The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-12
he WANTED A PERSPECTIVE.
Cause of Wrath of New York Man
Against Ally sloper.

In Harlem there lives young man, who
| up to year ago or less was content 20 be
known merely as a clover and rising bust
ness man, reputation which he was sue
cessfully cultivating. Then something OF
other gave his ambition twist, and he de-
cided TO shine socially. To this end he
proceeded 10 part his name in the middle,
and an exceedingly wide composite part
his middle name made. Next he got his
father to set up a stable for him and began
| 10 figure as 'So-and-so the well known
and popular young whip and society man. !"
! Certain deficiencies of education and train
ing interfered with his ambition in some
| directions but his money and horses gave
| him certain prestige of which the most
| evident effect was the acquisition of man
ner which his family and friends described
rs "highfalutin, "chesty" and chopper
loo, " according TO their various vocabu-
laries. That is why they are making merry
over recent take down inflicted on the
young man.
Not long ago he had occasion TO make
inquiries in regard To the course at GER
tain collegiate institution in this vicinity,
not for himself, as he is several years past
the age at which most boys go to college,
but for young relative. His letter was
written in characteristic style, not wholly
exempt from faults of photography and
rhetoric but very grandiose, and empha-
sizing the fact that il behooved the insti-
tuition TO take steps toward securing the
honor of the attendance of member of
his family. So little did the dean of the
college like the tone of the communication
that he tossed 1t into his scrapbasket with
out taking the trouble to answer it,
Hnur s,.eg o HI Il.
student of the college, who knew the writer
OF the letter, does not appear, but that is
what happened. He read it and found in
IL an injunction, not request, that there
DO forwarded at once "a perspective of the
school,. Here was the students chance,
and as he is something Of joker he was |
quick to take it. Getting catalogue of |
the college with an illustration, giving a |
view Of the main buildings, he posted the |
picture on a sheet of the college writing
paper. Then he marked parallel lines of |
indication along the background of the H.
lustration and attached this legend:
This is the perspective
Below be appended this notice:
DEAR SIR-You honored letter Just re-
'eived In reply would say that If by ''per-
;pectlye' you mean prospectus" you can OBJ
ain what you need in the line of instruction
n ordinary English at any grammar school.
Yours perspectively,
ALLY sLoPER, For the Faculty.
Great was the indignation Of the youth
when he received this letter. He had never
heard of that patron saint of jokers, Ally
'loper, and he sent around among his
riends breathing threats of vengeance
gainst the college in general and "that
ad Sloper" in particular. To several of
lis acquaintance he showed the note, de-
handing their sympathy for the black
uardly outrage to which he had been sub
ected. Their good offices went far enough
o restrain him from writing a warlike
etter to the president of the college, but
lot so far as TO keep the matter quiet. 1t
as become town talk in Harlem, and to
ouse the deadly resentment of the youth
nth the widely parted name one has only
. say to him, "Yours perspectiyely, Ally
loper. New York Sun.