Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-05-07

crimson. purple and yellow predominated
Some trees were loaded with biilowy bur
den of blossoms that were exactly like oul
pelargoniums at home. Then there werl
bushes that actually hurt the eye with theil
dazzling wealth of purple flowers. Tht
whole park was irrigated by means of stont
aqusducts, the tops OF which were covered
with pots of plants in full bloom. There
were the pets which we have at home, al
magaifed in size and intensified in color
Phloxss, geraniuns, verbenas, mignonette
| asters, larkspur, coleuses, heRrts-ease, roses,
wild lantannas, petunias and many strange
plants grew in lavish profusion. Here was q
genuine green lawn, the first have seen for
some time in India, produced by flooding il
almost daily with water.
The central attraction in the garden is a
| superb memorial erected over that well which
was filed with the mutilated bodies. This
memorial consists externally of stone goth
10 screen of beautiful design and workman
ship. The massive simplicity of this circu-
lar screen, which is, I should Judge, fifteen
| feet high and thirty in diameter, at once
strikes the observer Upon a raised plat
| form in the center of it is the memorial
| statue, a marble female figure, draped with
| wings and with downcast mournful eyes
| The statue was designed by Baron Narsehet-
/ ii. Around its base runs the following in
| scription, which 1 copied verbatim ''Sa-
| cred to the perpetual memory of a great
| company OF Christian people, chiefly women
and children, who near this spot were cruelty
massacred by the followers of the rebel Mana
| Dhoondopual of Bethoer, and cast, the dying
with the dead, into the we'll below on the
fifteenth day of July, MDOC JLVII." A lit
tie to one side is a handsome marble cross
bearing the simple inscription, ''On this
spot stood the House of Massacre" just
back of this and to one side is fenced en-
closure full of little mounds, shaded by rose
passed along and read the inscriptions l
found some of them very touching. In
most cases there were no tombstones at all.
One read: 'Spare thy people, oh Lord
aRd give not thine heritage to reproach,
| that the heathen should rule over them.
Wherefore should they say among the peo-
pie, Where is their God ?" This spot, once
SO desecratsd by pagan hands, is now tend
ed and kept beautiful by the same people.
The birds sing in the branches of the trees
as though no tragedy had ever been enact
ed in the place, and the tame little squir-
rels skip and scampsr about at will.
While in Cawnpore have had some little
chance to inspect the American missionary
work which is being prosecuted here. The
American Methodists seem to have taken In
ola by storm, just as the Baptists have Brit
ish Burmah- 1 stopped over Sunday at the
pleasant home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Max
we'll. One morning we rode over to Miss
Ca5bAuhA . Acuhud bCuOOI, "aCEc aWCLA-
can teachers are educating English and Eura-
sian girls at a nominal cost. The British
government is very liberal toward any educa-
tionsl project, and will not only cede land for
such purposes, but pay certain annual sum
toward the current expenses of the institu-
ton. On the morning in question the
srable George Mueller, of British OrphanaRe
fame, was addressing the children Miss
Eastman took us out into her garden and
picked fully half bnshel of the most beau
tiful roses for US that it has ever been my lot
to behold saw none in California or Gan
ton that could quite equal them in their ex-
traordinary proportions and delicacy of col
oring / have no words to voice my admira-
ton of these India rosebuds. l was SO fool
ishIy enthusiastic over them for a time as to
think of getting some embalmed to send
home Seeing is believing. We also picked
some orange blossoms, along with the ripe
fruit some pomoloe blossoms, and gate a
quantity of the Indian box-more fragrant
than the American tube rose. Constant irri-
CATION and constant fighting of porcupines
are essential to horticultural success in India;
but with these conditions fulfilled the results
are little short of miraculous.
But perhaps the most novel experience in
the missionary line was afforded nae on Sun
day, whdn, in company with Mr.. McGrew, I
paid visit to two Of the twenty American
Methodist Sunday schools in this city. With
our solar topees and our neutral tint spGcta-
cles on, we rode in a gharry through a will
derness of mud houses, whore girls we're
gathering cowdung into hugo baskets borne
on their heads, women grinding, two at each
mill, and men going about their Ordinary
pursuits. At length We halted in front of
room about ten feet square opening upon
the street. A crowd of urchins were play
ing tag, or some game akin to it, In front of
this little room. The moment they saw our
gharry they ceased playing and bsgan TO
swarm about us, tho while shouting "Sa
laam, Sahib. SalaamI" Oh, they were dirty,
bat who minded that? Some of the boys
were absolutely naked, ana so were some of
the girls; but only the prudish traveller is
annoyed at so common a sight. In they
rushed pell NELL, and began to squat Turk
fashion upon the Aoor of the room before
mentioned. 1 suppose there were thirty
odd children in that tiny room [ know
there was no room for more. Some of the
faces we're exceedingly bright and interest
ing, despite the dirt rs this g Sunday
school?" 1 inquired we seated ourselves
on the only two chairs in the apartment.
'Tbis is Sunday school, returned Mr. Nc
Grew. "Of course the work is as yet purely
educational. We instruct these l, 800 chill
for the ieaven to work" Sacred songs fol-
lowed, both words and tune being Hindo-
stance. If Mendelssohn could have been
there how he would have writhed. Even the
Japanese and Chinese children make far su
perior music. The effect was simply an in
deseribable pandemonium of noise. But
when Mr. McGrew came to catechise them [
was amazed They were in their element |
and knew every answer by heart. The cor
rect answer was shrieked in chorus by al |
most every little heathen in the room. Thus |
learned in the doctrine can even the most de- |
vout pagans become. Even the native pun
dit who had charge of the school in Mr. Nc |
Crews absence was a devoted Mohammedan |
After the exercises cards we're distribnted to |
all present as rewards. AS we drove away |
1 looked back and saw an afterpiece that was |
hardly on the programme. The children had |
ranged themselves in line outside of the |
school and were unitedly chanting the licen-
tioas native songs of India, with two partic- |
nlarly bright youngsters at the head
EMILE.