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The revenue to support this headquarters of but he had never heard of the Foreign Office, Korean Buddhism is mainly drawn from landed and didn't believe it would benour my dr its any property, which has been attached to the mana-way. Nevertheless, I wanted money, so next ateries from time Inimemorial. Most of it lies on day at Hy 8p-kök, the chieftown of a D. pariment, the castern side of the Keum-kang San, on the and only 30 ! north-west from Tong-ch'yon, I road leading from Yu-el 8m Sa to Slu-kyei Sa. again tried the effect of the Foreign Office letter, At two or three of the hamlets there I was told with much the same result. The "choa-su," or that all the excellent rice fields in sight belonged coar'jtor, screwed up courage to lendime to to the mooks, who let them to cultivators at an dollars, an effort which exhausted the local ordinary rental, generally payable in produce. treasury, on condition that I repaid it at Wön-san Besides this, much reliance is placed on charit- instead of at Soul, and defrayed the expenses to able offerings to defray the cost of new buildings and fro of the messenger be sent with me. The and other extraordinary expenses, I saw new
whole transaction painted toure Interesting con- works progressing at Chang-an' Sa, the money clusion that there was a much greater lack of for which, $3,000 or $4,000, proceeded from the confidence in an imponant Government Office same source; and the Saperior of Pyo-un Sa- than in a complete stranger like myself. spoke to me most hopefully of a descent be raedi- tated on Sault to solicit donations towards the extension and restoration of, his fomble-dawa monastery. The monks do not shine as earnestex- ponents of their faith. Few of them know much of Buddhism or its history, and none could make any pretence to explain intelligibly the purport of the books they use at their services. On the whole, the shrines themselves are not wanting in the impressiveness characteristic of holy placs; but whatever effect thin might be calculated to have on the minds of devout persons must certainly be dissipated by the perfunctory mummery which is dignified with the name of worship. Bona fide pligrims in search of spiritual comfort are rare; I only came across two.
WONSAN
There is little to add to previous reporte-on Wonsan, The bustling prosperous, dirty Korean town increases in population, and must now possess fully 15,000 inhabitants. The foreign quarter is a good mile away to the north, near a promontory, which affords a convenient landing place for shipping and discharging cargo There are two settlements, the Japanese founded in 1879, and the Chinese only recently. The Japanese, as the earliest comers, have acquired all the best ground avaliable for sites, though more than half of it is still unoccu- pied by buildings. The Chinese settlement modestly consists of two or three acres on the promontory, and the Chinese Consul considered himself fortun'te to secure this much, so difficult is it now to obtain land which shall be at once convenient to the Custom-house, and outside the Japanese quarter. Other nationalities are so far unrepresented, except by the members of the Customs staff. Should the trade ever warrant the allotment of a settlement for Westerns only, considerable difficulty must be Experienced in securing spice to soit the usual
There are 5c requirements of merchants Japanese and 40 Chinese at Wonsin.
KAPSAN.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Population-That this part of the country is not populous is a conclusion arrived at without besitation, though Isbould be at a loss to convey my impressiors on the paiet in figures. Hamlets of a dozen or twenty hours are numerous in the cultivated valleys, but on the whole road from 581 to Won-san I did not pass a dozen places of 200 houses, or, say, 1,000 inhabitants. Of course, it would be wrong to form any general opinion from this The south of Korea is reputed to be twice as thickly populated as the north, and the occasional presence of South Korean immigrants in the Ham-kyng, and Pyong-an Provinces tends to prove an overplus somewhere, An Official Residence-The exterior looked substantial, orderly, and neat; not so the interior. Facing the gate, the floor raised 3 or 4 feet from the ground, was a long room completely open to the south, except a portion to or 13 feet square partioned off to serve as the Magistrate's office. The open room was his court-house. Tattered mat spread at random over the wooden floor, and an earthenware pot holding a few embers of charcoal, for purpose of lighting the ever lasting pipe, stood in the centre. The office was papered, but the paper was Booty and scribbled over with Chinese characters where it was not
pasted with dirty rosters and other memoranda, Most of the court-yard below was taken up with brushwood, implements for thrashing refractory Persons, and a very unpleasant refuse trough. There was absolutely nothing, except the gate, to stamp the official character of the place. Tigers.--In Korea the tiger occupies as large A share of public attention as he does in India. The stories of the beast's ravages are extrava- RAR', and, taken in connection with the paucity of skins for sale, breed considerable incredulity among foreigners who have not visited the Interior. Leopards are undoubtedly common. One has only to live in Soul for a winter to be satisfied of that. Barely a winter passes that it is not possible to shoot a leopard within the wils of the city. But one has to go farther At Soul I had heard much of this afield for tigers. It was at Wonsan that I first place. The neighbourhood is popularly sup-beard sericus mention of them. The boys going posed to contain most of the mineral wealth to the hills in. broad daylight to cut brushwood of Korea, and I expected to find, in
for fuel carried tin-plates and miniature gongs, consequence, a busy mining town, wealthy, with which they kept up a perpetual jingle tó papalous, and noisy. I was never more scare off their enemy. Mr. Creagh, the Con- thoroughly disappointed. Kapsan is a collec-missioner, declared that it was not safe to walk tion of perhaps 3co houses, enclosed by an about the Settlement at night, and to lend force arolegy for a wall, which is crumbling' where it
to his statement showed me the house of a has not already fallen. The Yamen exhibited European tide waiter, a few yards away and the universal, symptoms of decay, As. for the nearer the jetty, whence a large retriever had Inhabitants, they were without exception 'the
been carried off by a tiger only three or four idlest and rudest Koreans I had come across, ]-days before my arrival. and appeared to divide their day and part of their night pretty equally between inspecting my belongings and carousing. I inquired the reason why nobody seemed to be doing any wnik. The question eccrsioned not a little surprise-it is one which no Korean would
think of putting so bluntly; but I was soon Informed, with all the outward signs of joy and satisfaction, that the Prefect had been suspended from his functions for some grave irregularity and was only permitted to transact builness of A pressing nature pending a decision of the Central Government at Soul. There is no doubt that Kapsan was orce a very flourishing place. Its antiquity can hardly be disputed. Tradition says that Kaptan was forn long time the capital of some of the many small States which divided Korea in pre-historic times. At present, it seems to have fallen signally from his high estate. Such was the dearth of ready money that a lead ing tradesman on whom I had a letter of credit dar 10,000 cash, or a 10s, had to spend the best part of a day collecting the amount from his friends and neighbours.
CONCLUSION.
It should like to say that the main impression I have wished to convey in these pages is that, though her people live in squalor and poverty, Korea is naturally a rich country, and one of excellent capabilities in every way. In my opinion this fact is not always remembered sufficiently. Rough comparisons are made with Japan and China, very much to Korea's die- advantage, but it is seldom mentioned that the people, and not the conatry, are most to blame for this inferiority. To any one who has lived in Korea, it is obvious that her present hackward condition is due simply to the inert character of the people. This breement, however, is very unjust to the Korean. The conditions under which he lives, and especially those under which he has lived until recently, must in common fairness be urged in extenuation of his short. comings. The comparison with China is soon dismissed, for China is large enough to be her own 'world, and she has never been so overrun with officials na Korea' is at this moment. In Japan the feudal system created bonds of mutual CHINESE ON THE FRONTIER.
assistance and confidence, which the centralised The Chinese are rapidly populating their fron- Gavernment of Korea absolutely forbids; the tier. Many of the ever-increasing army, of lord of the soil, though compelled to exact his wood-cutters and raftsmen settle down perma- quota of Imperial expenses from the tenant, was nently wherever they see a chance of making a still a permanent resident, and, as such, directly fivelihood. There is a good deal of condescen-interested in the well-being and advancement of sion about the Chinaman, who speaks of the his people. The Korean Governor or magistrate Korean as a "little-country man," and of him- is appointed from the capital, through favour of adil as the "big-country man, but it is dis- the Kinger some other adventitious circumstance, played with tact, and is seldom offensive. Large and his whole äim is centrated usually on numbers of Koreans have settled on Chinese amarsing as much wealth as the term of his territory. I believe that most of them work for office allows him. It is certain that the Korean character would alter for the better under an the benefit of the Chinese, by whom they are maintained and directed, a state of dependence administration which would insure people in the exactly suited to their ambitionless character. lawful possession of their property, protect them On the other hand, I only saw one instance of from arbitrary molestation, and furnish them a Chinese squatter on Korean ground-a hunter thereby with an incentive to honest exertion. who had built a hut in the forest near
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that direction, but in consequence of the con- siderable decline which bad taken place in the rates. In the six months the revenue of the company In outward freight from the port of London alone bad diminished by nearly 40.con-between £35,000 and £40,000-and this was not due so much to their carrying less as to the fact of the enormous competition and the lower rates to which they had been exposed, It was undoubtedly the fall in exchange during the last six months, and the sudden decline in the great rise which had taken place in silver, which had seriously affected the export trade to the East, while at the same time the financial conditions of trade generally had been by no means such as to encourage The prominent speculation to any extent. feature in connection with the drop in the business was that within the last four years the shipping tonnage of this country had been added to by no less an amount than 3,000,000 tons of shipping, aearly all team shipping. Then, again, the company had had the disadvantage of encoun- tering numerous labour disputes in this country and in other parts of the world. The company also had the disadvantage to encounter of having to write off on the present occasion the value of two vessels which they had lost. Happily, owing to the excellent system of precaution which the proprietors had enabled the hoard to take in drating with matters of this kind in times past, notwithstanding the fact that one of these vessels whe new, the amount which the directors would bave to write off for the two ships would not He was bound to tell them, excred £70 000. having no figures to place before. them, that although the half year did not compare favourably with the preceding period, yet on Its Own merits, and especially taking the different circumstances into account, the half-year ending March 31, tägt, was not, according to the directors' view of the matter, ap unfavourable half-year at all, and if they were able to maintain their position at the end of September relatively and comparatively aS they bad at the end of March, they would, he believed, be happily enabled to pay a consider able addition to the dividend which they now declared upon the deferred stock, Referring to the prospects which lay before the company. the scramble for outward freight was so great that he should be wrong if he were to lead them to believe that they could do otherwise than anticipate a considerable drawback in the revenue from that account during, the present year.
On, the other hand, he ventured to assume that the passenger traffic would be main- tained, and, he haped, slightly increased. There was, too, this fact in view, which was certainly encouraging to sore extent in viewing the prospect which lay before them, that the expert trade from India had probably never been so large as it had been recently and was at that moment. How far this stale of things would be maintained during the currency of the present financial year it was impassible for him to faresce. The Chairman proceeded to allude to the loss of the two vessels to which he had referred, and stated that the company had entered upon somewhat extensive shipbuilding contracts during the last half-year, as we have already noticed from the report, and had ordered 35,000 tons of shipping. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report.
Mr. W. F. De Salis scended the motion, which was unanimously adopted:
The dividend resolution was then put to the meeting and adopted, and the proceedings terminated.
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Juarez Celman was chief executive ofArgentine. He received upward of $500,000 for his "fee" in granting the concession. An additional sum of $100,000 was also paid to the President, if the statements of some responsible men are accurate. Minister of the Interler Wild received $300,000 for his share. It proved a difficult task for the correspondent to trace the entire disposi- tion of the Baring corruption fund, bist belief is current that nearly $3,000,000 was spent in "preliminaries" Sanford is popularly credited with securing personal commissions" which put him high above water,
The Government's liability to the Baring Brothers on this single enterprise is nearly $30,000,000. Their losses from this water-works: Investment will not be as great, proportionately, as in the purchases of bands and other money securities. There are extensive investments of their money here which no one outside the confidential circles of the house's employes and those of their agents can describe. Not- withstanding the difficulties met with, the correspondent learned that amounts ranging from $5,000,000 to twice or three times that amount were obtained by various provinces for "internal improvements" One of these loans to Cordoba, the correspondent says. is larger than the entire province is worth. The Baringa also have large investments in railroad bonds, but these will ÿlold fair returns in time.
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Hypophosphites, is a combination of two most valuable remedies, in a palatable and easily Cardinal Lavigerie has undertaken to deliver digested form, having great healing and streng Africa from the curse of the slave trade.. Hetheaing properties, most valuable in Consump Is the Bishop of Northern Africa, but his field of tion and wasting diseases. Read the following: treatment of phthisical and scro activity embraces nearly the whole Continent. I have found Scott's Emulsion of great The two great opposing forces are the Moham- benefit in medans and the slave-traders. The distinction fulous diseases. It is extremely palatable and. between the two is not very clear, because does not upset the stomach-thus removing the great difficulty experienced in the administration nearly all slave traders nominally accept the faith of Islam. That faith has always been pro of the plain oll."-D. P. Kenns, L.R.C.S.. pgated by force. So many of the natives as Surgeon, St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. Any Chemist can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. would become converts were generally exempt. from the horrors of the slave trade. But the (Ltd.), agents in Hongkong and China.-[Advt. traffic has always had the sauction of the "faithful." They look upon it as legitimate commerce. They also look upon all Christians as "dogs," it only to be exterminated. The. hostility of the former has been greatly increased of late as inroads have been made upon the area of slave commerce.
As the Mohammedans make their conquests the Koran, Cardinal' with the sword and Lavizerie proposes to make his conquest with repeating rifles and the Bible. He will oppose force with force when it actually becomes necessary. He has organized a plan of conquest more comprehensive than that of the old Crusaders, and which promises far more im portant results, "The Brethren of the Sahara " is the name given to his leading organization. He counted from the first on the religious chivalry or enthusiasm of a great number of distinguished persons who desired native careers, and for various reasons had not realized their own ideals. Some had met with the lots of friends, others had met with reverses. Thus, Viscount Guy de Brissac consecrates his future life to the new order in memory of the young lady to whom be was engaged and who suddenly died. Others, with titles and without them, but nearly all per- sons of distinction, volunteered, so that the number was even greater than the Cardinal had originally called for. But he will probably have use for every man of character and means who | is willing to join the new crusade.
The Sahara enterprise is only the initiation of a much greater movement. The Cardinal's plan is, first, to cover the Desert of Sahara with mls As soon as the collapse of Baring Brothers slonary stations, which would at the same time was announced the New York World sent abe military posts. Every station would have a staff correspondent to the Argentine Republic to trained company of fighting men. The first com Inquire into the investments which precipitated pany has been stationed at Biskra, a short dis- the failure. The correspondent made a thorough tance in the desert, to which point a railroad has investigalian, and his report makes a remarkable already been extended. Biskra is an onsit, story, showing how Charica H. Sanford, a Yan- whose fertility has been extended by the use of kee drummer for the sale of pills and toilet pre-Artesian water. The date palm comes to per parations, first secured membership in thefection, as well as a great variety of tropical American firm of S. B. Hale & Co. in Buenos fruits. What has been made of Biskra In the Ayres, and after making $1,000,000 by a finan-way of fertility it is proposed to make of a great cial coup went to London and wan the con- number of other stations. The great desert is to Gdence of Lord Revelstoke, head of the Baring be dotted all over with ferille spats. It has been firm, thence returning to Argentine and Investing found that over a very large area of this waste untold millions of the Baring's gold la doubtful there is no difficulty fa bringing water to the sur- enterprises and securities,
face by means of artesian wells, When an abundant supply of water has been obtained then agriculture not only becomes possible, but the renewed fertility Insures an abundant food supply..
Twenty-five years ago Sanford was on the east coast of South America, and traveled as drum- mer for a New York firm dealing in drugs and
members were about to retire. chemicals-the firm of S. B, Hale & Co., whose
He used the maternal love of Mr. Pearson, daughter of Samuel Hale and wife of John R. Pearson, as a lever to further bis interests. He argued that the glories of the old house of Hale & Co. might be revived, and that in its opera tions there was a brilliant future for Mrs. Pearson's son.
The ambitious hopes thus instilled in the
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other feminine members of the and, although Pearson remonstrated, the house Was He obtained full control, and engaged in fool continued, with Sanford as one of the partners.
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Now if the Cardinal secures nearly all the subterranean water sources of the desert, making cach center a source of fertility, he will have literally taken possession of this vast area. The result will be that every caravan crossing the desert will be compelled to stop at these posts for water and other supplies.
Nearly every caravan crossing toward the coast is a slave Caravan. That is, slaves are one of the principal items of commerce. The Brethren of the Sabara will stop every caravan that attempts to cross the desert with slaves. They will have the key without water, and they cannot cross with slaves. to the situation. The caravaux cannot cross As the greater part of this desert is under nominal Mohammedan control It will be interesting to mark the way in which these religious enthuslists obtain a fooling,
When It is found that the ulterior purpose is to suppress the slave trade, not only in the Sahara, but, to smile it at all other vital points in Africa, then it is probable that something like a hand-to-hand contest will begin. The chain of posts which dot the desert will be filled with fighting men, Veteran soldiers will be there. They have already gone to Biskra. Repeating rics and repeating cannon will be among the supplies. When it becomes impossible for a slave caravan to cross Sahars; the next move wil be on the fenile slave districts of the far interior. The chain of posts will be gradually extended, Every post will be a base of supplies, missionary station, and a district of fertile, fields and gardens. It is probable also alio that gradually these stations will be cou nected, one after another, by a railroad. They will become centers of population. When the natives find that they can have complete protec- Hon, they will prefer life with security in the fertile districts.
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Paik-tu Sang. The relative, merits of the Chinese and Koreans a colonists brought irresistibly to notice. The Korean's but is barely large enough for his family his five stock consists of a dosen fowls, two of ibred pigs, and a dog, and his clearing produces just sufficient grain and hemp to keep him
After the revolution the Provisional Govern supplied with meals and clothes. The soll being
ment found it accessary to consolidate the debt rich, not half his time is occupied in accom.
In order to accomplish this purpose, outstanding In moving the adoption of the report, the loans bad to be taken up, including a "popular plishing this much. I happened one day to rest An hour or so at the house of a Chinese settler on
Chairman remarked that it almost spoke for loan" beld by Hale & Co. The real ability, which the north bank of the Yalu, where thing, were self. For many years they paid an interian Sanford possessed now became apparent. He very different. Some twelve years before he had dividend upon 43,000,000, at the rate of 5 per Intrigued with the Government is hehalf of the come empty-banded; but now his cleared land followed the river for half-a-mile and his almost exactly identical and equivalent to the "subsidized a certain of current here that he homestead was quite in imposing array of officials."
amcunt which the directors now declared upon Gold and paper were now at par. The loan buildings. He had several Koreans working for
the reduced capital of £3,320,000-5 per cent. was taken up by the Government in paper, and him, his outhouses were filled with produce, on the preferred stock and 7 per cent. on the the safes of Hale & Co, were cleared of certifi amongst which I noticed European cabbages deferred stock-leaving, therefore, to the annual cates which had cost the firm many anxious and turnips, and a drove of forty pigs and several head of cattle roamed over the stubble. Like meeting the prospect, which he trusted might moments and sleepless nights. European loans many other Chinese along the Yalu ke possessed pay higher on the deere being able to were repaid in gold, and the profit which ensued A still, which was kept constantly at work pay a higher dividend on the deferred stock at the solely by reason of good luck and the parity of manufacturing a fiery pitit from Kaoliang close of the financial year. It was impossible for gold and paper, turned in a profit of upward of (Holcus sorghum), held in gre t quest by the aims to prophesy or foresee what the result of the $1,000,000, Koreans, I was struck by the fact that none of year's operations would be, but, taking his sland on the facts of which he was in possession with The Chinese who made this spirit drank it.
regard to the work of the company for the six months ending on March 31st, he was able to At Tong-ch'yon, the seat of a Prefect, convey to the proprietors in general terms some
Cardinal Lavigerie's recruits are required to thought it advisable to borrow to or 15 dollars idea of the future prospects at the company.
take the vows of poverty, obedience and devo worth of cash on the strength of my Foreign The comparisons which the operations of the
tlon for five years. If they wish then to Office letter. I struck the place, however, at an present year had to submit to must be made
retire, other recruits will be ready to fill their unfortunato time, A week before, the people, with years of excelent good fortune-1889 and
places. If this religious and military con- maddened by persistent extortion, bad risen 1890-when the directors declared a dividend
quest is vigorously prosecuted, there will be against their rolers, and the Prefect, as well as on the preferred stock of 5 per cent, and on the
few idle men among the volunteers. For the The correspondent relates in detail the story | fint time the crusader has undertaken Els landing myrmidons, had been forced to take deferred stock of 13 per cent, in addition to an abrupt departure. I made my application for carrytag forward to the insurance fund a sum of of the investment of the Baring gold by Sanford. tinguish the slave trade by the religion: S I EN a loan to the clerk in charge at the magistracy, 85,0co, and bringing that up to half-a-million First he was obliged to subsidize the Govern- and he soon responded by sending exactly half sterling. He was bound frankly to tell them ment officials to obtain a great water-works the amount I had asked for, I should have that so far as the accounts for first six months contract. The estimated cost of the entire rested content with this, but in the course of a of the present financial year went, they did not works on which interest was to be allowed was simple-inquiry as to why my small demand had compare favourably with the highly prosperous $36,500,000 in gold. The price of the concession been reduced, the district treasurer informed years which had preceded it. At the same to Baring Brothers, brough Hale & Co was Kang with great heat that "I ought to consider time, there were certain features of a satis- $21,000,000 in gold, payable to the Minister of myself lucky to get what I did. He didn't know factory kind, It was, in the first place, Finance in three instalments, me from Adam, and couldn't conceive my object highly satisfactory to find that the com- This was the public price, but nothing is con- In flying about the country borrowing money on pany had maintained and even increased ceded from the Government in Argentine with the authority of a Foreign Office despatch. It its passenger revenue. On the other hand out a price. The officials, from President down was true the despatch sald onld pay every they had suffered very much, and were at that to janitors of public offices, expect consideration, thing back through the Foreign Office at Soul, moment containing to suffer from the very large and a gretter coup was never accomplished in deficit in their outward freight account, which this notorious capital, where bribery, corruption *a* * Called Also Gensan by the Japanese, and Yoman by die waanocabsolutely on account of the actual falling and fraud thrive as they rarely do clsewhere. In
off in cargoes during the six months, although order to secure the great contract Sanford was standard in the desert are mighty, also with the "Little country" and "big country" ais comumur vullegičn
sere had peat a real and getust falling off in I compelled to bid high, and the spccess by the Inwordi
· jeriut for Moran mish China raspossiedý,
Ohlsona,
BORROWING MONEY.
Shortly after this Sanford went to London, where he besieged Lord Revelstoke, head of the firm ol Barlag Brothers. Sanford talked to Revelstoke about the extraordinary resources of Argentine and the unbounded prospects of the country. When Sanford departed from London, carrying with him the confidence and admiration of Lord Revelstoke, and with the millions of the Barings' bank behind him to spend and invert, universe of chances was revealed to his triumphant vision,
of force. There are to be no paths of desolation. The desert is first to be converted by peaceful means, and as far as possible turned into fruitful gardens. The missionary in his white tunic, and straw helmet will have on each a red cross. His rifle and Catling gun will only be called into service when actually necessary. There lano reasonable prospect that the slave trade of Africa can be suppressed without force. There is a powerful Mohammedan league already organized to defend it. The Cardinal himself long ngo, Admitted that it would not do to depend wholly on peaceful means. As far as possible he will conserve human life. But the veterand and religious enthusiasts who are flocking to his
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