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whose rivalry he feared and who closed
h1s career prisoner of his rebtllious
son, has linked his name with solae of
the most beautiful structures evei con-
ceiyed by the mind of man. At Agra,
within the walls of his grandfather s
fort, he built the Pearl mosque, which
has been described as the purest;.
:loveliest house of prayer in existence
It is constructed OF milk-white marble.
and combines strength, simplicity and
grace. He also built the Gem mosque
at Delhi.
The fort at De'li was built by Shah.
chan, AID if 5 resemblance to the
| fort at Agra der rives him of credit for
originality. thai argument cannot be
raised against the palace within, for
I THIS IS untlyaled among palaces. The
marble baths, the jeweled bedcham-
berss: the pillared halls, the graceful
!! portlcos-all these abound in rich pro:
fusion. But it was upon the great hall
{ of private audience that he lavished
taste and wealth. The floor is. Of
polished marble, the pillars and the
arched ceiling Of polished marble in
( laid with precious stones, so set as to
form figures and flowers. Each square
inch of it speaks of patient toll and
skill, and the whole blends harmoni-
ouslf. L oI ILLS ulaSLiLccHC duultuCc
room he designed throne fit for the
chamber In which it stood. cit, was
called the peacock throne because it
was guarded by two peacoelzs with ex-
: banded tails ornamented with jewels
that reproduced the natural coors of
I the bird The throne itself was made
of gold, inlaid with diamonds. rubies
+ and emcralds. Over it was a, canopy
of gold festooned with pearls supported
1xy-+ al oil 1>1 4,
gems. On either side stood the orien-
tai emhlems of royalty, all umbrella,
: each; handle eight feet high and of
i solid gold, studded with diamonds, the
4 covers being of crimson velvet crusted
s; and fringed with magnificent pearls. -
Thus it was described 1t was too
tempting prize for greedy conquerors
to leave undisturbed and was carried
off some two centuries ago by a Persian
! Nadir Shah Shah Jehan, after con
i.templating this audience chamber and
throne, had inscribed upon the wall in
Persian characters a verse which has
been freely translated to read,
eff Oh earth an Eden of bliss +
It is this, it is this, it is this -
And yet, in view of his sad fate there
seems as much irony in the lines al
there was in the delicately. poised
scales of Justice which he had inlaidJ OF
ne,ofsthe walls Of his palace after ht
had put his relatives out of the way.,I
.<:}t~-# - i. + X ..s:.-.@& .
+. But Of all the works of art that cal
be traced to his genius, nothing com
pares with the tomb, the Tai Mahal
which he reared in honor of the best
beloved of his wives, Numtaj Maha]
! the Chosen of the Palace'' Til
building, unique among buildings an,
alone IN its class, has been described s
often that l know not how to speak o
| it without employing language alread
: hackneyed When [ was student a
college, l heard a lecturer describe thi
, wonderful tomb, and it was one of tn
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mound in beautiful park and is in
closed by stone screen. it was the
gift Of Lord and Lady Canning and
bears the following inscription:
Sacred to the perpetual memory of
great company >, Of Christian people,
chiefly women and children, who near
this spot were cruelty murdered by the
Pant, of Bithur, and cast, the dying
with the dead, into, the well below, on
the 18th day of July, 1851
There is also at Cawnpore, in an
other park, stately memorial church,
the inner walls of which are lined with
tablets containing the names Of British
soldiers who lost their lives during the
mutiny. . - -..:-.--.--,.... x ~. y
! :. Lucknow is not far from Cawnpore,
and here, too, the mutinyg has left its
scars and monuments. The Lucknow
residency, o now IAN ivysmantled rnin,
was the scene Of the great siege that
the 18th Of November. At the beginning
there were within the walls; 900 British
troops and officers, $50 volunteers, 700
native troops, 600 women and children
and ZOO non-combatant natives; total
about 5000. When relief came but
1000 remained. The night before. the
arrival of Sir Colin Campbell with re-
! ELECTROMAGNETIC, one VI : GuoE OcSACSOO, q
Scotch girl, dreamed f>4the coming of
relief and her dream gave risesto the
song SO familiar a generation ago.
'The Campbells Are, Coming. ~ i:
| There are III lucknow a number of
tombs, mosques and hui dings that gave
us our first glimpse of the ar chit cture
Eof the Mogul, en- perors7-7 domes
gigantic gateWaYs. and graceful nina
rets, stately colum and vaulted CALLER
les: The most IN &c 1esting Of the build
ings, Imambarah, built by: Assaf.ud
daulah, contains "a great hall more thar
$50 feet long and about fftY#feet il
breadth and height. On one 4sfae5of .ths
! court is a private mosque and son, the
other group of apartments g built
around a we'll as a protection against
the summer s, heat. From the top Of
the Imanrbarah one obtains an excel
lent view Of Lucknow and It's surround
ings. a. Z 49,. +
FeAa At Aligarh 7 found a great educa
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WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN SEES THE MOST WONDERFUL -.
FORTS, MOSQUES, PALACES AND TONES IN THE WORII
Described by Ihet
the Black Hole 81 Calcutta and the Pearl Mosque "Ihe 81
a Loveies House of Existence"

tower: erected near the close of the
twelfth century by one of the earliest
Mohamme dan Seonquerers after the cap
ture of Delhi The tower--a tower Of
victory--is 23S feet in height, AZ feet
in diameter at. the base and nine at
the top. 1T mas been described as one
of the architectural wonders of the
found respect for the mind that.
planned it. There are so many maui
scteums and mosques scattered over the
plains around Delhi that space forbids
particular description.
Within a century. after the death of
Mohammed, the Mosiems made an at
tack upon India, but it was 500 years
the great peninsula, Then for 500
more it was the scene of conflict be-
tween rival Moslems, until Timur
(Tamerlane, the Tartar) plundered it
and drenehed it with blood In all
these wars Delhi was the strategic
point, the natural capital OF, the north.
After Timur, came his desc endent of
the sixth generation, Babar, who con
solidateds the Indian empire by bravery,
tact and wisdom. q; He. is the first OF
the great NJ ogul, rulers, butts he. was so
ereignty that he was compelled to
leave the development Of the empire to
his descendants. His grandson, Akbar,
built three great forts, one at Alfalfa
| bad, to which reference has been made
in another article; another at Agra,
| which he made his capital, and the
third at Atok, still. farther north.
/. This was to be- his home, and here on, a
sandstone ridge overlooking the plain
he reared group Of buildings which
even now, tho deserted for two cen
turtles. attract tourists from all over the
! world While the material employed
is red sandstone, the, buildings are
models ;ofsbeauty as we'll as strength
and the minute and elaborate carvings
are masterpieces in their line. e.
T The. fort built by Akbar at Agra
/ while. not proof against modern mis-
siles, was inpregnable in its day, >ano
still bears testimony to the conctruc
tive genius Of the second Of the .Moguls
|! s Six miles from Agra, at Sihandra
stands the magnificent =. tomb, which
Akbar built, and where he rests. y
t is constructed of red sandstone and i:
part: Budd hists and part Saracenic. il
/ design. 81 The base is 800. feet square
and it's four retreating galleries terml
nate in asroofiess court,of white marble
in (which stands "a marble. casket sur
Grounded. by screens of marble most ex
4 duisitelys carved. Special interest j
felt ainStthis, tomb because one sof it
I ornaments was the famous Kohinoo
diamond, the largest in the world. I
had come down to Akbar, from hi
!, grandfather, who had in turn secured i
from the Raiputs. The diamond wa
carried away by Persian conqueror
and later was returned to India, onl..
to be transferred at last to rQuee,
Victoria. .zls.yyg 49, -, T..
But if AkbaEe surpassed his grand
father as a builder, he was in turn SUI
passed by his grandson, Shah Jehar
This. emperor the last of the grea
Moguls, who began his career by mu,
dering his, two brothers and two cousin
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For Mechanical Purposes.

In rural Maine, when one has an
especially hard OF disagreeable task to
perform, he Ecalls in the neighbors. -
At such times the host must provide
abundant refreshments, both nourish-
ing and Intoxicating. Often the. host
has trouble to find the intoaicants,
Maine being a droughty state. This
was ClanceY's dilemma when he en-
tered the city agency at Bangor.
Straight in front Of him sign hung:
Liquor Sold for Use in Sickness or
for Mechanical Purposes Only.'
II want two gallons. of rum, ~. he
announced. s1 .: .~, : ~
The agent pointed. YEARLY to the
sign. -
u saw that" said Clancy. GIVE
been reading
9 Are you sick?' 49,.
|; "No'
Got a prescription"
! - No - 5
=. What do you want it fora" que
Eried the agent. s,.@ :.,s.
Got to. have it, replied Clancy
Echeerfully, "sfor mechanical purposes
m going to raise a barn. w. NJ
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He obeyed Orders Strictly.

An old. rich bachelor, who never
Could keep his servants, asked one re,
Gently employed, to bring him his pipe
IT was brought. $50
Bring me the ash tray and matches
also. Whenever T. ask for anything
bring all that goes with it too, s
I. Soon after. the old man became i'll
He sent the servant for the doctor. TIC
the great astonishment of the patient
he came back, not only with the doctor
But with the undertaken. the gravedig,
ger, and two or three, other men.
81 Who in the world are all these
people ~ shrieked the sick man.
You told me, nleekly explained the
servant, that when i was ordered to
get you anything, i should bring ali
IS A. M. H :
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and fountains; IN this garden build a
platform of white, marble Is feet high
and 300 feet square, with an orna-
mented minaret 1877 feet high at each
corner; in the center of this platform
rear a building $50. feet square and 10y
feet high. with it's corners beveled off
and, like the sides, recessed into bays;
surmount it with large central dome
and four smaller ones; cover it inside
and out with inlaid work OF many
colored marbles and carvings of amaz-
ing delicacy; beneath the central dome
place two marble cenotaphs, inlald
with precious stones, the tombs of Shah
Jehan and his wife, and enclose them
in exquisitely carved marble screens
imagine all this, if you can, and then
| your conception of this world-famed
! structure will fall far below the TAI
Mahal itself 1t is, indeed, "a dream
in marble - And yet, when one looks
upon it and then surveys the poverty
and ignorance of the women who live
within its shadow, he is tempted to
ask whether The builder of the Tai
might not have honored his wife more
had the $6,000;0G2 invested in this
tomb been expended on the elevation
fof womanhood. The contrast between
this artistic pile and the miserable
tenements of the people about it robs
the structure of half its charms.
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tional institut on which must be taken j
into consideration in estimating the 1
future OF Monalnnle ulsm IN India. 1t
was founded In loti, largely thru the \
influence and iberaiity Of Sir Syd1
Ahmed, who until his death in 169S de- /;
voted himself entirely to its, develop.
ment. lie was a large-mi nded man
and full Of zeal for the enlightenment
Of his co-religionists & He recognized
the low intellectual standard .;of the
MOhammedan Indians, and the control
ling purpose Of his life was to assist
in their Improvement. At first his ed.
| vocational enterprise met with q cold
reception at the hands Of the leaders Of
| his church. Emissaries were even sent
from Mecca to assassinate him, but,
/ nothing daunted, he pursued his plans
until the church authorities recognized
| the Importance of the school.
| AS the Mohammedans are numeric-
ally weaker than the Hindus and I'M
able to cope with them in intellectual
contests, Sir Syed opposed the national
congress proposition which the Hindus
have long urged and the. Aligarh
school became conspicuous for its pro
British leanings on the question. This
I may account in part for the interest
! taken in it by the colonial governme Mt.
!. (The Central Hindu college at Benares
1 refuses government aid and u.s. there
fore, more independent But since
the death of Sir =Syed the congress. idea
is growing. among the students Of Ali
/ garh. 81 II. =. :. : ..+st4
Aligarh college now has an enroll
ment of 704, more than a hundred of
! whom are law students, 1t has an
English Cambridge; graduate for presi.-
dent and several English professors, j
mil ht, add that England, like America,
has sent many teachers to India and
that they are engaged. in: work the i'm
portance of which cannot be overesti-
!ated. | had the pleasure of meeting
those connected with st. john college
at Agra. as well as those. at; Aligarh:a
- 50 ~ i. 4. i. 80 =
Delhi is one Of midas most ancient
cities. = When the. Aryans came down
from the northwest and conquered the
aboriginal tribes, they founded city
which they called Indrapat, just south
Of the present site of Delhi. How old
! it is no one knows, for the, names Of its
founders have been forgotten, its. rec:
4 and its streets are winding footpaths
which one follows with :. difficulty
Every wave Of invasion that has swept
down from the north or west has passed
/ over: Indrapat, and its stones Wol1lp
teH "a thrilling story if theBseould Jill
& speak The city has been lrebliil
!, i@again and again. the: last time abpIit
300 years ago. but. il. .ha 3 little to EEK
hibit now but its antiquity There, i
s massive city wall with huge gates
: there are tumbled down buildings ocsu
pied by a few pet,'le and some som, goats
, Land there is a stone library building
: erected hundreds f~yeaFs before" Car
negie was born, but the glory of Indra
, pat. has departed. Not far from In
drapat is the splendid tomb Of Hunlay
Eun and another of the Asoka pillars. :
I @z Eleven miles south of the pressn
tDelhi is what is called old Delhi Delh
{ seems to have movable site simmo or
. talized by the famous Kutab Minar, O
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Double-Action April Fool.

The old master knew all about "crib-
bing' as a sehoolboy and had not for
gotten the little tricks and lodges. One
day during an examination the keen
eyed. teacher observed one of his pu-
pits take out his watch every minute
or two. The pedagog grew suspicious.
Finally he strobe slowly down the aisle
and stopped in front of SNillie's desk.
.HLet: me see your watch9" he COM
manacd t35ss-- - - i.Gs-. ~
'A The teacher opened the front of the
case. He looked somewhat sheepish
when he read the single word,
! = Fooled = But he was a shrewd man.
He was not to be thrown off the scent
so easily. He opened the back of the
case. Then he was satisfied. There he
read, "Fooled again. ~. IS. l.. G..
| - Kasson, MINI. -.',F .- .- = .-..-s
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Smart streetcar Conductors.

Pat. who had recently { come over, 2
met his old friend Dennis on the street.
Pat who was enthusiastic over the
wonderful things he had seen. lost no
time in telling Dennis some of his adj
ventures.
80 -. An what foine smart men they
have; on them stratecars, lie said. ct
got on one Of them and purity soon the
man said, Kearny, an, Mr.. Kearny
he gets up and got off. At the next
corner he said Powell, and Mr.. Pow
ell he gets off, and he. kept right on
doing that. Says / to meself: He is
putty smart, begorra, If he Can find
out me own name; but would you be-
lave me-, at the very next corner he
said cAllister,' so there was moth
ing FOR me to do but get off, too. -
H Benson, MINI. IS. NJ. s.
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BY William Jennings Bryan.
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B.. Bowles
Copyright in Great Britain s,
So All Rights Reserved.) r =

BY William Jennings Bryan.
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph 3. Bowles
.-Copyright in Great Britain Ia:
s. All Rights Reserved.) r. =
a the term, Mohammedan India,
could only be applied to those
frontier districts in which the NOLAN
medans have a preponderatlng lnf1u-
ence, but the Mohammedan emperors
left such conspicuous monuments of
their reign at I lucknow, Delhi and Agra
that 1t does not violate the proprieties
to thus describe this section. The
Mohammedans themselves have laid
virtual claim to this territory by the
establishment Of their chief college at
Aligarh, nearly equidistant from Agra
and Delhi, and their claim Is still fur
ther strengthened by the fact that
while they have not majority, they
have q very large percentage Of the
population Of both the .last-named
cities leg a.~s.z- -.
In approaching this section of India
from the east the tourist passes thru
Cawnpore, made memorable by the mas
sacre Of the British residents during
the mutiny Of 1857. The recollection
Of the mutiny is still fresh in the minds
Of the British officials and numerous
monuments have been reared to the
bravery Of the t besieged lh garrisonsb .,a
AG OeelSutod O11C 10 SliOtfh % OAS1oAA
piece Of pavement which covers a
part of the Black Hole Of Calcutta
(the rest of the hole is now covered by
q building where in 1856 LAG human
beings were forced to spend the night
and from which only twenty-three es
capped alive. The hole was twenty:
two by fourteen feet and only sixteen
or eighteen. feet in height, and the
awful sufferings Of those who persisted
a cd hN an
which stands near by -
II 49,. =. X j. 81. ,..-,1-.s
But the cruelty practiced at the time
of.the mutiny far more stirred the Eng
lish heart, and as the uprising was more
extensive. several cities contain memor
ials. Of these the most beautiful il
at Cawnpore and is called 'The Ange
of the Resurrection It is made oil
white marble and represents an ange
with hands crossed and each holding {
palm. 1t stands upon an elevated
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A Darkey's Prayer.

q A white minister was conducting re-
ligious services in colored church in
North Carolina recently. After exhort-
ing bit he asked an old colored deacon
to lead in prayer and this is the appeal
which the brother in black offered for
his brother in white:
4, q OhgtLor glib him de eye of de. eagle
dat he spy out sin afar off. Glue his
hands to de gospel pillow. Tie his tongue
to de line Of truf. Nail his ear to- de
gospel pole. Bow his head way down
between his knees, and his knees way
down. in some lonesome, dark and narrer
valley, where prayer is much wanted to
be made. MONT him wild de kerosene
lie Of salvashun and sot him on fire.
# Kittie Van Arnam
. Walcott. N D.
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..Prove It! Prove TIL.

Edward Stevens, the actor, first de-
cided he was born to go on the stage
when he was young man in San Fran
cisco. He tried for several engagements
and got none in the. drama Then he
thought he would make a start in
vaudeville. He went around to the
leading variety house and was shown
into thesmanager,'s office The manager
was an old German, very cross land
busy, and with no high opinion Of
actors. sss'ssa-
Vat you wantY' he asked y.
s I wantsa job,'' stammered. Stevens
ga job? sVot you do?
s:s.sss I am a come diam
Oh. q comicker. eh He turned
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His Only Chance

n. 3. Is there "a man in all this audi
ence,3 demanded the female lecturer on
woman 8 rights, that's has ever done
any thing te ghten the burden on his
sWlfe1s shoulders? What do you know
of woman sssw works az & s., IS,
8 Is there a man here, she con-
.tinued, folding her arms, and looking
over the assembly with superb scorn,
ileavingshis tired ,worn-out wife To- en- 3.
Joy. heE sMmbers, gone quietly. down
stairs, made. the fire, cooked his own
breakfast, sewed che missing buttons
on the schildren's Clothes. darned the
family stockings, secured the pots
and Kettles, cleaned Il and Il filed
the }anps. and done all this, if
necessary, day after day uncomp planning
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Tough as shespskin.

Some brides take the married state
seriously and little Mrs. Nixon is of the
order. She was not a good cook, and she
knew it, but after marriage she took les
sons in a cooking class to such good eff
feet that in due course she carried off a
diRleuaaes .s..t>s.s...s,
Eyes, she said, enthusiastically
that evening. we got the loveliest
diplomat. It 3 on sheepskin parchment
with q. big red seal. And just in honor
Of the occasion 4 cooked that dish
you re eating. Z It s my own idea. en-
tirelY. Now, Just you guess what il
is. J, - ss.ys;. - - Z,
Nixon went on masticating in silence
for al moment:
- Guess what it lis, = she; repeated.
Then he looked up with a wIy grin
81 don t. know, he said, hesitatingy
els itT-er--iis It the diploma -,
| Mrs. S.
St. Cloud. Mimi.
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His Politics Uncertain.

This story was told in the. senate
.cloa krooms apropos Of the. speech of
Senator 7Patt eTson,l supposed TO be- a
democr IN which he eu1ogized all of
President Roosevelt $ policies:
+ A local census enumerator visited the
senator $ home in Denver, and was re-
Gel. eeiysd BY the negro butler After The
the. senator's politicsg $500 4.
i1.sF,o' de Lawd's sake, nistah, /
dunno ~ answered the darkey," de sen
ator amt done been home since break
fast time &C. II. Warberg.
Osakis, MINI. 2 s#
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FIRST PRIZE.
This Story Gets $5.
Not in a Hurry y

A crowd had assembled at depot in
one of our cities during convention, to
wait. for much delayed train. In
the crowd was man much the worse
for liquor. In the crowd also, was one
of those good, but meddlesome old
impress the lessons of temperance.
a.sss' My man, she said to the drunken
fellow, s do you know where you are
IS 8 Yes in, goin, (hic) to Topcker, re-
piled the inebriate.
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6 An overstocked Labor Market,

There were two Irishmen. s One was
sax good Irishman and the: other was a
bad Irishman. When they. died they
each. went to-. a different place. Pat
looked, up at Mike. and he says: = What
are you doing up there9 -. $. ~ s
Mike says, oh, : I'm pushing
Clouds w 5.25.ss s+55..E.f
How many. hours a day. do you
work ~ .s.z.s. vi y s, s.s5 Il.
T 5o;a a,1 hours : Gay What are
- I m shoveling coal on the FIRE. :" T
-. elbow many hours a day do !. you
work - IL s.. SIS IA .:. - Z.
An. hour and a hall. =
g. How 8 that ~ ... s.: = = = III E
4. There are SO many Of us we have
to divide up the. time. II. III. CIV. /