The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-11
AMONG RUINS
Rev. DIR. Talo'ase Pays Visit TO the
City Of Delhi, India.
He Graphically Describes Wrecked Tenn
pies. Breken Fortresses and the Ruins
OF Cenfuries-A Continuation Of tbs
"Around tho World" SerEn6hs.

HlOAE1GG
and robbery in their palaces"
Ia this day, when vast sums of money
are being given for the redemption of
India, hope to increase the interest in
that great cepntry and at the same
time draw Tor all classes of our people
practical lessons, and SO present this
fifth sermon in the round the world
series. We step into the ancient cap
ital of India, the mere pronunciation
OF ito name sending thrill through
the body, mind and soul of all those
who have ever read its stories of splen-
dor and disaster and proweSs-Delht
Before the first historian impressed
his first word in clay, or cut his first
word on marble or wrote his first
word on papyrus, Delhi stood in India,
contemporary Of Babylon and Nine
veh We Know that Delhi existed
longer before Christ's time than we
live after his time. Delhi is built on
the ruins of several cities, which ruins
cover forty miles, with wrecked tenn
pies, broken fortresses, split tombs,
tumble-dovn palaces and the debris of
centuries. An archeologist could
probably spend his life here, talking
with the past through its lips Of veneer
able masonry.
There are hundred Things here you
ought to see in tnis city of Delhi. but
three things you must see. The first
thipss WANTED to see was the Cashmere
gate, for that was the point at which
the most wonderful deed OF daring
which the world has ever seen was doRe.
That was the turning peiRt of the mu-
tiny of 1867 A lady at Delhi put into
my hahd an oil painting of about
eighteen inches square, a picture we'll
executed, but chiefly valuable for
what it represented. It was a
scene from the time of inutiny; two
horses at full run, harn6ssad to
a carriage in whieh were four
persons. SHE said: ''Those per-
sons On the front seat are nv
father and mother. The young lady
ON the back seat holding in her
arms baby of a year was MY
older sister, and the baby was
myself My mother, who is down with
FEVER iii the next room, painted that
years ago. Tue horses are in full run
because we are fleeing for our lives.
My mother is driving, for the reason
that father, standing UP in the front az
his carriage. had to defend Us with his
gun, as you there see. He fought our
way out and on for many mile, shoot
ing down the Sepoys as we went, We
had somewhat suspected trouble and
had become suspicious of our servants.
a prince had requested private inter-
view with my father. who was editor
of the Delhi Gazette. The prince pro-
posed to come yelled, so that no one
might recognize him, but my mother
insisted on being present and the ins
teryiew did not take place, 4 large
fish had been sent to our family and
four other families, the present an Of
fering of thanks for the kings recov-
cry from a recent sickness. But We
suspected poison and did not eat the
fish.
One day all servants came UP aud
said they must 90 and sEe what was
the matter We saw what was intend
ed and knew that if the servants re-
turned they would murder all of Us.
Things grew worse and worse until
this scene of fight shown in the pie-
turc took place. You sec, the horses
were wild with fright. This was not
only because of the discharge of guns,
but the horses were struck and pound
cd by Sepoys, and ropes were tied
across the way, and the savage halluo
and the shout of revenge made all the
way our fight horror"
The books have fully recorded the
heroism displayed at Delhi and approx
innate regions, but made no mention Of
this family of Wagentreibsrs whose
fight am mentioning. But the Mad
ras Athencum printed this: -
And now! Are not the deeds of the
Wagentriebers, though he wore ROUND
hat and she a crinoline, as worthy of
imperishable verse as those of the he
roic pair whose nuptiaIs graced the
court of Charlemagne? A more touch
ing picture than that of the brave man
contending with well nerved arm
against the black and threatening fate
impending over his wife and child we
have never seen. Here was no strife for
the glory of physical prowess or the
spoil of shining arms, but a conquest of
the human mind, an assertion of the
powers of intellect over the most ap-
pallinS array of circumstances that
could assail a human being. Men have
become gray in front of sudden and
unexpected peril, and in ancient days
so much was courage "a matter of hero
icH and mere instinct that we read in
immortal verse of heroes struck with
panic and fleeing before the enemy.
But the savage Sepoys, with their
hoarse war-cry and swarming like
wasps around the W3gentriebers,
struck no terror into the brave mans
heart His heroism was not the mere
ebullition of despair, but, like that of
his wife, calm and wise; standing up
right that he might use his arms bet
ter"
As an incident will sometimes more
Impress one than generality of state
lnent, 1 present the fight of this one
family from Delhi merely 20 illustrate
the desperation of the times, The fact
was that the Sepoys had taken posses
sion of the city of Delhi, and they we're,
with all their artillery, lighting back
the Europeans who were on the outside
and numbering all the Europeans who
were inside. The city of Delhi has a
crenulated wall on three sides, a wall
90 miles long, and the fourth side of
the city Is defended by the river Jum-
ma In addition TO these two defenses
OF wall and water there were 10000
Sercys, all armed. Twelve hundred
Brush soldiers were to take that city.
Nicholson, the immortal general. com
mandsd them, and you must visit his
grave before you leave Delhi. He fell