A Dead Chinaman More Important and Respected Than a Live One

Queer Features of Chinese Funerals

Cruelty of Chinese Punishments

A Sample of Chinese Humor: The Story of the Magic Jar

Amusing Trials of a Land Buyer

"Pidgin English"

Everything Is Saved

The Influence That Is Remaking China.

XVI.	What I Saw in the Philippines	153
	In Manila
	A Trip Through Five Provinces
	What the Philippine Country Looks Like
	Every Filipino Has Cigarette and a Clean Suit
	A Mania for Cock-fighting
	Snapshots of Philippine Life
	Labor the One Thing Lacking.

XVII.	What the United States Is Doing in the Philippines	163
	Thirty Thousand White People and 7,000,000 Filipinos
	Rich Resources and Varied Products
	Millions in Lumber
	How the Islands Are Governed
	Restricting the Suffrage
	Education: Achievements of the American Government
	Postal Savings Banks and the Torrens System
	Public Health Work
	Building Roads
	And Then Keeping Them Up
	"A George Junior Republic."

XVIII.	Asia's Greatest Lesson foe America .	173
	Where 10 Cents a Day Is a Laborer's Wage
	The Savage Struggle for Existence in the East
	Tasks Heart-sickening in Their Heaviness
	Where Women Are Burden-bearers
	$12 a Year for a Farm Hand
	An Overcrowded Population Not the Chief Cause of Asia's Poverty
	A Defective Organization of Industry Responsible
	Foolish Opposition to Labor-saving Tools
	Our Debt to Machinery
	Knowledge Itself a Productive Agency
	Ineffectiveness of Oriental Labor
	Tools and Knowledge the Secret of Wealth
	Importance of Our Racial Heritage
	The Final Lesson.

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XIX.	The Straits Settlements and Burma	186
	The Amazing Industry of the Chinese
	Easy Money in Cocoanuts
	How Germany Is Capturing Oriental Trade
	Rangoon the City of Gorgeous Colors
	Burma's Buddhist Temples
	Rangoon's Beasts of Burden
	Where the Elephants Do the Work
	Some First-hand Jungle Stories
	My Lord the Elephant
	Good-by to Burma.

XX.	Hinduism--and the Himalayas	198
	Theoretical vs. Practical Hinduism
	The Kalighat Temple, Calcutta
	Human Sacrifices
	Two Indian Places of Worship: A Contrast
	A Visit to Benares
	Burning the Bodies of the Dead
	"Religion" as It Is in Benares
	The Himalayas: A New and Happier Subject.

XXI.	"The Poor Benighted Hindus"	210
	India's Enormous Population
	"The Wealth of the Indies" a Romance
	A Typical Indian Village
	No Chairs, Mattresses, Knives, or Forks Used
	Where It Is 105 at Midnight
	"Gunga Din" in Evidence
	The Lady of Banbury Cross Outdone.