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She Bleached the Horses. THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER followed her with a large trunk, un- Bee, and I came out at daybreak. M c M innville , - O regon . dcr 2— which ..l.LL I. he __ staggered, „„ L- , ’ * burly as he I have been here ever since. The A shooting affray between two Mrs. ^ Cooper came January - - 16, 1890. was. M- —7-------- ~ r from —* the ’ morning air seems to refresh me.” jealous men has incidentially «■——■w— rr — I kitchen and exclaimed : “Why. it’s “I have the same experience,” he brought to light a peculiar state of, ■ said. affairs at a settlement known as MRS. COOPER’S NIECE. 1 Gwenny, I declare.” “You dear old Aunty Ruth!” “I have rested badly, or rather Melton’s, about thirty miles from : “Phillip,” said old John Briggs to said the new-comer, hugging the . have not rested at all. I—” i Batesville, Ark. , his son, “you are 28 years old to farmer’s wife. “I come to have a She looked up inquiringly, and j For some months the country day.” good time for a month.” at something she read in his eyes “So the family record says, fath “And so you shall, my dear,” was dropped her own, while a flush 11 around Melton’s has been infested 1 j by a bold and daring band of horse er,” responded the elegant young the reply .J overspread her face and neck. thieves, which has defied detection. gentleman addressed; “I am dis Phillip took an ocular inventory “ Gwenny,” he said desperately, It was impossible to locate the posed to place implicit reliance up of the looks, dress and manner of and took her hand. The fingers members with any degree of cer on it.” the new-comer as he took off his trembled in his, but were not with “You have done nothing since hat. “A sweet face and graceful drawn. “Gwenny,” he said, we are tainty, though several well-known people have been under suspicion. you left college but kill time.” figure, and presentable anywhere,” to part to-day. Do you know I Horses were run off in spite of “It is only retaliation in advance, was his internal comment. “Here’s love you dearly?” every precaution that could be air. Some day or other the old chap luck. I shall not visit tho Branch “Doyou, Phillip?” she murmured, taken by the outraged farmers. The with the scalp lock and scythe will but did not look up. yet.” animals could be traced into a kill me.” “Gwenny,” he said, I have been swamp of about a square mile in “You have a boarder, aunt,” said “You are too flippant. Since the girl when upstairs with Mrs. sailing under false colors, but in extent, and there they disappeared, your aunt Priscilla left you $5000 a Cooper. z nocently enough. I have a way all further clew being lost. It was year you have done nothing but j “Yes; lie’s a Mr. Bee,” she said. among iny gentlemen friends of believed for a time that the horses spend the money. Your income I “It don’t look as if he had any call using my initials, and so I am were killed and sold for beef, but ought to be enough for a single man ' to work for his living, judging from called among them P. B. or Mr. B. this theory has been proven incor but you draw on me, too.” I his white hands and fix-ups. and When your aunt asked my name, rect. “I’ll try to draw on yon less, fa I said ‘Mr. B.’ and I did not care he’s plenty of money.” Public gossip connected the name ther.” “Be! Then he isn’t a busy bee. to undeceive her; but I desire no of a Miss Hetty Turner, who lately “It is not that, Phillip. You are But he’s good looking; if he be concealment from you, unless you quite welcome to a check now and agreeable ho’ll do for a walking do not care for me. Then we will ■ became better known as “Sorrel Sue,” with the gang as ite supposed then, for I know that you neither part as we met; hnt I shall be a leader. She was given the latter ■ stick.” game nor revel, and I don’t mind Mrs. Cooper’s mistake as to Phil changed man.” \ name because she always appeared your horses, your club, your natural He waited for a reply. There in public riding a sorrel horse pe lip was natural enough. When she history, nor your luxuriant tastes. | had asked his name on his coming was a slight tightening of her fing culiarly marked with a dark face. But still you spend more money : he said in his airy way “Phillip B., ers on his, as she half whispered:: She is not remarkably beautiful, and get less for it than most young at your service,” and she had taken •‘You must know that I care for but she is what is very rare in this mon of your age : have too much in the sound of the initial for his sur you, Phillip.” country, a bleached blonde, and fact.” “Now,” said the exultant Phillip, her excellent horsemanship and her name. After she had called him “I don’t find it too much sir. In Mr. Bee several times, Phillip saw : “you must let me speak to your dashing manners brought her many fact, I was thinking what a graceful the blunder, smiled at it, and as father to-day,” admirers. The shooting affair which thing it would be if you were to : the naval officers say, “made it so,” “I fear you may find him rather I forces her into notoriety was an or double it, a mere trifle to a gentle when - Gwenny came to the table obstinate,” she said. “He sets an dinary case of plain jealousy. Two man of your means. I have to use she was introduced—“Miss Gwenny, i undue store by his daughter.” of her admirers, both members of the most pitiful economy, 1 assure Mr. Bee.” As she was the niece “I can satisfy him of my position the gang, fought for her favor. One you.” he concluded her name to be I j in society and that T am able to was killed, and the survivor, Duke “O, that’s it, eh? Well, there’s a | Cooper, but as the farmer addressed ' maintain you. I have means of Boland, was severely wounded. A mode to increase it very much. You her as Miss Gwenny and the farm I my own, and have—well, I might surgeon was sent for from this place. have heard me speak of Philander er’s wife as Gwenny, Phillip chose I say I have great expectations; but He mistook the direction and went Spriggs, of New York? ” i my father, who is several times a into the cabin occupied by “Sorrel the more respectful of the two. “Money lender and skinflint. I As Phillip was a gallant young ; millionaire, has taken it into his Sue.” Before he could be hustled have heard of him.” gentleman, and as the young lady ! head to fit me with a wife. If you out he saw certain things which “Nonsense, Phillip. He is quite was charming in manners lie natur will be content to share what I aroused his suspicions. These he a worthy, as well as a very wealthy ally paid her much attention. When i have, Phillip Briggs does not care i reported to Sheriff Simcoe, who man, and if he prefers to invest his a young man and’young woman for more.” with a posse managed to surround ready money in loans, what ot it? are thrown together under such cir “Briggs—Phillip!” cried Gwen-! ; the den of the horsethieves, cap- I lend my money, or some of it, cumstances it is not unusual for a | ny, releasing herself from his grasp : l turing Sue and two of her gang. sometimes.” flirtation to follow. It is generally and looking at him wonderingly.! The sheriff, though pleased with I “But not at cent per cent." “Is your father’s name John?” a foregone conclusion. the capture, was more than elated “No matter. I don’t propose that “Yes.” Phillip soon learned that “Gwen at the discovery of the peculiar you shall borrow money of him. He ny” was the diminutive of Gwcnl- “And he lives in Philadelphia.” I method of disguising the stolen i has an only child, a daughter, who lian. and not of the more stilted “Yes.”; animals adopted by the gang. He will inherit his property, as you will Gwenny burst into a peal of sil found that Sue had applied the Gwendoline, which interested him. mine.” Phillip’s mother had been a Powell, very laughter. “Do not feel vexed, means of bleaching her own hair to , "Does she shave notes, lather? with Welch blood in her veins, and Phillip,” she said at length, “I am that of the horses. “Phil, be kind enough not to in bore the same name. This latter only laughing at the similarity of When the posse entered they dulge in chaff. I have seen her Gwenllin was a mystery to him. our positions. My father chose a found a horse enveloped in a jacket and talked with her. She is young For the niece of a coarse farmer, husband for me and to escape dis made out of rubber coats, being and handsome, has good taste, is a ; for Cooper, though a. worthy man, cussion of the matter I took these | treated to a sulphur vapor bath. society gentlewoman with domestic was the reverse of refined, she dis few weeks’rustication. Mrs.-Cooper The appliances were very ingenious tastes.” played unquestionably gentle man is my old nurse, and I have called “Well father, you are not so old, ners. Then she showed a fair I her aunty from the time I could j and worked very well. A black or and since you admire her so much.1 knowledge of any subject touched I toddle around. She was married j bay horse would be stolen and run i into the bleacherv. After its color I see no reason why----- ” from our house. Her husband had ■ was changed and its tail and mane upon in conversation. “Stop your nonsense and listen. What was she. a teacher? She very little money and father bought ’Spriggs and I had a talk over it had not the look nor the way of the this farm and stocked it. But oh, I trimmed, the disguise became so when I was in New York, and 1 school ma’am. A governess? Pos think, Phillip, dear, how your father , pronounced that, without any great have concluded if you two come to-. sibly. If so, in a great family. and mine will chuckle! You are I risk the animal could be taken in gether we will chip in and equally 1 But her belongings were not of the Phillip Briggs and I—I am Glen- I daylight through the very district from which it had been stolen. It settle half a million on you on your second-hand kind. Phillip had a Ilian Spriggs.”— Boston Budget. I was Sue’s business not only to su wedding day. With what you have keen eye for female apparel. Iler perintend the bleaching, but to ride Death Caused By Spectacles. you will do well enough for some lace was of the rarest; her gloves the animal out of the country. It time.” The death of Albert H. Conoway, were perfect and of the newest: is reported that a prominent man of “But,” said Phillip, “I don’t like 1 her dresses were pretty in material an eleven-year-old lad, on Wednes Abbott, a small but thriving min day, has created considerable of a Sjriggs for a father-in-law." and well fitting, though quiet in sensation in medical circles. The ing town about eight miles from “Stuff! You don’t have to marry tone, and though she displayed lit boy was an Albino, and was of a here, had a horse stolen last month Spriggs." tle in the way of jewelry, the stone peculiarly nervous temperament. and bought one of the gang’s sorrels “And the name. Just thing of it! that sparkled on the head of a He attended school and was a hard lately which proved, after intimate Spr-r-r-iggs.” lace-pin was unmistakably a dia student. acquaintance, to be his own stolen Some weeks ago his eyesight be- “What of that? with marriage the mond. She had been well cultured , came impaired and he had a pair property. name is changed. I don’t think and every word and action showed I of eyeglasses fitted by an optician she’ll gain much by it. Spriggs— a purity that fitted her name. here. The lad wore the glasses con- Marriage Unpopular in England. Briggs. Six of one and half a doz On the other hand Phillip was as 1 stantly and soon began to suffer The unpopularity of marriage con-j en of the other." ’ much a mystery to the young girl. ! with pains in his head, which soon tinues unabated, and last year was I “I’d like to oblige you father. I He was a gentleman without doubt. ' became so severe that a physician the first in recent times in which, ' was called in. The latter diag- suppose I must marry some day, ; But what was he doing there, a | nosed the boy’s ailment to come while the price of wheat fell, the but it will be some one I love, and ' man of culture, refinement and es i from his eyes, and an oculist was marriage rate remained stationary. then Philadelphia like, I insist on a thetic tastes in that farm house? consulted. It is now 14.2 per 1,000. The de Upon examination the latter dis- cline in the popularity of matri- woman of good family.” He had said nothing of the Boudi- “See here, Phil,” exclaimed his I note, which would have explained i covered that Conoway’s optic nerves | mony is greatest with those who i had been strained by the use of the father, who by this time was at a i it. With a little affectation of glasses, and that a hemorrhage of have already had some experience white heat, “yon never knew me to j I cynicism, which did not ill become j the eye had followed. The lad’s 1 with wedded life. Between 1876 break my word. I merely ask vou j j him. the man was as clear as condition grew worse until death i and 1888 the marriage rate fell 12 to marry for your own good. I water, as frank as air. But why ■ resulted from meningitis. The oc- j per cent for bachelors and spinsters, point out a wife in every way suita did he loiter there without any ap i ulist, Dr. McKay, in examining the i 27 per cent for widowers, 81 per | patient, discovered that the glasses ble to you. Marry to please me1 parent purpose? The girl at first supplied by the optician were exact- cent for widows. The drop in the I and I will not only start you fairly did not deem herself the attraction, I ly opposite in their powers to those remarriage of widows, however, is in life now but leave you all I have but it came to her after five weeks, J required by the boy. Owing to ; probably due to the glutting of the | when I am gone Marry to suit I and she grew shy, and the shyness this fact the hemorrhage of the eve marriage market with surplus spin-: some foolish fancy of your own and for the last week of her stay in- ensued. The physicians to-day discussed j sters. The excess of women over I'll—ye8. I’ll found an asylum for , fected Phillip, who became shy, too. means to hold the optician responsi ; men in England and Wales is estab- idiots. Now you understand me.” and lost all ease. At length she ble for the boy’s death, on the i lished at 765,000! And he marched oft' leaving his son announced to Mrs. Cooper that she ground of malpractice, but as he IS Another interesting fact is that a vender of glasses and not an | the births have now reached the to his meditations. had to return home, and that her only “If I stay here,” said Phillip to father, who was in Philadelphia oculist, there seems no way to do lowest rate recorded since civil reg 1 so. himself, “better give the dear old visiting a friend there, would come istration began. In 1876 the rate Strange Funeral Rites. gentleman a chance to cool oft'. I’ll for her on the following day, and was 35.3 per 1,000; it is now 30.6. ruralize a little.” his friend with him. Phillip heard A singular traditional usage was car This is very satisfactory, and it is That afternoon Phillip packed a this with a depression that told him I ried out at Lisbon some days after the also notable that the illegitimate portmanteau and with a fishing rod , he had met his fate, and that it lay funeral of the late king. At three prin birth rate has declined, the propor places in tho city platforms were and mineral hammer started off to I in the power of this ^irl to make cipal erected covered with black cloth. A tion, 4.6 per cent., being the lowest Montgomery county where an old him happy or miserable for life. procession passed from one place to t lie j yet registered. The worst feature college mate of his had married All the night that followed Phil | other. The chief municipal officers of in the registrar-general’s returns, and settled and whom he had long lip lay and tossed restlessly. He the city and the chief personages of the however, is the fact that the male promised a visit. When he arrived could not sleep. He felt that his late roval household, all clad in mourn (| births had fallen in proportion to the ing. formed the procession, which was there he learned that Boudinot and father would be as good as his preceded and followed bv cavalry in female: in the last ten years 1,038 his wife had gone to Long Branch word, but he would win a wife then mourning, the colors draped with black- boys were born for every 1,000girls, for the season and their servants or never. Near morning he arose, Military bands accompanied the march'1 and last year the male preponder with them, the house being in the dressed and sat at the window un playing sad strains. Four shields, on ance bad dropped by 5, and is now charge of a care-taker. Phillip til the sun showed itself. Then he which were planted the royal arms, were standing at 1,033 to 1,000. With borne aloft on long staves. A multitude heard of good fishing in a stream slipped out of the house and went of people, all dressed in mourning, were a surplus female population of four miles oft and concluded to try , toward a glenn a few yards off. in present, several walking with the proces three-quarters of a million this is it. He found lodgings at a farm tending to remain out until he sion. Arrived at the platform, all the a move in the wrorg direction. It is worth noticing that while house near the place, owned by a heard the breakfast bell. It had principal people took their places upon it and one of the shield bearers advanc the increase in marriages between man named Seth Cooper. been a favorite haunt of the two, ing to the front cried out in a chanting English people has not kept pace But neither that day nor that and vet for the past two days both tone:“Weep, O Portugese, for your king with the population (having in week did he see any woman other had avoided it. He made his way Dorn Luis I. is dead.” He then dashed creased only 4 per cent in the last than Mrs. Cooper or the hired girl. to a mossy rock which formed a the shield to the ground with such vio nine years) marriages, according to As be sat upon the verandah one sort of ¡1 rustic seat and there h>' lence that it was shattered. This cere Jewish rites, have grown no less mony was repeated at tire other plat than 65 per cent. If this rate is afternoon debating the matter a saw Gwenny. forms. Then the procession moved to kept up, we shall become Anglo- wagou was driven up the lane and "Miss Gwenllian,” he exclaimed. the Church of Santo Antonio Da Se, Israelites indeed, in a way not I stopped at the door. Lightly out She arose with a rather embar- where a solemn requiem service was dreamed of by those enthusiasts there stepped a young woman in a rassed air. held. During the ceremony all the city who have identified us with the lost ten tribes. “I rested badly last night. Mr. bells were tolled. neat traveling dress, and the driver i THE PRESENT RAPID GROWTH Both in Public and Private Improvements and Popu lation of the Beautiful and well situated CITY »' Demonstrates that the Nucleus for a Great City has been formed. During the last two years in the neighborhood of $200,000 Have been Spent for Public Improvements -M- -»-4 It is the Only City in Oregon that Owns and Operates COMPLETE ELECTRIC LIGHT and WATER PLANTS. And soon the Rattle and Ring of a Street Car Line will be heard. No city in the Willamette Valley presents a better field for the operation of Capital The Manufactories of the Town Are comparatively few in number, but still they employ a large number of people. Among them are the McMinnville Flouring mills, with a capacity of One Hundred Bar rels of Flour per day; two lumber yards, with sash and door factories in connection; a creamery and cheese factory, wit a capacity of one thousand pounds of butter per day; a furniture factory, yet in its infancy, but with the surety of increased operation in the near future. The Population of the City is 2,500 And is constanly increasing; faster in proportion than other cities of the same size in Oregon. The surrounding country is exceedingly productive, a larger yield per acre, being raised within a radius of ton miles than in any other section of the State. YAM HILL County is known as “The Banner County of Oregon, And McMinnville is the county seat and metropolis of the Banner comity ♦I H * H This city is receiving deserved comment from the ress of the State, and i t is the intention of the ro ri- etors of The Telephone-Register To issue on February 1st a Mammoth edition devo ted entirely to McMinnville. Her business interests and business men will each receive attention in their respective columns in the issue, together with a history of the town from its first settlement to date. The edu cational facilities will receive their portion, together with interesting statistics, Banking, Commercial, F.x- press, Freight, Municipal, Building, Religious and Fra ternal will given. Articles by prominent people; sketches of the Lawyers, Doctors, County and City of ficials are being prepared, making it, as a whole, a pa per which should be read and distributed throughout the State and Union in order to give the outside popu lation a correct picture of McMinnville, the banner town of the banner county of the banner state. The price of this paper will bo 10 cents, a sum which you can easily afford to spend in order to let your friends know the true merits of our city. This i> the first edition of a newspaper devoted entirely to McMinnville, and it will be complete with superb portraits of her business and professional men, with views of the principal buildings and points of interest. Send in Your Orders Immediately for Copies. HARDING & HEATH, PUBLISHERS.