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It is a "feat" because the first . great dome built without false work or scaf- folding.- Cantilever bridges involving the same principle are built of sections of ready made steel frame work, trusses of steel held in place by rods, bolts and braces as the struc- | ture progresses. But the mighty vault above | St. John's was built bit by bit over nothing, 200 feet above the church floor. When archi- tect Gustavino began preparations to work up there with a handful of men, builders call- ed him foolhardy, said it was an impossible ter full moon the 14th day of the moon and a Sunday (sun's day). Thus, the 17th April, in the calendar of Caillippus was the 13th da of the moon, and a Jewish Saturday. . The Passover was always celebrated on the 14th day of the moon next following the sol- ar ingress into the first degree of Aries, the vernal equinox, and it must always, by law, as shown on the calendar calculated by the priesthood. In the Julian year 74, the suu en- tered Aries at 5.26 p.m., on March 22, a Tues- day. The new moon following was at 1.19 p.m. April 2, at Saturday. Full moon, then, falling on the.17th at 7.41 'am. shows Ter- tullian, the Latin historian, to be .correct in affirming that the Passover feast was on the 18th oft the calends of April. Again; says Prof. Weston, modern ecclesias- tical "&uthorities on chronelogy find it impos- sible to assume that Christ was born later than 4 B.C, and Tertullian clearly states the nativity occurred in the forty-first of the Augustan monarchy and the twentyseighth af- ter the death of Cleopatra, therefore in the 750th year: of Rome, or 4 B.C. Christ reach- ed 33 years of age, for His ministry began the third year before the crucifixion. Prof. Wes- ton deems it impossible to set any other day for\the crucifixion than Monday, April 18th, Juhan year, 74. ~ AWIFE'S MESSAGE: Cured Her Husband of | Drinking. 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Beginning at the bot- tom course, the first six or seven thicknesses of tile were laid one over_the other breaking joints, in a special cement of-plaster of paris. The next course, faid in Portland cement, was held in place hy overlapping the tile be- low; without the aid of girders or scaffolding, | thus saving thousands of dollars by dispensing with costly false work and heavy staging. Most of the experts considered the young man's project visionary and sure to end in dis- aster, with death to his men when it lapsed, for it had to support not only workingmen, but the heawy building materi | required each day. The from the four massive skeleton arches 62 feet square, of solid gran- i rising 145 feet above the street, With clear span of 85 feet 1 } the iillions of h 425 feet from the pave- on dollar cathedral itself mensions. of 520x280 feet, plan Wark begun ago. The and choir and sanct "The four great @ of one hundred feet ex t dome, from its four | already making a_vast cathedral chamber to open into the nave and transepts, for St | John's is in form of a cross. The d feet in diameter, is one of the f domes the world constructed of masonry. The Panthe Rome, the Targest, is 142 feet Peter's, 139, and the Duomo, at about the same. The Masque of Sophia is about 115 feet, while the famous { dome of Paul, in London, is only 112 feet { When finished a great dome is the most beau- tiful thing in architecture. No wonder Emer- son "The hand that rounded Peter's dome wrought in sad sincerity." s of col- dome springs I'hese four arches will huge tower an pounds, carry 1d spire, shooting above e and ch [he ten m extreme cruciform in was walls which rises me, rence, said, \ One great obstacle encountered by tt} men working aloft was the heavy wind exposed heights of Morningside Park » brave n the More th C 2 it seemed 'as if men 1 tiles, would be the alm regrets, te 1 unde 3 1aer , impressive vault, t everything, swe from r at the on is to be removed fwhen great spre, rising from another d ne 2 hun dred feet above the present one, ds finished The present dome will 'serve a donble pur- | pose--enclose the great space under the dome utting in mes® and building proceed without interferir or imperilling the life of : Thére is wisdom ia , the en the two d 11 wil Prof. L. makes fate of date ot ntere the in the cruce st on 7 t noon, n by Jewish he Jews the day began at sunset, hence of. Cail invariably Hppus calles and de I-Japs REAL STATE OF JAPAN. Christianity Is Proving 'Most Acceptable To The Japanese Mind. In a picturesque little town in the heart of Sugsex resides temporarily the man who has beén signally honored by the Emperor of Japan. For thirty-two years 'Rev. John Batchelor has been the agent of the Church Missionary Society among the little-known Ainu 'pebple, and in a few months he will re- turn to tlie. Far East to live among, them. Hale and hearty; vigorous and alert, flowing white beard, he has a commanding personal- ity. He will carry with distinction the Order of the Sacred Treastre. The Ainu are the ab- origines of Japan, driven north by the Japan- ese and. south by the Russians, till there are only 15,000 left. So rapidly is their language dying out, that the New Testament which Mr. Batchelor translated ten years ago is als most obsolete. They are nature' worshippers to the fullest extent--birds, bears, and other animals being the objects of veneration. Sha- manism used to be a strong feature of their religion. Fetish worship is still in vogue among them. The Japanese, Mr. Patchelor says, have been quick to find the utilitarian, but in no case where Japanese ideas and customs are supposed to be better than Causasian or European do they change their own. Japan has had a good civilizition for one thousand years, and what they have adopted from Eur- ope has not superseded their own civilization, but has been =super-imposed upon it. The worst features are found among the Young -|.students, brought through: Agnosticism from Eurgpe and America. ~ This Agnosticism cuts | at root of their own religion, but supplies corners | noth in its place; hence so much%despair among the students. Yet the keen about education, and for lec- tures, but will adopt no man's opinion without th 1 investigation. are tianity -is proving -acceptable to -the nd, but I do not mean ecclesias- y will take the Scriptures for themselves, and will work out a church pol- ity which will be purely Japanese. Even now, all the Japanese denominations, with the exception of the Roman Catholics and {Re Greeks, live in near brotherhood, interchang- ing platforms and joinihg- in mission work. Church autonomy will come in time. Ewen now there are numbers of entirely independ- ent churches supported wholly by Japanese money, and the day is not far distant when ative members will have their own 1d clergy. I have great hopes of hurch of Japan, for their moral and re- standards are high, and because the is becoming MSs and, less the church arsory and more and more the church 1e people. It is the people who are tak- gs; they are working towards of vox populi, vox Dei. ure of the' Far East Mr. Batche- was no explicit. China and Japan n the end will stroke hands, and live on therly terms, though there may be strife st. That may not be a menace, but it is certainly a. warning to the nations of Europe. \ mutual understanding between China and Japan will inevitably raise the question wheth- the wdrld is to be dominated by the East the West. The treaty with Great Britain been of good. service; the commercial, political and religious outleok is good, and if the friendly relationship is maintained it will jp do-much to preserve the peace of the world. 1e 1 Ie 1 less that when soul wv the sake -of mankind we sect is not a mosquito. e * 81 pS OS i i 1 be the busiest mosquito in ten continents. be celebrated on the 14th day of the moon,' enter the body it would NESW sve WHIG, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1909. STILL MOURNING § CHIN OVER THE LATE EMPEROR AND THE GREAT EMPRESS DOWAGER. No Man Can Shave His Head During the Period of Mourrfing--Not a Finger Nail Can Be Pared or a Marriage Ceremony Performed. F. G. Carpenter in Buffalo Express. The Chinese are still mourning the Em- peror and the great Empress dowager. The Emperor has had two funerals, and he will have a third before finally laid away in the great western tombs. His monument there will' cost $1,000,000." The remains of the dowager lie in a lacquered coffin in Pekin. Her tomb will cost more than that of Kwang Su, and her funeral expenses will run-high in- to the millions. It is almost a year since the deaths, but mourning will last for three years, and during that time the highest of the im- perial clan will keep on sackcloth and will have regular periods of wailing. ] The death of a monarch means much to th: Chinese Empire. Those alone who under- stand the reverence these people have for their rulers 'and their holy feeling for ances- tral worship can appreciate what has been going on for ten months. What would our people think if the government should send out an edict that for one hundred days every man in our whole country should go about unshaved; that every woman should take off her. finger rings, earrings and all other jewel- ry, and every man, woman and child should lay away bright colors. Suppose the procla- mation should provide that during that time not a face should be touched by the razor, not a lock of hair cut, not a finger nail pared. Suppose all feasting and love making should be forbidden, and marriage prohibited within twenty-seven days. This was the condition of China at the first of the year, and the police were instructed to see that the regu- lations were kept; all who broke the new laws were fined or sent to prison. The mourning was especially hard on the barbers. . Supposing China to have a popula- tion of 400,000,000, there are half that number of men and boys, each of whom has his head gone over with a razor twice a week. The Chinese gentlemen would rather go unwashed than unshaved. Now, when one has shaved his head from his babyhood the hair grows like a bamboo sprout. The result was that a week or so after the mourning' period began these millions of Chinese scalps were cover- ed with bristles and looked like a shoe brash. The barbers, numbered by millions, had no- | thing to do; in some places they came so near starving that the government advanced them money until the mourning period was over. Here and there a man broke the laws and had his head shaved. All such who were*dis- covered were punished. In Tien-Tsin a clerk in one of the banks shaved his head thrée days after tle death of the Empress Dowager. He was arrested and fined $250 in silver. This is equal to over $100 gold, and it was one of the costliest shaves upon earth. In Pekin, a young Chinese dandy went to a barber and begged for a shave. The barber feargd he would be arrested, and the dandy thereupon promised to stand all the fines. = The head was half shaved when a policeman came in and took both barber and customer off to the court, The judge imposed a fine of $30 upon each, The dandy paid the fines, and as a favor wa; allowed to have the other side of the head shaved. This custom of stopping shaving goes back to the days of Chien Lung, the second great emperor of the present dynasty, who started it when his favorite wife died. The imperial deaths had a serious effect upon the women of the empire. The laws provided that they must take off their jewelry within three days and lay aside their silks and satins for thrée months. All wore dull colors, and some clad themselves in white. It was against the laws to wear red, and any woman found on the street with a red gown was ordered back home. A young Chinese lady disregarded the law and started out to call, wearing red slippers, A policeman saw her as she crossed a muddy place in the street. He stopped her and pulled off her shoes, and she tramped back in her foot wrappings, al- though the temperature was then about freez- ing. Another regulation prohibited the paint- ing and powdering of the face. This was severe on the Manchoo girls, who plaster their complexions with white and tint them with raquge, as well as upon the Chinese, most of whom do likewise. + The regulation that abolished marriages for twenty-seven days xreategd---consternatiom--It was known two days beforéhand that such an edict would be issued, and during that period there was an epidemic of weddings. Every city and town had scores of them, and al- though Pekin was shrouded in gloom on ac- count of the deaths, the other cities were alive with weddings and their festivities. In the hurry the brides and grooms were some- times mixed up. According to Chinese cus- tom, the groom furnishes the clothes for his bride, and seldom sees her before the wedding. She always comes veiled to the ceremony. At a wedding at this time in Tientsin, when the bride unveiled, the groom said: "These are not the clothes which I furnished." "And that Lis net-the-girk-}-chese for you, id the matchmaker. It was then discgugfed that two weddings were slated for that night im the same block, and that the wrong brides had been carried in their closed chairs to the wrong grooms. It took considerable money to buy the officials to untie the:knots and] bring the right couples together. For a certain time after weddings were re- sumed it was prohibited to use music in con- nection with them, and during the period of deep mourning all noisy festivity was punish- ed. A high Chinese scholar of Pekin who played the banjo was fined $500 and given 23 lashes. In Wuchang d Greek had been grant- ed the right to open a biograph show for a month. He had just begun: to exhibit his 'motion pictures when the imperial deaths oe- curred. The officials said the show must close, and the Greek was paid $1,250 in lieu of his loss. In this same town of Wuchang, just opposite Hankow, the police were given scisshrs the day the mourning began and were instructed to cut. from the caps of the men every red button they saw; they were order- ed also to cut into pieces any red clothing that might be worn. * An offic n this same region shaved his scalp contrary to law. He was put into a cangue, anfl a board framework fitted ¢, extending so far omt that he could net touch his head with his hand. The police smeared his scalp with pitch and turned him foose on the streets. Among the-Chinése the decpest grief is around hi . : o nn - - § represented by white nnd half-mourning by blue. Red and. gold are the emblems of re- joicing. The day after the death of the Em- peror an edict was sent out that the red buttons must be changed on the caps of men and boys for white or blue buttons. ; The offi cials came out in white sackcloth, many in gowns of white sheepskin, with the wool on the outside, Then dn edict was sent forth that for three years no furs, except the white sheepskins, could be worn by the officials. This seriously, affected the fur market, sables Land other "costly furs going down like a shot. Most furs are a drug on the market, and some of the merchants have been ruined by the Emperor's death. An American bought .a sable robe worth $2,000 for. $320. He got a tiger skin for $60 and fox skins for almost nothing. The only furs in demand are lamb- skins and sheepskins. The official who dared come out in gay clothing Jost his office. government officials who wore gold watches during the mourning were fined. All of the gentry, in addition to not shavir their heads, braided blue and white cords\ into their queues, and most of the government clerks went about with sackcloth gowns tover their ordinary dress, the same being tied with white sashes. Indeed, for the last year, the most commoh costume worn by the officials has been white. Many have left off their peacock feathers, and those who wish to acquire merit have covered up their embroidery, and have even donned sackcloth. er : The putting on of mourning has not been confined to the people. Many things material, ordinarily red and gold, have been covered with blue and white. At the railroad stations the baggage carts had blue paper pasted over them, the trolley cars of Tientsin have used white flags instead of red, and for a time they Jad white cloths over the red signs on their sides. For one hundred days after th® Em- peror died every policeman and student in China wore a wide white band around his left arm, and for a few days every merchant put a table covered with a white cloth on the street in front of his shop. This table contained two mourntng candlesticks of white pewter and a pewter bowl, in which sticks of incense were burned. blue paper, on which new signs weré painted, and even the numbers on the doors. or door- plates were made white and blue. It was so everywhere. The carts have blue cushions, and thy passenger wheelbarrows, which usual- ly have red blankets; were covered with blue. There were many queer things about the mourning at the palace, Pekin. For many days after the Empress dowager's death her 3000 eunuchs went dressed in white. The buttons were taken off their caps, and they looked like yellow-faced ghosts. The officials went to the palace in chairs covered with blue, or in carriages with blue wrappings. The highest officers wore sdckcloth; their faces and heads" were unshaven and their fingernails uncut. At the time of the crowning of the young new Emperor the officials suspended mourning and came out in gay clothing. Af- ter the celebration they put on mourning again. An important part of the mourning was the wailing by officials all over the empire, at about four in the morning, dressed in white, with girdles of sackcloth. They were usually divided into two parties, the military and the room. At a signal these white-gowned men got on their knees and bumped their heads on the floor as they screeched out a weird wail. At another signal they rose to their feet. and at a third went down again and wailed. This was done for three days suc- ceeding the deaths of the Emperor and the Empress dowager. In some places the wail- ing continued longer, and some especially de- vout Chinese grew hysterical under it, and some went into fits. All members of the im- perial family must mourn for three years; théy cannot engage in festivities; and it is a disgrace to a family to bring forth a child while the mourhing period lasts. Indeed, one of the reasons for the Boxeg uprising is said to have beep the rage of the people against the last Emperor, Kwang Se, because he was born at such a time. 3 During the long funeral procession with the remains of the late Emperor to the west- ern tombs, funeral money was thrown into the air, and 125,000 taels of such money was burned every day. This money was in the shape of discs of white paper, each about as big around as the bottom of a tin cup, and with a square hole in the-centre. It was gathered up by coolies, and 'sold for twenty cents a bag. Such things are burned at the graves, the idea being that they will serve for the wants of the departed. Another theory is that they propitiate the ghosts, which hover about the dead and probably "tharge for their services. March of the Water Wagon, Home Journal. The editor of a Toronto paper 'made' uwn- becoming comment on fhe Beresford visit, insinuating that it was a horrible disgrace for menibers of Toronto clubs or societies to drink the health of King Edward or Lord Charles in any but dlcoholic form. Is that editor aware that the distinguished. sailor is much averse to alcoholic drink, and abstains from such refreshment? In any case, most of us will fail to see anything ridiculous or ablurd in drinking the health of the K¥ng or subject in non-alcoholic form, It is the courtesy intended that makes the act graceful: it is th@@spirit, not the spirits, which makes the toast. Lord Charles Beresford, or any other distinguished visitor fo Canada, is too | weéll-bred, we should hope, to criticize the fashion in which hospitality is shown hmm. 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