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rlhe meraniiie arm of HackGtt s
SESSIONS has been dissolved. Sss,i AS
Bros having sid their interes. 90
Nrs NJ. Z. lIackctt N Sou.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mrs. Geo. Dudley is here on visit
to her parents, her husband having
gone to Chicago on business.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mr.. David Stern, will leave tc-
morrow for New Orleans where he
will take business course at Soule.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mr.. Morris Rothschild, and A. M.
McGehee, went down to New Orleans
on Sunday on business trip.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mrs. Sandman entertained her
friends very pleasantly at Lotto, on
Thursday evening.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mr. J. C, Smith, of Vicksburg,
spent several days here during the
first of the week.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mr. Stern has added another monkey
TO his ZOO" and the white elephant
will arrive later.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

For Fresh Landreths Garden
Seed. call at Adams drug store.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mrs. Lee Schloss entertained very
pleasantly at Euchre on yesterday
afternoon
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Paints, Oil, Glass. Putty etc. at
e. A. WETTLINs,
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

White Sewing Machines,
G. A. WETTLlNs, Agent.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mr. Jno. Cobb, of Rosetta, spent a
.ounle of days here this week.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Col Jones left Thursday for Jackson
where he will spend several days on
business.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Revolvers, Rifles. Shot Guns,
shells and cartridges, at
q. A. WETTLIN's.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mr. F. A. Gowan and wife of Chicago,
vere visitors to our town on Monday.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mr. jerks, civil engineer, paid our
.o,gn \ business trip on Tuesday.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-07

Mr.. Ralph Gunst, returned Satur-
a.v night from visit to New Orleans.
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Large fresh Mackerel, Graham
Flour, potato chips and the best
Creamery butter, at McKelthens.
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6fs isl Journal Of Wilkinson
County.
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25
THE HARVARD GERMANIC MUSEUM

The Tribune N us ISSUE
- cr,ds,- January IL stated that the Harvard
rserr,anic Museum which was opened to the PuOiIc
for rt first time in the Christmas recess cotdlIleo
-ba 1ff+s of Emperor william of Germany CT lhe
c,-tes Government and of the citizens OF Bertln-
7-taeA Gifts as matter of fact have not yet ar
80 although the museum expects them IN course
of rbe present academic year The present collet-
tfar consisting OF photographs Of German archl-
+ac+,ral and sculptural monuments and models ana
ranroductions Of representative works OF herman
,,5,e+r1 and art from the fourth 10 the sixteenth
.ar,,,r,- was collected personally by Professor huno
I7-arc-a Ph D curator OF the museum. II Ger
,s,,, last vear Professor Fraucke has worked loAs
and faithfully for the museum and mas coHecteo
sor,a valuable relics Among them IS large
npr,ber of photographs Of German architectural
and scu1ptIraI monuments. chiefly from the honlg-
1tcb rraussiscbe AfessbiIdanstalt; model or the
Nrvdau7 boat from the Museum Of kiel uourtn
century,. A figure Of Frankish warrior, from the
museum al Maiuz Seventh century,; the BernWard
cIr7T7 of FIfIdesheim Cathedral eleventh century,
cIoi- screen Of St MichaeFs. at EHdesheim
StTaIf+b csnfryf. statues OF Emperor Henry II and
EmDress Kunigunde and a sfbyl from tSalIDer5
1s9tba5raI Thirteenth century, statues or a wise
o-5 scottish virgin and OF two Virtues and a re-
Iaf ~ the death of Mary from the StrasburS
Thirteenth century,, the Praying virgin
from the Germanic Auseurn- at Nurnperg tnIteehtn
[centurZS. Peter Vischers tomb Of Count and
S'0I1nfess of Henneberg, at ROmhtld. and a statue
of King Arthur, at Innsbruck; statue OF Emperor
Macmillan from his tomb at Innsbruck reliefS
and statuettes from Bruggemann's altar piece at
Schteswig Cathedral; Renaissance door from the
EIIrs~ny0Eel SaaL Nuruberg- and galvanOpasJic re-
1rod11rrtons OF pIaquettes by FlOetner and other
masters OF the sixteenth century
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

complete agreement. The letter in part Is as foi-
lows. and IS a suggestive document:
The thing that sticks in my crop Ike Macbeth 5
Amen is your omission OF Hamiet's entrance ~
king at PRAYER and has some twenty-four lines OF
theological bOod-t thirStineSs over tne aQNdHlascs
victir, s & o1 is dsvotions or course
THIS is not the innovation Wnlcn II Hds Do.s
MADE the same omission. beeve anu isi1.S
have This has made the ShakeSpearlan auo.eie :. -
ready TO DO without IL. and as Hamlet mas 20 @ o
cul almost out OF recognition N plie, -o1.J6
IL 10 the limits Of modern peTfornlance "
rather objectionable perhaps, IN zone ISI -;Fcs
conception Of the character. should De steIl
not seem unnatural-if il were not, as Sc -
1t may be. as scholars tell US. that the part II
response TO the contemporary movement NJ o. sI-
is being constantly refined: that the Eliza oernah
portrayal verged in spots on the brutal ana colI
ana tnat to-day II is on the basis OF the sdlls1
text, being read in an increasingly poetic tender
and spiritual sense. It may be that Shakespeare
older play BY Heaven knows whom These matters
are important and iIluminative- But think it viii
authorship to declare that any special passage
bearing the earrnarks of earlier origin was left
in by Shakespeare carelessly or as a concession
Unless corruption in the accepted text IS certain
have little evidence for saying that any special
part of the play not written or included by
the playwright with his eyes open take the play
IT stands and hold that, whoever may have orig
inaly written parts or it the text that has come
crate intention Of the dramatist-dranna tier On
the other hand that "a man loves the meat in his
youth that he cannot endure in his age IS also
true of literature; and there lies no quarrel with
the tendency to make Hamlet in apprehension more
like god. DeIicacy and the demands OF dinner
and the suburban train make condensation and
o11acisf o1seg-sIce tbe o1fts shall he made in
the less essential parts that IN trimming the Tree
Unless you feel as do about this oratory scene
this may seem a great pother TO raise about z
small cut I have even seen it hinted that 5
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

ing Of satisfying the critics and Shakespeare
schooled audiences. Each night is contest
however hard and thorough the preliminary study
may have been
You first make sure Of your conception and then
struggle with the execution p"
We'll" said Mr.. Sothern ones conception of
the part is by means a fixed thing. Critics
shake II. moods may change it here and there;
but once il is fixed for any one passage the whole
problem becomes Of execution That is. OF
how TO make your audience believe as you do
It Is almost the orators problem and often with
an audience which does believe you do
You can see the keen. intellectual pleasure Of the
game.
For instance l at dinner party the other
night" Mr. Sothern continued where the guests
were men Of literary inclinations and all interested
IN snak@sperian revtvals and the talk soon turned
10 my production OF Hamlet. One of the first pas
sages discussed the with Ophelia, follow
ing the soliloquy, and you would have laughed 10
see how each in the company had a different
conception Of that scene, and hastened TO get MS
view presented before the others. In the midst Of
the babel Of voices my stage training stood me IN
good stead, and think my view the only one
heard, fer talked much louder than the rest
Professor kittredge says that one has ever
got around the distressing way in which Hamlet
talks 10 Ophelia in that passage. Your explanation
ought 10 be listened to- was suggested.
Mr. Sothern leaned forward and talked eagerly
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

season in New-York but had to & ke out again,
the play long One letter have received
points persuasively that this scene IS the real
climax Of the play. But the OF audiences
better able to spare it from the story than
other scenes, and have spared IT in the past 1
want get It back again before l produce the
play another season After the first performance
Daniel Frohman sent me pages Of passages that ne
thought could be spared Others want me to cut
the entrance Of Fortnbras at the end; but that
I will not do. under any consideration.
Indeed, from the mass Of letters that I have
received of all sorts, you would not accept the
statement that there is present lack Of interest
in Shakespeare; but you would not wonder that l
might desire to take rest for the present Let
me show you two letters one curiosity, showing
what we have to submit to; the other worthy Of
the most serious consideration Letters like the
first tighten the labor with laughter. Letters
like the second a stimulaut tC further effort
toward perfection. and make hope that with
their aid and Heavens may yet play Hamlet, the
Dane"
The first letter written thin. pink paper,
scented and. though IT was unsigned, purported to
be a copy Of a private criticism by "a well known
author" 'Sothern offends the modesty of nature,
very seriously in that speech where the prac-
tice is condemned this alleged author says. And
again: Il have seen more Hamlets than can re-
call the names Of and Sothern's is incomparably
the worst Of them" Still again: Il can see Ham
let's mind clearly ever / saw anybody's on
this earth. and to him rant and whine and
pound the table and throw things around the stage.
well it hurt me- lit made me sick His tSoth-
ersl Hamlet would be laughed off the stage If he
had not won his place by holding the mirror up to
nature are the closing words of this criticism, II
such il can be called
The second letter is signed by a young Harvard
graduate who is still remembered at Cambridge
bv the instructors in courses on the drama with
the part CT IL dealing with the so called Ayd Ham
Iat'-o textuaI subject discussed by certain of the
>-o--yorl, critics this vinter-Mr. Sothern is in
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

4 got around II 70 my personal satisfaction
he said. What troubles IS. do I so play the
passage that my idea convinces the audience?
Let me explain my conception
During the soliloquy the King and Polonius are
concealed and Il Is my idea that Hamlet knows
nothing Of their presence during the ensuing scene
with Ophelia though OF the guests al TINS olr-
ne- would have II otherwise. Now, during the
soliloouy Hamlet emotionaIly sensitive enough De-
fore has worked himself up into mood that trerl-
bles on the edge Of suffering Lonely craving love
and sympathy in just that mental condition wrere
no mower under heaven could have prevented MS
speaking in tones of affection TO Opheia, the one
being in the world TO whom he could turn now
Ophelia suddenly enters, and he says!
.Tbe fair OpheIa.-Nymph, N thy ertsosA
an, remembered.
And what does Ophelia reply TO this speech
brimu1ing with tenderness?
GOOD, my lord,
How does your horour for this many day?
An utterly commonplace remark, that must have
1arred ,on Harnlet's mood; must have been bitter
disapDointment And he replies, not in feigned
madness not because he has seen the eavesdrop-
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

pers but simply because he is SO disappointed, and
IN tone of sarcasm:
i humDy thank you well WELL well
And then Ophelia still furJner increasing his
disappointment and acting in just the opposite
fashion from that he yeGrned for and expected
offers him back his gifts. What is more natural
than his reply? Almost any one, so driven, woulo
have so replied:
NO. not !;
I never gave you aught-
"a sudden. yearning outputting Of tenderness on
Hamlet's part was met as he thought, by ndiffer-
euce and unexpected lack Of reciprocal affection
and the emotion was driven back sharply upon
itself where it at once bred thoughts or MS
mothers and caused the added agony OF pc
holding in Ophelia, II were under new
strange light, creature capable Of just the same
tnfdeltty What follows is natural as it
is pitifu II is rot distressing. Professor Kilt
redge says because 1t is cruel, but merely because
II is so deeply and truly pathetic. Cruelty Wouio
not have prompted him to send Ophela TO a nun
nery That speech prompted by his desire
TO keep Opheia the pure ideal Of his love Indeed
kindness, not cruelty, IS behind it.
well that is my conception Of the scene. and
1t is conception I cannot feel is wrong So when
these men at dinner who had seen me play 1t sun
persisted in other views, had but the one cholce
Of belief-that I had not played it well enough
One can doubt his conception his execution; but
If he is of the and still does not convince
his audience something must be the matter with
the other. II is this constant nightly effort to
n. ones execution tally with ones conception
thai makes the part Of Hamlet constant struggle
but q constant intellectual delight week after
week as long as the play is given"
Have you received many criticisms OF your
acting version of the text" was asked
Have IT, said he Hundreds. The man Of the
fable who rode his donkey into town while his son
walked did not receive more Of his actions One
of my great regrets is that have had 10 cut out
the entrance OF Hamlet while the King Is pray
ing which : did put back for week two this
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

faults not dreant Of in my philosophy. But 4
seems 10 that thoGn this entrance ana spsee1.
are essential. its two hundred WOroS are not
Hamlet enter his stepping VARY
and 7ervously lingering his sword. and say. nov
might DO IL pat. would any more De neeceos
HeSifaut. uith1ra wing would SIX eyl43otcS
have voiced the fCreshadowed doom 70 foiioW-
Mr.. Sothern viii play Hamlet during Ms tour
of the country this spring in IF 1 Were King Tor
at least one matinee in every large city i am
going 10 learn play the part" he says snc
going to try to convince other people that my
undertaking is not impossible" As an earnest OF
his good intention il may be noted that after the
next 70 last evening performance OF 'ths play N
this city last Friday kept several OF the pr1n-
cipas in the theatre till after midnight renearsins
a slight change OF business fl the ghost scene
which he considered an Improvement
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25
TOPICS IN CHICAGO.

Chicago, Jan. 23-There is not little alarm in
the local medical fraternity. we'll in certain
organizations which manifest concern IN the
general public health over the discovery that
there is no basis in the mortality statistics for
the impression which has seemed 10 prevail that
Chicago enjoyed special immunity from the raw
ages OF pneumonia It develops now that the
city Health Department regards pneumonia as
the most dangerous nlalady with which Chicago
physicians and the health authorities have to
grapple II is said that. while consumption IS
being robbed Of many OF its terrors by advanced
sanitary science pneumonia is claiming a larger
number OF victims every year. Health Cornmis-
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

passage was an Interpolation by later hands But But
this again a matter of textual criticism Whcl
1 have set aside above. Whether the speech begin
ming Now might I do il pat is an early remnant
unworthly retained or later attempt at enoeIlSn- @
rnent there il stdrds in our text And 20 my
mind there il must remain. If IL is borrowed u
was chosen advisedly. IF il is tnterpolation II
is of that which occurs when the keystone OF
an arch is introduced betv cen the adjoining vous-
soirs. -
The fact is that the scene where Hamlet his
doubts settled, comes uIOn the king on his knees
and eIaboratey excuses himself for falling 10 strlke
al the crucial tirne-thiS scene that We are SO
ready to omit-is the turning point OF the acUGl S
and absolutely essential to the structure OF Ll@
tragedy Before this have period OF prepara-
tfon After il we have the hour OF deferred per
forrnance, of the failure which Is due Simply 70
character and brings destruction in it tram
When we omit this scene We have TWO aJtftuoeS
and no transition This is as though one should
draw an angle without a vertex. discover q
mountain that was not a watershed IL would pc
remarkable enough If such scene appeared n
the text. To put Hamlet and caucus IN I4s1- "a
mutual relation and bring them alone to-
gather is to shirk situation which in Such a Chet
a DIavurjght is fairly bound to meet But CaiIllIS
o omit such a scene when II stands readY 60 the
hand and falls in Just the proper place Is ,
laziuc OF course, W must cut Bat tN n
same token we must not hack 70 pieces l WolIu
not undertake 70 advise a ctSed actor, and ny
pet remedy for this difficulty may nave prdetlca
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

group stands George Washington examining me
aag which has lust been completed by Betsy Ross
I0Eu Quincy Adams stands by explaining the De1u-
ties of the newly made banner. ana the nlStorlcdL
Betsy is listening his eulOsy OF ner WORK
George Fuller Golden is the chief attraction al
Pastors this week.
Heading the bill at keith's is Pdpinta the myriad
dancer who appears in New-YOrk for the first time
in many months. She is supplied with new COS
TUNES and with light effects that are said To sur
pass anything she has had heretofore MI and
Mrs CLAW Clement vaudevilles most recent re-
cr1,its from the legitimate stage. present ne me
Eero1's Love story a twenty minute -sketch oaseq
the-a are many more in the bill
..FosedaIe~ Lester waIlack's English melodrana'
will bA the attraction at PrOctOrs One-hundreo-
an5tvvantv-f fth-st Theatre. The Holly Tree nm
a drama TIA ton by Augustus Thomas OF DICKENS
christmas story of .Gretna Green, viii De seen al
T-v,en1v-third-st. The permanent stock company OF
r,roc-ors Fifth Avenue Theatre will give revival
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett and Stephen z IoMn-
Ser14,s u adv of Quality" After week OF EauUe
I'll +be nermanent stock company VIII retdlLI -
rroc+ors Fiftv-eighth Street Theatre IN FEailAili
FvIo's war drama. "Cumnerlan4, o.
Next Thursday the employees OF Iohy Fds'ol
Theatre will have their annual ball at Ian1nahy
rzau Festivities open II p n. with Nauue-
,,fII show OF an hours duration The feature OF ine
evening will be a coon shouths CllilgS' "'
17ro1ai~es to be strenuous. il not amusing
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

The cast will include Henry V. Donneily as Bu-
chanan Billings
For Home and Honor" new comedy drama
hv Lem B. Parker will be the attraction presented
b, the American Theatre Stock Company al the
American next week. The hero escapes from the
Manhattan Beach Hotel. where she mas heen lureu,
by climbing down a 1re escape anu sHoo's 'He
villain.
La Chatelaine'' the American rights TO which
are owned by E s Willard. will have its first pro-
duction in translated at the Chestnut Street
Cpera House, Philadelphia. on February g. the
second week of Mr.. Wilards engagement IT tnat
city.
The following paragraph is presented in it's unex-
purgated form:
THE great department store scene in The Price
of Honor which is to be at the West End Theatre
next week is an up date bit Of realism which
has created a sensation. We shown the broad
asIes and heavily stocked tables and counters of a
gigantic commercial establishment crowds OF eager
shoppers hurrying to and fro. the self-important
hoorwalkers strut proudly up and down their little
domains. and many types to be found in cosmo-
politan city pass on of the stage There The
Price of Honor has its first act revealed While
all is apparently in the great store the nrst
steps in tragedy are taken-at the 1aL OF S ILS
curtain a good has been wronged PAD
woman shielded from harm. schenling deslsnlng
villain strikes his first blow while an honest man
tustice for the oppressed The second brings
YOU 10 an East Side tenement house, the third in
ceiving room of Bellevue Hospital" The transit
tion from the third 10 the fourth act seems a
little abrupt
The Neapolitan Quartet has been engaged 20
appear ar the sacred concert to-day at the Eden
Musee The Birth OF the American Flag is the
latest group added 10 the World in Wax It has
tha place of honor Ii the entrance hall. In the
New-York tribune., 1903-01-25

many touches OF real sentiment when Peggy De-
trays the true heart Of an American
In view of the popularity Of Ferdinand Bonn 5
own comedy "Edles Blut' in which the author
artist plays the two parts OF the Hebrew horse
dealer Isidcr Kalmus. and Napoleon J. Mr. Conrled
has decided to put two more repettlons or the
play They will take place Thursday and Friday
OF this week The bill for the rest Of the week IS
Monday evening Hamlet; Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings. Der G Gwissenswurm, preceded by
The Violin Maker of Cremona": Thursday and
Friday. "Edles Biut SATURDAY Ilatlilee anu even
ing ''Kean'' GA Royal BoxD, with Bonn as
Kean.
novel programme has been arranged for the
testimonial TO be given TO Mrs. John Stromberg at
Weber & Fields's Music Hail Sunday evening
February / All the most popular songs by the late
composer will be sung by members OF the stock
company identified with their success Lillian Rus
sell will render Chloe and Bring Back My Honey
Boy" Fay Templeton will again be heard IN
What Marry Dat Ga?' and Rosie, Peter r
Daley will sing all the songs with the fulI
chorus accompaniment and John T. Kelly Will
revert back to the days Of The Geezer the Music
Halls first success, with his Iii Hung Chang
song Weber g. Fields are TO be in one OF
the scenes familiar 10 the early days of the nan
and in addition, William Collier. Louise Alien
Charles Bigeow and others viii be heard IN songs
OF the Stromberg regime.
The Rogers Brothers in The Rogers Brothers in
Harvard will play engagement of one week at
the Harlem Opera House. beginning Tomorrow
night The cast remains the same in their long
run at the Knickerbocker Theatre earlier in the
season.
His wife's Father" made familiar TO the public
By William H Crane. viii be the weeks revival OF
the stock company at tie Murray Hill Theatre