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Show FINGERS CUT By BROKEN BOTTLE Through the breaking of a bottle which he was handling at the Beckor Brewing plant this forenoon, John Ebcrhardt had tho two middle Angers of his right hand cut to tho bone. He was hurried to tho Deo hospital, where the wounds were dressed. The cuts are not necessarily dangerous, dan-gerous, but Mr Ebcrhardt will be un-ablo un-ablo to attend to his duties at the brewery for a number of days. oo A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF CHINA AS SHE IS (Selected by Edwin Markham, In the New York American.) Professor Edward A. Cross, In his new olume, "The Changing Chinese" (The Contury Company), ha3 set forth an Interesting focord of his travels In tho Far East. Here is a part of what he savu of present conditions con-ditions In China now In the uproar of the tooBt astonishing revolution In history: "China Is the European Middle Ages mad visible. , All the cities are walled, wall-ed, and tho walls and the gatcB have been kept In repair with an eye to their effectiveness. The mandarin has "hjs headquarters only in a walled fortreBs-dty. "Tho street of tho cltle6 are narrow, nar-row, crooked, poorly paved, filthy and malodorous. In North China they nd-mlt nd-mlt the circulation of the heavy sprlnglcca carts, by which alono passengers pas-sengers are carried; but, wherever rico Is cultivated, tho mule is eliminated, elim-inated, and tho 6troeta aro adapted only to the circulation of wheelbarrows wheelbar-rows and pedestrians. "Tho BhoDkccper builds hU counter nn- jjL-LB-UbOJ-r '" " mjmjmcgo in front of bis lot lino, the stalls lino the street with their crates and baskets, the artisans o erf low into j it with their work benches and the final result is that tho traffic filters painfully through a six-foot passage which would bo yet more encroached on but for tho fact that the officials InsiBt on there being room left for their sedan chairs to pass each other Until recently thero was no force in tho cities to" maintain public order New, khaki-clad policemen, club in hand, patrol the streets; but their efficiency ef-ficiency in time of tumult Is by no means vindicated. A slouching, barefoot, bare-foot, mild-faced gendarme, such as you seo in Canton, is by no means an awe-inspiring embodiment of the majesty of the law. "There is no common Biipply of water. When a city lies by a river, th raw river water is borne about to tho houses by regular water-carriers; and tho livelong day tho mer stairs aro wet from tho drip of buckets "Fuel is economized and household economy simplified among the poor by the custom of reiving largely on tho food cooked and vended In the street The portable street restaurant restau-rant Is in high favor. "Proper chimnoys aro wanting, and wherexor cooking goes on the walls aro black with tho smoke that Is loft to escape as it will Chinese interiors arc apt to bo dark; for, In tho absence ab-sence of window glass, tho only means of letting in light without weather Is by pasting paper as lattice "Most strikiDg is the contrast be-tween be-tween China and Japan in respect to neatness. Tho Chinese seem neglectful neglect-ful and Ignorant of tho art of care-taking care-taking and ropalr Thoy haver never acted on the maxim "A stitch in tlmo saves nine." "Tho Chlnose is fortunate in opening open-ing at the side Instead of at tho front When the winter winds of Peking gnaw at you with Siberian teeth, you realize how stupid la our Western way of cutting a notch in front right down through overcoat, coat and vest, apparently; In- order, that the cold mar do Its worst to the tender i throat and chest On seeing th sen-I sen-I sible Chinaman bring his coat square-1 square-1 ly across his front and fasten it on ; his shoulder, you feel like an exposed j totem-worshiper i "In the absence of good roads and . draft animals the utmost use has i been mado of the countless waterways, water-ways, and thoro aro probably as . many boats In China as In all the rest of tho world. No where else are there such clever rlvor peoplo nowhere else Is thero so lavish an application of man-muscle to water raoxement Tho rivers aro allvo with Junks propollcd by rowers who occupy oc-cupy tho forward deck and stand as thoy ply tho oar. , "Jn the south, population Is forced from Jtho land on t tho water, and myriads pass their Uvea In sampans and houseboats. In good weather, these poor families, living as It were , I In a single small room, with a porch at cither end, seem as happy as peo- i plo anvwhere. There is no landlord I to grind them down, no foreman to I speed them up. I "There children, littlo river Arabs, have their wits sharpened early, and ' not for long Is tho baby tied to a ' sealed ompty jar that bv floating will ( I mark his location In cose ho tumbles 1 into tho water. i "The" Croat Wall In the north Is undoubtedly the grandest and most , impressive haniwork of man. Beside its colossal bulk our boasted rallway , ombankmonts and tunnels seem the work of pigmies. Savo the pyramids of Esrypt and the Panama canal, thero Is no prodigy of toll to bo mentioned in tho same breath witii it. "At Nankow P3ss the wall is wide enough for seven or eight men to march abreast along Its top, twouty I feet high. 'faced with hewn stone battlomcntal and strengthened overy foity or fifty rods by huge towers ten J yards square inside. "It follovr. the comb of the mountains moun-tains in order that the ground may Ulopo from It Kth4 Wftl's-, ,IL lsss from crest to crest, dips into ravines and reappears mounting tho range bSyond; so that It is scon in fcag- I i ments. tho linking parts being hidden I in Uie defiles. i 'For perhaps thirty miles the eye j follows this serpent in stone, now streaking up the slope, now passing across the line of vision defined against the black of tho mountains beyond, now cutting tho afternoon 1 sky with its battlements as it follows some distant ridge To tho north the mountains drop away Into foothills, foot-hills, each crowned with Its watch tower Then a plain, another range of mountains with another wall, nnd, I beyond, tho bleak, wind-swept plateau of Mongolia.' |