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The Exeter Times, 1892-3-31, Page 2711 1tufild. nr J. G. WITrXhat. Who, looking bacltwerk from his manhood prime, Sees riot the spectre other misspent time, And through the shade Of funeral cypress, planted think behind. HearsiiA reproachful whisper on the wiud Brom his beloved dwelt Who bears no trace of passions's evil force Who shuns thy sting, 0 terrible Remorse 1 \V d no Who wool t oast Half of its !uture trent him, but :to win Wakeless oblivion for the wrong and sic Of the sealed past 1 i greased. wheel, The babies astride upon the hips of their mothers never cry and never have anything to cry about. The boys, being as they are, not Christians, but Hindooe, never want to be noisy, devilish or cruel, end always go about their games or errands gravely and silently Here and, there a group of friends newly Hieb converse in elevated tones o£ pleasure, and there is, perhaps, a wrangle somewhere about a dotbargainharin- litLle or a doubtful loss: quarrel over a bad eightpenny piece, whioh ends in words. But the traders in tho open shops never vociferate and never madly advertise their goods, nor put up rival statements of supernatural cheapness,. nor struggle fiercely and perpetually one with the other for the almighty dollar or its Asiatic equivent. Placid and dignified and self-contained, with the established habits of 30 centuries, they squat alongside their goods, not pushing their sale, seeing that they will surely be - sked for when " Allah wills" or" Purshuram pleases," and, meantime, while calmly awaiting custom- ers, they smoke the drowsily bubbling hookah or leisurely balance their accounts with a reed pen or upon the abacus. There may be hundreds, nay thousands, perambulating a long street like that of the lively and famous Chandnichowk in Delhi or the Morti Bagh in Poona, and yet withal not more uproar orhubbab than in a retired uook of Central Park at New York. No- body is in a hurry, and for everybody alike it is quite enough prosperity merely to live under such a glad, bright, existence gilding sun and amid so many sweet and pleasing sights of surrounding nature. For nature is everywhere around and among these Asia- tic communities, not terrified out of contact with business and big cities as with us and you. In every corner the palm tree lifts its stasely feathered head and singe a hymn from its waving plumes to the cooling breeze, the banana hangs her broad green flags over the white House walls and win- dow lattices. The Indian convolvuli, great bells of blue and white, with the splendid yellow lupias and the tender lilao and gold sprays of the Bongainvillies adorn the very meanest huts, and upon the roofs and ridge poles thus beautified the animals take part in the general city life. There will be as likely as not monkeys sitting upon many e, housetop. The four handed folk come in from the jungles to squat upon the highest tiles, all talltiug jungle gossip, to the diaper agement, no doubt, of their bimauous and busy kindred. The little striped squirrels rim up and down the doorposts of the grain seller's shop, the sacred cow from the nearest tem- ple wanders by its store of open corn and pulse, putting her privileged muzzle into the ricebags; the green parrots flash up and down the midstreet with a lively clamor and the great black bats—the flying foxes-- hang oxes—hang in hundreds by their hooked logs from the bare fig tree. You eau hear, amid the full tide of the city's traffic, the "smash" of the clothes being washed and beaten at the tank, and the scream of the kites as they circle round and round in the pale, clear sky overhead. The noisiest elements in the long, thronged, lively but noiseless street will be the ekka rumbling along on two ponderous wheels with some merchant's family, its oxen and its red curtains all cov- ered with bells which jingle not ummei- cally, or some half -naked religious mendi- cant blowing his big copper trumpet or beating his cymbals for alms. Peace— the sustained—philosophic, contemplative, peace of Asia—broods over the people and the place. Life has of itself be- come a luxury in ceasing to be a task a mill grind, a never-ending work and worry. Air, if I could only transport some of the nerve weary workers, men and women, whose intelligent faces and kindly eyes I see amid these many splendid cities of the United States, worn with the fever of the rush of daily affairs, to the quiet of my Indian cities and fields, how quickly I could give them back again la joie de vivre, that lost calm and gladness of the healthy human soul, which cures everything and is an earth- ly side of the "peace that passeth under- standing." Prominent'among the the buildings of the city are the Temples and the Palaces. These simple Asiatics neither possess nor desire— nor, Indeed, need—the countless large in- stitutions which fill your cities with impos- ing piles of architecture. They want no town hall, because the tank, the temple court and the market place serve very well for all the purposes of such an edifice under weather whieh never betrays. They want no vast hotels, because everybody lodges with his kinsfolk ; and they want no big hospitals, because the governments looks to that ; they need no insurance offices, banks, asylums or manufactories, because they in- sure good luck by giving the gods a cake or two or some flowers ; they bank by melting their spare silver into ornaments for wife and children ; they take care of and tender- ly protect their own imbeciles and indigent, and they make everything needful with their own fingers. But the temple will pro- bably be gay, stately and beautiful, and the palaces of the Maharajah will be objects of pride and joy to the populace, and often very sumptuous, indeed, outside as well as inside. We will leave the temple and xnosques alone today and penetrate a little within thoso palace walls. Let the visit which we his dinner table ; but when he returned he are to pay be in a clay or Rajpootana, say, stated that he had been obliged to put his pearls from Ormuz or Ceylon, of the choicest a very interesting and typical region of head intoa green base bagbefora entering ; Pio eon o od rubies from Burmah, emeralds Indiaand let us choose the court of one ofthe zenana of his friend the king, and to of extraordinary size, carved with long in- tim Rajpoot princes, the Maharajah of Ill- feel the pulse of his illustrious patient and soriptions in Persian, Arabic and-Sanscrit, war, as aspecimen for respectful inspection. apply the stethoscope to her in the absurd with delicate and costly enamels after the His Higness Mengel Singh, the "lion lord embarrassment of this envelope, without style of the master art of Jeypore were of good fortune," as the name signifies, is which he could not have passed into the stored in that royal collectionywhioh I in - one of the immensely far descended kings of women's quarter of the palace, old friend spected at Baroda of Guzarat. There were the great Rajpoot country, who rule their and adviser as he was of all its inmates. swords there whose hilts alone were worth 1 high-spirited own chivalrous, gal gut andWe may have the good fortune to see the a large estate, so richly were they crusted of Her High- e under the the rel nm the heir peoplg tutee Prince ofreigning house, e with costly stones, and the blades of some ness the Queen Empress Victoria, to whom 1pparent of the ancient realm of Ulwar, among them were of such fine and perfectly he and all his royal kindred are most loyal- calking with his hammals and attendants, tempered steel as to be occasionally more ly attached, The Maharajah Mangal Singh who will sweetly say, though itis only early valuable than the handles. Certain among is a knight commander of the Star of India, morning, " Good evening, sir," in order to the choicest blades had slots cut in the dem- and is always saluted with a prescribed demonstrate at once his politeness and his asked steel, up and down which ran mostly salvo of 11 guns whenever he t isits the mastery of the English language. And we pearls or rubies, cut to a round head, and governor of the presidency. He is a young may even have the honor to salute the Ma- some of them were thrust into spiral scab - man of, perhaps, 25 years, of an olive con- harajah himself, if we find him seated in bards, so faultless were their spring and plexion, with oyes dark and lustrous, feat- his simple little chamber of justice, which elasticity. The old Mahratta custodian ures intensely refined and delicate in tint, gives by a carved window upon an outer would suddenly open some old marmalade and, indeed, presents the ideal of a Hindoo garden, full of orange andpomegrante trees, jar or sardine box taken from the great prince to look upon—such as Eugene Sue to the sill of which suppliants and suitors barred vault, and turn out of this unlikely tried to depict in his Djalma of the " Mys- may come from town and country to ask receptacle, rolled up in an ancient red or teries of Par." His ruling passions are judgement and succor from his highness. green rag, such a belt of sapphires and dia- horses, the chase and war, but the last of Do you perhaps think that only the West monde, such a diadem of oriental rubies, these is, of course, a luxury impossible to knows what true justice is ? Observe over such a bracelet or anklet or ring for thenose indulge in, unless, indeed, the Maharani the arch above the writing table of the or finger that must have made the eyes of might some day be pleased at need to ask young Maharajah that Persian verse, which any lady who had a proper and becoming her faithful Rajpoots for aid, and then is inscribed from that Bostan or " Garden " passion for beautiful things sparkle like the Mange! Singh would love better than his of emu, and which says : jewels themselves. life to take the field against Russian Oh King take heed onto the poor man's sigh French Man or anybody at the head of a Unheeded it will nhnb and shake the sky. On high public occasions these pprinces lakh of fearless, magnificent horsemen. If it be not too busy a day among the and magnates of India vie with eadi other Notice as we enter the walls of this inner somewhat litigious subjects with the kindly in the dazzling and gorgeous display of town how the heavy gate doors, hundreds and enlightened ruler of the Ulwar he may gems with which they repair on their ele- of years old, are studded with six-inch long very possibly himself show to favored visi- phauts to durbais or receptions. Tee aa- sltikes of iron. That is a relic ofpre-scien tors tome of the wonders of his royal abode. tive olassical name for such lovely baubles tific and old world belligerency, such as was There is, for instance, the Sish mens,— is santoaha, the Sanscrit word for "con - prevalent in Asia when elephants were al- that is to say, the "hall of mirrors"—en- tentment," as if their wonder and beauty ways first sent forward to batter in the por- tirely lined with dazzling plaques and frog- were calculated to fill ordinary hearts and tale of fortresses with their foreheads, and ments of colored crystal, which reflect the minds quite to the brim. It is better, how - the only way of preventing the great beasts bright entering beams of the Indian sun ever, for those who are not millionaires to from bursting in a 'six-inch oak slab was with such burning and variegated lustre talk and think as little as possible about the 'to put a sot of sharp spikes upon it. that it seems an apartment carved out of glittering contents of those Indian treasure Even elephants,: it was found, soon had the mountain side where the native rock is j chambers. enough of ramming a front door equipped full of jewels: Dewier ARNOLD. Alas! the evil, which we fain would shun, We do, and leave the wished -for good undone; Our strength to -day fs but to-morrow'sweakness prone to fail; Poor,.blind unprofitable servants all Aro we a1w y, Yet who, thus looking backward, o'er his years, Feels not his eyelids wet with grateful tears, Ifhe hath been Permitted, weak and sinful as ho was, To cheer and aid in some ennobling cause His fellow neon i If he hath hidden the outcast, or let in A ray of sunshine to the cell of sin; If be hath lent Strength to tho weak, and in an hour of need, Over the sufferingfi,, heedless of his creed Or hue, hath bent— Ile hath not lived in vain ' and, while lie gives The praise to Him in whom he moves and lives. With thankful heart He gazes backward. and with love before. Knowing that from his works ho nevermore Can henceforth part. INDIAN PRINCES AT B.OKE. • Sir Edwin, Arnold Writes attic Glories or the East. This world we live in is becoming sadly monotonous as it shrinks year by year to smaller and smaller apparent dimensions under the rapid, movement provided by transcontinental trains and swift ocean steamships. Along with the ceaseless rusk of "civili- zation" goal inevitably the ubiquitous even- ing dress suit, the latest fashion plate from Paris, the tall silk hat and the other ugly things which are so convenient because they are so universal. Costume and geographical variety are meantime vanishing before the face of these iismal invasions front all the globe, and your fellow -passenger in the Pullman palace :ar or in the saloon of the Cunarder may be, if any European or North or South Ameri- ;an country on the map for anything that tan be gathered from his attire, The manners of every people are getting evened down to one dull, dead plane by the ane agency, and differences of language •lone preserve a certain lingering distauc- ion. The graceful mantilla is being silently ,bolished from Spain, and the pretty faldot- .a from Italy, while even in Japan the city olk have taken to red seeks and wideawakes .nd the ladies think themselves out of the node on public occasion if they do not sub- ttitute the artificial "confections" of Paris, London and New York for the lovely and .!ways becoming kimono and obi, Pos- terity more and more is threatened with residence upon an orb where everybody will Hear one cowmen style of garment, will alk, think and live in the sane way, and ill be at last as rigidly and dolefully like tach other as peas in a sack or ants toiling Ind moiling upon a log. In Asia and Africa almost alone does the Did d'orld preserve something of its bygone Mich and Refreshing Variety of existence. rho custom of even so mull as dressing at ill, except, perhaps, in brass, wire and scads, has yet to invade the greater part of she "dark continent," where there accord- ngly prevails a perfect delightful dissimi- .arity of taste and habit in the coiffure, in the loin aprons and in fantastic methods of treating the ears, the nose, the lips and the :imbs. India is also a land where especially and delightfully the increasing dreary sameness of modern times and habit does not and cannot penetrate, or else is lost sight of in in the vastness and picturesqueness of these entiquo Hindoo societies. As in the un- touched portions of Japan, you find all over tete Indian peninsula that the decrees of the great goddess of fashion are unknown or powerless. The people wear the beautiful end seemly garment which their ancestors wore 10,000 years ago, unaltered in seam or selvage or shape, but allowing a perfectly sndless range of individual choice for tints, lnatolials, richness of adornment and charm of general effect. There men and women, unlike ourselves, seem to clothe their bodies as the flowers do, for innate joy of hue and grace of combined pleasure in social aspect tut! animation. A mob of Europeans or of ieinericans differs from a crowd of Asiatics is a stubble of wheat or a prairie gray and Crim with sage brush differs from a bed of tnlips or abrightly waving field of poppies and buttercups. Looking at the sombre garb and despond- ent aspect of our crowded modern cities one tften sighs even in Angio -Saxon communi- .ies for a return to the "peach colored satin 'oat with lace ruffles" of which in good :ween Ann's times Oliver Goldsmith was so lastly vain. To see popular gatherings tlive anti brilliant with happy colors and to fuel the lost repose and delightfulness of laity life extant and visible and placidly prized one must wander to -day among In- dian cities and enter the precincts ofthe temples of their sods and the courts of the Hindoo princes. I invite you, readers, to "come into the sun" for a space and realize a little she peaceful glowing, varied and picturesque daily life in and around the royal homes of India. How an Indian city itself and its every- day eights and sounds under the continual and exhilarating sunlight would astonish some of your overdriven public 1 No train rails to cutup the streets, no imeortunate clang of the electric bell, no rush and pelt and "attle of hack and cab and express wagon and overloadedomnibus upon rugged paving stones. The very busiest street in Delhi, Jeypore, Agra or Poena is a perfect garden of repose for its calm and quiet com- pared to the uproar and diurnal fever of a byway in any third rate American town. The unpaved sand or loam of the broad or narrow passage between the shops and houses give back no echo to the footfall of the men' and cattle and vehicles that trav- erse it, They might be moving flower beds for their color and their silence of soft mo- tion. The men are all diversified with clean, becoming robes of white or gray and bril- liant turbans surmounting their neat, cool attire—turbans of purple, lilac, sky blue, rose red, green and a.tnher--and the women draw over their smooth, black brows and ;homely shoulders saris of the loveliest com- tined and blended tints imaginable, border- ed with rich patterns and threaded with gold and silver Y, embroider or inlaid with little flashing plates of glass and pearl shell. The Bear feet of the women and children Ind the sandals of the men and boys give hack no noise, and the sleepy, patient ani- mals in the ox carts go down or up the high- way with breed, noiseless hoofs and light toads of sugar vane, fodder or cotton, dis. purling the long and warm n dday.':hill With fir Hing louder than the chafing of the woo+rt''1Joe beam, or the creak of an un - in this etyle, The Rajpoot soldiers at the entrance of the palace ppreoinete-dark war- riors of an untnistalteable figbtiug breed-.. wear the leaf of Lama's tree for their badge, which the god plucked from the Indian Sjungle when he was starting forth to secure ita from Ravana, the Demon King of Cep len. Along the road, leading to the palace front you may see several hunting leopards lying.on their bedsteads lightly chained. It is .tav rite s or f o p t ot the prince and of his fellow rulers to pursue the Black Ante- lope with a. trained cheetah, and I have my- self often witnessed that Strang and exciting kind of bunting, The leopard is carried in a condition of .sharp hunger to the open deer country upon a peasant's bullock cart, and when the antelopes are sighted the cart is carefully driven in a circle nearer and nearer to some fine buck with good long horns, until the animal is brought within reasonable distance. Then the hood is taken from the beast, whose savage eyes roam round and rouud the plain and soon fasten upon the deer, by this time some 400 or 500yards away, and not by any means sus- pecting what looks like a simple country .cart with its rural people bent upon aerie cultural pursuits. The leopard set free slides down like a fish from his straw bed on tete cart and worms his way unseen though rooks and bushes until he has drawn near enough in rear or flank of his victim for a final rush, which he makesrlike a light- ning flash, generally surprising and seizing the paralyzed buck before it can gather it self together for escape. If the deer man- ages to get away the cheetah makes no further attempt to follow it, but sulks in the thicket end is very difficult to catch again. But if it succeeds in striking down its prey, the hunters hurry up, and while dragging the growling savage jaws away front the bleeding haunch or neck of the deer, they slip into the crimsoned mouth of the brute a fresh cut joint of a goat or calf, and the leopard thus deceived and paoified is soon secured again and placed upon the vehicle. In the Rajah's grounds you will see these royal cheetahs and the men who have charge of the peacefully sleeping together on the same " charpo," but all the swine these beautiful hunting beasts are in their evil moods fearfully ill-tempered and dan- gerous- Further on we shall came anon a rhinoceros roped up to a stout post- and mucking cabbage. He is the survivor of old, bad practice of beast fights which all the Rajpoot princes, like all other Indian r T said the Maharajah Mangal Singh loved bailee, and he can show us not far ime, this stately 'white marble palaoe under the hills. his superb staid of 2000 Arab half-breeds, some of them atoll lovely and shapely crea- tures as are scarcely to. be seen elsewhere.. An Arab horse is an absolute luxury to ride, its temper is saswe•et, its endurance so great and its pace so pleasant, thanks to the low, springy pasterns, which give elasti- i�Y to its dancing n .gait. But let us now come away from Rajpoo- time and go on the wings of fancy to a very distriot—that of Bhaonagar, in the region of Iattiawarr, another independent state, where Taktaji Singh is the great and en- lightened chief. It shall be evening, and when the fireworks have all been finished, to the boundless pleasure of the vast crowd outside the gates of the palace, we will enter and sit in the royal circle of the Diwan-Khana watching a uautch or native danee. It is a scene, this, very typical of India, where no festival or great ceremony is complete without the quite and compos- ingpleasure of the dance. Not that furious, gymnastic exercise ha which we westerns, especially our feminine section, rejoice to indulge, but the high and grave and distinct- ly fine art of rythmieal movement, accom- modated to the lightest and faintest notes of the strange, wild music of cymbal and sitar, and to a harmony and subtlety of line and pace and waving limbs and robes to which the best ballet in Paris, London or New York offers but a coarse contrast. The prince, wearing rich and costly jewels, with a light evening coat of green satin, sits cross legged, at the top of the hall, having his guests and green officers beside him and ranged along the walls. His gorgeously - dressed attendants, standing behind the royal cushion, are fanning the warm even- ingair from his face or noiselessly bringing rereshment or the fragrant pipe. Then Zanbo, the Persian girl, or Radium the Hindoo Nautchri,taking her pan.soopar, (the betel nut) front her mouth, adjusts her ample draperies, fastens the scarlet pome- granite flower tighter in her hair, and rises to her feet, while the drum and tamboora begin "Taza-ba-taza" or "Jam -i -man." Lowly does she salaam to the great person- age, piously does she touch the silver bells fastened upon her bare feet, with a prayer for favor and success for dancing is a serious and solemn matter -with these people. And then she softly becomes a living embodi- ment of music and of the boesy of motion, dancing true scientific dances, expressing poteutates, indeed, and magnates, used to the very language by gesture, gait and elo- indulge in ; but the Ulwar Maharajah is too quant sway and wave at hand and foot and well educated and enlightened for any great taste toward this. He has abolished the custom indeed. Here is, neverless, the bygone "Bestia- rium"--the janwa-khana, the place wherein many and many a Combat of Jungle Gladi- ators has been beforetimes bloodily waged —rhinoceros and tiger, rhinoceros and elo- rhant, elephant with elephant, etc., as well as combats between rams stallions and buffaloes. There are princes and rich Ze- arm and body, of thatpassionate or eorrow- ful Persian or Guzorathi song, which she sings to a high falsetto full of minor keys and. minutely divided notes. Perhaps you will not admire it until you understand it as well as some of us—have studied its mar- vellous antique grace and emotional signifi- cance. Perhaps the western man will pre- fer, after all be sees and hears, to encirele a tight laced waist, bound in fashionable silk or satin, and whir] it round to the better minders who even now delight in such bar- ,, comprehended strains of Strauss or Godfrey. barons pastimes, and I kuow of one who on I But the indolent passions of the Indian a certain festive occasion fastened a note for a thousand rupees to the tusk of a male elephant, mad with "must," and another on the horn of a wild bull buffalo, and offered them as prizes to the daring horse- men who, after two or three, perhaps, of their rivals had been gored to death, could secure the tempting wealth. The palace at Ulwar is a good example of ' Nautch. modern Hindoo architecture of the roma- I remember in the days of the groat mu - mental and latter-day kind, There is a rich tiny, when a famous native regiment, the ornamental frontal wall, with little cupolas 25th infants of Bombay, marched back to over the gates, as well as upon each corner, our station covered with glory for faith - the exquisite shape of which is direetly bor- blood find their delight in this measured, sober, refined and soothingpas anal ; and all night long, as dancer salaams and sits down, to be succeeded by another, and another and another, these statesman, warriors, merchants and pundits of the strange Indian world will watch with undiminished inter- est the slow, quiet, musical pasiages of the rowed from the curves assumed by the bam- boo when it is bent to form a roof. Inside the wall, pierced by a vaulted and colored entrance arch, is a court, flanked on the right and left hand by halls open an one side,rows of beautiful sculptured col- umns, s, and leading ou the far aide by broad and sweeping flights of marble steps to an inner and highly decorated gateway. Through this we shall make bold to pass into the palace proper—that is to say, the public chambers of and the audience rooms (diwan'khanas), for the zenana or woman's quarter, is, of course, only for very privi- leged and feminine eyes --and albeit a hun- dred pair of them, lustrious and gem -like, may be secretly watching the strangers who tread these sequestered Indian apartments, the lattice from which they survey us will betray nothing of the inspection. It is a pity that the Hindoos should have aeopted from their Mohammedan conquer- ors the custom of secluding their women, but it is now a firmly rooted habit, which the great ladies themselves do most to keep up. A purdaltnashin. a "curtain dwelling" —that is to say, a Hindoo of the higher classes—would not be seen out of doors, to save her life, except at religious ceremonies and in the marriage month. 1 have myself talked on important business with a Mak- ratta princess of whose august person I only saw the points of the toes under the edge of the embroidered curtain, and when I was staying with the residentphysiaiau at Jeypore, in Rajpootara, a curious thing oc- curred. He was the old and trusted friend of the Maharajah, and, the chief queen being taken i11, he was sent for from filly fighting their rebel brethren. I was commissioned to ask the senior jomadar what form of entertainment the men would best like to accept from the ladies and gen- tlemen of the station. Tho answer was a " Naitch ;" and when we had hired the most famous dancing girls of the district, and had pitched great shamiana tents on the plain, and had lain in plenty of betel - nut to chew, they wanted no more. All night long those veteran soldiers, fresh from fierce and bloody battles, sat in large rings of scores and hundreds under the moonlight, wearing their fatigue dress of white cotton and watching the dancera while softly smoking the " pipe of peace. How different aro the races of men I MoCOLL BROS. & COMPANY TORONTO. Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in the follovfing specialties : arelizte ILS ilia r e Q® i net. Engine Eureka TRY OUR LARDINE MA.CHINE 01 AND YOU WILL USE NO OTHER. For Sale By B1SSETT BROS. Exeter, Ont. What would gratify most, no doubt, such ladies as may honor mo by reading these sketchy recollections of Eastern royal life, would be. I think, the various Tasha'. khanas or treasure chambers of the Indian courts. 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