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Show FEAST OF THE DEAD IN CHICAGO Chicago, Aug. 28. Hong Ting, 05 "Feast of tho Dead," was observed by the Chineso population of Chicago yesterday. Scores of Chinese went to Rose Hill with baskets of roast pig, chicken, duck, salted meats and fish, chop suey, watermelon seods and cakes, which they distributed among the 200 Chinamen burled there. "The Chinese belief of a hereafter Is much the same a6 the Christian belief," be-lief," said Louis Sing, ono of the wealth v men of the colony, last night. "If a Chinaman leads a good life, tvq beliee ho will be born again after he dies, and his second time on earth will be much pleasanter Lhan the first. "The Chinese God is all the while looking around to find nice places for good people to be born again."' |