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Show GATHER THE BONES OF THEDEAD That the yellow bones ,pf four ,na- 1 tlves of the Flowery Kingdom may hear the blast, of Gabriel on the last morn' of time and rise to pay homage to their ancestors, the remains will be exhumed from the Chinese burial ground In tho city cemetery and shipped ship-ped to Hong Kong, Near Hong Kong the bones will be reburled in the sacred sa-cred ground of their fathers. ' Leo Fook, a well-known Chinese merchant of lower Twenty-fifth street, called at tho office of the health department de-partment this morning to secure a permit for the removal of tho remains of four of his countrymen from tho cemetery. The remains are those of three ChInese men and one -woman, all of whom havo been dead a quar-. I ter. o'fHa' century. "When tli$ graves . jare opened only t.he bones and the' (metallic offerings buried with them' (will be found intact i All,fof itlie bones- win bei carefully jgatbered and jilaced in 5 metallic cas- ket. 'A receptacle the sfke of an ordinary or-dinary coffin will hold the bones of 'all four of the dead. No effort will-bo will-bo made to ship the four skeletons ' stiparafely, the 'hones being- mingled, ' In the smallest compass possible. 'The casket' will be securely sealed nnd shipped to San Franolsco and from there to China. Sacramental offerings will bo mado to the Joss during the exhumation, the sacred punk sticks being burned and offerings of rico and toa nlacod ' on tho altar of the Chinese deity. When tho bones nre re-buried, tho grave will be strewn with Joss-paper and the romalns will be left to await the icsurrectlon promised by the Chl- 1 nose priests. on |