Show S S THE TOMBS OF CHINA The banks and hilte of tho Yangtoe are sprinkled and clothed with the tombs of generation generation iipon I has been smld lljal at ilrst sight China t looks like one huge graveyard Worship of ancestors observance for the fathers that begat them Is the great fact of grea Chinese religion the only vital point vlal m all the systems of the Flowery Land Lnnl Consequently to disturb the bones of the dead except for heavy compensa tion Is an offense against society of the Bravest kind Miles of country mostly hills are given upon to the burial of Celestial dead and none of this ground Is used for residence or cultivation ltlon When graveyard Is required vhole or in pact for the purposes of foreign trade or for the extension of a foreign I settlement a large sum has to be paid to the ascendants or descendants of the I corpse as each grave Is leveled in or del that the bones may be transported to another resting place Professors of light and air make majiy taels out of dead incas bones They tell the family that the Fengshut of the family grave Is of 111 omen and m much cost a new plot of ground Is procured qnd tho lowest available ledge walled up with a semicircle of brick painted white and blue and red Only ihtn do the patriarchs slumber In their graves The reinterment of tho dead Is grYc almost as frequent as the interment where as an Hankow tho foreign devil Is l de manding concessions or land Any day you may see a family party squatting sqlULtng round 1 newmade grave to contain all that I Is i left of a luc unqcator whose Very bones bring dollar to his clan Of real reverence in all this there Is hardly I I i any A Chinaman burns his Joss stick and prolongs his mourning from i j I I months Into years in order that his I fathers spirit may not haunt him and I that the ghosts of those who have gone I before may not hover about without 1 wihout food and raiment and bring bad luck to I him and his I is all fear of bad Joss Besides tho Chinaman docs as he would be done by i and ho expects his son or tInS eon ho ha adopted for the purpose It IM tlc whole purpose of Chinese adoption to care for his manes as he did In his turn So both banks of the Yangtsc owe to the Taeplngs and their turbulent predecessors many thousands of dead mens acres In real mortmain graph tenure London Dally Tele |