A small group of pilgrims came straggling by, and the priest invited them to come in and " kotow."" They did so, and while they were making their prostrations, ho "killed two birds with one stone" by making his strokes on the—urn-like boll serve at the same time call the—attention of the gods and dislodge the—accumulations dust. A native of Taianfu come along just as this group was leaving and asked the priest: "How is business?" "Very poor," was the reply. Not more than one hundred cash a day yet." But of course that was only the first day.
Superstition.
As I looked at the steno, the tottering ficance of the bu the mutilate the grovelli devotees this dilapidated impotence, I marvelled at the inscrutable influence which can hold the minds of such mater-these Chinese. Truly there is 50 here beyond our ken.
The Number of Pilgrims ely to be much greater this year than or many previous From the years, North especially there will be large numbers to pay the vows made for deliverance from the troubles through which they have passed in the last two years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.