The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-31
ALL ON The DEAD QUIET
The Anaconda Cinnamon Celebrated
Their New Years.
SIX DAYS OF REAL REST
The Joss of This Town Is a WALL
Eyed Customer. With No Preten-
sions to Beauty. But With Big
Pull on Celestial Heaven.

GNCn tuOSe Oh ltlis city
who have heretofore made known the sea-
son by various and sundry noises have re-
Trained from all demonstrations, and the
season slipped away almost unnoticed.
The handful of celestIals who remain
in the city seem to be thankful that they
are able to live here, and were unwillin
to call attention to their presence by any
demonstration. They did not forget the
holiday, however, and observed 1t in a
quiet way, but without the usual fire.
cracker and bomb attachment which
usually mark the celebration.
If John" had forgotten the day "a nd
had nothing else 10 remind him of its
coming, the irrepressible small boy would
notify him that the time was near when a
levy would be made upon his generosity.
For, though the rascally urchin will pelt
the laundry man through the streets for
IL months out of the year. he refraIns
about this season when he knows that the
Chinaman will unearth store of sweet
meats, candied fruit, queer shaped nuts
and the sweetest of oranges for wholesale
distribution. John forgIves his enemies
and gives TO all corners enough of the ORR
entail sweets to clog the taste of any one but
the small boy who is really the only one
who dares to eat the mysterious condi-
ments of the East. For SIX days the CHINA
boys have been at rest, as one of them ex-
planned 1t, "Workee evly day alice same
Sunday alice time, no work now, lest
alice samee Mclean lest Sunday"
This season is his only holiday in the year
and that lasts for SIX days. 1t began last
Thursday, though Friday was the day
which began the year. But the Mon
golian takes his Fourth of July, Thanks
giving, Christmas and New Years all in
one week instead of distributing them
about through the year. At this time he
pays all his debts. forgives his enemies
and then sets about having as good a time
as a man can who is at peace with his fell
lows and his joss, for the latter he has
appeased by liberal offering up of incense
and burning tapers for days before. He
then makes feast of boiled chicken,
ginger, rice, kidneys, liver and dishes deer
to his palate. To this he invited all his
friends and as they sat about the table
the latest news from the war, and the
hard times since the boycott, were vigor-
ously discussed. Later on the long
steInmed pipes with the merest excuse
for a bowl are flied with IA little wad of
tobacco imported from home, and they
leisureiy pun heavy, oderous smoke
into the air.
When he can get it John is very fond
of a peculiar liquor imported across the
Pacific, of which he drinks sparlngly, but
owing to the Japanese blockade none of
this could be had this year. and as a SUBJ
stitute he purchased at eXhorbitant prices
the poorest whlskey which the wholesale
dealers had in stock. With this all call
ers we're RECALLED, served Literally in blue
and green tea cups holding enough of the
vile stuff to make a woodchopper 'o'er
the ills of life victorious"
! Louie Lee, one of the proprietors of the
laundry ON Front street which has q little
store attachment, is the guardian of the
joss in Anaconda. In this establishment
the god OF love, war, prosperity and peace
makes his home in one corner of the
laundry department.
Tho Anaconda joss is not very pre-
tentious god, yet he receives as much
reverence, though more limited in
quantity, as does his highness in
Helena or San Francisco, where thousands
pay him tribute. In Anaconda he is
merely a gaudy colored picture of an
almond eyed heather, with an extra long
pigtail and very arstocratIc droop to
his thread-lIke mustache. At his back on
the right is the demon of vengeance, who
Is fierce looking fellow with staring eyes
and tusk like teeth, while over his left
shoulder beams the counteance of a maid,
possessing all the charms of an oriental
beauty. she is supposed to intercede in
behalf of the suppliant sinner who in
vokes aid of the mighty joss. In front of
the joss there burned last week several
hundred sweet smelling tapers, and the
tiny flames of three constant burning
nut oil lamps lighted his weird face with
strange effect to the sightseer and a re- |
ligious light to his worshiper. Offerings |
of the best that could be had IN native |
fruits, candies and dainty dishes sat be- |
the delectable feast with evident satisfac. |
ton.
Lee had a fine collection of New |
Years cards which consist of lucky wishes |
and the name of the friend IN HERO
glyphics sketched upon strips of red |
paper. Those he received last year came /
from every city in which Cinnamon dwell
and made a lurid line across one wall of |
the room where he has them preserved. /
This year the line will be placed below
ba bar htt mill ha
Quong Kee, the tailor on Commercial
street, is the proud possessor of a Chinese
calendar gotten up by the publishers of /
the Var Zee, the daily paper printed in
San Francisco, for the residents of China
town. The calendar is printed on a sheet
of paper almost as large as one page of
the STANDARD and Is ornamented at the
top by picture of the seaport. Shanghai
The bay before the city is filed with mem
oi-war patrol.ing backward and forward,
and sailors IN row boats plying between
the ships and shore. the days of the
China year are marked in columns upand
down the page. and opposite TO IT is the |
corresppn ling day IN tho American alma
mac. The Chinese year consists of 3S3 |
DAYS and has Is months. Below the cali
endar there IS a co.nJ.c.c directory of all |
the merchants Of Cnna own. San Fran
cisco, show n that John do not leave
nil the enterprise OF Advertising to his
European competition. The whole page
Is grounded nv IN elaborate border of
Grapes, green leaves and yellow flowers,
and rom Cener Il appearance of the out
line n would seem To he the work of an
Amer can ar Isl orlamented by Chinese
color designer.
\ feas, was given sunday afternoon by
Qu1UL kec an hIs brother, to most of
tnelr C'Gatryncu II the city. which was
the leading Tea .ure of China New Year in
Anaconda, and that was very mild al
fair comTarcd with his idea of how the
time should &, observed. All of those
present were good natured and seemed to
be making tie b-st OF their hard times.
After a few days more of rest, then. the
Johns, Sans. L1lies and Lees resumed
work yes day and took up their nat
irons. w1shce washec baskets. need. es
and shears ara u FOR another year of work
without holiday until this season once
more comes round.