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TEMPLES USED IN WAR TIME,
Buddist ShrineS that have been Fortresses.
BY Davit) KER.
The description of the Golden Pagoda at
Rangoon, which occupied my laet letter,
may fitly introduce some mention of the
other great Buddhist teraples that we re-
cently visited, some of which played a part
in history very different from that originally
aesigned to them, Built usually upon a
rising ground, aed encircled by massive
etene walls which tower one above another,
the ancient shrines of Baddha are easily
convertible into fortreeses, and many a
dine has the sad, calm lace of the great
apostle of peace and goodsvvill looked upon
the flash of musketry and the convulsive
writhings of dying men. Twice within the
last 64 years has the Golden Pagoda itself
been the theatre of a desperate battle --
once in 1824, when it formed the centre of
the English line during the last great strug-
gle with Melia Bandoola, the Burmese Corn-
roander.in-Chief, and again in 180.., when
the British troops stormed tt in the teeth of
a heavy fire of cannon 4end musketry, losing
men at every step.
Of these warlike churches one of the meet
remarkable is that which we visited at
Prome ins the Irrawaddy on our way back
from Upper Burmah. Proms is a email
town on the left bank of the great river,
formerly memorable as the scene of Sir
Arohibald Campbell's decisive victory over
the best troops of .Burmah December, 1825,
but now chiefly remarkable as the point
where the traveller leaves the Lower Irra-
waddy Railway to proceed by stenerner up
the river to Mandalay. Just at this point
the usually flat benka of the Burmese Missis-
sippi axe unwontedly high and steep, and
the bold, wooded hills on the further shore
of the great aweep of
How Lost, How Restored
SMOOTH, DARK WATERS
form a very pioturesque background to the
quaint; little native town, perched on its
steep, curving ridge, amid a mass of dark
green, glostly, tropical foliage, so thiok as
to hide even the tall gilded pinnacles of the
great pagoda itself, whioh stands high on
a bold pyramidal bluff at the landward side
of the town.
Most Burmese temples, aparb fromi any
external differences ot 'situation or surround-
ings, are a good deal alike. There are us-
ually four gates, guarded by grotesquely.
painted giants or monsters 20 or 30 feet
tile's, with staring eyes end open jaws.
From oath of these gates a steep stair of
flat native bricks rooted over withal, bright
red arcade of teak planking supported on
gilded pillars, leads up to one of the four
sides of the temple itself. The latter gener-
ally consists of a vast square platform
smoothly paved with stone, along the sides
of which are ranged numbers of email shrines.
and images of Buddna, while in the centre
towers a huge bell shaped pagoda, blazing
with gold leaf from summit to base, and sur-
mounted by a pointed open-work cupola of
the great image that represents Him who
gave up all that he posseseed in order to of*
wholly the rood of his fellow -men.
In the eyes of the Buddhists themselves,
however, the chief merit of this famous
shrine lies in the face of its containing A
colossal brazen image of Buddha, eupposed
to poesese peculiar sanctity, teed brought.
hither at a vast cost of toil and moeey all
the way from the distant provinoe of Ara -
can, whence the pagoda takes its name.
The approach to it from Mandalay lies
througb a titmice of crooked, filthy lanes,
yawning ditches, deep broken ruts, tumble-
down hovels and billovvy clouds of dust
surpassing even the outskirts of Moscow or
Constantinople. But the panorama of the
great pagoda itself is an ample compensin
tion for all.
All the way along eaoh of the four long
avenues that lead up to the four sides of
the temple stand a double row of tall pil-
lars, 252 in number, completely overlaid
with shining crystal, which glitters like
polished silver in the dieseling tropical sun.
light that streams in a sea of glory along
the endless aisles of this great Asiatic) OS,
thedral. Between and around these groves
of glittering columns are ranged a perfect
comp of small booths and stalls, garrisoned
by yellowfacecl Chinamen and brown-faoed
Burmans, and piled high with trinkets,
toys, and relics of every kind, all as attrac-
tive as bright paint and elaborate carving
can make tisotn, in order to oat& the eye of
any "young man from the country who
may be supplied to be on the lookout for
some memento to carry back to his dietant
friends and relatives.
Passing slowly up this vista of fairyland
we come in sight of the shrine itself.' ,And
HERE THERE 331TBSTS TIPoN
•
us a genuinely' Oriental tableau, to the fan-
tasbie splendor of which no words ean do
justice. The whole surface of the shrine is
one great rainbow of painted ignores inlaid
with colored glass, around. which surges
hither and thither a dancing wave of light
flung up by the candles brandished in the
hands of the dense mass of worshippers who
fill up the whole foreground. The flames of
these candles—which are wrought into vari-
OUR fe.ntastio shapes, such as flowers, ears of
corn, etc.,—are cast from the crystal pillars
in a thousand tiny jets of fire, while through
the eddying smoke of the numberless
fragrant "incense sticks," whioh are burn-
ing on every side, looms a fitful vision of
dark Eastern faces, and white tunics, and
flower -crowned tresses of black hair, and
pink skirts, and green, blue, or ceimson
sashes, intermingled vrith the yellow robes
and huge fans of the Buddhist priests, who
glide through the thickest of the throng as
noiselessly as shadows.
Three out of the four gates that open into
the "holy,of holies itself—all four of
whfoh are a perfebt' miracle of 'profuse and
barbaric ornamentation—are closely shut
and barred ; but the fourth is thrown wide
open, as if to give all the worshippers ta full
view of the famous "brazen Baddha"
which was dragged hither long ago from
the distant monsatains of Aracan. The lat.
In one point, however, the temple of ter, however, is .oertainly not improved by
Promo has an undeniable advantage over the
majority of its brethren. The greet height
ana ateepnees of the ridge upon which it is
placed—a steepness intensified into an ab-
solute precipice on the eouthern side—ren-
der the view that it oommands surpassing-
ly magnifloent. Far below the plumy
crests of the palm trees stand massed like
soldiers battle array, while through the
sea of leafy green huge oragey towers of
dark gray rock thrust themselves up every
here and there in gaunt and savage grimness,
and away to the westward, framed in its
wooded hills, the broad, ehining streain of
the mighty Irrawaddy glances in the cloud.
less sunlight as is sweeps downward on its
long journey toward the distant sea.
In addition to the customary groups ot
votive shrines, chyels, and images r.round
the sides of its sacred platform, the Prome
temple possesses one characteristic feature,
which has a barbaric, picturesqueness of
ite own meriting more attention than it has
yet received. Immediately around the base
of the great central pagoda rises a perfect
palisade of smaller ones—forming an exact
square, and
ALL PR,OYUSELY GILDED
--which seem to look in reverence to the
golden giant that towers in their midst like
some warrior King amid. the soldiers of his
life guard. The sides of these miniature
towers are hollowed into niches, in which
stand numerous figures of Buddha, (covered
largest being almost as high as the niche it- The bells—which are uivally about half
the height of an ordinary man, and bear an
inscription setting forth their weight, the
•date of their casting, and the mune of the
person who preeented them to the temple—
are suspended a few feet above the ground,
between two upright posts, along the sides
of the paved platform already desoribed.
Beside each lies a stout club or the horn of
an elk, which, when atm* with force upon
the edge or side of the WI, draws forth a
volume of sound that fully explains the
name of " Melia Gunge.' (great sweet
voice,) given to their largest bell by the
people of Bunnell. This tort of bell ringing
is the invariable prelude to the recital of
as prayer by any devout Burman, and
serves --according to Burmese ;ideas at
least—as a kind of telephone signal to ap-
prise the Nato (guardian spirits) whom he
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a closer acquamtanoe, for, unnke the ma.
jority of such figures, this famous statue is
so hideously ugly that any uninitiated out-
sider far from supposing it to represent the
greatest of Asiatic saints, would be very
at to mistake it for a likeness of the devil
himself. The traditions of the Buddhist
church declare that when the figure was
first completed, and proved a deplorable
allure, Buddha, moved with pity for the
unsuccessful artist, turned the
Lim SHAPED AND UNSIGHTLY MASS
into a perfect likeness of himself by merely
laying bis hands upon it. But if so, the
cure must have been only temporary, for
the expression of its coarse, scowling, thick -
I ipped features, thrown into a ghastly
prominence by the dangling blaze of light
around, is as repulsive as ca.n well be ima.
gined. •
Rut however different may be the indi-
vidual details of the great Burmese temples
there are three chare,cteristio feature.
which are never wanting to any of thems
viz., bells, flags, and beggars. The flags in,
particular are quite a specialty, for as the
commonest form of offering in Burmah is a
piece of silver paper or a strip of cobra
cloth, every shrme Is a perfect rag fair of
fluttering shreds of red, green, blue, and
white, fastened on long slender saplings or
to the railings of the shrine 'Welt As a
matter of course, these impromptu pennons
become dirtier and dirtier as time goes on,
till ati leiagth tide
with gilding like everything else,) the
• the original colorneutral tint fairly masters.
self, while the smallest is no bigger than
one of the toy men in a child's "Noah's
Ark." I remember to have seen this curious
arrangement on a much larger scale in one
of the vast ruined temples at Ayuthia, the
Ancient and now deserted °aphid of Siam.
But in that case the centrepiece of the
picture was formed by a "seabed Buddha"
of colassal eize, while at Prome it is repro.
tented by the less picturesque outline of the
central pagoda.
Somewhat akin to this temple both in site
and general appearance is the &moue "red
pagoda" of Moulmein, which doininates the
pretty little town from a steep, rooky hill
in the centre of it, very inuch in the same
way as Edinburgh Castle or the Acropolis of
Athena. The red dagger -shaped spire that
crowns the building is visible miles away
from every side, (forming one of the most addreeses that he is going to begin, and
etriking features in the whole landscape,) i wishes them to pay attention to his words.
while the stairs which ascend the four sides i Unlike the majority of devotees, who ee-
of the bluff upon which it stands are almost I
sent fiercely the intervention of any un -
as steep as a ladder. To the weary pilgrims believer in their worahip, these orthodox
Buddhists are, as a rule, rather pleased than
otherwise should a passing European hap•
pen to strike a bell while they are at their
prayers, arguing, with some show of reason,
that the greater the noise produced, the
more likely are the epirits to be on the
lookout.
As for the beggars, any one who has
walked round the kfoeque of Omar at Jeru-
ly perched upon an Isolated crag which pro- Went or the Shir-Dar at Samarcand, may
jects like the handle of a door from the main multiply his worst experiences by 50, and
cliff right out into the empty air. Into this fall short even then of the horrible phan-
aerial shrine ,those who visit can (111Y Palm- tasmagoria of human squalor and human
trate by executing a kind of tight -rope dance misery that rises ghostlike amid. all the bar -
who comes hundreds of miles to worehip at
this shriee such a, breakneck climb at the
very end of their journey must be much
more of a duty than &pleasure. But among
the savage mountains of Pegu, vshieh loom
dimly along the northwestern sky, there are
to be found not a few temples which are far
more inaccessible than thist of Moulmein.
One of the most venerated of these is actual.
0010M130, MP visit to the Mutwal Pagoda at
Koottiltadeh, and our meeting with that
well-read native 13riett who was familiar
With every page of "The Light of Asia."
and talked as glibly of Mxx Muller and Ed-
win Arnold as if he had been at school with
them both. The temple itself, however,
contained little that was really worthy o
admiretionS its chief attractions being the
quaintly-pioturesque 'servings of it ahadowy
interior and the atriking frescoes represent,
ing "the Buddha of the pig, of the present,
and of the future." The Buddha ef the
past was reclining, with his head supported
on one hand, the posture in which he is said
to have died, and which is still commenter.
ated by the largest etieue in the world, viz.,
the coloseal "gilded Buddha" at Bee kok
in Siam. The Buddha of the present was
sitting with hits hands folded in his lap and
his features settled into that calm, passioa.
less look of rapt contemplation which char-
acterizes nine-tentice of his sculptured por-
traits. The Buddha of the future stood erect
with a pagoda -shaped crown on his head,' a
face of marvelous fairness, and one hand
outstretched as iraddressing a multitude,
this being the attitude in whioh, acoordiog
to g &stern prophecies, be shall one day de-
scend upon the earth to preach the new
law " to all mankind.
Far more impressive in every way was
the great temple at Kandy, the oapitel of
that Cingalese Montenegro whioh I desorib-
ed last Winter. Passing through its deep.
arohed gateway, above which were tudely
P AHMED IN GLARING mons
various monstrous figures of Eastern gods or
demons, (for the two are perplexingly alike
in Southern Asia,) we °reseed a small bridge
guarded by huge stone figures with its
heads of elephants and yenning a broad
tank of olear water, in which the sacred
turtles were seen paddling lazily to and fro.
Beyond this a flight of stone steps led up
to a kind of cloister, the roof and wane
of whioh were painted with grotesquely -
hideous representations of the torments of
Ngaye (the Buddhist hell.) In fact, the
whole structure was designed in a very
rude and primitive style of art, which the
picturesque effect of the perforated battle.
ments that surrounded could do but little
to redeem, though the shining waters of the
tank and the magnificent palm trees that
overshadowed it lent a certain mace and
beauty to this strange picture.
The interior of the temple was formed by
a paved courtyard, with oloiatered sided
somewhat like a college quadrangle, in the
centre of whioh stood the shrine itself, a
small octagonal building with a steep tiled
roof, and a massive iron -clamped door half
hidden by a gaudy curtain, while it sides
were a perfect gallery of strange figures,
wrought in the surface. In this shrine is pre-
served a holy tooth said to have belonged
to Buddha himself, and periodically exhibit-
ed to the faithful, who are of course expected
to contribute liberally to the temple in re-
turn. We ourselves witnessed this cermony
a few days after our first visit; but its de-
tails, being far too elaborate to come under
the close of a letter, must be reserved for a
fuller desori tion elsewhere.
along a narrow neck of slippery rock, with
& precipice Several hundred feet in depth
yawning below it. Whether any nervous
devotee would be greatly consoled for the
extreme probability of a broken deck by the
aceurance of going direct to the Buddhist
'heaven in the event of a fatal teinble it it
not for me to say.
Among the ccentless temples of the Bur -
niece capital itself the foremost place ie he'd
by the famous " Aracan Pago la," which
stands a little way out of Mandalay on the
high road leading to the former metropolis,
Amara,poora. This celebrated shrine hes a
twofold interest, due nob merely to its plc
turesque architecture mid fantastic erne
meritetion, but also to
eng CEASELESS MIME
Girls Who Chew Gnm..
"If the girls only knew that their eyes
are being. ruined by chewing gum they
would shrtuk from it as they would flora r
viper," said, a Chestnut street optician yes.
terday. We all know to what an extent
this chewing eum is carried on and what a
nasty habit it is. I would advice the girls
to atop it at once. If they have a big wad
in their mouths while reading this interview
let them throw it out and • swear' off,' as the
drinkers say, for 'in one respect these dainty
girls are like drunkardie If they are chronic
gum-ohevrers they are heir to all the infirm-
ities that affilot the ohronio whiskey -drink-
ers. • I have three g.irls who viere addioted
to the habit, but Iltroke them from it after
a great deal of persuasion and some trifling
punishment. The oldest girl has evidences
of the habit, though, and will carry them to
her grave."
"How are the eyes affected ?"
"Well, the muscles of the jaw connect
with the spine, and from the spine there are
little fibrous tissues running in all direct -
done. A number of these extend to the
eyes, and are called the optio nerves. Now,
it you will watch a person eating you will
notice a palpitation of the temples when the
lower jaw moves up and down in the process
of mastication. This is caused by the work-
ing of the optic nerves, which keep the in-
ner part of the eyes in motion and exercise
the nerves as much as is needed to keep
them in a healthy condition. These nerves
are more tender and sensitive to a degree
than one would imagine. When they are
overworked they become shrunken and en-
feebled, and then the process of deteriora-
tion in the eye -sight begins. Of course, the
shrinking of the nerve draws the eye back
into the socket, and, as it is connected by
slender threads of biome to the pupil of the
eve, this also benomes affected. The conse-
quence is that the eye becomes weak and
loses its color; it becomes an unnatural.
booking gray, and the vision is so much ime
paired by it thseanye-glassee must be resorted
to.
"One of my girls wears glasses jug be-
cause she chewed so much gum. Her eye-
sight is practically ruined, and she has
orows'.!eet wrinkles about the outer corners
that were caused by the flesh ef the cheek
being forced upward by the action of the
jaw. She is also troubled °with indigestion
trom the same cause. These are all symp-
toms exhibited by a person who drinks
whiskey plentifully, 6041 hence the compar-
ison. Parents ought to tile this matter in
hand, and see if they cannot rid their gir1.
of the habit. It is a filthy one outside of
the terrible effece it has upon the human
system. lf the parents will keep from their
eirls some of their little perquisites until
they stop chewing, gum, they would soon
give up the habit.
n
bae magnificence of a, great Burmese pa-
ged% The pool of Bethesda itself never
muetered amid its ghostly host of " tnaimed,
halt end blind" such loathsome deformibies
as those which startle the eye here at every
tern, Dwarfish, shapeless figures, bent and
twisted out of all semblance of humanity;
swollen, byelawvisages, black and foul with
frightful sores upon which
T1TE VENolsrouS TROPICAL FLIES
eettle down in clouds; lepers in the loot and
worst etege of their awful diseaae, whits,
epectral, hideous, whining with liplese
=tithe for charity, and stretohing but fin-
gerlese hands to receive it. Had Michael
Angelo ever been in Rangoon or Profile or
Mandalay, ho might; have saved himself the
A Cataract pf
Welking back along the railwey from
Field Station, where the Canadian Pacific
skirts the base of Mt. Stephen's stupendous
precipices we were startled by a sudden
loud crash, from the mountain far above,
followed by a whole) series of minor crashes,
as of split fragments, bounding downward
and shiyering to pieces on the rooks below.
"What's that ?" " Is that a craft coming
down ?" "Is that an avalompshe started
were some of the exelensations which
burst simultaneously from the party of
pedeetrians.
"Don't be greatly disturbed, gentlemen.
It is the ice cataract," observed an older
tourist. "4 glacier impends from one of
the lofty cliffs a little further around, on
the northeide of the mountain. We hall
soon come in sight of it."
Half a mile farther t le promise was ful-
filled. There, in plain view, on the crest of
perpeediculer precipice, towering above
us to a height of ab twit two thousand
feet, hung the lower edge cf a glacier, iteelf
a vast wail of pole -green ice three hundred
feet in thickness by a thousand in width.
It vras a grand spectacle. Jagged, cracked,
fissured and out jutting it hung there, as if
in angry menace to all living things that
should venture to pass below.
The slowly acting, yet irresistible pres-
sure of the enormous mass of ice on the
slope above the precipice forces this out.
thrust front wall forward over the cliff;
and, from time to time, ponderous frag-
ments crack asunder and fall, —an ix.termit.
nteenatth.eatarad of ice,—on !he ledges far be -
That was what we had heard, while yet a
long way off. Sometimes smell blocks, but
occusionally enormouS masses fall down,
with crashes heard for many miles along the
mountain ravines.
There are many such glacial cataracts isa
this section of the Canadian Rooky Moun-
tains.'some far grander, it is said, than this
frointhe lofty shoulder of Mb. Stephen.
What is a Thoroughbred Arab.
What is a thoroughbred Arab is a
question that has often been asked, and a
number of different anawers have been given
to it. The latest, however, is from the
Melbourne Sportansan, which says :—
Not every horse imported as an Arab is a
thoroughbred. Many are whet the Arabs
call sons oi daugliters of a horse. What
then is a thoroughbred Arab? A well-known
English writer on the Arab, and an aoknow-
ledged authority on the subject, defines a
thoroughbred Arab to be one belonging to
the Khamsa. There is a tradition among
the Arabs that the Kharnsa is desceadod
from ono of the five mares of King Solomon
We read its Holy Writ thee "King Solomon
brought horses out of Egypt." It is assumed
that the wise king procured. the best herons
available 'in Egypt. The Eastern tradition,
therefore, is that one of the Egyptian. mares
produced five fillies of surprising beauty's
and from these five mares the five grin*
breeds of Arab horses are descended. Ac-
cording to the writer referred to—well-
known by his initials "E. F. D."—all true
Arabs trace to one or other of these five fillies
of King Solomon. Some of the Aral) tribes
preserve the pedigrees of their horses with
as much mire as a Scotch laird preserves the
charter of his estates; and when a chief sells
his horse he usually gives a written pedigree
or guarantee that the horse is pure. Tele
guarantee is generally preceded by the
retnarls, "Praise be to Anal this e, good
horse 1" It then recounts how the family
came into possession of the tribe, and hot
it had been handod down unalloyed from
generation to generation, and that the pre-
sent is a, pure lineal descendant of one of
King &lumen's mares.
of the motley crowd whioh it gathers into trouble of seeking the inspiration of the
its courts from every part of Buntah. For pave hospitals for the Multiplied horrors
Burmah, during :the niiiebeenth, century, of his drcesiful masterpiece,
ars in Jerusalerii during the Anti the. tehmle As regards the Buddhist temples of Ceylon
it not only a place of worship, but Et busy I have but little to sees which has not been
market likewise, and many a hard bargain much bettor said eltesehere, I have already I
is struck every day beneeth the (shadow of mentioned, in one of My earlier letters from ,
•
Ingersoll's Method of Preparation.
Col. Ingersoll's method of preparing for a
paella speech is simple and effective. Many
people its the vast audiences who have ;lis-
tened to his fidwing eloquence have wonder-
ed if his effects were entirely produced upon
the spur of the moment, or if his orations
were carefully worked up beforehand, and
then committed to memory. Neither of
these theories is entirely correct. Col. In-
ce sell has in his employ a thoroughly ef
cient stenographer nismed Baker, and when
his material for a speech'er an extended letter
is all in hand he dittates the entire thing
from beginning to end. The stenographer
anbsequently writes it out upon the type-
writer, and it is read over once or twice by
Col. Ingersoll, by which time the thread of
the argument is thoroughly fixed in his
mind. He then prepares a series of head -
Jugs of the various points he desires in cov-
er, and when he goes into court or mounts
the rostrum he ia armed with these head-
ings. He had no need to commit mere words
and figures of speech to memory. lie has a
singular wealth of language in which to
clothe his argument, whatever it may be,
and his only difficulty is to rscall himself to
the main track after being led off to one
aide or to the other by the flood of his own
eloquence.
Spiritualistic seances have 13-ecome quite the
rage in Boston.
The Raven.
'
In the Soudan the respect for the "Bird
of the Shade" is abundant. He is endear.
ingly known to the Arabs as their " Uncle,"
and they are more exorbitant in exacting
blood -money for his chance slaughter by the
hand of the stranger, than if it were really
the relative in question. Shoot their dove,
their ostrich, their varied SoaVengera of the
vulture kind, their onoo sacred ibis even,
and they grin and bear ; bat oece aim
a bolt at the "Noah Bird" and a hundred
lean but muscular brown arms will be raised,
and the bereaved, vvhite-teothed relatives
will gesticulate and shout round you, while
they explain how black•hued was your
accidental crime. Apart from this, the
raven with his jetty plumage. will always
be a paint of interest in the Soudan from
the strong contrast he presents to the ordinary
" desertmolored" birds i which a neutral
tint of gray or fawn, which, to the experi-
ence eye, rendete them almost invisible.
Improving Slowly. ---
aeweller—Ie your watoh all right now.
Mr. Smith,
Ur. Smith—Well, no, riot yet, ; but it
seems to be gainineevery day.
A Fallen Doettir
Once bald that the secret of good health
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ias an apeilent, Ito would certainly have
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