NEVS Of INTEREST TO VOft 11 IKS WWW Li Chicago Club Women' Discuss in an Interesting Way the Question " Wfcat Is Society." The "Angel of the Crimea" Talks of War and Its Horrors and- Some of the Good It Brings Out Fads and Fancies of Well Known Representatives of the Fair Sex. THE HILLS OF THE LORD. 1 God ploughed one day with an earth quake, And drove his furrows, deep! The huddling plains upstarted, Ine hills were all a-Ieap! j ..... ; r j . . But that is the mountains' secret, j ' Agehiddcn in their breast; "God's peace is everlasting," j Are the dream-words of their rest. He hath made tbeni the haunt of beau ty, J ; . The home-elect of his grace; lie spreadcth his mornings on them, His sunsets light their faces. j ' His thunders tread in music Of footfalls echoing long. And carry majestic greeting Around the silent throng. Hi winds bring, messages to them, Wild storm-news from the main; . They sing it down to the valleys j ? In the lovesong of the rain, j . Green tribes from far come trooping, Ami over the unlands flock: f lie weaveth the zones together In robes for his risen rock. They .are nurseries, for young rivers; Nests for his flying cloud; r Homesteads for new-born races, Masterful, free and proud. The people of tired ciWcs Come up t their shrine and pray; God freshens again within them, As he passes by all day, j And lo.JT have caught their secret; The. beauty deeper than all, f This faith that life's, hard moments. When f he jarring sorrows bcfalL Are but God ploughing his mountains; And the mountains yet shall be j The source of his grace and freshness And his peace' everlasting to rneJ W. C. Gannett. CHICAGO CLUB WOMEN DISr CUSS, VH,T IS SOCIETY?" - (Chicago Inter Ocean, 18th.) The question, "What Is Society?" was answered in a variety of ways at, the Chicago Woman's club yesterday. Mrs. Ellen M. Ilesrotin read an, ex haustive paper on the subject, going in to t lie problem in all its phases, and a number of able thinkers among; the members of the woman's club, and their guests, took part in the discussion which followed the reading of the pa per. ' - ) University hall, where the meeting was held, was crowded from the 'plat form to the doors, and chairs had to be placed in the aisles to accommodate the throng of women who had arrived up to the time when Mrs. Penoycr L. Sherman, the president of the iclub, rapped oil the table for order. Long after the meeting -opened the throng continued to swell. i Mrs. Potter Palmer had been asked to speak and had promised to make a brief address, but at the last moment telephoned to the president that; she would prefer to be omitted from j the programme. She said, however,! that she would attend the meeting, which she did, in company with a number of guests, and sat back in the body of the hall. Thus she, on her own account, solved the question which had been agi tating the members of the club as to whether in deference to her position as a social leader she should be asked to sit upon the platform as a guest of hon or or be treated as any other' member of the club. I , Much disappointment was expressed at the failure of Mrs. Palmef to take part in the' discussion. Mrs. Palmer's reasons for declining, it is understood, were that her appearance as one of the speakers had been toy much advertised and commented on by the press, and that the meeting was a public one to which several hundred guests -had been invited. Had it been, a regular session of the club, with only members present, it is understood she would have spoken. The meeting was conducted under the auspices of the department of re form. Mrs. Henrotin's paper was in teresting throughout, but treated ; its subject in a more or less jocular way. She cleverly evaded responsibility for anything the paper might contain that could rivc -offense to any of her j hear ers. This she accomplished by j relat ing a number of conversations between herself and social exponents, in which she allowed" these persons to do a great deal cf the talking, with occasionally a suggestion from herself. ' 1 j The first oi these conversations was with a man at an after-tbe-theatcr sup per. The essayist explained that the man was an American . of about 35 years, popular in London and Pari so cial circles, a man who went occasion ally into society in New York, : but never in Chicago. His opinion. " was that society did not exist in America. His main criticism was that there was too large a feminine clement in the so called American society, and too many young people, or. at least, there were not enough middle-aged and old peo ple in it. He deplored the fact that the height of ambition of most of the soci ety people, so-called, was to entertain a debutante, and that the debutantes themselves were too elaborately dressed and lacked individuality. He thought their mothers and fathers, and perhaps their friends, might tell them apart,but that no one else could. As to the few grown men who '"went in society" to any extent, those of his acquaintance who so indulged were the least interesting of all his friends. What society needed was more brains and age and more real men. f A middle-aged woman with whom Mrs. Henrotin held her second conver sation agreed with the man that there was perhaps a preponderance of women in society. This, however, she laid to the fact that the men avoided society, rather than that women wanted to bar them out. She thought thei trouble was that the men and women of this coun try were unconsciously readjusting their new relations, since the spirit of liberal education for women as well as men had invaded the land. Women, it appeared, chose to entertain, and men were content to be entertained, ; and it was not so successful : an , arrange ment a if they entertained each other. The average man, she said, when he came into the presence ofa woman was prone to lean back in his chair and to listen to the woman talk.; Both men and women had lost sight of the im portance of making 'the most of each other. ; A young girl of two seasons was the next person interviewed. She said so ciety represented "the social art where by men and Women do pleasant things." But she complained" that there was no home life for persons engaged in soci ety. There was too much going on. For her part, she was going to Paris in the spring to see the exposition and take a much needed "rest i Another woman interviewed ; de scribed society as t'he white woman's burden." . Mrs. Henrotin paid Mrs. Serman, the president of the club, a delicate compliment by speaking of her as one of the most gracious ex ponents of the society element in Chi cago. ' '.' 'Miss Jane Addams, Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Blackwelder, and Mrs. Elia W. Peat tic spoke briefly- after Mrs. Henrotin had concluded, . Mrs. Peattie declared that "the object of society is to make a fine art of pleasure." THE "ANGEL OF THE CRIMEA." i The woman nurse of England, like the woman nurse of America a year and a half ago, is off to the war. The pro fession! of nurse is recognized as one of the most beautiful and most appro priate which can engage woman's ac tivities, and yet forty-six years ago, when Florence Nightengale .went to the Crimea war, nurses were not known. The nursing that' was done was. per formed by soldiers who had not fallen. Whcnvthcy returned from battle they nursed such of those as were on the wounded list. The fallen were car ried from the field by their comrades, and were given such assistance as was possible. Men without experience min istered to other men. It was all ame teur work. Florence Nightingale is still living in London. An interviewer, who has just visited her, describes her as 8o years old, spare of figure, though not thin, just '"shrunken," from years, but her eyes are bright and her 'voice is firm. When she speaks you can almost hear the music which rang in -it forty years ago, . when, as "The Angel of the Cri mea," she went from tent to tent, giv ing life to the wounded. a Though not wealthy, she has every comfort, and her desk is strewn with invitations to go out into the social world' of London. The queen annu ally invites her to Windsor, end she is favored by visits from the Princess Christian and the princess of Wales. The Empress Frederick never fails to call upon her when she is in London. She is now busy with her memoirs, which will afford a great inside history of the Crimean and other wars. ' Not long ago Miss' Nightingale had an invitation to address the Balaceava society: but instead she wrote a letter, in which she said: "I wish I could say, as we thought a few days ago we might have said, that there would be peace. But still, as was once written about the advantages of persecution, we may write about the advantages of war, yet few men and perhaps no women have seen as much as I have of the horrors of war. But; see those manly fellows in time of war, men not near the beasts, as sometimes we too sadly see in the time of peace; sec them not one taking a drop too much; njt one gallivanting with the women, everyone devoting, aye, even his life for his. comrade, fetch ing, his comrade off the field, without notice or praise front any one cither in words or in print; and if killed in the attempt, his name only goes down as 'killed in battle; always devoted even to the death as our Great Master and Friend, Jesus Christ, was to His fellow men. - .. "Oh, if such be war, we will not say; 'Let' there always be war! but blessed the war which makes such heroes of our comrades. Sad is the death of our comrades. But we- 'may- say, 'Death comes not untimely to him who is fit to die. The briefer life, the ear lier .immortality.' nd who would keep him bark? Not even his wife. My friends, survivors ofBalaclava, I. pledge you in this cup, not all of grief, but of living life, worth perhaps all the downy chairs we know of. Those who are gone are with us still.- working with Us at the good and right, and the hap piness of our fellowmen. AN ASSIGNMENT. ' Woodburn. Jan.; 33. M. J. Matson, who has conducted a general merchan dise ft ore for several years has assign ed to R. L Sabin, representative of the Merchants Protective Union o fPort land. If is liabilities art $12,000; as sets approximately the same." s ,, (Mr. Matson formerly conducted a racket store in this city, being located in the D'Arcy building on State street.) Legal Blanks, Statesman Job office. " lost 20 lbs. In three months?' Your medicines have done sol mucblfor me that I cannot thank yon enough for advice and kindness shown me," writes Mrs. Warren E. Parker, of Orange St, Nantucket, Mass. "Three years ago I was taken sick with what the doctor called nervous ness and indigestion. He gave me medicine for the trouble, but I could not eat even a little oast or oat meal without suffering severely. I felt hungry but hardly dared eat anything. In a few months I began to have distressing spells right in the pit of my stomach. After the distress passed away it would leave my stomach so sore that I was obliged to lie in bed several days. I called the doctor again and he said I had catarrh of. the stomach ; gave me medicine bat it aid not do any good, 1 lost 23 runds in three months. At last I was so bad that thought I was beyond help. One 01 my friends loaned me Dr. Pierce's Common Sense ' Medical Adviser to read, and when I read that many people had been cured by his medicines I made np mj mind o write to him, although I was so bad j I THOUGHT THERE WAS NO HELP for me. I wrote and received a prompt reply. He told me I had indigestion, associated with a torpid liver, and he advised me to take his Golden Medi cal Discovery ' and also his Pellets, if constipated. I commenced talcing his medicines immediately, and soon began to feel better. I have taken six bottles of 'Golden Medical, Discovery, two of Favorite Prescription, ana. six vials ot Dr. Fierce's Pellets. I have trained ten -pounds. Am able to do all my work, and have not had a distressing spell for five months. Can cat everything, ; I cannot express thanks enough for the good the medicines have done me. If anyone who is suffering, no mat ter what the case may be, would only wrfte to Dr. Pierce for advice, I know he could help xfcem." TITHE four testimonials given here simply illustrate JJLt in a small measure the, scope of the curative pow er of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. This medicine is primarily designed to cure diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion -and nutri , Tic tr l-MiMiinar fTrt rn orcatis local lv remote from the stomach are due to the fact, that diseases of blood, nerves, liver,; heart and kidneys often have their ; origin in ' a diseased condition of the stomach and digestive and nutritive systems, and when the diseased condition is removed, the contributing cause of the disease of other organs is taken away also. Human life depends on food.' If -we don't eat we die. But it is not the fact of eating which makes us live, it is the assimilation by the body of the nutri tion that is contained in the food, which sustains life. But this general nutrition is made up of specific ele ments for the several parts and organs of he body, and' unless these specific elements of , nutrition are extracted and assimilated in due proportion, there is some part ot me Doay unnounsnea. ror example, the blood contains about pne-tentn 01 an ounce of iron. Take that iron out of his blood and the man would drop dead. But it is evident that if the loss of all the iron front the blood means death, that, so far as the supply drops below the normal one-tenth of an ounce, it means loss of vi tal force and physical decay, because the blood "For over a year 'I was troubled with' such a cough and pain in ray chest that I could not rest at night, , writes Omer J. Sennet, Esq., of franklin, St. Mary's Par.. La., care of Mr. J. VY Foster. "I tried cough mixtures and other medicin-s,'.mit they did me no good and I was falling away all he time, until I began taking Dr. Pierce's Colder Medical Discovery and 'Pleasant Pellets. The fist 'bottle made me feel better, so I took eight i bottles and now I feel like another man. '! i , ? "Many thanks for your - valuable medicines. I would aavise those who are suffering with a cough to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and the ' Pellets.' "I had sBvoro tioadachos." " tftrss troubled with a coupli" depends on iron to enable it to carry oxygen from the lungs to each part of the body. As the iron decreases there will be a deficiency in the oxy genizing of the blood. Instead of being bright scarlet, it will be dark purple as it is in form? of lung disease terminating in consumption. If the stomach and organs of digestion and nutrition fail in their work, the health of the body at once suffers. Whether you are weak or strong depends upon the ability of the blood to select and distribute the nu- , tritive elements' for the several organs. The blood is made chiefly in the stomach, and "weak" stomach1 means "weak? blood, blood deficient in vital energy.! , The great curative power of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery lies in its power to heal diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion . and nutrition, so j that the processes by which nature sustains life may be unhampered and unhindered. "Golden Medical Discovery" can't make a drop of blood, can't weave a strand of tissue. It can and does take away the diseased conditions which ob struct these processes of I nature,-' and hence, "weak kings," "weak nerves," "weak heart," etc, are per fectly and permanently cured by this great remedy. Persons suffering from : chronic forms of disease are -invited to consult Dr. R. V. Pierce, by letter absolutely without charge. AH correspondence private. Address Dr. RJ V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Away back in iS6s I was greatly troubled with catarrh, which I was unable target rid of for over six years,' writes Mr. M. E. Curry, of 252 West 76th Street New York, N. Y. WI had severe headache three or four times a week, which almost made jbe crazy. I I was unable to look -up without haying mucous drop in my throat, and always-carried ve or sixi handkerchiefs with me. Sitting by an open window was outsof the question, as I could not bear the least bit of air, to strike, my head. I went to a prominent physician, who treated me for over a year with hardly any benefit, and to three others who did not help me at all. I chanced to pick up one of your pamphlets which come with Dr. Pierce's Medi cal Discovery, read it carefully, and concluded, to try your Golden Medical Discovery and Sage's Catarrh Remedy. I purchased a bottle of each and used them. It did not take me long to find out that thev were the medicines I should have had years before. I continued to use. your preparation, and is a lew montns , , - I WAS ENTIRELY CURED. I have recommended the same remedies to live or six of mv friends who have been troubled with catarrh, ana they have been cured also. I am satis fied that if anyone will use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Sage's Catarrh Remedjrj ts directed, they will be able to cure the worst easel of catarrh. I find the 'Golden Medical Discovery the greatest preparation for coughs one which cures, thcza ia few days. j , "Your medicine helped me so much that I cannot praise it too highly," writes Mrs. C. L. Brooks,! of Poland, Androscoggin Co., Maine. "Tljs first dpse I took helped me. I cannot forget howl felt when J took it ; I was suffering everything with indigea- ion, and my stomach was so bloated that it seemed s though it must burst.' My husband said be was ing lor tne doctor, but I said if be would get me a ttle of the 'Golden Medical Discovery I would ' that. I had not taken it long when I felt ieved and have not had a touch of indigestions or omach trouble since. I had been sick for four ears, and less ' than four bottles cured me. Some people that -knew me before I began to take the f Golden Medical Discovery ! tell me that they never saw such a change in,.anyone, and they also say they don't sec how I can do such large washings; as I do now. when I . had not done a washing for so long."; ' - , tt i can do such tarpo washings" S0PMEnTMiI3 IfOiM (Sli$P7r EiMYiPrm Wereo0 Common Sense Medical Adviser Is not , mt b w old tQ any one. it Is a gift, and one of tho most valuable gifts ever nresentod to any family This great work containing fOOQ largo nagbs and over 700 Illus trations, treats of biology, physiology, hyglone, and mcdJcIno, In plain English. Dr. H F. Pltllbrlck, of South Weare, Hlllsboro Co, It. II. Box 24), says b "I have received 'tho copy of the Common Sense Medical Advisor you sent me, and am very much pleased with it. I think it is a very Important hook, and it would be a Godsend to every family throughout ttta whole world to have one of thdm." The book Is sent FREE on receipt, of stamps to cover expense of malting ONLY. Send 31 ono-ccnt stomps for cloth-bound booh, or 21 damps for tho book fn paper covers. ;;: ;. V;V ? ::Ai : IWZ. nl Y. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y. THE MAGERS CASE PREPARATIONS FOR AND INVITA ! TIOSS TO THE EXECUTION Th Prisoner KearaJn In Good Spirit : Effort to Becare CommaUttlos WIU Be Mad. . , t (From Daily, Jan. 24th.) : . W. G. Magers, who was twice; con victed in the circuit court for Polk county of the murder of Raymond D. Sink on September 13. 1858, is io be executed on Friday, February 2d,' at to a. m., and invitations, to the ekecu twn, issued; by Sheriff J. G. Van' Ors del, of Polk county, were yesterday re ceived by the local officers. The in vitation in the usual black "bordered card, inviting the person' addressed $o attend the execution. , Sheriff Van Orsdel is making his preparations, having secured the rope and other paraphernalia used "by Sher iff V. W. Withers, of .Lane county, in the execution of Branton' last spring. A" death watch was long ago set on th condemned man, and every effort is made to prevent 0 any interference 'with. thj course of the law. It was rumored, a few days ago, that evidence had been found that someone from o-'.tside the jail was attempting to provide! Magers with means to cheat the gallows by taking . his own lifc. This, the oflicers of Polk county assert, is an error; that no such efforts have been made, and that, were they jto be made, they would fail as the condemn ed man is watched far too closely to; succeed in any attempt at self-destruction. - - ' : I Judge W. L. Wells, of : the Polk' county court, in : conversation with a representative of the Statesman, yes terday, stated that all f preparatioiii for the execution were; well under way, the scaffold being in course , of construction, and it is expected that there will be no hitch in the "proceed-? ir.gs.- : ; .; r il - ' - f Magers is said to appear as well as usual, and seems resigned to his fate.: He is in his cstial good spirits and shows no signs of breaking down, al-; thottgh the hour of his execution is: rapidly drawing nearer, it being fixed less than ten days Jiencei ;; i Gov. T.,T Geer has received two or three letters, .from residents of Polk county, urging a commutation of th .death sentence to life imprisonment, and a petition is said to be in circula tion to - the same effect. , Thus1 far, however, none of the jurors trying the case, nor the state's attorneys and trial judge have -recommended such a course; in fact, the attorneys !who prosecuted the case are said to be ready to resist any effort which may be made to sect' re clemency. t - Will GO TO SLMMTR. W, II. Ilobson Has Purchased 'a Store , in That Wide-awake Town in Eastern Oregon. J ... Hon, W. II. Ilobson, of this city, it appears, wHl engage - in business in S'.impter, Eastern Oregon's- latest min ing center, having purchased the store of ,W. C. Caldcr, of that place, one of the- principal owners of the Sumpter townsite and its leading merchant. Mr. Calder is well known in Salem, having made periodical trips to this city for a number of years, as special agent rf the 'Aachen & Munich Insur ance Company, and later for the Tew Zealand Company' In speaking of Ithis sale, the Pendleton East Oregonian; of the 20th inst, says: , . i . . -Concerning W. C Caller, whose many friends in ' Pendleton will learn with pleasure that he is prospering in his Sumpter ventures, the Sumpter Miner says: i , "W.;,C Calder, who has sosucccss--fully conducted thei general "merchan dise business at the Red Front store since March, 1899, 'building "it tip from a small country -stfK-k to' its present magnitude, has transferred his entire interest and pood ,vHU in- the. business to the Hon. W. It,' Hobion, state sena tor, and one of the tcst known men in Oregon, politically, socially and finan cially, and especially in Masonic circles! "Mr. Calder crivca . rm the crrneral- merchandise business ,that he may de-.' vote, his; entire timje and attention to; the Sumpter Townsite Company, . Lim ited, ot which he is (secretary and treas urer and a heavy stockholder." I WANTED IT OVER WITH- Said Ma, Gadabout, who had "tome to spend the day. to little Edith:, . re you giaa . xo see me again, Edith?",' ; -; - ' .;'..- "' Yes, "ma'am, and , mamma's glad, too," replied the child. is she?",;;v. ..; : -; ; t "Yes; ma'am. 4 She said she hoped you'd come today and have , it over with." Qh'ro State Journal. Mrs. A. L. McCuilv returned to her nome in rortland ypsterday ?lternon. Legal Blanks, Statesman, Job office.