Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-22

with clumps OF green trees and covered
with a crazy quilt Of luXuriant crops.
There are patches Of pink peach or
chards Just bursting forth into bloom,
gray thickets OF mulberry trees and
clumps Of feathery bamboos, out Of
which peep the matched roofs OF farm
houses. There are people wearing blue
gowns and gray hats at work In the
fields. lazy buffaloes dragging the
plows through the burrows, and In the
willows above me | hear the singing Of
birds, 1t is an ideal country scene, as
peaceful and quiet as that OF any part
of the world, anu | almost doze OFF as
look.
THE BATTLE OF THE WATERS.
But what Is that sound in the dis
tance2 Il makes me think OF u rail-
road train ut great speed, but far off
Ii slowly deepens and / look out 10
sea, IL g the mighty Pacific gathering
itself together for the great bore at
Hangchow. win my glass / can see
a faint line Of white at the foot Of blue
islands about 10 miles away. 1t Is now
but a streak of silver cutting the sea.
As | watch II II broadens and length
ems. The sound Increases, Seel There
is u low wall OF foam way out there In
the water. There are great boats be-
hind II which are floating in on the
tide, and ships In front which Il must
swallow up as II comes onward. Now
it is nearer and higher With the naked
eye can see it throwing us foam into
the air The wall seems TO be rolling
over ana over, while the way at my
feet is as stlll as a mill paid Now the
food has caught the ships They ride
with H. They sway this way and that,
apparently on their beam ends Now
they are lost, aud little later on see
,hem rising and falling with the swell
behind IL.
Now the wall OF water Is extending
FAR out In the bay, IL Il dashIng itself
against the embankment some miles
further up, and IL Is rolling, seething,
foamiug, roaring toward me. This wall
Is greater than that which engufed
Pharaohs army, IL makes me think Of
Niagara, and the thunder Of It's oncom-
ing current is almost az great. IL
comes closer and closer until at last IL
cashes almost to my feet and goes
roaring onward II has caught the
great Junks on the terrace, swayed
their masts to and fro, and, passing,
has left them floating, for the bay Is
now filled and the terraces hidden
How the water seeths and boils! There
Gie a myriad whirlpools I'm the bay.
The ships are pulling at the great BAN.
boo cables With which they are tied to
the shore, and the whole for a moment
Is Ike the rapids below Niagara Falls
A moment later and the contest is
over, The Pacific has crowded the river
iar back 1t has filed the bay and the
tide Is felt FAR into the interior. The
dykes and the walls have protected the
farms, and the people are working in
the fields Just az peacefully as before
the great white Terror" came gallop-
ing in,
ON THE GRAND CANAL.
I have been travelling for some DAYS
upon the Grand canal. going of now
ana then into the smaller canals which
cover this part OF China Ike a net. The
Grand canal is a wonderful waterway.
IL Is longer than frorn New York to
Cleveland, and II passes through re-
gion which contains more people that
the whole United States | saw II first
at Tlentsin, which city It taps on its
way north to Pekln. / have Travelled
on It near Pekin, and also seen II at
Chinkiang, where 1t crosses the Yang
tse, and am now near its lower end
where II terminates at the great city
Of Hangchow.
Travelling upon Il you pass walled
towns at every few hours, and now and
then come to walled cities so large that
you are half a day in getting through
them, For hundreds OF miles there are
no locks, and north Of the Yangtse the
water Is carried over the country on
great stone entertainments twenty or
more fet high, the stream within the
entertainments being several hundred
feet wide, The smaller canals have
flOodgates and locks leading into the
Grand canal, and In same places these
are managed by soldiers. II Is said a
river was once conducted into 10 at a
place above the Yangtse Kiang, and
that It took 5000 men seven months
TO turn the waters Of that stream. A
| great part Of the Grand canal Is I'm bad
repair. but south Of the Yangtse IL Is a
mighty trade route, filled with all kinds
| of vessels.
ALAND OF MANY BRIDGES.
The labor upon the canal has been
| enormous and a vast amount of work
is being done upon II today At every
| few miles stone bridges have
been built across Il and many Of IN Sc
| bridges have wide stone arches high
enough for the boats 20 pass through.
| From the boat these arches are exceed.
ingly picturesque. They form "a frame
for the long waterway covered with
boats OF all kinds / counted thirty
bridges In sight At one time and this
not including the little stone bridges
I which cross the side canals at every