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Show 39* if. Oh, #hsa I taiaa ei tht ruts wt jsamtea throufh. Apia I think af Dr. Mwm*® expressive words:- . "The Ghlneie cart i s a surious affair. Thar® ar® a* raids in th® interior @f China, except, r u t s that have been s a l e by the passing of many feet and wheels for generations. In dry weather they are thick with lust, and in the wet season are fathomless with nud. Almost everywhere they are distractingly sreoked, mi in aany plaees plentifully bestrewn with boulders of varying sisOB* Instead of spending money in nuking ro*ds, the GMnese have applied their ingenuity to asking an indestructible cart. They build i t of heavy timbers, with siassive wheels, tales spokes, sal ponderous hubs, and as no springs could survive the jolting @f such a vehicle, the body of the cart i i placed directly upon the hugs axle. Than a couple of big mules are hitched up tandem mi driven at breakneck spmi. A runaway in an American farmer's wagon over a corduroy road but feebly suggests the miseries of travel in a Chinese ©art! It may be good for a dyspeptic, but i t is about the most uncomfortable conveyance that th© ingenuity of man has as yet da-' sised. The unhappy passenger i s hurled against the wooden top and fides and is so jolted and busped that, as the snail boy sail in his composition, his 'heart, lungs,liver,kidney»fstomach,bones and brains ar© a l l mixed up.' 1 t r i a l the cart for awhile and gently but firaly intimated that if nothing better was available I would walk. I m satisfied that isothing short of a modern battleship under f a l l steam could make the slightest impression on the typical Chinese cart. In my humble opinion, a Chines® cart i s like any other alufartuna In l i f e . mm necessary, i t should be takes unccaplainingly. But the person who takes i t as. necessarily has net r e a c t s y e « 8 if discretion mi should b® aSaigned a guarditn." The writer las lived ia a to** in Ohio nasal Hediaa, and certain stasen» of th* IZlZliTJlT1] " " * * « - ^ ^ - but .eople thar. I nil Lo! I 1 J) \. cos pared with the mui we went through in Shansi. a*, « T °f %* %9m m U i i m ****** on **• • « « • • «••** thus cutting wit much af the distance the carts had te ea tad ****** #»«. M ™ I k n-*w.ng mi suea af "H* •»!»•«" «- **. 1 g ' a waited for them where they «rere to cross our m+ii in the shafts and three abreast in front.^ade up these t w u for thee. ZnZ i™ii ha, ha, B^esasetara. tsay would have r ^ f i t a f e ^ e a l t l / f m i i r e ^ e V L u r r ^ " " #@ -e ataM* l ^ f %Q ^ !!tf ^ 'T" bMt iU m t •• * t 0 «*••***• this faohien- J . £ l * . *? + t h i ! T n t r 3 T / h « P®9?1® «** drive horses, i t was enly "The four Hun- C*l\ * Jl 1 P r J° tmim* U °hinm SUeb s t^1@ i s * « * « « • " • One mule i s properly bitched to the Btrt in the t h i l l s ; but number two can work or not m he sees f l s / aX mostly he imw not ses fits He i s ©n ahead and attached by a pair of ropes to ane side of the cart. Host of the time he lets the ropes hang lax and does not half at a l l the poor nag who has to work whether or no. The lead mule sea turn areas! and come beak te number me and laugh in his face, if he wishes to, ar he has been known to l i e down in the road to r e s t ! Th® driver expends most of his anergy m this obstreperous beast who leads the procession, and carries a long skip with which he can tJsjde his ears! fit* three mules in the frost row, they had to work hari t o mil the ®xie hitched to the cart loaded with freight. 1 have no knowledge of the "breakneck apees" of which Dr. Brown spoke. |