The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-16
AMONG TH4 HINDOos.
A CHICAGO MAN VISITS AN OLD
TEMPLE OF THE PAGANS.

A CHICAGO MAN VISITS AN OLD
TEMPLE OF THE PAGANS.
Fined for walking Through the Building
with His Shoes On-Interesting Notes
of RambIes Through a Strange Coun-
try-LaaghabIe Incidents.
Blatchford Kavanagh writes from Del
hi, India TO The Chicago Post about
visit among the Hindoos as follows:
have been to Ahnedabad. 1t is a small
place and almost filed with mosques and
temples The mosques belong to the
Mohammedans and the temples to the
Hindoos. Most of the mosques are exqui-
sitely carved. In one place there is
window of marble with tree pierced
out of it. The carving is wonderful.
These Hindoos are something like the
Chinese They will spend years of their
life in carving some little thing. It's
beautiful when it's done, but an Amen
lean wouldn't spend as many days on it
as they do years. s
In one Hindoo temple they let us walk
all through with our shoes on, and when
we got through and came outside we
found great crowd of natives making
an uproar. Then we found out what
was the matter. We had defled the
temple by going in with our shoes on.
Then man came up and said in En-
glish that the temple would have to be
all washed out before they could wor-
ship in it again, and we had to pay three
rupees about SLIT in our money-to
have the place washed, so we are not go
ing into any more temples with our
shoes on.
THE SACRED LAKE.
We stopped at Ajmere, a small town,
for about twenty-four hours There are
some mosques and temples there, but
they are not so pretty as those at All
medabad. Ajmere is very picturesque
on a sunshiny day, but it rained almost
all the afternoon very hard. 1t stopped
for about two hours and we drove ont to
Pushkar lake. This is about seven miles
from the city, through pass. The as
cent is about 200 feet. This is the place
where the princes come to worship.
They each build a small palace to stay
in while they are here. The lake is
sacred one, and the Hindoos believe any
one bathing in it viii go to heaven.
wrote you about how the Hindoos
burn their dead. Well, 1 took photo
graph with my little camera of the caste
of men who take care of dead bodies.
1t was just after they had burned one
up, and got them to all stand in a row
with their white aprons on. They didn't
seem to mind it a bit, and stood up as if
they were quite used to it.
We left Ajmere about 1 o'clock in the
morning and arrived here about in the
evening. The sleeping cars are not the
same as ours. One car will, accommo-
date eight people. : The cars are DIVIDED
into two. compartments, each compart-
ment accomm odating four persons. We
do not undress, but just take off our
coats and lie down for little while.
The cars are good deal like those in
England. Our servant forgot to wake
us up ntilswe got into the station. s
The train only staid, there seven min
utes, and You ought to have seen us
scramble out of the car. Mr.. Getty and
have couple of suits made alike, and
in the scrimmage he got my. coat on, and
he looked too funny for anything. q,
rushed out of the car in my shirt sleeves,
with my helmet on, and he was bare
headed. 1 guess the natives thought we
were crazy. We got to the bungalow
all right and slept until o'clock We
; are going to see palace. We go half
of the way on elephants.
DOG STOLE THE SACRED CAKE.
Istried to give you description in one
of my former letters of our lazy life on
shipboard coming from Suez to Bombay.
There wasn't much to do but lie around
and read books and try to keep cool, and
have often thought of you people in
Chicago going around with heavy over
coats and furs. while we were tanning
ourselves
I saw a funny sight at Bombay
poor mans wedding. The man and his
bride paraded around the streets, hs
with his sword over his shoulder. HI
! was bowlegged, she knockkneed, ant
what do you think their ages were? HI
was 81 years old and his bride only L
yearsl They were tied together by thei
: garments. They had ceremony in tn
street that was very queer They placet
on stone some peas and pancake ant
then bowed before it.
: Just as they got through dog stucl
his head through the crowd and made {
rush for it. Such com1notion you neye
y saw. OF course he got between tn
groom's legs, and altogether broke III
:; the ceremony. He got the holy pancake
5 just the same, and then the groom didn'
e seem to care for it any more. I laughet
i until / ached all over tiiy-s 81
You will remember / wrote you abou
the lHindoo musician in Bombay, VIII
L played on four different instruments a
one time--two in his nose and two IN hi
mouth took a picture OF him one da.
as he was squattng on the ground play
: ing away with all four. ,stfumentsi go
: ing at once The funniest thing abou
: Bombay and all India Is that they onl.
have one mail day a week, which i