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Show A Tooth Worth a Million. A charming road of seventy-four miles carriea the traveler to Kandy, tho ancient Singalese capital of the country. This is a picturesque place, with some beautiful views, a residence of the governor and a Buddhist temple, where, in a wonderfully rich shrine, one of Gautama's teeth is kept. This is one of the treasures of the "Light of Asia," for which. It is said, the king of Siam offered 1,000,000 rupees not long since, but in vain. The priests having hav-ing it in their core ore said to bo among the most intelligent and learned of tho eastorn craft, and possess much Buddhistic Budd-histic lore of great antiquity and value. One of the attendants informed me with much pride that Edwin Arnold worshiped at the shrine when last m Ceylon. I cannot can-not say that Edwin is a Buddhist, but his writings Bhow him quite as deeply imbued im-bued with reverence for Gautama as for him we of the west claim to bo the Lord. ! One cannot talk with the intellicent peo- p. j At thlj rj,-ro-w;iliiiuL b-lny iiprftts.tl with the fact that their creed rests with them upon enlightened faith, and not upon blind Buperstition. The priests, too, Wear an expression of calm dignity utterly ut-terly at variance with bigotry or fanaticism. fanatic-ism. Carter Harrison's Ceylon Letter. |