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they refuse to be naiimilated, and thair rafusal bas assumed the Mforce of a conacions national {movement.

Despite its recent trials ⠀ and tribulations, despite the strong hand of a ruler that respects neither topknots nas tutelary gods, old Seoul still preserves the philosophie dignity which in the birthright of the Land al the Morning Calm Hare, *. falsewhere in the East, one may note the disastrous results of

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The soul of the Korean people,)

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stedfast in the ancient ways; deep-rooted in its own anrestral beliefs, and contrives withal to preserve a certain stoic kind of geniality. It 19 A race of husbandmes that has eaten too Joften of the bread of affliction to Allow itself to be provoked to desperation. It is, no doubt, aften slothful in business, overprone to politics and plottings, machi given co strong drink; but you bave only to observe the placidly determined faces of these straight-backed men-especially the elders of the people-and

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their confidedt gain, to malize that like chatter and light-hearted here still waters run deep. And laughter with which the geisha of it is not only on the faces of the Tokyo entertain their guests. men tha: you discern something Our friend the secretary ascrib of the difficulty of the problem jed the solemnity of the proceed- which Japanbas to solvein Korea:ings to the reticent stolidity which as a passive res ster, the female jis natural to the Koreans, but to of the species is more deadly than me it seemed-and I saw saveral the male. I caught a glimpse of incidents and gestures to confirm this truth, subtle and significant, the impression that these daveb- at A private performsace ofters of the Land of the Morning Korean geisha given by my Calm were not so much on their Japanese hoste

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dignity as on the defensive, and that behind these inscrutable mssks there lurks the soul of a It was after an informal dincer race whose patriotism drinks deep as the residence of the Cisil at the well of memories and Governor, Dr. Midzano. that one dreams. As we walked back to of bis secretaries (possibly realis- the most sumptuous hotel in the ing that the thread of our political Far East (a very fine piece of conversation was wearing rather window-dressing) I asked one of thin) suzested a visit to the four hosts if these women never Taisho Kemba, high-class smiled? "Oh, I think so," he geisha entertainment cnder replied, "but not so much with Japanese management or con- strangers,” trol Never having seen Korean It will take some time and tact.

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE spectators. Remembering theseisus dance. I welcomed the op methinks, to assimilate a people

KOREAN.

things, one understands some portunity; and so we left unsolved whose dancing girls decline to thing of the nature of the tragedy the problems of militarism in high smile for the invader. of Korea, the pitiful destiny of a places, of self-determination and people too proud to fight, whose the League of Nations, and North-Eastero Asia, and a pre-in his Excellency's comfortable MIRACLES bome is the strategic keyland of speedily found ourselves driving destined bone of contentioa be

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JAPAN'S PROBLEM THROUGH WESTERN EYES.

Pre-eminently **ong** the cities of the ancient East, Seoul n the Powers that gestreets of old Seoul. Wealighted is a sermon in stones, which the

for the mastery of the Pacific.

at the entrance to a barrow alles- As I stud in the grea: Audieaceway, ruzning darkly between stranger within its gates may Hall of the olt Palace, unisaan mud huts, that brought to mind resd, mark, learn, sof inwardly ed now and upen to the winds of the parlieus of the old Chienmen digest.

An incredible story of "most 1 know of none, writes Mr. J.beaver, se: splendid in decay, quarter is the shadow of the city extraordinary miracles" and of O. P. Bland in the Times whicht and called to mind the history of all at Peking.

"bleeding statues of the Virgin" teaches more forcibly the old. old days when Kores aspired to lend almos: sinister, in this approach of the Daily News from Thurles, There was something furtive, is telegraphed by a correspondent lesson of the sins of the fathers the East in art and learning as to a reputed shrine of Korean in Tipperary. But incredible as or which suggests such inevitable 1 looked on: upon the triumphs musical and dramatic culture; the story seems, the happenings reflections concerning the of incongruous modernity with not a light shone, not a voice described base attracted great terious forces that form the char which Japan has decked the hill sounded from any of the squalid crowds of Irish people to the acter and mould the destinies of girt city ther banks and barracks, houses past which we groped town of Templemore. and these nations. The Imperial City at her bospitals and huge hotels) Peking talla its own impressive

our way. Fe, too,

moved people seem to entertain not the tale of splendid isolation and de-dominating. like alien giants, silently. for the snow Isy lightest doubt that the so called parted greatness, but Chins is native-born, it seemed to me that walls.

the clustering hovels of the deep between these close-buf: manifestations are entirely still mistress in her own house, this empty Audience Hall fitting corner of a house which, in the

Finally. turning the genuine. and though ber present stately typified the last scene in a darkness, looked like all the rest,

The correspondent wires: political be rotten, it does nos drama of inevitable destiny.

On Saturday evening at 6 pm. we came to a door over which all the statues and holy pictures They showed me the "Govern dickering lantern hang; here our in the house of Thomas DwED. B ment General Museum," housed guide knocked, a bolt was drawn, newsagent in Templemore, began Baby's Own Tablets aller the in the ancient and venerable and we passed from the bitterly to bleed.

· My experience has been that precincts of the Palace; also the cold nigh: into a long narrow menon rapidly spread, and crowds give baby healthy sleep. My The news of the pheno- fever caused by teething and delectable plesssunce and rustic room, furnished at one end with of awed people came and witness- baby has always been besltby retreat which has been set apart charcoal braziers and theirs fored the extraordinary manifesta- except for the fever and restless for the use and behoof of Princethe sudience, and as to the rest, tion, and many miraculous cures ness accompanying teething and Yi, further consoled for the loss fitted for the dance with soft are reported, among them being an thing in the stoic dignity of their of bis Throne by a lieutenancy clean matting and sliding panals the case of a crippled soldier and a Tables have proved so beneficial occasional cold, but the monuments and meo, which compels our instinctive sympathy

band of a beautiful Japanese The bonoats were done by the consumption. & la Japonaise.

young girl in the last stage of in these cases that I would not and respect; sad yet when all is

Princess. I saw the preparations Japanese manager or impresario

be without them," writes Mr. said and done, the problem of for his Highness's wedding (that of the geisha administration; every reliziona persuasion, are Colombia,

"Persons, high and low, of R. S. Long, of Peachland, British self-determination for Kores re- mains, humanly speaking, as far ill-orgened marriage of which the except the performers and two ruabing to the town. removed from sgiation as the furniture and embroidery

people speak

in whispers attendanta, no Koreans

are These Tablets

equally A BOY'S VISIONS. the federation of the world and bowls of silver. being made girls still in their teens, said to the man Thomas Dwan, in whose eight years or more, curing con healthful and harmless to the present. There were six dancers, the brotherhood of man.

I had a conversation with youngest infant and the child of by native workers under Chaperoned by the courteous

be the the direction of Japanese geishadom. They

fine flower of Seoul house this extraordinary rairacle stipation, indigestion, colio, diaz- secretary of the South Man-

wore the occurred. churian Railway (s kindly soul. model schools where Korean boys stiff but comely costumes of old family and in

They showed

He claimed that the rboes, simple fever and worms. elaborate beadgear, the quaintly miracle had been going on in bis They are to be had from addicted to scholarly researches in orthodox Buddhism), I saw the and girls are being taught to look Korea-high girdled waists and brother-in-law since July. One cents the vial from Dr. Williams' that of his chemists, also post free at 60 sights of modern Seoul and compon Japan & their spiritual voluminous, pared it in my mind with the home, and many other cogwheels skirts and they danced slow and premonition that he was to be Shanghai.

many-coloured Wednesday night be had a Medicine Co., 96 Szechuan Road, in the ingeniously

"devised stately meres, with flawless made the medium of publication precision, to the sound of samisen of the supernatural event. Next abandon her suzerainty over the NATIONAL MOVEMENT. and drum, dances intended to morning he informed his nephew, premonitions, and later saw an Hermit Kingdom, and sgalu later, before the Russo-Japanese war, byways of the city I saw evidence

But in all the highways and symbolize either the poetry of who

was forthwith terribly apparition of the Virgin in the asture ΟΙ some spisode of affected and agitated. The boy form of a when the Korean King assumed of the dogged conservatism of the legendary romance. Their con at once collapsed and, having

nao. The tidings the title of Emperor, and, for a race, and proof of the fact, which entionally painted faces, like recovered, went upstairs, where m

then delivered breathing space of ten years, the the Japanese themselves are of all Oriental dancers, he saw visions.

that

the miracle of country was free to manage its beginning to appreciate, that this

masks, all cast in

Lourdes was to be repeated in own affairs. I remembered box, very policy of assimilation has like inscrutability, but se

Templemore in is an extra Ireland, and that he was to be the Bame mould

of sphinx-ordinary state of excitement, and the instrument. The apparition, in 1898, the people had demon-breathed a new spirit of life into

wo-motor cars and other vehicles are he says, appeared to him' on Ister the passive resistance of then they lacked the little sirs carrying in invalids. The latest Koreans and aroused in them a and graces, the butterfly dainti-cure

is Mrs. Delaney, an old strong, though still non-combates and spontaneous gaiety of woman suffering from sciatica.

"It was reported that among ant, ardour of nationalism. They entertainers, they were dis "The

the Japanese singing girl. Indeed,

the other Cres Aie those "MIRACLE OF LOURDES. of Daniel Egan, a harabes- may bow to the presence of the tinétly heavy, and when, between of 19 named Weich, talls a very five years; a girl muffering from

nephew, allen invader, ay mag erve the dances, they came, as in duty remarkable story. He lives at twelve-year-old

youth maker, after being a cripple for admit that his

progressive administration has increased the and drink a cup of sake, they did plemors. He has been a novitiste had to be carried about in a chair, bound, to chat with their guests Carrsken, six miles from Tem- disease, and, an invalid man, who incurable

count, but they firmly decline it perfunctorily and with a cour Cistercian material prosperity of their

city as I knew it long ago, before

craftsmen.

Japan had forced China to machinery of assimilation.

strated their discontent with their own rules, sitting silent in their thousands before the Palace day and night for 14 days.

TOO PROUD TO FIGHT.

I remembered, too, that when

Japan fought, first China and

Bussis, for supremacy in the

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