to kill them and carry them away. We far mers must insist on such a law and a few others with some justice in Down in Coos County the big lunu ber interests led a revolt on the county tax budget and. forced the County Court to cut it down and sev eral thousand dollars. Coos Cdunty has a mob down there, that they use on most any occasion to make or un- Co-operative Buying of Woven Wire fencing, Gates, Etc I am taking orders for a car load of wire fencing, gates, etc., from a leliable Indiana firm that guarantees Iheir product and gives 30 days trial after receipt of goods, if money is deposited subject to their order after that timi. I, and sixteen ' others, received a car load of this fencing two years ago and there is a saving" of 25 per cent and up in price alone r.nd a saving in qaulity ct material tnd workmanship. I will tend a caa -g to one mem ber of an Equity Local or Grange. giving marked pricis delivered at Oregon City, freight prepaid. Write make laws and it seems to work as ,soon 88 possible as order should go well, or better, than the Legislature Dy rar1, mn 88 some are getting im purity test, 99 per cent; germination test, 90 per cent and over. Timothy Seed, $5.50. 98 per cent to 99 per cent pure: germination test 92 per cent. Seed prices fluctuate daily and are subject to change without notice. Equity Warehouse Co. Carus Equity Local There will be a regular postponed meeting of Cares Equity Local on Saturday night, Dec. 20th at Eldora do Schoolhouse. Mr. John H. Tees. manager of. the Portland Equity warenouse -will be present and make an address. All members as well as any visiting members, are requested to be present. ; and the annulling courts. Well, next spring, when those far. mers who voted for the big appropri ations to our State University, go to the county treasurer to pay their tax es, you will see the maddest set. of hayseeds that ever were allowed to bring in mud on a court house floor. The commission men of Portland have raised the rate of commission from 10 to 15 per cent. The Evening Telegram seems to favor public mar kets but just how tar it will go with thee ampaign remains to be seen. The Farmers' Union is getting very strong in Oregon and when the Equity Grange and Farmers' Union are iederatea there will bes omething aoing. . . if. W. Meredith. WHY FARMERS GET LEFT miles south of Gallup, New Mexico, and it must be made with horses, for the road is too rough and too sandy for auto travel. But make it and you will never forget or regret it Southwest of Zuni, well down to the Mexican border, is a big depres sion in the land, 1 and covered with shallow salt water. There are no streams running into it It is appar ently fed from salt springs under neath. Out in the center rises a lit tle peak or island, from the "top of which gushes .a spring of pure, cold fresh water. We half waded, half floated out to ' Christmas Program at Shubel German Lutheran Church at Shu bel, Rev. H. Mau, Pastor. A program will be rendered under the Christmas tree December 24th at 8 P. M. Everybody invited. ' Of Interest -to Farmers The Commercial Club, Dear Sirs: I have a good many requests for the names and addresses of growers of clover seed, with whom farmers and other buyers wish to come' in contact for the purpose of purchasing seed direct As considerable quantities of clover seed are produced in your county, I am requesting that you send me the names and addresses of the leading growers. I would suggest that it would be a rather valuable of fice for the commercial club of each county seat to keep a list of the growers of high grade seed each season on file. I believe this would be of great assistance to fanners thru out the state if it were know county seat commercial clubs had available such lists. Thanking you for such assistance in this matter as you can give me, I am, H. D. Scudder The Courier says that our state tax is going to be nearly four times larg. er next spring than it was last year. Now how are we going to get four times as much tor our strawberries and spuds? Now would be a splendid time for our Uncle Sam to send us another issue of emergency currency But Uncle, please register it this time. John Stark is working to establish a system among the small fruit grow ers, which will result in less berries rotting on the vines and more $ $ to the growers,, and it is my guess that he will succeed. If all Equity members were real workers for the godd of all just think, if you can, what would be done next year. Working people, as well as those who live in luxury from the work of others, have souls and they have opin ions of salvation and morality, and these two classes have their eyes on the organized churches. The Laborer wants to know if he is worthy of- his hire. If Christ said "Call no man Master." If the wealth of this country was produced and distributed on the same principle that education is produced and distributed it would be impossible to have classes which live from the labor of other classes .In fact, we would not have classes, we would have just one. class, Americans. The farmers are a class of workers who, until the last year or two, have been in a system of t competition. Other classes have gone out of com petition and entered into a system of co-operation. All these associations have dumped their expenses on the farmer and pocket the profits. Th farmers are going to turn the tables soon. The Banker is on the Job, the Farmer Lets Him Stay On At a recent meeting ofMaple Lane Local of the Farmers' Society of Equity the following resolutions were unanimously adopted and ordered for warded to the national headquarters, to be used at the next annual con vention. Whereas numerous persons and so cieties for civic uplift are making strenuous efforts to improve our pub lic highways and: Whereas the lord of Admiralty of Great Britain, the Right Hon; Win ston Churchill, has proposed the will ingness of his government to co-op-' eiaue wiui wr nations to suspend an navai construction for one year, do it Resolved, that this local of F. S. E ask of the National Convention of public highways. Be it further resolved by Maple Lane local F S. E. to ask the Nat ional Convention to request of the Congress ot these United States lee- islation to enable farmers to borrow money from the National treasury ud- on first mortgage security at as low rate of interest as heretofore paid bv National Banks. patient. Call up through central or address O. D. Oregon City Rt. 2., Px. 120. Redlaid Robbins WHAT COULD BE DONE? i President Schmidke of the Eauitv was in the city the first of the week, aim was puuiung out tne oenents tne farmers might receive when thor oughly organized and standing to gether. - , "Take coffee for instance," said he. "In Brazil the natives sell it to the local buyers at three or four cents per pound. The buyers ship to a San Francisco importer and make their profit. The importer sells to the wholesaler and takes off his profit. The wholesaler passes it along to the retailer and takes out another profit. The retailer sells it to the consumer and one more profit is added. And from the first cost of three of four cents the coffee goes to 30 or 40 cents when the drinker gets it .. "United, we farmers could buy it direct from the importer, and per haps even nearer than that to Brazil. And what is true of coffee is true of every article we do not produce. . Dyspepsia is America's curse. To restore digestion, normal weight, good health and purify the blood, use Burdock Blood Bitters. Sold at all drug stores. Price $1.00. Why not get your. Lumber from the MILL, direct and gave money? Let me figure ou your lumbor bill. -1000 loads of WOOD for sale or trade. George Lammers Beaver Creek, Route 3 QUARTERLY EQUITY MEETING Starkweather and U'Ren" Will Talk. In Oregon City January 10 The quarterly annual meeting of the Farmers Society of Equity will convene on Jan. 10, 1914 at the W. O. W. hall in Oregon City at 10 A. M. sharp. . Several important propositions are to be discussed. Also the election of officers occurrs at this meeting. Hon. H. G. Starkweather will be present in the afternoon and will de liver a leetnrfi nn t.ha nhsowntirm., nf the recent Rural Credits Commission of which he was a member. Mr. Starkweather will speak from 1:30 to 2:30 P. M. and will confine his talk largely to the co-operative methods as seen in the different countries of the Orient All producers and consu mers whether members of Equity or not, are urged to attend this lecture. Immediately following this lec ture Hon. W. S. U'Ren will speak up on a proposed State Public Market Bill, which he will advocate and which he intends to introduce or have intro duced, to the next state legislature. All citizens are also requested to be present at this time. - . It is very important that all locals send full delegations and that all del egates be on hand early, as it is de sired to begin the meeting sharply at 10 A. M. in order to finish our work before the noomhour. S. L. Casto Pres. . Leon DesLarzes. violin tonrliar 71 1 Jefferson Street, Phone Main 112. f , EQUITY WAREHOUSE MARKET Our government has been 40 yearb trying to regulate the railroads and for 40 years the railroads have gone ahead regulating themselves. If the farmers were half as well organized as the railroads they would be the captains of industry and control their business the same as the railroads. If the farmer is compelled to pay these high taxes and the big profits on what he has to buy, he must have a price for his produce large enough meet these expenses and the only way he can do that is to organize and set the price and have the supply where people can get it. Let the demand find the supply. We hear people talk about the won derful progress in America and the whole world. Yes! Our locomotives are four times larger and stronger but freight charges are not less. Pas senger trains are longer and faster but not cheaper fare in proportion. We have more dollars but they come higher. We have more millionaires, and also more paupers. We have made wonderful progress. We can build a city in a few days and we can build a gun that will demolish it in a few seconds. We have the ma chinery for prosperity and it grinds out poverty. We, the people, can build a nation the most powerful the world ever knew and we can convert it all into rivers of blood. Justice used to be a Goddess born of civilization, that knew not classes or professions. She was for all men and men were weighed in her scales according to their worth to their fel lowman. But what can she do now for a class of men who refuse to do any thing for themselves ? We farmers are taught to be su perstitious. We are taught that labor is honorable, yet we are made fun of by those who live from our labor We have been taught that "Thou shalt not steal," and yet we bow in reverence to the man who draws his dividends on watered stock. We are taught the golden rule and let our children be born to pay interest and others are born to collect it . For any pain, burn, scald or bruise. Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil the house hold remedy. Two sizes, 25c and 50c at all drag stores. The Court of Appeals of New York has decided that a circuit or federal judge can call out the militia during strike. Ihe uovernors of the states will soon have to step down and out and pass over their power to the jud ges. And the strikers! Well, they get shot either way. , Last year Congress gave our Agri cultural Department $50,000 to help organize the farmer to market his crops. I suppose they have spent the money, but they failed to organize a single local. In the mean time the Equity has organized thousands of locals. Are you farmers going to wait for your Uncle Sam to organize you' If you can imagine anything mora comical than a Washington City dude out here in Oregon in the winter try ing to organize us hayseeds, you should work for a numerous maga- lt does not seem to require any argument in favor of the first reso lution when it is remembered that farmers are taxed to support the navy ana receive no benefit whatever from that costly institution. A frog has as much need for a bottle of hair dve as we have for a navy; but it is diff erent with the highways. We read no end of arguments for good roads, none of which may be controverted, yet it seems that the ad vocates are all interested in saddling interest bearing bonds for them In fact the. suspicion is strong that our interest bearing debt is really the main object in view by some of these promoters. On November 20th Thomas, on the floor ot the senate, speaking on the co-operation with Great Britain tj stop the senseless expense said, "since 1892 weh ave spent $2,109 912,973.30 on the navy." Think of it. Over two billions of dollars in 21 years and we have to our credit a lot of junk. He further said "the debts of the nations are constantly growing. They nave reached tne huge sum ot more than thirty bullions of dollars'. The an nual interest charge upon them is more than twelve hundred and fifty millions of dollars. This toll is levied upon the productive energies of the people, who carry as well the budget of the annual expenditures amount ing to an aggregate of eight thous and millions more." So far as regards the navy, we have no navy on the great lakes, yet we fear no invasion. Thes ame is true in regard any other part of our boun dary. Just suppose that the two bil lions had been wisely spent on our roads in twenty-one years, we would have highways that were useful in stead of useless scrap iron. There is no reason why this gov ernment should loan one class of people money and not another, yet that is what is being done. About 7.000 banks can borrow money at rates from nothing to two per cent, yet the farmer, the most numerous as well as the most impor tant class, can not borrow a cent upon any condition, and why? The banker went to Congress or sent his "walking delegate" there while the farmer stayed at home and walked his legs off looking for someone to loan him money upon best security on earth. Will we ever get wise? Secretary Houston, speaking be fore the National Grange said that the farmer did not need nor did he want, special legislation to obtain credit. I heartily aree to that Take the special legislation away. Put us all on an equal before the cash box is all that we ask. The banker, howevere,' wants spec ial legislation and will get it because he is Johhny on the spot. Stark.. Where to Get Clover Seed . To the locals wanting clover seed If you will get in communication with F. C. Miller, Albany, Oregon, Route 4, I think you can get exactly what you want from farmers of the Farmer Union. You must write immediately as the farmers are gelling P. W. Meredith : FARMERS' UNION STATE OFFICERS . The State Officers 'of the Far mers Union of Oregon are as follows: President A. V. Swift, Baker, Ore. Secretary F. A. Sikes, Milton, Oregon. Executive Board J. D. Brown, Arlington, Ore; Clyde Williams, Buhl, Idaho; W. W. Har rah, Pendleton, Ore; W. O. Parks, El gin, Ore. Legislative Committee A. R. Shumnay, Milton, Ore; A. P. Davis, La Grande, Ore. Selling and Buying Prices Quoted Weekly for the Public Dec. 16th, 1913 We submit selling prices on the -following articles, as per present market: Potatoes, Early Rose, $1.25: White Kose, $1.25; American Wonder, $1.00; Burbank, .75 to $1.00. Onions, fancy, $2.50; choice, $2.00 to $2.25; small, $1.50. Parsnips, $1.00 to $1.25. Beets, $1.00 to $1.25. Turnips, White Egg, $1.00. Cabbage, $1.00 to $1.50. ' Beans, small white, 6c to 6c; large, $4.90 per cwt. Apples, 50c to $1.50; dry, 10c per. lb. r . Prunes 4 base. Veal, 15c to 15-. . Hogs, 9c to 11c. Beef, 9c to 12c. ' Calf Hides, 18c. Pelts, 12c. Hens, 14c to 15c. Springs, 14 to 15c' Geese, 12 c. Ducks, Indian Runner, 12c; Pe can, 14c. Turkeys, live, 20 to 21c; dressed, 23 to 25c. Eggs, 38. to .40c. Pop Corn 4c to 4V&C. We also submit the buying prices of goods now under contract; and which we can furnish you on short notice: Shorts, $22.50. Bran, $20.50. Flour, $4.20. Pearl Oil iron bbls., 10c; wood bbls 14c; case, 17c. . Gasoline, tank, 16c; case 23c. Head Licrht Oil, tank, 11c; bbls., 15c: case, 18c. Red Clover Seed, 16c; guaran teed purity test 99 per cent; germina tion test, f)0pe.r cent and over. Alsike Seed, .. $18.00. Guaranteed If You Value Your Child's Eyesight You will provide him with a good oil lamp.' Scientists agree that an oil light is best for study ing and reading. . Lamp besi resultsX k use fAoil mm s eives a soft mellow light An ideal light for the home circle. Scientifically constructed. No glare: no nicker. Easy to light and care for. Ask to see it at your dealers. 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