News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-01-03
seeme1 to be exchanged for the voice.

tntat welcomed SOldlefS nome ayJln
AID az the mornins light got brighter
and brighter, and III ny dream | mis-
took the bells at station for church
bell hanging il 2 minaret, where q Mo
hammcdal priest had mumblcd his call
to prayer, | timed to hear a chant,
whether by human or angelic voices in
my dream ! could not tell, but it was a
chant about ''pcace 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 TO me that }all the distress
and controversy and joIting and wars of
the world had ceased and in my dream
/ thought we had come to the time
when 'the ransomed of the Lord shall
return and come to Zion with songs and
everlasting joy upon their heads, and
sorrow and signing shall flee away"
The City of Amber.
Halt here at what you have never
seen before. depopulated city, the city
Of Amber, India
The strange fact is that q ruler aban-
doned his palaces at Amber and moved
to Jaipur, and all the inhabitants of
the city followed. Except here and there
q house in Amber occupied by her
NIT, the city is as silent a population
as Pompcii or Herculaneum, but those
cities were emptied by volcanic disaster,
while this city of Amber was vacated
because Prince Joy Singh was told by a
HInhpn tbn+ rJt chn,,l1 no IN,
habited moro than / 600 years, and so
tho ruler 10 years ago moved out 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-
plant is in waiting for you about six
miles out to take you up the sleeps to
Amber. You pass through the awfully
quiet streets, all the feet that trod them
in the days of their activity having
gone on the long journey and the voices
Of business and gayety that sounded
amid these abodes having long ago ut
tered their last syllable. You pass by q
lake covering 500 acres, where the ra-
jahs used to sail in their pleasure boats,
but alligatOrs now have full possession,
and you come to the abandoned palace
which is an enChantmCnt. No more pic
turesquo 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-
lions when it was the homo Of royalty
which have vanished but antiquity and
the silence of many years and opportu-
nifty to tread where once you would not
have been permitted to tread may be an
addition quite equal to the subtraction.
An Abandoned City.
will not go far into description Of
brazen doorway after brazen doorway,
aud carved room after carved room, and
lead you under embellished ceiling aft
er embellished ceiling, and through halls
precious stoned into wider halls precious
stoned. Why tire out your imagination
with the particulars when you may sum
up all by saying that on the slopes Of
that hill of India are pavilions deeply
dyed, tasseled and arched; the fire Of
colorcd gardens cooled by the snow of
white architecture bathrooms that 70.
fresh before your feet touch their mar
BILE; birds in arGbcsquo so natural to
life that WiI-IU you cannot hear their
voices you imagine you see the hutter
Ct t-eir wings as you are passing; stone
ware translucent; walls pictured with
hunting scene, and triumphal process
sion and jousting party; rooms that
were called 'alcoyo Of light, - and
court Of honor and hall Of victory"
marble, white ard black, like q mixture
ofmolning and night; alabastcr and lac
qucr work and mother of pearl All
hat architecture and sculpture and
painting and horticulture can do when
they put their genius together was done
here III age past and much Of their
work still Stands t. absorb and entrance
archnologisr and eightsccr.
But what i solemn ana stupondOus
thing is al abandoned city, While
many Of tho peoples Of earth have no
roof for thei. head, hero is a whole city
of roofs rejected. The sand Of tho desert
was sufficient excuse for the disappear
anco of HcliopniiE, and the waters of
tho Mediterranean sea for the cngulf-
ment Of Tyre. and tho lava Of Mount
Vesuyius for tho obiteration Of Hercu-
laneum, but for the sake Of nothing but
superstitious whim the city of Amber
Is aband med forever oh Wuudrous In
dia! The citv of Amber is only one Of
tho marvels which compel the uplifted
hand of surprise from the day you enter
India until you leave it. Its fora is so
damboyant, its fauna so monstrous anG
savage, itsruins so Suggestive, its idol
airy SO horrible, its degradation 50 sick
ening, its mineralogy so brilliant, its
splendors SO uplifting, it's architecture
so old, so grand, soaeducational, so null
tipotent, that India will not be fully
comprehended until science has made
its last experiment and exploration has
ended its last journey, and the library
of tho worlds literature has closed its
last door, anG Christianity has made its
last achievement, and the clock of time
has struck IT'S last hour.
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