Show THE EVIL ONE HOW THE FRIENDS OF LEC LEE HENN YOU SAVED THE CORPSE a D bend 1 alln york I 1 laid ht sit attl the body lyng in stat lifts of tot isper II 11 st street t of the tile Is leo henn yott was dead and lee hen n you was to be buried the bod of the chinese gambler lay where he bad died in a email small stuffy rather squalid room at 1 mott street next door to the temple of joss death had not brought pallor to the face the skin waa was of that yellow tint it had in life in common with the rest of his race lee henn had killed himself not by sudden and violent means bis life lunga lungs bad had been eaten away by opium smoking the face as that of a consumptive was pinched and drawn and the high cheek bones were made still more prominent b by y the deep hollows of the cheeks for a time the body was alone lea lee henns countrymen avoid the dead whenever possible they do not neglect the dead however lee henns death had bad been anticipated before he lie died other had gone to james naughton an undertaker in mott street and engaged hia his services by and by the undertaker der taker came to prepare the body for burial A chinaman is never buried in to any garment he has worn in lifo life there f tore ore a new dark blue blouse black baggy trousers new sandals and white stockings were bought and put uLee iee henn genn then hia his cue was wrapped loosely around bis big neck from left to right and on his head was placed a tight fitting black skull cap having at ita top a knob of red plush after the body was placed in the coffin lie room where it lay was prepared for the visits of the dead mans friends A tin pan filled with earth was placed at the foot of the coffin as was also a square piece of board THE rnO CESSION all was ready A group of entered each one walked to the foot of the coffin chanting and in the pan of earth each man wall stuck a candle about six inches long and as thick as a finger and a piece of pr substance of th diameter of a lead pencil on the wooded board they heaped a little pile of papers then the priest of the temple of JOBS joss lit tho the candles the punk and the papers A thick peculiarly smelling emoke smoke from the incense filled the little room and drifted through oli the building as the chained in five minutes the candles liuji arid papers had burned away and the went out another group came cattle in and tho the same ceremony was repeated until all lee henne henns friends had bad taken their farewell at 2 0 clock the undertaker came and the time for tho the trip to cypress hills cemetery on long island was at band hand within the coffin were placed a tan fan and numerous oblong slips of rice paper on which characters were written and then the tile coffin was taken to the hearse which stood at the head of a procession of five carriages on oil tho the windows of tho the carriages were pasted long slips of red paper coveted with black charac characters into a wagon in tho the rear were lifted a roast suckling pig and several jars of boiled rice A chinaman took his seat sent on thell the hearse earse with the driver and the trip was begun immediately the chinaman on the top of tho the hearse began throwing more oblong pieces of paper covered with chara otere into the street from a bag which ho he carried this was to protect tho the dead man the evil one ono always follows a dead chinaman but before he be can catch up with the hearse and claim the dead mans mares soul roul he be must pick up and read all the pieces of paper thrown from the hearse EVADING THE EVIL ONE by the time the procession had bad tho the thirty fanth street ferry the evil one must have been blocks behind but the hearse just missed the ferry and he caught up aa As soon as the hearse drove onto the boat the chinaman scattered the blips slips with a lavish hand baud A number of email ll 11 boys however usurped the functions of the evil one and ec rambled led to pick up the papers thus throwing the chinaman into despair the man perched on the hearse bow how ever was equal to the emergency just as the hearse bearse drove off the boat he threw all the slips he had left a prodigious number upon the deck and before the evil one could pick them all up he was carried back to new york while the procession pursued its way to cypress hul hill in peace on arriving at the cemetery the coffin wu was placed beside tho the open grave in the Chin amens lot where twenty or more mongolians Mongo lians already lie and again were candles punk and cafer paper lighted and chants uttered then tho the body of leo lee henn was lowered into the ground and the ibe roast suckling pig and boiled rice which had been set upon ground il near ear the grave were replaced in the w wagon agon and taken back to mott street formerly the food was left at the tile cemetery for the departed but learned of the custom and hailed a chinese funeral with delight scenting it from afar like vultures as the groces elon glon wended bended its way to the cemetery leaving behind a trail of appetizing smells after the funerals tho the tramps held high carnival with never a thought of the dead chinaman deprived of his rice and roast pig consequently to prevent this sacrilege the now take the food back with them and eat it themselves after they havy returned to mott street lee henn you will be mourned he lie wae was wealthy in the chinatown sense of the term ft persistent conscientious gambler and a leading and influential member of the chinese gambling association abeso known as the fan tau tan tong new now york advertiser at the tile exhibition ot of tile massachusetts horticultural society the new seedling strawberry beverly received several prizes the following officers were elected at khe the twenty third biennial session of the american Amerl can Pomo log ical society prosper J berckman of augusta ga president 0 L watrous of dea des moines first vice president G C Q brackett of den mark ia secretary benjamin G smith of cambridge mass tre treasurer nearer at the present day the persians call the food of the goda gods 11 the russians delight in carius ud anh the eskimo in train oil |