Japanese Superstition

The latest event in the religious world is the death, funeral and cremation of the chiefest priest of the largest and most powerful Buddhist sect in Japan. The funeral was attended by many tens of thousands of people from all over Japan. The person of this priest is so very sacred, and anything that has come in contact with it so very precious in its merit and powerful in itsefficacy to save, that every clrop or ine waiei used in washing the body after death was eagerly Bought for and gratefully received by the priests and laymen alike. Little bainboo joints were used as vials in which to receive and carry away the precious fluid. This water will be used as drops of saiiing elixir when the body of soine bnliever is washed for its burial- as a few drops of the attar of roses might be used in a bath- and the one receiving this washing will be insured a safe and happy entrance into the Juddhist paradise. Sad, sad, unspeakably sad, and yet millions of these people believe this to je