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40 C Here to e proposition to
ffwi large mbs' of federal
money |o help the men who hove
boon killing their beet friends.
Last jeer the ringee of the j
boll waSVU in Texas amounted to
$10,000,000. PU the gains com
pyste for that? Will the pro
fits of ell the feather workers in
tfci world amend for the loss to
he indicted on the cotton grow
ers in our southern tier, ftf the
weevil increases his pasturage?
If so, im the whole ootton belt
safltors ee Taxes hes suffered, it
fssstlamttd that the loes will
eqnel a quarter of a billion an
wualljr.
The man who kills the bird
Ikat has been fating the grubs
and beetles in his orchards and
plantations, because he can con
vert the bird *8 skin into mer
chandise worth a few cents,
brings upon himself Che means
of lailnre and deserves that fail
?
ure when it oomes, tor the warn
ings he hes reoeired have been
plentiful. The women, who are
responsible for the enormous
slaughter of our songsters, be
cause they wanted their dead
bodies to wear in bets, are real
ising the necessity for reform in
the matter, and among the think
ing members of the sex the fash
Ion .of bird wearing has gone
out. There are, however, thou
sands otf the Ignorant and ill
bred who advertise their vulgar
ity by the wearing of dead ani
mals upon their clothing, and so
long eafthe want exists there
will be found men base enough
to supply it, though the cost is
a high one. Take the shotgun
awsg from the southerner for
a few ssaeens, snd we shall heer
less of weevils and lose of ap
propriations. ?Brooklyn Eagle.
VhePllMiplM ?f BaddhUm.
Buddhism Is very dilterent, al
though Boddhs lived snd died a
Hindu, sod the members of thst
Met still claim thst be wss the
grestest, wisest snd the best of
Hindus. But no two religions
are so contradictory and Incom
patible as that taught by Budd
ha and the modern teachings of
the Brahmins. The underlying
principles of Buddha's faith are
tore, chanty, and spiritual and
physical purity. He believed in
?ione of the present practices of
the Hindu priests.
There is a stnking resem
blance between the teachings of
Buddha and the teachings of
Christ. You will find passages
In the New Testament, reporting
the words of the Savior, that
ssem like plsgisnsm from the
maxims of Baddha, and, indeed,
Buddhist scholars often tell of a
jnyth concerning a young Jew
who came from Syria with a car
avan and spent several years un
der instruction in a Buddhist
monastery in Tibet. Thus they
account for the silence of the
Scriptures concerning the doings
of Christ between the age of *12
snd SO, and for the similarity be
tween his sermans and those
preaohed by the founder of their
religian.
Buddha taught that good ac
tions brought happiness and bad
jttttons misery; that seflshness
is the cause of sin, sorrow snd
suffering, and that the abolition
of self, sacrifices for others and
the suppression of passion and
< desires is the only true plan of
SslFsUon.
He died 548 years before Jesus
frssborn, and within the next
two centuries his teachings were
sflosptsd by } /ro thirds of the
people pt India, but by the tenth
century at our era they had been
florsrotten, and s great transfor
smong
^ faces, who hi*
iomoni teteid
of mriIi, and taaAfur Isstssrt
of hope. nntU tow *atn ??
pmrinllj bo BaddhiilB to I11"
dta .wttlTtbe nsoeptlon c? the
BuRMte, who in il?rt unani
mous In th6 ooaftiiioo of thai
faith. It to a siognlnr 'phenom
enon tbftl Baddbinm should ao
disappear from the lead of its
birkbf although 490,000,000 of
the humsn race stall torn to its
founder with pace affection aa
the wisest ot teachers and the
noblost of ideals.? W. S. Curtis
in Chicsgo Record- Herald.
An Immense Japanese Stone.
We rode to the citadel, one of
the strongest and moat elabo
rately built fortifications thatf I
ever saw, and it must be one of
the finest in the world. The solid
stone embankmenta were fifty or
sixty feet high, and milea in ex
tent, surrounding the inferior
fort. The moats were approxi
mately a hundred feet wide and
very deep, and the gates and ap
proaches were massive in the
extreme. On the hill, as we
went up to the highest point, I
saw an immense stone which
formed part of the wail* I was
so struck with its immense size
that I measured its length with
my pocket rule. 1% was thirty
six and a half feet long. I oould
not measure its height, but the
officer of the guard told me
through my interpreter that it
was twenty-seven feet high and
twenty feet thick. I have sinco
been told by a master qurryman
that if the measurements were
correct (and I know I was oor
rect in the measurement ot the
length) this mass of granite was
twice as heavy as the Egyptian
obelisk in Central Park, and yet
the Japanese -engineera had
moved it from a great distance
and had carried it up a high hill
and set it in a wall built of
stones, all of which were so large
that this, while it was striking
for sise, did not seem phenome-;
nal. The Japanese are doll-like
in their teapots and houses, but
giants in their tree culture and
fortifications. ?Osaka Latter.
HESTER'S WEEKLY STITKMUT.
o? nwi ? >?>?*?? t?x. I
TM Vlgim.
I New Orleans, March 11. ? Sec*
retary I Hester's weekly cotton
statement issued to-day shows
for the 11 days of March a de
crease of last year of 98,000, and
I a decrease under the same pe
riod of year before last of 69,000.
For the six months and 11 days
of the season that have elapsed
the aggregate is behind the six
months and 11 days of last year
245,000, and behind the same
days year before last 156,000.
The amount brought into sight
during the past week has been
108,657 bales, against 188,106 for
the same days last year, and
181,087 year before last.
The movement since Septem
ber 1st shows receipts at all
United (States ports to be 6,528,
124, against 6,770.675 last y*ar.
Overland across the Mississippi
Ohio and Potomac rivers to
northern mills and Canada,
784,758 against 889,290 last year.
Interior stocks in excess of those
held at the close of the commer
cial year, 281,988, against 198,095
last year. Southern mill takings,
1,287,000, against 1,264,859 last
year.
The total movement since Sep
tember 1st is 8,881,865, against
9,122,819 last year.
Foreign exports for the week
have been 44,818, against 184,186
last year, making the total thus
far for the season 5,088,882,
against 5,898,187 last year. The
total taking of American mills, 4
north, south, and Canada, thusi
far for the reason have been
8,111,681 against 2,980,877 last
year.
Stocks at the seaboard snd the
29 leading southern centres have
decreased duriug the week 88,862
bales, against a decrease during
she corresponding period last
teason of 97,169.
Including stocks left over st
ports and interior towns from
the last crop and the number of
bales brought into sight thus far
from the new crop, the supply
to date is 9,049,664, agsifst 9,
887,898 for the same period last i
year.
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