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Show w rr T tes mvmat Jsxtaitt; rilv1909. m SAox.istsrj imm. it - devil that besought him' to jfivo life, that when any creature ddefefiri tht-i- faces apd1 manner ih up hiajntcnded career. Not being he is born again jsn a higher or praiseworthy traits of the faitli. able to bribe'him they threatened lower state according to his merit They seem human and approach- able. .The Hindu always appeahtd him with flaming weapons afid or demerit. as foreigq to me, as if bo belongs must to divers implements of destruction, Life, according Buddha, but serenely hesat under a' fig always be more or less painful, ed to aether world. , J ?oulf month and almond shaped eyes. wishing, however, to thwart the tree secure from diabolical harm. and thatUhe object of existence never imagine ever having a point I EBRUARY iathe only' but to rd him- of comoninlerest with in the yeax that the Bfcy of .Burufa.is thfe womans country old kings ambition, he took unto From this "temptation in the of every good man if j . visited all Here wife went hiniflf iufluen-ca e the she and the about Bunnose East. the Buddhist by enjoys pre wilderness he .at length came self gradually, of all evil Bengal is' riot sis- paring himself fqt assuming, whep freedom tyhoto--Itr1is the fo least are an entirely dif- of and indivnl her at his doubt.-laid his European forever JcstctivA finally merge forth, the- - tovuv ter. Mentally they- are greatly that time should arrive, the regal tWrifot-dviBIeioh rest, his future work .dear and ual soul into the universal spirit. ferewt people, both ip appearance duties men.1 land sooner or later would with a fixed determination never This is. Nirvana, literally that cessa-tioand character. Superior to the Burmese ist traveling betweeri Indito devolve him. A in freedom is son fact was This this and There are several other pagodbaa t take is It not as some of to upon bis relax to peri-tencapability Burmese' ports explain, pursuit his to in born bis Prince Gautama life and and marked to the contrast like f of the blowring out a lamp, time; Rangoon, that will prove Worth; a life devoted to the betterment prison iBto ftonsideration a' of the high caste Hindu woman father's loyal subjects received of marikfnd. Skive but the ifaa peace of an absorbed visit, but of course a lion of with the acclaim. who nftwS the never the seen on loud streets Inew ope the is place. , soul.)' Dagon He began expounding the voyage .. irojp JhirAhrge H , Meanwhile Gautama Work. more at His rule of conduct was, conthe life of an pnthtallfed as end and Elephants grew gospel in the dense forest, north Calcutta 4e Ranges torch Uedf with the unsub hVe and alThis kindness-ttrol -' manBurmese all more' 1 of Benares. morning we visited the Wqpven oversell, "shift: nonentity, a have of dfifldla, previously ao&M' and nature of santial lumber Orienteak of kind and are as for r&tlier reverence the life of y arils and paw-thth great luded! ,to the ruins unsatisfying good looking tie feritlsto India Steam' Navigaw indeworldly pomp and worldly pleas- temple that marks this spot. At all living creatures. The latter elephants at qrk. These powerful tion ttotnpany and was attended t tal beauty goes and arc as ure and secretly determined . ito first the people wore loth to The a as bachelor of pendent girl. part of this rrile finjls. an exag- animals shift the logs and place this paeifin season by- nothing to turn calm a of life conthe bulk of business is native Be the holy unfamiliar faith for, un gerated expression in the Jams, them in. position with almost ho an wnpleristot nature. Contrary to attain that peace .of like theBrah mans, his gospel took .evidently a variation of the Bud- man intelligence. .huge to: its reputation this company ducted by them, the men in the longed: mind driw floated concan that re stick dhist of in ft the bazaars teak India of who sect, give. or condition account of only religion. rmmbej no being caste, provided on this occasion a good shops cabins, absence: Overwhelming" their converts were com- about two million adherents, It is the Irrawaddy river from the fori Cpnviction race. Ilis lust spicuous comfortable table-anfor clean, As the jears passed the desire mon people, both men and w'omen to the Jains that several hospitals eats in upper Burma and sawed and personally we found the . Women Smoke Huge Cigars to renounce the world became being among them.for the new re- for birds and beasts owe their orj iqto lumber at Rangoon, from One of the male preorgatives ships accommodations, fully up where it is shipped to all parts of to the standard in every way of jvyhich the Burmese women has as- moie and more uncontrollable ligion struck the shackles of slav- gin. We thus note some of the ori the world. Teak1 ip an admirable other Oriental vessels. Arather sumed is the right to smoke,aqd insistent. Neither by day nor ery from wonianhood hiSibelf In three months he had gath- gin.il teuetA. of Buddhism and timber. It is easily" worked' and anusuaf feature, however, of the not eigaiettes like some of the so- by night could he free 'R. I. Company- - as the line is ciety women- - of Europe, but the from this oerw helming convic ered around him sixty disciples though they have been slightly possesses an essential oil, that not called here is its custom of plac- - most enormous cigars one could tion At lad he detenuined to act who, after being fully instructed changed in the various revisions only preserves it, but renders it tenets-othe npw faith of the faith that have been made free from the attacks of all demg the cabins and dining saloon imagine. I bought one today and and. fearing the ties of the family in the of the first class passengers in the it measured ten iuehes in length and friends could 'not be oer-com- e were sent forth to the neighboring in the centuries that followed its structive insects. American missionary work in should lie openly aunounee provinces with the injunction, introduction, still the faith rebtern of the vessel instead af amid and one inch in diameter. Its a mains Iris intention to piactice the life Go you mm and. preach thq substantially the same to- Rangoon is extensive and effecr ships. In p rough sea one can most .remarkable sight to see day as it was expounded by Gau- live. Besides the Catholic work easily imagine the discomfort these Burmese ladies striding in- of an ascetic, he turned awav. mpst excellent law. the American "Baptist Society such an arangement would im- - dependently along the streets vi- from the door of his wifes lamp-li- t Converts Fell in Line Rapidly tama. maintains a large modem college chamber at midnight, denying In the Buddhist Temples. pose upon indifferent sailors. The gorously puffing- - away at these of months Buddha eight spent here that numbers in its matriculof even a parting caress Captain of the Lindula explained overgrown cigars. In the shops himself he Buddhists, with the as each a preachexcepwandering ates about 1.209 .native students. year n his babe lest he should, heaviest stockthat the B. tion of the they display and explain their which crefour mouths The er. priests remaining they At present this society is completholder had not been to India for goods between puffs at their ci awaken the sleeping mother and with much pomp and cere- mate, fixed at abode he some' place ing a new college building that over forty years and at that time; gars in Ihe most natural and non- child, and galloped off into "the their dead. mon, new he bury, where Thejr disciples preparetd pares favorabjy with similar darkness. first class passenger traffic was chalant manner. are filled with pies to the the of and for the work, images pleached insitnutinns of any country The After a sorowful extremely unimportant; these acThese cigars are made from a to Buddha, who has become their Methodists also have large schools .flocked now thousands that ride he dismissed his fathers commodations .being provided mixture of a native herb and toX hear him. Ilfa old father, the one god. These are usually in a f jn Rangoon, The Burmese .are mainly for the use of the ships baceo rolled neatly in a leaf of liarioteer who had accompanied and sitting or reclining jwsition. and bright, and fake toEuropean.edu linn to the edge of the jungle, and king, received him tolerantly officers which of course was all totied tree and some tropical became commonly made of alabaster , orj nation very President afteK exchanging his royal roebs with revhreuee. His wife well enough.When new ships were white or of bit white marble. a size In with to worker nun led, and an ardent a gether they very Hicks, of tjie Baptist College, told .and jewels for the dress of a comneeded they were constructed fi Dm statuettes to taste thread. blue faith. Gautamas They great images, me the college work was most mon wayfarer entered upon a life promulgate undler the ; direction of this consometimes forty feet high, or mei artians,Brah thing like a cubeb cigarette, of chants, Princes, rjith. satisfactory. ; The Visitor to Ran-e- r His long war' servative stockholder after the in for most sometimes sold in European counof husbandmen length, and the mans hermits, heroic goon is struck by the modem rior hair wacut off, his head pattern of the first vessels thus tries for medicinal purposes are carved from granite! gressive phases of the .city in and ! noble lords and repent-serfs, shaven and a long yellow tunic explaining this anomaly in the Brit if the Burmese women as-- j 'became converts and represent the patron saint in J every, respect. It is comparatively was donned. This make up has ant ladies daily ' 1 placing of the first class accom- sume the rights and prhileges of ever since served as the badge of and eniest promoters of Budd- a recumbent position. frpm the native rilth of other modations. Not until the con The great Shive Dagon a great the male sex they have lost thereto hism. The grew religion Oriental 1agoda cities,'' regularly laid out the Buddhist priest. These priests trolling interests of the company at fa feminine includRangoon of none the traits, not the that perhaps by only largest and characterized) by, many mod-an- d also subsist wholly upon the char- organization passes into more progressive for y most ornate reach1 Buddhist to when I induced a preted alt India, but began temple era buildings. .The streets are of the community. hands can this much criticized to 'sit for ity to Tibet, to China, and to Bur- in the world. It is approached j wide and the parks and artificial out ty native This giving up of the princely and out of date feature of the B. bj a long flight of covered steps lakes ynpst attractive, her picture she spent no less than of loved wife and new ma. Several native rulers proI. boats be hoped to he remedied. pomp, arand five minutes in Smoothing claimed' it the national religion, and. guarded at the entrance by Sacred White Elephants born babe is the Great RenunciaOn the voyage to Rangoon the two great dragons. The other and flourhair arid for it a her thousand glossy long jears tion which forms one of the favorIn Victoria Park we made the Lindula carried about eighteen ranging in India in the very shadow end of this ascending, corridor her dress changing her ite ished draping themes of the Buddhist scripfirst class passengers and- over before she an of its most formidable rival. Hin- opens into the temple area in the pose- - several time tures seven hundred steerage. These duism. Buddhas great renuncia- centre of which arises'the great nounced that she was ready. At natives simply camp put on the Buddha. of Title Assumed hold to tion took place in his thirtieth tojte or receptacle of the sacred first she seriously objected broad deck amidships. As a rule . Gautama now assumed the title year After six years or prepara- reli. TO, relics her big cigar in her mouth, as rf-ftKm? Ul) I they furnish their own food and she tooth, ha.ror nail of it would mar her ap- of Buddha, which literally tran tion in the jungle he began preach uf a thought milk .and reared: on, human i spend their nights curled up ou a the Enlightened. but as this was the one meaps ing. From this time 'till he died the Buddho. In otapo these tope, few yards of dirty rags. It wasi pearance. nativp'women who viedi feature of the pictvue which I a term intended to mark the time at the age of eighty, he was ever oMrer for the privilego flatted with a curious sight to watch them most desired, she finally consent- of his emerging from the dark- assiduous in spreading the new cone with the central rt rim nW8ing.Ms 8acred tabe.men eating .their .curry andrice.siug ed but with an expression that ness of the world into the light, of gospel. in of a pldod Jam ofL, 0, theBumrao mg their weird songs to the ac In the evening of a long life he va-- mn domoUr, to grrat plainly told she was disapopinted holiness. ,Us ele-companiment to the native drum After it was all over, however. .For akime he'sl udied with two called his faithful disciples height ternnnn, m an oblong h i in the t steHes. or whiling away the tedious hours wrmmont. Around, she joined in the laugh of the by- Brahman hermits whom he niet in around him and besought them to globe-lA- o in a ramfor- him Tliey plswd, in semi Oriental game or passtanders and as an evidence of the forests of Patna. They taught be earnest, be thoughtful, be tope which is sealed with solid table in pagoda, built the park for time. They require --and receive on- holy, and to keep steadfast watch masonry are innumerable shrines, me a was tossed soul of him she the malice that peace bearibg.no his lordship, where he la ftrmually very little atefation and at the end rose ,rom a bunch in her booth ly attainable through bodily sub- over your own hearts. Be who each containing an image of Bud- viewed of the voyage are tolled off like by thousands of both naand gaily "salaamed me an adieu. jection. Accepting this idea he holds fast to the law and discip- dha. It took me an hour to make tives and1 foreigners. Be . is not so many cattle each carrying his buried himself deeper into the line and faints not, he shall, cross a leisurely circuit of these hunThe Religion of Burma. bigoted, however, and took ban kit which usually includes the and. for Six years, m com- the ocean of life and make an end dreds of shrines at the Shiye Da anas from religion, of Burma is tThe jungle my occidental and un whole of his worldly goods. As the end approach- gon lagoda. Gold is used in gild in gly Buddhism, nine ten- pany with five disciples whom he to sorrow. believing hands with evident rel- -. The Burmese People The "world is fag in profusion and ths of th entire imputation be- had) won to his w'ay of thinking ed he exclaimed. ish arid) trumpeted for more. Be he wasted 'himself away by sever- fast bound in fetters, I now give ing of tho moot wonderful draigi. Burma, with a population ot ing followers of this faith. d for his photograph, and aB0 over 11,000,000 inhabitants, iv Of -- all Oriental religions est' physical austerities. The tem it deliverance, even as a physician 18 plentifully, employed ...a ,tho saIaamed rt tho eonelntion of the the largest province of the Indian js the. most attractive, pre- pie of Buddha Gaya marks the who brings heavenly medicine.No construction of altars, rads, panels a" most respectful more shall I speak to you. I de- and other articles of tempde furni Empire. For years the Eastern senting as .it does many humane site of this long penance. SIGEL ROUSH. frontier of Bengal had been har. and. .praiseworthy characteristics. But instead of ' obtaining the sire to depart, I long for Nirvana. ture. Bells are suspended here I and tli ere. and candles burned beassed by raids of the Burmese so Buddhism' numbers almost one longed for. peace by fasting and the eternal rest. NOT 80 BUSY AT THE MINES his last fore many .of the shrines.HIowers that it became neeesary for the half of the entire population 'of torture, he sank into , It was said Better preparation. You ew British to send a punitive expedi- the world among its votaries arid religious despair. The Buddhist night on earth An comforting liis were. scattered on the altars 1 and get better prepared eoal just now tion against them. This was the its influence on early Christianity Bible affirms that at this time weeping disciples. According to Buddhist worshippers sat before for they are hot so busy than later . .4- -- u begiriing pf the first Burmese war is conceded by many Biblical Mara, the enemy of mankind as- one account his last words were the images counting their. work out' your own salvatiori aud repeating prayera., . which dastd over tvvo years' and scholars. j A few worlds 'coricern-im- r suming bodily shape, daily wrest' The remartable freIu, of of doubts with with , , him. Torn led with cost the British about 14,000,000 the history and .origin diligence,, 11 ?" wic.le ..ra j Secret of Buddhas .Success ; temple .area wan pounds sterling and a loss of over m.ch showerful religion may not and crazed with conflicting emo. The secret of Buddhas success ticeable. ;t The Christian could tions he finally ank one day 2(3,000 tsi ves.iTu a treaty prove unwarranted. ; 4 ' In He was undoubtedly the spiritual wander in .and about the shrines to the ground. was signed1 which ceded lafge1 "As you 'remember ' Buddhism lay Good' Summer Drinks. tracts of land to the Anglo-India- n dnte from about the year 500 B. this comatose condition for a long freedom embodied in, his teacb-- i mid he would nqt .be noticed, C. At that time Suddhodana ruled time during which period- the true injrs. He preached that salvation simple sign at the entrance reads . ' .Empire. It is a good thing to be saving, But as time went on the Bur- over a province of India, about a way to 'spiritual happiness was re- was equally open to all men and Please be as respectful in. ;the but it is foolish to drink water, mese again, gave the English hundred1 miles north, of Benares. vealed to bim.When he awoke the that it must be earned., not by pro temple as you, would be in your our famous ovn church. That was all no when you crin buy but the and by him. had mental was deities, son born 4o An in pitiating passed imaginary resulted which agony only erninent;trouble and Juniper Homemade Rootbeer ' own. conduct, . Be did away silly, rules about removing ones a. second War. ' 'Again fbr a while This son, Guatama by. name, grew. peace., that .passeth .understan- ones . , i Ado Drink J . bis.-the with aartam mow and saw. His that with, or silent He Into sacrifices, But" the Burmese were- - pacific. a thoughful, priest, 0.i,Ag lujly boy. ding, was Driak-a welt Ale since the third and last war in, father .wished him to become. ft, tjie path ' of salyatkm lay not in ly claims of the .Brahamans as forbIeapracmote or tmmhmgk ftlt in the fastness of the mediators betwecn'ftian and ..God. Myoftbe 186, the country has, lender Brit-ish- r great warrior king like himself, ilw ( Kidae? 1 Boot' rule, enjoy fed peapj and mark- and though tluatama wae jot jungle, nor in the.hermitage of Be taught, the,, law jofKarma- or . trcmUra. Chut, nomcmade x M- ed prosperity, "Today the Burmese lacking in bravery 'and military he.eayee,bnt ipreachinghigb-er- .that the state of a man .in this ife and en- b guaranteed U, waeeo jwpn, ari and ja-a- ll future lives . was .the di- .wendepttat the fellowmen. . He iife,to,bis seems happy and cpntented. They skill (still the life of a powerful M t i i 1 n are a frank, pleasure-lovingo$d ruler seemed distasteful to him. noupeed ,to his qye vcompaiuoris rect. result; of the.sumr total of.bia lyr end pndnra,g. , .No .peggam tnaranteed free' from naured J)pclt4iiwt.p.adj5er. Ihe sight .of jw, ,riiEexiag kid bis intention of 'going again into own .past acts, What a man sows te auy prfof .fT5 UWoi; Delivered ' depressed , Jocal pnest' him the world and spreading the new that, he must reap. .He taught when3I , asked ,. , i ent sort fromIlia sorrow ' hErel . camera to resin the and permission of use to. all mankind, andfthey.at the punishment du. In appearance ithey, plainly1 n4, lifter; A . drive through the gospel my ward j of .good, that , all misery ife he imposed1 .not thfe slightest ob--1 thefiatiye O3XC0 forsook show the iiijfiuenpe of, the. Mongol squalor and-...r tky ni . ,r ,5.' tii. Derili. the result of evil conduct, either jeetjon..-- . . 'SoreV'Eeset ) n lian race, Especially, in their light town he. would return to ins j. I., w, j ir . . in some ones Ihe in reflect or beset now by people themselves present past sorely complexions high cheek bones fathers palace and . weep. Not But he was r 5 . Btuf-dhkt'- ut ! - - p o H ito.,, ! ( 4 lij-ty- e d - 14 f 1 Is new-bor- tem-Jco- m I ts . I I n. pro-Buddlj- as I s. to-da- lX shop-keep- er 1 - i..f, fc. iii, ,t to - L, v thl - -- over-whel- m wood-fcanr- I Bud-dhis- -- m -- self-inflict- he-spe- ed nt I ! - 7, wH , W. ss sen-feele- - -- - -- -- L - self-tortur- -- raeradj. e, - ' , -- . f. M J.. ' W W; A -- g, -- the-fu8gig- a .jgtly -- 1 . , ' -- A ( ( . f f |