Image provided by: Yamhill County Historical Society; McMinnville, OR
About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1890)
% THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER French Detectives. She Had Used Her Eyes. She Earned the Present. borne interesting information re A very pretty young lady, whose The latest fad in fashionable cir specting the Paris detective force beauty 1 lies principally in the li- < cles is the birth gift. It is the February - - 13, 1890 depths of her large, melting proper j has lieen given by M. Valoel, in his quid i thing now for the husband accompanied a young lady to to 1 give his wife a present upon the book on the Surete, which is in re- eyes, i MARVELS OF HYPNOTISM. ality a series of biographies of the Havlin’s theater one evening, advent i of each and every addition Experiment* which are Baffling principal members of the force. ' They occupied two front seats on to 1 the family. Something useful , to the Comprehension. The Police de Surete must be dis the left of the parquet circle. The i as well as ornamental is selected by The end I have ever held before tinguished from the Surate Gener theater was well filled. Directly 1 the husband, who has had a tip as my eyes, then, and which I hope I ale. which is really the “political across from the young couple, in I to what would be the most accept have never lost from view, is this ; police force” acting under the orders the front row of the right side of i able. to study the hypnotic phenomena of the Minister of the Interior, and the parquet circle, sat a party of ten This is a very pretty custom. It according to a strictly scientific in a most secret manner. young men, clad all in full dress. has ' a tendency to develope the method and for this purpose to em The Police de Surete, on the oth The young lady’s big soulful eyes sweetest i and purest maternal in ploy processes purely physical and er hand, is a body, the members of roamed about the house between i stincts in woman, as will be shown which can always be compared which look for their orders to the the acts, and once or twice they in this instance. with one another, so that the re Prefect of Police, or Cabinet du rested on the ten young swells over A young couple had reached that sults obtained by me may be rigor Prefect, and perform their duties the way. Once she thought she stage in their career where it was ously tested by all observers who openly, and without any of that 1 ecognized one of them as an old necessary for the party of the sec shall use the same processes under impenetrable mystery which envel friend, and she lifted her opera ond part to hustle out and pur the same conditions. Take one ex opes the proceedings of the minis glasses to her great, luminous orbs chase the birth gift. This he did, ample from among a thousand. terial myrmidons. for the purpose of looking closer. and when the little stranger was I present to a woman in the hypno The Dogberry of the Surete could In response to what seemed to be a dressed, the proud papa marched tic state a blank leaf of paper and not, in fact, pursue his investiga preconcerted signal the ten young to the bedside bearing the precious say to her: “Here is my portrait; tions without making himself known men gravely arose in their seats cherub and laid out an elegant seal what do you think of it; is it a good generally speaking—although when and leveled their ten opera glasses skin coat for its mamma. As he likeness?” At r a momen’t hesi following up a clue in a criminal direetly at the fair one. It was an carefully deposited the outfit on the tation she answc- <: “Yes, indeed, case he does not disdain to adopt awful shock to her. Dropping her bed the fond mother rolled the kid your photograph; will you give it the disguise which is supposed to own glass to her lap she vainly en to one side and commenced to to me?” To impress deeply in the be permanently used by extra clev deavored, in spite of burning cheeks count the buttons and loops on the mind of the subject this imaginary er detectives of “blood and thunder and snapping eyes, to look uncon cloak, even before inquiring wheth portrait I point with my finger tow fiction.” The ordinary “plain cerned. “Did you see that?” she er the child was a boy or girl. ► -M- ard one of the four sides of the clothes man” rejoices in the high- murmured to her escort, after she Another young husband in the square leaf of paper, and tell her sounding designation of Inspector, had regained her equilibrium. same neighborhood concluded that that my profile looks in that direc and has as his respective chiefs the “Yes, I saw that,” he replied, and diamond earrings were about the tion; I describe my clothing. The Suh Brigadier, the Brigadier, and his tone was one of sarcasm, too. only proper gift with which to cele image being now fixed in her mind the Principal Inspector. He cruelly inferred that the young brate the arrival of his first off I take that leaf of paper and mix This force was first founded by lady had invited the onslaught by spring. So he bought the dia it with a score of other leaves pre the famous Vidocq in 1832, when it an artistic use of her melting eyes. monds, put them in his vest pocket cisely like it. I then hand the only comprised thirty-one men, to She resented the inference and and held himself in readiness to whole pack to the patient, bidding whom were added fourteen “out there was a coolness thereabout make the presentation. But nature her go over them and let me know siders,” who were called indica during the remainder of the even- wasn’t running on schedule time in whether she finds among these any teurs. In 1848 the bodj- was in ning.— Chicago Herald. this case, and for three days and thing sbe has seen before. She be creased to 160 men, being reduced nights this young man flittered on A Chambermaid’s Luck. gins to look at the leaves one after to GO, until it was brought up to its And Rattle of Car Line will heard the ragged edge of suspense before The transfer of the Robin Mine he got a chance to spring the jew another, and as soon as her eyes fall present redoutable number of 300 upon the first one shown to her (I Inspectors, who are directed by M. for $7,500 recently brought out a els. When finally told that he was city in presents a field Capital. had made upon it a mark that she Goron, now in London engaged in peculiar story attached thereto. the father of a thirteen pound girl One of the owners in the mine was could not discern) forthwith she the “Millery Mystery.” He has he plunged into the room and exclaims: “Look, your portrait!” under him one chief clerk, who acts , a young woman who came to this crowding the diamonds into his What is more curions still, ir I turn as his principal deputy or “under city from Kansas about five years wife’s hand he blurted out: the leave upside down, as soon as study;” four other clerks or secre ago. and has since been engaged in "There, Kate, are your earrings. her eyes rest upon it, she turns it taries, five chief inspectors, ten bri the entirely proper and honest occu The Lord knows you’ve earned over, saying that my photograph is gadiers and twenty sub-brigadiers. pation of “sheet-shifting” at various them.” on the obverse. I then convey to The 300 detective inspectors are , boarding-houses in Leadville. To her the order that she shall contin attached to sections, such as the , be plainer, she is a chambermaid— Birds that Speak. ue to see the portrait on the blank special brigade of picked men, the , not at all handsome, but decidedly The parrot is generally supposed paper even after the hypnosis has Department of Information and sensible, and her name is Mary. to have the monopoly of the power passed. Then I awaken her and Warrants, that of Requisitions or Mary became interested in a cer of talking among birds, but, as a comparatively few in employ people. again hand to her the pack of pa “Searches,” the Pawn Officers, the tain prospector not long after com matter of fact, the parrot is decided mills, with of One Hundred pers, requesting her to look over Streets and the Disorder Houses. ing here, and it was through him ly ihferior to the mynah. There Among them are them. She handles them just as There is also another important sec that she was induced to help pay are always examples of these birds rels Flour per day; two door factories connection; a before when she was hypnotized, tion, that of the Center or Perman the yearly assessments on the in the insect house at the Zoo, and factory, capacity one butter day; and utters the same exclamation: ence, to which belong the detectives claim, says a Leadville paper. they repeat various phrases with creamery When the mine was sold the other “Look, your portrait!” If I now told off for various eventualities. factory, yet in its but surety of increased in near great clearness of utterance. Cur day, therefore, she received a little tell her that she may retire, she re During a period of fifty-seven iously enough the hen has a gruff turns to her dormitory, and her years, the Surete has had twelve over $3,000 as her share in the voice, while the cock speaks in a first care will be to show to her chiefs, of whom the best known, not transaction. Mary will return to clear, high tone, like that of a child. companions the portrait I have including Vidocq, was Claude, Kansas, and may, it is said, marry The mynahs can be easily provoked given her. Of course, her compan whose memoirs obtained a world the man who “put her onto the into showing off their powers of ions, not having received the sug wide reputation. In later times, deal,” provided he consents to go speech, and will greet the visitor gestion, will only see a blank leaf M. Mace, another head of the detec East also. Inasmuch as she has with “Good morning,” in response And is in proportion other cities size of paper without any trace whatev tive department, has published his been working for little more than to his salutations. The mynah is a er of a portrait and will treat her as experience in the famous force, and her board during her stay in Lead kind of starling, and this latter bird Oregon. The country is productive, larger yield acre, a visionary. Furthermore, this has therein ventilated various the ville, hadn’t a cent to spare and is well known for its imitative pow being a of ten than in other section of State. YAM suggestion, this hallucination, will, ories about its failings and short was in a slough of despondency, ers. Some years ago an account if I wish, continue several days; all comings. known as Notwithstanding such the little sum will give her quite a was pablished of a talking canary, I have to do is to express the wish sharpcriticism,however, the French “lift” in the world. which could articulate quite plainly to the patient before awakening her. Surete maintains a high character A New Way of Clearing- Land. and would repeat quite a series of The foregoing experiment has for efficiency, and its victories phrases. been made hundreds of times by have by no means been inconsider A new invention is said to have been patented in New Zealand and me and by others, and the fact can able during recent years. Gibson, of Maryland, ¡ b claimed mother colonies, which, if it does easily be substantiated; their objec And seat and metropolis of Banner county to be the handsomest man in the all that is claimed for it, will revo .Jefterson’s Grandchild. tivity is as complete as could be House, but Kilgore, of Texas, with In Georgetown, D. C., in an hum lutionize the settlement of timber his gray hair and beard, ranks wished in researches of this kind. Hynotism is directly amenable to ble cottage which rents for $20 a lands. It is a composition, which, first as the most perfect tvne of our means of investigation, and month, lives the only surviving when trees are inoculated with it, perfect physical manhood. Col. must be an integral part of the grandchild of Thomas Jefferson. mingles itself with the sap and cir Kilgore, although over fifty years known domain of science; to that Her name is Mrs. Septimia Ran culates through every branch and of age, is as yet active as a Texas goal our efforts ought to be direct dolph Meikleham, widow of David leaf, utterly destroying the life and cowboy. He often rides horseback S. Meikleham, long since dead. rendering the standing tree in three on pleasant afternoons, and invari ed.— From the Forum. She is now in her 76th year, a cul months’ time dead and rotten, and ably selects the most vicious and l4ilM>uchere on tlie Ballet. tured, amiable, venerable old lady, so highly inflammable that when treacherous animal he can find. It As a matter of personal taste, I with two daughters and one son in fired it burns away literally root matters not whether the horse be a rather prefer for ballet girls a quan her household. A luxuriant growth and branch, for the fire creeps bucker or a pitcher, Col.. Kilgore tity of petticoats reaching nearly to of curly, silvery-white hair sur down the roots into the ground, cannot be removed from a dignified the knee rather than the present rounds her face, which bears a consuming them so thoroughly that poise. Indeed., he sits in a saddle habit of exposing almost the entire striking resemblance to that of her the land can be sowed afterward. like he had been there every day of leg; while in respect to low evening illustrious grandfather. Her des It is available also for old stumps, his life. On a recent ride some dresses, if a girl has good shoulders cent from him is direct and clear. doing in a month what nature takes distance in the country he was ban I like to see them. At the same Born January 3. 1814, under her years to accomplish. It is the bor tered by a colleague that he could time I know of nothing more ugly grandfather’s roof at Monticello, ing .if a hole about six inches into not pick a stone from the ground than the fashion of cutting the Va., she is the daughter of Jeffer the tree with an inch auger, filling while his horse was in a sweeping dress exceedingly low behind and son’s favorite child, and House with composition and afterward gallop, as do the cowboys in the exposing a vast surface of back. keeper Martha, who married Thom plugging with cork, tough clay or various Wild West shews. Kilgore As to indecency, the entire matter as Mann Randolph, Jr., afterward other suitable substance. It is also could not stand such a challenge, is purely conventional. In that governor of Virginia, by whom she very inexpensive, costing only a few and, with his horse in a full run, earthly Paradise, the Garden of bore twelve children, all of whom cents even for a large tree. leaned down and gathered up stone Eden, Eve «’ore no dress at all. In are dead except the eleventh child With Head to the North. after stone, which he took occasion Turkey I have seen ladies, who for and seventh daughter, the present The superstitious belief that hu to chuck back at his companion. the world would not expose their Mrs. Meikleham, the only living faces, recklessly draw up their representative of Jefferson of two man beings should sleep with their Ex-Postmaster-General Don M. wide trousers and expose their legs. removes, since her sister, Virginia heads to the north is now believed Dickinson is in Washington. “His to be based upon a scientific princi silky, Van Dyke whiskers are still To the pure all things are pure. Jefferson Randolph Trist, died in I remember once having some 1882. Mrs. Meikleham is infirm pal. The French Academy of Sci a beauteous joy,” says an impres conversation with the purveyor of by reason of advanced age. Her ences has made experiments upon sionable observer. Dickinson lives the “fleshings” in which ballet girls son. a man of artistic temperament, the body of a guillotined man, in Detroit, in the house owned by encase their legs. He explained to now in middle life, earns scarcely which go to prove that each human Minister Palmer, of Spain. Mr. me how the “fleshings,” or, perhaps enough for self-support. Of her body is in itself an electric battery, Dickinson expects to see Cleveland I should say how the legs, are two daughters, both of whom are one electrode being represented by again president, and hopes to hold made. The artist fits on a tricot. middle-aged, the younger, Miss the head and the other by the feet. a cabinet position again himself. He then marks where the leg is de Esther A. Meikleman, born while The body of the subjeet upon which fective, and he has the tricot thick her parents were sojourning in experiments were made was taken Ferdinand Ward, whose financial ened at these places. “Calves,” he Scotland, is employed as clerk in immediately after death and placed Napoleonism landed him at last in said, “give us the greatest trouble. the patent office at a salary of upon a pivot free to move in any Sing Sing prison looks like a physi Nature generally makes them $1,000 a year, while the other has direction. After some vacillation cal wreck. He is bent and lifeless, wr ng. They are either too high or charge of the housekeeping. Re the head portion turned towards and his cheeks are sunken. His ¿x low, and we have to work in the peated attempts by influential leg the north, the pivot-board then re face has become white, and he looks calves so as to remedy this and to islators to secure for Mrs. Meikle maining stationary. One of the ten years older than when he enter make the ankles appear small.” ham a moderate pension have re professors turned it half way ed the prison. He has become a The artist told me that he made sulted only in failure. In the For around, but it soon regained a posi very expert type-setter. legs for many ladies in society. ty-seventh and Forty-eighth Con tion with the head-piece to the The Maharajah Holkar. who left “What, can they want your legs gress, Representative W. E. Robi north, and the same results were The this paper will 10 cents, can easily afford England abruptly at the time of the repeatedly until organic obtained for?” said I. “Well,” he replied, son, of New York, introduced a bill let true merits of city. is of “you see that their dresses might to pay her $5,000 a year, subse movement ceased.— St. Lovis Rc- Jubilee because he considered him public. self slighted, refused to meet Prince catch getting out of their carriages, entirely with and they like to be prepared for quently amended to $2,500. Con Albert Victor of Wales, at Bombay. newspaper Queen Victoria receives 340 or The maharajah seems to possess a any accident of this kind.” He gress, however, refused to pass the views of principal and points further told me that he had a large measure on the ground that its more letters a day. As they all good deal of praise-worthy self-res practice in arms for gentlemen. It enactment would set a dangerous bear the odor of disinfectants, it is interest. seems that those who have mere precedent for other claims less mer no wonder that the old lady is not pect. sticks wear stuffed tricots under itorious for civil pensions. well. their coats to give themselves a Children Cry for manty and muscular look.— Loudon Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Punch. M c M innville , - O regon . THE PRESENT RAPID GROWTH > Both in Public and Private Improvements and Popu lation of the Beautiful and well situated CITY - MMINNVILLE Demonstrates that the Nucleus for a Great City has been formed. During the last two years in the neighborhood of I r $200,000 Have been Spent for Public Improvements It is the Only City in Oregon that Owns and Operates COMPLETE ELECTRIC LIGHT and WATER PLANTS. t soon the No and Ring a Street the Willamette Valley A be better for the operation of The Manufactories of the Town number, but still they a large number of the McMinnville Flouring a capacity Bar of lumber yards, with sash and in and cheese wit a of thousand pounds of per a furniture infancy, with the operation the future. Are * The Population of the City is 2,500 constanly increasing; faster than in surrounding exceedingly raised within radius miles any HILL County is a of the same per the < t. “The Banner County of Oregon, McMinnville is the county the This city is receiving deserved comment from the press of the State, and it is the intention of the propri etors of 9 The Telephone-Register To issue on March 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, Ex press, Freight, Municipal, Building, Religious and Fra ternal will given. Articles - - - - by prominent people; sketches of the Lawyers rs, 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. price of he a sum which you to spend in order to your friends know the our This the first edition a devoted to McMinnville, and it will be complete superb portraits of her business and professional men, with the buildings of Send in Your Orders Immediately for Copies. HARDING &. HEATH, PUBLISHERS. 1* « r à