Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-07-27
THE MOGULS' CAPITAL.
A Graphic Description OF d c1bi, the Most
Famous of India's Cities

Graphic Description OF D clbi, the Most
Famous of midas Cities.
Americans visit countries, cities and
battlefields 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 of 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 indy ing song
flowing from the lips of the muses.. II
India had a written history as had
Rome and Greece. and had as grateful
posterity as they had. then would mil
lions visit the twenty-mile square in
whose center l now sit. and would
revel in mighty past compared to
which the past of Rome and Athens is
AS decade 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 | am
writing thirty years ago deed was
done more heroic than was the stand
of Leonidas at Thermopyle. The MUIR
derous mutneers seemed safer behind
Delhi's impregnable wall A breach
must be made. but how AMI by whomp
Two brave soldiers with nine follow
ers offered to blow up massive gate
With bags of powder they ran to it
under a 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 mutiny, which was
one of the most cruel recorded in the
annals OF war, was virtually ended. A
plain slab leaning against 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 n
mighty empire, the center of an art ali
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 pal |
aces, mosques, tombs and forts of the |
Moguls. lay the ruins of cities DESTROYED |
by them, and out of whose sculptured
walls and temples they found materials |
for their own superb editices. Still |
lower down were the relics of yet older
cities. Layer upon layer in stratified |
debris is the work of the enslaved mil
lions. who have lived. toilcd in misery
for thousands of years, and died. only
to make room for other slaves vet to
follow.
Here one sees a relocated English
soldier quartered in the colonnaded |
;loister of an old mosque erected half
century ago. Sculptured stones cut by
hands of Hindoo worshipers over 1000 |
years ago are built into the walls of the
temple. The Brahmin
,emple. a part of whose closters be-
came the corridors of the conquering
had for its founda tions
some structure yet far older, for at one
If these places, piercing through all,
stands the most unique monument in
he world-a wrought-iron pillar nearly
, foot and half in diameter and over
orty feet high-how much higher. or
'ather longer. no one knows, for an ex-
aviation nearly thirty feet deep failed
% reach its foundation, and at this
iepth of excavation it was yet so firm
)elow that it could not be shaken. This
strange pillow is not hollow, but is
old shaft of malleable iron, and is
'laimed by the natives to have it,
oundation on the center of the world
Garter II. Harrison, IN Chicago Mail.
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