Show ap ER A aa ED cl 1 Y u sacred city ot of tho the danchus Man chua chus homo of their dy m nasty and consecrated by the tombs of tho the alft two rulers ot of their lino line li Is little fro fre by the tourist tho the comfortable able japanese hotel at tho station some three miles west of the town has few bedrooms though ahl these as are being added to and they are chiefly used by business men mou whose affairs bring them hither for a night the through traveler to peking who must change at mukden station from the south manchurian Manc hurlan railway japanese to the chinese government line takes a bath at the hotel it if there la is ume time and hurries on yet there Is much to see and a t to 0 days stay can bo be filled with interest the chief sights in addition to the city itself which to the visitor new to china Is fasal bating though dirty are the old manchu palace and the two great tombs the gorgeous palace within A walled inclosure Is diminutive compared with that of rokin it in by no means ruinous indeed for china it Is to kept up with somo care here and nd there a yellow tile fram the sate bouse house roof baa has dropped away and broken on the atones stones below it is not replaced but it would be an offense to carry off tho the fragments the imperial coutray rd Is to littered with hay bay and rubbish like an untidy farmyard but it Is commendably free from ordure in the large audience chamber the richly carved and glided gilded thrones a aro ra hung bung with dust sheets though pigeons fly among the brilliant timbers of the painted root roof or nest within the canopy and the floor boor Is in strewn with their droppings and feathers ten ton milea or moru more f from rom the hotel by a road when the loose alluvial eoll soil la Is dry and impassable for or wheels when it t is to wot wet it la in a matter of a wood two and a half hours to reach it with all conditions favorable you drive straight through mukden from tho the west and ind out into tho he countryside beyond so that you bavo have plenty of variety thoro there Is an tuner city rectangular and symmetrical confined within high massive walls of brick in which the gates are still closed at night though above only ono of them does the ancient gato gate bouse house remain covering a much larger area beyond its limits Is the outer town with a feeble ruin ous wall of crumbling mud both are filled with the close packed multitudinous industrial activity and hubbub of chinese life with lou loungers loun ners niTers also not a few and half balf starved pigs innumerable the only scavengers it lj not till you pass into the central city that you meet among tho the signs and shop fronts some thai tha make their appeal direct to tae foreign customer democratic hotel hetel mine ming tao too tailor every kingdom fashionable imperial mausoleum an hour or so after you have haye left let t the city you gradually approach a finely wooded ridge with a steep slope slop to the plain and above its sombre firs stand out in contrast the glowing roofs of the imperial mausoleum A great rectangular area fully half a mile in length enclosed by wills runs from south to north up the face of tho the ridge in the center of the bottom wall is a richly decorated gateway whence broad avenue or processional road paved and flanked n 44 im V Z I 1 t I 1 M 0 0 k k 17 W k b ial bacar 0 t ME OLD WOMAN SPINNING COT the formalities are strictly observed your pass ie Is scrutinized by the guardians at the gate you are well mccomi danied by attendants who unlock and lock again the many doors and watch you closely in the treasure house fine memorial for this fine meir lal of the past is to not an empty shell its pageantry haa u gone but tokens of imperial state remain you enter a hall flanking the man maln courtyard cupboard after sup board Is opened in the long wall wooden and highly inflammable and its contents are produced for your inspection spec tion a case cue of jewels including a notable string of large pearls a yellow imperial robe richly embroidered beautiful pictures on ellk silk rolls and so forth weapons o swords words with jeweled hilts of at jade and finely ornamented scabbards a most interesting antique helmet a saddle with its band hand acme trappings and many things besides porcelain too of the ming dynasty and later stacked on dimly lighted shelves 1 in miscellaneous variety and profusion these be beautiful buildings house a rich museum the palace Is in the heart of ef f the inner tuner city toe the tombs lie to far outside and many miles apart they are thava of 0 Nur bAchu the founder of at the manchu dynasty who died in berr and of at bis his son and suc successor ceasor tal tat who died in 1644 juit just be fawe ore theMa the manchur supplanted imp planted the ming dynasty and made themselves masters of pekin Nur bAchus burial place Is at the lower end by sculptured ani ant mals male horses camels and the like ascends the hill bridging the gullies that intersect its track here and there the ascent la to so steep that it breaks into a flight cf of steps on the more level plateau at the top is a timber building gorgeously painted with intricate designs in many colors double roofed the tiles of rich im aerial yellow within supported on the ack hack of a colossal tortoise of mar ble magnificently sculptured is a massive flat pillar or tablet of great height its face inscribed in the script of three languages manchu mongolian and chinese with a record of the reign covering it Is a lovely ceiling of square panels P nels with a device of three lotus leavea gold on a deep blue ground smaller small r buildings tor for necessary offices flail this one at a suitable distance so that its dignity ie is not impaired thin Is to but the beginning of the approach to the sacred burial alace lace A little beyond higher up the bill hill is a great gateway piercing centrally a lofty wall of at immense thickness built of cool gray brica abrl u sod and above the portal a gats gate hoise hot se with triple roof tiled and decorated like the buil dlag just below preding through under death neath you enar IL large inner rectangular court perhaps to hazard gk guess 60 yards broad ly IY some long entirely enclosed by the same massive wall wail through which you have luat just entered it |