The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-09

and fingers are tesvy with gold Tbey
, nave gold embroidered turbans, costly gold
, vests ana the bits CT their horses ere ofte;i
of silver. They sit very straight a. they
ride, and by, the strip OF each runs a
groom BOW clearing the way for his master
and ever present for fear he might want
something. Here IS a herd Of donkeys
loaded down with painters so that only
their legs peep out, and the loads seem 10
be walking away bodily. They are no big
ger than Newfoundland dogs, and their
drivers, bare legged, pound and yell at
them IN Hindostanee as they drive them
,1lQng without either bride or rein.
| Tie crowd on foot is rs gay as that upon
horseback, aud your eyes crow tined in
trying to catch and distinguish the strange
Characters you meet. Here comes
APARTY OF SINGING GIRLS
dressed all in red and gold, singing strange
songs as they dance through the streets.
They are not bad locking, and their limbs
are loaded with anklets and brs:clets.
Here comes some Mohammedan ynaidens.
They are fine looking women. but their
dress is hideous Il consists OF short
waist and aspair of thin, drawer-like panta-
let's which are very WIDE at the waist, puu
which taper down into tights al the calves:
They baye a sGucy way Of walking; ara
the dirty red drawers are 0y &c meahs De-
COHllLS- IuCTG are WOFhlUS WOu1GH dS well
as women OF pleasure, and IN some places
these splendid roads are being repaired.
| Here low caste women are breaking stones,
and there you see a dozen Of them going
along with baskets of broken stone upon
their heads. They throw it upon the road,
and a corps OF brown-skinned men, their
limbs clothed only in waist cloths and their
| skins shining with perspiration, are crush
| ing 1t into bits with stampers. As they so
water carrier with d skin full OF water
upon his back, and his hand Oh the mouth
! Of the bottle
THROWS A CLEAR STREAM UPOE IT,
and the whole becomes mortar, when,
when dried, is as hard as the floor OF a cei-
! lar. You see these water carriers every
where in India, and they water the streets
of the country They carry the water for
natives, and peddle it from house to house
| You may see dozens of them here at Jey-
pore with their bottles, made OF the whole
skin of pig, and as they pass YOU think
of the scenes Of the scriptures.
The best time to see Jeypore Is in the
evening. The sun at midday blazes here
with trcp.cG.. brightness, aid everything
glares Va It's splendor. As 1t siGEs TO-
War.,s the west the air becomes cool. Inc
people come out, and the whole city E,in!s
Ike lower Broadway at noon. Along TINS
I wide street for two miles booths are
| erected, and upon the sidewalk Itself hun
dreds of merchants come forth and spread
out their wares. Different classes huddle
in groups Here for block there are moth
| ing but shoes and the up-turned slippers Of
| the Mohammedan. and footwear Of satin
embroidered in gold is spread out for safe.
HERE i : SCORE or BRASS MERCHANTS,
and there is a blooh taken up with the sci
iers of vegetables. Out on the side streets
YOU see carpenters sitting and saving, and
| walking through long aiSleS Of Hindoos
who are selling the gaudies6 cOttons, You
come to the cashmere cloth merchant and
haggle for the price of a shawl. The ner-
chant has features much like those Of Jew.
He has his wares spread out or the ground
and dressed in his turban and gown he
sauats with his boy clerk beside him. His
stock includes shaWls worth thousands Of
rupees and some which can be bought Tor
few dollars. He asks three times what
he expects to get, and in case you object IS
willing to throw up coin and let nead CT
tail decide the bargain.
Most Americans buy shawls in this I2rt
of India and after a sale is made the IneT-
chant invariably demands that you wI1te
recommendation for him III his note Dooh
This ne shows to future travellers, and
find scattered over India the autographs OF
noted Americans. At Delhi l found Grant S
autograph. and the merchant who had it
under a recommendation, stating that his
wares were good, told me he had been Of
fered 100 rupees for it, and that he would
rot sell il for
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND RUPEES.
James Gordon Bennett states that he
finds a certain mans shawl good and he
supposes they are cheap, and the merchant
who owns the book tells me that Bennett
bought dozen cashmere shaWls, saying ne
wanted to use them for making Cndershlrts
These were of the kind called ring shaWls,
so fine that YOU can pull whole shawl
through the wedding ring Of lady. 1t
must be nice to have an under shirt which
| Won can pull through a ring, and IN L
, case of a man who travels with his eE ~,
clothing in his hat l can see where 4 o ai
vantage comes in.
The raiahs palace is in the cen or If hi
e capital. 1t covers great are 4 and th
, palace garden with its flow a., ,.ivere =
, water. formed by fountains sS,Ttino ont r
stone bed, would be l. ,e,e enough for
farm. His majesty Is ,oTr IN CaIcnfta. hi
? arrangements had be a. made for INV visi
and note rom che English secretary
: MAJOR den le, gave me q dark-s Siane
palace gun . and l was shown throug
court d. Ger court of marble and take
U!iro" - room after room furnished wit
TIC Persian carpets and with satin covere
chairs and divans of European make. |
II one palace there was
~ AN IMMENSE BILLIARD ROOM
d and in this and the room adjoining tn
s. skins al tigers and leOpards were scattere
IS about by the hundred. They lay III gref
re piles on the floors. They were hung on IN
st walls and some of the divans were VI
~ lholstered with them. went through ROOF
is after room filled with such skins, and wa
IN told that the beasts were all killed by ID
E. raiah. who is very fond OF tiger hunun
m and who is an excellent shot. l was SHOW
le the outside of the palace containing u
e harcm and the arrangements for keeping
re cool struck me as rather peculiar. Outslc
Id of the main hall and running along OF
length of the palace was u series OF gree
tanning mills not unlike those used by II
American farmer. These were turned
e. half-naked men and they thus kept puml
" ing up drafts into the rooms beyond.
u visited the raiah's stables and took
re look at his horses. There was a court Il
ID exercise which covered, judge, somethin
IN like ten acres. and around this was built a
rs arcade of stalls rooted over with thic
X heavy roof to keep off the sun. There WEI
e about half mile of these stalls and eac
IS Of them was occupied by
A FINE-BLooDED sTEEr.
J, There were horses from Arabia, fro.
ID Europe, America and India, and the tyin
ID OF each was different from anything hay
n o,-n,. caau 'Dba1,a VEG q GtTGO from the