FOOLING THE EVIL ONE.
HOW THE FRIENDS OF LEE HENN
YOU SAVED THE CORPSE.
Bow a Dead Chinaman in New York la
Laid at Rest The Body Lying in State.
Scattering Hit of Paper Through the
Street of the Metropolis. -
Lee Henn You was dead, and Lee
Henn You was to be buried. The body
f the Chinese gambler lay where he had
died, in a 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 was of that
yellow tint it had in life, in common
witn tne rest 01 nis race..
Lee Henn had killed himself not by
sudden and violent means. His' lungs
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
by the deep hollows of the cheeks.
For a time the body was alone. Lee
Henn's countrymen avoid the dead when
ever possible. They do not- neglect the
dead, however. Lee. Henn's death had
been anticipated. Before he died other
Chinamen hod gone to James Naughton,
an undertaker in Mott street, and en
gaged his services. " By and by" the un
dertaker came to prepare the body for
burial. A Chinaman is never buried in
way garment he has worn in life. There
fore, a new dark, blue blouse, black,
baggy trousers, new sandals and white
stockings were bought and put upon Lee
Henn.
' Then his cue was wrapped loosely
around his neck, from left to right, and
on his head was placed a tight fitting
black skull cap, having at its top a knob
of red plush. After the body was placed
in the coffin the room where it lay was
prepared for the visits of the dead man's
friends. A tin-pan filled with earth was
placed at the foot of the coffin, as was
also a square piece of board.
THE PROCESSION.
All was ready. A group of Chinamen
entered. Each one walked to the foot
of the coffin chanting, and in the pan of
earth each man stuck a candle about six
inches long and as thick as a finger, and
a pfece of punklike substance of the
diameter of a lead pencil. On the wooden
board they heaped a little pile of papers.
Then the priest of the temple of Joss lit
the candles, the punk and the papers. A
thick, peculiarly smelling smoke from
the incense filled the little room and
drifted through the building as the Chi
namen chanted. In five minutes the
candles, punk and papers had burned
away and the Chinamen went out. An
other group came in, and the same cere
mony was repeated until all Lee Henn's
friends had taken their farewell.
At 2 o'clock the undertaker came, and
the time for the trip to Cypress Hills
cemetery on Long Island was at hand.
Within the coffin were placed a fan and
numerous oblong slips of rice paper, on
which characters were written, and then
the coffin was taken to the hearse, which
stood at the head of a procession of five
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uuiincoi bun wmuuwa VI Lilt?
riages were pasted long slips of red
paper covered with black characters.
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roast suckling pig and several jars of
boiled rice. A Chinaman took his seat
on the hearse with the driver and the
trip was begun. Immediately the China
man on the top of the hearse began
throwing more oblong pieces of paper
covered with characters into the street
from a bag which he carried.
This was to protect the dead man.
The Evil One always follows a dead
Chinaman, but before he can catch up
with the hearse and claim the : dead
aaan's soul he must pick up and read all
the pieces of paper thrown from the
hearse.
EVADING THE EVU. ONE.
By the time the procession had reached
the Thirty-fourth street ferry the Evil
One must have been blocks behind, but
the hearse just missed the ferry and he
caught up. , As soon as the hearse drove
onto the boat the Chinaman scattered the
slips with a lavish hand. A number of
small boys, however, usurped the func
tions of the Evil One, and scrambled to
pick tip the papers, thus throwing the
Chinaman into despair.
The man perched on the hearse, how
ever, was equal to the emergency. ' Just
as the hearse 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
tuU in peace.
On arriving at the cemetery the coffin
was placed beside the open grave in the
Chinamen's lot, where twenty or more
Mongolians already lie, and again were
candles, punk and paper lighted and
chants uttered. Then the body of Lee
Henn was lowered, into the ground, and
the roast suckling pig and boiled rice,
which had been set bpon ground near
the grave, were replaced in the wagon
and taken back to Mott street.
Formerly the food was left at the
cemetery for the departed, but tramps
learned of the custom and haUed s
Chinese funeral with delight, scenting
it from afar, like vultures, as the proces
. sion wended its way to the cemetery,
leaving behind a trail of appetizing
smells. After the funerals the tramps
Iteld high carnival, with never a thought
of the dead Chinaman, deprived of his
. rice and roast pig. Consequently, to pre-
'vent this sacrilege, the Chinamen now
take the food back with them and eat it
themselves after they have returned to
Mott street.
Lee Henn You will be mourned. ' He
was wealthy, in the Chinatown sense of
the term, a . persistent, conscientious
gambler and a leading and influential
member of the Chinese gambling asso
ciation known as the Fan Tan Tong.
New York Advertiser.
A man at Fort Valley, Ga., has a calf
with six legs and two heads, the heads
separated from each other at the neck,
giving the calf two distinct heads, with
a set of eyes, teeth and ears each.
IN AN EGYPTIAN APARTMENT HOUSE.
Interesting Scenes In a Lodging Place In
the City of Cairo.
The two rooms nearest us belonged to
El Azhar students, so Mustapha said.
He could speak no English, but he im
parted the information in Arabic to our
dragoman. ' Seeing that we were more
interested in the general scene than in
his red jugs, Mustapha left the Assiout
ware to its fate, and lighting a cigarette
seated himself on the railing with a dis
engaged air, as much as to say: "Two
more mad women; But it s nothing to
me."
One of the students was evidently an
ascetic. His room contained piles of
books and pamphlets, and almost noth
ing else. His one rug was spread out
close to the front in -order to get the
light, and placed upon it we saw his
open inkstand, his pens and . a page of
freshly copied manuscript. When we
asked where he was, Mustapha replied
that he had gone down to the fountain
to wash himself, so that he could say his
prayers.
The second chamber belonged to a
student of another disposition; this ex
travagant young man had three rugs;
clothes hung from pegs upon his walls,
and he possessed an extra pair tl lemon
colored slippers; in addition we saw
cups and saucers upon a shelf. Only
two books were visible, and these were
put away in a corner; instead of books
he had flowers; the whole place was
adorned with them; pots containing
plants in full bloom were standing on
the floor round the walls of his largely
exposed abode, and were also drawn up
in two rows in the passageway outside,
where he himself, sitting on a mat, was
sewing. His blossoms were so gay that
involuntarily we smiled. Whereupon
he smiled too, and gave us a salam.
Opposite the rooms of the students
there was a large chamber almost en
tirely filled with white bales, like small
cotton bales; in a niche between these
high, piles an old man kneeling at the
threshold was washing something in a
large earthenware tub of, a pink. tint.
His body was bare from the waist up
ward, and as he bent over his task his
short chest, with all the ribs clearly
visible, his long brown back with the
vertebrae of the spine standing out, and
his lean, seesawing arms looked skeleton
like, while his head, supported on a
small wizened throat, was adorned with
such an enormous bobbing turban, dark
green in hue, that it resembled vegeta
tion of some sort a colossal cabbage.
Directly behind him, also on the thresh
old, squatted a large gray baboon whose
countenance expressed a fixed misan
thropy.
Every now and then this creature
who was secured by a long loose cord,
ascended slowly to the top of the bales
and came down on the other side, facing
his master. He then looked deeply into
the tub for several minutes, touched the
water carefully with his small black
hand, withdrew it and inspected the
palm, and then returned . gravely, and
by the same roundabout way over the
bales, to resume his position at the door
sill, looking as if he could not under
stand the folly of such unnecessary and
silly toil.
In another chamber a large very black
negro, dressed in pure white, was seated
upon the floor, with his feet stretched
out in front of him, his hands placed
stiffly on his knees,' his eyes staring
straight before him. He was motionless;
he seemed hardly to breathe.
"What is he doing?" I said to the
dragoman.
"He? Oh, he . berry good man ; ' be
pray.".
In a chamber next to the negro two
grave old Arabs were playing chess.
They were perched upon one of those
Cairo settees which look like square
chicken coops. One - often sees these
seats in the streets, placed for messen
gers and porters, and for some time I
took them for actual chicken coops, and
wondered why they were always empty.
Chickens might well have inhabited the
one used by the chess players, for the
central court upon which all these cham
bers opened was covered wish a layer of
rubbish and dirt several inches thick,
which contained many of their feathers.
Constance .Fenimore Woolson in Har
per's. Renting Bibles.'
"The popular impression that every
family possesses a Bible as well as a dic
tionary and a copy of Shakespeare, like
many other popular impressions, seems
to be an erroneous one, for there is in
town a firm that makes a business of
renting out Bibles of an expensive and
handsome kind, suitable to hand to a
bishop or fashionable clergyman on the
occasion of a christening, wedding or
funeral in the family. ' If on the occa
sion of these religious episodes in the
family the high church dignitary should
turn to the blank leaves between the
Old and New Testaments he would find
them devoid of genealogical records, to
the consternation of the family. A de
posit is demanded when the Bible - L
hired, and a charge of two dollars a
night is the regular price. New York
Sun. -
Author' Words. " '
A statistician in Paris has the patience
to count the number of words employed
by the most celebrated .writers.- The
works of Corneille do net contain more
than 7,000 different words, and those of
Moliere 8,000. Shakespeare, the most
fertile and varied, of English , authors,
wrote all bis tragedies and comedies
with 15,000 words; Voltaire and Goethe
employ 20,000. "Paradise Lost" only
contains 8,000, and the Old Testament
says all that is has to say with 5,642
words. Cor. Baltimore American.
TaogUt a Lesson.
The folly of flirting witn strange
young men is cruelly plain to a girl who
works in a local dry goods store, where
every clerk has read a letter she wrote
to a Worcester young man, who 'gave a
fictitious name and address. The en
velope contained the firm name in the
corner, and when it was sent back un
claimed the letter had to go the rounds
to find the writer. Springfield Home
stead. -
A Hothersome Name. ."
. This habit of naming boys after some
friend and hanging two "last" names to
a lad all of his life is about played out.
At least, that is what Mr. Sawyer Cook,
of this city, thinks .about it. . His baby
had the cramps the other night, and
paregoric did not seem to have the
slightest effect upon the little sufferer,
so Mr. Cook flew for ' the doctor post
baste. He pulled the bell with a rousing
jerk. Up went the side window, and
the physician's voice called excitedly,
"Who's there?"
"Sawyer Cook," hurriedly cried the
anxious father.
"Saw my cook,rdid you? Well, what
the deuce do I care if you saw the cook,
the chambermaid, the butler and the
stable boy? You let that bell alone, you
loon, or I'll break your face! Get out of
that!" ,
"But 1 tell you Fm no loon. I'm Saw
yer Cook r
"Confound it, what do I care if you
did see my cook? That's her business if
she wants - to gallivant around at night.
I mind my business, she minds hers, and
you had better go about yours if you
want to keep out of trouble. Hear me?"
"I don't know anything about your
servants, doctor, and I am not drunk;
but my baby is sick, and if you don't
hurry-up she will die!" . - ,
"Your baby's sick? Who are you?"
cried the doctor , in astonishment once
more.
"Why, I'm Mr. Sawyer Cook,-of 845
Gripe street, as I told you before, and
my baby's dying with the cramp!" cried
the agonized father. . '
"Oh, beg pardon, sir I thought you
were some bum. I will be down di
rectly!" The baby is all right now, but Mr.
Sawyer Cook wants his name changed.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. -
Rob Roy Had the Best of It.
The far famed Bob Roy MacGregor
was confessedly the best swordsman of
his day. His celebrity for wielding the
claymore excited MacNeil of Barra, to
visit him for the express purpose of try
ing his prowess. Barra was a gentle
man, possessing the qualities that endear
a chief to his clan, with the accomplish
ments which confer acceptability in pol
ished circles. On arriving at Rob Roy's
house the MacNeil chief taii found he
was at Buchanan attending the market,
and thither he repaired. He met sev
eral gentlemen on horseback on "their
way home, and accosting the nearest,
begged to know if Rob Roywas still at
the f air. .
"Who inquires for Rob Roy?" inquired
a voice, more remote.
"MacNeil of Barra," said the chief.
Rob Roy approached, announcing him
self, and after exchanging salutes Barra
said:
"I have heard Rob Roy extolled as the
best swordsman of our times, and have
come a long journey torjrove whether he
or I deserve that commendation."
"Chieftain of Barra," said Rob Roy,
"I never sought a quarrel with any man;
and if it pleases you to think yourself
the better swordsman I have no objec
tion to your opinion."
"This is the language of fear," said
Barra. .
"Who dares to speak of fear to Rob
Rob MacGregor?" said MacGregor. "Dis
mount, sir, and try if I'm afraid."
The chivalrous encounter immediately
commenced, and Rob Roy found Barra
-nearly his match;, but after much dex
terous play he wounded the chieftain in
the sword arm, so that he was for sev
eral . months confined at Buchanan.
Scottish American.
The King of Cheops.
Cheeps was the builder of the pyramid
which bears his name, and, as if to make
the structure perpetuate his deeds for all
time to come, the very stones and bricks
of which it is composed are stamped with
his name. Cheops lived nearly 2,500
j ears ago, his great pyramid being an
antiquity in the days when'the great
nations of old were in their youth, and
yet we of this Nineteenth century can
have the satisfaction of looking upon the
very ring he wore so proudly upon his
royal finger! - The hieroglyphics on the
ring are minutely accurate and beauti
fully executed, the ring itself being of
nnest gold and weighing nearly an ounce.
The oval signet bears the name of Che
ops, which, is in hieroglyphics in perfect
accord with the stamp on the bricks of
the great pyramid.. This remarkable an
tiquity was found in a tomb at Ghizeh,
It now reposes in the museum of the
New York Historical society. St. Louis
Republic
Writing in Erect Character. .
As most adults write without much
regard to the angle which the words
take, it is to them.a matter of supreme
indifference whether upright or sloping
calligraphy is best for their health. But
with children it is different. Hence
there may be something in the recom
mendation of Drs. Von Reuss and
Lorenz to the supreme council of hy
giene for Austria that in future children
should be taught to write in erect char
acters, for in this form of penmanship
the scholar faces his work, and is spared
the twist of the body and neck which is
always observable in those who write
slantwise, and the tendency to spinal
curvature induced .thereby. London
Tit-Bits. . :
. Value of Mask.
Besides flowers, several other' articles
are called into use by the perfumer.
Musk is the most important. ' It conies
Out of the musk deer of the mountains
of India. China and Thibet. It is ex
tremely difficult to obtain unadulterated,
and when obtained in .that condition
costs twice its weight hi gold. So great
is the tenuity of the odor, that in an ares
of five feet it gives out 57,839,606 par
ticles without undergoing an appreciable
diminution of weight. New York Even
ing Sun.
Humidity About. .-
Guest (at restaurant in moist weather)
Waiter, I can't get any salt out of this
saltcellar.
Waiter You've f orgotton to unscrew
the top, sir. New York Weekly.
Bishop Brooks' Way with Children.
' No one who has Been Dr.- Brooks with
children is likely to forget his "way with
them." Sterner persons say that he
makes thetn behave very badly, and,
possibly in jealousy, others have called
him fonder of youngsters than of grown
people. No objection is heard from the
children. They look midgets, indeed,
on those knees, high and broad, in which
two schools of churchmanship figur
atively meet. Is it foolish to imagine
that the new bishop's . visitations will
gain some of their power over mothers
at least through his extremely happy
intercourse with the children? However
literally true it may be', surely the story
of Dr. Brooks going to a poor woman's
rooms arid keeping the children out of
mischief while she went to church tells
something of his spirit." And the story
loses none of its point when one reflects
that the woman -could not hear one of
her visitor's sermons. Harper's Weekly.
Patent Leather and Patent Calf.
While many may apply the term
"patent leather" to all kinds of enamel
leather, still, strictly speaking, it is only
used in the harness trade and in '- the
cheapest grade of shoes, while patent
calf is the- material from which fine
shoes are made. Only the very finest
calfskins are used,' the enamel being ap
plied after the skin has been through a
long course of treatment and all the
stretch taken therefrom, and is, there
fore much more durable than patent
leather, which is made usually from cow
hides. Shoe and Leather Facts.
One Way of Patting a Spell on Enemies.
It was a custom in the time of Catha
rine de Medici to' make figures of wax
and melt them slowly before the fire or
stab them with needles, in order to bring
suffering to enemies. ..This operation
was called putting a spell upon them.
L. Popoff in Popular Science Monthly.
ST I PAT I O N.
AfT'.ic's half tbe A icerlcun. vcojiU- yet tbero is
only one preparation of Sursunariilii Hint
tbo bowrls anil reaches this Jimiortaut trouble,
ana laac is Joy's egetable .Suripurilla. It re
lieves it in 24 hours, ami an occasional dose
prevents return. "Vorcrerbv ixTinissinn inf. v.
Elkin;rtou, 125 Locust Avenue, Snu Francisco;
J. 11. Ilrown, retaluma; II. S. Winn, Geary Court,
Bau Francisco, and hundreds of others who have
used it in constipation. One letter is a sample ol
hundreds., Elkington, writes: "I have been for
years subject to bilious headaches and constipa
tion. Have been po bad ior a year back have
had to take a physic every other night or else I
would have a headache. After takinc nnnhnttla
of J. V. 8., I am In splendid shape. It has done
wonaerioi things lor me. People similarly
troubled should try ii and bo convinced."
Joy'
Vegetable
'Sarsaparilla
Most modern, ntwt ertfeetiv;, largest bottle,
ime prlce,$l.(W. si for j.ou.
For Sale by SNIPES & K1NERSLY
THE DALLES. OREGON.
REAL MKKIT
PEOPLE
- Say the S. B. Cough Cure is the best
thing they ever., saw. We are, not
flattered for we known Real, Merit will.
Win. All we ask is an honest trial.
-For sale by all druggists. .
S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co.,
Duf ur, Oregon. .
A Severe Law.
Mm
The. English peo
ple look more closely
to the genuineness
2V
J ' iiCX T- we do. In fact, tbey
y 8. fJ have law under
which l bey make
seizures ; and de
stroy ' adulterated
. " ' . products that are
not what they are represented to be. Under
this statute thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale adul
teration. , ' A
Tea, by the war, is one of the most notori
ously adulterated articles of commerce. -Not
. alone are-tho .bright, sbiny green teas artifl-
daily colored, but thou ends of pounds of
subJti.nUM for tea leaves are used to swell
. the bulk of ehr&n tea ; ash, sloe, and willow
leaves l;'.n,7 thoso raoA commonly lined.
Agi:i, sweepings from tea wareh- tun are
Colored and sold' as tea.' Even exhausted lea
leaves ga. hered from 1 he to-h.m es arc I rpt,
dried, and made over and Cnd their iray.lnto
the cheap leas.
The English govi-rnment at'empts toktamp
I hi. out by re:ifixci:i. n; but no tea is too
jwrt-ru , and the riitl; i. hat pn-biihly
lie .Kjra t legalised uv a.iy i.utlou are I hone
AotiMumed lu America. -
l:eeth's Tea Is r-rctiented. with the iruar
au y f.ia: itlsn:cloredanduuadulteiated;
l:i fact, tlie siiu-curcd tea leaf pare and aim
.p'.e. I.a purity. Jii.vires superior strength, .
a'jo::t one third )ca of U buin required lot
an iafusion than of the a till' 11 teas, and Its
: fragrance a:id exquUje flavor is at oncep
parent. It will be a revelation to you. . In
order that Its purity and quality may be guar-
smteed, it is sold only in pound packages
bearing this trade-mark:
"beec&'tea-
I llPln
iS.
'Pure AsWdhoodT
Price 60e per pound. For sale at
Iioslio ISxitlor's,
THE DALLES, OREGON.
Still on Deek.
PhcBuix Like has Arisen
' From the Ashes!
James White,
. The Bestauranteur Has Opened the
Baldmin - Hestauf ant
ON MAIN STREET
Where he will be glad to see any and all
of his old patronS.
Open day and Night. First class meals
twenty -five cents.
YOUR flTTEflTIOfl
Is called to the fact that
Hagh Glenn,
Dealer in Glass, Lime, Plaster, Cement
and Building Material of all kinds.
-Carries the Finest Lino of
To be f oand 'in the City.
72 LUashington Street.
A NEW
PRINZ & NITSCHKE.
DEALERS IN .
Furniture and Carpets.
We have ' added to ' our business a
complete Undertaking Establishment,
and aa we are in no way connected with
the Undertakers' Trust our prices will
be low accordingly. -
Kemember our place on becond street,
next to Moody's bank. ;
Picture
rnouiaings
Undertaking Establishment !
-: DEALERS IN:-
Staple and Fancy
Hay, Grain
Masonic Block, Corner Third and
jeu Columbia Iotel,
THE DALLES, OREGON.
Best Dollar a Day House on the Coast!
First-Class Meals, 25 Cents.
First Class Hotel in Every Respect.
. None but the Best of White Help Employed.
T. T. Nicholas, Pvop.
Washington fJOfth Dclll6S, WashinSton
SITUATED AT THE
Destined to fce the Best
Manufacturing Center in
the Inland Empire. -
For Further Information Call at the Office of
Interstate Mestment Go.,
JOHN PASHEK;
Mant - Tailor,
Next door to Wasco Sun.
Madison's Latest System used in cutting
garments, and a fit guaranteed
each time.
Repairing and Cleaning
Neatly and Quickly Done. J
R. B. HOOD,
Livery, Feed and Sale
Horses Bought and Sold on
Commission and Money
Advanced on Horses
Left for Sale
OFFICE OF
The Dalles and Goldendale Stage Line
Stage Leaves The Dalles Every Morning
at 7 :80 and Goldendale at 7 ;30. All
freight must be left at R. B.
Hood's office the eve
ning before.
R. B. HOOD, Proprietor.
Opposite old Stand. The Dalles, Or.
THE
Dalles, Portland & Astoria
NAVIGATION COMPANY'S
Elegant Steamer .
HEGUMTOH
Will leave the foot of Court Street
every morning at 7 A. M.
for
Portland and Way Points
Connections Will be Made with the
Fast Steamer
DAIiltES GITY,
At the Foot of the Cascade Locks.
For Passenger or Freight Bates, Apply
. to Agent, or Purser on Board.
Office northeast corner of Court and Main street
.
NOTICE.
B. E. French has for sale a number of
improved ranches and unimproved
lands in the Grass Valley neighborhood
in Sherman county. . They will be sold
very cheap and on reasonable terms.
Mr. French can locate settlers on some
good unsettled claims in the same neigh
borhood. His address is Grass Valley,
Sherman county, Oregon.
Bdes,
and Feed.
Court Streets, The Dalles, Oregon
HEAD OF NAVIGATION.
Best Selling Property of
the Season In the Northwest.
(HOC
0. D. TAYLORTHE DAILES.
72 WASHINGTON ST., PORTLAND.