Democratic messenger., 1895-01-05
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seemed 10 be exchanged for the voices
that welcomed soldiers home again.
And rs the morning light got brighter
and brighter. and in my dream | mis-
took the bells at a station for church
bell hanging in a minaret, where a Mo
hammedan priest had mumbled his call
TO prayer, seemed 20 hear chant,
whether by human or angelic voices in
my dream could not tell, but it was
chant about peace and good will TO
men. " And as the speed Of the rail train
slackened the motion Of the car became
so easy as we rolled along the track that
it seemed 10 me that all the distress
and controversy and jolting and wars Of
the world had ceased, and IN my dream
| thoucht we rad come TO the time
when ''the ransomed OF the Lord shall
return and come 10 Zion with songs and
everlasting joy upon their heads. and
sorrow and signing shall fee away. p"
The City Of Amber.
Halt here at what you have never
seen before. a depopulated city. the city
of Amber, India
The strange fact is that n ruler aban-
doned his palaces at Amber and moved
20 Jaipur. and all the inhabitants of
the city followed. Except here and there
honse in Amber occupied by her
nit the city is as silent a population
as Pompeii or Herculaneum, but those
cities We're emptied by volcanic disaster.
while this ETY. Of Amber was vacated
because Prince JOY Singh was told by a
Hindoo priest that no city should be in
hahitcd more than l, 900 years, and so
the ruler l10 years ago moved ont him
self and all his people moved with him.
You visit Amber on the back Of an
elephant. Permission obtained for your
visit the day before at Jaipur, an ele-
phant is III waiting for you abont six
miles out to take You up the sleeps 20
Amber You pass through the awfully
quiet streets. al, the feet that trod them
in the days Of their activity having
gone on the long journey and the voices
of busino-s and gayety that sounded
amid q abodes having long ago ut
tered their last syllable You pass by
lake covering 500 acres. where the ra-
jahs used 10 sail in their pleasure boats,
but alligators now have full possession.
and you come TO tho abandoned palace.
which is an enchantment No more pic
iuresque place was ever chosen for the
residence Of monarch. The fortress
above looks down upon this palace, and
the palace looks down upon lake This
monarchial abode may have had attrac-
items when il was tho home Of royalty
ht,r
tho silence of many years and opportu-
nifty 10 tread where once you would not
have been permitted to tread may be an
addition quite equal 10 the subtraction.
An Abandoned City.
will not go far into a description os
hrazen doorway after brazen doorway.
and carved room after carved room, and
lead you under embellished ceiling aft
or cmhellished ceiling. and through halls
precious stoned into wider halls precious
stoned. Why tire out your imagination
with the particulars when you may sum
up oil by saying that on the slopes Of
that hill Of India are pavilions deeply
dyed, tasSeled and arched; the fire Of
colored gardens cooled by the Snow Of
white architecture; bathrooms that re-
fresh before your feet touch their mar
bic; birds in arabesque so natural TO
life that while you cannot hear their
voices you imagine you see the fiutter
of their wings as you are passing; stone
ware translucent; walls pictured with
hunting scene. and triumphal process
zion ard jousting party; rooms that
were called "alcovc Of light" and
court OF honor. " and hall of victory"
marble. white and black. like mixture
Of morning and night; alabaster and lac.
quer work and mother of pearl. All
that architecture and sculpture and
painting aud horticulture can do when
they put their genius together was done
here i'll ages past, and much Of their
work still stands 10 absorb and entrance
archaOlogist and sightseer.
but what IA solemn and stupendoGs
thing Is an abandoned cityi While
many Of the peoples Of earth have no
roof for their head. here is whole city
Of roofs rejected. The sand Of the desert
was sufficient excuse for the disappear
aHce of Heliopolis. and the waters of
the Mediterranean sea for the engulf-
ittHt q Nff, anu tNt 4AN1@A4sa4etetiiS
Vesuvias for the obliteratioyr -
laneuIn. but for the sake Of not.s.us but
a supcrstit;ous whim the city Of Amber
is abandoned forever Oh. wondrous In
dia! The city Of Amber is only one Of
the marvels which compel the uplifted
hand Of surprise from the day you enter
India until you leave it, Its flora is 50
fiamboyant, its fauna so monstrous and
savage. its ruins so suggestive. its idol.
airy 50 horrible, its degradation SO sick
ening. its mineralogy so brilliant. its
splendors so uplifting. its architecture
50 old. so grand, so educational, so mul-
;ipo:ent that India will not be fully
comprehended until science has made
its last experiment. and exploration has
ended its last journey. and the library
If the worlds literature has closed its
last door, and Christianity has made its
,ast achievement, and the clock Of time
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