The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-11-27
POOLING THE EVIL ONE.
How THE FRIENDS OF LEE HEM
YOU SAVED THE CORPSE.

How . Dead Chinaman In New York Il
Laid at Rest-The Body Lying in State.
Scattering Bits NJ Paper Through the
Streets OF the Metropolis.
Lee Kenn You was dead, and Lee
Henn You was to be buried. The body
of the Chinese gambler lay where he had
died, in a small, stuffy, rather squalid
room at l 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 u consumptive, was
pinched and drawn. and the high cheek
bones were made still more prominent
by the deep hollows Of the cheeks.
For q time the body was alone. Leo
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 Nauphton,
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gagged his services. By and by the un-
dertaker III to prepare the body for
burial. A Chinaman is never buried in
any garment he has wornin 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 to right, and
or 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 mans
friends. A tin pan filled with earth was
placed at the foot Of the coffin, as was
also q square piece of board.
TIL PROCESSION.
All was ready. A group of Cinnamon
entered. Each 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 piece 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
chanted. In five minutes the
candles, punk and papers had burned
away and the Cinnamon 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 Q o'clock the undertaken 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
carriages. On the windows of the car.
riages were pasted long slips of red
paper covered with black characters.
Into a wagon in the rear were lifted a
roast sucking 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 pape,
covered with characters into the street
from a bag which he carried.
This was to protect the dead man.
The Evil One always follows u dead
Chinaman, but before he a catch w
with the hearse aud claim the dead
mans soul lie must pick up and read all
the pieces of paper thrown from the
hearse.
EvApINa THE EVIL ONE.
By the time the procession had reached
the Thirty-fourth street ferry the Evil
One must have been blocks behind, but