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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-08
FROM BEIRUT TO DAMACUs.
What You See as the Train Climbs and
 Descends Lebanon.

What You See as the Train Climbs and
 Descends Lebanon.
 There is an excellent railway between Beirut and Damascus, a narrow gauge operated on the rack and pinion system, with cog -wheels, at the heavy grades, and 1t winds in and out of the gorges, clinging to the mountain sides, and crosses a pass in the Lebanon Noun tans at an elevation of 44S0 feet. Then it drops down into a beautiful litle val ley and again ascends, crossing the An ti-Lebanon Range at an altitude of 4, 100 feet. That brings it into the Valley of Damascus, which is 254O feet above the sea
 The distance is ninety one miles, and for az reater part of the time it fol- lows the old caravan road, which has been used since the time of Abraham
 The journey from Beirut to Damascus is almost duplicate of a trip over the Mexican National Railway, and the re- semblance to certain portions of South ern Colorado and northern New Mexico is very striking A resident of Santa Fe or Agua Calientes would feel very much at home in this part of Syria, al- though he would wonder at the trouble and expense the people have taken to retain and cultivate the little fertile land that the Creator has allotted them. The mountain sides have been walled up in terraces like gigantic stairways, to prevent the soil from being washed off by the raln the terraces are planted
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THE 4 O'CLOCK CONCERT.


 The artistic event of the festival was the chamber concert of the Kaltenborn string quartet, composed of Franz Kal- tenborn, first violin: William Powell second violin; Gustave Bach, viola, and Louis Heine, cello. Miss Ada M Aus tin soprano of Hartford, assisted.
 The opening number was F major Op. r, Beethoven, met with immedia te favor. The work Is full of exquisite color effects and was played with great accuracy, especially the difficult alle- gro.
 An interesting selection was the In- termezzo to "The Celestial Country written by C. E. Ives, Yale '9s, which is well worth it's place on the excellent programme.
 Mir Kaltenborn's solo again estab- lished his reputation as one of the few great volinists of the country. His tone is always full and rich. A persist ent encore brought forth Thallon's "Ev- ening Song" in which delightfully."- soulful tone was displayed.
 Miss Austin's first number was the we'll known aria from "The Death of Joan of Arc'' Her voice, rich so- prano, was heard to fine advantage in this number.
 3 O'CLOCK CONCERT.
 The May festival would hardly be recital and in Miss Gertrude May Stein a most artistic singer is found. Her German songs are always choice bits
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of a chief. Still this old leader finds | himself on the level with the humblest men of the tribe when he deals with the government. His ration ticket calls for no more provisions than that of any
 of his subjects. It is amusing to hear the various stories which the chiefs ere ate for the purpose of getting more ra- tions. But Indians are all the same in
 Uncle Sam's eyes. He treats them all alike.
 "The Blackfeet will soon disappear. At one time the reservation containied nearly seven thousand Indians. Now there are only twenty-one hundred In- dians there. The Indians who are on the agency have intermarried for so many years that many of them are weddings. When they were in their savage state they roamed about, and marriages were entered into with mem- bers of other nations. The more enter prisng Blackfeet have left the reser- vation and are making their own way in the world. The indoent ones are contented to remain on their old hunt ing-grounds and let the government take care of them.
 Most of the young Indians have come to the conclusion that they must work, and are taking care of cattle and making some attempt at farming. The older ones still live in ideness. The Indian schools maintained by the gov ernment are well attended and the gov ernment employees have very little trouble keeping the young Indians in eschool Years ago many of the men who went into the far north with the Hudson Bay company married Indian women For the most part these men were a thrifty lot, and did much to inn prove the condition of the tribes. Of late years, however, a worthless lot of schemers have married women on the reservations that they might get hold of lands and receive supplies from the government.
 If the Indians on the reservations continue to decrease as rapidly as they have In the last quarter of a century, the government will have but few wards to care for. Reservation life has no charm for the better class of Indi ans, and the worthless red men are dy ing off and intermingling with the whites so rapidly that they will soon be a race of the past. t."-Washington Post.
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SORROW OF THE POPE.
Condolences for tho Death of Arch
 bishop Corrtgnn.

New York. May 7.-The Rev. Dr. Fer ranta, Italian secretary to Archbishop Corrigan, made public tonight cable gram which was received from Cardi- nal Rampolla at Rome, expressing the sorrow of the pope at the demise of Monsignor Corrigan. The cablegram was addressed to the Rev. Dr. Ferran- ti and is as follows;
 "The Holy Father with great sorrow learns of the death of the grand arch bishop whom he hoped to see in Rome very soon, His holiness, who appre- ciates very highly the especial merits of the dead prelate expressed his sym pathy from the depth of his heart for the metropolitan church of New York, and he prays God to give the soul of the great archbishop the repose of the just and the premium of eternal glory.
 [Signed1 'Rampolla,
 Pontificial Secretary of State"
 It is estimated that 10000 persons viewed the remains of Archbishop Cor rigan in the cathedral tonight There were more than 25000 people who crowded the church between the hours of IL o'clock in the morning and 5 o'clock in the evening,
 At 6 o'clock a guard of honor from the Catholic club commenced the night watch. In addition to this guard of honor squad of soldiers from the Sixty ninth regiment took a position at the foot of the catafalque and in the center aisles aiding the police in form ing the lines.
 A death mask of Archbishop Corri- gan will be taken after the funeral Fri day by Joseph Sibbet, well known sculptor. Cablegrams expressing sor- row at the death of the archbishop were received tonight from Cardinal Vaughn, of London the archbishop of Rome, the cardinal prefect of the pro- paganda at the Vatican, and from Margherita, dowager queen of Italy.
 It was stated authoritatively that Archbishop McQuaid of Rochester had requested Cardinal Gibbons of Balti- more to intone the pontif1cial requiem mass in his stead.
 The doors of the cathedral were clos ed at 10 o'clock tonight. One hundred members of the Catholic club, who are acting as the guard of honor, alone re- mained in the edif1ce, They will keep ac ontinuous watch over the remains until Friday.
 Those who will officiate at the mass on Friday morning, it was announced tonight, are Cardinal Gibbons, assist ed by Vicar General Mooney, Rt. Rev. John Edwards and Rt Rev. c. K Col ton, deacons of honor; Rev. James H. Mclean, deacon of the mass, Rev M. J. Lavelle, sub-deacon; Rev. James N. Connolly, master of ceremonies: Rev. Thomas J. Myhan, assistant master of ceremonies, and Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia, who will preach the fun eral sermon.
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ting twenty-five or thirty dollars, even if offered extraordinary inducements.- Chicago Inter-O Ocean.
swAzIs FIRST RAILROAD RIDE.


 Ubunu, the young King of Swaziland, appeared in full court dress, that is to say forty-shilling slop suit, with a bowler hat, and attended by his "taiP' Of Indunas-about a dozen nearly naked Swazis-on the station platform at Barberton and waited patiently until it was almost dark, when the rumble of the train could be heard in the distance. With straining eyes they watched the track to see the flying wonder they had heard of. But when the engine, with screaming whistle and two great lamps glaring like the eyes of monster dragon, rounded the curve and came screaming toward them they fled like c-stricken rabbits to the nearest cover, leaving their chief and the few white men on the plat-5 form to face the danger.
 Next moaning the chief reappeared on the platform with his tail" and begged the acting stationmaster to show his Indunas the locomotive in less bellicose mood, and if it were humanity possible to give them a short ride be- iiiiiu It. Aao lllciC was Iedlly at the station, the stationmaster de- cided to humor the young chiefs wish, and hooking an empty coal truck onto the locomotive, he told the driver to take them for a few miles run along the line. Ubunu and his "tail" got into the coal truck, the stationmaster into the cab of the engine and off they set. It was flair and softly for a short distance from the start, and the Swazis seemed delighted with the new sem sation, but the driver put on speed and when it got to about twenty miles an hour his passengers were clearly in a great state of alarm; they grasped the side of the truck, and gazed like paralytics at the rocks, and trees fly ing past them.
 Ubunu did his best to reassure them, but in vain, and some of them were on the point of Jumping overheard to escape worse fate when Ubunu shouted to the driver, and asked him please to slacken the pace. No sooner said than done, and in little more than a minute their speed was re- duced to that of an OK wagon. The Swazis were quite treasured, and were soon laughing and talking again as lively as ever. At siding, half way to Avoca, they halted, the engine changed ends, and the return journey began. Ubunu gave the sign that he would like bit of speed put on, and the driver, nothing loath, whipped her up until she was going between thirty and forty miles an hour. He imagined that the Swazis would get the funks again, for the road was not very smooth, and the truck was jumping about good deal, but he was mis- taken. The Swazis had seen enough to satisfy them that he was master of the Smoking Horse' and hundred miles an hour would not have shaken their 
 On returning to the station they got out of the truck with evident reluctance but highly delighted with their adven- ture. The stationmaster was no longer a person of consequence. They crowd ed around the cab of the engine, made their most dutiful obeisance to the master of the Smoking Horse. and his mate, and departed with shouts of ''Inkoos, Inkoos. (Thank you my lord, thank you.)-From the Scotsman.
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WAS DOING HIM.
The ''HoId Up" Man, Coffee.

Few people know how many persons are made sick and kept sick by coffee drinking. A trained nurse relates her experience with number of different persons. She says, Quite long time ago l discovered that coffee was the cause of the violent palpitation of my heart and frequent sick headaches. and attacks of indigestion, so I quit coffee and went onto hot water, not knowing then of Postum Food Coffee.
 Quite while after I quit coffee my husband began to complain of coffee coming up in his mouth more or less during the forenoon ard it made it very disag agreeable for him. One day I said Suppose We try that Postum Food Golf fee which is advertised so much. So we did and I prepared it according to directions. The beverage proved deli cious and we liked it so much and it agreed with us so we'll we have used it for over two years now.
 My palpitation of the heart head aches and indigestion have gone alto- gether It is very easy to make by boil ing 15 or 20 minutes with small piece of butter put in the pot to prevent it's boiling over.
 My cousin, who is a telegraph opera tor. had nervous dyspepsia having to stay from work every few days. He gave up the use of coffee and com menced using Postum, and since that time he has not been troubled with dy- spepsia
 One woman told me she had suffered with indigestion for three years. She drank nothing but tea. I made Postum for her and showed her how to make 1t. She liked it and now uses it in her family regularly and is well and happy,
 I could name dozen or more similar cases' NJ N. Clark, 522 ogden Ave, Chicago, III,
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9:so CONCERT.

1 A remarkably good miscellaneous | concert was rendered at the Grand Op- era House at 9:30 yesterday morning. The Tempo quartette of Hartford com prisng Hubert l.. Maercklein, first ten or; J. w. Carroll, second tenor; Thom- as F. Couch first bass, and Ebert l., Couch, second bass, proved brilliant success.
 Raymond A. Lawson, of Hartford, a protege of Mrs. Charles Dudley War ner, by his work at the piano placed himself In a high artistic class. He gave two numbers, Novelette," by Mcdowell, and Arensky's "Etude" in F sharp
 Miss Rose OBrien, of WalIingford won all honor and favor. Her voice is a pure contralto of superb intonation and large range, faultless style and sincere, musicianly temperament. Her number was 70 Del Mic Dolce Ardor," by Gluck, and her interpretation of this beautiful love song was perfect. She sang for an encore an Ave Maria" also in Latin. She gracefully refused to sing again She was accompanied by Mrs. Franz Mlcke, of Wallingford, an accompanist of sympathy and rare ability
 Robert R. Cone, of East Haddam, ac- companied by Mrs. Cone, then played the last two movements of De Beriot's violin Military Concerto, Op. 16." This is a most difficult work, but MT. Cone interpreted 1t so we'll that he was given a recall.
 Miss Bessie Pierce, a youthful pianist of South Britain played the piano like a veteran artist and was liberally ap- plauded She is certainly pianist of considerable promise. She played Polka de la Reine," by Raff, in good style.
 Mrs Clara Ford Okeson, the soprano, sang an exquisite song, "Endymion." by Lehman, and displayed a wide range and some excellent hien notes. Walter Cowles was an efficient" accom- panist.
 Warren W. Williams, of New Haven, was the next on the programme sing ing the "Toreador Love Song" by Cou- chon, and accompanied by Miss Anna Frances Treat MT Williams has a. most pleasing baritone voice and sang splendily and with finished style
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TO GUST THE BEEF TRUST.
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Continued from First Page) cattle sold and killed in East St. Louis this season has been unusually large. Most of the meat has been placed in storage"
 William JTammee, of St. Louis, for merly city salesman for Swift, testified to a uniform price at which salesmen of all companies were instructed to sell. Attorney Ernst c. Dodge has charge of the c. 0. D. list which is made up every week, the witness declared,
 Tammee said that the increased price of meat was out of proportion to the increase in the price of cattle. He said one hundred butchers in St. Louis had gone out of business, and that the Mound City Packing company and the North St Louis Packing company had also retired,
 A recess was taken until 1:30 p, m, when the final session was held. At this session there was additional testi- mony as to the combination of packers, the giving of rebates and the fixing of uniform prices in St. Louis. Several of the witnesses told of the sale of con- demned meats, some of which was made Into sausage.
 T. E. Wertz, a San Francisco railroad man at Monett. was the last witness. Up to a year ago he was for several years manager of branch packing house at Topeka Kansas. He told of the existence of a combine between the various packing companies to fix the price of meats, and related the incident by which he lost his position, because he sold lard at half a cent less per pound than the combine prices.
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ii O'CLOCK CONCERT.

The recital of compositions by Mad anne Signe Lund-Skabo, the famous Norwegian composer, was given at Il o'clock It was announced that Mad anne Skabo was ill with nervous pros tration at her home In New York, but her place, however, was most accepta- bly filled by Willis filling. MT. Alling is a New Haven boy, now residing in New York, and after hearing his re- marka ble work yesterday New Haven CTS feel soicitous to impress this fact on all visitors. Miss Pilat Green, vio- linist; MT. Springer, baritone, and Miss Reba Cornett, soprano, were worthy ex- ponents of the remarkable compositions of Madame Skabo.
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PASSING OF THE INDIAN CHIEF.

1 PASSING OF THE INDIAN CHIEF. "The Indian chief of to-day Is robbed of all his glory and poetry. He is noth- ing more than ward heeler for his people. His power is practically all gone, but he is something of a leader and acts as sort of spokesman and schemer for his people" This was the estimate placed on the leaders of the red men by MT J. H. Monteath, who in northern Montana.
 "All the war chiefs of the Blackfeet are dead" MT. Monteath continued. "The last great chief was Lame Bull. He has been dead many years. The present chiefs on the Blackfoot reser- vation have never distinguished them selves in battle, White Calf is the best known Blackfoot chief who is now liv- ing. He is more than seventy-five years old, and has considerable infu- ence among the members of his tribe. He has three wives which is sign of his importance. His favorite wife ills 'Yells in the Night. He likes her so well that he permits her to do all the work around his home. Another one of his wives is 'Wades in the Water Plural marriages are prevented on the agency now, but White Calf had all these wives when the reservation came under government control, and no at tempt was made to interfere with his household.
 Little Plume, Wolf Tail and Runa- way Crane are other influential Black foot chiefs. None of them has as much influence, however as White Calf Age is supposed to add much to the wisdom
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ROBERT T. MERWIN VERY ILL.

His Condition Very Critical Last Night.
 Robert T. Merwin, the well known real estate broker, who has been crit ically ill at his residence on Bradley street for the past three weeks, was in very critical condition last evening and it was feared that he could not live through the night MT. Merwin was in very poor health all last sum mer and during the past winter, suffer- ing from fatty degeneration of the heart. His recent low condition has been due to an attack of Bright's dis ease, which seized him about three weeks ago.
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son:
 T regret very much the death of Ad- miral Sampson and 1 sympathize with his family. No one has ever heard me utter an unkind word about him.
 "On account of his death I have re- quested my friends in Baltimore to potstpone the delivery to me, which was intended to have taken place to- night, of the Cristobal Colon service of silver and they have accepted my re- quest"
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A PAPER BY MRS. ALLING

Mrs. E. N. Alling, of the First Baptist church, has gone to Boston, where she will read a paper on Mexican Mis- sions' before the missionary conver- tion now in session in that city. Upon her return Mrs. filling will present the in Spring Hill Holland county, this state. -
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MUSIC FESTIVAL AT AN END
THE OPERA "CARMEN" CON- GUIDED THE PROGRAMME.

William c. stewart Did Excellent Work
 in the Piecc-The Last Days Gathering
 Was Important in Many Ways-Ar-
 t,sts of Great Repute Participated in
 the Concerts.
 Those attending the Hyperion thea ter last evening expecting an amateur presentation of the opera "Carmen" were certainly happily disappointed. To be sure the company was from the American school of opera, but it must not be forgotten that the participants must be well qualified for their elective careers before entering the school.
 That the opera proved an excellent closing feature for the convention can be attested to by the frequent applause throughout the evening. The perform ance last night was but the second public performance and the only one with orchestra Considering this all went particularly smooth.
 William G. Stewart, under whose di- rection the opera was produced, took the part of the Toreador and upon his grand entry was accorded an ovation His acting is always studied and pro- fessional in It's best sense His voice cannot be said to be very well culti- vated but was perhaps adequate for the part.
 The part of Carmen is always impor- tant and was exceptionally well done by Miss Cecela Quinn. She possesses all the qualifications so necessary to- wards making the work a success. Her voice Is a finely cultivated mezzo so- prano with some broad low notes which were gratifying to hear. Her acting from the time she falls in love with Don Jose to the moment of her death was the result of the most careful school ing.
 Miss Marguerite Palmiter, though slight in figure, brought to the part of "Michaela" sweet clear soprano voice which together with her acting is used artisticaly.
 The important role of Don Jose was quite satisfact orily done by Walter Wheatley, although vocally there is considerable that might be accomplish ed to make the work still more effect iva
 A fine powerful voice of future pos abilities was that of Madison W. Smith, who put lots of vim in the part of the captain.
 Harvey Merwin and H. l.. Williams were two humorous smugggers. espe- cially the former, who is blessed with avordupois befitting a real live bandit. The gypsies, Miss Zetti Kennedy and Miss Elfrieda Busing, also have clear ringing voices
 The orchestra made up largely of | Kaltenborn's men, was a fine acquisi- tion. but their work was frequently ragged.
 Taken all together, the opera of last | evening was possibly the most satis- factory arrangement thus far provided | by the committee and certainly prefer able to a gathering of foreign singers, such as could be found in New York at this season of the year
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pRoMTNFNT VISITORS

In one of the boxes at the Hyperion last evening was Francis Fisher Pow CTS, the New York vocal instructor, who was present in the interest of several pupils who participated in the opera; also MT. and Mrs. D. P. Merwin, whose son was member of the cast.
 George Mahl, jr. of Hartford was the guest of F. A. Leopold during the festival
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ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL ASCENT

Paris, May 7.-Augusto Severe, the Brazilian aeronaut, has repeated the experiment he made last Sunday with his airship La PaiX. To-day the Bra zilian's airship again rose to a height of forty metres. where it was held by a rope. In this position it manoeuvred for short time, when the weather ne cessitated that it be returned to it's shed The motors and steering gear of La Paix apparently worked satisfac- torily at to-day's test.
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CLEVELAND BAKING POWDER co.
 NEW YORK

of vocal literature and her command of the German language is faultless.
 To the writer the two Wagner num- bers "Schmerzen" and 'Traeume" were the gems Of the programme. Her com mand of French in Nevin's Dites moi was noticeably good and she made a good deal of ChadWick's Sweetheart. :"
 Willis filling was a busy man yester- day and gave excellent support in his accompaniments
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sCHLEY's SYMPATHY.

Never Said an Unkind Work of Samp-
 son.
 Washington, May 7,-Admiral Schley to-day made the following statement
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Care must be taken to avoid baking powders made from alum. Such powders are sold cheap, because they cost but a few cents per pound. But alum is mineral, which taken in food is deleterious to health.
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William c. Stewart Did Excellent Work in the Piece-The Last Days Gathering Was Important in Many ways-Ar- tists of Grent Repute Participated in the Concerts.