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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01

This people, so enamored OF the grace
OF running water, OF the stones which
it polishes, and the yapors which it
exhalcs, declines 60 relegate its dead
to any underworld, where the
shades go moaning because they are
shades. Whether the worship Of the
dead preceded all other forms Of Wor-
ship, ! do not know; nor how long II
took the human race 10 bridge the
abyss between itself and them by the
traditional chain OF phantoms But
TIE Shint ism which proclaimed the
celestial origin Of the Japanese people
made haste TO confound the dead with
the gods who created the country. The
dead are the dearest and most revered
OF their kami To them are coniided
the succession Of the seasons the man
agemeut OF wind and rain, and Of good
and bad fortune They rule the realm
of the living, and live themselves IN
intangible but very real life. They
smell the flowers that have been culled
for them. and quench their thirst at
the cup Of cold water poured out for
their behoof They love music, dan
cling In short, which propi-
tlatos the celestial diyinities. The very
best painted OF japanese life, Bafcadio
Heurn. tells us the authentic story Of
dqnscuse whose lover died. and who
every night in her solitary cot at the
hour when he had been won't 10 visit
her. used 10 put on her most beautiful
apparel and smile and dance by lamp
light before his funeral tablet This
perpetual miracle Of the real presence
VI The dead, causes a prodigious devel-
opmcnt among these people Of the
sense Of the invisible. The japanese
sleep. wake, walk and talk In the soci-
ctv cf spirits The dead act upon the
living. and the living react upon them
and the world OF sense Is ineXtricably
mixed Up with the supernatural one
The Official Journal informs US, from
time % time. that the names OF gal
liant soldier have been promoted. r.
that the emperor has conferred high
fr rank on some deceased person whose
son has distinguished himself / have
seen Europeans laughing over such
things but they would not think of
laughing al the poet who said OF his
ancestors. III / write their history.
thew win descend from me-" Europeans
have their own Pantheons land the ca
tbolics their saintsl, and do they not
honor their famous dead by public pro-
motions In bronze or marble?
The ancient legislators OF Japan. who
compelled children 10 pay the debts Of
their parents, were but Incorporating
In the civil code the moral law OF Shin
tolsm. And in those remote times
when a man might sell himself without
incurring any infamy BY the sacrifice
of his personal liberty for laudable
motives. II was nevertheless decreed
that children selling themselves for
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01

every one, kamI The handiwork OF
men who resemble the gods may be
kami The air--that clear, life-gving
atmosphere OF Japln--is fun of kams
divine couriers who walt upou souls
at prayer. These worshipful beings,
who reveal themselves 10 the heart, as
The breeze is revealed TO the sense
must not suffer PROCLAMATION Cleanll.
ness in The house Is q simple act Of
pIety To soil the mating or to throw
anything impure into the ashes Of the
hibash would be an insult 90 the lnyis-
ihle one. We treat the coarse arti.
cles NJ our house furniture very rudely
We never endow them with life except
when We are IN a fage and vent our
anger In abuse Of them. Japan IL per-
haps the only country on earth where
persons are polite u things
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01
1.-THE RELIGIONS OF JAPAN.@

complacency ever bred In man BY his
own ignorance, For ages the poverty
Of japanese thought was perfectly
imaged there. where no soul ever
learned TO know It's own semblance.
Today IT'S broadening surface con.
tinues TO assure these people of their
divine pre-eminence. and " some have
ceased implicitly to believe good
many feel like that honest son OF jan
an who was travelling In foreign parts.
and suffered himself TO be exploited by
sharper as q grandson Of the Mlkado.
He was duped and 1eeced. Of course.
at every turn, but remarked when he
told me about It afterwards II knew
very well that II was not true. but II
fattered mel" Now Shinioism natters
the japanese on their lmpractlcabe
side, which Is that Of their insular
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01

ghosts are In the least like our spirits
Of darkness. II the japanese mind
has arrived at the conception Of GER
tain dualism In nature II has never
imagined eyil, absolute and eternal
The Spirits Of Peryersity, as they are
called, are not seeking to compass the
ruin Of the living. They are even, in
some sort sacred, because their influ-
ence, though mallgn. is an element in
the national atmosphere Moreover.
the harmful calculations Of certain iso-
lated tombs are carried of and rem
dered innocuous by that broadly be-
nevolent spirit which is the breath Of
lie IN Japan.
once knew, in South America. a
peasants son who became rich and
powerful and built himself a palatial
residence, surrounded By wonderful
portico In the very center Of the do
main, however, there was a poor little
cabin, and In Il an old woman sat and
span. II was the hut where the rich
man was born, and the old woman was
born, aud the old woman was his mo-
ther. And, in Ike manner the Japa-
nese. despite the influx OF Buddhist
magnlfcence. have piouSly kept sacred
10 the gods OF the soil their first loWly
dwelling which, though little better
than stable Is yet their traditional
sanctuary. II Is the sacred love of
country which renders imposing these
beams heWn In the forest, these pebbles
polished by the waves, this thatch
grown in the glebe. Sophists confused
by bad humanitarian dreams. have pre-
tended that patriotism Is an element OF
division, but ] know wen that If /
had II not ! should be farther removed
even than now from these men who are
so alien TO me In education and IN race.
Love OF country is the great Interpreter
Of hearts, and by this all comprehend
one nnOther.
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the benefit OF their parents should suf-
fer degradation that filial piety might
prove Itself ready for the hardest sac
ridce, and the merit of self-denlal be
enhanced by the seyefest Kind OF sut-
fering
Ancestors. transhgurel into GENT
viii admit foreign religions into the
home, on condition that the new gods
refrain from insulting the old a rude
or nl-conducted propaganda would be
sure to end In the revolt Of q fanati-
cism rather civic than religious, To
touch the dead "a TO stir up against
the intruder the very soil Of the coun-
try. Yet these multitudlnous dead
We're by no means All good people, ana
Il Is customary 20 appease by offerings
those who have left bad regulations
behind them Not that their peeyish
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01
FUNDAMENTAL RITE OF HY-
GENE.

Without Bible or dogma, or promise
OF a future life, ShIntosm holds It's dis
ciple 20 the earth, and bounds his
vision by the objects that surround
him, Those objects are beautiful. Men
tread in a sort " tranquil ecstasy the
floWery "way Of the gods, which
climbs mountains and drops into val
leys. but Is never lost 10 view HIS,
dales. forests. bright giimpses or
islands upon the bosom OF the dcep-all
take their color from the passing sea
son-the dark green Of summer the
autumnal crimson, Snow rails IN
springtlme, upon the sacred way
and winter has its perfumes. Even
the thunderbolts Of nature are launched
with a smile Amid all this light and
beauty the first necessity Of 'he human
being is 10 render himself worthy Of Il
BY scrupulous cleanliness OF body. He
breads anything ligc a stain-ihe stain
NJ birth and the stain OF death-all In
short. which Is able 90 deface The Ideal
nv pursues OF brilliant and perfect san
ity.
Hence the fundamental rite Of Shin
toism was a system Of hygiene. The
endless publications accompanying
birth and following upon funerals are
among the most persistent ~ The am
Client customs Salt Is habitnally scat
tered about a sick-chamber and over
the persons Of those returning from n
burial. Salt Is an eXpiatory antisepiic.
Religious ablutions have Transformed
themselves into daily home baths.
From the emperor down 20 the hum
hlest kurumaya. every Jap fakes his
morning dip. Dirt whether on the
person or In the surroundings, Is a
scandal; a mark Of negligence and al
most 81 sacrilege For the gods are
omnipresent and the word kami is APP
piled not alone TO creative dlvInitles and
the higher orders OF men The
mountain Is kami: the stormy sea Is
kami, the tree, the shrub, the fruit, the
flower. the stone. which all had the
gift OF language In the early time, are,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01

pride. But this very pride. which is
lnsufferable when they attempt TO phi
Josephine, becomes in the hearts of the
lowly only a conservative instinct and
a sacred love Of their natal soil Japan
ese ht--presumptuous and ster-
lie though II he-has living roots OF an
exquisite delicacy To estimate 1t at
its worth is to discover the secret Of
the country. If shintosm paialyzes
the speculative faculty In man, IA also
enables him to grasp two or three es-
sential principles Of which the form
Is made perfect by practice, and
which have sufiiced for the develop
ment II not Of a great people at least
Of a loyable, healthful and even power
full one.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01
coNFUcIUs AND BUDDHA.

But the doctrine OF Confucius, once
imported into Japan. was bound 20 be-
come speedily naturalizcd. Tor tho very
reason that the cult Of the Shinto, so
barren upon the speculative side, con-
tanned the germ OF a kind Of religious
positivism a memorandum was drawn
up Of the new articles OF belief. but
the Samurais OF Japan. clinglng heart
and soul 10 the old Shlntoist faith. were
content 10 spell out It's formulas from
the Chinese bible,
But though Buddhism was easily and
peacefully acclImatized among these
vain and optimistic islanders. and came
soon to overshadow their whole social
life. there would have been something
almost miraculous about the change.
were It not that Buddhism Is so often
merely the exploitation OF mystical
philosophy by impudent clerical casu-
lists. The recalcltrant gods who barred
the route Of these lnnoyators were
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01

fIIE Empire Oh
Japan contains
about three
hundred thou
sand temples
chapels and
sanctuaries -
Buddhist and
Shlntoist-- and
a hundred and
fifty thousand
priests, preach
ing frlars,
high priests
and h ig n
prlestesses. Its
highways are
full Of pill
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-20
AROUND THE COUNTY,

Carl Brewrink reports a yield of SO
bushels per acre from 40 acres OF red
Russian wheat.
A. OVERLY of Garfield has sold his
band of 1850 stock sheep to [. n. Nye of
Pullman for So a head, straight. Mr..
OVERLY has reserved his blooded sheep
and will buy Others and stock up again.
M. Meuli of ROsalia sold a carload of
horses last week for shipment to North
Dakota.
RosHlia has a case of smallpox on it's
hands, in the person of W. 0. Riggens.
He is in the pest house. Several other
cases are cOnvalescent.
E. E. Paddock finds it necessary to
build a large addition to his fruit ware
house at Pennington.
C. A. Whistler, according to the It'd
ings, has leased the old Farmers ALI
ance warehouse at Oakesdale and will
run fruit packing establishment.
j. B. Moody has rented the Thompson
& Holt warehouse at Oakesdale and a
large force has been at work packing
various kinds of fruit for shipment to
the northern country.
Pullman Herald: Ed. Kitzmiller, who
lives about two miles north of Pullman,
comes to the front with a record break
ing yield of oats. He claims 1900 bush
els from Is acres Six acres of the field
yielded 10 bushels per acre At 80 cts
per cwt., the present price for oats, these
six acres yielded gross income Of $780,
OS, or $31.6S per acre.
A school in telegraphy has been open
cd of the Agricultural Cnllppp
Leonard Nelson, employed by j. S.
Klemgard of Evansville, was thrown
from horse a few days ago, breaking
his left arm above the elbow He was
brought to the hospital at Colfax.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-20

The New Yorker contracts In time
what may be called the noise habit.
Noise with him becomes a dissipation.
His nervous system demands it. This
Is illustrated by the sensations he eX-
perienceS when he goes into tie woods
or mountains after a continuous stay
III the city for many months. His first
feeling is one of loneliness something
seems to have suddenly gone out of his
life. Every tree seems to say, why
nave you been so hot and noisy, my lit
tie sir| His sensations are somewhat
akin to those of a drunkard who has
been under alcoholic stimulation for a
long time and suddenly has his drink
taken from him. His whole nervous
system feels the lack of the irritation
and stimulation of the city noise, to
which it has become accustomed. The
stiffness actually appals and depresses
him.
The streets of New York are deep.
narrow channels, and they are growing
constantly deeper as the buildings in
crease in height. These large reflect
ing surfaces on three sides of him
make the condition of the man in the
street like that of the workman who
suffers from reflected noise while he
hammers rivets on the inside of a boil
er.-MunSey's Magazine.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-20
Four and Its Multiple of Ten.

The number four was anciently es-
teemcd the most perfect of all, being
the arithmetical mean between one and
seven. oman, the second caliph, said,
-Four things come not back-the SpO-
ken word, the sped arrow, the past life,
the neglected opportunity" In nature
there are four seasons, and the four
points of the compass.
Forty, multiple of four by ten, is
one of the sacred numbers The pro-
bation Of our first parents in the garden
Of Eden is supposed to have been 40
years. The rain fell at the deluge 40
days and nights, and the water re-
manned on the earth 40 days. The
days of embalming the dead were 40.
S0lomon's temple was 40 cubits long.
In it were ten LAYERS, each four cubitS
long and containing 40 baths.
Moses was 40 years old when he fed
into the land of indian, where he
dWelt 40 years. He was on Mount
Sinai 40 days and 40 nights. The Is
raelites wandered in the wilderness 40
years. The Saviour tasted 40 days and
nights before entering upon public life.
The same time elapsed between the
resurrection and the ascension.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-20
Ordinance No. 243.

An Ordinance requiring every owner of lot
or parcel of land situate within the limits
of the city of Colfax, Whitman county
Washington, and abutting on any street
or alley in which sewer shall have been
constructed adjacent approximate to
such property to make proper connections
between such property and sewer.
The city council of the city of Colfax do
Ordain as follows:
Sec. l. That every owner of lot or parcel
OF land situate within the limits of the city
OF Colfax, Whitman county, Washington, and
abuttlng on any street or alley in said city in
which sewer shall have been constructed ad-
Jacent or approximate TO such property, be
and Is hereby required to so connect, within
thirty days from and after the date on which
this ordinance shall go into effect, such pro-
pertY with such sewer in the manner only
that Is now or that may be provided therefor
by ordinance, resolution, or order of this city,
as to etfectually drain from such property into
such sewer all foeces, urine and LIQUID
Stops that may be thrown or deposited in any
sink or water closet used in connection with
such property, under penalty that in case of a
failure so to do this city will make such con-
nectlon and assess the cost thereof against such
property and enforce the collection thereof
Sec z That this ordinance shall take effect
and be In force from and after the sixth day
after its publication as by law required.
Approved as to form this 10Th dav of Sep
TENDER, 1901.
E; M WARNFR, fity Attorney
Passed September 10th, 1901
Attest. HOWARD BR AMWELL,
[sEAL City Clerk of COlfax, Washington.
Approved September 10Th 1901
JULIUS LIPPITT, Mayor,
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-20
\ Crank on Clothes.

Sir Harry Poland, a British mapis-
trate noted for his brilliancy. was al
ways careless in his dress. Once his
Iamiiy persuaded him to go to Poole
ana order fashionably cut suit. To
the chagrin of the household Sir Harry
looked more outlandish in the new
clothes than in his old ones His broth
eF-lh-laW went to see Poole about it.
1T is not my fault. sir" the tailor
assured him. Every care was taken,
but how could we fit a gentleman who
would insist upon being measured sit
ting DOWN."
And the only satisfaction that could
De obtained from Sir Harry Poland
himself later on was the dry comment:
Wen, it's my business and not YOURS
L IKE to be comfortable spend three
parts OF my life sitting down. and |
preferred to be measured So"
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-20
Summons.
No. S026.

In the superior court of the state OF Washing
ton, in and for Whitman county.
PENDANT
State of Washington, county of Whitman-ss.
The state of Washington to the said +
Swegle, defendant:
You are hereby summoned and required TO
appear IN the superior court of the state of
washington, in and for Whitman county, with
in sixty days after the date Of the first pubica-
tlOn OF this summons, tO-wit: within sixty DAYS
after the sixth day of September, 1901 and de-
fend the above entitled action in the above en-
Titled court, and answer the complaint of the
plalntlH In said action, and serve COPY of
your said answer on Trlmble and PattiSOn the
undersigned attorneys for plaintiff at their
Office in COfaX. in the county of Whitman
state OF Washington, and if you fail to appear
and defend said action and answer the com
plant OF the plaintiff aforesaid, within the
tllne aforesaid, judgment will be rendered
against you, according to the demand of the
said comp plant, which has been filed with the
clerk OF said court. The object of the above
entitled action is to recover the sum of eighty
dollars, with Interest thereon at the rate OF ten
per cent per annum from the 18th day OF Nav
1871, and the sum of twenty-five dollars at
tOrneyS lees, and costs of this action, upOu n
CERTAIN promlssOry note made, executed and de-
!lVered by above named defendant to plaintiff,
lot value received, said note being dated Nav
18th 1901; also, to perfect and have applied on
any Judgment rendered herein the proceeds of
certain real and personal property seized and
levied upon by the sheriff Of Whitman county
STATE OF W ashIngton, under and by virtue of a
writ of attachment issued out of the above
court, as will more fully appear by the return of
the said sheriff now on file in this action and
TO subject all OF said property to the lien of any
Judgment recovered herein.
Dated September 5th, 1901.
TRIMBLE Il PATTISON,
Plalntlfs attorneys, pOstOttce address, Col
lax, Whitman county, Washington.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-20
NORTHWEST NEWS.

The 1S,mOnthe' old child OF Arthur
DPvOnshire of MontesanO, was drowned
in pail of water last week 1t fell I'D
head foremost.
n. Loughenbaugh, a contractor. re-
turned To Seattle from Nome to find his
wife had fed Sunday. He had suspected
her of intimacy with ID. l.. Muir, local
broker LoughPnbaugh sought out
Muir at the latter's office and shot him,
iuficting flesh wound near the heart
He then sta bbed himself 5 times in the
body and neck with pocket knife
Both men will live.
The carrying capacity of the wheat
fleet now loading in Tacoma harbor Is
100000 bushels.
At Oily mpia, Hans Goldenberg, well
known stonemasoD, and suspected OF
being an anarchist, made disparaglne
remark concerning the dead preslden,
Saturday and was promptly knocked
down by a gentleman who overheard
him. 1t was five minutes before Golden
berg recovered consciousness.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-20
Notice for Publication,
Richard Fl Hutcheson.

Land Office at Spokane Falls, Wash, Sep
TENDER 18th, 1901 Notice is hereby given
that the following named settler has filed
notice of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof will
be made before W. W. Renfrew, the county
clerk and clerk of the superior court of Whit
man county. Washington, at Colfax, Wash
ington, on November II. 1901. viz: Richard
Fl. Hutcheson, who made Hid. Entry No.
10, 100, for the sci, Sec. %, Township IS n.
Rauge AZ, E. W. NJ. He names the follow.
ing witnesses to prove his continuous residence
upon. and cultivation of, said land, viz: F.
E. White, G. W. Follis, J. c. Wrede, E. l..
Burnhsm, all of st. John Wash.
WILLIAM h LUDDEN, Register.
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Desert Land, Final PrOOf.-NOtict
For Publication.

William Huntley, Assignee, James D. Miller.
United States Land Office, Spokane Falls,
Washington, August 10Th, 1901 Notice is here
by given that William Huntley, of Endicott,
Washington, the assignee of James D. Miller of
Spokane, Washington, has filed notice of inten-
ton to make proof on his desert land claim No
ten, for the East half of Northeast quarter and
East half OF southeast quarter of Section 80.
Township IL n Range 80, f. w. NJ, before
district of Washington, at his office at COlfax,
Washington, Saturday, the 10Th day of
October, 1901. He names the following witnesses
to prove the complete irrigation and reclaim
alton of said land: John H. ZOrnes, Charles
Bruihl, George Jordan, Walter Means, all of
WinOna, Wash.
WILLIAM II. LuDDEN. Register
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existing within the City of CoIfax to be
nuisances, and providing against their
construction or maintenance.
The city council of the city of Colfax do
Ordain as follows:
Sec. l. That every privy, privy vault, COM
mode, water closet, cess pool, sink, or any
other receptacle whatsoever of human excre-
ment or liquid slop, within the limits of this
city, which shall be OVERLOOKING, full. leaking,
sinking, filthy, offensive or in any state or
condition which may annoy, inure or
endanger the comfort, repose health or safety
OF any person, shall be and is hereby declared
a nuisance
Sec. z That every water closet, privy or
sink constructed and used in any dwelling
house or building within this city, and not
connected with a sewer where one has been
constructed adjacent approximate thereto
in the street or alley upon which such pro-
perty abuts, shall be and is hereby declared a
nuisance.
Sec. 3. That every person who constructs
or maintains any of the things that are in this
ordinance declared to be nuisances shall be
guilty OF mlsdeame amor, and shall be punished
therefore by fine not exceeding 1920 twenty
dollars, or by imprisonment in the city jail
for period not exceeding five days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment
Sec. 4. That the city marshal be and is
ti0A0oJ aoChohiZeu W auaIe any OF Ine CnlngS
herein declared to be nuisances.
Sec. 5. That this ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after the sixth day
after its publication as by law required
Approved as to form this 10th day of Sep
TENDER, 1901.
+. M. WARNER, City Attorney.
Passed September Is, 1901.
Attest. HOWARD BRAMWELI.
lsEALI City Clerk of Colfax, Washington.
Approved September 10, 1901
JULIUS LIPPITT, Mayor.