The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-13

THIS IS THE NEW WAR IDOL
In the penurious policy of nature, with
all her rare and precious gifts. the dis
trict where climate and soil combine To
! support the wonderful Sam Shee IL very
limited. and covers scarce square
mile of the valley of the Silver Moon
Further. the Imperial Government has
from ancient times, restricted the cult
walton OF the plant to the garden of II
Buddhist monastery In the heart of the
valley.
The scarcity of the product upon the
market may thus be understood. and
when II Is known that the aromatic
snJss from these precious pods III EN-
ployed in making wicks for lamps that
burn eternaily before important shrines
it's Immense sentimental value may be
appreciated.
A new god visited Chinatown yester-
day and. settled upon an altar In the
upper loft of IL Mott street. A consign-
mert Of Sam Shee especially imported
Tor the solemn ceremonies OF Installing
this new deity also arrived. and II was
this as much. IL not considerably more.
led to Eayaeib OF as5 night
9 dead and alive condition that is woful
: The new god has a,52? different names,
as many as the arrows that Prince
QuanC launched at the Tartar dragon
in his memorable exploit soine years
before the Christian era. But the name
which the Occidental tongue can nearest
seize Is the one that sounds reasonably
like Low Flung. So he stands as Low
Flung for the purposes of this chronicle
II was heard that the Chinese residents
OF this neighborhood had great time
over new joss. and an " Evening
World" reporter went to inquire. Al
though II was well along in the forenoon
not q curtain was drawn In Mott street.
The temple was located, as noted, on
the top OF No. 16. and thither the reporter
repaired, The stairs were climbed past
floors of sealed and silent chambers.
= No one appeared To ask the wherefore
Of the intrusion. for stranger passing
pantry Is an incident of no account In
Chinatown. peep was taken In Low
Fat Tuen's restaurant ON the third
door, and the tables and floors were
still Uttered with the exhausted jewellers
+ Of the night before. lying about in the
abandoned Pastures of their fall.
When thel temple was reached some
Interrogation was expected, but here,
too, were the silent signs of a high old
time spent and gone.
The room was fitted as are all Joss
houses. except that the fittings here
were new ana shone brightly In fresh
gilt and red paint. There was an altar
near the middle of the room and a
shrine and painted upon silken cloth
sat the august Low Flung. while the
holy Sam Shee burned feebly at his feet
The atmosphere was heavy with
fumes from a thousand burned out
insense tapers and the feverish doors of
an ill-ventilated sleeping-room. The
priest lay prone In the doorway of Il
closet at the side OF the shrine too
dead to the world to open his eyes
when pretty forcibly stirred while
eurled beneath the altar like two over
fed dogs lay pair of acolytes who had
wearied at thu task of feeding the
Without any interruption the reporter
sketched the majestic features of Low
Flung and the stlll mare rare and
sacred lamp of Sam Shee wick Then
he posted on t. collect the facts that
make this narrative possible.
II appears that the delIrious time
the trail OF which was stil plain to be
seen, was due to the remarkable con-
junction of invoices of Sam Shee and a
new joss. The former has been eX-
planned. but the latter battles eluclda-
lifetime in the study of Cinnamon
and their ways. Low Flung may or may
not be war god.
He carries n cheese-knife looking OBJ
ject In his right hand, which may be a
sword or a sickle. aud In the other what
may be cotton blossom or an imperial
lily to reward he martial hero His
countcnance is benign and slightly hu-
morous His trappinEs are variegated
and costly. His functions are to bring
gooi fortune upon all in whose interests
he may be consulted and properly PRO,
Litiated with gifts. china town yeSter-
DAY invoked Ills favor upon tho imperial
from the East may hear tilings of a ter
rib!e thrashing Of the Japs. and then an
plain liquor.