Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1920 — DIED WITH LOVES BROTHER [ARTICLE]

DIED WITH LOVES BROTHER

■ ...y - ■ Pretty <Mtere »fwb Concerning th* - Affection and Uorefor Woplayd by A legend concerning Mount Popa, dealing with the ttato whom too -Burmese court flowriabod, tads of a blacksmlth at prodigious strength named MahagM. Ho possessed a sister of groat beauty who was commanded by the king of Tagaung to bo brought b* foe* him, shortly afterward being shooon a* tKe principal queen. The king's infatuation brought jealousy among th* leaser Qu*ens, and they instituted * plot to destroy her. A* a means of doetroytag the girl s InfluMW over the Ung, her brother was charged with being a traitor, and th* king, to hte terror, ordered th* blacksmith to be brought to fostico and burned The unhappy sister used Iter- aMnromonte to save her brother, but failed. Anally asking thai jK* might bo present at the burning. During th* ceremony, before a hand could be outstrotdied to save h*r. sho jumped into the Are, and was burned with her brother. ▲ few days after the burning the spirits of the two victim* were reported in the form of two “nets.” In recognition of this. King Kyan-yit-Tha later issued an edict that all his subjects should honor the spirits by sospendlng a coconut shell in their booses, this custom still being observed by every Burman in tho country.