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Eason Third contributes the following interesting article to the current number of the Cast of Asia Magazine:
sod over it is combed and henshed and kunt The grave is the temple of the clan and the clean as no dwelling of the living, so t at the tombs of kings, for natural beauty of bills and woodians, are upenemased.
DEAD MAN'S GATE
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fte twenty fert diep and many of the build a little straw hut near the grave, and how the watar of the city is obtained from salle ten, | during this time or xamb his hair, but would
districts are named from the wall whence it and how and bow, and wall and weep for thres draws this elixir of life that would be condemned years. of bacillis, het the carriat rejoices in his calling in New York as containing every known spicia Tre is a dispute among foreigners as to and his blisalni igorance, and bails this field the derivation of the word Seoul: which is about the sity at meron and a half oʻnts a month, presionum almost like the immortal part of two bucksts for each day. If you were to ask an Irishman (sow)) but not quite. It is him to carry you sixty tuckets us a day's labour word of two syllables, as if you say sup and he would charge you thirty-five cents but tool, without the p and, leaving it sa-oot seeing that he has the privilege of storing (-conl). This is the propanelation, but the out over the month, be charges only seven and derivation is still to be determined. Same a half. There is a riddle (anau-gek-) in Cores, maintain that It in from India, and that it which neka Where in credit cheaper than landed there about the beginning of the cash " Answer "In case of the water carrier." Christian ers, when Karak and Silla prouliar Jogis of the thing, however, is were founded; others think it a
pure aktive Been word. The Coraan himself does not know what this part of disasiess transsetians in The water-carrier is not the only contributor its origin is and does not care; says ise,What earthly use can it be to me to know what it is to the noire of the streets, or dispenser of useful derived from The word Seoul then simply the great canal also has a part. They bide information, for the washer women along capital; king in the soul of Chins, Tokyo the wool of Japan, ate. It is a common noun their faces modestly as you go by, and you in reality, but a proper noun by usage, for it imagine them delicate and fragile. till you hear now has come to mean a city of 200,000 lababi- the sound of the laundry stick,whuckety
whack. But tores Women are good and touts, the cap of, ring under n magnis: faithful, and in ability superior to the men, as nesti-east of Chomulga, a cont range of bills that would make a Hottentot prosen by results obtained in the Mission Girls' Schools. The fact that the nation has existed til the present time with such an incapable ofase of males back of it, is due entirely to hard-working, patient women who, nerertheless, are regarded as dust and ashes by their lords of creation.
dream that he was a white men and free.
Boeni is 510 years old and these miles in diameter. It has wall around it mostly of stone, covered, here and ther with tiles that were bitrned and plastered in the year 1996, The wall is twenty feet high on the level, grow ing gradually less as it zconde winding over the bills. It is a wonderful piece of work, aut stamps the men of 500 years ago as great in plan and great in execation. Seoul is the
SOUL OF THE EMPIRE,
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ve police in Anch a city? Even the crowds that gather on procession days are perfectly orderly, en mash so that our newly organised, pitiful police force is like to die of ennui. Another orderly occupant of the streets of Saarul ig
The custom at funerals is to carry-the dend out at evening time, followed by a long weird
Out of procession of lanterns. they go, one to the west and one to the exat of the city. Throngh no other portal is it par. mitted to carry a corpse. A long sweep round to must be taken in order not to defle the entrance, I once watched a procession pass New Imperial palace by passing too close to its main ont through the Su-gu-men and then engairod of the shop-keeper living in its shadow why when there were others, "I don't know," said they need this gate specially for the dund be No? Then, ssid I, changing the subject, what are those little figures on the gate that look like monkeys, dogs, etc. Who known what they are they mean " I ventured. The gate was built was his reply. "What do
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an long nga, how can I tell what they mean "SOLE PROPRIETORE of the Famous Milke, Tagawa, Yamano and Ida Cool Fines; and This is a npe of a Curean's willingness to give information. The little figures on dead man's gate, and on all gates in fact, are meant to represent creatures that mufnally balance off each other. For example, Coreans say that THERE IS NO GAINSAYING THE FACT THAT fire balanced creatures are the elephant, thá The highways of Seoul are the most orderly tiger, the dog, the cat, the mouse; the cat kills For the Rafid and ERPECTIVE DESPATCH OF streets in the wreld. Occasionally there will the mouse, the dog kills the oat, the tiger bo wrangle and sometimes even a top-knot kills
the the dog, the elephant killa "scrap, but that is merely a difference of tiger, and the menee kills the elephant: just opinion between friends and will adjust itself how I do not know, but her kills him. This in it is, and was, and always has bown the centre if you give them time. Let them work it out, one of their agings with regard to offcialdom, of Corraa thought. Here the ruler residenum for this is one of the points on which the Coresa Ocials should be so balanced one against the the great men with him, some living, some who is determined; he will see every such matter other, hence on all gates these figures to repre
#піва though the crack seat idea, to keep out devils and to provičs a Contractors, Ship Chandlers ought to be dead. Here the Audience Hall through 10 Provision and Coal Merchants, Saillitts its wings on high. How you view all that of doom swoits bim, then he and his opponentsolid government-
makers, &o. Fresh Water supplied to is great st and heat of Cores, even the distance but without speaking. Why should things and pafings of steam and coal smoke, equat dan nid anoke within speaking Boonl | is a city that liven without the brea- Vessels in the Hurbour
of the capital surpass anything L.have seen in the connity, and their feng shut or spirit iuflu
or used to live, perhaps I had better say. All ence is first in the land. What this feng-shut
its manufactures are carried on by hand in quiet I am at a loss to tail; it belongs to that secret
corners arder thatch and til, whether it be hamber of Cores where so many other goda re-
shoe-town, ex girile-town, or dish-lown, or site and which no foreign eye sees. Many swise
knife-town, or pen-town, all is hidden away, so that the passers see ouly a samoness of brown man of the West, aneing no public temples, ha sid that Cores in without a religion. But Seoul itself He is a combination of Oriental mind and that blows its vulgar whistle outside the walls. mud. Now, however, wo have a steam railway is a vast pantheon-with a thousand gods : gode of the hills, gods of the gutters, gods of the Occidental gun. What the two may yet reaalt A young lad, who had heard it and had been 4 and 45, Des Yeux Rond. Shipchandlers, kitchen, spirits of the gate, spirits of thein is a question. The manual exercises he goes puzzled to know how such a sound was pro- Sailmakers, Riggere. Commission Agents wardrobe, water devils, wind devils, room devils, through very well; taken all-in-all he is well-duced, came to me and said timidly, "Master, and General Storekeepers Sole Agents stable ghosts, burples, wraiths, bobgoblins, will behaved, circumspect and a credit to his country. how can the driver-rian make such a noise, does for Shipowners Composition fro the wips, all the fort with real food and to much more civile is he dim. Manchu he do it with his mouth --naives being all out
bound Braunt") and Bhundelis pampered with depreciated nickels, nutil, at the troops I have seen la Makden that he deserves place in the eternal silence of the city.
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worshippers, the feels half, toiling, slaving, in essence a city of the pen, not of the the male belf, gorging, feeding, drinking word: even the soldiers hare something of the Such is the spiritual environment of this quiet in their bearing that belongs to man of ancient city of Seoul.
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might be called a land of the sword, a brave, also the material.
The backyard of a warlike race; Cores a land of the pen, untle Coreon house is the street. This is hiz
altogether for the thumps and knocks of the battlefield; Manokuria a land of bludgeon and soldier is that he slopes his gun rot toward the luo. The one and only fault of the Corean
stands for photograph or on dress parade, his heavors but toward the earth. Except when he ride, with bayout fixed, droops over hie shoulder, in which attitude his favourite pastime and ear within a circumference of twenty-four is practising "right about wheel,” every eye
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und makes its erit noder the wall. In an an- ciant history I read," Seoul 1443; a geomancer by the name of Plum insisted on clearing outfest taking the consequences. the city ditches to order that the site might remain propitions, but a gentleman by the süme of Fish objcoted and memorialised His Majesty saying. A dosd man's resting placo is one thing and a living man's another. From a dead man's door there are no sweepings and no mass of the garbage gathers, but from a living Low could it be eo Let the streams and gutters lake care of themselves. The King read the memoria, rewarded the man Fish end put buttons behind his ears (gore him rank). So it has been fashionable ever since to make all the mess possible around the door. way and on the street.
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We have also the electric power-house planted on the dragon's book, rolling out clouds - of angry smoke, wheezing and churning with a BOLE AGENTS FOR THE FAR EAS!-- vehemence most appalling. When I feel the earth shake under these engines I think of asethor characteristic of the Coreen, namely, his irresponsibility, and I tremble. He does not mean to be vafaithful, he just has not the his being on time. The responsibility of the physical and mental make-up that will insure
keen-eyed Americans, whose training of motor Seoul electric power-house is shouldered by men and car-helpors has been a wonderful succese; but the keen eye may see nine badred boilers and then leave the thousandth time to and ninety-nine times that there is water in the
the Corean, with the chance of an explosion that will at ouer be construed into a whipping the eternal-nuisance that has annoyed his back of the dragon's tail, and a ridding himself of for the last three years. Probably Seoul is the most irresponsible, inaccurate uity in the whole wide world..
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The soldier, however, is a twentieth century steal but of silk. From the huts of tile and excrescence, for the fibre of Seoul is not one of thatch come forth immaculately dressed gentry, with robes of silk, bands of silk, souls of silk who, notwithstanding the awful stresis, walk world. Do not mistake me to mean, however, sereurly, as perfect spirits through a wicked that scripturally he is a perfect man, far from it.
If I were to seek another word to characterise face, and get sharpened up a bit. There are, it the city by it would be holiday.Seoul is a city is true, stons Sights and kite contests, but the of leisure. No one seems to have anything former is likely to be forbidden, to the disgust seriously to do except to study Chinese even of many, and kite dying partakes of the nature the coolie works as pastime. While the of a gathering in mid-air rather than on earth, People horn and brought up in this at. straggling natious of the West are labouring so that we may say there are no public mosphere flad it not uncongenial, they even The Beer is sterilised after being battled, and enjoy it, and seem to ckcose it as a spot condueire to keep body nad soul together, be rolls over ou gatherings. Societies there are many clubs, full mature age insures its fae condition in any nation, which raises a question in my of an ordinary Corean attains pretty nearly to
bis book and goes-sweetly to sleep-be-life-guilds, companie, but they must cach-and-nit elinato. Dautifully bright, seductively spark mind as to the truth of our theory of hygiene the Buddhists Nirvana, not a cara, no thought to their own particular sphere or run the risk have a government permit and limit themselves ing, and perfectly pure.
and the relity of microbes, A Corean will for the morrow. Even when awake be often of being anihilated, as was the case with the orer a pool that would asphyxiate the medical prefers to be only half-conscious. One of his Independence Club, whose triumphal arch now council of Oxford Street, London, and be comfortable sayings is, God never made a man stands as a monument to lost hopes. Not long
without providing his wherewithal, as he never ago a pa fectly salabrions thereafter. imatter of food his staple is rice and made a flower without giving itu uame,” kun-ichi Kiri-tehi is cabbage pickle, mixed is a city of 200.000 inhabitants, the male popata with chilli peppare salt feh sad so forth. tion of which has nothing to do. There is even The cabbage is washed in the guiters to all
dearth of entertainment, for there are no foreigners can testify, and this also would prove novelists in Corea or bookmakers, and so little that there are no such things as germe, Din the way of newspapers, that, if the city was Koch and Lord I ister to the contrary, for if not expert in the art of sleeping. I do not see LL. Kinds of SANITARY APPLI-
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MOK FOR FIFTY YEARS
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In
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existens. The gentlemana smeh, plays chess and patok, or listers to the band, which is com Losed of a perfect storm of instrumenta, bat which in the execution of the music confiars telf carefully to three notes and a thump, and keeps it up for ever. Most foreigners pronounce it uninteresting, hut this may be due to the lack of an appreciative car.
LOTES GARDENS.
DEBATING CLUB
was holding a session to discuss the important question as to whether it is better to be educated at home or abroad. One young mau was nawis enough to say, If you are educated abroad you are likely to go to jail when you come
me. At once an offer of justice called to ask what they were doing. They replied that they were engaged in a matter of a-ped the
Nay), Yon and Nay who" officer. It is not a person they replied, wa are a debating society."" A debating society! what's that?" asked this arm of the law, Where one mores and another secouds,” they said. More do you? who dares to move i Second did you? you scoundrels I arrost you ona and all." The young man who dared to make the nsertion has since been sentenced to three years in the chain-gang, and there are no more debating societies
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By way of conclusion let ma introduce you Within the limits of the city itself there are
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IN° walks and mountain climbing to be had in such who was born in the year Yougo (1810), variety that I doubt if anyone as vet has He did me the honour of a new year's call
HOUSES in CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduft perfectly explored all. From the top of and I had his photograph taken. Please Rond
HOUSES at. Nam Ban you have a view looking down on the tell me, said I, of the sights you saw in the city from the height of 800 feof. Northolty when were
A HOUSE in RIPON TETRACE. mountain is still higher with spurs and by age." He looked up, thought a moment, and
GODOWNS at BLUE BUILDINGS. paths. p which go maititudes of pleasuta suid: "There were no sights when I was seekers through all the summer seasons -
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The houses of the capital are low, the rooms being usually about six feet high and sight feet square. This is in order to save fuel and make it posible to heat them during the severe weather of winter when the merenry fails below zero Fabrenheit. Each room has under it foar Anes, with a covaring of three inch flat stones plastered over with mud and coated with gil- paper, so that the room becomes an oven, not powerful enough to bake bread in but warm enough to brown an unsophisticated foreigner The Corean, on the other hand, accustomed for ages to this kind of narcotic rolls over and dreams Eiratelf-off into stupefaction, while his loosely rebed body seems to become anjointed and lie about in fragments. I am juclined to think that these subterranean fires have had a good deal to do with his character; the hot ges have fried the solid mater out of him body, son, and spirit, and left him dry, thoughtless, and ethereal,
nce you! Apply to chatka p Seoul is a city of swells whose one serious rostern folk are here, and I am old. Then,"
young. Lody hele, and I am old Thon." THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST NO. 3. "MAGDALEN TERRACE," ready to yield to every pressure and blow any where. But no, I shall have to take that occupation is the study of the Chinese said I," you're lived a long time, what's the
thoroughly best rule to back, for one of Corea's leading traits is a kind character. Their minds are
guide a a man through life?" Baid Don't do anything violest. of stubbornness that is seen not only in the Impregnated with ancient Chins thought, the he, speaking slowly, race of buman beings, but also in the sang and the yin, or the sum and the yang sa ly, not even what's right take life gently; horses, dogs and cattle. In the attaining of rates but fore the two ends of the pivot around any companions I asked. No-o-o!" says he,
tham, are not on y pistured on the that's what Hananim (God) waste.” any given object that Corean feels inclined hich All their argument and reasoning revolve. "they are all dead. There's the old man Kursh toward depend upor it, he will take his ow These portive and negative principles along outside the South Gate, he's seronty-nine. He time and go his own way; you may reason with the fire elements, metal, wood, water, fire, can't walk as far as I can, though he was only and instruct, and
- soms foreignnes have aven been know
a child when I was grown. Suoat is much resort to violence earth, see the bars of Cores's so-called philo which the Corean cepts
The schools of the capital have for the like the old man, s gentle, lovable, patriarchal And sophy sut minaively then moves on, sereas in the am11
Feers, set their faces toward China and dreamer. Nothing short of a resurrection will that past 40 BENTANGG lie will continue after he has worn down or their backs toward their own country, s3 that ever make it young again. ⠀⠀ Mr. Le Quar, the popular novelist, is in driver mad all other brands of humanity they can tell all the doings of the middle king timistaly anquainted with nearly pusy Buropean Street and South Street, along, which, in the under their feet a kingdom of Billa that lasted eftere are two main streets of Seoul, Bell dom from the time of Yao and Swun (23) moantry, and with the various types of European twentieth century, arẻ strang
which, in this BC) without ever knowing that there was nam life, specially in their pohtical and diplomatic
STIHE: HONGKONG ICH COMPANY, LU., aspects; and when it is borno in mind that his at whose fuspiration, every ten minutes, ham from B.C. A.D. 930. aast experiences give him gora maid of very rich and by sbeeled demos from the West painted Among the ruling gentry of the present av 29 20,000 Cable feet of Cold red Leaving this out of the question as time perhops Prince Yi Che Ban is a pro- Storage vallale at EAST POINT. Btores will variod sources of material it need occasion non sed not Corean, we would describe the minent as any. He is a clausman of the bo Open at 10 asi, and 4 P.M, daily, Bundays -surprise that the reading and re-reading, of his
woche is an over fresh delight to countless streets is marked by a peculine kind of silence. Emperor and was recently chcern to In His excepted, to receive and deliver perishable goods
True, they are alive with whi o conted peopls, Mejesty's representative at the coronation of WW PARLANE Manager 12914 sedan chair pack-ponies and stolid wooden King Edward Preparations were being made Hongkong, 18th November, 1901,
like cattle drawing carta loaded with timbers for his friumphal progress when suddenly fo like the gates of Gaza; yet the noise is aged father died and Erincs Xi goes into mamah less and so different from the roar
car of meuraing instead of to the coronation. He che Broadway or Fleet Street that it beorres a set zemin at home, if he does bat righ No. 39, WYNDHAM STREET HONGKONG, Will be glad to send 614MPS on approval and city of another world. The heisa from Coreen point of view, degraded and,HUNG CHAI & CO., WONGKOK,
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FANUFACTURERN MOSAIC
YEE BHUN & CO. Agents,
No. 81, Boubam Strand, Hongkong, 6th March, 1902.
M BRICKS of all Colours and Designs.
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and
31, MOSQUE STREET, 1ST FLOOR.
Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS Hongkong, 28th July, 1902.
"TO LET.
F2035
13 EUROPEAN HOUSES No. 20. 26,
26, 23, 30, 32, 34, 40, 44, 46, 43, 50, and 56, LEIGHTON HILL ROAD..
Apply to NAME BAEK ZA THE HỒNGKONG & KOWLOON LAND
AND LOAN COMPANY, LTD.,
No. 8, Queen's Road West canst 30th April 19812
TO LET..
Hanekonst
OFFICES at 6. QUEEN'S
CENTRAL
Apply to
[1259
FFICES GROUND FLOOR of Dea
OFF ROAD and Los HOUSE STEERT.
For Particulars, apply for
THE MEDICAL HALL. Hongkong, 10th March, 2002,
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TANG YUEN,” MACDONNELL ROAD, BOARD AND RESIDENCE
WELL.FURNISHED ROOM. Uninterrupted View of Harbour. Apply at the Hongs or at FAIRALL & CO., [1899 Queen'e Road.
TRY
BOXED AND RESIDENCE,
ROAD MRSGILLANDER S
* G. GIRAULT. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1912.
TO LET.
GLENWOOD""
21. CAUNE TOAD Hongkong, 4th April, 1902. A
BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
11025
MODOWNS at BOWRINGTON. Cheap ROOMS, will Board,
OMFORTABLY FURNISHED
Rental
Apply to
AHMET RUMJAHN. Hongkong, 11th January, 1902,
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Apply to Mrs. MATHER,
NEMO Pedder's Hill Hongkong 1st January, 1892,
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