The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-11


Tended by 4e.0e3 foaming Sepoys. A
larger pefcentage of troops fell here
Than in any great battle l happen 50
know of. The Crimean percentage of
the fallen was A. -. but the percentage
of Delhi was $40. Yet that city must
De taken, and it can only be taken Jay
such courage as had never been secord-
ed in all the annals e bloodshed. Ev-
cry charge OF the British regiments
against the walls and gates had been
beaten back. The hyenas OF Hindoo-
ism and MohammedaniSm howled over
the walls, and the English army could
do nothing but bury their own dead.
But at this gate stand aud wafeA al
exploit that makes this page OF history
tremble with agitation.
Fhis city has ten gates, but the most
famous is the one before which we now
stand, and it is called Cashmere gate.
Write the words in red iD|I becahse of
the carnage. Write thetn in letters of
light for tho illustrious deeds. Write
them I'd letters of black. for the hei%et3ttv
and the dead wit tie world ever
forget that cashmere gate? Lieut..
EalHeld and Home and Sergts. Bur-
CESS, Carmichael and Smith offered to
take bags of powder to the fo5t of that
gate and set them on Hre, blowing open
the gate, although they must die in
doing it. There they go just after
sunrise, each one carrying I sack con-
tanning "a pounds OF powder, and doing
this Under the fire of the enemy.
Lieut.. Home was the first to jump
into the ditch, which still remains be-
fore the gate. As they go, one by one
falls under the shot and she'll. One of
the mortally wcGnded as be fails
hands his sack of pewter with box of
itlcifer instehes to another. telling him
10 fire the sack, when, with an cxplo-
sion that shook the earth for 90 miles
around, part of the Cashmere gate was
blown to fragments, and the bodies 6f
soine OF these heroes were 50 scattered
they were never gathered for funeral
Or grave or monument. The British
army rushed in through the broken
gate, and although six days OF hard
lighting were necessary before The city
was IN eotnplete possession the crisis
was past. The Cashmere gate open,
the capture of Delhi and all it con-
tained Of paletes and mosques and
treasures was possible.
Lord Napier, of Magdala. of whom
Mr. Gladstone spoke to me so affection
ately when l was his guest at Harvard
en-, Eng, has lifted a monument hear
this Cashmere gate. with the naines of
the men Whe there fell inscribed there
5h. That English lord, who had seen
courage on many battlefield, visited
this Cashmere gate end felt that the
men who opened it with the loss of
their own lives ought to be cornmemo-
GRATED, aid hence this eehotaph. But,
after all, tha best monument is the
gate itself, with the deep gouges
in the brick wall on the left
side made by two bonn bsheils;
and the wall above torn BY tBn bomb
shells, and tie wall on the right
side defaced and scraped and plowed
and quilted by all styles of long reach
ing weaponry. Let the words Cash
mere gate" as a synonym for patriot
ism and fcarlessness and self sacrifice;
go into all history, all art, ali litera-
ture, all time. all eternity. My friends,
that Kind of courage sanctified will yet
take the whole earth for God. Indeed
the missionaries now at DELHI, toiling
amid heathenism and fcv5f nud th0is
era, and far away from home and COM
fCft, and staying there until they drop
into their graves, are Just as brave in
taking Delhi for Christ as were Nichol-
son and Home and Carmichael in TAX
ing Delhi for Great Britain. Take this
for the first sermonic lesson,
Another thing you must see if you GO
TO Delhi, though YOU leave many
things unseen, is tho palace of the mo.
guls. 1t is an Enclosure one thousand
yards by five hundred. You enter
through a vaulted hall nearly four
tine mosaic. and walls once eInefalded
and sapphired and carbtincled and dia-
monded. l said to the guide; "Show us
where once stood the peacock throne"
Here it was" he responded. All the
thrones of the earth put together
would not equal that fof costiiness
di1d bfilliance. 1t had steps of sill
yer, and the seat and arms were of
solid gold. 1T cost about $50, 600, oee.
1t stood between tho reacocl1s,
the feathers and plumes of which
were fashioned out of colored
stones. Above the throne was Il
life size parrot eat out OF one emerald,
Above all was canopy resting on IL
columns of gold. the canopy fringed
with pearls. Seated here, the emperor
on public occasions wore a crown con-
tanning, among other things, the koh'
moor diamond, ahd the entire blaze of
ecrohet cost go, 100000. This superb
and once almost supernaturally beau
tiful room has Undecided in the white
marble wall letters of black marble,
which were translat ted to me from Per
sian into English as meaning:
il on earth there be All Edeh 81 bliss.
That Place Is this, is this, is this, is t!is.
But the peacocks that stood beside
the throne have flown away, taking all
the display with them. and those white
marble floors were redeemed with
slaughter, and those bath rooms ran
with blood, and that Eden of whirh the
persian couplet on the walls spake
has had its flowers wither and It's fruits
decay, and thought while looking at
the brilliant desolation and standing
amid the vanished glories of that
throne.loofn that some one had better
change little that Persian e0tplet on
the wall and make it read:
If there be place where much you miss,
That place is this, is this, is tAis IS this.
AS came out of the palace into the
street of Delhi, l thought to myself