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Show CHINESE HAVE A DECORATION DAlf Chicago, Aug. R. Iiaded down ! with roasted ducks, chickens. geesi and pigs and overy Imaginable Orion tal delicacy, 250 Chicago Chinos yes. terday gathered at Rose. Hill cemo tery and dl.l honor their departed rel ativea. Incense was lighted on. each of th 200 or more graves In the Chinese plot and In a furnace erected at one end of tho ground where burned reams and reams of varl-colored paper. pa-per. After the ceremonies, all of the Kood things to eat were brought from ili? cemetery and last night In the tong hous In. Snith Clark stree. i great feasts were held. "It Is our decoration day," said one ! of the Chinese. "It Is equivalent to the American decoration day, only I we don't care whether our dead were I soldiers. We honor women and meo j alike." |