Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-27
The MoeuLs. CAPITAL.


A Graphic Description o. Delhi. the Most
Famous nj midas Cities.
Americans visit countries. cities and
battlefells in Europe sacred to them
because their forefathers lived and died
there or because these were the cradles
of their learning. There the soil was
dyed in blood in the name sof free
dom or for religious cause. In Rome
they live over world Of history and
see legions of long-dead heroes march,
ing before them. In Greece they watch
genius chiseling breathing forms from
cold marble and listen to nndying song
flowing from the lips Of the muses.. II
India had a written history as had
Rome and Greece, and had as grateful
posieiity as they had. then would mill
lioas visit the twenty square In
whose center | now sit, and would
revel in mighty past compared to
which the past Of Rome and Athens il
as deeasle to century. Here for
thousands OF years history has been
acted, but never written. Acted not
centuries ago, with vast vacuity to
follow. but acted continuously as the
ages have marched slowly along. Not
two hundred yards from where I am
writing thirty years ago a deed was
done more heroic than was the stand
of Leonidas at Thermopyle. The MUIR
derous mutineers seemed safer behind
Delni's impreg nable wall. A breach
must be made, but how an by whom?
Two brave soldiers with nine follow
ers offered to blow up a massive gate
With bags Of powder they ran to it
under CALLING fire. knowing well that
if they escaped the bullets they must
be buried under the ruins they hoped
to make. One by one they fell. A
single man reached the arch. applied
| the torch. the breach was made. Delhi
was won, and the nutiny. which was
one of the most cruel recorded in the
annals Of war. was virtually ended A
1 plain slab leaning againss the gate
! gives the names of those heroes. A
national anthem should carry their
fame down through undying time.
! Here within small circuit the
mighty Moguls ruled two hundred
years ago. and had, during several CEN
turtles, made this their capital of
mighty empire. the center of an art all
| their own-an art SO full of fancy and
dreamy splendor that even Aladdin's
lamp could find nothing to surpass its
creations. Under the ruins of the pail
aces, mosques, tonbs and forts of the
| Moguls, lay the ruins Of cities DESTROYED
BIZ them, and out Of whose sculptured
| walls and temples they found materials
for their own superb edii:es- Still
lower down were the relics of yet older
cities. Layer upon layer in stratifed
debris is the work of the enslaved mill
lions. who have lived. toiied in misery
for thousands Of years and died. only
| to make room Tor other slaves yet to
follow.
Here one sees 4 red-coated English
soldier quartered in the colonnaded
cloister of an old i'll ,sque erected half
century ago. Sculp'ured stones cut BY
hands of Hindoo worshipers over 2. 00O
wears ago are built into the walls of the
Mohammedan temple. The Brahmin
temple. a part of whose cloisters be-
came the corridors of the conquering
Mohammedan. had for its found atoms
some structure yet far older, for at one
Of these places, piercing through all.
stands the most unique monument in
the world-a wrought-iron pillar nearly
a foot and half ia diameter and over
FORTY feet hirh-how much higher or
rather longer, no one knows. for an ex-
cavation nearly thirty feet deep failed
to reach its foundation, and at this
depth of excavation it was yet so firm
below that it could not be shaken. This
strange pillow is not hollow, but is a
solid shaft OF mallesble iron. and is
claimed by the natives to have its
foundation on the center of the world.
Garter H. Harrison. in Chicago Nail