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vowed that he would give his weight in
gold TO this monument if BIddha would
r. ant him something that he wanted. Bud
dha accepted the proposition. At least, his
wish became true, and when he hoped on
the imperial scales IL Is said that lie reg
istered 10 pounds. The vow cost MIN just
about So coo In gold leaf. Well this great
monument is now being reSlided, and
small fortune is being put into it's rCstora-
ton. / visited temples in China which
contained thousands of little sold Buddhas.
and there IS one at Marking which L saw
last spring in which there were 1000 gods
under one roof Some of them we're very
small gods, but the priests told me that
they actually numbered 10000, and all were
plated with gold leaf. During my stay in
Siam some years ago, visited one temple
devoted to Buddha, part or which was
carpeted with woven silver. and found
n very lively monastery in Corea In which
there were hundreds of monks. Through
out the whole eastern world the finest of
the temples and the latest of the priests
are those of the Buddhist religion, and
though the faith may be sleeping, Ii Is by
no means dead. i do not know whether
Il is due to their religion or not but the
Buddhists of the east are. in most respects,
kind and gentle one toward another. The
Japanese people arc the soul or refinement,
ard you mar.y old faces which you
would not object to having among your
ancestral portraits. \ great deal has been
written about the youEg girls of Japan.
The old women are to me quite as charm
Hex, ana Il nave seen Ola couples whose
gray hair ard wrinkles shone with the
beauty OF the kindly souls within them.
Japan's New Buddhist Temple.
Perhaps the finest and costliest church
That is being erected in the world today
q the HIgashi Hongwanji Temple, which
d now being built in kioto. 1t has been a
long time under construction, but 1t Is rap
Idly approaching completion, and when IT
d finished 1t will have cost. all told, some
bling like 100000. Think of that! Eight
million dollars for church! I don't believe
Wr have one in the United States that has
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fous matters. A movement was started
some time ago for the establishment of a
Buddhist theological course in the Imperial
University at Tokyo, and some of the
priests would like to make it the state re-
ngion. They even talk of sending mis-
sionaries to the United States. and also to
the Asiatic countries, including China and
Corea and India. Last spring famous
Buddhist of Ceylon visited Japan and de-
scribed the backward condition of the faith
In India, whereupon some of the richest
of the Buddhists took a famous image of
Buddha, which was celebrated throughout
Japan, and shipped 1t off to India. in order
that 1t might be put In the Temple of Bud
aha Gaya. on the site where the founder
OF the religion had his great fight with the
evil ones and conquered. This statue was
200 years old. and it was a work of fine
art One of the Buddhist archbishops of
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Confucianism and Christianity. The mis-
sionaries in Japan are in reality, doing a
great deal of earnest work The field is
divided up among the Catholics and the
different Protestant sects, and there is
in addition, a mission of the Greek Church
which has LOO baptized converts, and
which was established by the Russians.
The Catholics have three bishops. sixty
seven missionaries and about 10000 men,
bers. The Protestants, unlike those of
other countries, work, to a large extent
together, and they have good schools and
good colleges. The Doshisha University
which exists at Kioto. in western Japan,
is one of the finest institutions of the far
east. Among its professors are men who
would do credit to Harvard, and 1t now
includes a girls school, a school Of science
and a training school for nurses. There
are number of native religious clubs, and
the Young Mems Christian Association has
flourishing organization in Japan, and
there is also Young Womans Temper
ance Union. The Red Cross Society has
been doing great deal during the present
war, going to the field and taking care Of
both Japanese and Chinese.
7s>A< Y. Catr,Aa~
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men dressed in red; twenty pairs Of smaller
lanterns; the car of the empress, drawn by
six horses; three yellow carts; the bridal
chair, carried by sixteen bearers In red
robes, the chair draped in yellow silk; a
high official on horseback, bearing a large
lantern, with the character for happiness"
inscribed upon IT; danes of honor, attend
ing upon the bride, mounted on horses.
each horse being led by the husband of
the lady. Escort of troops.
The procession passed in dead silence.
Lanterns were placed at each side of the
causeway, about ten feet apart, and below
the causeway, at the side of each lantern
soldier was posted, who knelt as the
bridal chair passed.
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Two Giants In Bronze.


Japan has. in fact, the biggest Buddhas
of the world. There is one in a park at
Nara not far from the old capital, Kioto
which is the largest. I Travelled twenty
five miles in going from Kioto to Nara, and
I spent day in this center Of Japanese
Buddhism. The statue Is in temple, which
is as tall as any New York fiat, and you
have to take your shoes off before you can
go inside of it. 1t is on pedestal, and there
are dozens of gold gods all about it. Some
of these gods .lre eighteen feet high. but
they look Ike pignies beside the great i'm
age which sits, with Its legs crossed and
his right hand uplifted. among them. There
is a little fence around 1t, and it was I'M
possible for me to make my own measure
ments, but the priests told me that IT was
fifty-three feet in height, and that it is
made of bronze plates, which are so cast
that they look like one solid mass. This
Baddha is more than Il thousand years DID,
or, at least, the material of which it is COM
posed has been worshiped at Nara for
that time. 1t was originally made of gold
and copper, about $50 A. D., but the temple
containing it has been burned again and
again, and ii has been each time remelted
and remade.
The other great Buddha is that at Kama
kura, which has been written about by
nearly every traveller who has gone to
Japan. 1t is another immense image. 1t is
not so tall by six feet as that of Nara, and
all travellers so far have spoken of it's
wonderful beauty and the peaceful content
shown in its features. / went out to see II,
and looked for the peace, but / couldn't
find 1t. i Cat and gazed and studied, but
its face was sad rather than joyous and
1t looked like that of a man whose life has
been marked with sorrow rather than
pleasure, and with doubt rather than faith.
/ venture the sculptor who made IT did not
believe in the religion which he was trying
to persontfy, or wondered at the time if,
after all, he was not mistaken.
Buddhist Churches with big Incomes.
Some of these Buddhist temples have
enormous incomes. There Is one right
near the new temple / have described
which takes In about 10000 a year, and
this church has frequently raised in one
year from half q million to a million dol
lars. 1t Is known as the Nishi Hongwandi
temple and 1t is a wonder in the richness
of its interior decoration. 1t has hundreds
of rooms walled with gold leaf, and it con-
tains hundreds of screens painted by the
old japanese masters. A famous left
handed artist of Japan, Jingoro did most
of the carving within 1t, and it is ceiled
in some places with black and gold lacquer,
and its trimmings are of wonderfully
carved brass. 1t has a bell almost as big
as small seaside cottage, and this Is
rung by q big log CT wood which is hung
outside Of the bell to rope, and can be
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Japan went with it, and when he got there
the high priest of the temple refused to
let the image be put in. He had several
thousand men about him, and he was ready
TO enforce his refusal with blOoIShed. This
matter has created great excitement among
the Buddhists of Japan, and some OF them
insist that the Hindoo priest "Iust be dis
missed. and they want the government to
take up the matter. The Buddhists intend
ed the sending of the statue TO be the be-
ginning of a revl al of Buddhism in India,
and they will not probably let the matter
rest as il 10.
Hundreds Of Millions of Buddhists.
1t will be surprising to many u know
the vast number of Buddhists there are in
the world. 1t is, you know, the chief re-
lgion of Siam. Burmah, Japan Corea, and
A. has millions of followers In China and
India There are in Japan 1900 Buddhist
temples. and in the city of Kioto. which is
about as big as Washington, there are
$500 temples which are devoted to this
religion Some of the most gorgeous tenn
pies of the world are the wonderful struc-
lures in which Buddha is worshiped at
Bangkok in Siam, and saw at Rangoon in
Burmah the famous structure known as
the Golden Pagoda. which is said to rest
over several of the actual hairs which came
from Buddha's head. 1t is a mountain CT
gold or rather, of brick and stone plaster
ed over with gold leaf. 1t Is built upon a
mighty platform, and its base Is about a
quarter of mile in circumference, and
these terraces of gold go upward in bell
like stories 10 a height greater than that
of any church spire or any structure in
this country. excepting the Washington
monument. 1t has base of fourteen acres,
and on its top there is great golden UNI
breila, to the ribs of which jewels are hung.
The whole of this vast structure Is plated
with gold as fine any ever put into an
American tooth. 1t is hundreds OF years
old and il has been plated again and again,
and there are, undoubtedly, millions of
metal mixed with the brick and plaster of
Sshich il is made. One king of Burmah
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7e~l< Y. Cuk,~Aa~
When Most Needed.

FROM Lie.
Jack Gayboy: II wouldn't live In the
seventh fiat, anyway my dear"
Mrs. Gayboy: But what difference does
1t make; there's an elevator in the house %
Jack Gayboy: That's all right, but the
agent says it doesn't run after l o'clock
the very time q man needs 1t the worst!
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Something Subtle.

From Life.
I've been bordering over a very singu-
lar thing
What is lt"'
How putting a ring on womans third
finger should place you under that woman's
thumb.
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How are you going to spend Christmas,
Uncle Jake?"
"Well, sub, hits des 'cordn' ter de bird.
Ell he's quiet, en- doan roos' too high, I'll
spen' de day at home; but eff he's noisy, en-
mex any mistakes. dey's no tellin' whar
I'll fotch up!'-Atlanta Constitution.
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theory-this side of
far Cathay" - that
the emperor is the
only Chinaman that
sees the face of his
w | f e before their
marriage. This Is
refuted, however, by
c h inese literature,
which teens with
love stories, and by
the love poems of
China, which are as
remarkable from a
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and carry 1t up on their backs. There
was then, and there is still, immense
scafolding about the temple made of thous-
ands of poles tied together with ropes
and these poles were of all sizes, from
that of a fishing rod up to a telegraph
pole. They looked very insecure to me-,
but 1 was told that they were perfectly
safe, and all of the scaffolding used by the
Japanese is made in this way. Think of
building a structure costing millions Of
dollars without derricks or machinery of
any kind, and you can know what these
japanese are doing there. Their temple
will last for ages, and there are temples in
Japan which are many centuries old.
Ropes of Human Hair.
When / visited this temple six years ago
the logs were being jagged about from
one place to another with great cables of
brownish black IN which, here and there,
you could see threads of white. The ropes
looked very curious to me, and 1 asked
what they were. / was told that they were
made of the hair of women who had cut
off their locks and given them for this
purpose as an Offering to Buddha. L was
shown vast amount of such rope, and
100000 women cut off their hair to make
the ropes for the building of this temple.
This hair was of all linds Here the
fine. silky locks OF the maiden were
braided into the silvery strands OF the old
woman, and section of the rope showed
black. Some of the cables were as big
around as your leg, and there were other
ropes no thicker than a clothesline. These
ropes have now been all collected together.
They are wrapped up in great coils on the
portico which runs round the temple. and
they will be kept as one of Its treasures.
Not long ago q section of the rope was
sent to the National Museum at Washing
ton, and 1T may now be seen in one of the
cases of that institution.
Some Famous Buddhas.
I found other new temples building in
different parts of Japan, and 1 saw mag
nifcent statues of Buddha being made here
and there. At Kobe saw one which had
just been completed, and which could not
have cost much less than 100000. 1t is
just outside of the temple of Nofukuji, and
it is an immense bronze image as tall as n
four-story house, and eighty-five feet in
diameter about the waist. 1t is so tall
that If you stood on its shoulders, you could
barely reach to the top of its ears, and the
length of the face is eight and one-half
feet. Each of it's eyes Is yard wide, and
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II. AMI AuINo. JET
june, in a small, ar
tistically decorated
hall. standing before
a large, fiat wooden
box.
Mrs. Jejune (eag-
erly)-"Oh, Jack, it's
a Christmas pres
ent! Do open it,"
Mr.. Jejune (du-
biously) - " There's
two dollars and a
half express to pay
on 1t first, and I've
spent nv last dollar"
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its thumbs are two feet in circumference,
or almost twice the circumference of a tele-
graph pole, / judge The god sits with his
legs crossed like Turk, and its lap covers
as much space as a good-siZed parlor. This
of which is door, and there is a little
temple inside of IL. 1t is a wonderfully
beautiful statue. and 1t is only one of
thousands that may be found throughout
the empire.
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I WILL BE A 81 r.
prise TO many to
know that there is d
strong Buddhist re-
vival going on IN the
Japanese empire. The
church has been STIR
red up by the inva-
sion of The mission
aries, AMI within re-
cent years buddhist
papers have been or
ganiZed, AMI the Jap
anese press Is fun of
articles about relig-
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SCENE III.

Dining room of Mr.. and Mrs. Bumper
house)
Mrs Bumper very rigid and evidently
under the influence of some strong emotion.
On chair is the picture of THE Mirror of
Venus" with a tablecloth carefully thrown
over it, Mr.. Bumper reading paper, but
glancing furtively at Mrs. Bumper)-"Real-
ly, Thomas, l am surprised at DIR. Pulp!
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beans at l cent a plate and gain religious
credit thereby. These are, think, how
ever, more connected with the Shinto tenn
Piles, and, by the way, there Is one famous
white horse at the temples of Ise which is
supposed to be gifted with supernatural
powers. According to the stories current
in Japan, he has a good deal to do with
the warlike matters of the empire, and
after the Satsuma rebellion he disappeared
and did not come back for three days.
His return on the third day was, so the
japanese papers state, considered very
prophetic of the success of the emperor $
cause. During the present struggle with
China he disappeared again, and, after ten
days returned looking fresh and we'll The
prophets Of Japan state that this indicated
Japan's victories over China, and that the
hostilities would last three times as long
as the Satsuma rebellion.
Christianity in Japan.
There is part of the east where the
missionaries do more work than in Japan.
and they have. as 1 said. stirred the Bud
dhists into action. Many of the japanese
do not like the idea that their country
should be field for missionary labors, and
some of the people think that such mis-
sion work as is done should be done by
native pastors. Not long ago the question
of foreign missions came up in parliament,
and it was argued from one standpoint
that the missionaries ought to be tolerated
because they brought great deal of money
into the country. 1t was stated in the
papers at that time that there were 650
foreign missionaries in Japan, and they
averaged at least 500 per month, making
a total of $4,000 per month spent by the
missionaries. 1t VIII thus be seen that
the Christian churches annually spend in
Japan at least s7SO,0OO a year, and these
expenditures, the native papers thought,
ought to be encouraged. They stated that
there were 10000 Christians among the
Japanese, and that there were LOO Jap
aneSe pastors. There are Japanese who
think that their people are destined to in
troduce Christianity into China and Corea
and some favor the absorption and COM
bination of the three religions of Buddhism,
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The Groom's Right Of Rejection on
the Wedding Day.
IN ORIENTAL MARRIAGE PROCESSION
Crushed Feet Not the Genera
Fashion in China.
WHEN THE EMPEROR WEBS

Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.
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COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
A FARCE.
SCENE I.

Written Exclusively for The Evening Star.
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BUDDHIST RELIGION
The Wonderful Temples and the
Queer Priests of This Sect.
REVIVAL OF THE FAITH IN JAPAN
Interesting Facts About Other
Forms of Faith in That Country.
MIS- SION AIRY EFFORTS

Copyrighted. 1894, by Frank c. Carpenter.)
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NM r. AND MRS. JE-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-03
Stole a Carload OF Soldiers.

Officers of the Erie road indig-
nantly deny that they would steal
anything, let alone train load OF
United States soldiers billed to anoth-
er road. Assistant General Passenger
Agent Buskirk was SO indignant about
it he would not talk at all, and other
officials were nearly equally reticent.
According to the story trainload of
soldiers eastbound was brought to
Chicago by the Alton and switched
into the Erie yards. 1t was intended
for the Nickel Plate, but the Erie
thought it knew good thing when it
saw it, hitched an engine to the train,
and the wheels never stopped moving
until coaches, soldiers and all were
landed in Buffalo and bill for trans
portation was made out against Uncle
Sam. In the meantime the Nickel
Plate officials were searching oil over
Chicago for that cargo of soldiers.
The explanation of the Erie, SO far as
it would make any explanation, was
that it found the train in it's yards and
sent it through without loss of time.
There were no tags attached to cars to
show what road they were destined
for, and the soldiers were not billed
like live stock or even perishable
freight. AS for the Nickel Plate, if it
has any grievance, the Erie says it
must look to the Alton. Chicago Tri-
bune
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-03
Three Pints OF Water a Day,

ga reason, y says physician, "why
L often prescribe one of the mineral
waters for my patients and have them
take 1t daily in considerable quantities
is simply to give them suffi cient water.
1t Is an error committed by many
otherwise sensible aud Intelligent per.
sons that drinking much water inter-
feres with digestion. One of those
persons said to me lately: Il rarely
drink swallow of water; cup OF
coffee with my breakfast, cup of tea
or chocolate with my luncheon, an
after-dinner cup of coffee again with
my dinner, that is practically all the
liquid I take this with an air of con.
scious rectitude).
10 begin with, tea, coffee, choco.
late, or beer, wine and the like are
not substitutes for water, which is
one of the most important of all sub,
stances required for nourishment of
the body. Don't drain half-pint
glass of icy water just Us you sit down
to eat; that is palpably injurious; but
do have n big glass of water that has
been boiled and cooled brought to
you on waking, and by the time the
bath and toilet have been accomp-
lished and breakfast is to be taken the
water will not be an interfering agent.
About three pints of water day
should be regularly taken; fully this
is needed by the system. "-Phila.
delphia Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-03
l-Distribut:ng as Fine Art.

mo art in giving away handbills
in the streets? Amt there? l knows
better; and il you had been at the
game as long as / have you would
agree with me-" declared a ragged,
down -at-heel advertisement distrib.
utter recently, in tones OF ind gnant
dissent.
"lou try it and see if, provided you
sin ply shove the b II at them, four
out of every six don't elbow past you
without accepting 1T. But if, with
a half bow and a graceful movement
OF the forearm you tender the paper,
you'll plant it right enough in most
cases
"TO man as takes pleasure in
his buSineSS-no matter how humble
it may belts very di>heartening to
see how most folks chucks 'em away
as soon as they've glanced at them
and personally nothing makes me
more d!sgusted than walking about
seeing on all sides the bills as they've
crunple1 up aud wasted.
"a shillln' Il day, Ike some OF tho
sandwich men, has been my usual
pay; hut thoa the job amt such a
hard one, because the police don't
mind your being on the pavement
now and again, whereas, il you have
got the boards on, they takes good
care as you stops iE the gutter"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-12-03

In its regard for forms the law is
often more nice than wise. This was
evidenced in the recent action of the
United States Court in New Hamp.
shire, which held an indictment bad,
hopelessly defective, and untriable,
because the bank from which the ac-
cused was charged with embezzling
money has described as "of Manches-
ter" instead of sat Manchester. "
There will be new indictments, prob
ably, and great deal Of expense and
time will be Incurred in remedying
what the ordinary layman would not
deem n defect. There should be Il
change in law or practice, so as to
permit the amendment of indictments
where amendment would not affect
the specific character OF the charge. =
Boston Transcript,