, 1885-01-14
A FEARFUL TRIBE.
The Trials and Sorrows of Six
Wandering Orphans.
Farce, BurIesque and MeIodrama
at the Opera House.
A Mesmsrizsd Girls Vision Fails to
MateriaIize.


announced that Miss Aula Moore, aided
and allotted by a number of innocent and
confding children, would give two enter
tainments, consisting of "a fairy opera,
called Cinderella. but to those who
witnessed the more thrilling and sensa-
tional situations incidental to the enter
tainments, it appeared that the best part
Of the performances were not down on
the bills.
To begin at the beginning.
Nearly two weeks ago a petit female, who
wore Juvenile black ringlets and a loud
voice, appeared at the editorial rooms
of TIE LEADER. She wa armed
with black eyes, an antique and
well thumbed collection of vaguely worded
recommendations based on hearsay evi-
dend, and a persistence that naturally
awakened a suspicion that she had once
upon a time been engaged in the perilous
vocation Of wandering book agent. She
had a scheme. While sojourning in the
wilds Of Montana it had occurred to her
that the people of Cheyenne needed an
orphans industrialho The fact that
not a brace of needy orphans could be
found in Wyoming in no wise effected
her ardor, nor removed from her mind the
settled conviction that by giving an enter
tainment, consisting of the fairy-like
opera above referred to, she could erect
a building here hat would cost about
100000 and thus the poor orphans
would be provided for.
The lady was accompanied by a long
haired s%enile, who also cultivated ringlets,
and habitually wore a violin under one
arm and an expression of unsophisticated
r~usticity on his countenance. 1t was
stated that this harmless individual
was an inspired musician, whose soul was
with difficulty restrained from mounting
on the wings of divine melody and soar
ing away to the spheres. Indeed it was
affirmed that he was a chronic victim to
the vice Of extracting excrutiating music
from his cracked violin, but some now a
strangers fancy naturally and easily con-
nected the musician with country dances.
The waggings of the head and the pat
tings of a heavily shod foot of ponderous
weight, the ll-timed strains of the Fish
er's Hornpipe'' and the call of IAN 'ands
a-roaund' were wildly called to mind
when this antique musician appeared.
But this was not all of the procession.
Inthe perspective there appeared a gradu-
ated array Of children, who also wore
ringlets, in various degrees of disordered
raiment and several varieties of the Oliver
Twist style of orphaned expression. The
necessity of having an orphans home in
this city was thus given tangible eyi-
dence.
The respective relations of Miss Aula
Moore. the chronic musician, and the col
lection of Juveniles was not apparent but
was ascertained late last night under
lachrymose circumstances. Thus much
for the people.
During the past ten days Miss Aula
Moore secured the services of a number
of little girls, the daughters of citizens Of
this city, and announced that on Tuesday
afternoon the Fairy opera would be given
at the opera house. The same entertain
ment was also announced for the evening.
Let us attend.
Promptly an hour behind time the cur
tain at the opera house arose upon the en-
trancing scene of half a dozen girls dressed
in ~bewildering costumes, made, in the
main, Of bits of fancy paper. The theater
was packed with just twenty-five people,
including infants and those whose tickets
had no representation in the cash receipts.
The net proceeds were just $l3.
Miss Aula Moore appeared in the fairy
like opera. Indeed she was the Fairy.
She was arranged in an Abbreviated and
transparent costume, an enhancing smile
and the ~bewildering curls. She came
down to the footlights, bowed sweetly and
when the music began Aula was turned
loose. so to speak. Now Aula has arrived
at that age when the ~personation of ex-
c%essive iuvenility is attended with effort,
but she began to dance, and then she be.
gan to sing, and then she danced again
for very glee.
Now Prof. Inman can endure as much
as most men, but there are limits to the
torture he can stand and survive. His
presence of mind saved him. STOPPING
the music he leaned forward in his seat il
the orchestra and said Don't dance
don't, and she didn't any more. Tn,
entertainment was wretched beyond tn,
power O. type to tell or Imagination 10 de
pict, and SOC came to a close.
In the evening the receipts were jus
Sl5 and no performance was given, buI
when it come to returning the money Al
the door a new difficulty was encoun'
tered. The money gave out but the
tickets didn't. The reason for that extra
ordinary condition of affairs is found il
the fact that Miss Moore had sold ticket
by personal solicitation, but the none,
for them did not affiliate with the box ofic'
receipts, so it came about that a few o
those present were obliged to depar
without obtaining the current cash the,
had deposited upon entering.
Then sorrow began.
Thanked by the ringlets of the Arkansa
musician, and given the moral aid ant
encouragement of her troupe Of read.
made orphans, she held a tragical inter
view with Mr.. Rhodes. With tear
making canals in the chalk on her fac