3rSY5E THK: HESPERIAN Tho XinRLiclit ix Success. A very largo and appreciative audience greeted the first appearance of the Ladies' Minstrels at the Armory, Friday evening. To say it was a success is putting it very mildly. It was successful both from a financial stand point and as an entertainment. In the west end of the armory a largo stage had been built provided with footlights and appropriate cur tains. The floor of the armory was provided with chairs, closely seated to accomodate the large number present. The gallery was crowded to its utmost capacity with minstrel enthusiasts. When the curtain rose at 8 o'clock the girls confronted the audience with faces blacked so as to be beyond all recognition and were ar ranged in a crescent shape around Miss Olive Latta, the interlocutor. To describe the la dies' dress would take an artist of great ability as nearly all colors were exhibited, from the black of their faces to the white of their slip pers. The "imd men" with their rattle-bones and tambourines showed what ladies could do with these instruments as well as with jokes. The crowd listened, (while not laughing), to the appropriate "gags" on our professors and students. Thojokes were new and up to date. They proved a great hit. The songs were new and well rendered. The fact that each singer had to respond to an encore shows the appreciation by the audience. The special song of the evening was "Tho Topical Song" by MisseB Black and White. It abounded in fun and catchy jokes. Tho second part of tho program was fully as good as tho first. Songs and banjo music together with a fancy dance by Miss Harris made up this part. Miss Treat sang "Gold Poppies," which was followed by an encore. The pro gram closed with an instrumental selection by tho Johnsing Sisters, which was also followed by an encore. Too much praise cannot bo given those who had this entertainment in charge. It was good from start to finish and will long bo remembered as tho University event of '98. Tho base ball boys could not have found a better way to raise money than tho ono adopted.. All wont away feel ing that they had received enougn for their money. Student Comment. Tt is a deplorable fact that the societies have not enough pie to pass around to all its members. If the supply were only greater, a disappointed member might now and then bo pacified. There are always those, even in a society, who get there by mistake, and who are ambitious for mere personal honors. The supply of pie is easily exhausted. Tho demand for presidential timber ill the societies is lim ited to three seniors per year, and when this demand is supplied, there sometimes comes along a supposed pillar of loyalty, proud and sensitive though he may be in nature, yet with that ever outward semblance of fidelity, who now declares down in the deepest recesses of his outward countenance, in unmistakable tones of secession, "I would rather be presi dent than right." And so this would-have-been president now becomes a would-be frat, or what in tho outward world would be called a sore-head. This sudden change from a howling barbarian to a cultured Greek is something marvelous. It bailies tin theory of evolution little less than did the missing link. It is always a mystery. It grows up in a night. For History Paper, History Covers, Note Books, Fountain Pens, Vest Pocket Diction aries, Translations, University Tablets, the cheapest place in Lincoln is t'le Book Dop't. of Jlerpolshoimer & Co. Tho Delian Boys Debating Society have ar ranged a joint debate with Wesloyan Univer sity. The debate will occur on tho lGth of April. The question will be stated to read: Kcsolvod, That the annexation of Hawaii would bo beneficial to tho United States. The debaters for the Delians are E. F. Warner, J. T. Adams and U. J. Theobald. Tho Delian debating club elected as officers for the spring term: E. G. WoodrufT, president; S. P. Grif fith, vice-president; E. A. Dunaway, secretary. F. E. Edgorton and J. T. Adams wore elected attorneys, K. F. Warner sergeant-at-arms. E. G. Woodruff, J. H. Saycr and K. B. Payne wore continued as committee on joint debates. Dr. Kotchum, Oculist and Aurist, Richards"' Block treats diseases of the oye, ear, noso and throat, and is fully equipped with instruments for iittidg glasses without mydriatics. All fees reasonable.