Connecticut western news., 1895-01-03

stone of the floor is feet long hy le wide, and each worshiper has one of these slabs for himself while kneeling The erection of this building required 5,0Qo laborers for six years. It is on a plateau of rock; has four towers rising far into tho heavens; three great gate ways inviting the world to come in and honor the memory of the prophet of many wives; l5 domes, with spires gold tipped, and six minarets. What built up immensity of white marble and red sandstone? We descended the 40 mar ble steps by which we ascended and took another look at this wonder of tine world
 AS thought what brain the archi tect must have had who first buil6 that mosque in his own imagination, and as 1 thought what an opulent ruler that must havo been who gave the order for such vastness and symmetry, l was re minded of that which perfectly explain ed all The architect who planned this was the same man who planned the Taj-namely, Austin de Bordeau-and the king who ordered the mosque cen structed was tho king who ordered the Taj-namely, Shah Jehan. As this grand mogul ordered built tho most splendid palace for the dead when he built the Taj at Agra, he here ordered built the most splendid palace of wor- ship for the living at Delhi. See here what sculpture and architecture can ac- complish. They link together the cen turies. They successfully defy time. Two hundred and eighty years ago Aus tin de Bordeau and Shah Jehan quit this life, but their work lives and bids fair to stand until the continents crack open, and hemispheres go down, and this planet showers other worlds with it's ashes.
 l rejoice in all these big buildings, whether dedicated to Mohammed or Brahma or Buddha or Confucius or Zo- roaster, because as St. Sophia at Constan- tinople was Christian church chang ed into a mosque and will yet be chang ed back again, so all the mosques and temples of superstition and sin will yet be turned into churches When India and Ceylon and China and Japan are ransomed, as we all believe they will be, their religious structures will all be converted into Christian asylums, and Christian schools, and Christian libra ries, and Christian churches Built at the expense of superstition and sin, they will yet be dedicated to the Lord Almighty. Here endeth the third lesson
 Under the English Flag.
 As that night we took tho railroad train from the Delhi station and rolled out through the city now living over the vaster cities buried under this an- cient capital, cities under cities, and our travelling servant had unrolled our bed, which consisted of rug and two blankets and pillow, and as we were worn out with the sightseeing of the day, and were roughly tossed on that uneven Indian railway, soon fell into a troubled sleep in which I saw and heard in q confused way the scenes and sounds of the nutiny of 1857, which at Delhi wo had been accounting, and now the rattle of the train seemed to turn into the rattle of musketry, and now the light at the top of the car deluded me with the idea of burning city, and then the loud thump of the railroad brake was in dream mistaken for a booming battery, and the voices at the different stations made me think heard the loud cheer of the British at the taking of the Cashmere gate, and as we rolled over bridges the battles be- fore Delhi seemed going on, and as we went through dark tunnels l seemed to see the tomb of Humayun in which the king of Delhi was hidden, and in my dreams saw Lieutenant Kenny of the artillery throwing shells which were handed to him, their fuses burning, and Campbell and Reid and Hope Grant covered with blood, and Nicholson fall ing while rallying on the wall his way ering troops, and I saw dead regiment fallen across dead regiment, and heard the rataplan of the hoofs of Hodgson' 's horse, and the dash of the Bengal artil- lery, and the storming by the immortal fourth column, and the rougher the In dian railway became and the darker tho night grew the more the scenes that I had been studying at Delhi came on me | like an incubus But the morning be- gan to look through the window of our | jolting railcar, and the sunlight poured ill on my pillow, and in my dreams | saw the bright colors of the English | flag 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.
 1 And as the morning ligAt got brighter and brighter, and in my dream mis- | took the bells at station for church | bell hanging in minaret, where Mo hammedan priest had mumbled his call to prayer, I seemed to hear chant, whether by human or angelic voices in {, my dream could not tell, but 1t was a chant about peace and good will to men. D" And as the speed of the rail train | slackenod the motion of the car became so easy as we rolled along tho track that | it seemed to me that all the distress and controversy and jolting and wars of i the world had ceased, and in my dream ! I thought we had come to the time when "the ransomed of the Lord shall i return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, and sorrow and signing shall flee away" | a-4-g Tho City of Amber.
 Halt here at what you have never seen before, Q depopulated city, the city i of Amber, India.
 The strange fact is that ruler aban, doned his palaces at Amber and moved to Jaipur, and all the inhabitants o1 the city followed. Except here and there house in Amber occupied by her. init, the city is as silent a population as Pompeii or Herculaneum, but those cities were emptied by volcanic disaster, while this cty of Amber was vacated because Prince Joy Singh was told by 8 Hindoo priest that no city should be in. I hahited more than l 1000 years, and SC the ruler ITO years ago moved out him self, and all his people moved with him.
 You visit Amber on the back of al