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OLDEST TREE.

FLAPPER FANNY Bays

TO BE FOUND IN CEYLON.

Planted 288, B.C.

It grows in the ancient city of Anuradhapura, in the Noth Con- tral Province of Ceylon. Thoro may be older trees in the world, bidden in 'some "boundless conti- guity of shade amid tho. unex- plorod forosts of romote countries, but that is unlikely. The sacred Ba-tree of Anuradhapura, tended during the whole of its long life with the utmost reverence and, oare, is the only ancient tros whose record is known to a your.

It was planted in the year 288 B.C. as a cutting from the boly poopul-tree, near Gaya in Bengal, whore Gautama attained Budd- hahood, and

Was brought

to Corlon as a priceless dowry by an Indian princess who Came to marry tho then King of Anuradhapura. It is now therefore in the first quarter of its third millenium-2213 years old, an incredible age. Yet thoro is no good reason for doubting

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buy ber only a sandwich, it's a sign sho is getting ready to. let him buy her mest and po- tatoos for the rest of her life."

that it is as old as it is said to be. imposing than the relics of the

WHAT EDUCATION IS.

"Not Short Cuts to Knowledge.

Speaking at a Collage gathering rosently, Sir Josiah Stamp, who] is one of England's foremost financial oxports, said people. varied in their ideas of education,|

DUBARRY'S HIGH CLASS PRODUCTS Characterised by Daintiness and Charm, Bath Crystals, Soaps, Perfumes, Poudre, etc., ete, The Hall-mark of Quality. New Stocks constant- ly arriving.

and what it was for and they THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY.

would novor agree until they had solved the larger question as to what life was for. Some thought the primary object of education was to adapt and equip young life for the battle of economic pursuits, A socond typo said life did not simply consist of multiplying and safeguarding possessions, but that Ilfo must be altruistic and of uae to the great social needs of the time. A third type argued that living was simply a means to an and, which meant the leading of boys to a fuller and more enjoy. able life. the dovelopment of individuality.

In his opinion one of the greatest needs of the day tras knowledge and more knowledge. The common assertion of the platform, the pulpit, and the Prose was that if mon could only have changed hearts, less, greed

and and. selfishness, more kindness and forethought for others, the whole world would troubles and trails would be selv-| bo different to-morrow, "aud, our

The city that contains it is vanished splendour of the city ed. There was never more arrant older by some three centuries, would lead one to expect. The monsonse. A great number of the having boon founded by enclosure is entered by a porch, ovils and ills of the would wore Anuradha, the brother-in-law of which consists of about a dozen not to be conquered by change of the second king, after the congranite pillars skirting, a short heart, or the boat righteousness

staircase, quest of Ceylon by the Cingaleso granite

under the that could be imparted. They before, the middle of the sixth grateful shade of the poopuls needed the solid application of contury B.C. It is a partially (Ficus religiosa) which adorn all thinking in every direction. buried city of vast, extent, which Buddhist shrines, for obvious Housing, currency, national out- is boing gradually excavated and reasons. The Bo-tree is a peepul, look, and a hundred" and ona exhumed by the colonial govern- of course. The porch leads into difficult problems could not be ment and by the Royal Asiatica wide courtyard, not too well solved by a change of moral policy Society, the largest .of. kept, surrounded by walls about or a higher standard of right and group of similar cities in twelve foot high.

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DISAPPOINTING,

wrong; they must look to the line! of economic statistics. Education was needed that would lend us to

Bame provineo-Pol- lonarua, Sigri, and Mihintale. It was built largely of granito, of a The first sight of the ancient apply ourselves to the problems quality closely resembling that tree is somewhat disappointing to surrounding us, and there must which has made Aberdeen famous the visitor: Hoaring of its great be the application of all the in-

recent times. Local antiquity, he conceives in advance tellectual powers of man. We wor tradition assorts that brass was the picture of an enormous trunk content with too many short cuts also extensively used. Amid the which it would take about a dozen to knowledge. The best know- jungle that covers the greater men to gird with arme outspread ledge was that which was hard part of the ruins, for example, and fingertips touching, a mighty won. There were no short, cuts there stands a thick forest of giant far strotobing his um-to the knowledge of principls, and 1600 granite pillars-monoliths Bragoous arm." What he actually they would not have done their twelve feet high, which are Bees is a series of four torraces, duty till they had advanced and alleged to have been the supports oach built within and above the made the torch of knowledge of a magnificent brazen palace. one below it, and, over the top of brighter and brighter. Several gigantic mounds of solid the highost, a gnarled brown brickwork, hundreds of feet high, sturap projecting, at an angle of resembling ordinary bay stacks some twenty degrees to the plane Albert Henstock. of the Nolson in suapo, and now covered with of the horizon. Out of one side of it, Hotel, Carmarthen, says he has vegetation, catch the visitor's however, grows a healthy and won a wagar, made with a friend, oye. These are dagobas, and are leafy tree, which looks as if it by riding a motorcycle at 30 milss, said to be built over relics of were yet scarcely half a century an hour and at the same time, Buddka.

MOST SACRED.

TRICKY PEKFORMANCE

old. A considerable section of without touching the handle-bars the tree was blown down by a with his hands, hitting, at the first hurricane'some forty years ago, attempt with a shot-gun, a clay The Thuparama Dagoba, the The arrangement of the terraces pigeon target thrown into the air. smallest, but the most saored of suggests to the observer the I had a little bet with a friend them all because it covers the means whereby the tree has been that I would do it," said Mr. Hen- collar-bone of Buddha, differs in enabled to preserve its vitehty stock, who is 19 years of ago, in spite of the natural "and while on a motorcycle pro- appearance from the rest, for it is

tondoncios that make for seeding at this rate I held the an impressive white dome crown. ed with a pinnacle, that stands decay. The level of the present gun with my two hande and shop out in brillant contrast to the courtyard is perhaps the level on the clay target, which was thrown dark-green of the trees surround-which the slip was first planted, into the air edgewaysby.myfriend. ing it. Huge bathing-tanks with when Theocritus and Zono were I also shot a bottle stuck in a wall rainous granite walls, sheltering still living, and middle-aged men at the first attempt. The feat crocodiles within their waters, were boasting to their grand-was seen by a number of people." stair-cases, floors, gateways-children that they had heard many of these decorated with the Aristolo and Demosthenes. Then, mystic moonstore-carved can-as the trunk, showed signe of opios, imagos of Buddha, granite approaching decay, it was banked bas-reliefe, mainly religicus om-up to the level of its first

sound branch and so blems, amongst which. the sevonheaded

the centurips passed. Pious pil-: is fre- quent, monumental stones with grims in their hundreds and

thousands Sanscrit or Pali inscriptions,

visit annually. the with and acres upon acres of granite sacred spot, and carry pillars, standing at every imagin- them as they return homewards: able angle, which once supported loaves from the sagrod tree, for these have talismanic

Thoy powers.

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the houses of a race whose great- nees has long since passed away

euch is Anuradhapura as it gathered and stored as they fail and their virtue as prophylactice appears to day,

onsures thoir, eagor purchase, The environs of the sacred by the faithful. The sight Bo-tree are less protentious and of this reminds one of the de

scription of the Trog of Life in a document which in soverai padangos suggests acquaintancoi with Buddhist ideas and em. bloms: "The leaves of tho treo aro for the hoaling of the nations."-" JOCK" in Ex-

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Hore!

COLD WATER,

The Ministry of Health has in formed the Chertsey Council that) the more question of cost is not a sufficient reason for omitting to supply its new houses with bath- rooms.. The Chertsoy Council, it is understood, will urge in its! rejoinder the following additional TOREons: (a) The proximity of the river, (b) that the houses aro What already supplied with adequatë rocopfactos for coal; (c) that thoro is no record of Methuselah over having had a bath; and (d) that the Ministry of Health has yet to prove that a man who hathos is a

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Many generations ago our ancestors hold the concur ront rising and setting of the dog-star with the sun to be rosponsible for the prevalence of hot weather for a period of forty days, twenty before and twenty after that event- a delightful climatic exactness which the oldest man living in our village cannot recollect.

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