More recently an event has taken place that has caused quite a stir in the district Early this year man named Men Chung, a chuen and a houpu chihsien of the old regime, was appointed master of sacrifices for this district. A few weeks ago he collected a sum of over one hundred taels from the rich families of the district, With this sum he prepared a procession that marched through the streets of the city on Sunday, December 90. At the head of the procession were bands of musicians. Following them came, in order, men bearing Republican' flags, tables with pigs, sheep, wine, and the other elements sacrificial offerings, and tables bearing a number of the little houses, in which the Chinese place the tablets of deceased worthies. In these "tablet halls" the master of sacrifices had placed a large number of tablets bearing the names of ancient sages from the Chow dynasty on down to the present time. Further than that, he had prepared tablets for the deceased scholars and office-holders of this district, for " period of several hundred years, and without reference to the character of the deceased, whether good, bad, or different. Following this fores of tablets marched the gentry the district, some of the leading business men, and, of course, the usual rabble from the streets,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.