Connecticut western news., 1895-01-03

treeS3e anu tne DeDrls oI Ccnturfes-tAt the Cashmere Gate-The City of Amber. 4 Vivid wa-ld Picture.
 BROOKLYN, Dec. 30. 0.-Continuing his series of round the world sermons through the press, Rev. Dr. Talmage to- Gay chose for his subject Palaces In India," the text being Amos iii, 10, w ho store mp violence and robbery in their palaces.
 In this day. when vast sums of money are being given for the redemption of Intlia, hope to increase the interest in that great country and at the same time draw for all classes of our people praoti- cal lessons, and so I present this fifth sermon in .t.lo round the world series. We step into 'ihe ancient capital of India, the mere pronunciation of its name sending thrill through the body, ,nind and soul of all those W ho have ever read it's stories of splendor and disaster and prowess-- Delhi.
 Before the first historian impressed Lis first word in clay, or cut his first word on marble, or wrote his first word en papyrus, Delhi stood in India, con- | mporary Cf Babylon and Nineveh. We know that Delhi existed longer before Christ's time than we live after his tune. Delhi is built on the ruins of sev- en cities, which ruins cover 40 miles, with wrecked temples. broken fortresses, split toInbs, tumble down palaces and ae debris of centuries. An arohRologist eould profitably spend his life here talk ing with the past through its lips of venerable masonry.
 The utiny In India.
 There are , hundred things here you ought to see in this city of Delhi, but ,.see things you must see. The first thing wante,l to see was the Cashmere gate, for t'i;.t was tho point at which the most wmderfnl deed of daring which tho world has ever seen was done. That was the turning point of the mu- tiny of 1857. A lady at Delhi put into my hand an oil painting of about IS inches square, 2 picture we'll executed, but chiefly valuable for what it repre- sented. It was a scene from the time of ,sutiny; two horses at full run, har- Hessed to Q carriage in which were four persons. She said: Those persons on kise front side are my father and moth- sr. The young lady on the back seat holding in her arms baby of year was my older sister, and the baby was myself. My mother, who is down with fever in the next room, painted that years ago. The horses arc in full run because we are fleeing for our lives. My mother is driving, for the reason that father. standing up in the front of his carriage, had to defend us with his gun, as you there see. He fought our way out and on for many mile, shooting down the sepoys as we went. We had somewhat suspected trouble and had be- come suspicious of our servants. A prince had a private interview with my father. who was editor of the Delhi Gazette The prince proposed to come yelled, so that no one might recog Ai2e him, but my mother insisted on be- ing present, and the interview did not take place. A large fish had been sent to our family and four other families, the present an offering of thanks for the kings recovery from a recent sickness But we suspected poison and did not cat the fish,.
 One day all our servants came up and said they must go and see what was the paatter. We saw what was intended and knew that if the servants returned they would murder all of us. Things grew worse and worse until this scene ef flight shown you in the picture took place. You see, the horses were wild with fright This was not only because of the discharge of guns, but the horses were struck and pounded by sepoys, and ropes were tied across the way, and the savage halloo and the shout of revenge made all the way of our flight . horror.
 The Savage sepoys.
 The books have fully recorded tho he roistm displayed at Delhi and approxi- mate regions but made no mention of this. family of Waeentreibers whose flight am m-mentioning. But the Madras Asheneum printed this:
 And nowi Are not the deeds of the Wagentreibers, though he wore a round hat and she a orinoline, as worthy of imperishable verse as those of the he roio pair whose nuptials graced the court of Charlemagne? A more touch ing picture than that of the brave man contending with we'll nerved arm against the black and threatening fate impending over his wife and child we have pever 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- falling array of circumstances that could assail human being. Men have become gray in front of sudden and un- expected peril, and in ancient days so much was courage matter of heroics and mere instinct that we read in inn mortal 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 Wageutriebers, struck no terror into the brave mans heart. His heroism was not the mere ebullition of despair, but, like that of his wife, calm ana wise; standing upright that he might use his arms better.
 As an incident will sometimes more impress one than generality of state ment, present the flight of this one family from Delhi merely to illustrate the desperation of the times. The fact was that the sepoys had taken posses sion of the city of Delhi, and they were, with all their artillery, fighting back the Europeans who were on tho outside aud numbering all the Europeans who were inside. The city of Delhi has a crenulatcd wall on three sides, wall 5lf miles long. and the fourth sido ot tho city is defended by the river Jumna In addition to these two defenses of wall and water there were 40, 900 sc- poys, all armed. Twelve hundred Brit ish soldiers were to take that city. Eioholson. the immortal general, com