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•jrL — THURSDAY, JUNE liflii ^ THE BA&ITWBLL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA Local and Person^ Richard Odicme, Davidaon; James Staling*, Furman; Carey Chapman News from WillUton ^ Morris Wengrw, University ol x Sooth Carolina. In addition Messrs. 41.—?Mts. O. W. J. E. Yoonfblood and Yande C. WjWjherabea, by the National Oeosraphlb Society. Waahlnaton. D. C.) T HE burial of the l&te emperor of Japan at Asakawa, 80 miles from Tokyo, the “New Capital,” called to mind Koyasan, near the Inland sea, not far from the old cap- ; Ital, Kioto. Koyasan grew up when ^Buddhism was the national religion of Japan, and for centuries was the Jap anese Valhalla. In fact, despite the disestablishment It la looked upon as the national Interment place by mil lions. This greatest graveyard In the em- plrs is In the sacred green grove of cryptomeria crowning the summit of Mount Yoya, In Klshiu, some forty miles east of Osaka,, iu the heart of •the oldest Japan. The site was chosen 11 centuries ago by Kukal, the Tona priest, best known by his posthumous title of Kobo Daishl, a most conspicu ous and interesting figure In early Buddhism. Kukal had a miraculous 4>lrth; an' exciting novitiate, and, being sent to China as a government student, he succeeded to the mystic and occult doc trines of the yogi sect, as brought di rectly to China from- India by two Hindu patriarchs and transmitted through seven chosen abbots to him self. Before he left the seat of con tinental culture and learning, with his sacred books, pictures and articles of temple service, he hurled his mace, or tokko. In air, and, the story goes. It flew through space to land In the branches of a tree on Mount ,Koya— like the golden torje at Lhassa, which flew through the air from India. Guid ed to the spot by the celestial radi ance streaming from the tokko, Kukal fulfilled his vows of building a temple there, and for the final years of bis life he taught the mystic Hhlngon doc trines, the occult, secret laws. In the mountain-top monastery. One meets memorials and traditions of Kobo Dslshl In-every part of Japan, but at Koyasan he Is naturally all- pervading and supreme. That force ful person could have known no rest daring his brief span of 00 years, for ten men copld hardly have built'all the temples and the shrines, carved the statues, painted the pictures, planted the sacred flames, or per formed all the miracles attributed to him Atter s strenuous life of 60 years, he ahnounced the day and hour of his death. A great conclave of priests as sembled. vmd at the prearranged time the great abbot passed from medita tion to trance, and was borne to the waiting tomb, where he sits today, sleeping in the peace of Nirvana,* un til Maltreya, the future Buddha, shall come. For this reason the Shlngon Buddhists have believed that those who lie beside KoboTlalshl at Koya san shall waken with the sleeping saint, the entranced yogi, and With him pass to the»Great Pure LanA Draws Thousands of Pilgrims. After the lord abbot had fallen asleep on Koyasan In 838, he was canonized, given the posthumous title of Kobo Daishl (great teacher spreading about the law), and his tomb became a popular place of pil grimage. One hundred thousand pil grims visit his mountain-top tomb each year, and ten thousand and more climb the heights on the death anniversary, April 20. Many wait for that day to carry with them the tablets and ashes of thpse whom they would have trans lated to the future heaven with the saint, to Jodo, the Pore Land of Per fect. Bliss. Even very aged people will Insist upon the pilgrimage when they %re unable to walk, and are inled by ropes up the steep paths, ealous children supporting them, lifting and placing their feet for them, since real mCrlt cannot be acquired If one does not ntake the ascent on foot ' '• s *v “ Every great family In tlifr''<piplrrf has a monument or cluster of to! aton.es at Koyasan; the humblest may freely go and cast a fragment of a cremated body into the well in the Hall of Bones beside Kobo Dalahl’s tomb; and lhaia or mortuary tablets are deposited by thousands la the temples and monasteries on the moun tain summit where there are morning tod evening services In 5 honor of these dead souls.) , To found a monastery .end aortnery os Koyasan was aa act ef great merit and the height of alt re- Ilglous ambition. It was the chosen asylum, of those who would forswear the world, a refuge for retired and abdicated rulers, and Its cemetery be came the haveh of heroes, the abode of saints, a hall of fame. Riches and revenues, lands and treasures, were heaped on the mountain communities through all the teq centuries before the Restoration. Held sacred for 11 centuries, Koya san knew only-honor and an Increas ing accumulation of wealth until the Restoration, when, with the downfall of the Shogun and the dlsestablfsh- ment of Buddhism, neglect and Im poverishment came to the priestly commune. The lands were taken away, the rice revenue and tribute ceased, visitors and pilgrims were few, and the offerings scant The Restoration seemed to have sounded the downfall of the great es tablishment Old priests died of dis couragement -and hardships, some priests returned to their families, oth ers went out to active lay life, and the diminishing company on Koyasan’s summit eked out ’ a bare existence. The occasional surreptitous sale of a painting or art object from the enor mous store of such gifts accumulating and lying nnused for centuries sup plied pielr Immediate necessities. Enthusiastic purchasers boasted so loudly at the capital of treasures of art that suspicion fastened upon Koyasan. An imperial commission was deputed to visit Koyasan. Investigate, cata logue. and photograph what remained —all such objects thenceforth to be come definite and Inalienable “treas ures of the empire.” It was then that the great fire of 1888 providentially de stroyed neglected monasteries and go- downs suspected of spoliation. Prsservss Ancient Atmosphere. The remote, mountain-top monastery and necropolis has best preserved Its ancient atmosphere to this garish day of progress; has longest retained Its sacredness and seriuslon. Us atmos phere of old Japan and of true re ligious calm. The Kondo. or Golden hall, of Ko> yassen Is one of the roost splendid temple buildings In Japan, vast in out line and richly decorated In Its In terior. No horse nor wheel nor kago may desecrate this noble forest temple of the dead, and one mbit walk the sa cred ground from the first entrance bridge to Kobo Dalshl’a tomb.. ' The stone monuments of the early emperors stand on mounds of eqrth, the simplest memorials there, wljlle the Shogun lyemitsu has the most splendid monument on the mountain. The poets and painters of the great ages are all in evldehct, and the Lord of the Forty-seven Roolns and the pa triotic Il-Kamon-no-Karal, who opened 1 his country by the treaty with Com modore Terry and lost his life In ex piation of the deed, are also there, and great Salgo, with his heroes of the rebellion • of 1877, are there too. .AH the old feudal princes have their so- toba tombstones of Bizen granite, ac companied by stone lanterns that are lighted on memorial and festival days. The houses of Date of Sendai and Naheshlma of Hlzen have small memo rial temples In the village near the en trance of the cemetery, with priests' dwelling houses attached, where the members of those families stop when they come for interments and anni versary celebrations, where the tab lets are kept and tended. The grave of' the s traitor Akechl Mltauhide, a great granite sotoba split by lightning from the onion cap to the great heavy plinth and held In place by wooden braces, la a most eloquent witness of the wrath of the goda and x>f Kobo Daishl that he should venture there, and arrests the Japanese visitors more than «ny other monument The view aa one departs from Ko- asan by the Dal Mon, the great south la one of the renowned land- scapes''bC s £apan, and not the humblest pilgrim passes on without stopping on the plateau terrace outside the Dal Mon to look oat over'th^Jescendlhg woody foreground to the narrow val ley cutting southward, and* on i over all of Kllsblu province and the KU channel to the long point ef Awajl Island Cutting the Inland sea, with the Mot crests of the Sanukl mountains on the horizon. WDiieton, Whitaker visited Miss Mary Lindsley in Chester last week. Mr. and Mrs. C. B, Johnson, of Al lendale, were visitors here Sunday. Edward Riley, of Greenville, was visitor in Williaton for the week-etii Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McCue spent the week-end in Chariest m. y J. A. Newsom, of Jacksonville, Fla., wag a week-end visitor here. ' Dr. Hugh R. Murchison, of Col umbia, was the guest Sunday of Dr. and JM[ri W. C. Smith. Mr v and Mrs. Craton Bamberg and children, of Bamberg, were the week end visitors of Mrs. G. 1VJ. Toole. Miss Nina Frederick and Miss Jen nie Lou Folk are attending the South eastern Summer school in Bamberg. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Ussery, of Barnwell, were visitors Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Folk. Miss Bessie Thompson has return ed from Spencer, N. C., where she taught the past sessipn. J. H. Grimes and family^ of Au gusta, were week-end visitors of Mrs. R. L. Mims. ” - MiSs Nancy Hariey, who has been attending school in Aiken, is at home for the summer. J'ohn Murray!, of Charleston, Is visiting his aunt, Mrs. J. E. Kennedy. Mrs. J. F. Grandy and her daugh ter, Mrs. Jennie Morman, of Freder ick, Md., are visiting friends and rela tives in and near WilUston. C. L., Folk, ' of Savannah, spent several days visiting his niece, Mrs. W. C. Cook and other relatives Mrs. Kittle Lee McCreary, of Cam den, was a recent visitor of Mrs. J. C. Hair and other irelativee. Mrs. Lil Baxley, Miss Kahron Folk, of Columbia, and Craig Baxley, of BlhckviUie, were necnb \ds^tora of Mrs. W. C. Cook. .Mrs. Mamie Wamsley, of Birming ham, Ala., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Willis. E. Roseman and children, of Au gusta, and *Sol Herlick, of Birming ham, Ala., were recent guests of Mr and Mrs. David Rogol. Mrs. L. S. Mellichamp and grand son, John White, have returned from a visit “to Mrs. W. A. Hay, at Govan. Mis* Hattie Newsom accompanied Dr. and Mrs. Robert Black, of Bam berg, to Charleston for the Citadel commencement. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Lewis, of North Augusta, spent week-end with Mr, and Mrs. G. M. Toole. Mrs. Annie Weathers bee camo home with them Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Mathews, Mrs. M. P. Hii^vey, Mrs. J. E. Newsom and Mr. W. H. Phillis spent Monday in Augusta. From there Mr. Phillis left for his home in Shreveport, La. Miss Thelma Braselton left Friday for her home in Pendergrass, Ga. who graduated at Clemson and the Univarsity of Squth Carolina, -have returned to their homes here. Mr. Weathersbee was omg of twenty-four law graduates ad- "%nittad to the State bar ttys week. He has not announced where he will practice his profession. ’’‘Clubbing a Husband” is the title of a very humorous play to be given in the Wiltiston-Elko high school au ditorium next Tuesday evening, June 14bh, by the teachers and other talent of Langleys Tha play has made quite a hit wherever shown and is to ap pear in Augusta Monday night. It comes to Williston under the auspices of the Williston Men's Chorus club. after spending - week w>th Mrs. J. E. Kennedy. Miss Braselton wa.« teacher of Latin during the past ses- tfon at the WiUiskon-Elko High school. Mrs. L. E. Birt and Miss Maggie Birt have (returned to their home in Laurinburg, N. C., and were accom panied by Miss Annie Lou Hair. O. N. Courtney and daughter, MUs Marguerite Courtney, accompanied by Mr. D. BeO and daughters, Ethel and Irene, of Montmorenci, are spending several weeks in Indian Springs, Ga. M. M. Player, the popular princi pal and athletic coach of the past four years, left Williston last week to accept, a position with the Camp bell-Coxie Co., of Asheville, N. Mr. Player’s leaving was deeply re gretted by all in this section, as he has made a great contribution in his school work and his work among the boys of this section. Mrs. M. E. Youngblood and he: sons, Messrs. Norman, Clinton am Alvin Youngblood, motored to Clem son Sunday to attend the Clem sen commencement exercises. Mrs. Young blood's son, Capt. J. TCmmott Young Mood, is president of the senior class and a graduate in agriculture. He returned with them. Messrs. Harry Cone and Q. A. Ken nedy, Jx., have returned f n*.m a mot jr trip which took them up the valley of Virginia, through Pennsylvania to Buffalo, New York City, Boston and other interesting points. Mrs. Harvey Black and little daugh ter are visiting Mrs. Hawthorne in Holly Hill. " Miss Anna Baker Black left Willis ton Thursday for Savannah where she and Miss Helen Weiesinger, of, Btockville, wil b£_attendants upon! “Miss Barnwell!," (Mias Elizabeth! Deaeon, of BarnwelTF in the Water., Carnival to be held there June 10th and 11th. The following boys have returned j college to spend their summer vacation 4q Willkrton: Robert E. 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