plane and since
the birdmen played such a part in the world war these scientists were
correct in giving the flying machine a place among the wonders of the
modern world. The fourth place was given to Radium, the fifth to
Antiseptics and Antitoxines, the sixth to Spectrum Analysis, and the
seventh to the marvelous X-Ray. Had eight subjects been called for the
Panama Canal would have had a place, for it lacked but eleven votes of
tie for seventh place. It can, therefore, be called the eighth wonder of
the modern world.

How different were the ideas of men during the days of ancient Greece.
It is a remarkable fact that among the seven wonders of the ancient
world only one of them was of any real service to humanity. True, one or
two of them served as tombs for the dead and one of them was a sort of a
pleasure resort, but it proved a curse rather than a blessing. The one
of real service was the Pharos, or lighthouse, at Alexandria, Egypt.
This was a gigantic structure more than four hundred feet high on the
top of which a great fire was kept burning at night, thus serving as a
lighthouse. The structure was so large at the base and the winding
roadway so spacious that it is said a team of horses could be driven to
the summit. The entire building has long since disappeared, but while in
Alexandria its location was pointed out to me.

In the list of ancient wonders, however, the Pyramids of Egypt were
given first place. There are seventy-seven of these pyramids altogether.
Three of them are located less than a dozen miles from Cairo, the others
being up the river Nile a half day's journey. The largest is known as
the Pyramid of Cheops and is nearest Cairo. It covers thirteen acres of
ground and is four hundred and fifty feet high. My first sight of it was
a disappointment for after all it is nothing but a pile of stone, and
seems smaller to the eye than it really is. When one walks along by its
side and begins the ascent to the top, however, its immensity begins to
grow and impress the mind.

Heroditus, the Father of History, says a hundred thousand men worked on
this pyramid at one time and that it took twenty years to build it. It
was scientifically and mathematically constructed ages before modern
science or mathematics were born. The one who planned it knew that the
earth is a sphere and that its motion is rotary. It is said that in all
the thousands of years since it was built not a single fact in astronomy
or mathemat