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Six years eevious to this date Cl ristopher Columbus sailed westward under the 5 anish flag to seck India a lett or to the Khan of Tartary. He found America, instead, and gave the name of Indians to the natives of his ewly discovered land, under the im- pression that thev belonged to the In- dian race. Vasco da Gama, after doub- ling the Cape of Good Hope, landed on the southwest coast of India, near the city of Calicut. Here he encountered I es and after a six months' stay ally urned to Europe. His voyage, however, awakened a general interest n the rich land of the Hindu and many uropean nations now fitted out expedi and sent colonies to India. The ch established trading posts here 3 for years practically monopolized the Oriental commerce. In turn the French, the English and other nations turned their expeditions to India. It was the dream of the early European navi- gators to discover a northwest passage to the Orient. John Cabot and his three sons, in 1496, sailed in search of suc a passage, but instead they di Newfoundland and Labrador. Sir Hugh Willoughby perished in a similar at tempt and many subsequent expeditions jer. Frobisher, Davis, Hudson and fin have left on our modern 1 the result of their explorations Meanwhile Sir Francis Drake had sailed around the world and on his way home had touched at one of the Moluc cas. where he made a commercial con tract wih the native king to annually take his clove crop. This was the be ginning of England's trade with the far cast , From this time on, diring the next threé centuries, the history of Europeans in India and the Indian Islands record of struggles for comme premacy Armies were maintair th of the various European trading companies. Native rulers were pitted one against the other and played like pawns on a chess board to obtain favorable The story is a most absorbing one. But, finally, as we all know, England became supreme mn India. So powerful were the various Fnelish trading companies in India that the time of finally transierring their interests to the crown their army num- bered four thousand soldiers Before Furonean invasion had set in, however, and at a very eagly date we find the Aryans, from Western making their way through the nassages of the Himalaya mountains on the north and spreading out over the Punjab. The same Aryan colony offshoots to the west, from which sprang the early races of Europe. 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The three others were divis- ions of the Aryan race, as follows; the Rajputs or soldiers, the Brahmans or priests.and the Vaisyas or tillers of the soil. From these four primary divisions . sprung the three thousand or more separate Indian castes of to-day. One can scarcely realize the curse of caste on the Indian nation unless he has shserved some of its baneful results. It is founded on various bases----race, occupation, - religion, geographical pasi- tion and a score of other considerations entering into the motives for caste for- mation. | The different castes cannot m- termarry and most of them cannot cat t The high caste Hindu's food t be prepared by a prescribed caste Each caste, too, must keep to his occupation, thus forming trade 1s of the most arbitrary nature. No 1ild maintains such strict rules poses such heavy fines for their ation. An entrance fee is charged i strikes are not infrequent. These disputes must bd arranged between rep- resentatives of the guilds with proper credentials. It might be argued the caste system is a protection to In 2 way it is, but with the dis advantage that the laborer can never irise above his caste. For examnle one might be born with a talent for iron but he finds himself in the car- sr caste and there he must remain » days of his life, for the Indian be "out * means social and moral above For example one not even the lower castes. He can ob- tain no employment and usually leads the life of a tramp, subsisting on the charity of the public, or more oft the food obtained from the rubbish heap The caste system, too, works untold hardships to the European resident. The ordinary domestic labor comprises no less than twelve caste divisions This entails the necessity of keeping a suit- able servant for each variety of work and were it not for the extremegcheap- ness of native helo thi array of servants would prove beyonds the means of the average householder. We have noted the origin of the white races of both Europe and India and | traced their common ancestry to the family living in Western Asia. ab WO pen n on original f Of this Aryan family we know but little bevond the fact that they- cultivated the soil. tended their flocks, spoke a Sans- {krit langnage, understood the domestic | arts wore clothing and ate cooked food. There is little, however, in the appear- | ance of the Indian of to-day to indicate [his joint origin - with the white Euro- {peans. This great difference in the { physical features of the races of the two es is due to two causes: first, the that powerful race maker, and, y, the mixture of the A with aborigine. The Hindu race in the result of the Aryan and non- y union, for in the beginning social caste dil not exist, The Hindus numeri- lv at least the greatest of Indian peo- { ples, finally came to include the Aryans non-Arvans and the progeny of mixed This merged nation is desig- to-day as "Natives." The white whether English, French, Ameri- (German, are called by the gen- rm of "E The offspring nixed marriages, marriages cen Europea ated by ns." 1 18, call cans." that ¢ with the and the ext ¢ they hold po wy, and have espect of theig But, like mixed products, they occupy an un enviable position. Not being Europeans, they ne free to assume the pre- whites and certainly ar orior to the average Hindu \ result there is here another social te. formed with its various subdivi- s andgcolor considerations. In fact, dot and Xaste question in India is st bewildering. A life tima could be devoted to the subject and still new phases and final subdivisions would re main unclassified Different Religions. Ihe weligion of the Hindu popularly known as "Hirduism the tional religion of native but. like everything else Indian, it has undergone innumerable variations and changes from the time of the Aryan in- vasion down to the present day. . Unlike hism, it owes 1its origin to no one | mythical or real nersonage, but has been + | the growth and development of the early v religion, influenced by both the ve rites of the aborigines and by the tenets of Buddha and the faith of Islam, The Aryans brought to i India the wofship of bright and cheerful gods," with one usually as the supreme | divinity. Thus, in the first records of their worship we find that the primitive | Gteek and Roman rites bore a striking similarity to the Indo-Aryan forms. But as time went on the traces of the com- mon religion became fainter and fainter. The Christian} religion replaced the wor- ship of these heathen gods in the Euro- pean branches of the Aryan race, while { India preserved, with hanges tis true, the religion of the wh of | Western Asia. To trace i the growth of modern Hinduism from its in troduction br the Ary nvaders to the present day 1s not wi of a single letter and a mere must here suffice. Broadly speaking. the Hindu trinity consists of Siva, Vishnu and Brah The more the incarnation of: one m ancient priests who, as remen as a class wer ignated as BD Bot a. however, or vou e diffe rent a temple may be shnu either as the supreme spirit; call- ed Narayana, or one of the ten dvataros. such as Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, etc, Aryan conquerors found this su-. manifestations. Not only do thesé lead- ing gods appear in various guises and under varying names, but a host of sub- sidiary deities gre continually changing their forms so that one grows hopelessly gonfused in an attempt to classify them. Hinduism takes its tenets largely irom the "Veda," a collection of over a thou- sand poems or hymns 'written by certain gifted Aryans in the early history of the religion. How old these hymns are is not definitely known. Some learned Hin- dus place the earliest of them at three thousand years before Christ. That they were written at times differing by cen- turies is apparent from. the fact that certain events narrated and -referred to in them are known to have occurred at widely separated epochs. Different col- lections and arrangements have Seen made by the Brahman priests as the re- ligion grew and developed. The religion has been assailed in turn by Mohamme- dans and Buddhists, but has lived through the history of India. At the present day*Buddhism may be said not to exist in India, though for a thousand years it flourished side by side with Hin- duism. At one time Buddhism bid fair to become the prevailing religion off Hindustan. At the present time, though drivén out of India, its votaries in Asia alone number forty per cent. of the earth's population," rendering it numgcri- cally the most powerful religion in the whole world. Hinduism originally, at least, comprehénded but one supreme God, sometimes in one form, sometimes in another. Verses from the hymns of he Veda may be quoted declaring. each of the greater deities to be the One Su- preme, Thus Indra is addressed, "Neither Gods nor men reach unto thee, 0 Inc Another hymn speaks of Som; "King of heaven and carth, we conqueror of all." To Varuna also it is said, "Thon art lord of all, of heaven and earth, thou art King of all those who are gods, and of all those who are men." A Hymn From The Veda. That the early Aryans were not lack- ing in sdincality 1s fully attested by these Vedic hymns, the subjects and phraseology of which often bear a strik- ng similarity to our. Biblical poetry. The following is a translation of a hymn from the Veda: : "In the beginning there arose the Golden Child. He was the one born lord of all that is. He established the carth and the sky. Who is God to whont we shall offer our sacrifice? "He who life, he who gives strengths whose command all the Bright Gods revere; whose shadow is immior- tality, whose shadow is death. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sac- rifice ? "He, who, through his power, is the one King of the breathing and awaken- ing world. He who governs all, man ana beast. Who is the God to whom we gives give Yo shall offer our sacrifice? "He through whom the sky. is brigh' and the earth firm; he through whon the heaven was established, ray, the highest heaven; he who measurcd out the light and the air. Who is the God to whom we shall offer our sacrifice? "He who by his might looked cvea over the water clouds; he who alone is God above all gods. Who 1s the ide whom we shall offer our sacrifice? While the non-Aryans buried their dead in the earth" or under rude stone monuments, the Aryan--alike in India, in Greece and in Italy--resorted to cre- mation. The Hindu use of the funeral pyre doubtless had its origin in the Aryan custom. Several hymns in the Sanskrit of the Veda refer to the parting of the dead. Here again the Vedic faith seems familiar. Indeed, it is thought by many savants to have left its im- press on the Christian religion. The fol- lowing are a few characteristic phrases from funeral hymns: "Depart thou; depart thou bv the an- cient paths to the place whithér our f have departed. Meet with the Ones: meet with the Lord of Throwing off thine imperfections y thy home. Become united with a clothe thyself in a shining form him depart to those for whom flow rivers of nectar. Let him depart to those who through meditation have ob- tained the victory: who by fixing their 1 on unseen, have gone to Let him depart to the mighty battle, to the heroes who have laid own their lives for others, to those who have bestowed their goods on the poor." I'rom tha early Vedic poems the doc- ri »f transmigration of the soul was ly unknown. The circle around eral pyre sang with a firm assur- hat their loved went happiness and bliss, there 1 with those that had gone be Note the.ring of confidence and "Do thou conduct us to heaven, 1s. be with our wives and children heaven, where our friends dwell in having left behind the infirmities ve 'body. free f lameness, free the ones 8 bli of from behold from rookedness of limb-- there let us our parents and, our children Mav the water-shedding spirits bear thee upwards, cooling thee with their swift ion through the air, and sprinkling + with dew. Bear him, carr him; let with all his faculties complete, go e world of the righteous. Crossing 1 ie dark valley which spreadeth boundless around him - let the unborn soul ascend to heaven. Wash the feet of him who is stained with sin; let him go upwards with cleansed feet. Crossing the gloom, gazing with wonder in many directions, fet the unborn soul go up to heaven." to t Religion Becomes Barbarous. But by degrees the old collection of hymns no longer sufficed. Other collec- tions were made and service books of prose were "written by 'the Brahmans The rud: rites of the non-Aryans crept in and gave origin to the worship of trees, animals and reptiles. Sacrifices were introduced, first of beasts and later of human beings, till at the end of the tenth century the religion became mbst barbarous. The Hindu mother cast her child into the Ganges, father slew his son at the altar of some angered god. . * " that savage custont that required the wife of a deceased Hindu to suffer death on the funeral pyre of 1d, sprang into universal prac- are of these human oo deagyi r ? went Anging 3 , without a tre- mor, allowed themselves to be consumed by .the torturing flame, Indeed, the stamping out of "Suttee" proved one of he hardest tasks of the many knotty hat England has had "Thuggery q semi-re hrived for vears under f both the ¢ ch and or "Thags" w ecncated in the art of strangling and were required to spend a stipulated number of years in the aces to handle nurder- char ' another ligious in 1 the pro the state preparation before they became full- fledged professionals, prepared to go on * | with v -- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, 5 ATURDAY. APRIL fiom AROUND THE WORLD A Racy Letter to Be Published Weekly by the Whig 'railroads and the journcyman was com- pelled to travel on foot or by coach. she Thugs had a common language or vernacular and 'were as thoroughly or- ganized as an army. Their practice was to engage the wayfarer'in conversation help him carry his load and befriend him in' every way till they had obtained his confidence. en, when near one of their common burying places, they would suggest that a rest be taken. The Thugs not less than four in number--would sit around their victim--one at his feet, ore on cither' side, and one behind. At a given signal three would seize his feet and arms, the fourth throwing the scarf or handkerchief (th¥ir weapon of de- struction) around his neck and by a few deftly executed turns choke their prey to death. They next took his lars made an offering of a part of them to their favorite god and then buried the body in the nearby graveyard. For years England was unable to stamp out this murderous band, whose victims annually ran into the hundreds. Finally, however, ore of the leaders was apprehended and under pressure turned state's evidence. This proved the open- ing wedge to the final extermination of Thuggery in India. These and other barbarous practices thrived under Hinduism, showing the depraved condition the native religion had reached a few centuries ago. To- day much of the superstition remains, though its brutality has been forbidden bv India's British rulers. Says Mr. Monier Williams, "There is not an object in earth or in heaven which he (the or- dinary Hindu) is not prepared to wor- ship--rocks, stocks, and stones, trees, pools and rivers his, own implements of trade, the animals he fears, men remark- able for any extraordinary qualities--for great valour, sanctity, virtue, or even vice, good and evil demons, ghosts, gob- lins, the spirits of departed ancestors-- cach and all of these come in for a share of divine honor or a tribute of more or less adoration." Though the picture may be too highly colored to apply to any but the lowest order of Hindus still in many the truth of the state- ment may be fully verified by references to the practices that still exist in India to-day. Mgre especially is this true in the southern sections, where underneath trees may often:be seen rude altars--jt may be only a few bricks in a row en- circling a rude image of one of the gods --on which simple offerings of red ochre, a cocoanut or a few flowers are made to tha spirit which is supposed to have taken up his abode there. Th reverence paid to the cow or the cobra is well known, and the latter, one of the most venomous of Indian reptiles, is designated in the Tamil language as nalla pambu, the good snake, a euphem ism prompted, no' doubt, by the same feeling that caused the Greeks to give to the Furies the name of Eumenides, the well-meaning ones. Once a year the Hindus have a feast called Dasara, at which time worship is rendered to the implements: of their calling--the farmer to his plow, the penter to his tools and the mason to trowel, : At another festival, in honor of the goddess of learning, the scholar pays homage to his books and materials for writing. The dread small-pox, under the name of Mariamma, has her temples everywhere, the gaudily painted stone horses, on which she rides at night, chasing the scourge from the land, al- ways standing ready around the door of her shrine cases his Hindu Domestic Rites. s and grotesque arc the Hindu rites. A death in a Hindu family imposes a binding obligation on the surviving members. According to the modern Hindu belief the soul of the departed first becomes a wandering spirit before it finally finds rest. Upon its deliberation from the body it is cere- monially impure and consequently rest- Mess and troubled. ' But by duly prescrib- ed religious performances on the part of the famly--especially the oldest som, who also lights the funeral pyre--the soul gradually is transformed into a Pitri or deified spirit. Ceremonies at first are performed monthly, but gradu- tally increase in frequency till the obli- gations have been duly discharged. Now a new set of rites are in order. The spirit is pure and conseyuently becomes an object of worship. This continues indefinitely and finally grows to be a ancestor worship. If a Hindu dies away from home and has vo kin- Cred his spiritis doomed to wander for; ever [he tying of the nuptial knot is also a ! religio performance, . various rites ut five days And so with a birth many ceremonies are performed both before and after the t is a popular belief in some parts of India that on the sixth night f tirth the god Brahma appears and the forehead of the new-born sort o and ¢ and' ce ISuUmes, remo ts futu destiny. | Due prepara n is made for the comfort of the god his visit, for should he . not find gs to his liking he might, in a fit of inscribe on the child's forelicad a i misfortune and calamity. More- over the naming of the child, its invest- ment of the sacred thread and, when it reaches the age of youth, the communi- cation by the Gura, or religious instruc tor, 'of the sacred" words that must act as a charm or talisman throughout life, all go to make the days of the Hindu from the cradle to the funeral pyre days of religious rites and superstitious ceremony.--SIGEL ROUSH. Is Your Skin Scaly ? Ancint with Dr. Hamilton's Oint- ment--rub it in twoor three times daily. No skin food is more per- fect--more , soothing--more healing-- Just the thin for chaps, sunburn and roughness. Every home should have Dr. Hamilton's Ointment. 5oc., at all dealers. Cook's Cotton Root Compound. J and Bio eh Cline Regulator on which Geopend. Soid in three of strength--No, 1, $1; No. 2 10 degrees stronger, $3; No. 3 | coees, $5 per ail druggists, or sen! paid on receipt of price roe pamphlet. 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