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K' THURSDAY, MARCH <YH r . j ^;.v*fv.;.;^v.; •■ _.;.;.>;a . l;! '*' -1 X' s !'s/jt&f In the Palace of the Mirrors, Labors. (Prepnrod by th*» Nh«I«»ivi) a»<>sraphtc Society, \V ashingtoA, D. C.) T HK movement toward the Inde pendence of India has thrown into prominence three of the pivotal cities of the pensin- suia. From Delhi, capital of India, the Urlttsh officials are keeping close watch of developments; In Lahore met the All India Nationalist congress which Issued the declaration of Inde pendence; and in Calcutta, greatest of The Indian cities, there was recently a . huge demonstration in favor of Inde pendence. If one spot were singled out in hls- ’tory-steeped India as most historic of Mirll, probably it would bo the city of Delhi, for both written records and oral traditions extending hack for ages tell of power wielded from Delhi's site. New Delhi, constructed to he the seat •of the Empire of India, has Iteen nuilt on ground where cities have risen and passed away through the centuries, •nnd about which are situated beauti ful and striking monuments of one of the world’s most powerful empires of the past. Though legend makes Delhi a place >of Importance from earliest times, his tory takes no account of it until about lOoG A. D., when It was the seat of a Hindu ruler. It was captured by Mohammedan invaders from Afghani stan in 1193, and from that time onward was the capital of a Mohammedan In- rMnn e^p^e. Delhi, In the days of the Mohammedan conquest, lay to the south of the present city, and there where the new power was set up, the first Mohammedan ruler. Kuth-ud-din, ♦milt in celebration of his conquest h lower of victory, the Kutb Mmnr. which stands today and has been called "the most perfect tower ip the W'orld.” Capital of the Great Mogul*. • Timur the Lame (Tamerlane), the Tatar scourge of Asia toward the end '^<of the Fourteenth century, swooped down from Sarmurkand In l.’IOS and wicked Delhi; and ia 1.7JG ids lineal •descendant, Uaber. took the Tatar hordes again into India, captured the city, and founded the Mogul empire, through the fame of which Delhi is best known to western ears. In 10,38 451iah Jahan, the Augustus of the Mo- •gul emperors, built the present Delhi to the north of the old city and em- belished it with mosques and palaces of great beauty. Because of its rich history as the fountain-head of power in India, Delhi —not Calcutta, which was then the cap ital—was chosen In 1S7T ns the site of the Durhur, or gathering of native kings and princes, at which Queen \ ic- >toria was proclaimed empress of In dia. Again in llXtft Delhi was chosen when a Durbar was held to crown King Edward YTl emperor, and once more in 1911 when (leorge V assumed that title. On the latter occasion the new emperor announced that this an cient city of emiH'rors would he re- 'stored as the capital of India and its ‘250,000,000 subjects. The following year (lie viceroy and 'bis administrative council moved into ‘temporary quarters a few miles north •of the city walls of Delhi. It is to ; the south of the Delhi of recent ♦decades, near the site of the more an- vdent Delhi, however, that the new per manent capital, planned on an imperial scale, has recently risen. The city has been designed to cover approxi mately 36,000 acres and to house more than 50,000 people connected-with the administration of the imperial govern- .roent • To the superficial observer of the 'work recently In progress it might ap- 'penr that there have been rising the Ymildings of a great world exposition. Broad avenues have been laid out and planted with trees. A central feature fit an Imposing Processional way at Che aid of which rises the main build- dog of the group. Government house, home of the viceroys of India. It in- •dudes guest chambers and spacious dining rooms, ballrooms and re- halls. On either side of the lonal way are secretariat Inga. is the capital of Pan Jab one of the Important cross. Not many curious Custom of Challenge by Gauntlet Kept Up Tossing gauntlets to the ground In challenge was not nearly so comnion In the old days as some novelists would have ns think. In the first days of chain armor, there were no gaunt lets nt nil. The Imnd wns protected by a mitten attached to the sleeve. When gauntlets did begin to appear. In the days of the Fourth and Fifth eru- sades. they were cumbersome things which were strapped to the wrist so firmly that issuing a challenge by means of theifi would he more of n Job than a hot-headed knight would care to undertake. It was not until plate armor hud rebelled Its full glory that the gaunt let Ifecume symbolic of challenge. And It has rarely been anything else but a symbol. Even today, there Is a per sonage In England—the king cham pion—whose duty It Is to cast a, glove in Westminster abbey during the cere monies attendant upon the coronation of a king, and to cry loudly his will ingness to fight any man who denies the new king’s title.—Popular Biog raphy. ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. RoMa at Cradfisioa The old liellef that the robin will sing near the window of a dying per son Is founded on a legend which tells how the bird perched on the Cross when our Lord wns dying, and tried to comfort HIs Iasi moments with Its song. It Is said rn have got Its red breast from the blood which tame, from the wounds as It endeavored vainly to pick the crown of thorns from HIs head. Napoleon Liked Camembert Napoleon the Great counted Cnmem- bert cheese among his first loves. 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GENUINE KIRBY—“It Stays Green/’ seed at same prices. Also the right kind of cantaloupe seed at the right kind of prices. ' • ■ . -f Read Our O . ./• d Special Subscription Offer On Page Seven ACT TODAY..DONT MISS THESE BARGAINS I Is off the beaten paths of tourist travel. Most tourists visit Calcutta and Bom bay and perhaps the interior cities between them, hut Lahore, lying about 200 miles northwest of Delhi, is a bit out of the way. Yet trains from Im portant southern Indian cities connect with lines to the city; railroads from the foothills of the western Himalaya mountains touch it; there Is a line from Lahore to the Afghan border on the, north; and from the west come trains from Karachi, popular landing field for Europe-Asin aviators. * Lahore Is Colorful. Lahore Is about as old as the Chris tian era and in some old, walled por tions of the city there has not been much change since the city was first built. Some of the streets are so nar row that sightseers who engage ele phants for h tour watch the natives scurry into doorways and. ns the ele phants pass, flatten themselves against the wall of unattractive houses that think these byways. Every house lias at least one en closed balcony or bay window and no two adjoining houses seem to have them protruding from the same floor. And no two balconies are the same size. Tills feature of Lahore house construction, and the further fact that Lahore's "early builders apparently gave no thought to an even building line, make the native thoroughfares a Jumble of uneven masonry and wood. There are few women on the streets of Lahore but no matter how ninny windows a house has, nearly all of them frame a bronzed feminine face. Some of the women wear shawls, others adorn themselves with trinkets —stone-encrusted disks pierce the left sides of their nostrils, heads nearly cover the bright waists and bronzed necks of the wearers, ami earrings dangle from the ear lobes to the shoul ders. At the bazaars, the travelers mingle with a colorful horde who watch crafty merchants drive home sales of ham mered metalware and earthen vessels of all shapes and sizes, jewelry, and many other products of local manu facture. Calcutta Huge and Busy. Calcutta Is one of the most progres sive cities of the East, with all the modern devices to handle its tremen dous commerce and entertain its na tive and foreign population. In lesf f than 250 years it has become the larg est city In India and second only to London in the British empire. When Job Cknmock of the East India company set up a trndiay; station at Kalikuta in 1090 the Insignificant native village occupied a narrow stretch of dry land on the left bank of the mud-laden Hooghly with fever- infested swamps surrounding It on the three other sides. Charnock knew the products of the rich Ganges and Brahmaputra valleys could he routed through Kalikuta and the swamps would protect his station from unfriendly Indian neighbors, but his wildest imagination, perhaps, did not lead him to vision the Calcutta of the Twentieth century. Today three important railroads con verge nt Calcutta. The treacherous shifty channel of the Hooghly is a parade ground for commercial vessels of all sizes, flying flags of the world. Nearly ten miles of modern wharves and warehouses, equipped with all modern devices, receive and export many millions of dollars worth of jute, tea, hides, oil seed, Inc, cotton, coal and other products of Bengal and sur rounding provinces. 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