The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-12-15

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easrH. tasy did aos display any eow~
ardies. Tne reverse vaH trs~. for
many o. the Hirnans expoaed sh~rn-
selves sraseiy an we're cut 6ewn -
TIE well-dIrsets6 EnglgsA nrs.
Tns bir1Arss air really = xosnscMl
people. They 6epend apon their ele-
plants Tor nearly everything An the
elephant can do everything except
teach school. They air very lnssgis-
gent These animals handle iows NJ
the saw-miIls. pile lumber an do
many things generally lsft for the
hands ov men IN most countries.
Near the end ov the seventeenth
century q number or robbers took
refuge On the property on the East
India Company. The Blrman ruler
demanded that they be delivered up.
This wuz not attended 20. He march
cd a force ov soldiers into the Of
tendin' country. But war WIZ avoid
ed when he negotiated with the au-
thoriiies in Calcutta This would
have been the most spectacular war
in the history ov the world III hit had
gotten that far along.
The monarch who rules Birmah
liz known az the monarch with the
golden feet" That IL really one ov
hiz oficial titles-he havin' several
titles--more. perhaps, than hix i'm
portance merits. At any rate. he
wuz called by the title mentioned a
guide many years ago
In ancient days the pagodas
throughout Birmah were wonderful
buildin's. The people claim that
their religion liz older than Christian
ity itself an that hit really dates
from Buddha, who wuz born six hun
| dred years before Christ Hiz real
name wuz Gautama. This man spent
six years studyin' out hiz plans an
then announced hiz revised doctrine
which made a great stir throughout
India. He agreed with the Hindu
theory that the soul passes from per-
son to person an from human beings
| to animals and back to the person
again. But he invented another the
DRY to the effect that the soul IL abb
sorbed by the soul of the universe. "
He awlso claimed that life is simply
| prolonged misery drawn out for an
| indefinite number OF years an that
| so long as one loves life he can not
escape the bondage of existence, etc
This strange form of belief at one
time wuZ in the lead in awl ov In
dia. and in many other countries. But
hit could not stand any real test an
has gone backward in most portions
ov the East. At one time more than
eighty thousand missionaries. were
engaged in spreadin' the Buddhist
| religion. But hit liz now hardly
known outside of Birmah an a few
other countries.
Whether hit be in Birmah or some
other portion ov that section ov the
world, the people mostly believe In
the mysterious. That bein' true, hi
follows that any strange doctrine
will. attract attention. In that par
ticular the natives display nothin
but human nature. Yet the people
go further, an go faster, than would
the people ov any other part ov tn,
world. They air inclined to huddl,
together an cling close to each othel
in whatever affects their spiritua
welfare, or what they believe to b,
their spiritual welfare, for they ar,
liable to be mistaken in any or aw
ov these things. And yet they al
smart in a way, and the time ma,
come when they will outstrip som.
ov their Majors in the race ov life
religiously an otherwise. But, Xix,
awl other people, they will requir,
time to shake OFF the prejudices an
the ignorance which they hev biz
STORM up fer thousands ov years.
AS ever,