The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-31
IVORY SOAP.

scenes that had been studying at
Delhi came on me like an incubus But
the morning began to look through the
window of our jolting rail-car. and the
sunlight poured in on my pillow, and
in my dreams I saw the bright colors OF
the English nag hoisted over Delhi, where
the green banner of the Moslem had
waved, and the voices of the wounded and
dying seemed to be exchanged for the
voices that welcomed soldiers home again.
And as the morning light got brighter and
brighter, and in my dream l mistook the
bells a a station for q churchbell hanging
in a minareT, where / Mohammedan priest
had mumbled his call 10 prayer seemed
to hear chant, whether by human or an
gelic voices in my dream | could not tell,
but IL was chant about Peace and good
will to men" And as the speed Of the rail-
train slackened the motion of the car be-
came 50 easy as We rolled along the track
that ii seemed to me that all the distress.
and controversy, and jolting. and wars of
the world had ceased, and in my dream 1
thought we had come to the time when
The ransomed Of the Lord shall return
ana come to Zion with songs and everlast-
ing JOY upon their heads; and sorrow and
signing shall fee away"
Halt there at what you have never seen
before, a depopulated city. the city of Am
Der, India.
The strange fact is that a ruler aban-
doned his palaces at Amber and moved to
JeypOre. and all the inhabitants Of the
city followed. Except here and there
house i'm Amber occupied by a hermit. tho
city is as silent q population as Pompeii OF
Hereulaneun; but those cities were emp
tied by volcanic disaster while this city
of Amber was vacated because Prince JOY
Singh was told by Hindoo priest that no
city should be Inhabited more than thou
sand years and so the ruler one hundred
and all his people moved with bin.
You visit Amber on the back Of an
elephant. Permission obtained for Your
visit the day before at Jeypore. an ele-
plant is in waiting for you about six miles
out TO take YOU up the sleeps to Amber
You pass through the awfully quiet streets
all the feet that trod them IN the days
of their activity having gone on the long
journey, and the voices Of business and
gaiety that sounded amid these abodes
having long ago uttered their last sylla-
BILE You pass by a. lake covering five hum
dred acres, where the rajahs used 10 sail
in their pleasure boats. but alligators now
have fun possession, and you come to The
abandoned palace. which is an enChant-
meut. no more picturesque place was ever
I chosen for the residence OF a monarch.
I The fortress above looks down upon this
palace, and the palace looks down upon
lake. This mOnarchisl abode may have
had attractions, when IL was the home OF
( royalty. which have vanished. but antiq-
uity and the silence of many years, and OPP
/ portunity to tread, where once you would
not have been permitted to tread. NAV be
/ an addition quite equal to the subtraction.
! will not so far into . description OF
/ brazen doorway after brazen doorway.
! and carved room after carved room. and
lead you under emhelished ceiling after
embellshed ceiling, ana through halls
precious-stoned into wider halls precious
IN Hfgsrn
with the particulars, when YOU may
sum up all by saying that on the slopes
of that hill of India are psvilons deeply
dyed, tasseled and arched. the fire of col
ored gardens cooled by the snow of white
architecture; bathrooms that refresh be
fore your feet touch their marbles; birds
in arabesque so natural to life. that
while you cannot hear their voices, you
imagine YOU sac the dUtter OF their
wings as sou are passing; stoneware
translucent; walls pictured with hunt
7 ing scene, and triumphal procession, and
I iousting party: rooms that We're called
( "Alcove of Light and Court of Hon
/ or" and Hall of Victory" marble, white
/ and black, like q mixture of morning
and night: alabaster. and lacquer-wOrk,
and mother of-pearl; ell that architec
4 ture. and sculpture. and painting, and
horticulture can do when they put their
genius together was done here in ages
past and much of their work still stands
/ to absorb and entrance archaeolog{st and
/ sight-seer But what O solemn and stu
( pendous thing is an abandoned city.
/ While many of the peoples 81 earth have
no roof for their head, here is whole
/ city of roofs rejected. The sand of the
/ desert was sufficient excuse for tho dis
/ appearance of Heliopolis, and the waters
/ of the Mediterranean sea for the engulf-
ment of Tyre and the lava OF Mount
Nesuvius for the obliterstion CT Hercu-
laneum: but for the sake of nothing but
I a superstitious whim the city of Am
/ Der is abandoned forever. Oh, Won
/ drous India, The city of Amber is only
one of the marvels which compel the up
! lifted hand of surprise from the day you
/ enter India until you leave it. Its flora
/ is so fiamboyant; its fauna so monstrous
and savage; its ruins so suggestive; its
/ idolatry so horrible its degradation so
/ sickening; its mineralogy so brilliant; its
( splendors so uplifting; its architecture
! so old. so grand. so educational. so null
/ tipotent. that India will not be fully COM
/ pretended until science has made its last
| experiment, and exploration has ended
| its last journey. and the library of the
/ worlds literature has closed its last
! door, and Christianity has made its last
| achievement and the Clock of Time has
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