Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-04-26

of naural beauty. The effect is ov..
whelming, irresistible. The pain ons
grief of life seemed absorbed into ;.
swallowed up by it, mantled over -
it so quickly nantles its ruins .
buildings with gorgeous flower1r.
vines and stupendous trees. Notbine
remains but the feeling of unsnaat
able, eXultant JOY in life,-spirin,@,
echo rebounding from the soul in -
Spouse to the eXultant life about one
However brief his stay in C.vIor
the traveller generally makes il a poiD.
to visit Randy, some 1000 feet aboys
the sea, among the mountains of TIA
interior. Randy is now reached nv
a railroad,a marvel of engineerin,
skill hardly can he surpassed bv anv
thing the world shows. The view a.
one skirts the TANKS Of the mountains
and looks down into an enormor,
gorge, its sides clad with the mos,
varied and luxuriant foliage. and h.
streams, winding among the trees and
level bottom lands below, TRANSFORMED
cascades and lakes of the eyouis.
itely delicate green of the young rice
Once arrived in Handy, one finds him.
self by the shore of a charming Utta
lake, its banks embowered in wide.
branching tamarind trees and roval
palms, and, above, diversified by the
vineclad bungalows of the European
tea planters. Close at hand is the
picturesque little Malagawa Buddhist
temple. the most sacred shrine on eartn
of Buddhism; for there is preserved
for yeneration an actual tooth of
Buddha, which. though once sacri.
ligiously stolen by the Portuguese, and
carried to Goa in India, and there
solemnly burned to lime in the pres
cnCe Of a great cOncOurSe of ecclesias
tics, still offers its merits for the wor
ship of the faithful AS the tooth is
two inches and a half long and one
inch and a quarter broad, skepdcs
have doubted its authenticity Their
cavils, however, have left me unmoyed
Already had I seen, ia two widely
separate places, footprints of Buddha
in granite six feet, at least in length
so that, far from finding anything Dis
proportionate in the size of the tooth
it rather served as a new confirmation
of my wavering faith in the foot.
prints OF far greater importance,
however, is the fact that in this
temple are preserved the ancient Pail
texts, which bring the student Of to-
day into the, nearest contact with
original Buddhism that can now be
had.
A pleasant drives distance from
Handy lie the famous Peradeniya
botanical gardens They contain, as
an instance, $50 varieties Of palms,
with everything else on the same mag.
nificent scale. Why make a futile at
tempt to describe the sights they re
veal and the JOY of wandering in
them A description of a clump Of
bambo 100 feet in hight and 80
feet in circumference STmomted by
a world of feathery ostrich plumeS, is
a piece of barren statistics. The sight
of it is n marvel forever. Enough that
the traveller from the far south is en-
raptred with the single sense. BE
hold new heavens and a new earth.
For all is new. Instead of the apple
shall come up the mango trees, and
instead of the oak the rubber tree
Poor, sad-hcarted Leasing, weary Of
the monotOny of the same eyer-re-
curing spring, one day broke out "Oh
that for once, instead of the same
eternal green, it would come out at,
tired i'm red or orange or purple"
Had he but gone to Ceylon he would
have found the blessed relief he
craved. An absolutely new flora seems
to imply an absolutely new Life IN
man. The caterpillar in his nature
changes into a silkworn the homely
robin into a bird Of paradise. Adam
and Eve combined, and in their first
fresh honeymoon in Eden, could not
have felt more supremely happy than
! in wandering round and pOcketinS
poetic nutmegs and cloves instead Of
prosaic hickory nuts and flberts, 10
chewing a twig of spicy cinnamon in
stead Of a twig Of ordinary sweet
birch,-ay and in going up to Gin
chona tree and slicing off a bit Of the
bark, and taking my quinine au
ma tural instead of seeking out duly
licensed apotnecary shop and buying
a dozen highly sublimated pills Of the
same extraction. The fall Of Adam
was condoned and blotted out, ! was
restored to paradise