. 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. kles a Chinaman: it is one they tell themselves: A Chinaman had a magic jar. And when you think of ajar here dont think of one of the tiny affairs such as Americansuse for preserves and jams. The jar here means a big affairabout half the size of a hogshead: I bathed in one this morn-ing. It was in such jars that Ali Babas Forty Thieves con-cealed themselves. Well, this magic jar had the power ofmultiplying whatever was put into it. If yo
. 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. kles a Chinaman: it is one they tell themselves: A Chinaman had a magic jar. And when you think of ajar here dont think of one of the tiny affairs such as Americansuse for preserves and jams. The jar here means a big affairabout half the size of a hogshead: I bathed in one this morn-ing. It was in such jars that Ali Babas Forty Thieves con-cealed themselves. Well, this magic jar had the power ofmultiplying whatever was put into it. If you put in a suitof clothes, behold, you could pull out perhaps two or threedozen suits! If you put in a silver dollar, you might get outa hundred silver dollars. There doesnt seem to have beenany regularity about the jars multiplying properties. Some-times it might multiply by two, while again it might multiplyby a hundred. At any rate, the owner of the magic receptacle was gettmgrich fairly fast, when a greedy judge got word of the strangeaffair somehow. Accordingly he made some kind of falsecharge against the man and made him bring the jar into THJi GKJiAT WALL OF CHINA
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