| Show I Ii SEPTENNIAL RITES RIES OF F BURIAL r JI- JI JI- JI Septennial thing of Chinese f r coJI collins 1 is lo to be on In time the Celestials Celestials' Ce re- plat nt et time the cemetery before the new celebration Is closed The Time year rear cal colL bones Iones of or two hollies arc aro to bo be lo exhumed cx- cx picked fl rUin from I tho time mol coffins coWns cons sealed In iii tight air air cases eases and ant shipped back hack to to China Chin where thc they timey will wi be he burled a again in the lie hope of giving the soUls of the tho original I possessors pos pus of the tho bones honts a n peace they hey never or ne could coull find In foreign soil oil While hlo tho lie gruesome ome task tall Is being accomplished pushed in tho tIme night time tho ho Joss will wl be bo pacified d by hy long lines hues of or smoking smacking mol incense incenso Incense sticks which will wl be bent placed at nt the thc head of or the time ra e grave but hut Whose hol hones bones they are arc nobody the lie keeper of the records J knows II Ills His bool books s are arc opened every year after the spirit festival nail anti tho time graves aro are fett al marl marked 1 out which aro to be cx- cx The friends of tho time dead are aro notified to perform their religious dut duty According to time the belief heler of or the lie sons of Confucius the bo bodies le that lint re remain remain ye- ye main In foreign soil 01 for more ore l than seven years will vilL wi spend thrice i years in iii torment The Tho pictures of or different dif I ferent forms of punishment aro arc bo- bo smeared on iii banners ah about ul the Joss- Joss houses and anti they hey arc aro sufficiently vivid vl i to discourage e en een th time tho poorest Chink running the risk t oT If allowing the tIme bones of ot hl his to moulder a. a away 1 in iii foreign 1 soil sol I Voi k Done by hr Companies It I Is only the poor Chinaman whose body holy I iS is IN buried for Ol any ammy len length lh of nf time line It I Is costly coUy to ship the hones bones ba bath back lc I ane and the business is generally handled by hl big companies which have char charge o over time thc temporal and spiritual affair affairs affairs af af- I fairs fair of if the tho Celestials 11 Much uch of this lila work worl Is being done Ion by the 01 Ton Tons Iong so- so Is a clety of or which time the dies 8 cel member When a me his bodY Is il tf he lie has Plenty of or mono money bac back to 0 no never buried and II le He I is burled there in iii I China at once econom my a 9 his native soil bodies I It are arc is Juried buried buric u or ln ho II this titis sake sako that lint the time country an and amid then theil dug up UI different differ differ- c honc from rom years eal So o that cn can all the he be si-iipp si back bac to 0 t ent nt steamer China on the time same saie same of oC the dead are alC oIn o- o Now the spirits of the tho In ing satisfied in the fruits are ale he- he and ami New Year Meats placed lug to the tho aro Ilg spirits tho spiris on omi th the the or of bOO good treated wih till al will com com- then the lie wl fortune form of oC a a. re- re It I Is done one In iii tIme ceremony i V of or Ceremonies Matters Masters V I Cc I esti laL al F mournful looking fu i-i i ook ng Tb Tho 0 iii ou rn direct c of b black silk robes sl dressed ell In iii it Is books u. u the lie i lie tho j Job b an and amid from opened I are arc to be ie learned which graves Ia eS ot of time the gra C graCa a roW rev of a At the tho e Incense and punk punk- sticks s are arc all for the Great Jo Joss to scare calc awa away evil spirits Time sort over O spiris 10 of bits the moldy heaps of dirt and ami m do tic tic- bones of or tho lie the gather coffin to hOIu's corin In are arc placed parted These hones bones oil oU resembling square tin Un iii cans camis across anti and shipped scaled sealed and then thou anc labeled wUn tho the Pacific Each c ran cast U is In iii which the tat l tho time ear the thc name anti and year Chinaman died Before Defore the time bone are nrc sent aua away however howo Cr religious Ties rites them Great aro performed over to give o th thu Joss 1095 Jos will wi bo ho implored g souls rest The he Chinese graveyard con consists i ts' ts orone of or on one plat pint It I Is never full ful for 01 fol as soon lain halo in iii Its Us as tIme Iho bol body of or one ha has ham grave gla c for CO seven years the time bones arp for fol an another another an- an mado I removed mo ed and a a place other body hody |
