Show INTERESTING CITY OF CHINA in the North Chiefly Celebrated I for the Number of Its Picturesque Picturesque Picturesque esque Holy Men One of the least-known least cities of China Is where sand squalor and holy men are the predominating fea fen tures Yet the place Is not without interest lies at the edge of a desert In North China and Its people ar most un Chinese In appearance It ItIs Itis Is 18 said that every third man met there Is a lama The chief lama in Is as great a personage in the North as the Dalal Dalai lama half a century ago Thousands upon of lesser lamas adore him and tens of thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of the populace In their turn adore lesser lamas There is also a college for tor the stud study of religion In so that holy men In all stages of holiness are present In great num num- bers There are frequent festivals with great spinning of prayer wheels and making of offerings and ceremonIes ceremonies nies flies of purification culminating in the grotesquely beautiful devil dance dance by certain of the lamas in their horrible robes rOles and masks The populace is used to the religious atmosphere ere though and it is the pilgrims from the country round who are chiefly Im Im- im- im pressed They rhey include all manner of m mysterious folks folls tho live on the trackless trackless track track- less steppes of inland Asia herders Asia herders by trade and doubtless robbers and caravan bandits an by vocation in most eaSes cases |