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Show THE CHINESE NEW YEAR Celestials Celebrate the Event With Gorgeous Ceremonies IhH and Feast ng Huge Flags and Colored Bunting lH Decorate Buildings in Their Quarter. " Now is tho tlmo to bo a Chinaman if you would llvo on tho fat of tho land without pnylng fqr It, do no work, wear brilliant robes, entertain your friends and be entertained by them In general bo a man of Importance. Import-ance. Fen' now Is tho Cblncso New Tt-nr celebration. Now York's Cblncso aro very hard to And In their own homes, for they aro going from houso to house, pasting past-ing red Now Year's cards on tho dours of friends. All through Chinatown and In Pell nnd Mott strectB In par-tloular, par-tloular, nro to bo Been men in flowing flow-ing robes of silk, decorated with various ornaments. Theso nro worn In honor of tbo celebration nnd each tries to outshlno his neighbor In gor-gcousncBs. gor-gcousncBs. Chinatown presents a lively sceno from ono ond to tho other. Hugo yol-low yol-low flags with n big dragon In tho confer are Interwoven with the stars and stripes and colored bunting almost hides tbo fronts of buildings from view. It Is not uncommon to see largo silk banners spangled with particles of mirrors nnd jado floating from flagstaffs projecting from windows. win-dows. Banners, lanterns and brilliantly bril-liantly painted signs hang from windows, win-dows, balconies and fire escapes. Great strings of flrccrnckors nro strung from ono sldo to tho other and back again and suspended from theso nro hideous pictures. At night thoso firecrackers nre sot oft with a denf-cnlng denf-cnlng ronr. Tho objects which wero suspended from tho strings nro Bont up into tho nlr attached to balloons. Beforo tho obrlno In tbo joss houso aro piled sweetmeats and fruits of tho costliest kinds nnd tho aromatic odor of lnccnso sticks hangs about tho place. Strains of wlerd music aro heard, and in and out of the building build-ing thero is a clattering all day of wooden cymbals. In tho clubhouso back of tho Jobs houso all tho prominent men of bad luc and tho devil from their H dnlly life, nnd It Is thought among ' B thorn that tho person receiving tin "SblBlJ coin takes upon himself tho cvlli VMVMj which surround the giver. In othet J words, the child bribes tho devil to & depart Into somo other human brine (fl In all tho stores, and especially In fl tho restaurants, thero are piles ol VMB fruits, candy nnd delicacies which! are VMVfl to be had, not for the asking, but tot HMVM tho taking, . If nny ono enters h IH P4W;feM m Pit UfeS r I mm wMFm 1 PfePHmssf-5 fl Chinatown Decorated for New Year'c. H Is Immediately served In goncrouj M fashion. New York Sun. , M Not a Pleasant Trip. H It was on his return from a mors H than successful concert trip that on H of tho best-known composer-musl- H clans was met In tho strcot by a H H "Pleasant trip?" his friend In "VJ quired. H "Blcasant drip!" tho musician an H sworcd. "Ach, hlmmcl, not Vy, when H vo got down dhero tho barytono haf H forgot his tress drouscrs, und vot H shall wo do? fMVJ "So I go on und blay und I run H qvlck behlnt tho scenes and chanch, fl und ho go and mid slug und corns fl qvlck back again und I put 'em on H blay. H "Ach, I haf chanched my drousors fl scfen dimes doso von ofentngs MVMj nlreaty!" Stray Stories. H Broncho Has Fun Abroad. H A curious episode In the annals of fMVJ military horsollcsh terminated on Frldny week nenr Colchester, says an jH English paper. A Moxlcan broncho fl remount broko out of tho dopat IH stables, and, defying all nttempts at IH recapture, ran wild over east Esses jH for nearly a month. Tho account of Its successive es- M enpes by flood and field reads like a H romance of Mayne Rcld and Do Wet, M as tho horso wns nicknamed, led his M pursuers tho merriest danco of all M on tho last dny of his frcodom. H -rti - ..T H The Children, Too, In Holiday Attire. B Chinatown meet ond oxchnngo greetings. greet-ings. They partnko ot rcfroshmenti and havo a Jolly time. Through all tho ceremonies attending attend-ing tho Now Year no Cblncso women are to bo seen. They go Into seclusion seclus-ion and stay thoro. On tho other hand, children nro to bo seen ovory where. Thoy dress In gorgeous robes, almost equal to thoso of their fathors, nnd go from houso to houso calllnc In tho snmo faohlcn as their elders, but they go u step further. They wrap a silver coin In bright rod paper and glvo It to tho first person per-son thoy eon induce to accept It. This they find Is a hard task, for tho object In view In to drle nway all A small army of soldiers, nsslstod Vfl by an ox-cowboy and a lady rider, fl wero engaged against him, and aftor fl being siiriounded by troops and fl brought to bay ho Is alleged to have 'flfl jumped on tho roof of a bnrn, broken fl through a barbed wire fence, swam fl a river, oxecuted a wondorful double fl leap over two hedges and a lane, ?BE twice extricated himself from the 'IB noose of a lasso and floored a guards- fUSi man In a cabbala garden before he ffflLI was headed in u disused stable and liflfl i lassoed through a hole In th-) roof. If 11 Do Wet, oro learns, is now In the gIMB "equlno hospital," under special tIbbI guard, nnd receiving every attention fill from tho nutl'orltles, who entertain Iflllfl hopes of biea);tng him In. V ffH fl fi . ' bbB j i f n " I-,, 'fZ-fB |