| Show CHINA IN STATE OF DECAY no ruin 1 n seen scan everywhere and no attempt t made to stay the ravages of time along tho the road and this la Is characteristic act nothing is being repaired writes the peking correspondent of the london times it Is tho the national falling failing to spend nothing on re to build and then leave the building to fall gradually in into to decay and ruin nor Is anything cleaned and the squalor that Is a feature even of the imperial palace in peking Is most extraordinary A few miles ou out t 0 of f there is a title tine stone bridge ot of live arches but the pl piers Cs are falling failing away the parapet has disappeared P and tile the flagstones flag stones with w which it Is paved have great gaps and hoison hollows s so that the cart rumbles and crashes and buruss across it in a way that would break any but a chinese cart to repair is no ones bus business liless at another stage of 0 his journey he rei remarks narks ller perhaps haps to some extent the at anticipated coming coining of a railway which will kill tile the present cart traffic I 1 nay may account for the shocking condition or of the native inns with railway extension in ili the air there Is no inducement for the innkeeper to spend money on oil the upkeep of his hovel nothing is repaired their filth anti and squalor are amazing in tho the inn y yard ard tho the well has its mouth below the level of the soil so BO that water w which is split may flow back into the well and carry with it the surface drainage A doctor must notice the prevalence of consumption to the universal habit of expectoration on the floor the exclusion of air and tile the absence of drainage this prevalence must be due |
