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Show r There seems to bo some difficulty in securing a man to take Prof. Llnlleld's place at the A. C. Mr. Llnlleld is regarded re-garded as one of the ablest men in the Institution and as ho has worked his dep.utmcnt up to such a high standard, stand-ard, the president Is very anxious to secure a man who can and will keep It there. The faculty and students regret re-gret very much that Mr. Llnlleld will leave tho Institution, although they are glad to sec hhn going up the line. A runaway last Saturday attempted to assist those who aro feeling sore at tho Hercules companj-, by tcailng up that company's line on South Main sheet. The team got under full headway head-way going down tho Foundry hill and tried a game of sweepstake with the light poles, snapping two of them off as easily as If they were sticks of macoionl. No particular damage was done to anj thing except the light poles. The type forms for our last week's paper wcie misplaced by the express company and as a consequence the paper was not put In the postoftlcc until Saturday. Most of the matter contained in the paper was In regard to the convention, which was over before be-fore the paper reached the people. Naturally the stuff was a little stale, but the occurrence was unavoidable. This is newspaper business under difficulties, but we'll overcome them jet. Rev. John T. Axton, who looks after the spiritual welfare of the soldier bojsat Fort Douglass, came up for the foot ball game on last Saturday and remained over until Sunday afternoon. after-noon. During Sunday morning he was a visitor at tho Presbytcilan church and favored tho children with a talk about ids Sunday school, which of course was very Interesting to the joungsters and some of the older ones as well. Axton was skinned by the ministerial association a few dajs ago for not doing as tho members of that organization thought proper, but the joung man doesn't appear any worse for wear. He Is of easy manner, jet decisive just tho man for sucli a position posi-tion as ho holds and tls said that the soldier bojs stand by him through thick and thin. "Tho Tempest" at tho Thatcher opera house last night was greeted by the largest house of the saeson, in fact with as large audience as tho spa-clous spa-clous play house would hold. The heralding of tho coming of James & Ward in tills Shakespearean pioduc-tlon pioduc-tlon caused a rapid sale of seats, It being be-ing Impossible to secure a chair on the lower lloor after Wednesday noon. Tills was made a society event and the audlenco that gicctcd the talented artists ar-tists was com nosed of the elite of the eltj That every expectation of tho audlenco was fulfilled goes without sajing Louis James and Fiedrick Wardc's reputation In Sliakcspeaican roles answering for that. As a spectacular spec-tacular production "Tho Tempest" was superb, and from every other standpoint it may bo regarded as one of t lie most satisfactory performances over given In tho city. James as Call-ban Call-ban the deformed slave, portrajed the chaiactcr of Dial individual in a manner man-ner that brought forth gieat applause. There- is full scope In this for the actor's ac-tor's undoubted ability and on this occasion oc-casion ho certainly was at Ills best, Ward took the part of the banished Duko and gavo a truly acceptable characterisation of the role. The various va-rious inner roles weio acceptably filled and this suppoit accorded the great artists added to their success. |