. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. A HINDU FAQUIR. SOME FASHIONABLE HINDUSThe faquirs do not like to be photographed, and this fellow in the upperpicture was snapped just in the act of rising from his bed of spikes. This isonly one of many methods of self-torture practised in the hope of winningthe favor of the gods

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