The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-25

rise the red walls and yellow roofs of the imperial palaces.
 The common buildings are of the same architecture They are of gray brick with ridge roofs of black tiles, the round comb of each roof sloping up into little horns at the ends. The wider streets are lined with stores, and these have double roofs, so regularly fitted from house to house that they form a sharp valley, banked with tiles. running through the air along the roadway from one end of the city tu the other.
 Flowing up and down the streets Is a wide stream of white, blue and black made by the clothes of the people as they go back and forth. There are carts and horses by scores, and the scenes are a busy as in the busiest cities in China Mukden is one of the richest places of the whole empire. It has vast trade, and its people are on the go from day light to dark
 The Street Traffic.
 But let us crawl down the steps and take walk through the streets. The Manchus are quiet, and we can go where We please. We shall have to pick our way, however, and must now and then jump into the stores to keep from being crushed by the crowd. In addition to the freight carts carrying bean cakes, coal, grain and all sorts of merchandise, hauled by donkeys and mules, single or double or three or four tandem, there are in- numerable pleasure vehicles, great two wheeled cabs without Springs. covered with blue cotton, drawn by superb mules, which go on the trot. Some of the cabs have outridders wearing white hats and red plumes; and now and then there is q foreign carriage with coachman and foot man in livery. The town has some droschkies left by the Russians, the horses of which have great hoops over their shoulders. There are numerous jinrikishas brought in by the Japanese. There are also huge wheelbarrows pushed by sweat ing Chinese, and last but not least, l must mention the long three-seated buck board of the Astor hotel. This was patent medicine man, and for a long time it had the name of President Roose- welt painted upon one of it's sides. IL is now the hotel bus, and it makes daily trips to the railroad station four miles away.
 Among the Tartars.
 The crowd on the streets is far different from that of the cities of China. These Manchus are not like the small-boned, sawed-off Celestials we have in Ameri- ca, with yellow complexions. snub noses and eyes which look out of button-hole
 
 or less Manchu blood and many look like American Indians. They are giants in comparison with the people of Canton. I see many men who are 6 feet tall, with big frames, heavy bones and large heads, fastened to broad full shoulders. Their complexlons are more like copper than cream; their eyes seem wider apart and their noses are often quite prominent. They are not unfriendly looking, and as a rule they do not run as we point our cameras their way.
 Fine-Looking Manchu Maidens.
 The Mukden women are especially fine. They are big framed and broad-hipped. and they stand straight as they walk along the streets with swing. Their feet are not bound like those of the Chinese women, nor do they fear to look a man in the face.
 Indeed they seem to dress for the streets. And such dressing! They wear pantaloons, but over them long coats coming down to the ankles. The coats are often of slk-lined with fur. Every girl paints her cheeks and eyelids with rouge, and her head is more gorgeously dressed than those of any other women of Asia. She has silver framework,