SIAM'S NEW ELEPHANT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 25 March 1912, Page 3

SIAM'S NEW ELEPHANT.

i:r..ijjok.a rv, cm iaioxi vs. Siam is much elated localise it lins a w\\ white; elephant on its hand.'-. This, iimvHVvT, is not Ki'catly to lie wonderoil at, couMderin;,' (he fai-t that tho Hajj of he coiiiitry is a while elephant on a red Held. Ihe new while elephant lias' been captured up country and brought to J>iUi»,;o. c, where it was received hv the Ul'.i;, liml(!\st and Uralimiii priests, ami Ui» ji'.jple with much acclaim, and, aflor a (|i-Mt pub He parade was tuUifcl to the eolli'ution ot white elephants, v.hieh is one or the K rc:ifest features of the Siamese capital The new arrival is a playfil male, said (o he only about five years old. J hey have fmmil a foster nvithiT lor him, as he does not wem to be fully weaned. The total number of Sinm's Kiicrcil while elophnnts is now raited to

I lie lira imm court astrologers liad prolie e< t-I.nt ho was to ]»i,d at -i.51 pirn., In.. being a,, auspicious time, \ mt as Mil? \ajirayudh, who was to (he amlin;:, arrived about half an horn- la ! ilion?■ "m WaS "n ~rm,Bllt nslwro fill ™i • • '"' fl " 10 1!ra!l! »i"s threw-water o ' ,i^;"" C fIO,V , O '; S ovcr M, »' « ""'"'Kr ho , id not- seem to ho able to understand >l i 11, was taken off fo his stable, no'!',? I),,: l"r- su " 1 !,i m was composed as follows: ]• ist camp a strong do acliniPnt of the Second infanin h^lltj M,n!a of shite can,, tho new S 1~cceileil by a number of . ss» •* rVT, t * l»»rp «■ Into monkey. Soino l )nv '""", u ,J >.> .i uini, came iiexl, and wore succeeded >.v a body nf inianirv, (1,,, r L, ~-," Z "■ouilit up by a detach',,e,t of the rh , iingkor,, fcoil.VKnanl. The voml n1 0 ,,i t»I route tat™ by iho pro-e- ~ yw li,o wit i many (h,,,, r , !K i'- ~f pcnplo im "he «Bht man extremely pictiireWu ' ore prints went lluouL'h -omo regions cere ■»I|jio,-. and „ -fcjn.i hell, lasting lor tluvo dav--. JL'Jf'w'l.v clear why white olcthey should oven be walled ]„• boim- flio int.onnl symbol and the nVVdecoratio ° lilt hMim is not: a!om, in Jliis revcren-o Ihcro is Iho yfliiic in Judo-China. Covlon Kmiia ami other riudd'iU counties' ~!j in India there is tho parallel i>, the ,acjv' u-luU- COV.-S. anil in Japan i,, ~].ji Q huves, which ono iin is at. Mivniim-i Nikk.,..aml Kther shrir.es. Tho only difl leienee, „«(.„. .„ ~u , (~.,„;,,,,. ~.,;, sc is Hint at hanglink ami in India ono buys hoy | Rl . tho -sacml white elephants and ii« J « decidedly nmiulauo anpotitc while in-.Tap.in it is bean*. IWA- when |l u . whit,, cleplnnt came n lie :':cil;p!l upon «ith rpvevenco is iwlovwi by (h,» j,n<t loarp.cd'oi' pwhU. but .I- ini!,l sTOin {linl.thfv caino;t..i 1)« ri-an!eil v.it.'i a kind ~'f a ,™ as :nnj out of thi- usual odour of tliin-s, and tiici! cone, ta ho oonsidi-ivtl as iiiciiriiatlnii'; of cortiiiii duties. To account for the- .lioii'jurs.v;ith v.hieh rhoy hit treated in llii'-p days, it ■]".• si!«;ij".p.-| lv ■.one ):.-:>»!:• ttiat they ar> Icelcrcl iij;on "as P'>.Mlilc ir.c--iiTaM'iii< of Ihc UucW'ia: but iliis is iioV l.V< tni? (.■xpliinalion. 'Jln-(•cioiii-.-.ii:i-i :itt?iiili,ij tho ri-psption or a while rl«iiliant are iwl lliuld'iist only. b,-t ore i)prnnu-d portly by Hrainiin prions. A Hrchimn cfroinony must ohviouslv bo olilor tlian a ;-ui-f!y Jimltlhist one «•)"(■ list the idea of an incariniinn of (he iiiuldha may bo k! asido.—"liuliannpolis Xews."