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And NJ. Lecaze was one of the best Paris
connOiSSeurS.
Let rs be thankful that only the An
geius' and the 'Bersere have been
touched up. he continued IF Chau-
ehard had lived long enough ne would
have touched UP his Della croiN. Theodore
RouSSeaus and the CorotS. Among those
Coro;s there is one which forty years ago
J persuaded Albert Wolfe to buy for $50
from title picture dealer Of the Rue
La.ittc. Today ii woIlG sell for Do,roo"
Rochefort says that there are in the
collections of the world at least G0OGO
corots whose falsity cannot be denied.
Those who own them persist in believing
them true. and as cofot will not come
back 10 earth to complain the number of
false Corots in few years will number
1900
The trouble is that every one today
wants his collection" says Rochefort
Soon there will he more collectors than
great paintings That is why those who
sell them have to make them
Americans have not been more cheat ed
than others-perhaps less. because they
have not the Partisan presumption to
pick up masterpieces Ion their own
Judgment Americans regularly buy
through the great dealers-and get their
guarantee The great art dealers say
this is the only way-instead of hunting
'bargains.''
But are the great dealers any better
judges than the little Dealers Koch. foe,
recently saw rich Paris manufacturer
hanging Romney that he had bought
from the most famous Paris house
1T was perfectly false" says Roche
fort, las l ought to know, who spent six
wears of my exile in London studying the
Reynolds. Hopners and Lawrence and
other glories OF that old English art
sometimes superior to our own
IarnignleS- walking along the BOule-
ward Montparnass. saw two Of his water
co!ors in a window. very beautiful; only
he never painted them. Following on his
complaint, tie police came on Il factory
that has sold IA counterfeit corots. De-
lacroiN. Diaz. Troyons. Daubi2nys and
Rousseaus tn Il long list of rich and cul-
uvated Parisians. They were deceived
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which had great success Then Rochefort
first cried out. then understanding TO
his habit: The day is not distant when
the least canvas of Francois Millct will
not be covered with gold, but with thou
sand franc bank notes..
Rochefort does justice 10 the tmeri
can art lovers of the time. who were
among the first TO understand the
theories of coubcrt and the Fontaine-
bleau and Earbizon painters. Nelson
nier Was the favorite OF the court;
Bougcreau had just made q name: AMI
Gerome had acquired fame Was II
not natural. bat admirable. there fore.
that the first americans 10 come to Paris.
young pioneers restrained by no artistic.
traditions. should pick GU: and admire
the masters destined to rule tie art %
TIE future before they had been really
recognized by Frcnchmen:
~
Rochefort and the early Americans
proved 10 he right. Time passed. When
Ciiauchard. proprietor of the Louvre de-
partment stores. brought back the .Anse-
lus' from America for S11Do00, men and
women in Paris wept and tossed their
hats and hurrahed. And now they mourn
that Chauchard did not leave it safe in
America.
Chauchard. dying, left his great col
lection 70 the French state: and you have
heard how. recently. when its halls in
the Louvre Museum opened, Rochsfort
told the people-what he had long known
the 'Angelus" had lost its soul, OF
course all Paris runs TO see if painting
that cost $4,000 could lose its soul
Gabriel Mowray says that lit is all there
sun The Sar Paladan. who had been
close To ii. says, "Rochefort is right the
Angelus has been reprinted.
But not in America. Never has an
American been accused of such vandal-
ism Years ago, when Rochefort help
ed 10 organize "A Millet exposition. he
held in his hands .That superb .Ange-
lus OF which Millet said when he
painted it, 1 want people To hear the
church bells ringing" At that epoch
the Steam of its atmosphere, its open
arr sentiment and the impression of
the solemn twilight hour. all worked
together TO make one really hear the
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TOMB OF JOHN THE BAPTIST IN HE GREAT Gl~
MOHAr1r1EpAEI MOSQUE ~ -

side me. tells me ii looks like a camel.
and second glance shows me the head
and neck Of the bcas, reaching out To q
point where lies q railway station of the
road going u Mecca. The road itself IS
The locg neck Of the came! and farther
back IS the body. the minarets forming
the hump Now look again. says
Shamnlas. and see if it is not like a
is also like great spoon with long
slender handle and large oval bowl.
TO come down IL details. Damascus
is an eNpanse of peariy white. tinged with
the pink of its roofs. The buildings rise
high over the green. and out of them,
like fingers pointing to heaven. are the
minaretS of HS' mosques. with the mighty
dome Of the Great Mosque in the center
At the right of the latter are the arched
roofs OF baZaars which have been famous
for ages. and away off from the rest is a
hs yellow building with roof OF red
tiles. That is the center of Mohammedan
fanaticism. 1t is the barracks where thou
sands OF Moslem soldiers are auartered.
More than 1900 troops are kept there,
and in time of uprisinSs and nassacrcs.
such that of last spring. they form the
greatest danger TO Christians.
Damascus is q Mohammedan city 1t
has about :.ts. ctiD people. and fouriifths
of them follow the prophet. 1t has also
about iG,tiD Greeks, $500 Jews. and lesser
and DrUses. The city has Mohammedan
schools and the students are as danger
Gus as those vino denounced Col. Roose-
Welt in the tniverSit! at Cairo. These
people are very deVout. one sees them
reading their korans III thef shops. and
AT e1erY mosque | observe a score or
more of the faithful washing themselves
before they so into their prayers. The
mosques are fun Of turhaned old men
and young men, who all pray singly and
in groups. and in many one finds COM
Ianies Of worshipers under leader.
There are also male classes listening To
the explanation of the Koran By the
priests, and there arc men reading slnSly.
Put come down with me from the hill
end take stroll through the city. This
IS Sunday, and We shall first visit the
mosques. There are seventy large ones.
where sermons are preached every Fri
day. and one hundred and seventy-sevea
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for trial He was on his Way here and
was not IA, from the city when the
iigat from heaven shinsd round him ard
blinded him aud the Lord said unt'
him:
Il am Jesus whom thou persecutest: II
is hard for thee II kick against the
pricas.
You remember how the blind Paul. OF
Saul. as he ua; then called. WAS led inc
Damascus and taken Ia the house OF I
man named Anait.as. not the husband ~
Sapphira. however. nor amy associate ~
the champion liar Of history. You re.
call how waen he came here he again
received his sight and. being converted
was baptized II was the house OF tins
Aranias. according 10 my guide and the
guide books. that | visited the other day.
found the .Ananias of the present by -
means ayersc to n small gift OF silver. lie
took all my spare change. and then asked
for more. later scovered that tina
authenticity If the house IS questioned
ard there is another Ananias house.
which is Eow used as a chape'. | looked
for the house OF Naaman the Syrian, ard
was shown an old building which il
copied by lepers.
1t Was in the street called Straight that
Ananias met Paul This is one of thu
principal highways of the Damascus al
tocay II leads from the chief gate 90
the only straight street in the city. II
goes right through Damascus. and is sc
wide that two or three carria ses can pas,
within il 1t is the center Of traffic and
while there ! saw caravans of came!s,
donkeys and horses bringing, i'm and TAX
ing out all kinds of goods. One lire OF
came!s was loaded with poplar trees az
long as telegraph poles. the ends oi
which dragged on the road as they walked
Behind them came donkeys with pannierI
of green cucumbers and horses loaded
with baskets of jana oranges. each az
big as the head OF a baby. l mean tbs
oranges. mule followed the horses. II
was loaded with butter from the interior
the butter being packed in black leather
bottles of the shape and size of a tin din
ner bucket
Saint Paul had a lively time in Damas
Gus. He preached in the synagogue ami
Jews took counsel to kill him, and they
watched the gates day and night for that
purpose. Ii was then that his FRIEND.
took him 10y night and let him DOWN over
the wall i'm a basket. You may read
about this in Acts tx. and i'm Corinthians,
ii. II. Paul himself states that the gov.
ernor OF the city sent a garrison 10 ar
rest him. and that ii was through a win
dow in the wall that lie was let down liz
a haske: and escaped.
This very place is now shown. and ]
Law made photograph of the spot. Tn,
wall is great structure of stone. with
mud wall on top. There is house on
the top at the pace indicated. Til,
has windows with great bars acroS.
the III, and il is ve'y easy to imagine how
St. Paul might have been let dows
from such a place when he made his IS.
cape. FRANK q. CARPENTER.
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WALL OF DAMASCUS OVER WHICH ST Paul
WAS LET DOWN IN A Basket Nv

used in north China. These are beds
Slung between poles which are fastened t.,
eamelS. one going before and the other
behind and trained 10 Reec step TIE
camelS are adorned with coins. shells
AID other ornaments for the occasion
and hundreds IF small bells jin"le a they
march In advance of the pro ceSSioa il Il
large camel ! tier hung " til sreel cloth
and embroidered with gold This con-
tdinS the green flag of the prophet md
one CT the Oldest copies Of the Koran noG
in existence. In addition to the Worship
crS themselves. the caravan has an cs
cort If soldiers and Bedou,ns. There arr.
also many haif-naked derN:shes who sing
and howl and cut themselves. shouting
out texts from the Koran. as they go
on Their way.
Within the past few months tho rail-
road which has been building from Da-
niaScilS to Mecca has been almost COM
pleted ard il is question whether thir
will not cause this great caravan to bs
come thing of the past far as the
travel between Damascus and Mecca is
concerned. a pilgrimage also starts ont
from ca TO and one of these not long
ago was headed by the present khedive.
During my stay here / have gone out to
the cemetery 10 take look at the tomb
Of Moha mmed's fayor,te daughter. As
/ remember ii. Mohammei had Severa |
wives. in addition to the four which he
allows to each OF his followers His first
wife was khadija, the widow whose for
tune first made him prominent, and
whose servant he was. As | remember t
She WAS II s first convert. Two of his
ether wives and Fatima are buried here
and Thursdays many yelled women come
70 mourn at their graves. Fatima's tomb
is a little domed mosque about fifteen
feet square with praying alcove facing
toward Mecca. Fatima les in a marble
sarccphaGus. which stands on pedestal
covered with green velvet and W tn "a
piece of green cloth at its head. As |
lacked al tomb / rup
told that they were put there as the
pledges of SICK persons showing that they
would give money to the mosque if they
should be cured.
The tomb of Saladin the great Moham-
medan general who fought Europe during
the crusades, is also in Damascus. When
the Emperor of Germany came here he
this was contrary to the principle of the
Mohammedan religion, which vii! not al
low such things in their mosque There
fore they built an alcCye running. from
the mosque outside and it is there that
this crown Is now kept under glass doors.
L have spent some time curing my stay
in Damascus in hunting up the footsteps
of st. Paul. the apostle. You will remem-
Der that he was one of the Jewish Off
Gals, and was breathing out threaten
ing and slaughter against the dtSciIles OF
the Lord when he got the high priest to
give him letters to the synagogues of
Damascus, that he might bring such
Christians as he found there to Jerusalem
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bells. says Rochefort At Chauchard'S.
where he dined every Saturday for
years, he was surprised one day to see
that the "AnGelus' had lost its luster.
that the ground and the figures had
become heavy. and that there remained
nothing of the great works intense
beauty" Evidently some idiot had
been scratching and touching il up.
i asked good old Chauchard. whose
art site taste was not very much de
veloped: What miserable fellow has
been injurinG your "AneeluS"? lie re-
Piled with a hopeless, self-complacent
calm that made me desperate: The
painting was cracked. and ! had the
cracks stopped up by a young painter
of great talent
To add to the disaster Rochefort saws
that the "Bergere.' another great paint
ing that lie had examined carefully our
ing the Millet exposition. has been m
iureG in the same way. "All the patne
has been scratched off: all the charm
which time had given them Is nothing bat
remembrance. The public may Tot per-
eeive it, but others know ii.
No American could have done such a
thing. Your American. when ignorant of
art. knows he is ignorant and respects
art too much. 1t takes Il Partisan collector
TO rise to such presumption"
The danger OF all French government
ard private collections in general says
Rochefort, is a GRAZ to clean up, varnish
AMI restore. The really guilty oneS in the
background are bad Paris painters who
have never been able to make n name for
themselves. yet who say in their ht arts:
Il am superior To Rembrandt or Della
croiX. As soon as they can get their
hands on the work of ii master. they can
not Keep their hands off it,
When I think he continued. that NJ.
Iecaze, who lAft his beautiful collection
To the Louvre had the criminal habit Of
painting in with his own hand little de-
tails and even figures on his Lanerets.
creuZes and van Ostades. LecaZe showed
me- day II Chardin and defiea me- to
distinguish from the rest of the pNture
a bunch of carrots he had ADDED on the
p.'etext that the table Was u little empty.
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arc now on :: bare lofty hill which the
Mchammedans consider one of the holy
spots of the world. IL is where tire
prophet Mohammed stood and GaZed al
the ma gnificcnt town which Damascus
was in his dan. lie stayed here for
lours. and then. turning away with a
sigh. said:
Il dare not go in. Man can enter para
disc but once and if go into Damascus.
THIS paradise on earth. | shall not he
able 10 enter tie paradise Of the here
after. in heaven
Lam first received the divine revelation
OF the unity az God in Damascus: and
JoserhGs says that the town was founded
hy IL, the AGRA ndsOn Of
Noah. The Bible tells MS that .tbra ham
had d steward who came from Damascus
and we know that King David hesieced
and conquered the place. There is no
doubt tnSt il il one of tine oldest III not
the very oldest. town upon earth 1: was
IN existence Gefore tue days IF Rameses
before Alexandria sprang into greatness
at the mouth Of the Nile and while
NchUcEadnczZar Was chewing grass in the
iardenS OF Babylon. Ii was ola long he
fore -tthenS had begun to he ard was
already cray-hared when Rome was a
haby. III antedafeS any of the cities of
The present. and il j. now one Of the most
tls'ivinc centers of the MChammedan
world.
damascus lies on the eastern side Of the
Lebanon mo31ta!ns aaout l.h' miles north
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+. y Il | ROCHE
FORT IS ciGlIty
YEAS old.
For sixty years
IL has been an ell
tor r witty AID
bitter pca-laSt of
tie famous buu.e-
Naidicrs - tie
empire Who We're
i.nown I'll, world
over fc* Ge idins
eVerS thing. r. clad :
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TRAVELS in the Foot
1 steps o; Abraham, David
and St. Paul. the Apostle
A Mohammedan Town With
Two Hundred Mosques
The Pilgrimage to Mecca
and Mohammed's Holy Tent
AT the Tomb of Fatima-
And in the Street Called
Straight
,C"pyrcht. lal" hy Frank q. Carpenter
>pseial CORES .pnd.ncc "f The star.
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east of Jerusalem, and. the crow flies.
about tifty-three miles from the Mediter-
ranean sea. II is an oasis city,
being surrounded by deserts. Il
flow ont of great springs in the noun
tains of Lebanon and make green this
sandy plain III which they are lost These
two are the ALBANIA and Pharpar of the
Bible. You remember how Naaman. the
leper. referred to- them when Elisha
told him 10 go and wash in the Jordan
seven times and his flesh would he clean
Whereupon Naaman replied:
Are not ALBANIA and Pliarpar rivers
of Damascus better than all the waters
Of Israel? May | not wash in them and
he clean 50 he turned and went away
in rage.
You remember also how one of his SER
wants told Naaman that Elisha was ask
ing = little thing of him. and how he
then Went down and bathed in the Jor-
dan. and his flesh came again. like unto
the flesh of little child. and he was
c,ean.''
As we stand on the hill of Mohammed
al the northwest end of the city and
look at Damascus we do not wonder al
Naamans contempt of the Jordan. The
latter is winding. rocky. semi-alkaiine
stream which flows through desert, the
great gorge or depression of Ghor. 1t has
Il ScanJS vegetation along its banks and it
flows through valley of death TO the
great salt sea. known as THE Dead Sea
The Absna and Pharpar are pure noun
tain streams. and the AbaGa is one of
the most beautiful of the whole world. I
have travelled along it almost to its source.
1t is rushing river of pure clear green
water which spreads life over all that il
touches. Together with the Pharrar it
makes green the great plain which lies
below us and builGs up the orchards of
almonds. apricots. aIpleS and the rich
crops Which cover it, we'll as the
white city Of Damascus which lies in its
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DACKER of Boulanger-

DACKER of Boulanger-
u Oldest OF French Editors
He Is a Great Art Con-
noisseur, and at the Age of
Eighty Looks Back on
Painters and Buyers-Says
Americans Are Not Cheated
as Often as Others in Their
Purchases = Explains Meth
eds of Fake Picture Manu-
facturers.
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y VI .ASt | -.
f.AND with me on
the slope of the
Lebanon mountains
and take a look
over Damascus
We have Climbed
the road " liich
vas cut out Tor
Kaiser Wilhelm.
tile Emperor of
Germany. when ne
visited this region
ten years ago. and
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ing politics. art. fashions, morals and
manners.
30 he decided the empire -t.ugenie
called him its creates; DESTROYER For
a few dayS after Sedan he helped run the.
r. vernmsnt r nationai defense. then re-
signed Though NO communist. he came
ncar b.jus shot because his paper was.
and lan2uisncd il ii" penal colony ~
New Caledonia unto an American
scaooner captain rescued lin. Awaiting
an amnesty bc lived in London ami
russcls-,unniuG his paper as an outlaw
editor
Then lie returned I" France, hut not
=, rcar. Within six years lie was again
outlaurd Tor backing Gen. dlanger;
lived iors again in London. ole his
dan, pms editorials. and picked NJ. uu-
de- tn, nos 81 to, k.nSlish. magnificent
collection Of paintings. furniture. silver
ware. tapestries and art objects. all FOR
trifing sums because ii" knew, ami they
did not.
Since ISa, The French republic has let
RccEefort live again in Par>-was he
not ,re Of the first republicans? Time
heals all wounds. IL y not that they
think RochefOrt old and weak. No. he
IS liycler thar ever. What a flow OF
language. What vituperation. He scolds
apropos Il anything.
Rcchefort is cEe of those old-style Paris
editors whose whole days work is done
when they have written their article.
Daily the wonderful old man visits studies.
picture dealers. book stores. museums,
drives In tic Bots beside his fair young
wife, shows al teas and garden parties.
ana regularly AT lunch time he has no
inea Yet What his daily article viii be.
There are men who cannot work on
wine. but l:oCaefort can. At Champeaux
where ne meets hourse men and politi-
Tiahs. ana NoisiHs, among elubmen
actors and foreigners OF the James HYDE
type. or At Dursnd's. in the heart OF
boulevard gossip, he dips his crust into
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YOUNG KING OF SPAIN
ESCAPES MANY BOMBS

(NGILL another attempt according to
- foreign dispatches. has been made
on the life of the youthful ruler of
Spain, King Alfonso Mi. This latest
effort to do away with the king occurred
January =. when he made q brief visit
10 the city of Malaga lis way to
Melilla. his Moroccan possession
The kings attendants We're thrown into
state of panic when the bomb exploded
bat the king himself was quite calm. and
even smiled and rea assured his courtiers
His behavior indicates that he has he
come SO accustomed TO attempts on his
lie that lie takes them as "A matter of
course. or else that he has complete
faith in lis lucky star and feels immune.
The king. accompanied by the premier
and the ministers of war and marine, ar
rived in MALAGA from Madrid en- route
for Morocco for a week sojourn al
Melilla. At the railway station the king
was acclaimed by great throng. which
followed the carriage in which he drove
with the mayor to the palace of the gov
crnor general. Arriving at the palace.
the king stepped down f-om the car
riage. turned to acknowledge the cheers
of the crowd. and then entered the pal
ace. AS the door swung closed behind
Kim an explosion in the crowd outside
drowned the cheers. Before the multi
tuGe realized Just what nad happened
gendarmes had closed In about the spot
from which the report had come. 1t was
found that two persons had been slightly
injured
An official account of the incident says
that it was unimportant. A civilian drop
ped "a pistol inclosed in a box" No
further details were made public. The
next day the king and his party went on
board the royal yacht Giralda and pro-
ceeded for Melila. The yacht was es-
corted by warshps.
There is more than one fairly well au-
thenticated rlimor of very early attempts
on the life of the king. hut one of the
first. which Is well Substantiated, took
place on June IL. 1893. when he was
a Out seventeen years of age.
The youthful ruler and his mother We're
returning from church In Madrid when a
Shot ives fired at one OF the carriages in
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Special Correspondence II The STAR.
Is,T,fS I.p,t.,r,- ia 1at
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ID.t M.tSt't-S,

copyright lal" hy Frank q. Carpenter.
special correspondence "f The Star.
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BULLS DISCOURAGED;
WHEAT VALUES DROP
Small Buyers Who Follow Big
Operators Afflicted by
Panic to Unload.

CHICAGO, Jan. 24-whcat values gave
buyers becoming discouraged at the
glarinE absence OF any improvement in
the milling demand. Furthermore, re-
ceiptS In the northwest were SO large
to form a disagreeable surprise TO the
bulls. Closing prices showed a net LOGS
OF 2Glc to &C.
Corn finished shade 10 &c off: oats
unchanged and hog products &c lower 10
32Ac advance.
The unloading of wheat was apparent
ly altogether by small purchasers. There
was no sign that the larger interests
had been doing anything except to leave
OF the day the market possessed an un
dcrtone Of nervous strength. with local
traders mostly on the buying side. In
vestors here were not disposed to go very
Tar with the rise and when selling start
ed let go In d hurry. May ranged from
9S4m92gc 10 $3.50 99Gc. closing weak, &C
net lower al 9SG03S2c.
Assertions that this week would see
the end OF the big run OF corn keIft that
cereal relatively firm. May varied be-
tween SOC and 50lm50sc, finishing ac
UP AT 0plc. The cash market was easy:
NO. yellow closed at i1Wi73c.
Oats swayed slightly with other grain.
High and low limits for May were 34a6
Sisc and SAC. with the last named fig
urc in force when the pit was cleared.
shorts. AL the final gong pork showed
S2Ic rise for this months delivery. but
tapered down TO 5c decline for Tar away
futures. In lard there was a net ad-
vance OF 25@Jc and for ribs 24c, to l7ic.
J,ANEE or, THE l., .nI>-,.