Show 11 one bus ot of pleases haie ot of idolatry ciff in japan where on the sacred road to nikko is 1 located an idol about which costers one of the moat peculiar worthies wort hips in the tbt horld orld upon abe surface 0 of the statue are soen little pieces piece ot of what appears to be dried paper it you stand iland by this the idol 1 d 01 tor for awhile and wait tor for a wor worshiper shiver to come along you will vill see e what the thea 0 bits alt of 0 are tbt devolle halts in I 1 a front of odlie the image thon then tc a braer on a bit 0 of pt pa per The thead he tb then en ebe a up into a ball and burls buris at the god if kit it bits tbt th face anil and fiti clis the praye 1 is sure to bo be answered aud and the 1110 pious pilgrim goes f away avay happy it if the ball bail aticus to some portion of 0 the body the botnen li is not cot quite to BO propitious and it it ala to the ground there Is 1 absolutely no hope such a piode diode of ct pro piatr er li is ei eian ea mora curious than the praying wheels wheela 0 of the buddhists who act ct the wheel kreoll ing and reel ott off proY prayers eris by machinery A As john ohn L stoddard the lecturer aa one sees seea of 0 courte numberless strange rites connected witia with rollion in travel InK Ing about the world but japan IR in the theouley ocly land I 1 have ever visited where deities berve as targets lot grayem pra yem |