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palm. He Is rather above the medium
height and sinewy.
His close cropped pointed beard recalls
the famous portraits Of Charles J. HIS
face Is rugged, scanned like weather chart,
and the eyes If found in a child's face would
lie called china blue; in his face you think
Immediately OF sharpshooters, OF sails on
far of seas Of forests
4 heavy gold chain, meandering across
his waistooat, a nugget Of gold for a scarf
lin and a double linked chain around the
neck Of his pretty daughter are all there
e. to remind the visitor that here Is the
author Of king Soiomons Mines. He Is
himself, apparently determined to ignore
that episode in his life. He Is here on
mission. and Il overshadows his personality,
except in fugitive moments.
One OF these moments Is the one when
the opened door Of the sunny reception
room at the Waldorf discloses a family
group a. IL prearranged for Mr. Haggard's
protection. The protectors consist OF Mr..
Haggard's brother. an all around sports
man, who Is almost an American citizen,
through owning home in Maine and spend
ing threc-quarters OF his year hunting
fishing and writing there. and Mr.. Heg-
gard's daughter, who hos travelled with
her father through Egypt and other parts
Of the Orient
Before the interview begins Mr.. Hag-
gard laughs heartily at some newspaper
clippings read aloud by his daughter.
one Of them said he remarks with a
rrIT laugh that ] came up the bay wor-
shipping the skyscrapers,
- hat u
take more than the ordinary New York
skyscraper 10 impress the author OF she
Before the interviewer can get In ques-
ton about that famous and infamous per
sonage, Mr. Haggard begins TO dovetail his
fingers, and 70 oorrugate his brow, and the
smile dying from his lips, he says:
i suppose you want to know why am
herey'
The interviewer waA not at all curious,
but there was a dominant note in the ques-
ton which seemed 10 demand curiosity
and the interviewer automatically said that
che did.
MY mission Il a very serious one Mr..
Haggard says sYou, In this new world
with It's golden opportunities, It's unused
resources, can have but a very vague
idea Of the problems that are confront
ing the British subject to-day, problems
which are every moment growing more
and more vital for the cities are overrun
with a population who, unable TO support
themselves In the rural districts are lured
to the centres by the hope Of obtaining
employment and add their thousands to
the already swsruing mu,t!tudes without
work and without hope.
You have here Salvation Army settle
men:s. land holdings, like those for in
stance in Utah, and It Is the hope Of the
British Colonial Office that by means OF
The report shall make, after my visits
10 these places and from information
gathered from other quarters and by other
people 10 arrive at some method Of relief.
IT would seem not such terrible state
OF Affairs 10 Smeliorate, given on the one
hand a quantity Of waste land and capital
to improve Il, on the other homeless, friend
lass people, facing q future Worss even
than their present. The otlas must b
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for any old reason, or for none-except to
provide a kaleidoscope shifting Of the eX-
ternal resources Of the theatre. Even in
the superficial tricks of his trade Mr.. Potter
shows himself no master The first Of the
playsmith's rules Of thumb Is TO keep the
star In the centre Of the action and Of the
stage. No parading Of costumes, no hustle
Of theatrio animation, is too trivial to thrust
Miss Mannering into the wings. Some one
has remarked that the real hero of the piece
Is Bobby Burns. That is a mistake. The
real hero is the chorus.
The pity Of all this lies In the fact that
the main character, Nancy, and the story,
which springs as the best stories all do
out Of the main character, present pecu-
liar dramatic difficulties and opportunities.
On the surface creature Of half gypsy
PASSIONS and volatile feminine impulses,
she 10 at heart a tender and devoted woman
Mr.. Potter's fine theatric hand has caught
upon and exploited all the caprices and way
ward impulses, but has quite ignored the
woman within. To understand the play
a. II proceeds may be possible, though /
confess that point after point would have
missed me II had not had at my elbow a
man who had read the book, But to have
any real dramatic interest in Nancy and the
things she does passes human power
II the play lives on the boards it will not
be as a romance, but as a musical comedy.
Murray Carson's The Trifer' is the
hilarious limit OF the actormade play.
That there Is an underlying idea to the
slender little comedy, and a serviceable
one, was fairly obvious-a duel Of diplo-
matte intrigue between statesman and a
spy that at the same time was a duel OF
sex. But the tangle ~ complications and
the fne spinning OF stage business into
which It was deployed! II the ways Of
Mr Potter's story were dark, those Of Mr..
Carson's we're a. midnight. Piqued by the
blindness Of it all, / made careful inquiries
Of one Of Mr. Carson's friends, and by 80
doing scored journalistic beat. To such
straits l. critical acumen reduced by the
actor-mAde playi
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eased, vergod upon distraction. Whatever
the origin Of these obscurides, however,
it is idle 70 deny that they are blenishes.
1t is profitable in fact, to admit that they
are blemishes. for it is by seeing clearly the
weakness Of the play that we can best cal
culate its Astounding might. Hamlet is
not so-called literary drama. II owes
much TO the man who first conceived IL as
a stage piece. But if it we're no more than
a stage piece it would be to-day dead as
The Spanish Tragedy Nancy Stair
and The Tr.her.- After 800 years it is
a good acting play, because with all its
imperfections of form, its Inconsistencies
Of plot and its obscurities OF character, it
is in the main perennially true 10 the deep
est motions Of the human mind and heart
JOHN CoRBIN
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ATHLETIC FIELD ron CORNELL.
work on New Football, baseball and Track
Incloanre 10 DE Rushed.

The report OF the committee in charge OF
the financing OF the new Alumni Athletic
Field for Cornell shows that OF the total OF
tiiISs pledged by 500 subscribers SIS. 311
has b.en paid, leaving t22,s0t to be collected.
only e. Ol0 Of this represents subs ori 1tiOns
already due the remainder falling due IN these
iDetallmcuts. 1915, ts.t3i, 1908. t8.itt. 1907
a. 3ss 1905 81 600. Cash on hand l. $3.50.
Robert / Thorne, 100 Michigan avenue, Chi
cago IL the treasurer Of tue committee.
The contract with the Albany Construction
Company calls for the COMPLETION OF the
playground In the north section and the run
ming track In the east SECTION by July T.. The
ayground, tO0ySOO fdet. II now Hlmsat
GRADED, ~, 900 cubic yards Of earth having
been excaVated with 500 cubic yard ssll
b 10 removed Tho earth taken from Z -
section l. used In Cling In the track section.
he playground will contain sixteen tennis
For the football and baseball field 5000
cubic yards are still 10 be eIcavated. and az
this work cannot be fms she'd for the games
neat fan, the playground viii be used TEN.
pOrarily for contests nov held on Percy
Field.
Prof Van Pelt, formerly pre- ldent Of the col &.
lege Of architecture, who i IN charge Of
the landscape features Of the 1eld. has drawn
plans for the approaches, entrances, location
Of grand stands and clubhouse.
The new field will be easlly reached by
trolley from Ithaca.
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New shells for Harvard and Yale.

BosToN. March is.-EiRht Dared shells
for both the Harvard and Yale varsity crews
are 10 be built by Frank Dayy Of Cambridge.
The order for the Harvard shell will be placed
this week. but its final construction probably
will be delayed until May. In order that the
weight Of the crew may be known ~ nearly
ca possible :; win be ready for use In the
last part Of May. In design II will not diner
essentially from last years boat.
Two eight Dared shells for Yale. which
are also being constructed at Days shop,
are completed with the exception OF rigging
In desI On and construction they are pfae-
tically Identical with last yeare Yale shell.
They will be delivered within two weeks.
Dayy has 1--WE wherriea for the Weld Boat
Club Of Harvard nearly completed.
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Touns Corbeu wants - Meet Mosovern
Agaln.

YOUNG Corbett. despite the fact that he
was trounsed three times In succession In
lees than year. once by Britt and twice By
Battling Nelson. wants 10 don the mitts again.
This time Corbett wisely passes up Britt
and Nelson. directing bic attention 20 Terry
10 bite the dust on two opoaAi one and u Of
the opinion that Notwithstanding hh recent
Fevereea, he can do 90 aftln.
The matchmaker Of the 1o4eule A, g,
Of San Francisco looks favorably on such
q bout and Il would not surprise the sports
time IN Nay. Terri could not very well DO
battle before then, q he y 81 preeeqt On tho
road With q show,
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One moro actor-made play there was
last veek-note the skilful transition with
which have led up TO it-nameH, Ham
let, Prince Of Dsnmark." in which FORBES
Robertson closed his season at the Rnicker-
booker. Like Nancy Stair, 1t Is a drama
tiE,d novel; but, unlike that play, IL has
strong leading part, which IL kept through
out well In the osntre Of the stage. Like
Mr.. Belasoo's plays, it is made up in large
part OF grotesquely violent and theatric
episodes-most Of which are cut in modern
productions; and like Mr.. Belasco's plays
also, Il shows the infiuonce Of the inventions
Of elder contemporaries. The great scene
Of the play within the play was borrowed
from The Spanish Tragedy by one
Thomas Kyd, who, as recent critics have
pointed out. was the Sardou Of the Eliza
bethan stage. There Ia, In fact, the strong
est evidence short OF absolute proof that
the whole plot Of Hamlet and even to
the main lines OF the Characterization and
dialogue. Shakespeare inherited from Kyd.
One IL tempted 10 add that like the
Triher.' Hamlet has dohod the efforts Of
the critics 10 understand IT, but this would
perhaps DO overworldng our analogy.
Hamlet Il much more than an actor
made play. Shakespeare additions TO II,
In fact are Of precisely the elements that
distinguish stage melodrama from tragedy
a deep divnaton OF human life and fate
and the surprising literary gift requisite
10 give them utterance In action and dlS-
ogus. Il lie the impaling Of this really and
deeply and genuinely dramatic element
upon the old stage piece-this combination
Of two elements that In the nature Of things
cannot really unite-that is At the root Of
the seeming obscuriues In the whole. II
WAS Kyds hero who was a mere STRIPPING.
In Shakespeare imagination he had
grown TO thirty Kyd's Hamlet only pre-
tended madness, as the elder Brutus did
and even 10 Ophslia lied about the pretercl
with melodramatic recklessness that seemi
strange and disordered In the Prince. Al
We prefer TO think Of him. Shakespeare
Hdmlei, though never really mad. had
unooda that, when mingled With his con
SANITY praotSed prOtsnos of . mind die
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When Mr.. Pau Potter returned from
England he spent no uncomfortable por-
ton Of his time In explaining 10 oomplais-
ant iuterviewers, somewhat magisteriRlly,
the laws Of the drama. The writing Of
dialogue. he said, was the least important
detail Of a playwrRht's art. Dozens Of
people could write good lines for every one
who could construct q play. The observa-
don, 90 far a. It goes, is perfectly just.
Mr.. Kirle La shelle, however. has stated
the case more happily. Plays, he onoe
said, have 70 be planned from the inside.
like a house. Dialogue il no moro Inn
portant than olapboards and paint.
No one would accuse the dramatization
Of Nancy Stair Of On excess Of good lines
The real trouble with the play is that II has
no inner construction. To follow out Mr.
La shelle's metaphor, II is q mere oolleo-
don Of varied apartments, wings, pin
nacles and gables. As an outward show
nothing could be more animated and varied.
Action and stage business abound There
are three drinking bouts and at least four
dances. The --latest song Of Bobby Burns
IL sung with q frequency that entities him 10
tho record a. the apid FIRE poet. 'Misundsr-
standings Are a. plentiful a. huokleberdes
IN their ssaaon. But Of unity and Conference IN
the maln doGm there Il no tFaos Things
haVpSn e. thoy happOn In musical oomeoy.
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There are. Of course, more momentous
actor made plays than these novelties OF
the present week Sometimes the play
wright stakes his success not on the mere
superficial tricks Of the stage but on real
dramatic situations Who will ever for
get the striking, yet empty, geometrio
designs Of The Crossways which Mr..
Hartley Manners wrote some years ago for
Mrs. Langtry? Mr.. David Belasco is the
master OF all the resources OF rule Of thumb
play making with what success 1t Is I'M
necessary TO remark, In his case, how
ever, the manufacture Of plays is never
merely mechanical. OF any real origi-
nality in his trade he is innocent; but he
knows how % tell a story 50 that IL can be
understood, and has, moreover, the one
invaluable, irreplaceable faculty Of the
man Of the theatre-the instinct for what
carries TO the heart Of the ordinary play
goer His emotional melodramas are Of
absorbing interest 10 those who like them
and by the same token are as Accordingly
repugnant to those who do not. 1t is only
when he attempts the heights Of tragedy
as In sAdreR,' that II is possible 10 take
him with negative gravity.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-12-13
The Dentist and the Alligator

Roy Farrell Greene, the president
of the American Society of Curio Col.
lectors, told at dinner of dentists an
appropriate story.
"A dentist" he said, was once
travelling in the East, and in the
Ganges his boat overturned and he
was obliged to strike out for the
shore.
"As the dentist swan sturdily
through the muddy water an enor.
nous alligator suddenly rose up be-
fore him. The alligator opened its
enormous jaws, and the next instant
would have been the dentists last,
only--Just in time-the man hap
pened to notice the great reptiles
sharp, white teeth. and an idea struck
him.
He drew probe from his pocket,
and, pressing it into the alligator
gums, he said;
Does this hurt you?
THE alligator screamed with pain.
and the dentist, amid its great agony,
made good his escape. Philadelphia
Inquirer.
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FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING

A secret chamber furnished in old
oak, was unexpectedly discovered during
The demolition of the Plough Inn, Little
Ealing, England. The inn was 500 years
old. The grandmother OF Dick Turpin
he highwayman, once kept it.
Claiming the right TO serve, as British
subjects, 20 Victoria (B. c. Chinese
have applied for enrolment in the Fifth
Regiment, Canadian Artillery, in that
,iiy. The commander has referred the
matter to the minister OF militia at Otta
wa.
DR.. +. A. Mears announces his discov
cry of several new species of birds OH the
summit of Apo, volcanic mountain OF
he Island of Mindanao, in the Philip
pine group. The animal life on this
peak differs not only from that of the
owlands, but from that OF the other high.
ands OF the archipelago.
The general repor; to the London
Board Of Trade on railway accidents IN
1904, issued on July II. states that the
Ianger OF railway travelling has been re-
iuced to such point that in 1904 the
,hances against passenger being killed
n a train accident in thc course Of q given
Journey we're more than 2oooooooo 10 !.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-12-13

The readers ofthis paper will be please to
iearnthat there Is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science mas bsel able to cure in all
itsstages, and tnat is Oatarrn. Halls Catarrh
oureis tine on'y positive cure now nown to
themedical fraternity. Catarrh bein a con-
stitutlonal disease, requires II consti tutional
treatment. Halls CatarrnCurels tax en- inter-
nally acting 5directly upon the blood and mu-
coussurfaces OF the system thereby DESTROY
ingthe foundation OF the disease, and giving
thepatient strength by building Up the CEN
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith In
itscuratiye powers thas they offer One Hun
dredDollsrs forany case tina. it fails to curs.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
+. j. CHENEY 4 Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, Toe.
Take Halls Family Pills for constitution.
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X. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review Of
Trade says -
Business conditions certainly warranted
day OF gratitude this year more than
ever before, but in many industries it was
difficult TO take time for holiday with
out falling still further behind orders and
increasing the complaints of importunate
purchasers.
An idea OF the volume OF trade in No
yember is shown by daily average Of
bank exchanges that exceeded last years
hgures by 40 per cent, which in turn
surpassed all previous monthly records.
Yet unseasonably mild weather in No
yenber has postponed retail business in
Winter goods. Christmas trade opens
with volume that promises to eclipse all
earlier records, and the feeling OF con-
hdence in the future is strengthened by
the encouraging statements that the
strike of structural iron workers may not
become general.
Bradstreet's says: Wheat, including
-four, exports for the week ending No
vember 80, are 100000 bushels against
3,353,ooS last week, 2,1o1,773 this week
last year, 4.2oI,5 in 1903 and 5.7ob44o
in 1902. Corn exports for the week are
I,o43,824 bushels, against I,oIo,5z2 last
week, 3o4,S4r a year ago, I,ooSo5I in 1903
and I151,5o3 in 1902.
Failures this week in the United States
are 2o3, against 229 last week, 24o the
preceding week and 245 the correspond
ing week last year. Failures in Canada
number 80, against 81 last week, AZ the
preceding week and 20 last year.
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NATIVE NEW WORKERS SCARCE.
About One Out Of Every Ten in the
City Population.

Now that thirty emergency" census
takers finished the tail end of their
work a few days ago we may soon
have light on an interesting question
that this enumeration will throw some
light upon. Out of Gotham's 100000
souls how many are actual New York
ers-persons born in this city? TAX
ing the last federal census as a criter-
ion there is about one native born"
New Yorker out of every ten in popu-
lation Still, even this small balm to
Knickerbocker families-390, Cooper
sons-has to be greatly reduced, for in
1t is included every person of whom
no actual knowledge could be obtained
of whom the haste of the census
tempted to throw under this general
heading. Amateur statisticians have
decided that there are about 10000
citizens Of New York who have been
born of parents natives of this coun-
try. These delivers in the census re-
suits are of the opinion that If the
qualification were that both their par
ents were natives of this country not
more than 5000 persons could qualify
as New Workers of the second Ameri-
can generation. Children of parents
who were born abroad numbered l.
$4,000 in the last federal census.
There were then more than 100000
Americans here who were born in 9th
er states. New York state leading with
a contribution of 125.0O0 and New Jer-
sey following with $4,000; 10000 were
born in Pennsylvania, $4,000 in Mass
achusetts, while COCOA compare
lively large number--were born in
Virginia. Therefore the descendants
of the Knickerbockers are wofully out
numbered in population If not In
money and real estate.
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Too Late to Sort Cats.

Jim Crocker lived in an old tum-
ble-down house in "a little town in
Massachusetts. The cellar windows
being broken out, an opportunity was
afford to stray cats to run in and
out, and sometimes there would be
quite a congregation.
We lost our pet cat one evening, and
thinking she might have Joined the
happy throng, we sent our man over
to ask Uncle Jim" If he would take a
look and see II she was among the
number. He was generally pretty
good-natured, but this time he was out
of sorts. for he said:
Your cat may be there, or she may
not be, but amt a-going to light up
no lamp and go down in that cellar
this time of night sorting out cats
for nobody, so there"
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Suffering.
J MrsTMe Hart

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so many remedies without help.
~ dreaded the approach OF my menstrual
period every month, as it meant so much pain
and suffering for me- but after | had used the
Compound two months became regular and
natural and am now perfectly well and free
from pain tiny monthly periods. am very
grateful for what Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegs-
table Compound has done for me-"
Such testimony should be accepted
by all women as convincing evidence
that Lydia f. Pinkhams Vegetable
Compound stands without peer as q
remedy for all the distressing ills of
women.
The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound rests upon the
well-earned gratitude of American
women.
When women are troubled with irreg-
ular, suppressed or painful menstrual
tion, leucorrhoea, displacement or ul-
ceration of the womb, that bearing
down feeling, inflammation of the
ovaries, backache. bloating, Tor fatu-
lency), general debility, indigestion and
nervous prostration, or are beset with
such symptoms as dizziness, faintness,
lassitude, excitability, irritability ner-
vousness, sleeplessness, melancholy.
they should remember there is one tried
and true remedy. Lydia e. Pinl1ham's
Vegetable Compound at once removes
such troubles. Refuse to buy any other
medicine, for you need the best.
Don't hesitate to write to Mrs.
Pinlham if there is anything
about your sickpess you do not
understand. Siie will treat you
with kindness and her advice is
n
writing her and she has helped
thousands. Address Lynn, Mass.
an Best Understands Wcman's Ills.
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Live Stock.

New York-BEEVES-Receip 35I
head. Feeling steady, but no sales *
ported.
CALVES Receipts, 10; market
steady; common to good veals, 4oo@
$50: grassers and Westerns nominal.
Dressed calves steady; city dressed
vcals. SGI3c per pound; country dress
ed grassers and fed calves. 46l6 per
cent
SHEEP and LAMBS - Receipts, L.
oS7. Market steady, but lambs slow
Sheep, 4.oo6s.2s; lambs. 7.ooM7.6s
culs, 500: no Canadian lambs sold.
HOGS - Receipts, 1000. Nominally
steady; no sales reported.
Chicago .-CATTLE--Reccipts $500
market steady, Common TO prime steers
2oo666o; cows, 2So@425 heifers, 2,oo
05.oo; bulls, 200 04oo; stockers and
feeders, 2I5@4.I5 calves, 100000.
HOGS-Receipts, $4,000; market gen
orally steady Good to prime heavy,
4.S5,G4.o5; medium to good heavy, 47s
6485; strong weight butchers',' 48s6
4,o5; good to choice heavy mixed, 4.7c
01.So; packing 4.3o@4.So.
SHEEP - Receipts, 10000 medium
higher Sheep, 575@5.so; yearlings
5.5odo,oo; spring lambs, o75Gl7.5o.