The Circus

As a general thing after a circus has visited a place, the newspapers are silent about it. There is nearly alwayu such a wide ctaasm between the advertised performance and the real performance, that the reporters feel too huehed an.l humbled to say anything, and they are always glad to have au oxception to chronicle. ïhe Sells Bros. circus that -aveanexhibition here last Thurs.kiy did all it agreed to do in its advertisements. It was the best exMbition oí the kind that has ever opened its tent doors in this cultureel city. " , always humbugged the people a great deal, and Forepaugh was seldoin up to the standard in the part of the show sent here, but Sells Bros. travel on their merits evideutly. It is understood that the managers ot this circus carne to Ann Arbor with great reluctanee. They had been told that they might as well attempt to give a i.erfonnance in the Fiji Islands among the savages. They carne nero expening to meet with a wild mob. But they were as happily disappöinted in that matter as the people were with their exhibition, and they went away feelmg that Ann Arbor was greatly slandered by show people and that it was really one oL the best towns they liad ever n van n nfirformance in. And right here is a solution of one of the great reasons why Ann Arbor lias a bad name among show pleople. Many of the shows that travel are frauda upan the public; theylive on the gullibihty of the human family. AmoDg the 3,000 and over young men who dweil in Ann Arbor a greater portion of the year, there are many who love a good show, and are willing to pay their money for it, but they are often disappointed, and being quick to detect impositions, it is little wonder that the performers are sometimes guyed. When a performance is good Ann Arbor furmshes an auuience that is one of the best in the world, for they fully appreciate good work, although perhaps not as deuionstrative as audiences are in some places. Then again the class crys, class songs and such natural appendages of a university town are often misunderstood by those not familiar with them, and are taken for war whoops and calis to battle, while nothing could be further from the trutb . The fact is Ann Arbor is woefully lied about by some people. ■ From the Dextr News : "The.friends of Jacob Jedele, and bc luis many of tbem, regret very mach bis failure to secure the nomination of county treasurer. Mr. Jedele is a good man and would have been an efficiënt and popular official, but the location of bis home, and shrewd politica! vire pulling, defeated hiin." The Dexter Leader gives a new Ann Arbor flrm this goöd send off: " E. H. Andrews & Sou is the name of a new grocery finn on Korth Main St., Ann Arbor." May success attend these gentlemen, the successors of Mr. Stimson. The Ann Arbor people will find in our old townsinan, "Mr. Andrews, an honorable man." Soine twelve years ago Mr. John 'hillip Sousa was appointed musical lireetor of the United States Marine 3and at Washington and what was then iheordinary band of the Presidencial ïousehold began imniediately to steadly improve in its playing and to show the results of the careful training of a wuiding musical genius. What Mr. Sousa could do with the ordinary musicians that the government is able to secure at salaries from $13 to $38 per uonth was simply marvelous. He made them play as 110 oiner uauu uu ever been heard to play in America, and the people were simply astomsned and delighted. A nuuiber of prominent capitalista and lovers of music mduced Sonsa to resign and furmshed him witli a band sufficient in individual ability to fully attain his ideal perfection and make its place aa a military band unequaled on either continent. Tlns remarkable band will favor our people with a performance at the Grand Upera House Ann Arbor, on Tuesday aftornoon of next week, the 4th day of Oct.