Where Half The World Is Waking Up / The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

by Clarence Hamilton Poe

LIKE SCENES FROM OUR WESTERN PRAIRIES.

Manchuria is a vast empire--one of the most fertile portions of the earth's surface. The great money crop is the soy bean, and the lower picture shows miles of beans and bean-cake awaiting shipment at Changchun.

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MANCHURIAN WOMEN (SHOWING PECULIAR HEAD-DRESS),

CHINESE WASTE-PAPER COLLECTOR.

Everything in China is scrupulously saved--except human labor. That is wasted on a colossal scale through the failure to use improved machinery or scientific knowledge.