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IN FAR AWAY CATHAY.
Tbc Only Permanent Things In China
Are Graves.
A Funeral’* Right of Way-The Side of
a House Torn Away to Let a Corpse
Be Carried on the Same Path That
His Ancestors Had Been-Uncanny
Burial Music.
A curious feature among many curious
features of the Chinese civilization is that
its antiquities consist chiefly of graves.
i'nlike all other nations of great age it
has no ruins, and no monuments which
eelong to its youth or even its manhood.
The great wall is almost a modern work
and the palaces of the great capital, Nan
king are not as old as those of the Italian
cities.
A Chinaman builds his tomb to last
through eternity, but builds his house to
blow down in the first storm or to wash
away in the first rain. A mansion is sel
dom repaired, and never restored. It
shares the same fate as the hovei of the
coolie and the hut of the savage. The
grave, on the other hand, is cleaned and
repaired every year and restored with
great regularity and thoroughness.
It mav sound paradoxical, but the grave
is the chief feature of Chinese life. The
ages have built up around It an invisible
structure of legend, tradition, love and
worship, until it overtowers any and
everything else in the far east. It is al
most impossible for an American to under
stand the attitude of the Chinese mind on
this subject.
John Chinaman is taught to reverence
the tablet's of his ancestors, the same as
Christians are taught to reverence saints.
In the beginning of his religious education
he learns that the next life is more im
portant than this, grander, wider and
more beautiful; that the human soul is
separable into distinct elements each of
which is au active, influential, self
conscious and intelligent individu
ality; that one of these ele
ments stays in or around a grave after
burial and remains there for generations
and centuries: that it takes notice of all
that goes on in mortal life, rewarding
good deeds, punishing evil deeds, bestow
ing pleasure and inflicting pain the same
as if it were a person in the body; that an
other element remains in the neighbor
hood of the ancestral tablets, behaving
the same as the one at the grave, and that
a third and 3 fourth element, may and
often does attend the living through life.
Very early in life John Chinaman buys
himself a nice coffin, a roomy comfortable
affair in which he can sleep the last sleep
without chafing his knees and elbows, if
he has ever done anything worthy of men
tion he makes careful arrangements to
have It inscribed on the ancestral tablets
in his own family hall, and the temple of
his family and of his clan, so that future
generations may render him reverence
and so enliven the monotony of his spir
itual existence. But iu any and every
case, he picks out a good grave, pre-empts
It under the Chinese law and has it made
ready for his reception.
This is a very arduous and complicated
proceeding. It is about as bad in China
as a chancery suit in New Jersey, and,
like the latter, it has to be conducted by
one or more professionals of the highest
standard. These experts are knowu as
“grave tellers,” also astrologers.
After this worthy has.seicoted a grave
all goes well until marriage, when an
other grave must be picked out for the
wife. This goes so far that many devout
Celestials will have a separate place
picked out for every wife, child and de
pendent relative within his gates'-a
large-sized cemetery in posse.
Finally Azrael does appear, and one of
the graves comes to be occupied The
coffin is bought from the family under
taker. It is a curious looking affair, and
on its face has some historic meaning
that is long since forgotten. At first
sight it looks like the section of the
trunk of a great tree that has been
stripped from its boughs and bark and
neatly cleaned. Closer inspection shows
that it is a box whose three long sides and
cover have been sawn from the section
of a trunk as described, and which
are held firmly together by end pieces
made from the same wood. The poorest
quality consists of thin boards, worm
eaten and ugly; the handsomest havo
been taken from great monarch s of the
forest, three, four, and even five feet in
diameter. Then, curious to relate, the
entire interior is lined with chenarn,
which is a cement made from fine sand,
lime and calcined cement rock. It is al
most white in color, and after application
is polished while it is setting. When well
done the interior of the coffin looks as if
it were composed of fine porcelain. The
poorer styles of coffins are simply white
washed on the inside. Sometimes, though
rarely, the outside is decorated in
gold or pale coloring. When done it is
only by great merchants or mandarins.
The simple unadorned trunk is the rule
to-day, as it was thousands of years ago.
Where the form came from is unknown,
but there are many stories and folk tales
to explain its origin. One is thattheChi
nese once lived in the interior of great
trees in the far west of the empire, and
that when the head of the family died the
body was left in the old home. The fam
ily moved away to some new tree and the
door of the old one was fastened up for
ever.
When the coffin arrives small fires are
built, in which are consumed all sorts of
symbolical objects.
In Canton and Amoy, which are famous
for this kind of work, they manufacture
three and four storied houses filled with
well-dressed paper figures, furnished
with furniture in gold and silver tinsel,
decorated with flowers and trees made
out of colored tissues and epitomizing the
highest wealth and luxury. All these are
put in the fires, and in a moment reduced
to ashes. The imaginative Chinese be
lieves that what U done by him symboli
cally in actual life is done actually in the
spiritual existence; that the paper money
which burns is transubstantiated, if 1
ffiay use the term, into celestial wealtli;
that the paper palace when consumed
gives to the dead man a real palace in a
life to come; the make-believe animals be
come herds and flocks on the heavenly
Plains, and the tiny figures are metamor
phosed into servants, employes, friends
and companions.
After the body has lain in state the
time allowed by custom or by law the
Priest appears upon the scene with Ills
paraphernalia and retinue. There is a
little statute sitting in a chair gorgeously
painted and wonderfully carved and col
ored. It is carried by four men. There
are one or two banners which inform the
public who the divine stranger is. 'There
is a man who carries a large gong, an
other man with cymbals, several with
small gongs and tomtoms, and always a
wretch with discordant and ear-splitting
clarionet. They partake of the re
freshments, and then the funeral cortege
starts Usually the head of the pro
cession is a musician, whose notes give
warning of his approach. Uo is followed
by relatives and by the coffin, which is
suspended from a framework of poles,
whose ends rest ui>on the shoulders of
stalwart carriers; by the family, hired
mutes and mourners, thou by the little
statue in liis chair or summer house, the
musicians, friends and neighbors. If it
Is a \xxir coolie the coffin will be carried
by eight men, and there will bo about
f "'“lve other persons in the procession. If
It be a great merchant or a mandarin the
coffin sarill be borne by thirty, fifty and
even sixty carriers, and the procession
wuil contain at least 600 souls.
When they reach the burial ground the
coffin stops alongside of the portable altar
and the little idol, while three musicians
march forward and occupy the points of a
fcmngle designed by the astrologers,
which includes the grave, the music and
*he members of the procession.
Tne moment they reach their post they
execute a series of musical or non-music
al sounds, while the coffin moves on
ward to the grave. They repeat this un
til the earth has covered' all evidences of
death.
After that, if the deceased was a person
of any prominence whatever, or was a
father leaving issue, his name is inscribed
with some complimentary remark upon
the tablets in the ancestral hall of his
former home and also of those iu the halls
of the family and clan temple. Thereafter
at least once a year on the Ghost God s
day the family go out to his grave ana
there spend the day. When they reach
the tomb they ciean It of moss and
weeds and the debris which gathers iu
the open. If the colored lettering has be
come damaged they touch up the color
until it is new and bright. They
trim the grass around the grave and
clean the ground of stones, brick and
tiles. This done, they bring out their
little stores of food and drink and first
serve his allotted quantity to the dead.
This consists of three cup3 of tea, three
glasses of wine and plates of cold
chicken, cold pork sausage and dried fish,
fresh fish, preserved eggs, sweetmeats,
fruits, ginger aud other delicacies. Then,
while the spirit is supposed to be eujoy
inging himself, they light joss-sticks aud
insert them in the grave and decorate
it with tinsel artificial flowers and
imitation paper money. They then sit
down and eat their tiffin, finishing up
with the contents of the dishes that
were set aside for the ghost.
The popularity of funerals can bo esti
mated from the fact that they have the
right of way over everything else, includ
ing ambulances, mail carts, fire engines,
police and soldiers. They also carry with
them a legal right which is unknown to
our own civilization, and for which there
is no name in either English or any other
modern language. This may be described
as the right to carry a coffin or march a
funeral procession along a certain path,
line or road. It might be called the right
of thoroughfare.
This right is so strong that when once
established it creates an easement which
belongs to a family and descends as a
hereditament to the end of time. Thus,
for example, a man died in 1892 in the
city of Amoy. There had been no death
in his family since 1874. In looking over
the family records it was found that in
conducting their funerals the body had
been taken along a certain
nated by the astrologers in the earn, part
of the century, from the front door to
the clan burial ground. But in 1880 a
wealthy merchant who had purchased a
piece or Jiand in the neighborhood’erected
a large and handsome house on it so as
to completely cover the path for some
hundred yards. His house had been
built with the approval of the
neighbors and the officials. Tho title
deeds aud other muniments had been
properly registered and ail taxes and as
sessments had been paid up to date. The
title was faultless. Nevertheless, when
the head of the family in which the death
had occurred submitted the facts to the
highest judge in the district, the latter
held that the funeral right-of-way was an
ancient right which preceded and domi
nated the ownership of the land, and he
gave judgment compelling the owner of
the new house to cut great doors in the
front and rear walls of his garden and the
front and rear wails of his home, and to
move all thefurniture away so that the
entire processiou in following the ancient
way might march through the parlor and
dining hall oi the luckless fellow’s man
sion.
STILL COINING SILVER DOLLARS
The Government Mints Busy Turning
Them Out.
From the St. Louis Republic.
Washington, Sept. 11.—Populist orators
throughout the country are continually
claiming that the democrats have entirely
suspended the coinage of silver dollars.
It has been stated in those dispatches
frequently that the mints were at work
almost continually coining silver dollars,
aud that Secretary Carlisle was putting
out as much silver as he was permitted to
do by law. The following important
lotter. addressed by the Secretary of the
Treasury to Representative Hoard of
Missouri, will explain this matter fully
and show the secretary’s authority for
his action
Treasury Department. Washington, 1). C.,
Sept. !U, 1894 —To Hon. John T. Heard. House
of Representatives: Dear Sir-Referring to
our personal interview this morning, 1 have
the honor to sav (hat the mints at New Or
leans. Philadelphia and San Francisco are
engaged in coining standard silver dollars
from the bullion purchased under the act of
Jvly It, 1890, commonly known as the Sher
man law, During the month of July 1130.000
were coined and during the month oi August
t;2iUO I. At out the same amount will be
coined during the present month, September,
and there tfter such amount will be coined as
the secretary may consider advisable under
all the circumstances
The third section of the act of July 14, 1890,
provided that the secretary of the treasury
should coin each month into standard sliver
dollars 2,000,000 ounces of silver bullion pur
chased under the provisions ot that act until
July, 1 1891. and thereafter he should coin of
the sliver bullion purchased under the pro
vision of the act as mi oh as might be
necessary to provide for the redemption of
the treasury notes issued in payment for the
bullion, and that any gain or seigniorage
arising from such coinage should be ac
counted for and paid into me treasury.
'l he coinage now going on is done under the
authority conferred by this section of the law
and the seigniorage derived from it is paid
into the public treasury, as required by law,
and used for the ordinary purposes of the
government, but the remainder of the coins
are held in the treasury In order to provide
for the redemption of the treasury notes
issued in payment for the bullion. During the
last eleven months 3,970.757 standard silver
dollars coined from the bullion purchased
under the act of July 14. 1890, have been paid
out in the redemption of treasury notes, and
the notes so redeemed have been retiree! ami
cancelled. This process is still going on daily.
Prior to my connection with the depart
ment. no silver had been paid out for the re
uemptiou of such notes and none of such notes
had neen retired and canceled. Very respect
fully yours. J. G. Carlisle.
Trusting to Their Honesty.
From the Chicago livening Post.
A news agent on the Illinois Central
railroad is trying an experiment that
shows a sublime confidence in the hon
esty of the patrons of the suburban ex
j press traius. Naturally it is impossible
I tor him io bo at all the stations at once,
I or to rido on all the trains, and he evi
I denlly does not consider it worth while to
hire enough boys to have one at each sta
tion and catch the passengers while wait
ing for the trains. To avoid the necessity
of this, and yet to get all tho pennies
that passengers are ready ts expend for
papers, lie has adopted the cafetier idea
of leaving everything to the honesty of
the patrons. At tho foot of the stairs to
each platform at which the express trains
stop he has rigged up a little shelf. Ho
puts a supply of papers and a cigar box on
these shelves every mornitig, and then
waits for the time to come to make col
lections.
The cigar box isopen and there is al
ways a little money iu it, so that a patron
can make change if he has no pennies. He
simply selects his paper from the pile,
and if he has uot the exact price drops a
nickel or dime into the box and takes out
bis change.
This is carrying confidence In the hon
esty of the public about to the limit, but
so far the plan is said to have worked
very satisfactory. The patrons (them
selves aro Interested in tho experiment,
but no one makes any pretense of keeping
a watch on tbe box. Everything is left
to the honor of each individual.
Sir Andrew Clark. IM general physician In
the largest hospitals in London, says that
seven out of every ten persons there owe
their ill health to drink.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1K94.
SOME BOGUS NOBLEMEN.
European Aristocrats Deceived by
Clever Impostors. .
It Takes a Smart One to Get Ahead of
the Prince of Wales—The Count
Jaracewski Was a Smart One—Some
Ex-Barons That Are Now in Jail.
Ex Attache, in New York Tribune
Americans are by no means tho only
people who permit themselves to be duped
by bogus noblemen, as one might be
tempted to believe from the remarks that
are made upon the subject, even in the
press of the United States. Those who
hospitably entertain titled visitors subse
quently to discover, to their cost, that
they were mere adventurers, may derive
comfort rrom the knowledge that Euro
peans themselves get taken in quite as
frequently, and with equal facility. Any
doubts which they may have on the sub
ject will be set at rest by the perusal of a
volume which has just appeared at Paris
under the title “Memoires d’Ardison,”
constituting an autobiography of that
bold and plebeian-born card-sharpcr
who a couple of years ago
was summarily expelled from one
of the leading clubs {at Paris,
where he had been ruling the roast for
some months under the title and name of
the Comte d’Andrac. He had been elect
ed in due form, after being proposed by a
couple of old and respected members, who
had given hitn their support in the belief
that he was a member of the old southern
and highly respected noble family of
Andrac. The very fact of his being other
wise unknown was in his favor, since it
did aw3y with any personal prejudice
against his election. For three months
he won nightly without arousing any sus
picion as to the unfairness of his play,
and it was not until one evening when a
member of the club, who had been spend
ing the winter in India, entered the card
room and recognized in the comte one of
the most famous professional swindlers
of the age, that his career was brought
to a close. During one entire season at
Pan he figured under the name of the
Comte de Franqueville, becoming a mem
ber of the most exclusive club there, and
forming intimacies with the most notable
visitors and the prominent members of
the local aristocracy. Among those who
became his dupes was as shrewd a man
as the Marquis de Breteuil. Miss Garner’s
husband, who used to take a perfect de
light in listening to his witty conversa
tion and to his unfailing stock of anec
dotes concerning the leading personages
in every capital of Europe. At Vichy he
appeared in the guise of an aged and in
firm old German baron. Ho apparently
had only a few months to live, and it was
UDon the local doctor’s advice that he was
wheeled to the card table at the Casino
every afternoon in an invalid chair
by a couple of superb footmen, with the
object of rousing and keeping alive his ap
parently failing faculties and mental
vigor by means of a few turns at baccarat.
Strangely enough, ho won almost continu
ously, aud to an enormous extent. His
victims, far from feeling vexed or annoyed
at losing their money, were apparently
glad that the poor old white-haired and
snowy-bearded man should have this
little last pleasure before he died. These
are only a few of the episodes of his ex
traordinary career, and in every page of
his memoirs one finds the most astound
ing illustrations of tho gullibility aud cre
dulity of precisely those very people in
Europe whom one would imagine to be be
yond the possibility of imposition.
Quite the shrewdest person in the dis
covery of frauds and shams is assuredly
the Prince of Wales, who possesses many
of the qualifications of a guardian of
society, including an astonishing memory
for incidents and faces, as.well as an ex
tensive knowledge concerning the history
of men and things. Yet two of the very
boldest and most impudent adventurers
have been seen at his table, and were in
debted in a great measure for their social
currency not only in London, but also on
the continent, to the patronage accorded
them by his royal highness. The one was
the soi-distant Count Jaracewski, who
used to be known in London by the name
of “Sherry-and-Whisky,” and was a
frequent visitor at Sandringham.
Ho was a good-looking man, fair
haired, with a blonde mustache, small
hands and feet, clean-cut features and an
aristocratic appearance. Owing to tho
friendship of the prince he was received
at all the best houses at Jgjndon and
Paris without any inquiries being made
as to his birth and parentage, and was
likewise elected to the most exclusive
clubs in Pall Mall. A word, which he
inadvertently dropped, served, however,
at length to arouse the suspicions of Lord
Hastings, who was at the time a steward
of the Jockey Club. Keeping his reflec
tions to himself, the young peer, who is
an amateur detective of no mean order,
and imagines it to be his duty to act as a
watchdog over London society, left
suddenly for tho continent on a mis
sion of his own devising. On his return
he proceeded direct to the count's lodg
ings in Dover street, St. James,’ and re
mained closeted with Jaracewski for
sometime. When he left, his face was
singularly grave, and on the following
morning his landlord brought the start
ling news to Marlborough House that the
“count” had been found dead in his bed,
a suicide. It subsequently became known
that Count Jaracewski was not a noble
man. but merely the son of the laud stew
ard of a Polish nobleraau, who had had
the lad educated with his own boys from
a feeling of kindness toward his servant.
Equally successful was tho so-called
Baron von Hoffman, who is now under
going a term of penal servitude in an
Austrian penitentiary. He was the son
of asm all glasew are dealer at Prague, and
began his career as a hotel waiter. Ten
years later lie was established at Paris,
an intimate friend of the late Due de
Morny, and of Baron Haussmann, and.
through them, was not only invited to tho
state balls at the Tuileries. but also to the
more private imperial parties at St.
Cloud, Compiegne and Fontainebleau.
Furnished with letters of introduction by
Prince Nui>oleon, he proceeded to Stock
holm, where King Charles of Sweden
created him a knight of the order of St.
Olaf. At Berlin lie acquired several
hundred thousand dollars as a negotiator
of fraudulent railroad contracts, lived in
magnificent style at the palace of Count
Hem kol-Donnersinarck. and found means
of ingratiating himself with Count Her
bert Bismarck and the late Duke
of Uatibor. The lato King Alfonso of
Spain found so much pleasure and enter
tainment in Hoffmann's company that he
conferred upon him the Order of Isabella,
the Catholic, while at Home King Hum
bert showed iiis appreciation of the ad
venturer’s amiable qualities by creating
him a knight of tho Order of the Crown.
1 think it was about 1880 that be ap
peared In London, where, on the strength
of his alleged relationship to old Haron
von Hoffmann, who at that time held the
post of minister of finance of tho Austro-
Hungarian empire, he was made an hon
orary member of several of the best Lon
don clubn. He soon won a host of friends
of tho highest rank, including even the
Prince of Wales, at whose hands he re
ceived many kindnesses. It was not
only his winnings at cards that lie
netted during his stay in the Brit
isb capital, but also letters of
recommendation to the British
representatives at foreign courts, and
hence it is that he was sometimes to be
met at the tables of the English ambas
sadors and ministers in continental capi
tals, It was during one of his visits to
Brussels that he became aquainted with
tne late Crown Prince of Austria ll*
conceived a great liking for him. Fore
seeing the advantages of an intimacy ci
his character. Hofljmann announced his in
tention of giving the archduke a magnifi
cent yacht as a wedding present, and the
plans of the vessel were duly submitted
to the prince and approved by him when
Hoffmann was arrested at Vienna by the
Austrian police and sentenced to penal
servitude for a series'of frauds unparal
leied since the days of Robert Maearie.
Another extraorjiuary adventurer,
whose acquaintance 1 made in Switzer
land, was a man who styled himself
“Count Alexander Tchernadieff,” but
whose true name is Krakowskl. After
having been the driver of a troika hack
in a small town of Western Russia, ho
was condemned for some horrible crime
to penal servitude for life in Siberia. Ho
made his escape and readied Paris from
the very depths of Asia, unknown. pcnnl
less and uneducated. Notwithstanding
this ho succeeded in passing himself for
nearly twenty years as a grand personage
with unlimited resources and an historic
name. Unlike tho other successful
swindlers whom I have referred to. his
appearance was distinctly against him.
His face was a mixture of cunning and
impudence, while his coarse hands wore
covered with thick, rod hair, almost like
those of a monkey. I shall never forget a
fete which he gave in 1880 at Montreux,
on the Lake of Geneva, in hqpor of Gam
betta, who had somehow or other
been inveigled into aequaintance with
him. and who was at that time
spending a few weeks at tho
Chateau des Cretes, with old Mmo. Ar
naud de l’Ariege. The entertainment was
one of the most fairy-like it has ever been
ray lot to witness. The fireworks alone
cost 200,000 francs, while a large party of
guests was brought from Paris in a special
train laden with delicacies end with the
engino and carriages almost concealed by
decorations, flowers and bunting. On the
day after the fete the “count” accom
panied his Parisian friends on their way
back to Paris, but loft tho train at Dijon,
thenceforth, being no more seen in Swit
zerland, where he left unpaid the entiro
expense In connection with tho feto, and
the debts incurred during his stay at
Montreux. amounting to over 1,000,000
francs. I need hardly add that the more
mention of the name of Tchernadieff, who
is now serving a term of five years’ penal
servitude in Belgium on a charge of for
gery, to any Swiss bailing from the Can
ton de Vaud, has precisely the same effect
as a red flag upon a bull.
1 might make a passing note hereof
Zucchi, who called himself Marquis of
Alha, and is now in a French jail. After
being branded as a deserter ami a thief
he managed to ingratiate himself to such
j an extent with the authorities in the
, soutti of France, whore his identity
should have been known, that tho Cardi
nal Archbishop of Lyons induced the pope
to confer upon him a knight cominander
ship of the Order of Pius IX., while the
president of the court of appeals of Aix,
at a banquet which ho gave, placed tho
pseudo Marquis at his right, the seat of
honor, while the general in command of
the military district had to content him
self with a seat on the left.
1 think that these instances will servo
to illustrate and confirm my argument
that shrewd European men of the world
are quite as easily duped by adventurers
and pseudo aristocrats as people on this
side of the Atlantic, whose strong sense
of hospitality often prevents them from
making due inquiries with rogard to the
identity of the stranger within their
gates.
DINING IN JAPAN.
Elaborate Ceremonies to Be Observed
in the Most Minute Details.
From Harper's Magazine.
O Shige Ban was great at cooking, and
took delight in providing me with new
and strange forms oi food every evening;
for breakfast and lunch I ate what Euro
pean food Matsuba could provide, and as
flour and whisky could be bought, and a
cow was slaughtered in Hikone every
Saturday, 1 did not do badly; you can get
the necessary sustenance in a shorter
time on foreign “chow,” but when work
was over, and I had taken my hot bath
aud exchanged my suit of flannels for a
cotton kimono, it was amusing to sit on
the floor uud speculate on the composition
of tho dishes which sho brought me, try
ing with the aid of a dictionary to find
out what they really were, aud to acquire
a taste for "daikon,”
Among her successes were eels cookod
in soy, broilod fish, and bean curd “ala
brochette;” young bamboo shoots, chry
santhemum leaves fried in batter, and
lily bulbs boiled in sugar wore eatable;
but a sausage made of rice and herbs,
and some of the quaint vegetables, was
simply nauseous. In one of m.y water
colors there was a large group of leaves,
round ones with a dark hole where the
st“m goes in, commonly known as the
“foreground plant.” and I noticed one
afternoon to my disgust that these had
been cut; the boiled stalks wore given to
mo at dinner that evening, and I never
tasted anything moro pleasant.
When the various dishes, had all been
brought in and arranged around me the
priest of Takaki, O Shige San, would ap
pear and kneel in front of me, keeping
my sake cup and rice bowl filled, and
watching with intense anxiety my ex
pression as I tasted each compound, and
at the end of my dinner would remark
that I had eaten nothing, and that Japan
was a dirty, ugly country, to which 1 ’al
ways replied that I had feasted, that
England was dirty and ugly, but that
Japan was a beautiful country. Such is
oriental politeness.
Then Sokin came in with his pipe and
pouch and little fire-box, and after taking
a cup of sake with me, sat and smoked
and conversed, or brought out tho tea
things of his lamonted patron, li Kamon
no Kami, and made me a bowl of powder
tea with all the correct ceremonies. The
Cha-no-yu is riot to bo confounded with
ordinary tea-drinking. It is an elaborate
form of entertainment which cannot be
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