of apoctatars, ned up on ath ides aly 7 the eyes of a throng.
of the main street of our city, were feasted in gazing at a. marvellous ipl of wedding prevent carved slons ina procession.
surely wag ome wedding. The fondness. of display decidedly Oriental, The principals in all rare Gen, Ma Fuchstang's son, the bridegroom, and Gen. Ma -Chuine Trinols daughter, the bride.
Chultrhsito, now. deceased, during the year of the White Wolf aid fin pursuing that robber band teted in a very high-handed way in his treatment of the people in a certain district in Kansu, In this he {neurred the displeasure of the provineial governor at the time, Gen. Ma suddenly disappeared and one report gave it that he drowned himself by jumping off the iron (Kansu) and Suiyuen fame is known by many of the "Herald" readers through the columns of this paper. The latter's old home is about 60 li to the southwest from here while the former hailed from Tong-
The tieing of the nuptial knot for this young couple united these two Mohammedan houses.
All of Them Riding upon Horses Now for a description of the procession. In the front rank appeared a cavalcade of horsemen who rode down the street like mad;_all the riders wore a red scarf of cloth ound their bodies, red, of course, Jing the colour indicative of joy and happiness, In the midst' of this company appeared the bridegroom and the best man. As to the horses, they were of the quality and stock, and well groom Then came a break in the ranks, for the second section, in which the bride rode in the regulation sedan chair, moved Jeisurely and the first. Her chair was preceded by four red silk banners with velvet black characters attached thereto, and behind these banners were borne four beautiful "wan ming san" (10,000 names umbrella). Next came 40 silk tablets, also containing Chinese characters in velvet, followed by, I suppose what might be termed, a bodyguard of infantry, after which the bride's chair ai peared.
Women belonging to the future mother-in-law's home were being conveyed along in five carts in the rear of the red chair; the next ranks were composed of mounted soldiers directly in front of a long line of tables, numbering in all 90, containing presents to the bride, in ordinary Chinese nomenclature termed "kin
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