Show CHINA IN STATE OF DECAY ru ruin I 1 seen been everywhere and no attempt t made to stay the ravages of time along the road and this Is characteristic act acte ristle nothing Is being repaired writes the peking correspondent of the london times it Is the national falling failing to spend nothing on repairs to build and then leavo leave the building budding to fall fail gradually into decay and ruin nor la Is anything cleaned and the squalor that is a feature even of the he imperial palace in peking la Is most extraordinary A few till miles es out of Ilon anfu there if la a line stone bridge of five arches but tho the piers are falling away the parapet has disappeared and the flagstones flag stones with which it is paved have great gaps and hollows so BO that the cart rumbles and crashes and bumps across it in a wa way y that would break any but a chinese cart to repair la Is no ones business at another stage of his journey he rei remarks narks perhaps to some extent the anticipated coming of a railway which will kill the present cart traffic may account for the shocking condition or of the he native inns with railway extension in the air there Is no mi inducement for the lie innkeeper to spend money on the upkeep of his bis hovel nothing Is repaired their filth and squalor aro are amazing in ili tho the inn yard the well has its mouth below tile the level of the soil so that water which Is split spilt may low flow back into the well and carry with it the surface drainage A doctor notice the prevalence of consumption T to the universal habit of expectoration on the tha floor door the exclusion of air and the absence of drainage this prevalence must be due |