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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12764, 4 February 1910, Page 4

India is tho land of contrasts, where the old and the new rub el- ( bows. It is the place where the re- < ligion of Buddha had its birth, and I where Budhism, that boasts to-day more worshippers than any other cult, is extinct. In the Vale of Kashmir, three centuries before Christ, Asoka, the great Buddhist ruler, of. lndia, founded ancient Srinagar, and to-day the city stands upon another site and the worshippers of Buddha have vanished. Eeoently in this same valley, in the nineteenth' century, has arisen the curious Beet of the Quadiani, who believe that nineteen hundred years ago Our Lord appeared in Kashmir under the name of. Yus f Asaf , and preached there. — "Westminster Gazette."

The peasantry of Greece firmly believe that the future of every child is | determined by the three Fates, known by the name of the Morse. In the popular mind this trio of Fates are supposed to be three old wrinkled women whose habitation is a mountain cave. They come simultaneously to a house where a new baby has made its appearance. When they are expected all furniture is set aside so that thoir |

I aged and tottering feet may not bo 'i hindered, and refreshmembs, in the. shape of honeycakes, bread, and wine are placed Teady for these important, though invisible guests. Money, too, is placed for them as a bribe to get the'r favour for the baby, so that his future may be one long sweet song— the superstition being that all things good or bad are in the giving of tho Fates.