New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-15

u Oh sr aiV hoyIn, alone 70 Bena~s Glory be
| thai did not wake up thin an introduce myself
| TO the coolies AS | was sayln, slepI lor que
better part av day an night. Dus renIIu'v ~,
YOU that that man Dearsey had packed me on on,
on wan av his matcral-thrains to enares' an
for to make overstay my leave an ge' hic INV
the cells ..t o,o
The exclamation was an cminently rational one.
Benares was at least ten hours by ran ron inc
cantonments and nothing in the w0rld couIu b"to
saved Muvancy from arrest rs orser. ol DoarS
appeared there in the apparel OF his orgies; D car
lev had not forgotten TO take revenge Lear ,,
drawing back little, began TO place. sou o'1 IEy
over selected portions OF MuNaneS on,,nont and
thoughts were away on the empnhKhch,, 'nu
they medtated evil for Dearsley. MulNahey con-
| unued ,; ,,s
set down in n street I suspicioned. for cud hear
people passin' an tal<in' But ! knew well
was far from home There is a queer smcI upon
our cantonmentssm av dried eartn an or This
| kns wild whifs av a cavalry stable-htter ms
| place smclt marigold flowers an bad wafer. az
wanst something alive came an blew heavy Win
his muzzle at the chnx av the shutter Il. sr III
| n village I am thinks TO myself an the p3n,o.
chial buffalo is investigatin' the palanQun. But
anyways I had no desire TO move only nc
s sana Thep mex you're tb n Bpsh Amy will carry
We through. That is an epgram. MADE uo;
Thin a lot av whishperin' divils surrounded
the paanGnin Take ut up says .1N wan ,d man.
| But who'll pay Us? say another. The Mahar.
anees minister, av. coorse,' SEE the man. OnG1 .
seq I to myself, I'm quane in me own rlght,
wild a minister TO pay mo expenses: III ne an
emperor il I lie still long enough. But this is no
village I've struck I lay quiet but gummed
me right eye to crack the shutters, an l
saw that the whole street was crammed WIN
pa1anquns an horses an sprlnklln av naISeu
priests, all yellow powder an tigers tails; bnt
| may tell you. Orth'ris an you. Learoyd. thar
av all the palanquins ours was the most lmperln
an magnificent Now. paanquin means native
lady al the world over except when soldier av
the Duane happens to be taldn' ride. Women
an priests seq l. Your fathers son is in the
tvLt hfu ffrnn
proceedin's' Six black divils in pink muslin TUX
up the palanquin, an oh but the rowlin' an the
roclIin' made me sick Then we got fair damned
among the palanquins-not more than fifty aV
them-an' we grated an bumped like Queenstown
potato-smaclls in n runnin' tide | cud hear the
women. ggglin' an squirldn' in their palanaulnS,
way for Mt. an, begad the pink muslin men
mine were howhn' Room for the Maharanee av
Golral.S eetarun' Do you know aught av the
lady. sorr?'
Yes" said l. She is very esimable old
queen OF tho Central Indian States and they say
she is fat How on earth could she go to Benares
Z" Twas the external foolishness av the naygur;,
man. They saw the palanquin lying loneful an
forlornsome an the beauty av ut. after DearaleyS
men had dhropped ut, and gone away, an they
gave ut the best name that occurred TO thin.
Quite right, too For aught know the ould
lady was thravellin' incog-lke me. I'm glad to
hear she's fat. | was no light weight myself,
an my men were mortal anxious to dhrOp me under
great big archway promiscuousy Ornamented
L
liver saw. Begad! they made me blush-like a
like a maharanee.'
1.-THE temple of Prithi-Devi." murmurcd. re-
membering the monstrouS horrors of that scuptured
archway at Benares.
Pretty Devilslns. savin' your presence SORT.
There nothing pretty about ut. except me.
Twas all half dhark, an whn the coolies left they
shut a big black gate behind av us. an half a
company av fat yellow priests began puly haulin'
the palanquins into dharler place yet-a big
stone hall fun av pillars. an gods: an, incense,
civ. I.a 20
disconnected me, for I perceived | wud have to 90
forward to get out, my retreat bein' cut off. BY
the same token good priest makes bad paan-
uuin coolic. Begad they nearly turned me INSIDE
ont raggn' the palanQuin to the temple. Now,
the dsposiShin av the forces inside was this way.
Tho Maharanee av -Scetarun-that was me
Try by the favor Providence on the far left
flank behind the dhark Az p pillar carved with
elephints heads The rel - nder av the paanQuins
was in big half circle facing into the biggest
latest. an most amazin' she-gOd that liver |
dreamed av Her head ran up into the black
above u.s. an her feet stuck out in the light av
n little ire av melted butter that a priest
feedin' out av butter dish Thin man began
to sing an play on somethin back in the dharlS,
an twas a queer song Ut mae my halr h1t
the palanquins slid back, an the women bundled
out I saw what I'll never see again Twas
more glorious than TRANSFORMATIONS at a panto-
mine. for they was in pink an blue an silver
an red an grass green, with dimonds an lmraldS
an great red rubies all over thin; But that was
the least part av the glory. o, boys. they were
hiven: az. their little bare feet were better than
the white hands av lords lady an their mouths
like puclered roses an their eyes were bigger
an dharker than the eyes av any livln women |
I've seen Ye may laugh. but I'm spealin' truth |
I never saw the like, an never I will again.
Seeing that in all probability you were watch |
inc the wives and daughters of most of the kings
of India the chances are that you WON'T said;
for il was dawning on me that Mulvaney hid
stumbled upon big queens praying at BenareS.
81 niver will he said. mournfulE. =. " That
mo- DO
me ashamed to watch fat priest knocked at
nv door I didn't think he'd have the insolince
TO disturb the Maharanee av GolIral- Seetarun so
I lay still The old cows aseen,' SCI he 70
another Let her be- that. Twill be long
before she has calf I might ha' known before
he spoke that all a woman prays for in mia
an, for matter o. that in England tools chi ldher
That made me more sorry I'd come, me bein'. as
yon well know. "A childleSs man.
He was silent for a moment thinking OF his
little son, dead many years ago.
They prayed. an the butter fires blazed up
an the incense turned everything blue an be-
tween that an the fires the women looked as
tho they were all ablaze an twlhklin. Ihpy
took hold av the she-god'S knees, they cried ont
an threw themselves about, an than world
hout.end-amen music was dhrivn thin mad.
Mother av Hiven how they cried, an the onld
shc-god grihnin' above thin a ii so scornful! The
drink was dyin' out IN me last an L was
thinldn harder than the thoughts wud go through
my head-thinldn' how 70 get ont an all manner
of nonsense as well The women were roclNn
in rows their dimond belts cliclSin', an the
tears runnin' out betune their hands. an the
lights were goin' lower an dharker Thin there
was blaze like lghtnn' from the roof an
that showed me the inside av the palanqun an
at the end where my foot was, stood the Twin
spit an image O. myself worked on the linin.'
This man here. il was
lie hunted in the folds of his pink cloak. a
hand under one and thrust into the freight
foot-ong embroidered preSentment of the great
god Krishna, playing on hute: The heavy lowl
the staring eye and the blue-blacl mustachc of
the god made up far.oR resemblance to Null
vaney.
The blaze was gone in wink, but the whole
scheme came TO me thin. | believe was mad too
7 slid the off shutter open an rowed out into the
llanI. hohind tho nlinhint head pillar. tucked Mp