The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-09
F00LlNG TIE EVIL ONE.
HOW THE FRIENDS OF LEE HEM
YOU sAiED THE CORPSE.

How a Dead Chinaman in New York IL
Laid at Rest-The Body Lying in State.
Scattering Bits of Paper Through the
Streets of the Metropolis.
Lee Hem You was dead, and Lee
Hem You was to be buried. The body
of the Chinese gambler lay where he had
died, III a small, stuffy, rather squalid
room at 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
with the rest of his race.
Lee Hem had killed himself-not by
sudden and violent means. His lungs
had been eaten away by opium smoking.
The face, as that Of consumptive, was
pinched and drawn, and the high cheek
bones were made still more prominent
by the deep hollOws of the cheeks.
For 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
Cinnamon had gone to James Naughton.
an undertaken in Mott street, and en-
gagged his services. BY and by the un-
dertaker came TO prepare the body foE
burial. A Chinaman is never buried in
any garment be 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
Hem.
Then his cue was wrapped loosely
around his neck, from left 10 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 mana
friends. A tin pan fired with earthwas
placed at the foot OF the cefin, as WAS
also a square piece Of board.
THE PROCESSION.
All was ready. A group Of Cinnamon
entered. Each one walked to the foot
of the coffin chanting, and in the pan Of
earth each man stuck candle about SIX
inches long and as thick as finger, and
a piece of punklike substance Of the
diameter Of lead pencil. On the wooden
board they heaped 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 Cal
namen chanted. In five minutes tho
candles. punk and papers had burned
away and the Cinnamon went out. An
other group came in, and the same ceTs-
mony was repeated until ali Lee Heuns
friends hss taken their farewell.
AT o'clock the undertaken came. ard !
the time for tBs trip 20 Cypress Hills /
cemetery On Long Island was a: hand. /
Within the cOfln were placed far and /
numerous oblong slips of nee paper. on 4
which characters were written. and then 1
the coffin was taken 20 the be&rss. which |
stood at the head Of procession of I've 4
Carriages On the wibdows of the car 4
riages were pasted long slips of red 4
paper covered with BLACK characters
Into q wagon IN the rear were lifted q 4
roast sscklIHg pg aud several 3sTs q 4
boiled nee. 4 ChluzEaan took bis ssst 4
on the hesrss wlth the driver and me
TIP Was begun Immediately the CsIna-
man On the top q iiss hearse began
throwing more oolong pieces q paper i
powered wifh characters into tns sgrssg
from a tsg winch 6e carried
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