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The evening world., 1894-03-27
COMING EVENTS.

SmdentB' concert Of the Semnacher College of
Music, Friday evening ut Steinway Hail.
Hamilton W. Mabie's free lecture on 'Dr.
Samuel johnson and His Times this evening
at 81 RivlngtOn street.
Annual ball OF the wyandauch Club. of the
Tenth Assembly District. this evening at Webster
Hall. ls Eas- Eleventh street.
Forty. hfth annual Invitation masquerade and
civic ball OF the Original Hound Guard United
this evening at the Germania Assembly Rooms.
23 Bowery.
Annual masquerade ball OF Pride OF Commodore
Barry Circle No. l7e. Go. F.. this evening at
WeInlander's Dancing Academy. go Court street.
Brooklyn.
Entertainment and reception Of the Advisory
Council Of the New York city branches OF the
Catholic Mutual Benefit Association Friday even
Ing at Central o~pera-House.
Entertainment and reception OF the Harlem
Catholic Club this evening at Lexington Avenue
Opcra-H House. The Spaulding Literary Union will
produce the comedy our Boya".
Entertainment and calico reception OF Crys:al
II. ID. Lodge Association. No. %. /. o. o. F.. to-
morrow evening at Orpheus Hall. one Hundred
and Twenty fourth street, near Third avenue.
Review Of the Seventh Regiment and presenta-
ton OF the Cross Of Honor. al the Arniory Thurs
day evening by Brig Gen. Louis Fitzgerald. to
be followed by a reception given by Col. Daniel
Appleton.
j. Carroll. Voorhees, and Howard c. Van Nor
den. two young Harlem theatrical sspirants. will
furnish their friends with Il novel entertainment
and reception at Richmond Hall, 2s4 West One
Hundred and Sixteenth street, this evening.
Entertainment and ball Of Court Oakley. No.
1872, A. q. y. OF A., In aid OF the sick and
funeral fund tomorrow evening al Webster Hall.
Devere. Weber and FIrA.s. Frank Bush and many
others equally well ln0wn.
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AN OFFICE ROMANCE.
h Little Copyist ReUolwtionised Busi-
ness Matters.

am a business man; I like business
methods strictly observed, and no senti-
ment in business hours or at business
places That Is. those were my senti-
ments. But l have become revolution
ized-I don't know what | ami have
become-but that is, not another story,
but the tail of this one, and stories and
wasps should never be grasped tail end,
In spite of the habits of novel-readinG
young ladies and unsophisticated child
hood. The fact Is, l advertised for a
young lady to do copying for me at the
office. I will not deny thar my partner
advised me not to do 80, strongly ad-
vised me against 1t. and In an expert
ence-smitten tone said: Never depend
on women But / insisted and adver-
tised.
The next morning, upon my arrival at
the ONCE, George, the aforesaid partner,
kept hurting remarks at me from the
doorway of the inner Office about the
visions OF loveliness that would soon IL
lumine the dark apartments, rob 1t of its
severe business-like aspect" here l
winced) and even lend an air OF beauty
to his forlorn ROOM" &C. j growled to
him to shut up; that there was to be no
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nonsense about this thing. The girl was
10 be engaged for business writing. and
there wasn't to be any sentiment in the
matter. Here he CAV an ironical laugh,
and asked me was / dead sure?" In my
most severe tone / replied hat was.
Just then the visions of loneliness"
began to apply for the situation, and
George and his voice temporarily disap-
peared, for which ! was very thankful.
Well. ] was greeted by all shapes and
sizes OF visions, from one specimen with
untidy hair and dirty bare hands to an
appalling "-ream" in blond braids and
so much paint that / was tempted to
stick In a pin to see how recent the APP
plication was. I was disguised. l closed
the door on the last one, and sinking In
n chair. silently wished / had taken
Georges advice and not advertised. How
did he come to know so much, anyhow,
about women. bother him.
Georges voice was heard, and George
again appeared in the doorway. What
do you want. anyhow" he asked. What
would suit you? Here are six separate
girls" ''Oh." / interrupted, for 1 confess
l was annoyed, II understood they were
slamess sextuplets!' He staggered back
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we're J. w. Kelly. the witty comedian;
boys" Lottie ellison, the little mag
net .McAvoy and May. Ward. and
Lynn sisters, Mazuz m Abacco, and
Matthews n Harris. q.
PROCToR'S THEATRE.
The long list of attractions at Proc
tors. Theatre yesterday, included Alcide
Capitalne. " the perfect woman" Clown
dancer;'' Sherman and Morrisey, the
Braatz sisters, the three Glinserettes,
the Tortajada troupe, the Dare brothers.
Lucier and Archmcre, the Big Four. the
Clark and Angelina and many others.
ROSTER & B1AL'S.
maud, the marvellous mathematical
enigma. was again seen at Roster &
Balls concert hall last night. Maggie
Cline was also seen, and most decidedly
heard. The other features of the pro-
gramme were the Wilmots, bicycle ex-
perts;, Armand AIRY, A, o. Duncan, the
ventriloauist; the royal wrestling lion.
Clara Qualitz, Unthan, Bertoldi. the
Deltourelli brothers and Satsuma.
EDEN MUSEE.
The entertainment at the Eden Musee
Yesterday WAS up to the usual ~stanuaru
of excellence, and there IL 50 much to see
there besides the stage performance that
he Is getting a good deal more than his
moneys worth. Powell. the magician
Lola Yberri. Ruth Davenport, Frank
Majilton and Adele Purvis Onri.
HUBER'S MUSEUM.
The Original Arabian village, from
the Worlds Fair, was the centre OF at
traction at uber's Fourteenth Street
appeared in native combats n dances.
and the village proved to be very inter-
csting. Tive vaudeville companies APP
peared in the theatorium, and among
Darling sisters, Jessie Eerworth, Emory
and NARROW and the B%rownings.
IMPERIAL MUSIC HALL.
Their was a new edition Of the bur
lesque Don Juan" at the Imperial Music
Hail last night. Jennie Joyce sans 9
the burlesque was different and better
han before. 1t went. very well indeed.
and Miss Joyce has taken a new lease OF
popularity. The vaudeville people were
Sam Bernard, the Schrode brothers, Paul
Stanley. Mccall and Stanley and others.
HERRMANN'S THEATRE.
Messrs. Benton and Aarons furnished
a very good entertainment at Herr
mann's Theatre yesterday, and have
Just substituted an orchestra instead of
the piano that before did service at this
house. A number of bright performers
appeared u did good work. James
Thornton sang, comic songs, and Musi-
cal Dale contributed his usual speciality.
O'Brien and Redding, Haines and Pet
tingill, Allan May and others contrib
uted to the programme.
DORIS'S MUSEUM,
The patrons of Doris's Eighth Avenue
Museum had a very varied bill yester-
day. Some of its features We're n. 5.
Monroe, the ossified man; Lagrand La
row. the man with the long beard: a
couple of hypnotic experts, Amy Ar
lington. a snake charmer: Balbroma, the
fire king: a Grecian beauty, a drama
called The Orphans" and a good va
riety company.
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Arabian horses and was quite realistic.
The quartet received several encores.
EMPIRE THEATRE.
Sport McAllister," in the person of
Empire Theatre last light. Tn niece is
brlmful of s~pecialties, and the comedl-
ans. store Of fun kept the audience In
good humor during the whole perform
ance.
NOVELTY THEATRE.
THE Pay Train" a comedy drama,
presenting Florence Bindley in the CEN
trail character, was given at the Novelty
Theatre at two performances yesterday.
The wreck and the boiler explosion were
enthusiastically applauded.
GAYETY THEATRE.
At the Gayety Theatre last night
Amelia Summerville, the merry little
mountain maid" sang several new songs.
Among others who appeared were the
Jewell brothers, Charles Wayne, come
dian; Richard Pitrot. mimic: Magee and
Crlmmins, boxers: Forbes and Quinn and
other variety people.
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IN BROOKLYN PLAYHOUSES.
Robin Hood" Sung at the Colum-
bip--Other Attractions.

robin Hood was the bill at the Co
lumbia Theatre, in Brooklyn. last night.
The Bostonians, who are filling their sec
ond engagement in Brooklyn this season,
sang the opera. Many think this is the
best entertainment the Bostonians give,
and they certainly played up to their
reputation last evening. A large audi
ence greeted them and went away
pleased with the performance. THE
Maid of Plymouth" will be sung or
Thursday night.
THE AMPHION.
SHERIDAN; or, The Maid of Bath" held
the attention OF a large audience at the
Amphion Theatre last night. Mr.. Soth-
ern repeated the excellent work he has
done in this character, and was. called
before the curtain several times. He was
assisted by a capable company and the
scenery and costumes were correct.
BIJOU THEATRE.
Frederick De Belleville and Fanny Gill
lette filled the two leading, roles In the
revival of "Hoodman Blind at the Bijou
Theatre last evening, An adequate pres
given, both in cast and scenic settings.
GRAND OPERA-HOUSE.
Camille was selected by Clara Morris
from her extensive repertoire for the
opening of her engagement at the Grand
Opera-House. Miss Morris gave a
strong, f~orceful Interpretation Of the title
role, and was well supported by John
Glendinning as Duval, F. C. Harriott as
the elder Duval, w. C. Kelley and the
other members of the cast. Tonight
claire" will be presented.
PARK THEATRE.
Blue Jeans" with all its attractive fea-
lures, was presented at Col. Sims Park
Theatre last night. The Rising Sun
Roarers. the barbecue, the intensely ex-
citing sawmill scene and the other real
istic Incidents called forth Dun of APP
plause. The original company, with one
or two exceptions, were in the cast.
STAR THEATRE.
1.-THE Still Alarm with William g.
Harkins as the hero. was seen at the
Star Theatre last evening. In the scene
showing the workings of a fire station
the engine was drawn by two fiery
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sister run I'M, and would say: well, pet
tie" l. struck me the first time she
said that. and afterwards, too, what a
singularly appropriate name. but eX-
tremely nhus!resslil.e
Then sister would run in and say:
MA is making apple pies, and can you
get off a quarter Of an hoGr earlier.
dearic, and come home to luncheon?'
And Carol would say
"Oh. | wouldn't like to ask"
Then would speak up and say: You
may go a little earlier to-day, Miss Wei
ton"
Then another day her little brother
Rob would stamp in with a bag Of
cookies ma had made or a bit of a rib
bon to he matched on Carols way
home. And nee an old uncle tottercd
in n delayed me one-half hour while
he habbled OF his deceased brother An
drew and Andrews ~family-the same
that used my office for a family room,
| oppose. And after some particularly
a~gsravating chatter and interchange OF
feminine, uR~businesslike epithetS l
would go in to George, forgetting in my
vexation his demoniac character, and
vow l wouldn't stand ii. Then he would
get up and implore me not TO be harsh
and unkind to the dear little thing.
and ! unconsciously said. "Who could
be-" And then he would shake and
chuckle and quote: 80 woman woman,
lovely woman" or repeat: well, pet
tie, how's biz" or "Dearie, sauerkraut
to day. Come home with me-" or
Carol, darling, is the boss just as much
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When they had finished she asked me-
should she write to show me her hand
writing, and l said: yes" So she took
her glove off and went to the desk and
wrote her name thus-Caroline Welton
and then l told her to write mine,
n she wrote Richard A. Yohe, and
you have no idea what an extremely
unbusiness like thought darted into my
head when / saw those two names to-
gether.
l engaged her to come on Monday to
begin work, 4 amid "A iood of reCol-
l~ections from me OF how her dcar dead
husband never expected dear Carol
would ever have to work." and "how
pleased he would have been that she
SHOULD be employed by so considcratc
a gentleman"-and a reckless profuslon
of smiles and bows from elder sister,
and a dcmure nod from the little one,
l finally shut the door on them and
waited for George to appear. lie APP
peared.
You are a sybarite-an epicure OF
feminine loneliness, a gay dcceiver who
has pretended TO be Indifferent to
woman" Then in n heartbroken tone:
"She will break our heart and ruin
our office comb"
And all the tipe that donkey stood
there firing remark after remark / sat
and sat n felt foolish. I don't know
why. Finally he went back to his work
whistling Love Comes Like "a Summer
Sigh" The young idiot! Fortunately |
had n business engagement and managed
to get out. So the revolution began.
Monday morning at 8 o'clock Miss Wei
ton appeared, demure n slightly ner-
vous. SO was /. George was In the
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But when ma came in one day about
II o'clock in the morning and sat for
mortal hour crochetlng or knitting or
some such useless feminine idleness, I
felt that | must speak. My office. a busi-
ness place, rented by me for business
purposes only. TO be thus desecrated was
too much.
So that evening when the little daugh-
ter was getting ready to go home. I
started out with her, as / had happened
To do some few times before, n on the
way TO her home l old her straight up
and down that this thing could not con-
tinue. We finally arranged that / should
buy a house In the northwestern part
OF the city. and that in two months she
would wear my wedding ring. II haa
been fully arranged, however. that ma
may drop in and the elder sister run In,
but they are not to stay in as perma-
nCnt inmates.
One strange part of II to me Is how
George could ever have surmised that
l was in love with her. 1 always had
made It a point TO use the most business
like manner in speaking to her In the
office. He says any fool could have
seen II. He ought to know best about
the sight OF fools. However. he has
bought us a tidy lot OF silver and n
coming 10 the wedding. Dear old boy.
it's only his way. Carol says It Ii his
high spirits.
Elder sister says she felt In her in
most soul what would happen when she
read my advertisement.
Ma wants to know what I will do foo
another office girl. l certainly shan't
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from the doorway, clasping his head in
an extravagant fashion, and / heard him
murmuring Poor fellow! One girl Is too
much for a feeble man-but six. six, six
-ah!' with a prolonged sympathetic vo-
calization most distressing to n business
office. I was about to make a hasty
rejoinder when the outer dooropened and
in came a neat little girl in black, fol-
lowed by a bodyguard OF ma" and
"eider sister presumably. The leader
was trembling, and 80 was the body
guard. Consequently / grew perfectly
calm, placed seats for the three and in
vlted conversation. dimly conscious that
George was trying to see without being
seen, in order to be primed for further
attentions.
l soon found out that the youngest
lady desired TO write for me, her mother
assuring me OF her daughters ability.
superb penmanship. moral character and
amiability. Availability In a businss Of
ice! Then the older sister turned up
and said how Carol was so thoughtful
and deslrious of helping them along, and
so had insisted upon trying to get some
thing to do. and by a lucky chance that
day her eyes had rested on my adver-
tisement. and how they had all said to-
gether In one breath Il have heard OF
one handkerchief per family, but one
brcath0 that 1t was the very place. And
how they had conn In the Spruce and
Woodland avenue car. and 1t had taken
them nearly forty-five minutes.
All this time my dear little Carroll
beg your pardon. there is that wrong end
a~gain-and all this time the little girl
sat there Just as quiet as q mouse. which
pleased me very much. -
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next room inwardly %chuckling, / am
morally certain. After a deal of cir
crnlocution q think that is a master
word for the operation | managed to
show her what she was TO copy and how
1t was to he done. Silence reiGncd for
actually two hours. Then some man
came in to aee George and me. He
stared at the blonde hea leaning over
the desk and retreated into Georges
office, followed by me.
One after another OF business ~a-quaint-
ances dropped in. but time wore on
slowly. | never knew such n long morn
ing until II was II o'clock. The winks,
the grins, the sly chuckles from some
of the callers and the a~ggravating abCt-
ting responses OF George and my con-
slant alarm lest she should overhear
nearly gave me n nervous fever. But
the worst was TO come. Fortunately no
one was In the inner Office but George
and myself.
Twelve o'clock struck and In walked
elder sister. l quaiied and George
turned his back on me and shook with
laughter.
well, dearie," chirped elder sister.
has 1t seemed like a long morning."
Yes, somewhat, though ] have been
interested, too. How's MAJ
Very lonely without you. She sent
me to 20 with YOU to lunch so that you
would not think that we had forgotten
YOU"
"Oh. that will be nice" said Carol.
And ma said as It VAS your first day
we should be a little e~xtravagant In our
lucheon."
That's splendid. III see II ! can SO
now
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I managed to get IN my feet and
blindly got to the door, feeling that /
didn't care. and hat George could go
to the deuce.
you may SO now, Miss Welton. for
your lunch. Please be back by |
o'clock"
Thank you Yes. sir" So while she
got on her Coat ana hat her elder sis
ter explained that she a run in to see
how Carol was getting along. CRun in!
She certainly wasn't out Of breathe
And then they went. l awaited George,
He began:
Wonder who Will come tomorrow.
Ma? Wonder how many relatives she
has got to run in? Pity, too, She seems
quiet enough. But these girls, you
never can calculate what they are
am surprised that | did not massacre
George, but ! have always felt that his
unpleasant manner should be viewed in
the light of an infrmlty. lie went on:
Very busincss-like with 'Dearies' and
'Sweet!cs' aud what not, Nice talk in a
business office, Ell, Dick? Tomorrow
1; viii be Darling"
His i~ntonation OF the last word was
positively distressing. went cut for
lunch and left him 10 take care OF the
office. 1t was my only revenge,
The days came and left, as visitors will
do, Our " individuality Is the only
thing We can reasonably count upon in
this world as sure 10 remain.
For six weeks my little copyist came
regularly and did her work will neat
ness and despatch. For six weeks her
family came almost as regularly at va.
rlous times through the day. Ma would
drop in (ma used to drop In and elder
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KELLEY CURE FOR INDIANS.
Two More Redmen Arrive in Kan
sas City iOr Treatment
(By Associated Press.)

(By Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY. March 27.-Two more
Delaware Indians arrived here yester-
day to take the Kelley cure. They are
John Yellow Jacket and Joe Walker,
and are from the Indian Territory reser-
walton. They say that the four cured
indian that were discharged from here
last week were examined by the council
OF their tribe. n the ouncil forthwith
ordered all Incorporate Indians on the
reservation sent on in instruments for
similar treatment.
Yellow Jacket and Walker are the first
of the batch. They say that in case of
the drunkards refusing to take the treat
mcnt when ordered their rations are to
be cut off.
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TO ERASE THE COLOR LINE.
Allegheny City lei Form the Afro
American Protective Association.

Dy Associated Press)
PITTSBURG, March IA new depar-
ture was made last night In Allegheny
city when a number of representative
colored men. meade by Rev. DR.. X. S.
Laws. a Baptist minister, formed the
Afro-American Protective Association.
The object of the society Is to raise funds
to pay the expenses of suits brought by
members who may be Disseminated
against in theatres. at hotel tables or
other places.
1t IL their intention to force the Cen
trail Board OF Education to train and en-
ploy colored women as teachers in the
public schools.
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Mrs. Gould to Take Pnrt.

LAKEWOOD. y. j., March 2I.-Mrs. Geors
Gould is to give an entertainment tomorrow
night a. the Lakewood Hotel under the auspice
Of the Carasalio Club, of this place, for the hen
EFT Of the local IRE department. Several Of Mrs
GOuld's former associates in the theatrical pro
fessiol will participate in the entertainment.
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Champion James S%tanhury, OF Austria
liza. writes to Stevenson. coach OF the De-
troit Boat Club. that he intends to come
to America to reside in a short time. and
that Tom Cruise, another Australian
~sculler. will accompany him.
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The petition of the Harvard Tennis
Association, asking that Jarvis Field be
given up to the players, has been
granted, and fifteen courts will be laid
out and finished by May IL. This will
probably force the Football Association
to get a new field.
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Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and
Chicago are all having numerous anna
teur pool and billiard tournaments,
while New York, which ought to lead
all cities in this respect. is doing moth
ing to keep billiard interests alive.
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Manager Smith. OF the Pottsville Club.
of the Pennsylvania League. has signed
James +. Mccaughey, the crack young
amateur pitcher from. Staten Island.
MCcnughey was recommended to Mana
ger Smith by Jack Sharrot.
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by the death of Jack Lloyd last week.
this country loses one of its best known
cross-country runners. Lloyd had been
running since 1880. He was captain Of
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The University OF North Carolina
baseball team beat Lehigh yesterday, by
a score of 6 to l.
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Billy Dacey and Stanton Abbott will
meet in n four-round bout at Miners
Eighth Avenue Theatre tonight.
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Harry Wheeler is entered in an Ital-
ian road race between Milan and Turin,
a distance of 500 Kilometres, which is TO
AXE place on May 10 next. A prize Of
1000 is offered to the winner. Three
classes of riders will be admitted to the
race: First-class riders. who will be
allowed 81 hours for the journey; jul
nior and senior members of the L. v.
l., who who will be allowed IS hours,
and riders above thirty-two years old,
who will have IS hours.
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Pitcher Cy Young has signed with tn,
Clevelands. The Spiders are now com
plpto.
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E. O. THOMPSON,
TAILOR, CLoTH1ER AND IMPORTER,
245 BROADWAY,
Between Park Place and Murray 81

the Prospect Harriers when they were
He was a worthy member
Of "A class OF athletes who are all too
scarce.
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Billy Hennessy was defeated by Dick
the best contests ever seen in the Hub.
The fighting was hard throughout. Hen
messy went out in the eleventh round
from blows on the jaw and neck. Hen
rounds.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-09-13
Ben s. HENDERSON,

Attorney at law,
Rooms ID and IS, First National Bank B'lding.
WINFIELD, Kan, Aug. %, 1894.
Hon. John W. Breidenthal, Topeka, Kan;
My dear Sir and Brother Under
no circumstances do | wish the Ian
guage used in this letter to be twisted
into the thought that | am contemplate
ing "leap' from the popuist party.
Upon the other hand | wish it under
stood that adhere strictly to the doc
trine enunciated in the New Declara
ton Of Independence adopted July 4,
1892, by the peoples party national
convention.
Some time ago | promised you that |
would speak at Marion on the 25th of
this month; on the Gath | wired you
that | could not fill the engagement. |
also promised you that in the latter
part Of September | would engage in
the campaign, speaking every day dur
ing the month Of October. This prom
Use | cannot comply with, neither can |
support Governor Lewelling for the
following reasons to-wit.
THE PENITENTIARY SCANDAL.
irst-The present management Of
the penitentiary is matter demanding