The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-12-14
THE BAD JOSS APPEAsED.
Chinese Conclude Their Orgies In Sue
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Chhcsc conclude Their Orgies In Sncri.
flee to the Evil One.
Tho greed Of the Chinese evil loss hns
been temporarily appensel with more than
: 100 worth Of worldly offerings, and the
followers of Confucius in Portland who
have been living in fear Of his wrath.
are now peacefully dreaming Of the ter.
rors of what might have BEEN Yester-
day morning ut / O'clock the huge paper
images representative of the chief as
gions, were sacrificed ut his order. re-
ceiyed by n private message to the high
priest in charge Of the ceremonies and
as the fire destroyed them the danger of
the devils dspleus,ire appeared to tile
Chinese to fade away ind pass Off in tile
smoke that rose heaveliwar.l.
The harvest festival Ut the Chinese Of
Jung Wali, who cOmpose the main iIoi-
ton of the Monaghan inhabitants Of Port
land, ended curly yesterday morning
Three days and nights had been SPENT in
point, and ceremony to pay tribute to the
evil joss, or the "debbil,' us the average
Chinese spea ks of him. Friday. night
the organization of Chinese Free Masons,
whose joss house is ON Second street, be-
time the exercises in their own right.
They believe that the bad joss. just salts
fled by the Jung With Chinese, has moth
ing iii common with theni and that their
Jonah MUST receive fitting bribp. or
the horseshoe over the door will lose its
mystic charm.
After three days of prayer and sacrifice
in the joss house on Second street. be-
tween Oak mud Pine, md various other
demonstrations of humility and peace Of
feringa. the finhl act i'll the drama was
presented about / o'clock yesterday
morning. With permission from the city
authorities, that portion of Second street
directly in front Of the joss house was
devoted to the ceremonies. a huge plat
form was erected ind. covered with can
vas, formed d. complete Atige. The open
ing faced south, toward Il smaller plat
form containing large paper image rep
rpsenting the evil joss Satckeepcr The
high priest and other religious dignita.
rjes occupied the large pla tform, and.
with noisy Chinese band. furnished
| chants and sing-song prayers for the oc-
| casiOn. The street surrounding was brill
iantly illuminated with a hundred bon
fires. At each fire was placed all kinds
of celestial food, cigars, cigarettes, liz
uors and candy. Several Chinese attend
ed each blaze and kept the flames bright
with paper slips inscribed with prayers.
the flames. Hundreds of Mongoians,
men. wonlel, and children. lined the pave
ments and filled every window and veran-
da in the vicinity. All eyes were turned
toward the stage holding the master of
ceremonies, the high priest. for the word
to begin the real work. He seemed to
delay matters. OF course ne was waiting
for word from the bad joss to hear when
proper and sufficient sacrifice had been
made. Evidently, ut 4 o'clock, the &C.
acknowledgement came, for the priest i'm.
mediately ordered the orgies to begin
He descended from his perch with the
other priests and band. and IL procession
was formed in which the paper images
We're carried. After circling around the
bontires several times the images Were
placed on the ground and the torch an.
piled to them. AS they went up il,
smoke the noise and shouts were deafen.
ing and were only exceeded by the beat.
ing of the tom-toms and the crashing OF
huge cymbals. Then other images were
brought out Of the joss house and sacri.
| feed. The fires were soon after put out
and Chinatown went to bed. The "bogie
man" was properly honored and the
good Chinese were safe until the next
harvest festival.-Portland Oregonian
Oct i