Milford chronicle., 1895-01-11


whole of the Koran is spelled out In an
on this august pile. The king sleeps
tic tcmD beside the queen, although b
iutenaed to build palace as black as thi
was white on the opposite side Of the rive
for himself 10 sleep in. Indeed the foun
dation Of such a metropolis Of black mal
bic is still there, and from the white t
the black temple Of the dead bridge wa
to cross, but the son dethroned him an,
imprisoned him, and it is wonderful tina
the king had any place at all in which t
be buried Instead of windows to let il
the light upon to two tombs there is
trellis work Of marblc-marblc cut so del
icatoly thin that the sun shines through
it as easily as through glass Look tho
world Overland find so much translucency-
canopies, traceries, lacework, embroideriei
Of stone
More Of It's Wonders.
We had heard Of the wonderful reson
ance of this Tai, and so I tried it. / sup
pose there are more sleeping echoes in that
building waiting to be Weakened by the
human voice than in any building ever
constructed l uttered one word, and
there seemed descending invisible choirs
in full chant, and there was a rcverbora-
have expected it to cease. When a line of
hymn was sung, there were replying,
rolling, rising, falling, Interviewing
sounds that seemed modulated by beings
scraphic. There were aerial sopranos and
bassos-soft high, deep, tremulous, emo
tional, commingling 1t was like an an
tiphonal Of heaven. But there are four or
five TAI Mahais. it has one appearance
nF mic ..
sunset and another by moonlight Indeed
the silver trewel of the moon, and the
golden trowel of the sunlight and the
leaden trowel Of the storm build and re-
build the glory, so that it never seems
twice alike. 1t has all moods, all com
plexioDs all grandeurs. From the top Of
the Tai, which is 25O feet high, springs a
spire 30 feet higher, and that is enameled
gold. What an anthem in eternal rhythml
Lyrics and elegies in marble. Sculptured
hosanna! Masonry as of supernatural
hands Mighty doxology in stonel 1
shall see nothing to equal it till I see the
great white throne and on it him from
whose face the earth and heavens flee
away
The Tai is the pride of India and espe-
1ially Of Mohammedanism An English
JAAANAA at NAAG ADAlLEa5 AUAu us EllaL MnGllt
Turing the general mutiny in 1857, the
Mohammedans proposed insurrection at
Agra the English government aimed the
guns of the fort at the Tai and said, You
make insurrectiOn, and that snme day we
will blow your Tai to atoms, and that
hreGt ended the disposition for mutiny at
Agra.
All to Cover a Handful of Dust.
But l thought while looking at that
,alace of the dead, IAN this constructed
o cover a handful of dust, but even that
handful has probably gone from the mau-
oleum." How much better it would have
een TO expend $50, 600, 00O which the Tai
Iahal cost, for the living What asylums
might have built for the sick, what
ouses for the homelessl What improve
lent our century has made upon other
in lifting in honor of the depart
4 memorial churches memorial hospitals,
memorial reading rooms, memorial observ-
tories. BY all possible means let us
eep the memory Of departed loved ones
'esh in mind, and let there be an appro-
riate headstone or monument in the Gem
cry but there is a dividing line between
cOmmemoratiun and wicked
Itravagance The Tai Mahal has its
ses as an architectural achievement,
'lipsing all other architecture, but as q
emOriIl of a departed wife and mother
EXPIRE sses no more than the plainest slab
many country graveyard. The best
onumont we can any Of US have built
It us when we are gone is in the memory
those whose sorrows we have a,leviatcd,
the wounds we have healed, in the
ndnesses we have done, in the ignorance
e have enlightened, in the recreant We
we reclaimed, in the souls we have
we'd. Such monument is built out of
aterial more lasting than marble or !
ONE and will stand amid the eternal /
lenders long after the Tai Mahal of In
a shall have gone down in the ruins of a /
lrld Of which it was the costliest adorn- s
ent But promised to show you not
ly tomb of India, but a unique heath
temple, and it is temple underground i
Elephanta Island.
With miners candle we had seen some y
ing of the underside Of Australia, as at a
mpie, and with guides torch we had
IN at different times something Of the II
derside Of America, as in Mammoth I
We, but we are now to enter one of the Il
red cellars Of India, commonly called /,
} Elephauta caves. We had it all to u
steam yacht that was to +.
Se us about 10 miles over the haTbor of \
mbay and between enchanted islands =
4 along shores whose curves and gulches p
pictured rocks gradually prepared the +,
nd for appreciation Of the most unique +,
'ctacle in India. The morning had been n,
] of thunder and lightning and deluge, h
the atmospheric agitations had ceased,
1 the cloudy ruins of the storm were
ed up in the heavens, huge enough and -
'kly purple enough to make the skies :
grandly picturesque as the earthly a.
merry amid which we moved After an u
IRIS cutting through the waters we came =
the long pier reaching from the island =
led Elephanta 1t is an island small se
girth, but 600 feet high 1t declines u
o the marshes of mangrove But the
ole island is one tangle of foliage on
verdure-convolvulu creeping the III
und, MOSES climbing the rocks, vines WI
wing the long arms Of the trees, red ST
yers here and there in the woods like Il
diary's torch trying to set the groves be
c, caotus Rnd acacia ESina us to ny
can most charm the belfOlder, trop- XII
bird meeting pertioolored butterfly it, th
giles planted the same summer the 5a
Id was born. We stepped out Of the
t amid enough natives to afford all the po
p we needed for landing and guidance id'
/ can be carried by coolies in an easy ba
il, or you can walk if you are blessed Up
two stout limbs, which the psalInist oh
lently lacked, or he would not have so We
reciated them when he said, The on
ay
taketh no pleasure in the legs Of a ste
l." We passed up some stone steps, wi
between the walls we saw awaiting th,
q cobra-one of those snakes which ba
It the traveltr ofttlmes IN India. Two po
he guides left the cobra dead by the we
side They must have been Moham- un
ans, for Hiudoos never kill that sacred lei
lie. rel
Down In the Caves.
nd now we come near the famous tenn
hewn from one rock of porphyry at
{ 500 years ago. On either side of the
+ temple is a chapel, these cut out Of pn
same stone. So vast was the under Oh
mo- and IN tba Hfudno xr-ac eo erranf tho sea