The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-09


This city las ten gates. but the most
famous is the one before which we now
stand. and !; IS called Cashmere gate.
Write the wordSin red ink. because Of
the carnage Write them in letters ot
light. for the illuStrious deeds. Write
them IN letters Of black. for the bercft
and the dead. VIII the world ever
forget that Cashmere gate! Lieuten-
ants Salkeld and Home and Sergcants
Burgess. Carmichael and Smith offer
ed to take bags of powder to the foot
of that gate and set them on ire,
blowing open the gate, although they
must die in doing it. There they go,
Just after sunrise. each one carrying
a sack containing u pounds OF pow.
der and doing this under the tire OF
the enemy. Lieutenant Home was
the first to jump into tie ditch. which
still remains before the gate. rs theE
90 one By one falls under the shot ana
shell. One of the mortallE wounded
as he falls hands his sack OF powder
with a box Of Iuc;tcr matches. to an
other. telling him to fire the sack, When
with an explosion that shook the earth
for 20milcs around part of the Cash
mere gate Was blown into fragments,
and the bodies OF some of these heroes
were 50 scattered they We're neve,
gathered for funeral or grave or mon,
ument. The British army rushed in
through the broken gate, and although
six days of hard fighting were nccessa.
~ before the city was III complete
possession the crisis was past. The
Cashmere gate open. the capture OF
Delhi anda it contained of palaces
and mosques and treasures was posi-
be.
Lord Napier OF 1Iagdala has lifted q
monument near this Cashmere gate
with the names Of the men who there
fell Inscribed thereon. That English
lord. who had seen courage on many
a battlefield. visited this Cashmere
gateand felt that the men who opened
il with the loss of ,hci@own lives o0ght
to be conlnemorated and hence this
cenotarh. But. after all, the best
monument is the gate itself, with the
deep cougeS IN the brick wall on the
left hand side made by the two bomb
shells. and the wall above torn by ten
bombshells and the wall on the right
side dcfaced. and scarped and piowed
and quilted by all styles Of long reach
ing weaponrr Let the word CASH
mere cate. Is a SEHOnym for patriot.
ism and fcarl@SSneSS and self sacrifice,
60 into all history al art, all litera-
.ture. all time, all eternity. Ny friends
that kind Of courage Sauctitied VIII Yet
take the whole earth for God. Indeed
the missionaries now at Delhi telling
amid heathenism and fever and chol,
era and far away from home and com,
fort and staying there until they drop
into their graves are just as brave III
taking Delhi for Christ as were Alch-
olson and Home and Carmichael N
taking Delhi for Great Britain Take
this for the first scrmonic lesson.
Another ,hing YOU must see II you
90 70 Delhi though YOU leave many
things unseen. is the palace of the mo,
guls. II is an incloSure !, 600 yards by
500. You enter through vau!ted
hall nearly 400 feet long. Floors OF
Florentine mosaic and walls once en-
GRADED and sapphired and carbuncled
and diamoned. | said to the guide,
SHOW us where once stood the pea
cock throne" Here it was, he re-
sponded. Al thethroneS of the earth
put together would not equal that for
costlineSs and briiliance 1t had steps
of silver, and the seat and arms were
of solid gold. 1t cost about $50, ,000,-
600. 1t stood between two peacocks,
the feathers and plumes Of which were
fashioned out of colored stones.
Above the throne was life size par
rot cut out of one emerald. Above
all wasa canopy restingon l2columns
OF gold, the canopy fringed with
pearls. Seated here, the emperor on
public occasions Wore acrown contain
ing among other things the kohinoor
diamond. and the entire blaze of coro-
net cost SO, $50, 900. This superb and
once almost supernaturally beautiful
rooa has imbedded in the white mar
bic wall letters Of black marble which
were translated to me from Persian
into English as meaning:
If on earth there be an Eden of bliss,
That place is this, is this, is this, is this.
But the peacocks that stood beside
the throne have flow away, taking
all the display with them, and those
white marble floors were reddened
with slaughter, and those bathrooms
ran with blood, and that Eden of
which the Persian couplet on the wall
spake has had its flowers wither and
its fruits decay. and I thought while
looking at the brilliant desolation and
standing amid the vanished glories Of
that throneroom that some one had
better change a little that Persian
couplet on the wall and make it read !:
If there be pace where much you miss,
That place is this, is this, is this. is this.
AS came out of the palace into the
street of Delhi l thought to myself:
ParadiSes are not built out of stone,
are not cut in sculpture are not paint
6C on N3klS, are IOs idSiloI!cti OlI VI
precious stones, donot spray the check
with fountains. do. not offer thrones
or crowns. ParadiseS are built out of
natures uplifted and ennobled, and
what architects compass may not
sweep, and sculptor chisel may not
cut. and painters pencil may not
sketch, and gardeners skill may not
lay out. the grace of God can achieve,
and if the heart be right all is right.
and if the heart be wrong all is wrong
Here endeth the second lesson.
ButI viii not yeiallow YOU to leave
Delhi. The third thing YOU must see
or never admit iiiat YOU have been IN
Indiais the mosque called. .JUmma Nu-
sud. t is the Grandest mosque ever
saw except St. Sophia at Constantine
pie, bat il slupasscs that il some re
spects, for St. Sophia was originally a
Christian church and changed into q
mosque. While this Of Delhi was orig
inallv built for the NoSleIas.