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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.
I Lea, University,of Georgia; George!
j Tyson and Jqel Kennedy, Wofford;'
Aspiring young flappers are now
said to be favoring a revival of old
songs, the* favorite being “Lindy,
Lindy, Won’t You Be Mine?”
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Examinations.
Competitive examinations for the
award of vacant scholarships in
Clemson College will be held on Fri
day, July 8th, 1927, beginning at 9:00
A. M., by each County Superintend
ent of Education, These scholar
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teen years of age or over, who de
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and Textiles. Scholarships are
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Persons interested should write the
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Each scholarship is worth 1100.00
and free tuition, which is $40.00 ad
ditional. Membership in the Reserve
Officers Training Corps—R. O. T. “C.
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These examinations may also be
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