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Show 1 Pll-TES E-SOH'KAOI-VG THE PlOUS j Mongolians. Tna Chinese residents 1 o' served the festiviil of feeding their j dead yesterday. The cooking of the meats is done by a chosen chef de ! cuiiiuft, in the Joss house. After the meat is all prepared it is placed on large wooden trays and taken to the graveyard, laid near the tombs, aud although nothing is seen to disappear, the heathen firmly believe that the rapacious appetites of the Chinaman who hve ou the other side of Jordun are appeased for a year to come. After '.he fe 3t, yesterd iy, the Chinamen China-men returned home, and from the Hdjftceut hillsides a iroop ot Pmt' b lit down on the cold t;rub like an army ol locunU aud made short work of the feast. The Piutes are firm believe in the Pagan practices aud are en- nnMi-.ifif.tr tl.B "lioiithon lilinftfl" tn feed their dead at shorter intervals. Eureka Sentinel. |