Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1915 — Rocky Roads of China. [ARTICLE]

Rocky Roads of China.

We all know the description of the snakes in Ireland: "There are none," and much the same might be said about the roads in China. There are so-called roads, certainly, upon which the people move about, but I have seldom met one that was any better than the surrounding country, and very, very often on this journey I met roads where it was ease and luxury to move off them on.to the neighboring plowed field. The recipe for a road there in the North seems to be: “kTae a piece of the country that is really too bad to plow or to use for any agricultural purposes whatever, that a mountain torrent, in fact, has given up as too much for the water, upset a stone wall over it, a stone wall with good large stones tn it, take care they never for a moment He evenly, and you have your road. —Wide World Magazine.