The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-03
MORE OF DUDDHA'S ASHHS
FOI NJ GOLD ENCASED IN AN
,NCIENT WOUND IN INDIA.

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don CIerks Ga1abllng IN muhOeI
shares Ming Edwards IasaashLThs
oldest Mummy Is@ndsn tncmpsage ed
FaII to Ges W0rk New Eeppeian Air
ship DOck sNlss need q . GulIloslne.
IoxpoS. March 7s.-Full accounts OF
the discovery oG relics % BuddhA. In thu
shape of charTed homes. near PeaAawaF
we're printed in THE sUN not long ago.
ONLY this week the vicsroy Of India.
Lord Mimic. handed over thsas MOST
sacrei relics Ca the keeping Of the Burmese
Blddhisas. Almost At the same elms
comes word oG the discovery of further
hytdha relics at AlrpuF Khas. about forty
miles eas, q HaidarabAd.
A series Of mounds supposed 20 he the
remains 81 q buried town attracted tho
attention 81 II. Cousins. SupsEinssndsne
n Archaeology Bombay. He came 70 tho
belisf that they were the remains os
Buddhist monasteries and that the
largest mound would possibly conceal
remains OF a shrine OF stupa erected over
sorne sacred relic.
E1cavating this mound. he unearthed
two large and veil moulded terra Gotta
image Of Buddha. The decorated wall
IN wh,ch they were ct measured Gfty
FEEL. and proved to be one side of q squaEs
pediment or base 20 . seupa. and In the
centre ~ the stupa a well was found about
twenty-five feet deep and Ten Feet In
diameter. Beneath q brick slab therein
vAs found chamber nftesn inches square
Nv one foot deep. containing . rough
stone coHer in two pleCes and two little
ear,hsn pots choked with sand.
Within the heavy stone casaet wms q
small crystal hottie about three lnohsa
high. half cncssed In silver and thick With
verdiRris. Within the bottle was an even
smaller silver oasket wrapped In gold beaf
and embedded in dust % Q peculiar brown
color. II Was only q hare inch and q
haN in length hut within lay yet another
cviinI-- gold.
4 litre gold cup lifted out waa found
70 contain only q few .pecks Of dust and
fragment 81 clear stone. The dark
brown dust proved under the microscope
- he burnt human ash. and IL 10 con-
jsctur~d that this IL the real relic-that
a. 'here was too much 10 place In the
Mr. Cousins attributes the date OF the
sSupa tentatively 60 the fourth century
A n Hieum Tsang. the great Chinese
traveller Who visited India when Bud
dhism was fouriAhing in the north. re-
lords that after the cremation Of 0au-
anna the ashes SeFe divided into nine
portions and distributed among scots Of
Disciples in various parts Of India.
The discovery Of two OF these carefully
preserved relics Of the Lord BsIdciha
within less than Twelve months In a re-
mArkAble evidence % the value Of the
sork 81 the Archaeological Departments
n India since ia enlargement and rs-
by Lord Curzon.
Corporal punishment for the working
mans child In the schools OF this country
has almost died out. The mother OF the
wnall boy Who 10 punished in this old
fashioned manner eithsr pTosscutes the
eachsr for assault or gets hack AZ him
Nth vituperAtion and sometimes viO-
sncs The result i- that the hoard school
sacher IL afraid to use the cans
Az E,on and Harrow and all the big
,lblic schools the sons Of the rich and
sell 20 do still have 20 take their birching
" Gaming in the time honOrsd fashion.
IN inspector OF tho London Diocesan
'hurch Schools. rhe Rev Bernard Rsy-
iolds. sAys in his annual report thar the
modern child does not take punishment
! lrh fortitude.
Many teachers.- be says. have no
ICED that the children will NOT take re-
roof or punishment. IL 10 out Of their
ninds why they should suffer or bear
,lin: boys cry and talk about il instead
y taking their punishment in a manly
raw a. they used 20 take IL. In fact
- want 81 grit In children 10 a fact
4hirh demands serious attention
Mr. Reynolds does not actually aav that
he modern sparing 81 the rod 10 RESPONSE
lie for this. hut advocates q the arg,I-
n~ntum ad haculum will have their own
d-a II why his report has 20 refer to the
Increasing difiiculty In getting children
90 lake pains noticed by teacherp.
PR the reat. Mr. Reynolds finds that
updsrn children are better disposed
md more receptive 81 infiuences that are
- annoying. II 10 rarrr than formerly
al' W" have IN complain 81 had beha vior.
y even ~ indiRsrence. There il more
IN higher ideas and q wider
aaRs The aOii = more fruitful. though
halloween There IN more reverence
'h1~n the best are decidedly better and
10 worst. less decidedly. worse.
The reason for these noticeable changes
- fret ~ all the altered environment
r." rush ~ new IDEAS and INVENTIONS
makes 'he vide awake child sxpective: hs
ND 10 accustomed 20 wonders and sx-
cots hem fairy tales are becoming a COM
" .r''ac~ - life Inventions that would
." ''nallsi our gTand9athers are re-
.' 0s D-dinary events by the child
bs in the least surprised II
rrT r'un we're established with
~" 'n'0' distractions havs set
'~'i down n'I normal conditions
''T"''y has become nOrvnaI instead of
Volcanic ~ u used 10 be-
VI Reynolds sums Up tho matter.
Ir" child mind In certainly different
70 m What - was even FIVE years AFRO. but
"Htng" has signs % hope and promise |
: "nlv ne child has rightsO,Iansna put
-""fr r~r'ly before H. otherwise Gnere 10
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