The comic features a number of mysterious murders in the presence of the strange statue, much to the befuddlement of the police officers investigating the store
A visitor arrives from India, the purported owner of the store, to claim his possessions. He too is killed under strange circumstances.
They eventually realize that the statue is alive:
Turns out the statue is a "hindu girl."
"It's well known how Indian fakirs can sit for hours and hours... a really remarkable performance, Young lady!"
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"Hindoo Applicant Drags History to Prove Eligibility to Order"
"HIS SKIN IS OF SWARTHY HUE"
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"The Independent Order of Odd Fellows confronts a problem in ethnology that has driven the officers of the Supreme lodge of Illinois almost. to distraction."
"Bastanta Bonnarjee, an East Indian and a Hindoo of the highest caste, has applied to the Central Park lodge for admission to membership in the order, and when well on his way to the fulfillment of his wish the proceedings were suddenly halted by the question of his color"
"The present struggle in South Africa has done much to distract attention from the fearful ravages of the Indian famine"
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"There is, however, one point in connection with this periodic scourge which Britishers would do well to bear in mind, says a prominent member of the Indian Civil Service in Pearson's Weekly"
"To inspire a spiritless race like this with the desire to help itself is not the least among the multitudinous trials of the famine relief officer"
"The British discuss giving 'dominion status' to India. This, nominally, would put India in the position of Canada or Australia as a self-governing part of the British Empire"
"These two pictures show you some of the gentlemen that feel ready for self-government. To be sacred, the bull must be pure white. If he has a calf only partly white, whatever isn't white is painted white and then he is a perfectly good sacred bull"
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1911
"HINDUISM: THE SUPREME FACT OF INDIA"
"If it were any other country but India, I might write last of the religion the people profess, but since it is India, it is the first thing to be considered"
"This Man's Shadow Believed to Put Curse On Person Upon Whom It Falls"
"Caste Barriers Being Destroyed by Church Work in India, Survey Indicates"
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"If a member of a higher caste in Southern India passes within 65 feet of a Pariah, or member of one of the lowest castes, he believes himself defiled"
"Even the shadow of a lower caste defiles the body of a high caste person upon whom it may fall. Members of the mason caste, the blacksmith caste and the leather-maker's caste extend their pollution 30 feet"
"If I were asked to describe India the first remark that would spring from my lips would be, 'It is a land of idols.' It would be impossible to compute the number of idols that there must be at the present time in India."
"The Hindoos pretend to have 333,000,000 gods, and these are represented by innumerable idols, so that we are quite bewildered with the thought of taking the census of the idols of India"