Show FUN CONTINUES ON PLUM PLU l ALLEY Air Filled With Sounds Smells and anti Fire Resulting From Chinese New Year Celebrations A stranger passing along Second Second South street near Its intersection with Commercial street at about past half-past 3 yesterday afternoon might ha have hae e reasonably reasonably reasonably rea rea- supposed that a battle royal was in progress between the Inhabitants inhabitants inhabitants tants of Plum Alley and the police pollee The air was filled with the sound of the rattling fire of ot small arms interspersed interspersed Inter Interspersed with heavier detonations as some ome field piece came into action acHon Mingling with this noise were strange shrill cries queer smells fearfully and wonderfully m made de the ringing clash of f cymbals the dull boom boom of war drums and the weird n nerve nerve- racking screech of single stringed fiddles fid Sd- dIes Over all hung a heavy cloud of ot acrid smoke through which bits of burning paper and tinsel fell in a continuous shower of sparks All this pandemonium of ot sight sound and smell was not h however wever a battle but merely a peaceful native offering on the Chinese New Year by our yellow yellow yellow yel yel- yel- yel low brethren to the treat Joss Suen Yep and his elder brother the most illustrious teacher of men Confucius It was all do done e according to the ancient ancient an an- dent and established Taoist ritual which w was hoary with age when America America Amer Amer- ica lea was an wilderness Which makes one think t that at it Is not always true that Time changes all things |