The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-22

force Of Millions Of the Chinese OF the past,
monument 20 the tboaght tina. while
man otes his work remains. Is does the
nAnd that carved the Venus 81 Medici
ana the pen that wrote Shakespeare and
the -5@nei1. These Chinese OF ? Go1 years
ago PROBABLY carried the earth and stones
Whicn formed the nlling OF the greater
part OF the wall IN baskets. and this earth
was ramned down by means OF niscs Of
stone or iron IS big around as haIf-busheI
measure and from SIX 10 eight inches
AAAck- Is IS n this VA that rhe emoank-
nlents OF the railroads are being built to-
oay. IL taxes eight men 10 each OF such
discs There are holes cus aaout IT'S CIR
cuEferenee and IN these ropes about
ten feet long are fastened. The men
stand AZ equal distances abous the
disc, ami by puIiIng back raise il
and tnrow il upward efsen 10 4
nelght above their heads and Il
Taas upon the fresh earth with thud. a
nintn man often sings song while these
men thus york. keeping time 10 his music
with the weight. and joining in the chorus,
TIE weight falling at the end Of every
verse and tine. 1t is the same with the
packing OF the earth with wooden stamps.
Eaca nan has one of these OF ABOUT the
weight OF the dasber IN an old-f2shIoned
euurn, and the gang of stampers sing as
they work. The bricks we're made by
hand, and men and women aided in their
laying. Such wood as was used in the
towers vas pulled up by human muscle 10
the top OF the wall, and the saving of the
tlmpers Was with cross-cut saws.
The organization required for the build
Ing and the defense Of such an army Of
iaoorers shows high state of civilization.
The man who began the work was one of
the great men Of the worlds past. He has
been called the Napoleon OF China, and he
to large extent was the founder of the
Chinese empire. Ills name Was Tsin Chi
H~angti, and he consolidated the many
kingdoms of China into one He built At
his capital q vast palace, with many build
ings, which were con nected by colonnades
and galleries. Each set of these buildings
he had made the exact counterpart of the
palaces OF the rulers he had conquered, and
when the whole was completed he brought
them 10 bis capital and kept them there in
state. He built this great wall in ten
years, and organized many public works.
Like Alexander and Napoleon, he grew
vain as he went on in his conauests, and
he decided that Chinese history should be-
gin with him. With this view. he CON-
nitted an act which has made him in the
eyes OF the Chinese the most despiSed and
detested OF their emperors. This was the
collecting OF all the libraries and histories
OF China together and burning them. He
had ali of the copies OF Confucius and Men
ctus that could be found committed 10 the
flames. and for fear that there might be
other books written than such as he de-
sired he killed the 500 most eminent of the
scholars of his empire. IL is said that not
a single perfect copy OF the Chinese
classics escaped destruction, and such as
exist today are made up from the parts re-
membered by scholars who were not
known 10 the emperor. and which were
written out after his death.
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