Show cainas chinas ChIli ats reat great G hill of course we hail to go to tile the great heili of a lekin corre correspondent pon ion t ol of the davenport democrat china abounds in great walls her rural defenses were most moat extensive welled walled country walled cities waited village wal walled led iod and wall after wall and wall within wel wall 11 but the greatest of all la Is the tha great great wall of china chaun which crests creata tile the mountain range ranee and crosses the gorge corea from here some forty miles 11 to ga to pekin and not go co out to 10 the wall I 1 would bo be able it mattera not that the pekin wall is higher anil vi Ider nor that the way is cold and rough and often per peri loas Ions you must go co find see the great wall six mortal hours to make the last lait miles through gli the lait deep gorko and a deep rift in solid rocks cutout cut out ly egos of rolling wheels and tramping feet we reach the great frowning double b baat a loneil gato EIO of atone and hard burned b brick one archway tumbled in n this ihla was the object of our vas slon tho great creat wall of china built years yearn before our era built of great stabs of well hown hewn stone laid in regular courses some twenty feet higland hig hand then topped dout ou t wf with ih large larce hard burned brick 11 led in with earth and closely paved on the top ell with more dark daric tawny brick tho irma parts hagli alit and thick and castellated for use of arms and left the great wall sprung far up the mountain elde aids now straight now curved to meet tile the mountain ridge turreted each beeta feet fl frowning frown lne mass of milli masonry onry no need to tell this wall the book will tell you yon that how it was waa built to keep keel the warlike tar tartars thiril out twenty alv alve feet by forty th thick I 1 ck 1200 miles dallas with room on top for six horses to liu bo rode abreast nor need I 1 tell you that for 1400 years it kept those hordes at bay nor that la in ilia main the material used upon it Is just as good ond and firm land and birong as when put in place to tell you how one feels while standing on oil this vast work scrutinizing its ili old masonry ima onry its old cannon anil and i sweet along the mountain crest were only folly fally in speechless pee chlois awo we strolled or sat eat and it ad lazed in ili ai silent ent wonder twelve hundred miles of this gigantic work built 0 on the rug rue ged mountain tops top vault vaulting ng a over ver gorge wild st store aranas a nett the river archways arch ways with buee hard basis baas or of copper with doublas dolbi huze gates with swinging doors and bars sat thick with drou frou artner a wonder in the world wor d before which the old I 1 me class beven ig yen wonders won dera all gone toa now save eave tho 0 groat pyramid were toys the great pyramid has cubic feet the great wall 6 3 5 u cubic lest feet an engineer engine r in 1 n party here some years ago gave it eta as his opinion that tile the e ost cost of the lehe wall w a 1 1 figuring fi r ling labor at the same sa m rat rate w would 0 u 1 d toor more 0 than equal th t of all the milts miles a d in the united states slates the material it contains would build a wall six feet high and two feet thick right straight around the globe yet this casdone was done in only awen twenty ty years wl without thou t a trace of debt or bond it Is the greatest individual labor the world lias has ovet ever known you stand before lt it as before the great omnipotent bied and silent |