Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-21

mOnSSiiaus from Bcyond the Wall.
IS cultivated with the hoe and the plov.
There Is no sowing Of grain as with u.s.
and the rows of wheat. corn and millet are
weeded and fed with manure
Inc wheat Is planted in the fall and In
the spring. as now, the rows are ploTed and
other crops planted between them. Every
where over the landscape you see piles of
manure. each containing about two bushels
OF brown earth, and here and there men and
boys gather up this manure into bash cts
and carefully shake it out over the newly
planted crop. This is after the seed has
been sOwn. Nov donkey or a man pulls
through the row little roller OF stone,
mixing the seed and the manure with the
soil and pulyerizinS the earth till it is rs
fine as the sands OF the seaShOre. Every
one is at work in the fields. Little children
OF three and six years go through the rows
with baskets tied to their backs pulling the
weeds with three-pronged hoes. They put
each weed into their baskets and it IS
saved for food or fuel. There you see boys
driving 6Onkeys and now and then you will
see man blowing and men ana boys
hitched to the pillow and doing the work Of
horses. / photographed one man on my
way to Peising who had his whole family
harnessei to his plow. He leaned upon the
handles with all his might. while HIS three
sons and one daughter tugged aud pulled
IN drawing the plow through the furrow
He grew quite angry at my pointing the
camera at him and rushed UP to me and
tried TO take it out of my hands. 1 showed
assist
ance of my donkey boy was able to mount
and gallop away.
The New Read.
We saw some such scenes on the way to
Tong Shan, where the famous Kaiping coal
mines are situated and where we were en-
tertaincd over night. We passed many
coal cars carrying the black diamonds down
to the sea to be shipped in the company's
steamers to all parts of South China, and
at every station we found crowd OF
alnlOnd-eyed, yeilOv-flcsI rnorfals oazinr
at Us in wonder. The trip from Ton,g
Shan to the wall has been over the nayy
government railroad and our special train
is the irst Of the kind which has gone over
II Inc line Itself has only been oDanaJ
70 traiI!c for q few days and II. viii h.
the first report given 10 the civilized worII
OF It's character 1t is railroad that any
S SouhIIy ilgnt own with pride. Wen bal
iasted ant well laid. the steel track is as
koid as though ii had been used for a gen
eEauch' eni Us stations and bridges have
been H3'iJ u stay. The Ian Ho bridge
Whlch we crossed several hours ago near the
walled city OF Ian Chow, Is nearly tvy,
thousand feet in length and II has five r,reat
spans. each Of which is two hnndre, fer
long IL has q number of smaller so7n--
AMI 1t Is biilt upon arches OF solid stone
the iron Torfr being made by the same com,
rany tipt made the great Forth briIra n,
Scotland. and the heavy arches wer, sdniscn
By the pneumatic Process. Crossing this
we role cnWar1-part OF the time at n go :
OF fcrty-GFc miles an .hOdr-past ether cit
les, TIL We came in sight OF the m1untafns
Of 9iarclgria and stopped with the end o:
the railroad, almost on the edge OF the sea
ana- Within b stones throw OF the breac
In the great wall, through which the rail-
road Is = Ia extended hundreds OF miles
further on Into the wilds Of the almost
unknown country OF A1ichuril. Here
un1er the Sli1d ~ Of the great Chinese wall
gray with It's age OF two thousand years.
We ate ar luncheon in the vice-oy's car
nine rep esCltICiVes Of the most progress
sive nations 81 the present al home and
In CONT .Tt among The ruins OF the greatest
work Of Ch'na's historic past
The EXcursioa Party.
It Is indeed a curious sight for China