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(Copyright. lXfl, by Krnli O. Carpenter.)
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K of The Beo. ) I am told that
I Dip Japanese IIulJhlHtB are
aniuii to uuua lempie in
Seattle. It will have a huge
sitting statue of Buddha aa an
ohjf.-t of worship and all the up-to-date
characteristics of a modorn church. The
Buddhist have began to send their ml
alonarlea to our country. They have sta
tions In the Hawaiian Islands, Kan Fran
cIhco, Los Angelrs and Boston, and I un
derstand a Japanese priest Is to be sent to
work In Philadelphia. They have or
ganized several Sunday schools in Japan,
and some of the sects are now using the
Sabbath as their favorite preaching day.
They have established some young men's
associations on the plan of our Toung
Mn's Christian associations, and thoy are
educating their priests. They have
founded schools for this purpose, and have
sn-callod universities in which something
like .vy sl-idents sre In attendance. Their
schools are along liberal lines, and are by
nn mpflirs confined to the Buddhist doc
trines. They study all religions, and tn
some schools the Bible is used as a text
nook. They occasionally have our mis
sionaries to lecture for them, and there are
Christiana among their teacher. The Bud
dhists here have recently sent priests to
Tibet to bring back the secrets of the re
ligion from that country. There were three
who wnt, and only one has returned, the
others having been murdered by the Tib
tans. MUllens for Baiddklam.
Tnderd. no one can atay long in Japan
and look upon the native religions as entirely-
dead. These people are naturally re
ligious and they spend enormous sums in
support of their faith. There Is great lib
erality of thought among the upper classes,
but the masses are temple worshipers and
every house, has Its shrine. There are In
all Japan, I venture, more places of wor
ship than in the t.'nlted Btates. In all our
denominations we have Just little more
than Mo.000 church organizations, and these
Triumph
tOTINO
ITH tb r-empietfon to the Pa-
I A ri osfio coast la the near future
W I tn extension of the Chicago,
sanwuM a tK. t'aui railway
(now kaown aa the Chicago,
aUIwauka Puget Sound
railway) en more of the great railroad
system of the west will ba entitled to
rank aa a transcontinental Una For the
beginnings of thl great railway system
we must go back to the year 18(3. when
the Minnesota Central, now known aa the
Iowa and Minnesota division of the Chi
cago. Milwaukee tk St. Paul railway, waa
completed to Faribault. Minn. Thl road
r. ached tb Iowa Una In 1MM. and was
completed to St. Paul In 1S67. Sine that
time the growth of the system ha been
rptd, the total mileage reaching 4,721 miles
In 1K4. .0i mile In ISL'J, 6,Ss2 miles In
IS. 7.3M mile In IW, and 7,451 miles In
ltt. The total length of th extension
now being completed from th Missouri
river to the ccat Is I.400 miles, and by
the time it is opened the total mileage of
the whole system will have reacherd ,0u)
miles.
it la probable that by th time of It
completion th new line will have created
a record for rapidity of construction. Work
was begun in April. 1!WS, and If th expec
tation of th engineer and contractor
are fulfilled, tha last main Una rail will
be laid by April L 1, and th whole
' stretch cf 1.409 mile will have baea byllt
in tlie remarkably short time of '
years. During thl period 6a.GUC,Wubio
yard of material will have been ex
cavated, MO.OOO yard of tunnel driven, 30
. milaa of bridge erected, and M0.000 ton
uf 86-pound rail laid, at a total cost of
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in Japan Adopts Christian Methods and
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Include Catholic and Protestants, Monro
vlans and Dunkards and also the forty
seven Chinese Buddhist and the nine Jap
anese Buddhist and Shinto establishments.
Here there are 195,000 shrines alone and
more than 160,000 temples. There are more
than 1,000 temples In this city of Kyoto and
some, of them are far more grand and more
costly than any church of the United
Btates. Our national library, which is per
haps the finest building of Its kind In the
world,- cost Just J6.000.000. The Higashl
Ilongwanjl temple of Kyoto cost W.000,000
and it was about eleven years In building.
It covers about as much ground as the
capltol at Washington and Its greet audi
ence room takes 950 yards of. matting t
carpet t.
The temple Is an Immense building with
a ridge roof, which slopes downward In
the shape of a bow, overhanging the walls.
The roof is upheld by mighty beam and
the interior Is a mass of carving. The
walls are made of sliding screens, upon
which are paintings by old Japanese mas
ters, and the ceilings are of richly painted
panels framed In lacquer, with brass lan
terns, each as large as a hogshead, hang
ing from them. During a recent visit to
the temple I saw 1,000 men, women and
children sitting on their bare heels listen
ing to a bald-headed priest reading a ser
mon, and as they went out I saw each of
them throw one or two coins Into the great
money chest which stands there always
ready for contributions. This temple has
an Income of about $200,00 a year and a
celebration which It had a few years ago
In honor of the death of one of Its patri
archs cost almost a million. At one time
the temple needed a loan of tW.OOO for a
term of six months and It Is said that one
of the Japanese banks advanced the money,
taking the key of the contribution box for
security. At the end of every week the
bank sent an official to the temple, and he
had back alt of that money, including the
Interest upon It, long before the note was
due.
Clave Their" Hair to Rndriha.
Buddhism as a religion has little esteem
for women. One of the sects has a eaylng
of the Railroad Builder in Overcoming:
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TRACK AT THE RATE OF FIVE MILES
Tha new line, being the latest of th
transcontinental roads to b built, has alt
tha advantage which come from accumu
lated experience In the construction f
similar road that have already been built,
From the standpoint of operation, the most
Important Question Is that of grades, and
particularly what 1 known aa the '"ruling
gTade," this last being the maximum de-
gree of grade occurring on any given
stretch of the line. No matter how short
Its extent may be, the ruling grade de-
tenntnes the total weight of train wlileh
can be hauled over the division upon which
the ruling grade obtains. If a short stretch
of only a quarter of a mil of t per cent
grade occurs on a division of say 100 miles,
wher there la no stretch of grade exceed-
lng say 0.6 per cent, the maximum train-
load must be reduced on that division to
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BUDDHIST PRIEST.
that the sins of any good woman are
greater than th se of the thousand, worst
men who have ever lived. Nevertheless,
Buddhism came into Jupnn through a
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the maximum which an engine can haul
unassisted ovt-r the short stretch of 1 per
cent grade, or additional pusher engine
must be maintained at the ruling grade to
assist the trains over this Quarter of a mile
of track. The new line, however, 1
characterized by favorable gradlenta and
easy curvature. Between the Missouri
river and Murmarth. N. D . the ruling
grade eastbound Is 0.6 per cent, and be-
tween Marmarth, N. D., and Melstone,
Mont., a distance of 235 miles. It ts 0.4
pvr cent. From Melstone, Mont., to Har-
lowton, Mint., 104 miles, there is no ad-
verse eastbound grade; tho entire distance
being a very gradual descent conforming
to the valley of the Musselshell river. Th
maximum grade of the Montana railroad,
when revised, will be 1 per cent. Be-
tween Lombard. Mont., and Piedmont,
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woman and It U supported largely by
women. The woman who brought It hra
was the Knipress Jlngo who conquered
Corea centuries ago, and In consequence
Mont., the maximum castbound grade I
0.3 per cent, and between Piedmont and
Butte, crossing the continental divide, the
ruling grade Is V.G8 per cent, compensated,
as In all other Instances, fcr curvature.
Between Butte and the Bitter Root moun
tain tha line follow the Deer Lodge,
Hell Gate and Missoula rivers, and the
ruling eastbound grade I 0.4 per cent, ex
cept between Deer Lodge and Butte, where
it la 0. per cent. The Bitter Root moun
tain are crossed with a maximum grade
of l.T per cent, and from there to the Co
lumbia river the maximum of 0.4 per cent
Is maintained. Johnson Creek summit,
about twenty miles west of the Columbia
rtvtir, is crossed w'th a maximum east
bound grade of 1.6 per cent, and the Cas
cades will be crossed with a maximum
of 1.7. On the approach to the Cascade
from Puget sound the maximum grade I
0.1 per cent.
Th new line begin' at the town of Mo
brldge In South Dakota, and crosses the
Missouri at a point about 100 miles due
west of Aberdeen by a handsome steel
bridge, which forms the subject of one of
our Illustrations. It is carried upon four
concrete and atone piers, the foundation
for three of which were put In by the
pneumatic caisson process. Pier No, 3 was
sunk to a depth of 90 feet Indies below
low water. Th bridge consists of a steel
through-truss span of 128 feet on the ast
approach, followed by three steel tlu'ough-
truss spans, each US feet 4 Inches In
length, which form th main bridge. Tha
west approach consists of 281 feet of steel
viaduct and 1,89 feet of timber trestle,
The filling of the. timber trestle will be
completed thl season. After crcsslng the
Missouri the line parallels the state line
through the Standing Rook Indian reserva-
tlon, and awlnga Into North Dakota, touch-
lng several small towns. Including Mar-
marth, on the Little Missouri river, whera
on of the division point will be estab-
llshed. Thence, it proceeds to Terry,
Mont., on the Yellowstone river, and four
mile to tha writ of Terry It crosses the
Northern Pacific by an overhead bridge,
and follow tha line of the Yellowstone
river to Mile City, Mont., where large
division terminals are being built. The road
paksea through the valley .'of the Mussel-
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TWO-WILLION-DOLLAR BKHXJIC ACROdH THE MIiiiOL RL
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li.troduced the religion of that country,
The women who are supporting It form a
large proportion of the Japanese peopl-v
I see them tramping in crowds on pll-
CUT ABOUT FOURTEEN MILES
ihell river, and at Harlowton Jolna th
Montana railroad, cn which a large amount
of work has been done In the way of re-
ductng grades and curvature to accommo-
date the expected heavy traffic. At Lorn-
bard the new Hue again crosses the North-
em Pacific railway, and then climb th
great continental divide between Piedmont
on the eastern side of the Rockies and
the city of Butte on the west. At an eleva-
tion cf 6,350 feet, the road pierces the
mountains at the head of Pipestone pass,
The summit work Includes two tunnels,
respectively 2,268 and 1,148 feet in length,
and three steel trestles over ravines from
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grlmuges to the vsrlous shrines, I find
them praying by the roadsides, and they
are In evidence In every temple. One of
the most remarkable examples of their
faith Is shown in the Hlgaahl Hong
wsn.1t structure, to which I hav Just re
ferred. The building was made largely
by voluntary work on the part of the peo
ple, and women by the hundreds aided in
It. They not only gave their wjrk, but
thousands of them cut off their hair as an
offering to Buddha, and this hair waa
twisted and braided into great cable to
drag the logs, of which the temple Is built.
A big coil of these ropes now He outside
the temple door, and I had a chance to
carefully examine them. Some were so
large that when 1 tried to clasp them with
my hands my thumbs and fingers would
not meet. I pressed upon them, and they
were as solid as cables of wire. They wers
as dry as ropes of manila hemp. All the
oil had gone out of the hair and It looked
more dead than alive. There was an enor
mous quantity of these ropes, and the
priests told me that they contained the
lecks cf 200,000 women. As I looked 1
could see that they represented all ages.
In some places the fine silky ivck hair of
ttie maidens was twined In and out with
the whitened lock of old women, and at
the ends of the cables, wher the strand
had become loosened, the hair hung down
like the tail of a horse In mixed white
and black manes. One cable alone con
tained the hair of 2,000 women. When It I
remembered that the hair uf the Japanese
girl is her chief adornment, and that she
prizes It even more highly fiian our maid
ens do theirs, it will be seen what this
offering means.
Mkko and Shlba.
Kyoto hss other temples almost as large
as the Nishl HangWanJI, and there are
ome which are even more beautiful In
the eastern part of the empire. Take
those which contain the tomb of the
shogun at Shiba In Toklo. They are
devoted to the worship of Shinto, and are
a mass of carving and work of fine art.
They are more like great Jewels than
Mountain Barriers
WEST OF ST. PAUL TUNNEL ON THE
100 to 180 feet deep and from 400 to 000 feet
wide. From Butte the road will pass via
of th broad and fertile Deer lodge val-
ley to Garrison and Missoula, Mont., and
at Hangan, ti nt., will commence th
long climb over th Bitter Root mountain
range. At the summit it will pass through
a tunnel 1,761 feet In length, and after
crossing St. Paul pass at an elevation of
4,100 feet It will pass through th famous
Coeur d'Alene district. At Beverly, Wash.,
the line reaches the Columbia river. The
last stretch of the new road passes through
tha virgin timber lands of Snoqualmlo pass
lo tha Cascad mountains, which are prob-
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piece of Japanese architecture. T'.iy
are gorgeou with gold leaf, palntlnc
and carvings of lacquer, plated wllh gi i
One goes through courtyard after co-ni-yard,
through roofed gates lOO feet IiikIi.
and enters a building floored with laiqu i
like Jet, so bright that you can see your
self In it. The temple steps re more
highly polished than the top of any phuio.
and their legs are bound with caived briips
cf beiuliful patterns. Inside there are
great urn of gold lacquer as big around
a a flour ban el, and you stand unoVr a
mass of carvings, upheld by pillars of brass
Inside walla of gold. It Is behind tl es.i
structure that the ahogun lls. hi tomb
being a single block of gray granite, hIioiii
five feet by ten feet In size.
At Nikko there are other temples, even
more wonderful, some devoted to the
worships of Shinto and others to Buddha,
put up In commemoration of some of the
great heroes of Japan's past.
gome Mlahtjr Statnea of Bnddhn.
Rvery one has heard of the statue of
Buddha at Kamakura. I have spent ;i
week In Its shadow during my stay In
Japan. It Is an immense sitting figure,
made of bronze plates, so fitted together
that it looks as though It were cut out by
a sculptor, and forming altogether one of
the great art woiks of the world. The
figure Is enormous. It is as high as a
five-story house, and from knee to knee
it measures thirty-five feet. Its eyes or
of pure gold and they are more than three
feet In length; while the cars are so lonn
that if you stood In the hole of one of the
lobe you could not reach the top. This
Buddha has a mouth a yard wide. H
face Is eight feet long and its thumb in
Just one foot In thickness. Its beautiful
head Is covered with what looks like curls,
but which the Japanese tell us represent
snails. Tradition says that Buddha wan
so kind to all animal cteatlon that the
anails. a an evidence of their gratitude,
crawled upon his head to shield him froy
the sun. There are more than S00 suA.
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NEW MILWAUKEE COAST LINE.
ably the richest timber lands In the state
of Washington; nd then, following th'
Cedar river valley o Maple valley. It
run Into the populous and thriving cities
of Seattle and Tacoma on the Parlfie
coast. The line to Tacoma runs throun'i
Kent and Auburn, pusses through Suinr.. r
and North Puyallup, crossing the rjver "i
that name, and then entering the fumoiM
eaport of Tacoma.
Although for a coiiblderable portion of in
distance the new line traverse approxi
mately the same country as the Northern
Pacific, for the greater part of the distane
It will open entirely new sections. In which
are Included some large area of frrtl!
agricultural country, and extensive dis
. trlcts that nr rich In mineral and furef
wealth. The new line will have .in advan
tage over ttie present lines to North l'.t
rifle coast points in lower grades and
shorter mileage. The development of lie
country through which It rasxes. and tl.
carriage of freight and passenger to ai l
from th large area which will be tnli
tarlea to the line, are not by any me n.
the sole object for which It has 1" r.
built. It promoters are looking l.ewnd
the broad Pa;lflc, In the expectuiinn cf
baring that large and ever aerumnla'h 1
trade, which lias already assumed ronsi"
erable proportions, between th orient and
the leading porta of the northwest. Traffic
arrangements have already been, made win,
certain line of (learner to operate In
connection with the new traascoatrBaatal
rout.