"When the bride, Mary Erskine's wedding trosseau in the making, and the horizon suggests nothing but sunshine, a shadow appears in the ghost of a youthful folly of the bridegroom James Basset..."
"He is summoned by the Italian Black Hand Society, to which, for the sake of adventure, he has allowed himself to become attached, and which has chosen him to commit a murder"
"The meeting of Basset with Ashutor about the time when The Black Hand Gang have rounded him for failure to do their bidding, results in the clever manipulation of matters by the Hindu, who accompanies Basset on the homeward journey, as his servant"
"While on the voyage, trailed by the secret agents of the society, Ashutor uses his Hindu Magic to put Basset to sleep. When Basset is folded in his winding sheet Ashutor substitutes a dummy, which is buried at sea, and thus frustrate the plans of the Black Hand"
"Mystifying Photoplay Made from Edmund Mitchell's Famous Novel, Showing How Clever Hindoo Magic Thwarts Despicable Purposes of Conniving Villains"
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"From this port the scum is distributed throughout California, Washington and Oregon. The scum of the orient is the Hindu. Dirty, dressed with yards of filthy white, green or blue cotton bound around the head..."
"The Hindu stalks through the streets of the coast cities. he is the worst type of immigrant. He is not fit to become a citizen. his very mode of life makes him entirely foreign to the people of the United States."
"President W.E. Stone, of Purdue University, will, it is said, within a few days tender his resignation to the board of trustees and leave for an extended visit in Northern Michigan"
"His wife, whom he still loves, has 'withdrawn' from the world, her husband and her family to pursue the Yoga philosophy, a mystic teaching said to be imported from India"
"An entertainment that ought to be of unusual interest is to be given in College chapel Friday evening. A great Hindoo magician which is to appear in the necromancy of Hindoo land, said to present spectacles astonishing in character and difficult of explanation"
"Among things that will be seen are vanishing men, the spontaneous growth of trees and flowers and other strange illusions. The performer will be Manek Shah, Imperial Necromancer to his highness, the Rajah of Burmah"
"Hindoo Fruit Sellers and Japanese Idols in Philadelphia"
"Professor Maxwell Sommerville, who fills the chair of glyptology at the University of Pennsylvania, and has just sailed for distant points in search of curios..."
"for the Buddhist temple at the university museum, left at the gates of the famous Oriental place of worship two figures that arrived from the East just as he was about to start on the trip."
"The announcement that the once famous festival of Juggernaut has so declined in popularity as to render it necessary for the priests to hire coolies to drag the car,is a measure to the extent to which the destructive solvent of western thought is being applied to eastern creeds"
"The car of the great god of Pooree was one of the most sacred of Brahmanic 'properties,' and the Rath Jattra a festival which, in importance, yielded to that of no other deity in the Hindoo Pantheon"
"The Conflict Between Christianity and Hinduism in India"
"The greatness of the conflict which is going on between heathenism and Christianity in India is little realized here in America. It is as it was at the beginning of our civil war..."
"when the people of the north had only the faintest idea of the terrible struggle which lay before them. Think of President Lincoln calling for only seventy-five thousand men for three months, just as though the great rebellion were to be put down by that insignificant force..."